I have my own motive for wanting the cabin to be 4 - 6 hours away from where they now live.Excellent
In gneral, all agreed. It's frustrating, but there's still a lot of great things. Most of the continuity issues are thefirst three chapters, because Ocean's tried to find new jigsaw pieces and force them into the shape of the old, without them being the same shapes. The whole point of those changes was to make it ambigious. If (one day far in the future) Ocean does a directors cut, I imagine he'll return plenty of things back in. As it is now, he could do that easily without really having to do much work. For that to happen though, SG will have to be successful enough that he can deliver it completely the way he wished, without the dictates of external pressures (real or feared). It's far easier to do it with a successful franchise, I'm not naive about that.
Regards Wollust's geography, it's like the dead guys in Diehard who flinch and blink. I get what Ocean intends but I suspect he just got overwhelmed with all the things left to do, and just decided to get it out and move on. I highly respect that decision, simply because WIaB and CH 4.5 and 5 of SG (actual chapter content, not the release themselves) do have far more continuity than Ch 1. Wiab's current coherence shows that it's easier to build from scratch rather than shoehorn in a rework. But yeah, it's like a dream, where two different mutually exclusive things coexist. I just allow my disbelief to be suspended, as the locations aren't really so important - the cabin could be anywhere, and the narrative result is the same - Nika experienced something traumatic. Easiest thing to fix all that geography? Put tha cabin 2 hours away. Most of Europe is only 2 hours to a new border right?Fix that, and all the concerns about geography vanish. It's also a throwawy line, nothing valuable exists in putting the cabin so remote.
I think Season 2 will end up having the same sort of consistency that WiaB enjoys, now that Ocean's gotten over the first hurdle. I think it's important to recognise that it's the first time he's released a fully commercial version of the game, and it's still better than 95% of what steam presents in my discovery queue.
I'm hoping that this is the story device that prompts Amber and the MC to have to overnight together following the cabin visit.
Amber will be there for the MC and any emotional aftershocks from the visit/recollections And - I'm hoping - some of Amber's unconventional therapy, like roleplaying as Summer to help the MC resolve not getting to say goodbye to Summer, will be involved. This will be part of the events at the cabin before they are forced to overnight away from everyone else.
I'm also hoping that the night together leads to Amber comforting the MC, first as Summer, then when the MC wakes from his bad dream scape, we get Amber path points/choices - continue making out with/fondling Amber or stop.
He does not have to call her Amber but, continued intimacy and the desired physical response from the MC will help Amber know that her therapy is working before she brings it to a stop (Amber path) or the MC does (non-Amber path), for example.
Later, she may reflect (and ask him in the next therapy session) at what point in their intimacy did he realize that Summer was not there, and Amber was (more Amber path points/choices for honesty), and why did he choose to continue?
This question won't be to embarrass the MC but to help him understand that he was driven by a partially awakened libido and his body was responding to the stimulus of being with Amber, as she intended - so no guilt over actions taken - it's all in the name of healing...
That discussion could lead to Amber continuing her unconventional therapy in her office - physical intimacy (making out and fondling each other in the beginning) with the MC to ensure he continues to rise to the occasion.
How long this therapy goes on with Amber's personal help, and how far they take that intimacy could make for a nice slow burn into the Amber LI relationship.
If the cabin is only two hours away, for example, for the version of the cabin visit I laid out above to occur, then we must have bad weather and/or car troubles drive Amber and the MC to seek shelter - overnight.
It still works but a 4-6 hour car drive allows, IMO, more bonding between the MC and Amber and forces the overnight for safety after an emotionally and likely physically exhausting visit to the cabin.
Anyway - so ends my latest speculation/desires about the upcoming cabin visit!
Cheers!!
