That did occur to me. It was mostly a desire to streamline the scene, but I hand waved it as early Edwin (potentially) being more of a rube and current fuck-on-stage Edwin being a bit more relaxed.
I get it. It's mostly that don't particularly like it when drugs are involved and prefer when we have the choice to decline it. I can't say I like everything Edwin does (or thinks) even though I like the story, but the choice to decline earlier set up expectations that this would be the case once more if the same situation appeared again further down the line. Oh, and even though I don't like it when the MC takes part in it, high Rosalind was hilarious.
Some kind of memory error but I've never had a problem with rental games before
It's not memory error, it's a missing file:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
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I was the other person to mention the weed thing, I mostly thought it was weird we had been given the option last 2 times, and Edwin even commented on how it would be out of character for him, but it didn't happen this time around, I agree it would kinda ruin the flow of that scene, but consistency is nice too.
You could always be generous and tell yourself it's because even Edwin isn't large enough social retard to opt out of smoking in a situation where it's literally the only thing that may keep from imploding the little social gathering he technically arranged and is responsible for. So, lead by example and all that.
Assuming we play are cards right, I don't think winning the contest is a requirement for a "good" ending for the Carnations. Or at least, I think we'll be able get all of them to the finish line "whole" and holding on to the thing they most needed - which is not necessarily what the entered the contest for. Winning the contest might be an alternate route to a good ending for one girl, but I'm starting to get skeptical of that given just how unstable the Club is looking.
I don't think there's any guarantee there will be a "Public Use" week in this year' contest. AFICT Kathleen is a consummate showman so she changes up the themes each year. The girls might still be subjected to some or all of the Club members (particularly in Week 4), but I think the setting will be a different than the one we saw in the old clip.
Indeed. Even more than the base expectation of choice, the MC's rationale for turning down weed when Jacob offers it way back in the prologue suggest he just didn't like the stuff. So it was definitely a headscratcher when he automatically embraced the option here.
Yeah, I don't think there will be a free use week. My theory or prediction, is It might be passion, love, sensual, Romance type theme.
I'll admit, a love/romance theme for Week 4 is something I wouldn't see coming even with your warning here. Kathleen would never go for that; should her heart somehow grow enough sizes that day to make it possible, she'd probably just collapse from low blood pressure and die.
Gallery Unlocker updated to Ch. 4 Up 5, check it out!
The Authors said we're having an epilogue. I guess we'll have different epilogues/variants according to the path we chose and our gameplay.
Hah!
