do i need to play tp and ex 1?
So it goes like this: the VN is considered to be an "Alternate timeline" where you actually managed to get somewhere with some of the girls, but ends on a bad note where the Ex-Wife visits, sees you surrounded with a bunch of girls, thinks she has no place there and kills herself. Which leads to the daughter getting depressed thinking it's her fault and does the same (this is all off camera and explained in EX1)
Death gives you a do over and then you play EX 1. Which is.... if you thought the VN was a slow burn... hoo boy are you in for a treat. Which by treat I mean an even SLOOOOOOOOOWER burn. As in nothing happens except dreams you can control happening or not. Not to mention the bullshit Sandbox elements which serve absolute ZERO purpose. The store items aren't used, the interactions with Tiffany in the house serve no purpose, the locations on the map are unused through entire thing. He went off from the VN to a Sandbox Hybrid VN and used absolutely none of the Sandbox Elements for anything. NO PURPOSE AT ALL. NO REASON TO DO IT.
Now we move into EX 2 where the fun starts.... except not really, because the Dev is like the fucking master of teasing shit.
If anything, the worst thing about this dev is his damn MAGA conservative bullshit creeping into the game. Leave the politics out of shit like this, seriously.