- Mar 22, 2018
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This game doesn't really have a real main story. It's more like... 3-4 "main stories" mixed together.
The home stuff. Things involving the day to day life of Sophia and her family/friends.
The Aiden stuff. Things involving Aiden and her being blackmailed by him and his gang.
The Mafia stuff. Things involving the mafia, Liam's debt etc.
The "other stuff." Mostly things that involve Ellie/Dylan as the MC, with their own LI's and routes.
And then you have various side-characters and routes that don't have much to do with any of those things. The side-jobs, the gym people etc.
To me, the main plot should've been about the Mafia. Simply because the mafia is broad enough to be able to do basically anything you'd want, but would still lead to culling a lot of excess characters/routes.
For example, get rid of Aiden and his gang, replace them with the Mafia. The dynamic would basically be the same, but now Sophia would actually have a compelling reason to do things instead of being bullied by a highschool thug that she could, in theory, have expelled anytime she wanted. The Mafia would have real leverage over her. The Mafia could want, say, Ellie to do things too. This would've allowed Sophia to have some agency, will she get her daughter involved, or will she try to protect her? Put Dylan in, and Sophia could do the same for him. If Sophia doesn't do X, Dylan is going to get beatdown. Even somebody like Sam, him being a white-knight savior would actually make sense.
Then you'd rid of all the characters/routes that aren't connected together. And that would include both Ellie and Dylan's specific routes/LI's, maybe the school etc. Or hell, if you don't want Aiden to be killed off too, make him Morello's son who watches Sophia in class for him.
it's more like manga/comic series now,
next in the queue must be sophia in space, sophia in underwater, sophia in jungle,... :|