The MC plays pretty much the 2nd fiddle for every of the LI's and if they can't get what they want, than he is good enough for a hook up.
To be
fair on this issue... as much as people are complaining about the Ada and Danielle scenes, or how every LI seems hung up on someone else, it's not as if the MC is being any better to
them. He spends most of the early part of the game angsting over Naomi
months after they've broken up, and even once he starts getting more and more serious with other people, he's constantly obsessing over her, bringing her up, and the moment she comes back and they reconcile he rushes to her side the moment she asks him to. How is that different from Ada or Danielle? I'm half-surprised we don't blurt out Naomi's name during sex scenes.
In the Ada scene, he brings Naomi up almost every time things get a bit more intimate. "You're having trouble letting go of Chris? Hey, I know how that feels because I was hung up on Naomi, but now we're cool!" "Hey, you like that foot massage? Naomi taught me how to do it!" If we were playing as Ada, we'd be calling BS on the MC for being so damned hung up on Naomi.
If anything, the theme of the game might be that
none of these people seem to be capable of letting go of the past, and the only way any of them will ever be happy is if they figure out a way to let go. Any non-Naomi route basically involves you helping your chosen girl come to terms with her past relationship and leave it behind to be with you instead, while you simultaneously leave behind your obsession with Naomi. Both halves of the couple learning from the failed relationship and what went wrong to be more mature and more responsible in the new relationship, ultimately making it happier, healthier, and more nuanced.
(And that's without even getting into what happens if you're romancing multiple women at once. How are things going to end if, say, both Mira and Ada become convinced that you're the love of their life, and you have to choose which one to break the heart of? This doesn't seem like there's going to be a harem scenario waiting at the end. More likely you wind up losing both/all as they accuse you of being a cheater.
For pure irony's sake, I'm waiting for one of the LIs to complain that you're just using them to get over your breakup with Naomi, and you're completely unable to bring up the hypocrasy, and you just sort of hang your head in shame and accept all the blame, because the game seems to be masochistically aroused by shitting on the MC/player with that sort of thing.)
Worst the MC feels like bad cause he keept ''secrets'' of this so called best friend...
Yeah, the "OMG I'm sorry I didn't tell you, this is all my fault!" moments were kind of bullshit.
Though they didn't bother me as much as they might have, because a) that sort of excessive unjustified guilt
is realistic, b) because the game
DOES let you at least tell Damon at one point that a lot of problems could have been avoided if he'd just stop keeping secrets. And he does acknowledge the fact that his constant need to
fix things is doing more harm than good.
Though it kind of sucks that your response to that is "Yeah, I know what that's like buddy", and not something more like "No shit,
stop trying to fix things - you're really bad at it."
The meeting with the Therapist was bad imo. I kicked her as out the last time she came to the MC's house, couse i neither trust her, nor do i want have anything to do with her...and now the MC visits her cause he needs someone to talk ? Her of all people... and what was this reaction in the hospital?
Yeah, that was annoying for me as well. I've pretty much played anything involving her as "I want absolutely nothing to do with you" and "Your only value to me is to try and help Damon, stop trying to psychoanalyze ME", and yet I go rushing off to blurt out all my problems (and put my fucking head on her lap like a child) without having any option to avoid the scene.
What makes it worse is that there really isn't a
reason for it at all, narratively, other than the fact that the story needs you to be there so you can see her collapse/see the drama with her contact info play out in the hospital.
And it was annoying that you basically go "Yeah, this was my fault" and Damon kind of agrees. That's about a metric ton of bullshit.
Seems like Mira and Penny are the only ones not hung up on someone.
I'd argue that Penny is very much hung up on someone. As for Mira, she doesn't have a past LI getting in the way, but her father is basically filling the same role. Every time you try and cheer her up or help her out or otherwise make things better for her, he basically pulls her right back down.
And worse, when you finally meet him, you don't even get a chance to call him out on his bullshit or point out how much he's hurting his daughter. You're overly conciliatory and basically make excuses for him so he doesn't have to.