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I don't think she was as carefully built as she seems. Feels like if this was always the plan the character would have had a more constant presence throughout the game, but she disappears for a good few chapters and then returns with a very different personality, which could work internal logic wise, but just feels rushed narratively. I think she was probably just another option, then DPC decided she would work for the climax and repurposed her for that.Indeed. She was carefully built to let your guard down. Comely but not breathtaking, nice and fun, clearly interested but not suffucating, the game doesn't push you heavy handedly toward her like other titles i won't mention, apparently no string attached, early in the game. She feel like an enjoyable safe fuck. Indeed.
Honestly a game that makes you truly feel attached even to the male support character says tons about the quality of the writing.
Yea Liam was pretty awesome, you could tell DPC thought a lot about the challenge of having a Male Best Friend in the game that both didn't feel like a romantic threat to the player, and was somebody we wanted to engage with.
Yes Megan is the presented as the "right" choice, hence why the game is written around her romance, and she's forced on you, while others you usually have to deal with obstacles, or can reject. Though i think the dev kind of changed their mind on this towards the end and wanted Melissa to also be another "right" choice(that's probably why the penuptulate decision is about choosing either person). Nonetheless Megan has the "best ending", with aspects of her ending being split between Mel and Rena, which honestly felt pretty tacky as i think 2/3 endings don't do the character's arcs as much justice as it could have(Mel's feels most relevant to her character arc).
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Thanks for the responses guys.
I wanted to choose Melissa but this scene made me feel like my choice was wrong
If the flashback was in another scene it would be nice and wouldn't make me think about my choice
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Dr P wrote the whole story (the plot at least) before he started creating the game, so Leah's arc didn't change as he went along. You are missing some details about Leah, like when she raped Jonas while he was unconscious in the hospital very early in the story, and it was her watching Jonas, Megan and Melissa through the window.
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Didn't miss anything, the game explains all that to you pretty explicitly. If DPC did have Leah's arc planned out, they did a pretty terrible job implementing it. She dissapears for a fair amount of the narrative, and has a lack of presence, then when her twist is revealed, the explanation feels heavy handed, and there's a serious lack of impact as we barely know her. Hell you could replace Leah as the villain with Mel's step-father and it would still work, that highlights how poor her arc was executed.
Would have been much better had she'd known Jonah for years, and was a close friend much like Liam, with her arc mirroring Jonah's, while also playing a kind of "devil on his shoulder" role, and him finally "overcoming" her would be part of his process of facing his pain, harkening to the themes of the game. This would also give the twist impact as she would be a "holmie" to the player and make the betrayal sting really hard. She felt less like an actual "person" oriented in the world, and more like a "character" created for the twist.
Should play Being A Dik. Pretty much confronts many of the issues with this game.
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Great game. My only complaint against it is the lack of choice in the Megan relationship. The game forces you into a romance with her, whether you want it or not. The game does allow you to break up with her, to pursue another romance if you choose. But to do it, the game forces you to break Megan's heart. If the game would have allowed the player to reject the romance before it began, the MC might have been able to spare Megan the unnecessary heart break. But maybe that's what the developer was going for, to explore the potential dangers of a rebound relationship. I just wish the player would have had more of a choice in the matter.
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Models 9/10
Gameplay 7/10
Storyline 1/10
MC 8/10
Overall 6/10
After replaying the game twice (as there is 20+ different outcomes), I got really disappointed and deleted the game. Models and gameplay are quite good, even the storyline somehow makes sense and there is bunch of twists, which is really interesting... However, the fact that "Leah" storyline exists in the game is really shitty... First time I tried to have harem ending (not sure if even possible), and after two girls (out of four, not considering Hedweg and Angela) accepted me as-is, Leah "happened"... i got sooooo pissed, but I slept it over and decided to try again, but now I would reject Leah from start... and lo-and-behold, same shit again... So regardless what you decide with Leah, the ending will always be shit... And this is such a turndown for me... In the end, I just decided to drop it and move on to another game...
Gameplay 7/10
Storyline 1/10
MC 8/10
Overall 6/10
After replaying the game twice (as there is 20+ different outcomes), I got really disappointed and deleted the game. Models and gameplay are quite good, even the storyline somehow makes sense and there is bunch of twists, which is really interesting... However, the fact that "Leah" storyline exists in the game is really shitty... First time I tried to have harem ending (not sure if even possible), and after two girls (out of four, not considering Hedweg and Angela) accepted me as-is, Leah "happened"... i got sooooo pissed, but I slept it over and decided to try again, but now I would reject Leah from start... and lo-and-behold, same shit again... So regardless what you decide with Leah, the ending will always be shit... And this is such a turndown for me... In the end, I just decided to drop it and move on to another game...
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No, harem choice in this game. It's a one-and-done ending. The fire always happens, someone always dies. Just the way it is.
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Oh, FUCK YOU DrPinkCake! Here I am, trying to play a game with all kinds of naughty goodness, and you give us a game I was totally not emotionally ready for! Fuck, that's some heavy shit! I'm not crying, you're crying. FUCK! ... good game, though.
This is the best game ever if you don't understand then you have no feelings
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Yeah this was one of my very first VNs (along with CoBD, DIK, and Milfy City), after I finished playing it, left me a whimpering mess under the bed covers for four days. It was rough. It still stings from time to time when I do go back to it.
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I really enjoyed this game. Was quite the emotional roller coaster for me. Definitely keeping this game and will play it again down the road. Dr. Pinkcake has not released a bad game yet, IMO. This was a fantastic game and I'm really loving BADIK. My favorite game that I've downloaded here so far.