- Jun 14, 2018
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Yeah.
Up to Chapter 13, one of things I tried to address in my patch was only speaking about events that happened during the play through. For example, it's possible to avoid an interaction with Gwen in Chapter 12 - but one route through Chapter 13 assume it had happened. I tweaked that a bit, to make it flow better.
However Chapter 14 does that same thing on a bigger scale. Minor rewording couldn't address it. Skipping entire mismatched conversations to keep the "unusual paths" on track would result in Chapter 14 being about 1 scene long.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the dev got a little stuck when writing Chapter 13. Too many previous choices and too many combinations of things to keep things straight in your head. So to make sure Chapter 14 avoided that, he started to rejoin some of those disjointed threads.
Yes, you might have submitted to Alessia's control. But that doesn't stop her being worried your might be growing beyond her control.
Yes, you might have avoided having sex with Mom (and everyone else for that matter), but you still have a close enough relationship that a double date is still possible.
Plus... keep in mind that it's still possible to skip the whole "after party" in this chapter... Just don't drink when you get to the bar. That blowjob from mom can be skipped.
At the end of the day, this is a certain style of game. Deliberately picking all the "wrong" options from a "varied choices/consequences" point of view does make the game more interesting (and disproportionately more complex) - but playing and being constantly at odds with the theme of the game feels a little too much like going on vacation to Hawaii and then spending all your time there watching Netflix. Yeah, sure, it's a choice... but did you really have fun?
