Mmmmmmm... I still haven got to the moment when shit hits the fan with the time stop and stuff but I wanted to share my thoughts so far...
I gotta say, I feel a little weird about the writing in this game, I mean, first off, you have "Harem points" which indicates that an Harem route is possible, but so far I feel like Im just an asshole who profeses true love and commits to a serious monogamous relationship with every girl in the game at the same time...sure the family seems like they don't really mind sharing, but Claude,The rich girl, the friend from school... so far Im apparently the oficial boyfriend of all these girls at the same time and that makes me feel weird, like this is not a real Harem but a bunch of single routes that don't connect each other...at least in other harem games the girls are more liberal and express their desire of having no strings attached or simply don't mind that the MC is fooling around with other girls,but I don't see any of that so far.... any clue if having multiple love interest will bite my ass in the future? should I commit to just one girlfriend?
And another thing, Im aware the MC has some trauma for his troubled past but...why he is such an insecure bitch?, why in hell he gets so defensive and jealous with the idea of other men interacting with the girls?....the examples that come to my head right now are in the date with the bigger sister in the spa that he was totally against the idea of her sister having a male massagist, like yeah... no man can touch my sister...but I don't mind having a woman doing me a massage with happy ending
, double standard much?...seriously....and the guy in the italian ice cream locale, they leave the restaurant because the italian dude was..apparently near them when they were talking in the table?...and apparently he said something flirty to the school friend? like yeah dude, if you date a hot girl you gotta deal with other man being interested in her, but if you trust your partner you should know she wont leave you no matter how many italian dudes try to get in her pants because she could have any dude, and yet still choose you...seriously, Im starting to believe the MC is kinda of a toxic boyfriend....which honestly would make sense...after all this game seems to have a lot of people with heavy issues and insecurities, the MC was abused and bullied for years, the trans girl was very depressed and tried to end her life since nobody accept her as she is, the gay friend was afraid of getting out of the closet and confess his love to the MC so he decided to avoid his friends and hide in the abuse of drugs to avoid facing the reality and being open with his feelings, and Im pretty sure things aren't going well in the house of the oficial girlfriend of the MC (I believe her name was Cindy?)...like those are serious shit, everybody is battling their own demons and that can be reflected in how they handle relationships... I can totally understand that, if that's the direction the dev is going and there is a plan to tackle all those toxic behaviors in the future I think they is doing genius work, but if that's not the case and they simply think being jealous and overly protective is a way to express love I would be kinda disappointed because ignoring those points the writing is pretty good, when Claude opened up with the MC and shared her deepest and most painful memories it hit me pretty hard...I just wanted to hug her and tell her everything was going to be fine....it was pretty good! and I hope I get to see more of that interesting writing in the rest of the game...