Edited Review due to complete change of direction for the game:
I can't stress this enough, if you have a problem with soap opera level of drama and tragedy and the game completely abandoning any form of realism in an attempt to become more realistic (isn't it ironic), you might be better off not playing at all. I know I have wished, I'd never seen this before.
This game is good up until the end of Episode 6.
Yes, there are a few instances of weak writing (always with the Story or decisions the characters make, never with how the characters speak or act with each other. ), but they can be overlooked due to the pure fun you have with Liam and the sweet Romance you have with Megan and Melissa, with Rena being a good alternative LI.
Then the game turns dark to an extent that simply shouldn't be done out of the blue.
I don't care if the dev planned it like this from the start, if so not making it clear something like this was gonna happen is just a big fuck you to Players. I wonder if in the final Episode there will be one ending with three different colours!
The dev spend 5 episodes making us care about these characters and setting everything up for one of the very few believable three-partner relationships in games or on film and then he turns it into a horribly depressing Melodrama, only to turn that into an absolutely weak and cliched Thriller.
Look, if we had known from the start that there would be no happy ending for what to everybody seemed to be the main route and then decided to play, that would have been great, but for months the dev let himself be praised for writing great romantic fluff and spreading happiness with his lovely and sweet female characters all the while knowing that those praising him were due a mighty kick in the balls.
And that sucks. plain and simple.
It even made me think at one point, if this was supposed to be a lesson, something like "there's no way a romantic relationship between three people will work in the end, thus one of them has to die."
A bit like how you can't help but wonder why so many homosexual characters in media aren't allowed to have happy endings.
It's a pity, if the game had at least offered a secret ending where you wouldn't have to make that one devastating choice, this would probably rate five stars in my book.
I can't stress this enough, if you have a problem with soap opera level of drama and tragedy and the game completely abandoning any form of realism in an attempt to become more realistic (isn't it ironic), you might be better off not playing at all. I know I have wished, I'd never seen this before.
This game is good up until the end of Episode 6.
Yes, there are a few instances of weak writing (always with the Story or decisions the characters make, never with how the characters speak or act with each other. ), but they can be overlooked due to the pure fun you have with Liam and the sweet Romance you have with Megan and Melissa, with Rena being a good alternative LI.
Then the game turns dark to an extent that simply shouldn't be done out of the blue.
I don't care if the dev planned it like this from the start, if so not making it clear something like this was gonna happen is just a big fuck you to Players. I wonder if in the final Episode there will be one ending with three different colours!
The dev spend 5 episodes making us care about these characters and setting everything up for one of the very few believable three-partner relationships in games or on film and then he turns it into a horribly depressing Melodrama, only to turn that into an absolutely weak and cliched Thriller.
Look, if we had known from the start that there would be no happy ending for what to everybody seemed to be the main route and then decided to play, that would have been great, but for months the dev let himself be praised for writing great romantic fluff and spreading happiness with his lovely and sweet female characters all the while knowing that those praising him were due a mighty kick in the balls.
And that sucks. plain and simple.
It even made me think at one point, if this was supposed to be a lesson, something like "there's no way a romantic relationship between three people will work in the end, thus one of them has to die."
A bit like how you can't help but wonder why so many homosexual characters in media aren't allowed to have happy endings.
It's a pity, if the game had at least offered a secret ending where you wouldn't have to make that one devastating choice, this would probably rate five stars in my book.
