OK ... I got a point in the game which made me rage quit.... because there was NO OBVIOUS PATHS to me.
After the raid Torsten covertly manipulated in taking place, and the skull and bones wearing goblin things attacking.... from that point on.... there was a whole lot of things which COULD have happened... but there was NO CLEAR PATH to them happening.
I could have gone somewhere with Astrja, and met her real mother. Apparently (also I could have slept with her in the Ice Cave Castle thing... but the option f*cking greyed out, with NO REASON)....I could have been informed Lizgard was leaving and she said goodbye to me... but whatever made that option happen was missed to it did not.... and.. and... I cannot even effing recall.. like... f*cking half a dozen things... and also.. after saving her life, the date, and making her happy... I still got nowhere with Sonja.. nothing increased.
I am f*cking stuck with Astrid... and I do NOT WANT ASTRID.... I want every other woman in the game aside from Astrid.
BUT there was NO OBVIOUS paths to them.... the choices never tell you what they do... what they lead to.. like ALL GOOD AVNd DO, and pursuant to that, I am hours deep in a game where I have only slept with one chick... ONCE... and it is not even the one I want.
I understand why a path like Mathilde would close if you chose Astrid/Astrja over HER when she is confronting the Carpenter.... though IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN THERE, there should have been more obvious ways to seduce her and make her compliant than I seemed to have found.... but OK... make me choose.
But everything was going well with EVERYONE else, including the main Sisters.. not JUST Astrid... BOTH.... from what I could tell... but apparently that was not the case.... making the most genuine, logical, good, respectful, caring and considerate choices one can make... which was my go to, since I always had to roll back when I tried anything else... lead to me losing multiple people from my game, and loosing my relationships with many too even if they are still around.
BUT I DID have to rollback, MOST of the time, I tried any choice or action that was NOT realistic, nice, good, moderate, and considered.
I am done, but I avoid the savaging I would normally give a game like this, in my rating and review... I will ask this question: IS it actually POSSIBLE to keep everything and everyone somewhat centred? Is there CHAD MC FIXES ALL path, is there Poly paths re relationships, is there a way to avoid losing huge amounts of ground with people even if you misstep once or twice?
If there IS NOT, even if only one you have to replay over and over again to find, or luck out and stumble upon... but there is also NO obvious way to predict an outcome of choices... then as cool as this game is, and the story, and the graphics, and the hot women.... it is still a disappointment.