Maybe I didn't understand but what was the purpose 5 years later did he and Sophia sending Felix sex videos. Being a family man. What did I miss. Seems he was still a dick and she was a hoe.
The purpose is to have netorare scene in the update because it would lack one otherwise. Personally I would be fine if devs would shift amount of scenes in updates as they see fit rather than sticking to the quota but then certain users would jump and blame them for slacking and lying.
As for story excuse for it, one possibility was already provided. The other would be that they simply having voyeur kink and are excited by the prospect of Felix watching (quite probably they know that he played the vids). They even said that they miss Felix for that purpose. Maybe its only Zach that does this, anyway I don't think this has much relevance for the story.
The writing was pointing in a completely different direction. And there was a LOT of exposition. Zack was presented as a totally manipulative narcissist, who cares only for himself. He was blackmailing and manipulating Brooks the entire game and there was a lot of narrative ink suggesting he was going to drop Sophie like a hot potato and disappear shortly after everything blew up.
I thought Brooks was going to get even for how Zack treated him. Instead, Brooks rewards Zack and Sophie both, which makes even less sense. Why give them a huge monetary payoff? Sophie got a Pretty Woman ending even though she treated Felix like a sadist.
Zach, meanwhile, became a responsible, professional basketball-playing puppy . . . who for some reason is still obsessed with tormenting Sophie's ex many, many years later. Why does he even spend a single second thinking about Felix? It made no sense.
I expected an outcome where Zack becomes a professional player, but also endlessly cheats on Sophie. Leopards like him don't suddenly change their spots.
Though Felix' ending is unsurprising, and to a degree apropos. . . suicide would have been a better outcome for him. His attitude toward Amy didn't make a whole lot of sense in the end. Though she enabled Sophie, it was still Sophie's choices.
The Dev built up this persona in Zack that suggested a bad end for Sophie and instead she gets rewarded for her cruelty. So, will she get a very bad end if she demonstrates any humanity? Probably. After this vomit inducing ending, I won't be around to find out.
It was like there was all of the build-up for who Zack is and who Sophie had become that ended in a finale worthy of Dexter or Lost. Disappointing.
Not really. For long time it we had signs that Zach is falling for Sophie. We also do not know what makes Zach the way he was, what he was missing and just maybe he found that with Sophie.
Brooks doesn't care about Felix, he cares about the school rep and his own butt. It was said that that by keeping the thing secret Brooks will get far more money from supporters expecting Zach to be back next year. We also do not know what sort of dealings those two got (Zach and Brooks) I doubt it is just Zach blackmailing him.
You could call tormenting Felix his dirty pleasure. It makes a lot of sense, I'm sure you can find irl examples of upstanding people that after years were found to have skeletons in the closet...
Nothing more to say other than that you clearly wanted karma ending for Sophie but it didn't happen. Tough luck.
i quote doctor House here "people dont change" specially not if there is nothing at least traumatic happening to them, meeting Sophie and fking the shit out of her is not a traumatic experience that will change his life...the writer try to make sense of this ending but he showed us who Zack is at the start of the game, and because of that all the shit that comes out of his mouth is a lie, BUT with this ending, the moment he marry Sophie, now we have to believe that all the obvious lies from before were not lies ... like every time he show himself vulnerable in front of Sophie those were supposed to be lies, cause he is manipulating her, but now those were true...he stop having sex with all the other women cause he is "hunting" not cause of love, that´s the thing, i dont know how the reader can believe that Zack was a decent guy, he does nothing to give me that impresion, like even at the last moment of that game i was in total disbelieve waiting for him just to dump her ass xD
Except they do. Sophie was changed by good dicking everyone is fine with that. But Zach falling in love and changing is impossible. People fall in love and it can change them drastically.
Even if the rest of the game is amazing (and this one isn't; it's passable at best), this ending is still a black mark.
We've all seen otherwise decent games and even series ruined because it ended badly.
Few people care for endings all that much. People are here for hot cheating sex .
Amy was not a friend then? good to know. Zach was not a redeemeable character, at least for me, if for u it was, gratz for enjoying the ending, i didnt, the reason i didnt was cause Zach was not a redeemeable character, it was not writed as such, for me, every moment that he is show vulnerable was a lie to try and manipulate Sophie, for me it was a character that at the end will go back to being Zach dump Sophie and go for the next target, that was zach, for u it was this Twiligh character, i was reading a NTR game...what can i say...my bad i got Zach wrong.
I believe the point was for both outcomes to be plausible. So in one route you can have Zach failing in love and unwilling to share Sophie, and in the other he will just be in for kinky sex and will be ok with her sleeping with others.
It really feels like you and I were not playing the same game. The driving force behind all of the events in the game is that Zach is a psychopath that uses and manipulates people, unable to give a shit about anyone but himself, and getting off on ruining other people's lives. Everything else is clearly performative. I don't know how much time you've spent around these kinds of people in real life, but they don't "change". Not in the way the game demonstrates. They can alter the criteria of their performance, and respond to incentives and disincentives of the people around them, but they can't magically start falling in love and be a different person. The whole sending pictures thing at the end clearly shows that he hasn't. So how is everything the way it is? Yeah, Zach could performatively do everything he did until near the end, but he wouldn't 'hang around'. All of the reasons as to why he did the things he did (for his own pleasure and self aggrandizement) finish the moment the marriage implodes. He would not hang around, there would not be a happy marriage.
It is, very plainly, absurd.
Let's ignore the sings of Zach falling in love and stick to the part that 20ish guy is a seasoned manipulator that can't fall in love.
I need to post this meme again I guess.
