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Dessolos

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Finally finished slowly replaying this game after playing the update last month. Forgot how long this amazing game is. Yup this game still in my top 3 and still on team Charlotte next time I replay gonna have to play a Charlotte and Lucy game about the same time so I can experience the Lucy stuff.
 
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Dessolos

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This is another Britishism. Yanks call it a tank, brits call it a vest. Kind of like how sweaters are called jumpers and swimsuits are called costumes.
Thanks for that clarification. I actually replayed that part of the game today and confused me didn't feel like a typo but also didnt feel like it made sense to me.
 

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This doesn't make sense, the DA can't stop an FBI investigation.

DA stands for "district attorney", which is a state level position. The F in FBI stands for Federal, state DAs can't instruct the FBI on what not to investigate.

There is also no such position as "Chief".

The chain of command goes like this;

Director
Deputy Director
[CID Branch]
Executive Assistant Director
Assistant director

CID would be the branch investigating the situation in this VN and there is no DA anywhere that can instruct the FBI on what not to investigate.

Also any attempt to interfere with the investigation would be reported higher up the CoC which would trigger an internal investigation at a higher level.
So unless the claim is that some worthless Hollywood Hillside fucks can control the ENTIRE FBI from the Director down, then none of this plot line makes any sense.

Now lets say that the Director is in their pocket, just for argument sake.
Then the situation could be reported to the AG, DOJ and DoNI.
There is no way to keep this from being investigated and the higher up it gets, the more out of control of the corrupt elements it gets.

Also every field office has a representative for the DoNI.
You can't buy off everyone and not have the situation go public, it isn't possible because if it was it'd already have been done.


I think the author is confusing FBI with local police.

If you want to make shit up so that your plot can work, then make it up, but don't use real agencies without knowing how it all works, it just looks dumb.
Loads of Authors seem to want to make the USA [or other western countries] a stetting for their story but don't actually know anything about how it actually is in the USA [or other western countries].
I have to agree I was a little pissed off as there is no way that a DA stands in the way of human trafficking with the FBI (not to mention internal affairs would be all over a dirty cop), not to mention if anyone leaked this to the media they would pile on this story so quickly that heads would roll if any corruption was found. The hillside PD is believable, but all the way up to the director of the FBI, DOJ, and other offices seems a real big stretch. I love this game but the me against the world is a bit overdone and not portraying the FBI correctly is a huge stretch.
 

NewTricks

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The VN shared universe only gets weirder the further you go down the rabbit hole. This is in Little Regina and the implications of sharing a universe with that game is... troubling.

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JJ1960

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It does not go that far.
Agent Fox was ordered to stop investigating by her direct superior. The investigation is not being officially shut down.
Since Fox is an FBI agent you might want to change the DA reference to a Special Agent in Charge, senior agent or something like that. A district attorney is a local prosecutor who works with city or county police agencies, whereas the FBI is a federal policing arm and isn't subject to what a local prosecutor wants. Or you could say it is the US Attorney (somewhat analogous to a DA) who is also a federal employee of the Department of Justice and who could suppress an investigation. It depends on how far up the corruption goes as to who could call her off the investigation.
 
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Maviarab

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It does not go that far.
Agent Fox was ordered to stop investigating by her direct superior. The investigation is not being officially shut down.
I think the whole thing was lost in translation somewhere. The script states that the DA has told 'the chief' to stop and that he isn't happy about it either.

So we do have two issues here. An FBI agent would never take orders from a local PD chief for one and secondly, as has been brought up, neither would an FBI agent take orders from a district attorney either (and unlikely a PD chief would too).
 

HillsideVN

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Since Fox is an FBI agent you might want to change the DA reference to a Special Agent in Charge, senior agent or something like that. A district attorney is a local prosecutor who works with city or county police agencies, whereas the FBI is a federal policing arm and isn't subject to what a local prosecutor wants. Or you could say it is the US Attorney (somewhat analogous to a DA) who is also a federal employee of the Department of Justice and who could suppress an investigation. It depends on how far up the corruption goes as to who could call her off the investigation.
It was changed in v0.14.1 to the State Attorney General, thanks.

It was meant to be just a shorthand for "someone powerful" who might interact with the SAC on behalf of someone even more powerful.
 
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HillsideVN

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I think the whole thing was lost in translation somewhere. The script states that the DA has told 'the chief' to stop and that he isn't happy about it either.

So we do have two issues here. An FBI agent would never take orders from a local PD chief for one and secondly, as has been brought up, neither would an FBI agent take orders from a district attorney either (and unlikely a PD chief would too).
"The chief" is what the FBI agents call their superior. If that is confusing then I can change it to something else. And the DA (now SAG) was not giving him an order. They called him and pressured him.

Hopefully some of this will be made clearer in the next update when Fox confronts her superior.
 

JJ1960

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"The chief" is what the FBI agents call their superior. If that is confusing then I can change it to something else. And the DA (now SAG) was not giving him an order. They called him and pressured him.

Hopefully some of this will be made clearer in the next update when Fox confronts her superior.
State officers don't have any authority over federal ones. There are separate chains of command for the FBI (a part of the federal Department of Justice), the state attorney general (who might or might not be over the state police depending on the state), and then you have local city and county district attorneys who prosecute crimes that are state or local offences using local police like the ones in Hillside.

For the FBI it would be an agent in charge of a case who might be compromised. Or you could have a federal prosecutor based in Hillside, or a federal judge, who might exert pressure to shut an investigation down if they were participants in the prostitution ring.
 

znar25

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There would be a federal building nearby where all the feds hang out. Federal district court, FBI, DOJ, etc.
 

Jordan369

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Can anyone tell me which choice is the one that puts you on Charlotte's path and cuts off Emma's? A screenshot would be super helpful.
 

6pak2go

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Can anyone tell me which choice is the one that puts you on Charlotte's path and cuts off Emma's? A screenshot would be super helpful.
Just stick with Charlotte all the way through. Emma will see MC and her kissing in the last scene and is happy she'll finally have a Dad. That will stop her romantic thoughts.
 
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Jordan369

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Just stick with Charlotte all the way through. Emma will see MC and her kissing in the last scene and is happy she'll finally have a Dad. That will stop her romantic thoughts.
Sorry I guess I didn't explain haha. I plan to try each path so I want to know how to get on Emma's later.
 

jaw1986baby

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The VN shared universe only gets weirder the further you go down the rabbit hole. This is in Little Regina and the implications of sharing a universe with that game is... troubling.

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The MC is a bit dark and the shit that goes down can be brutal but not really crazy. It is also not like that is the whole world just the places that MC goes for his mission until he is interrupted by an Angel.

Shit in HS is dark at times as well. What happened to one Emma, what almost happened to another Emma. Things that happened to Charlotte. I honestly feel like them being a single universe meshes quite realistically. Except that Little Regina is more challenged with English at times and HS is only "not USA" with it's phrases and whatnot.
 
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