Nice Episode... played Josy/Maya for now... it was clear to me from the start that you have to choose at some point or the girls will choose for you (if you cheat on them) so i made playthroughs for all of the girls, besides its necessary to unlock all scenes and renders anyway.
it was the most emotionally episode so far i think, ok besides the ending of episode 3 maybe. Especially the concert was really touching. (cant wait to play this again with the jill route)
A lot of free roam events again, i admit, i dont like those very much most of the time... actually the dorm party was the first free roam i liked so far in this game. Most of the others were more annoying and confusing, the dorm party was well structured and pretty much straightforward to explore and not to miss anything.
Overall i wished there had be more intimate bonding time with Josy and Maya... but ok that was in episode 7 the case, but in episode 8 there wasnt much time for that. And i dont mean lewd scenes only... i missed more talk about feeling cause this was the episode where you decide to be with them and "attach strings" to the relationship, for that there was not enough exchange of feelings between the MC and the two girls in this episode i would say... and looking back all 8 episodes so far, the bond between MC and josy can be so much stronger than between Maya and MC... but ok, the game is nor exactly a slow burn, that only goes for the jill relationship i would say.
Of course many many questions are still open, in fact there are more open questions now than before... and i read some of the theories and speculations around here, and nearly none of them were close... but its kinda funny and impressive how much this game inspire these kind of theories all the time... and i think its one, maybe the main reason why BaDIK is so successful.
I am very realieved that the mansion minigame is finally over... to be frank, i hated it and it was going on way too long... hopefully there will be nothing like this in the future. It wasnt difficult at all, all the guides around here for it where pointless after all, its nearly impossible to not manage it in the end. But it was very time consuming and did eat away a lot focus from what was going on beside this mansion situation.
So now we all will be sitting on hot coals for a while, these cliffhangers at the end were the nastiest so far, and i dont think that there will be much speculation about the releasedate here. Halloweenparty is coming up, and i would bet that this is the time where the next episode is planned be released, at least i think thats the plan.... So as many guessed already, we are going to get one update a year from now on. Hm not really good news in my opinion. Yeah the quality is maybe the best around all the VNs here. but i have to say it, the content each update is not THAT much compared to others who can deliver 2-3 updates a year with nearly the same quality. (to be clear, the playtime is way more than in other games, but its very streched out cause of the free roam events and huge amount of minigames, if you know those or play withput minigames, the playtime is only half of it) I prefer quality over quantity everytime, but 1 update a year for an VN is really slow... but maybe iam wrong and we will get another one in maybe again 7 months like this time? Hopefully...
