Don't hate me. I actually think the opposite is true.
Sage started out as the best girl (though I preferred Maya until she turned to Sad!MAYA). Then during season 2 she slowly dropped off more and more. It doesn't help that her first sex scenes were incredibly intense, and her later sex scenes were lackluster (especially her threesome, how do you fuck.up a threesome??). Combine that with the stupid, nearly unavoidable forced Jade drama and its pretty irritating.
I get where your coming from, but it seems to me that each girl has been embroiled in some form of forced drama so far. Whether it's Quinn's being a druggie whore, Jill's perpetual Tybalt dilemma, or the M/J throuple entanglement plus the issue with a homophobic dad, etc.
However, IMO, Sage manages to least grating plot line among them all. I'm utterly fed up with the M/J narrative, to be honest. Sage, on the other hand, never hesitates to shower the MC with sexual attention at any given moment. She’s not only sexy and playful but also exhibits a profound interest in the MC. She cares for him and it grows beyond 'meaningless' casual sex to a true relationship. Regarding her scenes, I personally find no fault and wouldn’t categorize them as bad or inferior compared to others.
When it comes to other girls like Maya, her scenes are outright bad. while Jill’s scenes, are very few and far to tame, to put it mildly.
Josy is the only girl, in my opinion, that offers scenes with equivalent caliber, but getting Josy implies getting Maya too, which I view as a significant downgrade.
Therefore, in an overwhelmingly dominant fashion, Sage has stood out as the best girl for me.
Well... I unfortunately got to agree more with walker188 on this one
. Sage was undisputed for me as THE BEST LI up until episode 5. Of course I liked the other ones (mainly Maya and Jill, how naive I was) and Quinn was always fun, but Sage was just the GOAT at that point. That Episode 5 scene with Sage in Tyballs room is still one of the hottest in the game in my opinion
Then episode 6 came along and with Quinn finally showing that she had the potential and content of a Main LI (mind you that I always liked her but I thought that she was just a side character up to that point), I started to put both Sage and Quinn as my 2 top LIs. This was also the update that killed Jill to me, where the Maya "situation" started to become a bit "too much" and we got the true start of the Bella path.
But then, after episode 6, Sage started to get some "questionable" writing decisions that made her path tough to play even for me (mind you these are the views of a Full DIK player): The whole unavoidable "rebound guy" stupidity, the MC being incapable of fucking Sage because hes "still shocked about who her family is" (while shes RIDING HIM)
. Hell, after Sage gives him Anal AND the chance of trying out new things "there comes the guilt again"???????
(mind you that my MC didnt give his recording of fucking Jade so theres no evidence against him)
ALL these things are the tipical DPC style of throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks
It wasnt that Sage herself "changed" or that her character somehow got "worse" or that their relationship isnt wholesome, but these writting decisions make 0 sense and are painful to watch
... But I guess those are on par with Jill being dumb enough to believe Tyballs blackmail OR the whole Maya situation for every path
Looking at the game now: Quinn keeps getting better and better, Bella is on par if not better than Sage (but I guess she will have her stupidity coming up soon after 4 episodes of perfection), and Josy would be there too if it wasnt for the fact that she doesnt have a solo path
Fuck, doing this post was painful
... And sorry for the essay
