Good luck on the next run! I believe the options that I used are go right, withstand with power, choose to fight by yourself, destroy red light, hesitate and destroy crystal sword. I also had a skill level of 30. From what I've read out here you need atleast 28 skill, if you wish to keep Laurie alive.
You can do every sidecharacter route. The main replay-value thing is corruption or pure route.
Pick "full strength" when fighting Michael the first time, fight the thugs, kill them, the rest comes from training. (and a +2 power bonus/ + Kenny fight) DO NOT FIGHT Ella when you're in her apartment. (=dead end)
Ella possesses special sight. It's how she can tell the level of someone's evolution, as well as evaluating the compatibility of Christie and Emily with monster cells, so chances are that she just did the same with the MC or simply knows because he was part of the same orphanage/experimental lab.
I think Ella was just giving some excuse to dismiss Cole, because if Mc and her really are siblings them they have been freaky on the sheets multiple times already.
I agree, I don't think Ella would care about familial ties, it feels like Cole just isn't getting what he wants because all he is to Ella is a disposable tool that's soon outlived his usefulness. Iirc in the same scene she mentions the MC, just to get the dude jealous, so he's likely just another obstacle/whetstone to sharpen ourselves on.
Absolutely, I wanted the option to kill Jared almost immediately he was introduced. Was a bit sad I couldn't murder him after breaking his dick. Cole deserves to die violently too, the posturing prick. Thinks he's tough shit and the best, then he goes and steals things from his "siblings" so he can look better, bitch if you're all that you can look good regardless.
I think Ella does care about Cole in a way even if just as a little brother, but even on blood related family you can understand that someone is a total piece of shit, plus she can just not be attracted to him at all.
I'm not sure if all those were calculated
Yeah, I was incorrect about Deryl's fight in this update. But, Ella is setting up "tests" for our MC. First it was Kenny - a battle to see if MC was a successful experiment or not, then we had Jake - a match up to see how MC could handle Jake's very powerful ability, there was also the initial thing with Deryl (before monster form) - where she made him fight our MC to test him against someone who was just as versatile as our MC(wasn't that influenced by her?) and now it seems it's going to be Cole.
They definitely weren't "calculated" since she's very chaotic and mercurial, more fortuitous circumstances let her not have to plan something to test us. She's (if it isn't a case of unreliable narrator) treated us in a way that she doesn't treat any of the other ones, either they get outright derision or apathy, we get something else, and I don't believe she's been outright lying to us either, just lying by omission, but I feel kind of confident that almost everything she's told us has been true.
A wiki would be great, someone just needs to make it, and that someone isn't me.
That's just another reason why Ella most likely escaped. Cole being leader seems a guaranteed way to fail, the Shen dude is on his 4th evolution, so he might be able to put Cole in his place, but even that is just a matter of time before it ends up with Cole killing people... That bunch needs regular corrections or they're gonna fight among themselves...
I agree, I also prefer it when the MC wins without preknowledge of what he's going up against.
You can keep her alive....
It depends on the path you take and some choices during the fight with Deryl.
Yes i was thinking about the triple fight of Deryl/Jake/Mc, and the one when Deryl monsterfied, he just decided to face Mc on his own even whitout any orders from Ella.
I agree, she adapts while on the run and uses things that happen on her favor, besides planning stuff she goes withe the flow
