So, im done with the episode now... still miss some gallery stuff (not scenes there i have them all but special renders, dont now where they are, dont care... will complete them when the official wlakthorugh is out)
I already said my opinion on the peisode, i was disappointed. VERY. Its the weakest episode of the game to me.
I said that after playing two playthroughs, one with J&M and one with Jill...
Now i played 7 playthroughs to get all the scenes. i had 16 after season 2, but now i scratched 9, cause those doesnt matter anymore... a lot of "experimenting" went down the drain with EP9, a neutral path is pretty much a waste of time, and even a "faithful" playthrough no matter what girl, is pretty much a waste of time too... only thing you get out of it, you dont have to break up later with the other girls you dated, so... fuck that, go for as many girls as you want early on. After ep9 it doesnt matter anymore, not really any consequences at all, you just have to pick one in ep 8 and thats it... or go for the others... to be frank, 5 playthroughs should be enough to see everything, i went for 7 and will stay with them. I hoped it would be different, with a lot of little consequences here and there considering your actions, but overall it isnt that way... DPC decided to just "restart" the game pretty much based on one of the 5 paths you can choose after ep 8. Everything else doesnt really matter (except jade)... which is sad.
And now, after i pretty much saw everything... the disappointment is really big i have to say... especially considered the wait. We had to wait two extra months ONLY for animations... and you now what? They pretty much suck ass. The sexscenes? MOSTLY pretty boring. Nothing we didnt see before. Animations are not better than before for them too... DPC just made TONs of unnecessary animations, like a little scene out of an horror movie and such... i wouldnt miss them if they werent there. three preps running to the party... animated, what for? Vinnie came to the house... animated, for what? And so on and on and on... IF you make such animations, make them at least somewhat useful? Like maybe a little dance animation, i mean its a party afterall where you dance a lot? But no... we see people "running" all the time. yay... 2 months waiting to see some unimportant people walk around... yippie.
In the past DPC did some animations outside of sex scenes too... like a training MC, Quinn putting makeup on, the HOTs trying there outfits and such... these were really nice and a plus to the game... but just seeing some random people walk around? Ugh... waste of time really... we could have played in the first november week already or late october without them. And DPC went overboard with sexanimations too... i dont need so many animations for the same movement we already had in most other sexscenes before...
Counting the renders with over 5000 and animations with over 300, it was the biggest episode... nah it was not, it felt like the shortest of them all. Cause nearly everything played in the same location in a free roam. And overall the party didnt felt that much "bigger" than the dorm or HOT party... just a little bit. So he could have done it that way too and used 3500 other renders out of the 5000 for REALLY good and important sutff to get the story going and what not.
I might be a little harsh here, but overall EP9 was nothing more than a filler episode, which took more time in development than every other episode so far... And annoying too, but i mentioned that before... the party was not really fun, and felt most of the time like a chore, but so did for the MC i guess. He didnt even get drunk or had fun with derek or other people... most of the time it was really boring to watch, and that is something new about being a dik. Cause DPC managed to make game either fun, dramatic, emotional or something else all the time... not so this time... emotions? nearly none, well you get some heartbreaking scenes if you have a chick-manwhore playthorughs and have to break up with Jill or J&M but thats it... rest is forgetable. EP8 was a nonstop emotional rollercoaster. EP9 felt more like a ride through a one way street where you only can drive in walking speed.
And we didnt get anything new big to speculate about, only the hidden cam at the end. But that the dik house is bugged is nothing new, some pictures the alphas got where obviously taken with some hidden cam, and i doesnt make any sense that derek NOW found the cam... fuck, the whole mansion was ruined, and renovated ofer several weeks... and only NOW derek noticed that thing? Doesnt make any sense at all... or is DPC really trying to make me believe that the cam is only installed recently? It had to be there all the time since the DIKs was established, in several rooms too... though, if i renovate my room, i would notice a strange looking smoke detector i never placed. Other than that not really much important was revealed either... Arieth is pregnant, yeah... well... who cares. We learned that Tybalt is indeed adopted... and again, who cares? It doesnt make any difference. Maya didnt get the sholarship... who thaught otherwise? Of course she didnt get it. Other than that, NOTHING happened there... i mean EP8 ended with a huge "fuck fuck fuck fuck" and what do we get afterwards? A fucking "yawn" not really more. Best thing in that scene... if you went full hostile against tybalt he was complaining non stop "he pounched me, he egged me, he made a dick pic, he hit my teeth out" and Jade was only thinking about MCs dick... that was funny, but more or less the only real funny scene the whole episode.
Yeah i rant a bit here, cause iam really disappointed, and somewhat angry too, DPC advertised it as the bggest episode, that every branch felt SOOOO different and what not, i didnt get that feeling, and as i see it, most people didnt. And i paid the 27$ bucks for it... it wasnt worth it, not one bit.
DPCs artwork is top notch quality, both in looks and technical... no doubt about it. But we waited more than 9 months that the game goes on, and it felt like i didnt go on... it felt like a standing still episode.
Nothing new to speculate about either... so iam out of here a while til the next episode, hopefully DPC get more things done there, he doesnt even need more than 500 renders to get more shit done like he did with the 5000 for this episode.
Gah yeah iam angry now after this rant... not only disappointed.
