What I don't really get is how the Olivia route is supposed to work out. I mean you work on Lisa and that's ok, but you meat Olivia a bunch of times and suddenly she is your girlfriend, despite the fact that she likes you and tells you not to mess around? All in all I don't think it's off to a bad start and something good come out of the mother/daughter rivalry there, but I get the feeling that Darksilver doesn't know how romance works at all, not only in incest.
How was he supposed to develop? He fucked you over in every way possible and if don't play by his rules -> boot camp.
Agreed, romance in DMD, for example, is MUCH, MUCH better written/paced/developed. And yeah, I also disliked the huge difficulty when I began to play, basically you only live to earn money for Eric, since I refuse to ever partner up with him, had him as my enemy from day one (I'm a terribly jealous man :3)
If the cameras were more balanced, and you could actually TELL what the fuck the adverts do without having to dig for code, that would make it way easier. DS seriously fucked up on the money making system. Also, you can put cameras all around the house, but only strangers get to see what's going on in them, not you... It's not as if you were the OWNER of the bloody things...