Ok, at first i want to apologize for my rather harsh criticism in the last posts.
I guess getting riled up about the story is a good sign regarding immersiveness.
I played to the end of 0.9.9 now. Quite interesting how litle sis can get jealous sometimes. She was the first girl, and gave us some sort of "free pass" earlier, and now she is essentially fighting to kepp us for herself.
I noticed some oddities in the plot while playing...
1. if i remember correctly, the files in mr. Kumotos Computer state that Rachel is from _scottland_ - but later different Dialogues (and the "exorcism"- attempt from isabella) suggest that Rachel is in fact from ireland.
2. In he Yoko-Punishment-Part of the game, there is a scene, where the MC spices the food, yokos mother brought yoko - the latter throws it from the balcony, hits the mc and he goes crazy. - that is somehow counter-intuitive to Rachels/Lilis "test" with iasbella and the MC in the infirmary, where Rachel points out to herself, that a Sasaki does _not_ lose his mind completely because of the drug and stays rather sharp - she explicitely says that this bloodline is "dangerous" (which is interesting in itself, why it should be dangerous when there is someone wo can withstand the effects of the drug) - so, as it is the exactly same drug, which the MC obtained in the infirmary it is somehor strange that the same person reacts that much different.
Furthermore, i hereby nominate shirohime for the position of the greatest bitch-cunt in the younger gaming-history.
I wonder if the "clients" that payed Jira to keep the MC unharmed are in fact the Musashima family, who seem aware of our identity... the last sentence in that letter to Motoko suggests something like this. Without the MC, she would never had any clue how to solve this, so whats the point in writing that riddle in the letter then - this does only make sense when you suspect that Motoko has someone she could ask of these things... and as the Sazakis were scholars and "monks" - well, it somehow fits.
Regarding Maki's big fight, i can only guess that either she fights Steven Van Norris and looses, so the mc must devise a plan to "save" her and get the dojo back from shirohime, or she some other "great drama" - the setup is too suspicious already. (Steven getting out of jail, the videos of him fucking a french woman, Faris comment that steven would like a girl like Maki before he tries to drug her and so on)
But what i still dont get is, why the heck Rachel helps that mega-bitch in creating a drug to control people, which could easily backfire to be used on herself...!? - This is essentially an invitation to be turned into a sex-slave herself... so why the heck do such a thing, at least when there is no antidote?
Also, if Rachel "observed" Lili from within - thus knowing about the new formula and what happened with the test on isabella, then she must also know about the involvement of the MC in this tests - and that he spoke with Lili about his father... so Rachel mus know about the real identity of the MC - which makes me wonder why she did not tell shirohime and / or helen about this, not even after finding out that the drug-sample is gone.
Girl-Wise, my favorites are Maki, Kayane and Motoko. - With Kayane being one of the most interesting character-wise... dressing like a slut, yakuza-heir, pole-dancer and stripper, but nonetheless intelligent, cunning and schooled... i mean, she speaks about References being thrown and understood by the MC (and she seesm to understand his references also), who could not do anything but read in his childhood - that means Kayane must also have read a lot more that her circumstances may suggest - sort of a yakuza-stripper-bookworm
Never judge a book(worm) by its cover(s)
So all in all i like the game so far, still considering the MC an moron of epic dimensions, but can't help that. - I am curious about the further development of the story and the girls.
Greetings,
Ge0rgy
