Why is there not a walkthrough mod for this game?
It's a very technically complicated game for one. Let's say there's a scene that requires a certain number of happy points with a character, but there are 5 events beforehand that can give or take various amounts of happy points depending on your decision. And let's say you can get away with 2 questionably dark acts and still get the scene. How do you guide a player through all 5 events and still guarantee seeing that scene?
You'll probably have to mention happy points... but then how do they keep track of happy points without access to the code? I guess you give the amounts in the walkthrough that each decision gives/takes? Let them do the math themselves? Maybe encourage them to download URM so that they can keep track of it?
I don't know, it just seems very messy. Frustrating to compile, maybe even frustrating to follow. I guess you could simplify things with very basic, straightforward routes, that ignore all those complications, where the walkthrough creator basically makes the decisions for the player. But you'd still stand to miss little things here and there, inevitably.
And for two, well, no one's stepped up yet I guess, understandably. Maybe you could be the one?
I never really felt like this game needed much of a walkthrough. Most of the choices seem fairly stark and self-explanatory.
For the most part I agree. But, tbh, you
can miss some moments, some renders, even whole scenes, if you don't meet certain criteria.
For example, who would've thought that
pushing Ashe into the alley could land you into a raunchy, consensual bj scene? I would've assumed it'd just be creepy and rapey, but Ashe at least seems to be into it. I'm assuming that's the point? Maybe it's supposed to toe the line, like many situations evidently do in rl? Maybe from the game's pov, we're sort of kind of reading Ashe's mind, playing into a fantasy of hers? After all, lots of romance novels for women involve, let's say, lots of stuff that seem quite iffy if you saw it go down in real life without any context. But, the fact that the character is usually already enamored with the gent, and the audience usually follows in that regard, it just becomes a very
intense romance with the love of her life, destiny even.
But anyways, my point is that lots of players probably naturally avoid that decision for obvious reasons, without realizing what they're missing. I think you can also miss the apartment scene as well if you don't do that, but I can't remember. So it's not always straightforward.
