Reasons for that you have obviously missed.
No, there aren't...see above.
It is.
1) Well, I'm all hears, then. Let's hear this reasons I've obviously missed. Why don't Henry and Ashley find the lax response from the local police surprising in the least? We have at least a murder confirmed from the prologue.
2) I saw above, but I didn't find something that explained anything at all. I could mention only the major inconsistency—the one the whole story hinges on for the moment—but instead, I’ll start from there and make another couple of examples.
If what Ashley says is true about the case being based on his book, and Henry seems to believe it too, why do they react passively to the events instead of trying to anticipate the crimes being committed? After all, they know exactly what will happen next in the chain of events, and where and when it will happen, since the book predicts it. The perpetrator, adressed as "killer" since the prologue, is following the book to the letter.
For example, why didn’t they try to stop the "madman" from filling the park fountain with horse blood? And why didn’t Ashley, who is supposedly very familiar with the book—so much so that she understands the perpetrator is following it to the letter ["Someone is bringing your story... word for word... He's recreating it... perfectly"]—know that it was horse blood, or blood at all? And let's say Ashley is compromised and is deceiving Henry for wathever reason, why isn’t he suspicious of her lack of preparation? She's a detective, she should know better. And why isn’t he, on his own, taking more preventive rather than reactive actions? He seems very interested in solving the case, especially after the connection between the symbols and the elusive grandfather's book.
Same smaller inconsistencies as other examples:
a) The first time Ashley finds one of the drawings, she’s extremely meticulous: she picks it up with gloves to avoid contaminating the evidence, and even puts it in a plastic evidence bag to preserve its integrity for the lab.
The second time, she couldn’t care less. She picks it up with her bare hands as if it’s nothing, completely undermining the professionalism she had previously established.
b) Why is the temple where Henry suddenly feels strangely unwell never mentioned again throughout the entire story? He even said he would talk to Danny about it later. It’s never brought up again. And yet, I don’t know, you know—if you suddenly double over in pain and "lose control over yourself", even if you can’t directly link it to the specific place, it should at least raise some concern for your health, mental or otherwise, enough to mention the event again.
3) You say so, and yet, it’s
not a choice. The scenes that trigger her path happen as a consequence of turning down another opportunity—not as an active decision by the player. The first scene happens because at the party you turned down Corry [Sure, let's go\No, I'm fine]. The second one because you declined Rose’s offer [Yeah, absolutely\Well, it's already late]. In neither case does the player actively choose to develop a relationship with Lisa—it’s simply a result of their inaction toward the other route with Rose.