Could you point out what? I'm generally curious if I might have missed something important.seems to me you need to know some of the stuff on the island for the the story the way it's developing.
The way I see it, there are only four things in this chapter for the story that i consider part of the story development atm:
- the goddesses
- malpheon's talisman
- taz- & orianna-relationship
- off-island development (luxenford & looter's bay)
The taz 'relationship' has no real development... you find her unconscious, you bath with her some time after she woke up which results into sex (i know AVN but still, i enjoy a bit more development then this...)
Pearl has only some development on the very first day you arrive at the island after that its pretty much only sex scenes (again, AVN i know).
I wonder why she did not take her swords with her to the island after their boat got crashed / attacked there? Could have been a topic for the people on the island as they (the desecration generation) have never seen swords before, they only know spears as Vex mentions.
You kill a mythical beast (the snake) yet you don't drain its essence to gain something from it?
Same for the 'warg' in the cave as you head to the second tribe for the Maia temple.. missed opportunities imo..
If you were to remove the parts with all the island ladies and just made it with MC exploring A'nai temple and all the goddesses temples and meeting the goddesses, you would have had the same experience (pretty much)
I also found variables set for Miyo's sister who is missing in the unexplored northern part of the island which let me to believe that Buu might have wanted to extend the island part to include that too.
I set all the variables if you choice to skip the island experience. So to the game it looks like you did everything on the island.
I dont know what or if the island ladies play a part later in the story, but to me, we could have skipped all their parts and not missed much.
TLDR; The only real story development (imo) that happens is what happens in luxenford, looter's bay, the goddess development and getting malpheon's talisman. I left all of those except the talisman aquisition in with this mod if you choise to skip the island experience. You can still choice to do the island as well which gives you the OG experience for those that want it.