- Nov 18, 2018
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Ok, maybe I'm not making myself clear here.Wait, wait, wait. Before the MC says "I love you" to Carol, you have three choice-menus that affect the further dialogue. You have 4 different dialog endings. If you chose "I love you", then you should not think about other girls at all (if we compare this situation with reality). And blaming the developer for this is a bit strange. You had a choice, and you made it. At the same time, you can not discuss the topic of lying/cheating with Carol at all (wait to reveal your feelings). Or you can discuss it, but not say that you already love her. I don't force the MC to tell Carol that he loves her.
Either way, it's a game. And don't take it too seriously.
Carol is the main girl. At least, that's what can be seen from the way you've written it. She is the character that has the most time (besides maybe Rachel) and has the most relationship progress (discounting Roxy because she started at Sex and is trying to move beyond it).
Ashley, Yuki, Sara, and any of the others are currently at "Minor Character" status because there is so little interaction with them. So all things are not equal. You have made it clear in the early game that Carol is the main. Whether that was intentional or not, that's how it is. There are not chances to flirt with Ash or Yuki like there is with Carol. You don't spend hardly any 1 on 1 time with any of the other girls like you do with Carol.
You centered her in the middle of all events in regards to the other girls. With the exception of Hannah, Roxy and Rachel, you meet every other girl through Carol which makes it be that the only way you'd be introduced to those characters is if you already had a good relationship with her.
If you had written it so that the MC met the girls himself individually, had equal time with all of them, had chances of having the same number of points with all of them, then you could say that the game is balanced and Carol is not a railroaded choice. But that's not the case. In the current game, you are pushed toward a relationship with Carol almost entirely, and there is no semblance of a relationship with the others as of yet, due to the lesser screen time.
To me, the moment you made the mistake was when you had Carol invite him to the girls' room and played the game. First, introducing the other girls like that made them dependent on Carol as a proxy. Secondly, you shortened that Game Event to the point where the most you could gain with any of the three girls is +2, but that's only if you concentrated on one girl. If you had let the game play out longer or had allowed for more questions to be asked, there would have been at least 3-6 points more
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