I have now worked my way through all the posts since the update hit and this will sound a bit Peter Cetera-ish. (Those who know their 80s music will know which bridge of one of his songs I am referring to.) While I was reading I could figuratively hear my brain cells begging me to stop, to make it go away, to make it end. I could count them dying one by one and today I feel measurably dumber than I was yesterday.
Most of it has been addressed before, but still we ended up with a whining bunch of entitled posters (the one who claimed that he knows the game better than the actual dev team definitely took the cake - it felt like all those people claiming to be cutting edge virologists just because they watched two videos on some covidiot's Youtube channel) and a p.o. dev team. By the way, thanks to
Jeff Steel and
Hyperserver for sifting through the trash; that can't have been easy.
That said, a few points that came to mind while playing the update:
-> Thanks for the confirmed faithful path. The moment I played the first update I knew I was going to make the relationship work. I may lock out the sexual encounters with others on that playthrough, but I also did that with Melody and you only got the Perfect End on that path. I am expecting (and know that the MrDots team is capable of delivering) a really good payoff there. Of course it will take a while.
-> Related: I get where Nicole is coming from. For her motivations I refer you to Ava's posts, who so tirelessly and admirably explains it in a straight to the point no-nonsense way. For this point I share her opinion 100%.
-> To the people who claim 11 - easily distinguishable - women are too many I strongly urge you to never tackle games like
Sisterly Lust,
Luke's Way (with that one even I have trouble remembering everybody) or, God forbid,
WVM. You'd be overwhelmed for sure.
Now to the game itself:
- I was wondering about the sex scene (had to tap out to Google translate Vicky at one point because I don't speak Spanish) being the way it is, but that has since been explained, no biggie. May have been a tad bit fast after the open relationship declaration (that will soon be a break up *grumble*
), but hey, THEY WERE ON A BREAK!
- At one point Lisa (you know her as Kristina) was talking to herself during the inspection of the hotel's event room (which seems a bit small, but that might be the chosen perspective). I guess the sentence should have gone to the MC.
- I fully expected Carissa (you know her as Shortcake or Cousin) to join the team this update. We need her by Saturday for the reception and it's Tuesday already. I guess that event will bring us the first *.
- Related: I would have preferred to actually see Sofia and (presumably) Xianne this update.
- Reference: Carissa said that a good friend of hers moved to Seaside and they are in contact sporadically. Could this be a certain lady we know there, who is very much into her father (or her father mostly in her
) and close to her age?
- I wonder what might be in that envelope. I read the "additional half sister" speculation, but my money for now would be some shady deal between the mayor of Sunshine Bay and Brodie's dad regarding the destruction of the lighthouse.
- The peeping toms were a little bit out of order this time, which was slightly confusing when backtracking to find them.
- I took the Ashley route last time at the lingerie store and was promised that she would do "something special" for me this update. I may be impatient, but was this meant to be the kiss and is that all? (To be honest I thought she would be the "first to fall" instead of Victoria.)
- Edit to add a continuity error: On Ashley's path you drag your shopped goods to her to pick up the scooter and end up pushing it to the hotel. The shopping bag is nowhere to be seen in those frames, but reappears once you reach the hotel.
Guess that was the most important stuff. See ya in 11 weeks; looking forward to the rest of Vicky's scene. (Not so much to the breakup.)
