I was at stage 4 with Tina, 11 with Sammy, 14 with Marisa, finished with Roe, and closed Mina when I completed Robin's content or something like that. Maybe this bug happened because my playstile was different than yours, but that's just how I wanted to play; I liked Roe and Robin more than Tina or any other women and wanted to see their story first. Plus, I thought that if I can't collect enough QI on time, then I will lose the game.
And that's not all bugs that occurred in my playthrough; for example, I didn't become a lover of Kaitlin's mother, but game; still count me as one, and I even saw dialogs where I needed to explain to Kaitlin why I fucked her mother and that this would never happen again, but I didn't do any of this.
I totally understand!
I started playing TID when it first came out and there was the monthly update with '1 story stage' of content for each of the women who had been revealed up to that point in the story.
I chose to play all available content (given the limited # of choices with each monthly release - 7/monthly release if I remember correctly) which is what the dev originally intended and checked re: bugs.
There will be a 'Director's Cut' rev that the dev said they would release later this year (no timing given as they are just into the very beginning of their 3rd AVN
TOXICity).
This is supposed to be the rev with all identified bugs fixed/resolved, like the continuity bug you seem to have encountered.
For me, Tina and a few of the other women did not resonate with me early in their stories, but she became a favorite later as I got to know her better.
The stories are intended to interweave and there are interactions between a number of the various women with each other that really help to tell the story.
I will say that you will need most of the Qi from All of the women if you are going to 'win' TID, so if you want to experience the entire story, including the winning ending, you will want to play all the women.
Using the walkthrough will help ensure that you don't miss out on the various story interactions or the Qi you get from them.
It might mean going back to early in the story (I had to do this when I missed a key Mira/Apollyon choice - so I went back 100+ days to fix it) but I think story continuity and relationship interactions are worth it).
Tina and Robin have a very special relationship and keeping them at about the same story 'stage' as you advance their stories will pay nice dividends... I won't spoil it beyond that.
Cheers!!
