I dunno, people keep peddling this whole doom and gloom future for the game. Here's DPC's own words:
"This game is for adults who value storytelling, branching choices, comedy, and drama.
There will be a good amount of sexual content in the game, but it's not the main focus.
Depending on your life experiences, I would like to warn you that the story might hit close to home, at times.
The general tone will be happy, but if you're in a dark period of your life, I'd advise you to not play the game."
That doesn't sound like tragedy is abound. "Hit close to home" isn't going to mean having to choose who lives or dies in a burning house. He's just saying, if you've been through some tough times, you may be triggered by some shit, like the following:
- Mental illness (Bella)
- Coerced prostitution (Mona and Cammy)
- Bullying (from Chad and the jocks, mc’s flashback)
- Homophobia (casual stuff from many characters but a strong sense from Patrick’s storyline)
- Untimely death (mc’s mom, Jill’s sister)
- Poverty (Neil & mc)
- Injustice (mc getting detention for defending himself)
It just sounds like there are a few things that might upset some people. Killing off the main LIs or sending them to the loony bin doesn't really sound like "The general tone will be happy
". That would more likely fall under the "Fucked up shit" banner.
Nah, this is a fun game. There's definitely some drama to make it engaging, but, after AL ended on a pretty sour note, if he did it again in a game that is pretty much a "college sex comedy", he'd be an idiot. DPC isn't an idiot.