See and I worry that the pre Ep4 end was supposed to be our time to become invested. Now comes the Drama and the bullshit level is so high I honestly am not sure if I even care anymore. The more he writes in drama filled stuff the less I care about any of them. If I was the MC I would have checked out. Gone after KRJ or some other nice no drama/bs girl and been like screw all of you
It's possible it will be all drama from here on out, but I definitely hope not.
The problem is that before Episode 4 we get an incomplete picture of Maya, and an even more limited picture of Josy. Even through Episode 5 we've have insufficient time to fully bond with Jill, Sage is so obsessed with the utterly unexplained relationship with Chad that we've only just begun to connect with her, and Bella's relationship has barely started.
So while we could get invested in the characters, we couldn't become invested in the
relationships because they didn't exist yet. This was so incomplete Episode 5 had to put in a scene clarifying just what the heck happened between the MC and M&J (and even that feels a bit forced in order to let the other girls play catch up).
So I'm definitely hoping for more downtime with the girls. And there is SOME hope of that. The official walkthrough talks about "Hangouts" as a new thing, implying the MC will get them with the other girls in the future, too.
That would certainly help. But what I'm really hoping for is a chance to hang out with a girl(s) in situations where hanging out with the girl isn't the entire point of the scene. That would be a chance to understand how she fits into the MCs life in general, and thus care more keeping her there when the drama comes calling again.