Firstly i wanna cover the MC i see a few people saying they hate him and hes pathetic, dumb ect. after playing this again from the beginning i don't see how the way he's acting is unjustified? what is wrong with jealousy? its a natural feeling and he has every damn right to be the way he is, so why is everyone trying to "fix" him? there's nothing wrong in that aspect of his life.
I understand they both had trauma as kids and he did everything he could to "save" lacey and they, at least he thought they where gonna be lovers for life, she would be with him ect. then she bomb shelled him and abandoned him suddenly and does all the dumb shit she did in college ect and in his mind she did all that not even thinking of him for 1460 days or w/e. there's is no sane world where anything Lacey,mia or anna do is gonna erase his jealousy after what lacey has done and if the dev makes it happen somehow i won't believe or support it, i simply can't and that's just my way of thinking as i feel he has every right to feel the way he does about it, he wanted to be her first everything and she gave it away to some nobody. while i see a few times he starts to have panic attacks and such because all this is destroying him how could anyone think it's his fault? how can any of you see this as his fault i cannot fathom. I love the point where someone pointed out one of the opening lines of the game MC is the narrator and he see's things from his own perspective, so what i wanna see is Lacey's perspective then and only then will i believe that she is not a sex addict and a piece of crap for what she's doing to this guy
Most people are criticizing MC lack of self worth and indecisiveness towards Lacey.
For what it is worth, his jealousy is perfectly justified he is the only one that thinks that it isn't, Lacey wants to cure him of it even if she enjoys it because she sees that he makes him suffer.
His jealousy does get VERY weird when he starts being jealous of "his girls", my man, you cannot be jealous to that extent towards people that are not in a relationship with you, I can understand why you coulld be a bit if you had some attraction but it is damn unhealthy.
In the end the MC aside from some occasions sounds and acts like a wimp describing himself as an asshole (seriously I don't how many times did I read asshole and chest pain).
All this self loathing gets old, especially when you mix it up with MC being an absolute god that every single woman that goes near him cream their panties and want to fuck him pronto.
His caring nature is a bit too much, he forgives everything and everyone as long as they have a vagina, like Barty was not forgiven but
Veronica that was fucking him over and was helping Jared is forgiven instantly, same as Mia after all the stuff.
That said he does show an insane amount of resilience, he is stronger emotionally than he gives himself credit for and he is superaware of other people's feelings and is sensitive to a fault.
The good thing is that some of these traits can be associated to trauma, I always tought it was a nice touch if it was intentional.
It is also not his fault that he has panic attacks, the problem with his panic attacks is that they are....weirdly written.
MC is not the only narrator, you see too many things outside of what MC sees, what the message was is that the narrators will be unreliable, it is a pretty common trope in writing.
Lacey is the most unreliable narrator of them all for example.
This is an adult game, and it's a NTR game, netorare, which translates to "cheating" in Japanese.
why everyone is jumping to Lacey is honest and not cheating on the MC is mind blowing to me, while the dev says non traditional they don't say in what way, i kept asking what is laceys goal here, and i was told several times by several people its to differentiate the difference between love and sex for the MC and also to stop his jealousy and i am constantly told by others that lacey isn't a sex addict and she hasn't cheated since damian but the game is what it is, what i see is lacey and her cohorts mia at least? is trying to get mc to accept that Lacey will sleep with other people, that's why its a NTR game, its not a mental health game while it has mental health aspects in the end this is a porn game pirate site not a mental health game site. the mc constantly says he doesn't want a open relationship and lacey constantly says neither does she but she either does or she wants to be able to sleep around and not have mc do it too its brought up at least 3 times which tells me the Dev is leaning either towards that or that Lacey will just cheat behind mc's back while i hope the dev doesn't go down that round cause then we won't see any scenes since it's in the MC's perspective the only way we would see anything is if its recorded yet again like college. because he won't accept an open relationship and lacey will see that he wont and end up just cheating instead.
This is where my honestly unhealty knowledge about the game comes into play.
This is not an NTR game I mean it is ina weird way, it is a game where a dumb selfish bitch makes so many mistakes and cheats on our "beloved" MC.
But there is no way that in Act 1 Lacey would leave MC for another man, MC is afraid that it could happen since it happened in the past (that was not Lacey's plan but it did happen), but Lacey would sooner kill herself than leave MC.
