Well, I have to take your word for it. I might have skimmed over SOME text, but I definitely wasn't in the "screw this narrative, lemme get to the next lewd scene" mode yet while playing. In any event, I'd be surprised if there was half the text in the game your wrote in this one post concerning the reasoning. What's more, the game might drop a few hints and clues, but STILL the decision to do what you write is the obvious course of action is entirely up to the player, you CAN spend a lot of time with your gf, it's just that this stops the narrative.
But it's all good, I'm not panning the game or complaining or writing a bad review or what have you, I have a different preferences than the author (and maybe the majority of this games players), that's all. I can tell that you like things the way they are, which is fine, more power to you.
None of that is all in one place, no, and some of it becomes obvious only later down the road.
Honestly, the biggest problem that the VN has is that it creates the impression that Satoshi is someone to insert into, that the player has full control over. However, that's not actually the case. He's his own character that the player only has minimal influence over. This is less of a game and more of a story tbh.
There's a reason why, if you go around through the thread, you'll see some peeps commenting about "who's actually the MC" of this game, because of how much it switches perspectives and focuses.
My money is personally on Mary tbh, because she's the focus of the narrative in all routes and whatnot. XD
Was that all explained from the beginning or is that something you get told from both perspectives throughout the game as of now? I can't remember all that from the start and I thought you find out more as you go along.
Perhaps I've also skimmed far more than a few lines at the beginning xD
No, it's not all explained at the beginning. It's trickled out little by little as the story moves forward and its really easy to miss the various pieces. Like, the part with the tours and stuff is mentioned fairly off-handedly from what I remember. Along with a number of other things. There's all sorts of hints about the state of the two's relationship all over the place, but they're often subtle. We're
shown that their relationship has issues, we're not outright told.
For example, when Satoshi goes out with Mary to the leisure area, she's basically all "let's get drunk~" and then Satoshi immediately rains on her parade going "all things in moderation", and her reply to that makes it clear that she's not happy that he can't cut loose even once when the only real consequence would be a hang-over. Or that he doesn't just let her drink while spending time with her. It's a small thing, but it's one of many little things that show how different their values are beyond the surface level and how they haven't needed to confront these things until now.
It also explains why Mary wants to go out drinking with Kendo, because she can cut loose with him in a way that she can't with Satoshi, and it also explains why Satoshi does NOT want to be around Mary when she's drinking heavily, because he can't keep up with her. He's also too much of an ass to just spend time with her while she's drinking.
It's easy to miss if you're not looking for these things, but the signs are all over the place that their relationship was never really tested until then.
And that's without getting into the sex stuff... though that bit should be painfully obvious early on. Mary always initiates. She offers to give Satoshi a blowjob, but he never offers to go down on her, or finger her or something.
Some of these things become more "in your face" so to speak later in the story.
