Well damn, Papa Syther leaves to ponder the greatness of Mommy 4th and taking Lady Shadow on a walk and I come back to fuckery.
2.Not all bad ends are immediate, and some consequences take some time, the amount of people who chose Agleacwif just to go back to save Laurie are an example, and it's not even a bad end per se.
The majority of bad ends are immediate. I can literally only recall 2 instances where it took a good period of time before bad end appears.
If you kill Christie Ella will kill you later in the game (when you visit Mia)
I believe if you select a wrong choice during the fight with Val he'll kill you no matter what (and that fight does go on for quite a while).
The choice between Algeacwif vs saving Laurie isn't even a bad 'end' in any regard so I'm not too sure why that's referenced. Yeah it sucks she dies if you picked the monster to breed but it is what it is for real.
Choices have consequences, sometimes those lead to character deaths be it our MC or others, just a lil bit of that cause and effect mah boi.
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This game has various checks for all sorts of things. Most (if not all) are easily passed. The only time you'll fail an ability check (for power or skill) is if you actively avoided gaining power and or skill (which at that point you were just sabotaging yourself).
Dead ends are for the most part obvious in this game (and a grain of common sense will tell you this.)
Also there's zero need to insult someone over pointing out how brain dead you're being.
And I'm just saying this cause I have played this for so damn long but I never saw the point in the walkthrough for this game (except for scenes) since most things are pretty clear on what you'll get imo.