Having played through twice now, I really liked the episode, yes it was linear, static and the free roams felt pointless, BUT the characters really shone through, and the sex scenes, OMG the sex was dead ass, black tar heroin levels of sexy. I also thought the gameplay developments were cool, the choice restrictions, feel like i've BUILT a character and now he is playing me while i play him, the limitations feel smooth and natural. Oh and the humor was on point, on point.
I've gone through Episode 8 with several different runs, and I think I've seen just about all there is to see without a guide. Now I need to sort out my thoughts on it.
This was definitely a large update. Yet somehow it feels extremely thin, as though the important parts were diluted by an unrelenting stream of high-gloss filler material. Worse, while several scenes were quite nice in and of themselves, the overall character/story progression was handled surprisingly gracelessly.
BaDIK hasn't felt this railroaded since Episode 4. Far too many of our choices were ignored or neutered, seemingly for no reason beyond a lack of imagination by DPC. The titular "crossroads" in the MC's relationships comes not as a natural result of our choices, nor even as the result of an external crisis a la Josy's arrival at the end of Episode 3. No, this crossroad is literally because the MC woke up one day and decided dating multiple girls was unworkable no matter what had been said before. The episode then abruptly ends before the MC can actually implement his decision, meaning there's a high likelihood we're going to be stuck doing this dance all over again as Season 3 unfolds.
As a result, my enthusiasm for Season 3 has diminished significantly. It feels like we're going to be stuck in endless loops as the main story is advanced drip by tiny drip. I've long wanted the MC to be able to commit to a single relationship, but that was always with the assumption that the game would branch sufficiently to reflect those differences. Between the ham-fisted "crossroads" and the revelations in the closing montage, I don't think that's going to happen anymore, and the rate at which it fails to happen is going to be glacially slow. That's not going to sit well as we wait 6+ months for the next installment to clean up this mess.
So yeah, overall I'm pretty down on Episode 8, and the game as a whole. Now let's look at the details, which means spoilers.
I've gone through Episode 8 with several different runs, and I think I've seen just about all there is to see without a guide. Now I need to sort out my thoughts on it.
This was definitely a large update. Yet somehow it feels extremely thin, as though the important parts were diluted by an unrelenting stream of high-gloss filler material. Worse, while several scenes where quite nice in and of themselves, the overall character/story progression was handled surprisingly gracelessly.
BaDIK hasn't felt this railroaded since Episode 4. Far too many of our choices were ignored or neutered, seemingly for no reason beyond a lack of imagination by DPC. The titular "crossroads" in the MC's relationships comes not as a natural result of our choices, nor even as the result of an external crisis a la Josy's arrival at the end of Episode 3. No, this crossroad is literally because the MC woke up one day and decided dating multiple girls was unworkable no matter what had been said before. The episode then abruptly ends before the MC can actually implement his decision, meaning there's a high likelihood we're going to be stuck doing this dance all over again as Season 3 unfolds.
As a result, my enthusiasm for Season 3 has diminished significantly. It feels like we're going to be stuck in endless loops as the main story is advanced drip by tiny drip. I've long wanted the MC to be able to commit to a single relationship, but that was always with the assumption that the game would branch sufficiently to reflect those differences. Between the ham-fisted "crossroads" and the revelations in the closing montage, I don't think that's going to happen anymore, and the rate at which it fails to happen is going to be glacially slow. That's not going to sit well as we wait 6+ months for the next installment to clean up this mess.
So yeah, overall I'm pretty down on Episode 8, and the game as a whole. Now let's look at the details, which means spoilers.
Having played through twice now, I really liked the episode, yes it was linear, static and the free roams felt pointless, BUT the characters really shone through, and the sex scenes, OMG the sex was dead ass, black tar heroin levels of sexy. I also thought the gameplay developments were cool, the choice restrictions, feel like i've BUILT a character and now he is playing me while i play him, the limitations feel smooth and natural. Oh and the humor was on point, on point.
