One of my biggest issue with this game is I feel like this game only offer the illusion of choice for most of the game, you can perhaps choose how you'll threat your daughter or your ex's daughter, you can choose your relationship with her, but it feels like this is the only extent of choice in the game. If you choose her every other relationships you'll be forced to break, even if you make choices that clearly show your interest in somebody else you'll then magically just reject it, I mean whats the point of choice if the game basically say 'nope' 5 second later to your choice? I can live with enforcing monogamy to some degree but doing so by basically undoing decisions you make is not the way to do it, have the other character reject you or something, not you suddenly decided to break up with the other character the moment that relationship isn't deemed convenient enough. How come you can cheat on Susan, but when you are with your daughter you cannot do anything to really divert from that relationship? It feels annoying.
Next their is several events that feel pushed in a really contrived way, for example when Shenice comes to your home, whatever you choose your 'daughter' come back to find you and Shenice together, now the thing is if you choose to sleep with Shenice shouldn't it have taken a significantly longer amount of time than if you reject her? Somehow your 'daughter' come back just right on time even if their should have been easily a significant difference in time. Also you have the prick, Eric, you have the choice of letting your 'daughter' choose what to do with him OR you choose what to do... and it doesn't change anything again, either way you just walk off... seriously I am pretty sure if a father found a guy assaulting his 'daughter' his reaction would always be to beat the ever loving crap out of the bastard.
Going down that line, whatever you choose to help the Mayor or not his daughter come to visit you, and whatever or not you play along nicely or not the Mayor and Co get suspicious and start working against you... what the Hell? If you let your 'daughter' decide to leave the prick unharmed and play nice with the Mayor and his Daughter, and you don't push Grace or Ray to investigate too much and yet somehow you get discovered? It feels incredibly railroaded, it feels your choices didn't matter the Mayor & Co threat you as an enemy no matter if you seemed were cooperative or not. Also Ray doesn't tell you shit about it no matter if you have been treating him well all along or not, you'd expect how you threat characters around you to have an impact, but it doesn't seem to do so, merely the illusion of doing so.
