Don't worry Chip, she will not steal your MC from Josy forced
Okay, jokes aside, this is not true. The game doesn't force you to consider her your best friend, you have a choice. What I said above is my personal position, which I adhere to. You can easily choose "I'm mad with you" and tell Derek he's your best friend. But it's your choice and your game. BaDIK is much more immersive than AL and that's a huge plus.
And Zoey became like a breath of fresh air for me.
I understood what you saying, and I'm not here to change your beliefs or anything, so don't worry
However, the same way, as it doesn't make sense to say, "she is better friend than Derek", it's also doesn't make sense to say "you are mad at her"
for the same reason. for us player she is insignificant. While the Interlude did a semi-decent job to show us what type of character she is, despite then in episode 9 she is totally different, and to be fair , more likable.
But the same time, it fails to show us why we should give a fuck about her in the first place.
DPC realized this, that is why he created his favorite scene , the Bench scene - which in my opinion the worst part of the episode .. . .
once again he gave as a crying little bitch MC, who whine about how much he was hurt back then . But the impact failed. Maybe it would have better if he actually spend the a chunk of the Interlude to show us more of the inside of MC mindset , instead of Metrosexual boy fucking his tattooed girlfriend.
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but even then we spend 4 year and 8 episode to build our character, while we saw many of his issues, which we, as the player could connect to it.
for example when Jill goes to the School board counselors, despite MC ask her not to do it, it make sense for us player to pick the option to be mad at her.
or let say, we tell the Chad secret to Josy, and if she later may be gossiping this, we could feel angry at her for we trusted in her and she betrayed our trust.
Some people may bring up an argument that He as a player don't give a shit about the Maya/Josy drama, but the difference is, we see the impact they have on MC , we experiencing it as the players..
but with Zoey, we just told: this is what He was feeling all along, while we actually, played the game, and see that he has a pretty good life ever since Zoey is out of the picture.
Not to mention all this happened right after We finally made our choice regarding the girls we were hanging out all this time.
In short the most accurate reaction to Zoey is this , and the whole conversation should have been just this. :
. This is exactly what most of us truly felt.