I genuinely love every route the game offers, both platonic and romantic. The writing is excellent too.
I'M GOING TO RANT A LITTLE HERE, BUT IT'S NOT AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS.
The only playthrough that really broke my immersion was when I played as an asshole. The game forced me to befriend someone, and it just didn’t make sense. I chose Nikolas because he seemed like the only one nice enough to tolerate my asshole hunter, but I only had about 0–5% relationship with all the ROs.
So it felt really weird reading about how badly my hunter treated Nikolas just because he was Blane’s partner, and then suddenly getting a line like, “I forgive you, because we’re friends.” At the same time, the game describes Nikolas as someone who rarely hates anyone, yet somehow my character manages to push him to that point. The contrast just didn’t land.
Also, my hunter asking for forgiveness didn’t make sense at all considering the choices I had been making.
I understand why it happens mechanically, but it still pulled me out of the experience. Another issue is that I couldn’t really play as a supernatural racist. Even though my profile said I was one, it never really showed in the playthrough because I got forced into a scene with Kian and Rylan (Blane hated me, so I couldn’t pick him xD).
In that scene, no matter how awful my hunter had been to them (I literally kept going back just to get the lowest possible points with each character), they were still super supportive and attentive. And I was just sitting there like Blane in his route… I don’t deserve this xD. Especially since I intentionally played my hunter as someone who pushes everyone away.
OKAY, RANT OVER.
I really do love the story, though. Like I said, I explored every route I could find, and this was the only one that felt off. The others could feel a bit weird too, but that was usually because I deliberately picked odd choices—like choosing someone who hated me when the game asked who approached me xD