At the beginning I did not think Sage is a main L.I. material. I thought she is just another slutty character in the game that has a boyfriend problem. I am more invested in Jill as my main girl. She is so innocent and your typical girl next door with a sense of justice. But as the game progress Sage character development went up a notch from 4 to 10. She is very intelligent person who and a great leader. She cares about her friends. I can list alot of things about her but you guys get the jizz of it. When I first play the game I just want to unlocked all the scene so we became fuck buddies which is fine if it's just to unlocked rhe sex scene. But on my sexond run on her character I chose to be her friend and for me this is the best Sage playthrough because mc and Sage become friends to being lovers. There has a stronger foundation compare to being fuckbuddies. Looks like alot of us did not fall in love with Sage character at the beginning but ended up being the top L.I.
I'm a simple man, I liked Sage cause of red hair. Her having to fulfil the "I can fix her" fantasy was just a bonus.
That being said though, Sage's path has proven to be the one I liked most, writing wise. I'm at an entirely different stage of life, so I forgot about this game since the whole Ex-gf interlude and I forgot majority of the things that happened in this game. However, Sage's scenes stayed with me.
I think it's just harder to like the others, when the main conflicts with them were:
Jill: not realising how entitled she is.
M/J: having communication issues/accepting help issues
Isabella: forgot she has emotions and have a dead beat ex.
Chloe: went on a vacation and came back
Infact, I liked the side characters much more than the non-Sage main LI. Even Quinn is far more interesting, and I hated her guts. Riona is such a mood, Envy breaks beauty standard, and Derek is just good ole Derek.