I’ve played this through a few times now. The first time through I was really upset and confused because one story line progressed much faster than the others (I didn’t know that was possible at the time) so it was very confusing. But now that I’ve been through it multiple times – including just creating multiple saves so I could try different things – I have some notes.
The MC isn’t particularly sympathetic. He does many things that I wouldn’t and doesn’t do things that I would have.
- Lin and Android are fantastic. I love them both, consider them family and protecting them would have been the top priority. Wish I could reassure Lin earlier in the game that she was safe and wasn’t going to get sold (Absolutely have ways this could have happened pretty easily.)
- I don’t like Kali – didn’t like her from the start and would have largely ignored her as long as she paid the rent, but I wouldn’t have bought her stuff and if she messed with (Android) without talking to me first I absolutely would have kicked her out of the building.
- I do like Ashley – don’t particularly want to sleep with her, definitely don’t want to have kids with her but I would have let her stay and protected her.
- Maria ... Maria is great but she wouldn’t have lasted long enough for me to find that out. I wouldn’t have gone along with some of her schemes – like giving her the master key. I’m also not a voyeur ... I mean I don’t mind watching but wouldn’t do it without consent (this comes up several times). And I wouldn’t have agreed to be on Maria’s stream and honestly when she put Lin on her stream without talking to me I would have kicked her out ... so I never would have found out how cool she is. As I said, my priority is protecting Lin and Android (and Ashley) and Maria being hot wouldn’t have saved her.
- Felicity, Emma and Autumn – are all pretty awful in the beginning and I would have either ignored them or booted them out ... Autumn for sure would have been evicted.
I wouldn't have even considered doing the sex contest thing - I wouldn't have even considered responding to that letter in any way. I also wouldn’t have bought Sylvia ... she’s pretty awful all around. I would have helped Nia all I could (At one point in one of the games I could have handed her $20,000 but there's no way to do that) but honestly my goal wouldn’t be overthrowing the government. I likely would have taken Lin and gone to find an island somewhere probably with Android and Ashley as well. I would have signed the hotel over to Ellen and told Nia that she could send runaway elves to the island – set up some kind of a system with the hotel – Ellen – the sanctuary – the boat and our island so I could help the elves but still achieve my top priority of keeping my family safe and out of the crossfire.
As things stand though I don’t think the MC is very nice, or very smart and it’s impacting my enjoyment of the game/novel.