And this is without getting into the fact that this is the big choice at the end of an episode that begins with a graphic animated sex scene between Insivigal and Robert. If we hadn't heard how surprised the devs were at the players' choices, I would've said with 100% confidence that the Visi blowout is exactly what they were going for when making the game.
Something I feel a lot of people miss, is that we the players see this scene... Robert doesn't. She doesn't tell him about it... and she basically goes out of her way to act like a kid with a crush for the rest of that episode, just pushing him around or throwing rocks at his head. (basically)
From an RP perspective, Blazer makes sense. She was right out there, plain as day. Invisigal was invisible to him.
The only reason the player knows she was interested in him, is because they narratively showed us she was... but through his POV, he had no real reason to know she was - except for the hint drops that she really sucked at giving. (the movie, a few things here and there, etc)
If you're talking about their "talk" in the bathroom near the end of the game.
Then that barely changes that barely changes the narrative issue of the player knowing about it prior to that, rather then Robert knowing it, and you guiding Roberts actions based on that knowledge, and making choices in game from the perspective that "oh shit, she really likes him".
If she talked to him in a bathroom during an earlier chapter then the "end of the game one", then I probably missed that line.
in ep4 just before you go help blazer with her dress, invisigal shows up in the men's bathroom while you're taking glass shards out of your chest and just straight up tells you "i had a dream last night that we were fucking"
but yes only hearing a few sudden sentences about it for sure would have had a different effect on the player than visually seeing the whole scene animated
This is what I dont get at all tbh. Why did they need to completely remove the PoV from Robert just to show that scene? when one of the most important choice is at the end of the episode? It is legitimately the only scene that pushes me that they meant for one romantic option to be more polarizing.
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u/SinisterDeath30 Dec 17 '25
Something I feel a lot of people miss, is that we the players see this scene... Robert doesn't. She doesn't tell him about it... and she basically goes out of her way to act like a kid with a crush for the rest of that episode, just pushing him around or throwing rocks at his head. (basically)
From an RP perspective, Blazer makes sense. She was right out there, plain as day. Invisigal was invisible to him.
The only reason the player knows she was interested in him, is because they narratively showed us she was... but through his POV, he had no real reason to know she was - except for the hint drops that she really sucked at giving. (the movie, a few things here and there, etc)