I don't want to put words in
Takkatakka 's mouth but it
seems like his argument is that it's not a matter of HOW to do the big events that encompass all the characters. It's more that DPC uses the big events to cover all the possible branches without having to do it in different settings, choosing assets, etc for smaller, individual events. Like the water park with Maya and Josy or date restaurant date with Bella.
But what you're saying is that DPC
could still do the big events rather than the individual events and it's just a matter of the method he uses, right? I'm just trying to make sure we're all on the same page here.
Yeah, exactly.
Episode 9 could be redone with exactly the same setting and using exactly the same renderings and dialogues.
Just avoiding the forced clicks to progress from Scene A to Scene B when those scene are obliged to progress in the game.
If I
must to talk with Jamie, Sally, Rusty in order the story to progress, I'd prefere that the scenes representing those three dialogues comes automatically one after the other, not that I am forced to navigate the entire mansion to find where they are... This roaming looking for this or that character is not "free" roaming at all: it is actually a
forced roaming because you
must find the three characters and talk to them.
About the optional tasks in the phone, it would be better if "talk to X" were clickable and clicking it made the talking scene display, instead of forcing again another navigation in the mansion to find the character.
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During the party many characters change room, which is cool... What is not cool is that the player during the party is forced to explore all the mansion (at least) three times just to find where DPC decided to place each character in this phase of the party.
That wouldn't be bothersome if it had to be done ONCE, but since to play all five main branches you have to do it FIVE TIMES plus many other times for the sub-branches... it's just uselessly booooring.
Remember we can START Episode 9 on 5 branches:
1) Sage
2) Bella
3) Jill
4) Josy & Maya
5) Others
and for each of these 5 main branches, Episode 9 gets more than one sub-branch according to the decisions made in Episode 9.
Besides you can be on each of the 5 main branches with different affinities (and this affects what you can or cannot choose in Episode 9), so even the 5 starting main branches actually has sub-branches themselves.
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So if you want to see all the contents you have to play Episode 9 at least fifteen times if not more (I played it a few times and still I have some locked scene in the gallery)... and at each run having to explore the whole mansion three times just to look for characters and see mostly already seen contents il just boring.
Without freeroaming the same exact scenes would automatically come one after the other and so they would be automatically skippable via Tab key which would stop just at menus and if a new choice (or another save using as start of Episode 9) leads to new contents.
This way seeing all contents of all possible branches/sub-branches would be quicker and so more enjoyable.
