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 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.  

Yeah ... as someone who reads 150-200 novels / year ... I have no faith in your writing. If they had simply run a kind of underground railroad out of the sanctuary, that would have been great - plenty of opportunities to tell stories and keep up a great game. As it is you have about a dozen people, in an old hotel - who have essentially no defenses, no protection and no experience with politics, the military or even crime taking on the police, the political order and the religious order. The only thing that makes sense in the story at this point is for all of them to die in a hail of bullets or get hauled off to a secret prison in the next update.  You had a really good thing, and threw it in the trash by trying to turn it into some epic sci-fi/fantasy thing.  It's very sad. 

No. He sat and watched it all unfold on TV - I would have been out the door the second I knew she was gone and would have told everyone at the hotel to call me if they heard anything. (I have actually -personally, literally - followed friends into danger, even when I thought it was a bad idea because I wouldn't let them stand alone.) The game is great until the sanctuary then everything goes down hill fast and at this point there is no way that any of them survive, at least no way that isn't completely unrealistic. 

Just finished my first playthrough. I loved the game, I loved the characters - I do not like the main story. It's gotten a little to big and out of hand for a game about a harem in a hotel.  I think, if I do another playthrough, I won't build the sanctuary, and will just ignore Autumn, which will make the game somewhat limited but ... also kinda better.  I mean after the last bit with the protest when MC didn't follow Lin .. I don't even know if I like him anymore.