I totally agree: free roams might be fun the firs time but they totally kill replayability.okay, play this game a couple of time and it's great, and planing to replay it again BUT for the love of god please tell me there is a way to skip an annoying part, the free roam where I have to click a lot to go through the mansion for example the first time playing are great, but the second and so on are not. also the mini-game in SS2, I hate math test, it contain my true weakness it's called PUZZLE.
I explolred just one branch of Episode 11, I would like to explore others, but the free roams - not allowing skipping mode - area great turn down.
It's a chore, not a fun, to redo over and over again a bunch of forced clicks just to explore an already explored environment.
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Unfortunately free roams kill the builtin "Skip seen text" of Ren'Py, so they are unskippable.
It would require an ad hoc mod to skip them, and since Sancho never did it I think there aren't may programmers able/willing to do it out there...