All this arguing over potential threesomes.. Yeesh. You'd think he was doing a DPC house fire by the way people are up in arms.
I've done a couple playthroughs so far, and man, just seeing Lyndie (or Beatrix, even) make an appearance again gave me such a happy feeling, even if the overall situation was bad. Almost every major girl introduced has some qualities I can appreciate.
Amrit: Nice to look at. Bit of an irreverent tough-chick attitude. This pleases Zulthar, yeah? Badass women are great.
Vi : Honestly, I like looking at her even more than Amrit, but I'm not sure why. Guess I dig the scars. Er, the physical ones, that is. Poor girl's had a lot of trauma, but still really like her. Just hope she's not crazy. I've got an aversion to crazy redheads. For reasons. Still hoping for a flashback that shows how she got the scars. Unless it's in there and I missed it with bad dialogue choices.
Kana : Not quite as soft (physically) appealing as the first two, but I like darker skin, too, so it works really well on her with the contrasting eye color. Kinda hoping for some more flashback action with her and her friend in the ring. The hints are there about what really happened, but I'm lazy, I like to see it laid bare from the horse's mouth. Least pleasing aspect of the character: religious. That's my hangup, though, doubt the MC cares all that much. It's still a negative, though. All too often it's somebody not willing to take responsibility for their own life choices and the results of said choices.
Elspeth : 2nd of them I don't like physically (1st was Jenny the ring girl). It's a mix of things. The hair looks like a bad dye job, the makeup around the eye itself, petty things like that (though I note she doesn't have the following morning, nice attention to detail). Cute freckles, though. Personality-wise, I think she's fantastic. Probably one of the characters I'd consider most likely to be best-friend material. That she's incredibly fit is a bonus, of course.
Serena : Major stalker vibes. Kinda the same issue with her initial makeup, but not too shabby. Wondering if she's another bottled blonde (due to the eyebrows) but outside of the stalker factor, no heavy objections.
Ines : Hooboy. I find I strangely like almost everything about her (so far). Absolutely gorgeous to look at, clearly protective of Vi. Can't decide if it's because she's also in love with Vi or not. I did get a nice laugh out of Amrit's reaction when she found out Ines was French. It wasn't far off from my own initial reaction. Nobody's perfect!
Honorable mention: Ms. Katie Kafton. The Dev has definitely got my attention with the shorter-haired beauties in this game, and more of her is most decidedly welcome, too.
From a gameplay perspective, though - McNab just screams 'backstabber', it's the appearance. He looks like an untrustworthy b-grade movie villain. Certainly I'd like to be wrong, but between what feels like constant admonishment about where MC might be sticking his dick or his own career, McNab just gives off that vibe that says if you don't play your cards perfectly with him he's going to stab you in the back, whether over money or (some of) the girls. I think the money is his higher priority, though. Something about his presentation is just hitting at my nerves. I dunno, maybe he's in the closet and has a thing for MC or I could be entirely wrong on all fronts.
And I'm still not sold on Davis being dead. Maybe he is, but I was already expecting it to not be his body, so I was mildly surprised when Vi had to go down to ID him. That it isn't him just goes back to my original thoughts. He's up to something shady, probably took out the ferry himself to disappear, maybe he's got some black ops work on the agenda, or some other scenario that'll inject some later drama by maybe giving MC the chance to do what he didn't when he first had the chance to take him out.
I impatiently anticipate part 4.
