I don't use walkthroughs anyway. I just saw it poking around the script after I finished the game. I was more saying it was a pretty shit game design choice. Why throw a wrench like that into everything for no reason at all? It's just like a big fuck you to the players.
There's two ending branches: one if you manage to save sister's hotel (good endings) and one if you fail and the other hotel guy wins the mayor elections. (bad endings) This hinges largely on being able to expose his dirty laundry, yes, but you can fuck that up in some other ways too, iirc.
well dots isn't only avn maker who makes bad endings possible. wt-mod/pdf is very needed on many avns otherwise player locks itself out of some paths.
Except it's not a "wrench into everything", but a path fork. You get some endings on one path, and some different ones on the other.
It's not a fork, unless you consider a fork to be a split between good and bad endings. That's all that variable decides.
It's not all that's decided. There's obviously some differences in content as well -- you aren't going to see MC and friends celebrating and the bad guy losing his shit on the path where he actually won.
You don't need a walkthrough, though. There's something like 3 places to check in single location and if you fuck up you can always just rollback and pick the option which actually works.
That still doesn't solve the points problem though. Or the need to go through "perfect" playthroughs to be with someone despite everything the characters have gone through together. They have been using a point system in all of their games and still haven't been able to wrap their heads around it. At some point you'd have to think that maybe it's not something you should try again.
well can get good ending 1 but not good ending 2.
that's on many games, early shy virgin and in the end beast in bed.
I agree, the points system is badly used in how it essentially catches the player at 11th hour without any prior indication they're underperforming. Especially the way you're put through finale with every girl bawling her eyes out at the idea of MC leaving, only then for the game to inform the player than no, they don't actually care all that much because not enough points, it's just silly.
Like cxx mentions, this is fairly standard development for "inexperienced" characters in porn games. It is what passes for "development" in them and it's a major draw for certain subset of the playerbase.
Except it can be all skipped with just being able to put in max points for everyone at the start of Ch.3 so it's nonsensical and well, pointless. If someone wanted to see all the game has, they'd play multiple times on their own and without artificial blocks which don't even play any role in the game itself. If they don't, then forcing them isn't going to improve their experience or think better of the game.
