I'm sorry to get into old topics by now, but I've just played to the end of the available content. Last time I had played this game it was on Episode 1.
What do you guys think?
I used to think this, and if it was me actually in the story I’d feel this way but something Ive started to remind myself since playing this through again recently is the MC isn’t me, he is as much a character in this as Maya or Josy. We make choices for
him but how he feels and how he sees the girls are his opinions, Not ours.
He was never “faithful” to Maya regardless of your choices because the MC doesn’t consider them in a relationship. You as a player can be faithful to her but the MC as a character doesn’t see her that way. He was never forgoing sex with other characters for Maya. You might have chosen for that reason but the MC doesn’t have that motivation. You’re assigning weight to those decisions the MC as a character never has. By not fucking Sage the MC doesn’t fall in love with Maya. He feels the same for her regardless of how many girls he bangs.
He says quite a few times in the story how casual his relationships are. At the end of the day he’s known Maya for less than two weeks (Prior to Ep4 it was just over a week). It’s not absurd he didn’t think there was anything of substance between them. The story makes much more sense if you consider Maya nothing more than a crush and take the MC at his word about why he was upset in Ep4. The lying, not any sort of worry the girls cheated on him.
Maya/Josy don’t help things by being borderline bunny boilers but if you treat this as MC having at best a crush on them, being annoyed they lied but in Ep4 deciding to forgive them for lying and try dating (or just be friends) the story flows much better.
Ep5 changes things with much more emotional attachment (being hamstrung with the whole no strings thing) but between Ep1 and the twist in Ep3 the MC is very casual about his relationships with them. They’re not in relationships, they’re just people who met and were attracted to one another... and occasionally had casual sex.
Again, if I was in MC’s position I would feel as you do. I’d have stormed out that room and so on... but the MC isn’t me, he’s much more casual about all this.