Can some kind soul please help me? I've hit some kind of bug or something (I think) where Sophia has disappeared from the hintbar. The last thing I did with her was visiting her in the sauna over and over. Then I concentrated on other girls for a bit, but now she's just gone and I can't progress =(. Any idea what could have caused this? I'll attach my save in case it helps.
Also, a question: Is it possible to do anything to screw yourself out of being able to get 100% completion?
Here is your fixed save back. Overwrite your original save with this one, go into the phone, click on the up arrow and load the corrected save.
Change the time to 11am and you'll receive a text message from Ashley. Go to the mall (but don't enter yet) and change the time to noon. As soon as you enter, you'll be stopped by Ashley and Sophia.
It's difficult to say for sure what happened or how, but from what I saw in the save, the flag for the fashion contest (which you hadn't done yet according to Sophia's gallery; images 2 - 7 are locked) was at 1 when it should have been at zero. But I changed that to where it should be.
And to answer your question, yes. Although it
shouldn't happen, sometimes people can skip one of the events in the event chain and move on to the other events. And when that happens, you've advanced too far into the game in order to play that scene out. So it requires a manual fix by adding the appropriate missing flag(s). You may or may not be able to do that event, even after the flag has been fixed/added in, but it will put your achievement for that event chain at 100%.
Perfect example of that is the BJ scene with Claire during her solo yoga session on the rooftop. If you skip that and do the others instead, then the flag for that event would need to be added in.