methix

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im having an issue no saves show to import for the interlude i still haven't finish season 2 yet is that why? and saves will show when i finish season 2?
 
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shazba

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im having an issue no saves show to import for the interlude i still haven't finish season 2 yet is that why? and saves will show when i finish season 2?
When you finish season 2, it’ll prompt you to export. It’s pretty straight forward from that point on.
 

ename144

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Although some people have often said the choice was forced (I mean you wanna start saying that, the mc was "forced" to take a shower in episode 1... :rolleyes:), but his thoughts and the situation had been progressively leading up to the decision.

In episode 4, the whole situation with Maya and Josy where the mc found out about them shook him. He took almost the entire episode to get over it, because of the the lying and the cheating (the girls didn't cheat on him, they cheated on each other).

In episode 6 there's that funny scene in the library when the mc panics when all the girls start to converge on him at the study table:

mc "Study!"​

These are all girls he's been fooling around with, and now they are getting to know each other. Any sane man would know this is a recipe for danger!

Later in episode 6, if he goes on the picnic with Jill, he acknowledges he's falling for her and considers himself a "piece of shit" for still fucking others. His thoughts were:

mc "(I've played the field without realizing I'm getting close to more than one girl...)"​
mc "(I need to figure myself out before this leads to anyone getting hurt...)"​

Sage's relationship with Chad ended because of cheating.

In episode 8, after the recital the mc he admits that he never expected all these girls he's been messing around with the become friends.

With Sage, all along they've been fuck buddies, but she's free now, and their relationship looks to be getting more serious. The last thing the mc should do is start that off while cheating on her.

Deep down the mc is a good guy. DIK or Chick, he's not an asshole. But his new found confidence and reputation at college has thrust him into a world of sex that he was not used to (as we know, he was a shy loner in the past, his only relationship was with another misfit - Zoey).

He kinda got lost in the sea of girls that was flowing his way, but he's been progressively more retrospective as the relationships go deeper, culminating into his deliberating at the crossroads of episode 8.

It's not that it doesn't make sense that the mc decided to make a decision at this point in his life, it's just that people are looking at the clock going:

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I'm with you on most of the post, but I can't agree with this. The problem was never about the MC's "forced" monogamy, it's about the execution. DPC wanted to make a big spectacle of the MC committing to a girl (or not) to end Season 2, but he himself wasn't willing to commit to what that required. You say it makes sense for the MC to make a decision at the crossroads, but that's only true in a handful of cases. In most cases, the decision is very late in coming: Maya had to talk the MC out of committing to the throuple back in Episode 5, and the conflict between Bella and Jill should have reached a breaking point in back in Episode 7. Meanwhile the relationship with Sage was so unproblematic that DPC had to invent that ridiculous Rebound Guy speech just to force the issue.

Looking back on things, I suspect that DPC intended Season 2 to be about the MC sowing his wild oats. His comment to Maya and Josy about how he needed to stop acting on instinct was supposed to indicate he was going to focus on casual dating rather than obsessing over true love. Thus Season 2 becomes the path by which the MC decides he's finally ready to settle down, with the crossroads being the natural endpoint.

But if that is the case, I think DPC *really* muddled the message. First, because the MC was already very comfortable with casual sex by the midpoint of Season 1 - particularly if he's a DIK. Second, because DPC's emphasis on sex in the the highly amorphous Affinity system makes it feel like casual sex is something CHICKs should be avoiding rather than embracing. Third, because if we control the MC's actions and have eyes only for one of the girls, it's not clear why we'd *want* to wait for a crossroad to make things official. And fourth, because the existence of an 'Others' path allows us to obviate the season's alleged theme just so we can keep playing the field.

This is then compounded by the way DPC pivots directly from the theoretical climax of the crossroads into the three-hit combo of meeting Sage's parents, the Vixens, and the Interlude. By making the MC panic about Sage being Jade's daughter regardless of his relationship with either or both of them, DPC inadvertently highlights the way our choices are illusory. By naming Episode 9 after the Vixens (and relentlessly hyping up the Halloween party as the big ticket item), DPC contradicts the notion that the MC was ready to focus on becoming a proper boyfriend. And by cutting away from the main action to an Interlude focused squarely on Zoey's backstory, DPC raises the specter that Zoey will displace our chosen LI whether we want it or not.

The combined effect really is nothing short of disastrous IMHO. It makes Zoey a near perfect manifestation of all the shortcomings in DPC's approach to drama, and gives us a full year to stew in that impression before DPC gets a chance to disprove it. And I say that as someone who wants DPC to disprove it - I'm actively trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. But he makes it so damn hard sometimes. I sincerely hope we can get out of this mess and never look back, but I'm not going to pretend I like where we are now.