Tried this - didn't work. The upgrade of OS took the ability to even open the SDK away - it just quits unexpectedly. And I didn't read it anywhere - I just reported it to the Lemmasoft board and here, to see what may be known about this. Others have seen this as well. I can still open 7.3.5, but both 7.4.8 (which was working before the upgrade) and 7.4.10 have this issue. I use the SDKs to create Mac versions from the compressed pc versions of games.
Now that they've made us commit to one of the main LIs, are the next 8 eps just gonna be us getting tempted to cheat? Cause there's no chance I'm fuckin MCs ex over Bella.
Also it's really gonna take 3 seasons to fuck Cathy...That's too steep a price for losing Bella.
I've gone through Episode 8 with several different runs, and I think I've seen just about all there is to see without a guide. Now I need to sort out my thoughts on it.
This was definitely a large update. Yet somehow it feels extremely thin, as though the important parts were diluted by an unrelenting stream of high-gloss filler material. Worse, while several scenes were quite nice in and of themselves, the overall character/story progression was handled surprisingly gracelessly.
BaDIK hasn't felt this railroaded since Episode 4. Far too many of our choices were ignored or neutered, seemingly for no reason beyond a lack of imagination by DPC. The titular "crossroads" in the MC's relationships comes not as a natural result of our choices, nor even as the result of an external crisis a la Josy's arrival at the end of Episode 3. No, this crossroad is literally because the MC woke up one day and decided dating multiple girls was unworkable no matter what had been said before. The episode then abruptly ends before the MC can actually implement his decision, meaning there's a high likelihood we're going to be stuck doing this dance all over again as Season 3 unfolds.
As a result, my enthusiasm for Season 3 has diminished significantly. It feels like we're going to be stuck in endless loops as the main story is advanced drip by tiny drip. I've long wanted the MC to be able to commit to a single relationship, but that was always with the assumption that the game would branch sufficiently to reflect those differences. Between the ham-fisted "crossroads" and the revelations in the closing montage, I don't think that's going to happen anymore, and the rate at which it fails to happen is going to be glacially slow. That's not going to sit well as we wait 6+ months for the next installment to clean up this mess.
So yeah, overall I'm pretty down on Episode 8, and the game as a whole. Now let's look at the details, which means spoilers.
I think this episode soured my opinion of the game and felt that the whole decide who you want to be with got tossed into the story out of nowhere. I don't like how you have to choose one or the other. It makes the game less enjoyable since the characters will always hold this grudge in future episodes so we won't have authentic interactions. If you can only select one character or (Maya/Josy) to be with then what happens to all of the casual relationships the MC has? Would he reject all of them? Bringing in Zoey, revealing how Sage is a Burke, and MC's mother being related to the Royces make the world feel smaller and it feels forced. I really do not like how choosing a partner was handled. I wish DPC fleshed out the characters emotions with each other beforehand rather than to deal with the aftermath (Bella/Jill and Sage/Jade in this regard). Yeah lol. I just feel sad about how the LI's found out about each other and the fact that you HAVE to cut someone off. It did not happen naturally but for the sake of shock factor.
I feel like shit playing this episode
that was the hard one for me to find too. its in one of the bedrooms (dont remember the exact one, but there is only like 5 so you'll get it) on the back right wall. the "heart" is a heart shaped collage of pictures on the wall
I'm on neutral path and I have the option to pay her as well. Not sure about chick path.
Also maybe if the MC is on Jill path that option is not available? Similar thing happened in EP7 if you dated Jill. She is like cock blocker character
I'm neutral and on Jill path, and I could pay Sarah and Melanie to fuck them (I payed for the gloryhole sex in the dorm's restroom with Camilia and Riona in episode 1 though)
I'm neutral and on Jill path, and I could pay Sarah and Melanie to fuck them (I payed for the gloryhole sex in the dorm's restroom with Camilia and Riona in episode 1 though)
You are an absolute saint, I was just losing hope that I would have to download for hours from those trashy sites just when this popped up. Thanks a lot man.
