Kk, I'll try that and check back in. I mostly asked since 1. The default surname of the MC is different and 2. The rename prompt shows up with everyone, and I know that more than just Sophie would fall under that relationship umbrella, lol
Yeah I think it's essentially a trigger word, so you can just use it on the mom and all other relationships fall in line, there are a few instances where she's not referred to as mom, but it's not a big deal
Yep. I did have to start a new game, which was fine I wasn't that far lol, but it gave me 1 prompt at the start and 1 more when we first get to her, and then it just did it for every one. So for anyone in the future, if you don't get the option from an old save, just start a new one (don't know if it's related, but I pick the "Start from v0.1" in the new game) and that should do everything for you.
Does the game communicate when story content is completed for the update? I spent multiple in-game weeks waiting for unknown criteria to be met before it finally allows me to progress. The hints don't help either as future events often just don't show.
I want to like this. The concept and story are really good when it choses to get into it, but I just have no idea when I'm meant to do something. Sandboxes are rough, but this one really hurts
I want to like this. The concept and story are really good when it choses to get into it, but I just have no idea when I'm meant to do something. Sandboxes are rough, but this one really hurts
Every character in this game is kind of a massive bitch to the MC for no reason. They'll just start berating her mid-conversation and the game just treats this like it's normal. It's really damn surreal.
So I do get the feeling we gain more confidence as time goes on, but are we completely submissive in whats out so far or do we start to grow stronger?
Ok, I don't mind, and in some ways like, that the MC starts off with low self confidence, but does she have any choices so far were she stands up for herself? I understand that it is planned for the player to pick if shes submissive or dominant. And we get a few scenes of this, but she has an extremely inconsistent arc so far. She'll track down a guy for filming her in a bathroom and indirectly threaten his family and nearly kill her aunt when she thinks she's going to rape her best friend and she loses control. But a mob boss chocks her out and threatens to torture and kill her family and her, and she takes a knee? I hate to say it, but I might drop this for now if this is all there is for character development so far. And that's not even addressing how for zero reason, either based on a character's personality or the story in the very scene it happens, for people to spontaneously turn hostel to her. Like the Nurse when she gives the MC a physical. She's very polite and reasonable, but the MC asks if she has to masturbate in front of her (which you don't even do at all irl) and then she suddenly turns into the biggest bitch on a dime. But that kind of writing I can see maybe being on purpose as influenced by either the MC's power (which we never use evne in self defense) or maybe another demonic force in the background.
I personally don't buy this, if this is the game's logic. She beat the shit out of her own Aunt, who she has know her whole life and has a crush on, when she though she was going to rape her friend. A situation she where she acted on pure instinct, since she consciously knew in advance the whole set up was faked to bring out her power. The idea presented seem to be she uses her power subconsciously and on instinct without thinking. If being chocked out and having her whole family and herself threatened with torture then death doesn't bring that out, but her Aunt acting like she's about to rape her best friend does, then there's something very wrong.
And like I pointed out in my above comment, she has already shown that she is capable of standing up for herself when backed into a corner. She tracks a guy to his home, and indirectly threatens his family to get him to delete a video of her having sex in a bathroom. And tells him she'll come back for him if he's lieing about deleting it. I mean yeah, she MAY have been intimidated with the mob boss, but that would only be MORE reason to lose control on instinct. Its a fight or flight situation where we've been show she will pick fight in the past.
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Ok, I think I figured out why this is bugging me so much. It's not the writing, character, or pacing, it that a choice that was given to us is taken away. So like in my example with the guy who filmed us in the bathroom, we (the player) pick if the MC is going to be passive and accept potential blackmail OR be more aggressive and force him to delete the video. After going back to the part where we get chocked and take a knee, it seems like there was going to be another choice there to stand up for ourselves that isn't there now. Right before this event, we get the choice to stand up to her and take our phone out of her hand. Then the framing of the scene and the dialog used feel like they were going to lead to a choice of taking the knee OR to tell her off, maybe saying something like, "Fuck you! You can keep the pictures up, I'm leaving." But theres no choice there, the game forces us to be passive for no narrative reason at this point of the game. I might go back to this part again with URM or something similar to see if there was a hidden event marker or something like that, that we don't see or has been removed.