You're right, I'm sure, that the other three are the only ones who remember everything (which is part of why Selene's ending was as frustrating for me as it was), but I do think Kara's unique here. Everyone else, as far as we see, has a vague sense of "I think I know you already;" Kara knows she knows, and she's right. We don't see how much she knows, but I doubt those two examples are everything.
It would make sense if everyone remembers the version of the Interim that they themselves experienced. It's just that only Selene, Polly, and Mira experienced the unveiled Interim...
Read page 38-40 in the walkthrough. You need every possible scene. Including all the joint scenes. Thus you have to progress the girls in a specific order, or not out of order.
Ah, thanks! I'll take a look at it the next time I decide to play the game again.
But we do, or at least quite a lot of it, because we perceived them the same way--except for the Shades, and their not noticing that things are shifting around. Aside from those matters, what we're seeing "in town" is what they're seeing. Which is why I don't think I agree with this:
...at least, not if you're suggesting they remember it clearly. That means Kaitlin remembers the accident, losing her father, MC banging her and her mother at the same time... Kara remembers, not only the Mustang, but also the threesome with Marisa (Anita gets this in her ending, but Kara doesn't). Sammy and Bud remember being all but forced together.
Have I forgotten a moment where they commented on the lack of weather or the weird skies? It certainly seemed to me that the point was they thought of it as "just" the same as the world before the Interim ... at least until they started commenting on it feeling weirdly empty.
And there's a good 5 to 10 years from where the world is restarted at until he meets the LI in most of the endings. If one had a really weird set of memories with no reason to recall them until suddenly MC, how clear will those memories be?
...which MC also noticed. He knew why and they didn't, but we, and MC, know pretty well what they experienced in the Interim.
Fair, and this dev has already made a similar point in N&T--memories, or at least details of memories, fade over time.
Short answer: check the walkthrough (specifically, pages 38-39 tell you what's needed to unlock each LI's ending); it's linked in the OP. For Selene, never pass up a chance to have sex with her (which is generally good advice in an AVN anyway).
Unless the DC has changed this, no--it's one or the other.
The only one I remember MC doing this with is Kaitlin, but in any event, it's really going to depend on the nature of their relationship. We know that in ILS games, "friends with benefits" never works, but the characters don't know this. So when Kara thinks she and MC are just FWB, I don't see an issue with MC bringing up some hypothetical future where she finds someone she wants to get serious about (though I don't remember that happening, I don't have an issue with it).
I think I'd still answer the same: it depends on the nature of that relationship. If you're in a relationship where you're just hanging out and having sex from time to time, neither of you understands or expects it to turn into something serious or long-term--i.e., "friends with benefits"--then I really don't see a reason not to bring it up. "We're just having some fun this summer, but we both know we'll be heading off in separate directions before too long. Hopefully you'll meet someone there."
I mean its a book not chatgpt you gotta have reasonable expectations for non-ai static works.
I think this is fundamentally where we disagree--I don't expect to control every decision in the relationships with the LIs; they're going to proceed in a certain general direction regardless of what I do. I can influence certain things--most significantly, whether I'll have a possible ending with her, but also things like whether I'll ever have sex with her (or when I will); whether I'll profess love, like, something else, or nothing at all; for certain of them, will they get together with other LIs; etc. But the overall arc of each character's story is what it is.
Then you should probably also know that that's not the only method of doing versioning, like everything in tech, there's about 8 zillion competing standards