So no, I don't think it's unreasonable to complain about the 'forced' nature of the crossroads, nor to worry about where the game goes from here. DPC brought this on himself.
 

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This is then compounded by the way DPC pivots directly from the theoretical climax of the crossroads into the three-hit combo of meeting Sage's parents, the Vixens, and the Interlude. By making the MC panic about Sage being Jade's daughter regardless of his relationship with either or both of them, DPC inadvertently highlights the way our choices are illusory. By naming Episode 9 after the Vixens (and relentlessly hyping up the Halloween party as the big ticket item), DPC contradicts the notion that the MC was ready to focus on becoming a proper boyfriend. And by cutting away from the main action to an Interlude focused squarely on Zoey's backstory, DPC raises the specter that Zoey will displace our chosen LI whether we want it or not.

The combined effect really is nothing short of disastrous IMHO. It makes Zoey a near perfect manifestation of all the shortcomings in DPC's approach to drama, and gives us a full year to stew in that impression before DPC gets a chance to disprove it. And I say that as someone who wants DPC to disprove it - I'm actively trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. But he makes it so damn hard sometimes. I sincerely hope we can get out of this mess and never look back, but I'm not going to pretend I like where we are now.

So no, I don't think it's unreasonable to complain about the 'forced' nature of the crossroads, nor to worry about where the game goes from here. DPC brought this on himself.
Yeah, no matter what anyone thinks about the Interlude, it's clear that Zoey is going to play a large part in the upcoming chapters. I'm not at all sure she is going to supplant the MC's chosen LI, however.

Something Ffive said seems very likely. Even after being forced to choose, the specter of Zoey is going to put MC to the test when it comes to his chosen LI. Can he maintain his new relationship, or will the feelings for his first love Zoey come to the forefront?

I am thinking that since we are forced to make some sort of choice at what is supposed to be the halfway point in the story tells me that his story is going to go full on soap opera.
 

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Crossroads MC choices wasn't forced at all. Mc was always looking for a relationship (that much was clear), that why he says "none of these girls are right for me". Also, he is 19 which is pretty young and most people that age get in relationship without much thoughts.
 

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This is then compounded by the way DPC pivots directly from the theoretical climax of the crossroads into the three-hit combo of meeting Sage's parents, the Vixens, and the Interlude. By making the MC panic about Sage being Jade's daughter regardless of his relationship with either or both of them, DPC inadvertently highlights the way our choices are illusory. By naming Episode 9 after the Vixens (and relentlessly hyping up the Halloween party as the big ticket item), DPC contradicts the notion that the MC was ready to focus on becoming a proper boyfriend. And by cutting away from the main action to an Interlude focused squarely on Zoey's backstory, DPC raises the specter that Zoey will displace our chosen LI whether we want it or not.
The MC's reaction to Sage's parents is just teasing from DPC about what will happen in episode 9. I see nothing else. Because after all, we don't know if it happens right after the MC arrives at Jade's, or later during the meeting.
(so the reaction would not be caused by the Jade/Sage/Tybalt link but by an upcoming event)


For the vixens, what disturbs is the visual of the 3 girls. We imagine that it's them we're talking about, and indeed, it doesn't really fit with the EP8.

I looked up the definition of vixen, and found this: a spirited or fierce woman, especially one seen as sexually attractive.

Finally, I think it sticks with the EP8. The MC will be confronted with sexually attractive women (that's not new, and I include Zoey in the vixens, as well as all the side girls), but this time it will come up against the choice of EP8.

It's fine to choose an LI at EP8, but if it's ok to hit all the vixens that pass, it doesn't make sense. So "commitment" to an LI will be tested by vixens (aka all women the MC can fuck).

Will the MC be faithful? (or to put it less seriously, is he going to stop hooking up now that he has a more serious relationship)

On the contrary, if he hasn't chosen, he will fuck all the girls. With a variant, he may have chosen an LI, but realize that he is missing out on all these vixens, and regret it...
 
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dalli_x

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I partially disagree in the sense that although on one playthrough I ended up only with 'others', I deliberately avoided every main LI and told Derek in ep 5 that I still had feeling for Josy. I believe (and hope) there will be a path for her but w/o Maya.
No idea if this is possible. DPC has clearly written that Josy and Maya share a branch. If anything, Josy and Maya would then have to separate, which would cancel out the branch itself. The conclusion would be that Josy and Maya join the "Other" branch.

But this is pure speculation.
 

dalli_x

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so in your opinion the choice of the eighth chapter is final

in the middle of the game

unlikely
Difficult to answer. I think to myself so that choice could be final for the LI's.
But there are, hints in the game that something very dramatic could happen. There are two things in the walkthrough that make me think so.

"Hug her if you have a Neutral or a CHICK affinity: + RP Maya. Maya will remember that you cared about her."

"You will dance with Josy, and she will remember this moment."

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