- Jun 26, 2017
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This take would be way better if the main plot of the game wasn't centered around Maya at the moment. There's only 3 of the 5 main girls that are in for this plot, Maya, Josy and Sage. Sage is on mostly because she have a side content and is related to the HOTs, which is related to MaJo.Yeah, so LIs are possible girlfriends, and I include both MGs and SGs in that umbrella term, so therefore include Quinn. LIs need a pathway for me, so you can't call Camilla an LI, for instance, because there is no path to her becoming at some point a girlfriend (at present).
In another game, probably (though I would argue popularity has nothing to do with it, as it's about how much time you can spend with them/how much content they have - though yes, I understand that's sometimes driven by the character's popularity). In this game though, there's a very specific "definition" of MG, and it has a static line-up of five girls in that definition. Quinn, and especially Riona (even with the Ep10 ending) can be removed from the game and the core game would still be the same, with the canon story involving the five MGs.
Now Bella is a teacher, so she is standalone. But Jill? Jill literally felt off from the game main plot for most of it. She just got plot relevancy at the end of ep 8 because of the Lynette connection that only she have and because DPC forced her into the Maya shit that I hope can be solved in ep 11 so we can move on.
For most of the game, Jill barely existed in the main plot and she felt more like a side girl than an actual side girl, completely isolated from the rest. And I can and will blame the gatekeepers that probably had their way into butchering her development. She still suffers from it, being so opposed to a DIK MC like no other girl in the game is. I can easily say, and this hurt like a motherfucker, that you can completely remove Jill from the game and it would be the same, even Bella wouldn't suffer much from it.
Now, the drug side thing is slowly becoming one of the main plots, who is on top of that? Quinn. Technically the main antagonist is Vinny, but I don't want to romance Vinny, so fuck him. And with the ending of ep 10, Rio is now on top too.
The same for the prostitution, the one on top is the Quinn Bitch herself.
If you remove Quinn from the game Maya wouldn't have a reason to join the HOTs, hence fucking with the plot.