Is there seriously no way in this year of our lord 2024 to play this game without it pausing for unbearably long stretches while some random piece of text is on the screen?
I walked into the bathroom and clicked on a toilet. It said, "I can take a shit here." And then everything stopped, and there was at least a twenty second pause for Willy to stand there doing nothing, perhaps contemplating the perfect joy of taking a long luxurious shit. And there was nothing for me to do but sit there, contemplating Willy taking a long luxurious shit.
It's not even every interaction! Sometimes you can click once, or twice, or idk like a dozen times I guess, and the text goes away in a second or two. But there's never any way to tell whether any single item you try to interact with is going to make you sit there for another half a minute, clicking desperately to see if that helps, smashing random keys in the hopes there's some undocumented "skip this fucking text" button, before finally giving up and reflecting on your life choices as you wait for the interminable moment to pass.
Please tell me there's something obvious I've missed and the entire game is not full of these miserable delays.
edit: okay. After some experimenting, apparently the game expects double-clicks and not single clicks, in order to advance some text. But not too slow, or else it thinks you're just randomly single clicking for no reason and it doesn't give a shit. But sometimes the double-click ends up selecting the thing again and you trigger the same text you just went through, so you know. Don't double-click wrong. Just double-click exactly the way the game expects you to.
I guess I'll keep going, because some of the models seem hot and at least now I can move text at slightly more than a glacial pace, but... seriously? What kind of a design choice is that, where I have to be constantly double-clicking just to move forward? Does the developer own a bunch of Logitech stock? Is he concerned that people's wrist and forearm muscles are getting overdeveloped and their finger muscles are neglected? Why have you done this, dev?