- May 12, 2021
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Speaking for myself, you overstate the problems, but you aren't wrong. Some of the things you objected to I didn't--the resolution of the legal case was okay for me, though not wonderful. But other things disappointed me. I went through it on the "neither of them" path just hoping for a scene with Ricky, but didn't get one; that was a little sad.Ideally, it should be the same as for any other ending: paying off the player's decisions and showing how they weave together into a possible future for the MC. While the weave might be much courser than on the main endings, we could still make a functional garment. We didn't get that. To continue the metaphor, we got a small tangle of yarn reeking of cat piss, along with a flyer advertising the awesome clothing available at SexyJaye.com The solo endings are interested only in establishing that only Jaye and Mallory could ever matter to the MC. Indeed, they're so devoted to that task that I honestly wonder why they were made at all.
But the main thing is the emotional payoff, or lack thereof. I loved this game a great deal all the way through, so I felt let down. The big thing (for me) was that the Mal and Jaye path turned out to be--the Jaye path. After setting things up for the threesome, in the end we see no sexual, and, even more, no emotional connection between MC and Mal, or MC and Jaye and Mal which would have been ever better. She's a friend of the family, and that's it. Unless I missed some clues somewhere, that is not what we were promised with the Mal and Jaye path. It's a good game, but he didn't stick the landing.