- Sep 20, 2018
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Hear, hear!I want the main character to have the option to tell Jaye to grow up and back off. Have you ever tried to do a run through this game where the main character has a healthy normal relationship with Jaye? One where they learn to work together in a professional manner? It's pretty much impossible. She's stealing his journals, masturbating on his pillow, spying on him in the shower, and rubbing her ass against his crotch like a cat in heat.
More importantly, I want the main character to be able to have a serious conversation with her where he doesn't automatically start taking the blame for everything and saying that everything he did was because he loved her too much. Jaye is pushed way too hard by the writers here. George wants them together, Tara wants them together, even Mallory seems to want them to hook up or something. She just had that weird scene where she tries to get Jaye to do body shots with him to "break down a wall" with Jaye. I don't want that wall broken down. I want it built up and reinforced. Put some sentries on top.
It looked like that would be possible in Chapter 3, if you kept Jaye's Trust points up and her Love points down. Unfortunately Jaye flew off the rails in Chapter 4, brazenly attempting to seduce the MC at every turn regardless of their former feelings. And the options to decline are woefully inadequate; when she insists the MC get into bed naked with her, all we can do is slam the door on her. There's no option to stay dressed and talk it out once and for all, nor is this followed up on in Chapter 5. The otherwise excellent grieving scene happens in a complete vacuum.
Mallory's tone-deaf obsession with seeing the two step-siblings hook up doesn't help, either. You'd think a reporter would notice when an obsession is one sided. But it's even stranger from a meta sense: Mallory is the only alternative to Jaye in the game, yet her arc plays out as if we're expected to be pursuing Jaye first and foremost. We can't even max out Mallory's points if the MC turns down Tara's help getting into Jaye's pants.