NukaCola

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Yes. It's 3 dollars. You should have at least 3 when you hit the party. Then you get another 3 by doing the brawler game and shuffle and the tetris game.
I spend all my $ to upgrade wallet and buy 2D art before the party so I'm totally broke. I play with mini game off but fortunately I found some money laying around but its only enough for either Sarah or Melanie not both. What about Becky? Is there any lewd scene with her at the party if you fuck her before?
 
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Something cool I did during this update, other than a specific part, was play Adele's album throughout the entire update. And boy did it work well, some song are sad. But a lot of the music fits with the more romantic tone this episode has.

I'll say this as well, I think episode 7 was better than this episode by a fair bit. But I think 7 blows all of the other episodes out as well. I think this episode ranks 4th best to me. But I was quite satisfied with it, its very main LI heavy and that could disappoint some, but not me. I've never played a DIK run, and I was never quite a fan of running the gambit on all the girls in the game.

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KeShane

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Guys, help. I replaced some files and now game doesnt start.
Please share your Game/freeroam/episode 8 folder!
If you still have the Rar file of Badik you could just install it again,
and add your save file in there, and done.
no messing with finding a certain file. way quicker too.
 

PashafromRussia

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I agree with ename 144 opinion that the decision to choose a girl at the end of season 2 looks somewhat technical and hasty. But I have a few explanations.
1) DPC for some reason it was necessary to start full-fledged branches of heroines at the beginning of the 3rd season. The reason is quite clear. Season 1 as a whole is devoted to the hero's awareness of his sexuality, sex without obligations and recognition of a particular girl.
Season 2 was supposed to concretize the girl you like so that the choice was conscious.
Season 3 is a full-fledged relationship with their problems (as you know, relationships are a complicated thing). Temptations in the form of potential infidelity (Zoey was introduced not by chance), contradictions, difficulties. Even a possible breakup.
Season 4 should logically close the branch of each of the girls (for example, pregnancy). The topic of pregnancy was raised briefly throughout the second season and should mean for the hero what it means to be responsible.
For example, take Josie and Maya. The whole first season MC recognized the girl separately. The second season is an attempt to start a full-fledged relationship with both. Girls fall in love with him and get used to sharing him.The third season should be dedicated to a full-fledged relationship. I do not know if the long-awaited solo paths will appear in this season. If you deepen the relationship with another, will the second be offended? An interesting question.
For me, the season 2 finale looks like a bachelor party. The last party. After her, it's not going to work just like that to fuck two girls in the toilet. And it will have consequences. I haven't looked at the code yet, I don't know if the jealousy variable has appeared again or if it was accidentally introduced.
2) Perhaps the decision was caused by technical features. It is likely that the transfer of the status quo to the third season will cause critical errors due to the large number of variables. But we know that season 3 will start in a new file and to simplify the work it was necessary to allocate a route for each of the girls.
 
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andy maxxx

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At this rate Bella LI path is becoming the most obstructed path in the story. The Jill drama, Student-Teacher relationship secrecy and also her husband James are all too much trouble. The Jill and Sage paths won't need secrecy anymore. Hell even Josy-Maya path is only obstructed by Maya's economic issues. Although more or less obstacles might come in the future for the other LI relaionships but Bella has too much to begin with.
 
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Canto Forte

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She is also worth all of it.
With MC taking up the bar scene by storm, she can get free and they can be
together 4 reals in everybody”s eyes.
At this rate Bella LI path is becoming the most obstructed path in the story. The Jill drama, Student-Teacher relationship secrecy and also her husband James are all too much trouble. The Jill and Sage paths won't need secrecy anymore. Hell even Josy-Maya path is only obstructed by Maya's economic issues. Although more or less obstacles might come in the future for the other LI relaionships but Bella has too much to begin with.
 

SomboSteel

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We're gonna have months and months to pull ep. 8 apart and find things we love and maybe hate about it, but I gotta signal boost this post and agree very much with the tl;dr. I really didn't want to come out as negative overall on the episode because make no mistake there are some things that are good, and many things that could potentially be good that we just don't understand fully yet (I'm still not high enough IQ to understand how the path locks are gonna work, eagerly awaiting some big brain takes on it :KEK:) but I have to admit that when I finished the episode I wasn't really happy. This didn't change when I played the other paths either, although I can definitely see how solo Jill and solo Bella players would disagree because their wishes were finally answered for obvious reasons.

As I said I really don't wanna come out as negative on the episode or spoil it for others, and I definitely don't want to get into arguments about how good it was because at the end of the day different people who love different girls will have different opinions and experiences with the game. All that being said, as someone who is mostly concerned with the narrative of the game, I have some very serious issues with how this episode has changed the narrative pacing and the stakes of the story. I feel the LI path locks have come way too early and seemingly in a contrived and arbitrary fashion. I feel DPC has way too many guns on the table and threads to tie up while also introducing more and more cliffhanger bait moments. I feel that the threads that have been resolved do not live up to the impact and hype, like telling Sage about Chad and Troy which results in a few minor scenes and nothing more, despite being the final cliffhanger of episode 7. And lastly, I honestly felt pretty annoyed that the final screen of episode 8 is the Interlude screen with Zoey, which is something similar to finishing Mass Effect 3 and being confronted with a big message from the developer about the upcoming DLC.

So tl;dr I guess go read ename's post because mine is a retread of a lot of that and his tl;dr is better :KEK:
well said. i also dont want to come off as a negative nancy, but i think i was slightly disappointed with the episode overall. there were some good things for sure, but im not too excited about future episodes after this one. im worried this was ultimately too many steps back for DPC in terms of narrative pacing, and this is only exacerbated because he takes so long in between updates that if the episode ends up a "flop" it feels like you just lose more than you gain.

also i know that Acting Lessons put him on the map, mainly from the twists that nobody could have predicted (since stuff like that isnt common in this genre of game, nobody had any reason to suspect it would get so grim-dark). but im kinda personally growing tired of the "necessary bombs" DPC thinks we have to have every single time. sometimes it works, but most times it comes of as either contrived or kinda lame (many of them arent even "twists" since id seen them predicted here loooong ago). He doesnt need to be like M. Night and constantly overuse the "crazy twists" angle. every now and then some soap opera moments to heighten the drama are good, but i wish he would just spend some time actually developing our MC and the other characters without just spoonfeeding us development little by little so he can "shock" us with something when he thinks he has the most opportune time.

so i dont have crazy expectations for this game, but sometimes i think about what it could potentially be. idk how much money he makes buts its clearly quite a bit at this point. if he hired a team and could storyboard tons of stuff for other people to be working on simultaneously, imagine what we could get. this is ultimately a dating sim, but its been years and we still know next to nothing about so many of the characters. like just for a dumb example, we just learn Maya and Derek's last name in this episode. for how "realistic" DPC tries to make this with all his attention to little details, it seems dumb that our MC would be having an existential crisis over any of these people when in reality he/we dont even really know them in the slightest.

i just wish we could have more legitimate character development, but i feel like the cast is too big and there just isnt enough time to come close to what we could/should be at. i feel like the scope of this game is maybe too big and idk if he can focus enough to keep it all together, and its worse considering it will be his only project for likely a few more years.
 
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