- Jan 18, 2022
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There's definitely set ups for not so linear MG routes. For example, if you hug Rio she can throw a wrench in your MG route MC's relationship mindset. Depending on your affinity there's a bunch of cheating set ups and future questionable pictures that will be posted from the party. If you "broke up" with Sage in S8, she's the only one that kind of leaves it open ended on good terms. Doesn't she say, if it doesn't work out or you change your mind, let me know? So that kind of promises things to not be as linear as you may think. Also if you never start the J/M throuple, Josy basically keeps telling the MC she has feelings for him. Zoey coming (back) into the picture is also sure to make it non-linear depending on your choices. And of course, there's probably going to be further repercussions from previous choices that can affect the chosen relationship.I feel like DPC has shot himself in the foot. The whole attraction abut the games was you could constantly fuck whoever you wanted with possible repercussions. Now it's just become wayy more linear as you basically can only get with one character or 'the others'.... I just don't get it really. It's no longer possible to be like 'oh maybe i'd like to get back with Josy'... or, 'yeah i'll screw some fun girls but It might have negative consequences on my main SO. Infact, I couldn't see any possible way where if you were on Bella path for instance you could fail at the sex scene at the end because all 'others' paths are barred. Like maybe if you got a blowjob from Heather or something and she walked in that would damage relationship points. More so, than if you were on a Sage playthrough who wouldn't mind as much. I don't know... I just don't get where he is going. Like, he basically removed the whole point relationship system. to just be solo playthroughs of each character. Why!?
Give him more credit, I'll give you a few ideas, some outlandish and some make more sense.
1. Jill/Bella combined path, sure this will take significant setup, but didn't we get a hint that something happened between them when they slept together in bed, before Jill left and joined you in the sofa? If you go Bella it could make sense pretty easily, imo, and probably on the other end, to.
2. Same can be said on Sage/Jm, we KNOW there's attraction there, and we know J/M is ok with a relationship bigger than 2, Sage just seems open to it, as long as it is on the up and up.
3. The "others" route, ofc, with maybe a drunk slip up that leads to fuck buddies with some of the previous main LI's
4. Others route with many girls, like you said.
I'm no writer, and i thoughts of those in second, I'm choosing to believe DPC has similar or better plans.
Jill/Bella - I feel it's more of a triangle where Jill will fight for you instead of want to try a throuple. As inexperienced as she is, Jill is a romantic at heart so I don't see her going for a throuple relationship no matter what "intimacy" Jill and Bella had or how far Bianca pushes her out of her shell. But who but DPC knows and it's still a nonlinear Bella route if you made those choices.So, look at it from Jill's POV.
She doesn't know what a "traditional" relationship is like, and as we saw, she went pretty much in a straight b-line from kissing to sex once she realized what her heart wanted.
We KNOW she loves Bella, maybe not that way, yet, maybe she doesn't know that the does. Unless i missed a reveal, we do get a hint that SOMETHING happened between them in bed at some point.
From Bella's perspective i think it will be even simpler, we already know she is a freak, and loves Jill, and has strong emotions for MC.
I see both of these as sufficiently established, while still requiring more development, ofc.