For fear of repeating myself .... again.
The dev has said from day one, nearly 2 years, around 20 months that they will never end up together.
There is no 180, this was always the plan.
Always.
And for fear of repeating myself again to you, again.
The 180 happens after Tales and Nikki fuck, she makes it apparent that she wants more and even in the morning she makes it apparent she wants more, but that completely changes after the class with Molly because than she suddenly changes her mind and decides to go in the complete opposite direction. The whole " we can't because you are my brother" thing cannot work at all in this situation as her excuse since she obviously planned for it to get to that point and instigated it herself, not to mention it would seriously not work at all with the incest patch removed. I have not played the patchless version of it but i can guess it goes like this "We're roomates, it would be weird for two people who live in the same room that have fucked their brains out all night and into the morning to have a relationship", with that it seems pretty stupid when you think about it.
Even though it is the plan of the story, the sudden change in character is jarring for the FLOW of the story especially when you compare that part to the rest of it. It looks and feels forced, just to force that dialog, and it screams lazy writing just to nip something in the bud that the writer let get out of hand.
Now for all i know Ashley could have found out, could have placed a recording device in their room or got a ladder and saw them fuck from the outside (because let's be honest she is that crazy)and threatened nikki to get off of her "off the veggy path soul mate", with the threat of revealing their incestuous relationship, or without the patch completely fucking normal relationship that no one would be surprised by to the world.
So to you, AGAIN, i do not care if they do not end up together romantically, as long as the reason is believable, and we already know, because it is established like the sun in the sky, Nikki gives no shits about the stigma of incest so that excuse is out the door, and given that WE ARE Tales, a good majority of us do not give two shits about it either in regards to the game. Even Molly does not appear to give two shits about incest given she found it hot with what happened between her nikki and tales, so that excuse is also out the door.
What i want is for a smoother story without lazy half assed cop outs just to speed a story along, so many stories do it and it just tarnishes the whole thing.