What about a debate about the game, to clean the bad taste in the mouth from the previous pages of the thread?
I'm thinking about the shitty role of most of the men in this game. First, a disclaimer: I'm not trying to make a complaint about sexism in games, as if I were a feminist. But I don't like that all men that have an important role in the plot, except the MC, are assholes to a greater or lesser degree.
I don't think that is sexism. It´s just a way to make the MC look better in contrast with the rest of the men. And It´s OK. I just think that Nyx overdoes it. That's my problem with that. For example, Zach is an OK character. It´s the goofy sidekick whose clumsiness with the girls makes the MC look more attractive. We have seen that in a lot of movies and TV shows. Maybe he could be more funny, but it's OK. But... Why the MC has to bump into aggressive bullies that beats him up TWICE in two different schools of two different cities? Twice the MC has to defend a girl from stalkers in her school and it´s beaten up... In real life, that kind of continuous fights and harassment only happens in schools of slums with boys and girls from troubled families (alcoholic parents and things like that), that have only learned to relate to others through aggressiveness... I don't think is the case of the schools of the MC.
It's Ok if that happens once. It's a dramatic scene: the MC being the white knight and suffering for that. But... twice? The second one could have be less dramatic and more realistic: the MC receives a practical joke from the bullies. For example, they ambush him near the school and attack him with paintball guns, or just water balloons. That kind of crude jokes are more realistic in teenagers that just thrashing another guy, like if they were characters of "The Sopranos". The MC arrives late to class with his clothes ruined and in an angry mood, is a bit of a smartass with the teacher and is sent to the principal's office, that is more sympathetic with him...
And... the big problem of most of the main girls has to be stalkers or asshole boyfriends? Layla, Cara, Erynn, Nikky... In my experience, the main problems of the girls usually comes from other girls: jealousy, envy, grudges between friends... That part of the fight of Erynn and Alexis would be realistic.
The same with Ethan, the main "enemy" of the MC so far. He was an asshole at 16. It´s OK, it´s called immaturity. But he´s now 22 or 23 and has become a delinquent that should be in jail. Why? Just because he's born that way? Villains that are evil just because are evil are not interesting. Interesting antagonists has reasons to be like they are. And have some kind of attractiveness, even for his victims. Why Erynn is around him since she was 16 if he's such an obvious asshole? Even Alexis, her best friend, hates him.
In real life, Erynn would have kicked him out of her life when she was 16 or 17, and being pretty and all, she would have found better boys to hang around with. Ethan should have some kind of personal attractive to maintain Erynn close. They could have developed some kind of hate/love relationship, or something. It would be a more interesting antagonist and would make the MC to work hard to "defeat" him. Being just and asshole, Ethan is not interesting character, just a punching-bag for the MC.
The story of the MC's adoptive dad being (again) such an asshole that cheats on his fiancee the day before his wedding, and the way the MC discovers it, is far fetched too...
Anyway, all this is not really important. The main attractive of this game are the "slices of life": the scenes and situations of the day to day of the MC with the girls: hanging around school with Layla and Elena, going to concerts with Alexis, going to run with Nikki and things like that. The male antagonists, the story of the parents of the MC and the drama are not so important. About the next update, I want to know what happens in that camp of track and running with Elena and Layla, not who is the real father of the MC or what is going to happen with Ethan
