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- May 17, 2020
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Jacob's warning is really generic, Jade is an MC professor, talking about powerful people without going into specifics makes no sense.There is also Jacob warning MC to be careful with Sage that makes it obvious that there is more to Sage than her relationship with Chad and her position among the HOTs. MC cuts Jacob off before he can drop the Burke bomb.
Then at the prep party Sage complains that her parents are there. I haven't combed through that recently, but I'm pretty sure Sage specifically says her mother is there but the only grown woman who has any lines is Jade.
So there are hints to it, but they are the kind of hints that stand out after multiple playthroughs. For a first timer the revelation might as well have zero foreshadowing and the idea that MC should have seen it coming is entirely based on things that happened off-screen. It's sloppy.
My example was admittedly heavy handed and kinda reliant on the rest of the characters being more fleshed out so there'd be more red herrings. More name drops so Sage doesn't stand out so much and such. My idea is that there should be subtle hints that a perceptive first timer might pick on and the vast majority of first time players would go "Why didn't I see that coming?" at the reveal. Really get the players to identify with the MC in the moment.
Instead we got... sloppy.
while the presence of Sage's parents at the preps' party is deliberately a false clue since Jill's father does everything to behave just as Sage describes her father, who instead does nothing of what Sage talks about
then if we believe that for real Sage was using the name Morgan (I'm convinced it's a later addition when DPC realized it didn't hold up much, the same way he made Maya's story worse from time to time in the hope it would become acceptable) and MC knew it why would he think that in reality his REAL last name is another one?
good thing there's porn in this game