There are variables for Lacey's love towards MC, so maybe the author has something prepared for Act 2, but I doubt it.
(Btw netorare original meaning is "to be stolen", Lacey does not and will not be stolen for now)
I don't know which path you are playing, the best one to understand Lacey's mind is the Slutification/Bimbofication, the Punish is good but it is more related to MC dealing with his anger towards her.
So in the S/B (I'll call it like this from now on) path we get a glimpse on how much Lacey is willing to do for MC.
You get several choices:
- you can ask if she would fuck a woman for him, she would and she would let him fuck them both, gladly
- you can ask if she would be ok for MC to fuck a woman in front of her while she is tied, she will do it even if she could cry
- you can ask if she would do anything for him (very generic), she says yes
- you can ask if she would fuck another man if MC asked to, this is the only one where she hesitates quite a bit
in her own words:
L "It would be very hard for me."
L "And I would probably be pretty sad afterwards."
L "But if you wanted to just watch, I would do that for you."
L "You'd have to promise there'd be a lot of aftercare between us though."
You know, she fucks up with the Damian thing, she admits it and MC goes off the rails on her but she was doing her own little Lacey plan to "cure" MC, she might have fun with it at the moment especially since she eats up MC jealousy like she eats cock, but she had a hard time going through with it to the point she had to go back to her old drug habits.
She needs to own that fuck up, she was really stupid and self centered but I weirdly see that event less bad than the going to Jared parties, buying the fucking dresses and going to the tennis dates.
THAT was cheating to the max because it wasn't about MC, she did it for herself, not caring about the hurt it would have caused to him.
And in the voice of the Godfather: "That I do not forgive"
The Dev.....where to begin with this one and here's the reason i keep "imagining" the scenarios i keep imagining, he/she purposely leaves things vague and suspicious, for example the 120 hrs where she was partying, clubbing and such with jarred the mc brings it up with someone in the game can't remember who, but says there's no way she was partying that whole time. and whoever it was says what was happening probably mia can't remember, but i don't trust a fuckin thing mia has to say after what she has done unto this point. there's also the thing jarred said in the hot tub how he fucked lacey multiple times already who's to say he didn't? just cause lacey says she didn't? there's the apartment guy who came over drunk and said she gave good head or whatever again explained away as he watched a video of her online, more plausible but again could be a lie i also brought up the 418 text messages that Jannette deleted of the mc's phone and someone in the forum explained it way as to not upset the MC more but again another example of misdirection from the dev, then there is small things like when the mc is talking to veronica and has lacey leave the room and she goes to the bar and Flirts with guys, why? why can't she just go and get a drink and not do that? we don't see her perspective so we don't know what she's really doing, and when she's in the bar early in the game and Lorenzo shows up and she takes him to the bathroom and again mia runs interference, what happened in that bathroom? they explain it away again as laceys bad choices.
MC brings the topic of the 120h with Mia, she explains that Lacey spent her time bored talking to strippers and drinking.
Mia could have been lying to MC, but at that point Mia loves him and she wouldn't probably lie to him on such a thing, Lacey would have been lying to Mia as well.
We can't absolutely know, but from the behaviour we see later on, we can be almost sure no cheating happened, maybe some groping.
Remember Lacey looooves making MC jealous, why would she go behind his back?
Look, things are left vague to entice the reader/player, it is overused but the author is not a professional writer and you can excuse a bit of that.
Most of the things that you mention are actually kinda explained, the messages are removed to avoid MC stressing out more than he actually should, hell Lacey could have thought that he left and threatened to commit suicide, we just don't know.
What we know is that MC is super sensitive and he feels like shit when his actions have even a minimal effect on anyone, fuck he apologizes and care for Christine after the big reveal, a normal person would have drowned her in her own puke.
Jared didn't fuck her either, she might have enjoyed his attention way too much and let herself get groped but nothing more.
Actually the whole thing is written a bit weirdly, she was fine with his hands on her ass, she was fine being almost naked with his hand on her inner thigh, but she was not fine at the last party? Maybe it was because she got dissilusioned about the VP position, who knows.
Barty? Come on, she could have any man and we get worried about fucking Barty? the guy looks like he changes underwear twice a year.
There are some moments of brutal honesty from Lacey, especially when MC actuially grows a spine with her, things would have come out.
