The choice to keep it casual is the choice you're looking for.
Sure, Edwin telling Hana they should give monogamy a college try could come with a "but", but think about how that sounds. The whole point of that choice is commitment. Edwin trying to add hall pass clauses to his new relationship not only hinders the dramatic impetus of the moment, but has a dead end conclusion when you weigh what is being said within the scene about her expectations.
There isn't a dramatic contrivance you're being railroaded into. What you get is what's on the tin; Edwin promises commitment and can optionally follow through with it, and he may get away with some stuff and not others, or he goes the fuck buddies path and enjoys his cake.
If you like both Hana and Mina, all I will say is players won't be disappointed in the long run. The ground work started with Edwin's birthday party, and most recently, continued with the last update -- and just because you're committed to Hana, and are faithful to her, won't necessarily exclude scenes with that pairing in the future.
Allright, I understand that I may ask for too much. I guess my issue lies more into the whole conundrum with Mina. After all, Edwin also "commited" to Mina if we choose to help her with her list. I found it frustrating to not take that commitment into account. Commitment and monogamy aren't necessarely the same thing, after all. You can commit to more than one thing, with more than one person. The lack of choice to actually talk to Hana about our commitment to Mina, even if this lead to Hana deciding by herself to stay fuckbuddies based on that knowledge, is what frustrates me a little. It just feels weird to me that there's no choice to actually be honest with Hana,
at least about Mina, in that moment which seems like the perfect opportunity to bring this up. OR at least the day after, to not have the moment ruined. I guess I wanted to try to weasel my way in the GF path while still keeping it up with Mina without having to lie to any of them. Could have smacked me on the butt for being to greedy by making Hana decides that it's not possible anyway.
But maybe having Hana know about it this soon (or at all) wasn't good for the story, idk.
The fact that the GF path doesn't exclude scene with the pairing is comforting in its own way, even though there's no way I'd choose that path now after this whole conundrum ruined the scene with Mina that came after for me (but only the first time, I felt peachy replaying it after choosing the other path, thank goodness this path exists). The whole story is nerve wracking in a good way, the fact that I still love it despite my crippling savior complex about fictionnal characters is really saying. The whole moral conversation is particularly enjoyable. Which is why not having the choice to be honest about Mina at that particular moment was weirdly frustrating to me at that point.
Yeah, but you can't commit to both Hanna and Mina at the same time, which is fine and realistic but that's what harem lovers want.
There's more things less realistic than commiting to both girls, especially when you had them both on the floor completely drenched from their own girl cum. Hell even the fact that all the fuckable girls have big tits in this world is less realistic. Also, like I said, commitment isn't monogamy. These are two different concepts. Granted the more you commit to, the less energy and time you have for each commitment. Should Edwin stop committing to his job in order to date Hana or have Mina panting on her bed ? I don't think so. Hana set her conditions, sure. Not being able to tell her about Mina at that point is what tickled me, I guess.
TD already addressed this but I think it's worth berating the point because you already *had* that conversation with Hana! She specifically said doing things with girls outside the Club was NOT okay if you want to be her formal boyfriend. That's why there are only two choices. It's not a false dichotomy because Hana ruled out the option for a formal, open relationship.
If the MC wants to bang girls on the side, that's precisely what the fuck buddies path is for. Hana is fine with that, so what's the issue? If you're worried about missing content, well, that's the nature of the game. Turning down other girls will obviously miss lots of content, so it's only fair that choice gets something in return. If you really want to see everything, just play through multiple times (or wait for a mod).
Plus, as TD said, being faithful doesn't necessarily mean you'll miss ALL the content with other girls down the line.
Okay, I admit I might be too greedy. Maybe I want too much. Maybe I want things too fast. The thing that bothered me the most is that we can't commit to both Hana and Mina right now, starting this particular choice. But like I said maybe it is too soon for that, or maybe it will ultimately be impossible and we'll have to choose to commit to only one of them (I sure hope not). I want to be able to commit to both because I'm just a fucking romantic, which I understand is really dangerous when you play
this game. I don't want to see everything (already gave up on that) and I don't like having 50 different saves (kinda ruins my appreciation of the story). The fuckbuddy path is great too, and it doesn't change much for now, so really this is just me ranting.
The fact we don't miss all the content anyway is great, sure.
