I'm done with my 100% walkthrough now, and there are a lot of things to discuss -- but the main one is the Johnny and V relationship line. While I liked the overall impression, there is a list of inconsistencies I cannot solve for myself:
- Johnny and V become friends quickly and suddenly. Johnny poses a threat to V at the beginning, and continues to be a dickhead further in the storyline, but at the one moment you get a bunch of friendly dialogue options. Furthermore, some of them are mandatory for the secret ending, while there was no space to actually change your mind.
- Oil Fields dialogue is a pure design failure. The only right dialogue to get to the secret ending is very unobvious, leaves no space to get to it on your own and is not supported by the story. There were no events which could change your mind towards becoming friendly to him, and "The guy who saved my life" option has absolutely no background, since Johnny didn't save your life before.
While being touching and well-written itself, this dialogue doesn't fit into the story.
- After choosing to return to their body, V says that they had a different deal with Johnny and V is sorry. It definitely wasn't mentioned before, since the actual deal was to separate V from Johnny and reimplant V back.
- You cannot be mean towards Johnny from the very beginning, while having reasons for -- or you'll loose your chances for the secret ending. This issue is tied with the one mentioned before ("friends because of nothing").
IMO it would be infinitely better to give Johnny and V a chance to become friends, and add story events related to them getting into troubles and dealing with them -- together or on their own.
These are the major story issues I want to point to; I have no will to criticize the rest of the story, which has no such flaws and is very soulful.
- Johnny and V become friends quickly and suddenly. Johnny poses a threat to V at the beginning, and continues to be a dickhead further in the storyline, but at the one moment you get a bunch of friendly dialogue options. Furthermore, some of them are mandatory for the secret ending, while there was no space to actually change your mind.
- Oil Fields dialogue is a pure design failure. The only right dialogue to get to the secret ending is very unobvious, leaves no space to get to it on your own and is not supported by the story. There were no events which could change your mind towards becoming friendly to him, and "The guy who saved my life" option has absolutely no background, since Johnny didn't save your life before.
While being touching and well-written itself, this dialogue doesn't fit into the story.
- After choosing to return to their body, V says that they had a different deal with Johnny and V is sorry. It definitely wasn't mentioned before, since the actual deal was to separate V from Johnny and reimplant V back.
- You cannot be mean towards Johnny from the very beginning, while having reasons for -- or you'll loose your chances for the secret ending. This issue is tied with the one mentioned before ("friends because of nothing").
IMO it would be infinitely better to give Johnny and V a chance to become friends, and add story events related to them getting into troubles and dealing with them -- together or on their own.
These are the major story issues I want to point to; I have no will to criticize the rest of the story, which has no such flaws and is very soulful.
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