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PurpleAlert Since: Nov, 2012
01/26/2016 19:11:19 •••

YMMV

The whole point of this game is that you're playing from the perspective of someone who has a thing for Emily, a girl you knew in high school, but since that's supposed to be something of a plot twist, it really doesn't work if you don't like her.... and Emily can be very hard to like.

In my playthrough, where I didn't know I was supposed to be playing a passive guy who can't own up to his feelings, Emily was a pain to try to listen to. She was clingy and whiny and in constant need of assurance, making excuses for her crappy boyfriend and blaming the player character for manipulating her into sex (even if you deliberately avoid alcohol and partying when she visits) and just all around being suspicious and self-absorbed. I couldn't find a reason to actually care about Emily enough to be anything but relieved when the "goodbye" options came up.


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