VN Ren'Py The East Block [v0.8.2] [Bobbyboy Productions]

[NewGuy2022]

It might have been the aim, but personally, I think he missed the mark here. We didn't get Kathryn seeing the same adversity Luke has been facing, it was completely different, but made more so by the way it was poorly forced.

I've said before, I don't have a problem with it being Kathryn cheating - and I had even said a few times that I was looking forward to what I (correctly) presumed would be Pat with Kathryn in this episode (or possibly just teased here and actually saved for the next one). It was just the way it was shoehorned in to be available on all paths that didn't at all work well.

Forced content never works unless you're running a purely kinetic novel (and then it's expected). If choices are offered, then they need to influence how things play out in the future. Others will disagree and that's fine.

Mixing choices with forced content to override choices never works well, IMO. If you intend to force content counter to the choices I made, then just don't offer me choices at all. Call your product kinetic and we all will understand that.