Guys how important is it using a walkthrough/mod in this game, will I regret not using it since he recommends us not to use it, e.g. Fucking up and going down wrong path only to find out waaay down the Road.
IMHO it's worth playing the game the first time without a walkthrough to see how you react to the various situations. That's the way DPC intended it, and sometimes the unexpected outcomes lead to surprisingly interesting results.
That said, assuming you like the game at all I also strongly recommend playing the game again with a walkthrough. Once you see how things work behind the scenes you'll have a much better sense for what makes the characters tick and why things happened the way they did. It makes it much clearly how DPC
intended things to come across, which isn't always apparent if you go in blind.
Plus there's a lot content that's mutually exclusive or otherwise easy to miss, so multiple runs are strongly encouraged.
Yes, kinda. I know MC will probably second guess his feelings towards Zoey and the LI we chose at the end of EP8, Zoey will probably throw herself at MC with all her might; there'll be drama between Zoey and the LIs and between the LIs and MC himself, but in the end I'm expecting for us players to have the choice to stop Zoey's advances.
I agree, but choice to reject Zoey's advances will be in Episode 12. It's the three episodes between now and then that I'm dreading.
Do people really think the MC, who thought he lost his best friend/first love, 'loved Josy at first sight when he saw her' after grieving, without knowing what grieving was (and while Josy isn't tattooed, she is similar to Zoey on a lot of points, being pretty much pure neutral), will simply push her aside like she's nothing when she comes back and tells him it was a big fucking Emma/Bert misunderstanding and that she comes back for him ?
Prior to the crossroad I'd have said of course not. But DPC made a huge fucking deal about how the MC needed to follow his heart and commit to a girl (or stop leading the girls on if he wasn't ready to commit). It was poorly structured but it happened. The MC made his choice.
So yeah, I'm going to be ticked off if the MC curls up into a ball at the first sign of temptation. I get that Zoey was his first girlfriend, but that means she's the metric for judging a new relationship. If he's going to make a big song and dance about committing to a girl, he damn well ought to be at least as committed to said girl as he was to Zoey. Her subsequent return may be an unpleasant dilemma, but it really shouldn't be a difficult one.
Alas, I'm not placing any bets on it playing out that way.
that definitely
MC won't decide a damn thing, just like he hasn't decided almost anything so far (the trouple is not his idea, the fuckbuddy isn't either, it's Jill who invites him and she comes to him when she's ready etc.)
I don't think Zoey will have such a proactive attitude right away, she will approach MC and he will be confused but happy about it.
To be fair to the MC, he did actually propose the throuple (assuming we pick that choice). He specifically followed his heart and asked for something very unorthodox, so we should give him credit for that.
Of course in the time since then he's put exactly effort into defining how the throuple will work and is more concerned with being able to date around than he is with deepening his ties with Maya and Josy. He doesn't prioritize spending time with them, shows no interest in helping Maya earn money to solve her problem the slow and steady way, takes so long to react to the rift between Maya and Josy that they've already patched things up by the time he offers to let them spend the night in his room, and can't be bothered to mention it to them when he finally decides to take the throuple seriously.
So yeah, he may also be due a great deal of anti-credit, but he did at least do one thing right.