Were you able to do it without Eric fucking Alice or Kira? Cause those unpleasant surprises come rather late with out you knowing that "about your blog" or 2nd photoshoot trigger them,
In 0.7 (possibly earlier), there's no blog trigger. Eric will only (presumably) fuck Alice if you tell her secret in exchange for un-blackmailing Kira. So, If you never trigger Kira's blackmail, the Alice issue never comes up.
I did try the walkthrough. Just that act made the game even less fun. And all it did was get me a little further into the game. I kept getting caught trying to steal his wallet, no matter how many times I replayed it.
The 0.3 walkthrough is not good in 0.7. The camera payout has since been reduced so the first 10 day advice is particularly bad IMO. Also, (in 0.7) you don't need to even attempt the wallet sneaking/sleeping pills, etc. to be handed the "Kate's Mom" solution. Just have to make sure Max has $2K when the week elapses and anticipate paying another $5K for the weed. Expensive but it's the default solution now.
Sneaking the wallet is only needed if you want to pursue the hacker solution (which gives the option of furthering the "control" opportunity). It's also cheaper on the backend but you will need to have a good enough sneak and persuasion to pull off the sleeping pills and may need to pay for a time extension if you get bad RNG.
I feel like a lot of people are justifiably bitter about
early versions of BB. That's fine and all but it's really not constructive as only discussion of the current version and future possibilities is truly valuable. Especially now that DS is watching. As much as some hate the grind, fresh plays may be in order... If not now then at least with 0.8.