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.
That actually sounds like a fun idea. Not sure how he'd implement it but it would save some time if you don't feel like looking for a person for the 5th time in a row.
(I played it a few times and still I have some locked scene in the gallery)...
Same. I know I'll have to do it eventually but I stopped trying around maybe March.
the best thing is not to get carried away by expectations and keep calm.
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LOL. Yea pretty much. I'm not walking in with hopes of eating that triple-stack, Wagyu beef burger just to have it slapped away. I'm expecting a dollar menu burger and will just be glad if he doesn't jizz all over it.
Jokes aside:
Nah I'm really leaning towards the belief there won't be another behemoth free roam like Ep 9. The previews show several "date scenes" with individual characters. And again, Ep 9 had the Halloween Party to account for as well as a shit ton of other poorly timed things DPC had to cover that made it a big clusterfuck.
There might be another big ass free roam but I doubt it's going to be that big. Ep 8's dorm party was barely over 600 renders. Ep 9's Halloween party had 3 separate folders for the images and altogether it was over 2700 renders. Possibly 2800.
He's not going to keep including every single character for every party from now on either.
You don't want to read all that, these are just receipts for the future:
I think it was either cover everything equally and make the 2-year wait for the Halloween party disappointing or just say, "Fuck it" then make it the center piece of the story while covering all other loose ends with flashbacks.
It just wouldn't make sense for him to keep doing this kind of story structure. It'll basically mean no progress at all in the story/relationships or the impact will be decreased if it's revealed in the form of a flashback. We'll most likely go back to what we're used to.
I already had doubts about Ep 9 because I didn't think he'd be able to cover all of it sufficiently. I just thought that with a record number of renders we'd at least have gotten a more balanced approach with some progression with everything, planning the party, then the party at the end. Instead it was more than half of the renders going to the free roam and barely catching all the balls he threw up in the air at the end of Ep 8 and the Interlude.
As a side note: Zoey was actually done well at least. Her integration into the cast was pretty smooth. It didn't devote a large chunk of time at the expense of all the other crap happening but it also didn't make the Interlude seem pointless by not just shoving her aside for the rest of the episode after the initial talk with the MC.