I totally agree with you on that, that was the point I was trying to make. Its the little things, like dialogue and scene variations that arent there, that annoy me in these so called "forced situations". They may be forced, but I what to feel like my own choices made actually mattered...
On my post I gave 2 examples of instances where ALL paths, and not just M&J path, were forced to do something: Going to the library and D&G game, but they force the MC in 2 distinct way:
-Going to the library is a "story force" because all the LIs are there and, in the story, the MC is lagging behind on study so he has to catch up and M&J helped their friend (could be avoided, but i get why it wasnt)
-The D&G game isnt a "story force", it doesnt do anything in the story and to the story, so Why couldnt it be skipped? (for example, put a choice to either go play or keep studying and gain % for another test or whatever tickled DPCs fancy)
ChipLecsap, for example, brought up another "story forced" scene, for ALL paths as well, in Bellas house with Cathy and Jill and MC staying the night and this one doesnt involve M&J (just so that people dont call me a biased hater of M&J)
Now to the problem scene: in the end of ep6 there is another "story forced" scene where the MC goes to see Maya and Josy after an urgent cry for help from Josy. Im NOT mad or annoyed that this happened, Im more annoyed in the fact that there were no variations on the scene (that I know off), and makes it feel like the Relationship MC is as worried as the Friend MC, which in my opinion wouldnt be true (for example, making the Friend MC arrive like 20 mins later and/or make up excuses for not getting there earlier or something like that and Josy and Maya noticing they were made up (this one especially on the DIK MC)). Other than that, is the tuition problem explained and the Maya dad thing explained too to major drama (which is DPC style so nothing unexpected). However, this scene gave me 2 thoughts:
-What concerns me the most is the ep7 backlash of this particular scene, because, at least in my own theories and the threads theories, it will be ep3 finale all over again. Its a surprising situation again where the MC will probably be blindsided and sucked in to the "story" and I just dont want it to be equal to ALL paths like the ep4 was (with the MC having the same behavior no matter what).
-Why was this shown to ALL paths and at the end of the episode and the Jill blackmail path was only shown to the ones that went with her on the date? Why didnt the people that missed her date but are on her path didnt get at the very least a render in the final moments of ep6 informing us, the players, of whats going on?
Finally, I wanted to finish saying that Im sorry for the long post and that I dont HATE M&J, its just a coincidence that the ep3 finale and ep 4 (almost everything that had to do with the M&J path) wasnt, in my opinion, well executed/written and left me afraid of another problem of them to solve