By the way, I just finished episode 9 couple days ago and it left mixed feelings.
First of all, going through it with the main-girl-path didn't work for me after playing full DIK path and pretty much fucking every side girl. I mean Sage is great, no doubt about it, although I was a little bit disappointed to see Maya suddenly storms into her path. But overall in DIK playthrough Sage is not much different from "main" side-girls MC slept with. And besides, it would be simply inhumane to suddenly cut off all the side girls from the legendary MC's dick.
In addition, Zoey was just introduced into the game, so why rush to choose a girlfriend?
Other's branch! It is awesome!
A lot of fun with side girls. No worries about "cheater" points.
But most importantly, it looks like dreams come true.
"Main" side girls are becoming their own path.
More Qiunn and her storyline. And Lily! And Riona!
Main girls didn't jump into the frame in every scene, even Maya seems to have decided to leave me alone and only torture Josy.
I feel sorry for Josy, though. She has to endure that girl every day. Josy was willing to refuse to join HOTs for Maya's sake, and then after joining she continued to pay her dormitory fees for Maya to stay alone in this room. Not to mention Josy's relationships with MC himself! And still Maya keeps crying. Fuck, did she at least say thank you to Josy?
It feels like all she does is poison Josy's life with her problems. Beyond evil.
Although, the problem is elementarily to solve.
Maya and Josy join HOTs, negotiate with the girls to get in the same room. And... that's it!
The religious old man obviously won't break in(or even find out), and if he does, Quinn will strip him, call him pervert and drug him. After this he will never come back~
Whatever. Fuck Maya, I am on the Ohter's branch, she will not get me here.
Nevertheless, the plot has made little to no progress. The animations are cool and everything is very atmospheric, but honestly I would have rather enjoyed the story development than this visuals.
Also, the whole episode feels like one big free roam.
It's not that I don't like them, but there should at least be a balance between the plot and free roam.
Free roam for me is a nice addition to the story, not the other way around.