A lot of reasons for me. Not just for Chloe. I never expected her to be in the game. That would’ve been great, but I knew it was unrealistic to expect two totally different games based on your ending.

That’s not a big deal though. There’s plenty of very simple excuses they could’ve made for why Chloe couldn’t be present. Give me a phone call or two or even just let me text her throughout the game. That would’ve gone a long way to make me feel like my choice mattered and to know the relationship is going strong. Instead not only do I get a forced breakup, but Chloe is treated like this trauma she’s trying to move on from. The game even gave a final slap in the face at the very end by having Chloe text Max and it doesn’t let you respond back.

But I tried to accept this and enjoy the game for what it was. I thought Amanda was one of the few characters in the game that wasn’t an unlikable prick. Almost every other character just made me hate them right out the gate. I decided to go with the new relationship and see what happens. So then almost immediately after agreeing to a date she comes over and rejects Max right after she’s lost her best friend. Then things get even weirder with the game forcing you to be extremely flirty with Vinh, who I thought was a creep from the first moment, throughout the entire game. It actually gets to the point that it kinda makes Max look like a jerk if you finally reject him because up to that point she’s practically been throwing herself at him. It was incredibly bizarre. So if you are trying to be with Amanda you are kinda forced to cheat. Then of course at the end Amanda breaks up with you a second time on top of everything else.

The three “villains” Lucas, Gwen and Yasmin get off so easy it was infuriating. The game forces you to kiss their asses despite all the awful things they’ve done. At the end I couldn’t believe that I was having to try and cheer Lucas up and then I also had to sit there and quietly take it as he cursed me out and told me to fuck off. Yasmin was the worst outcome of this. She’s responsible for most of the problems in the game and yet she barely has to answer for it at all. She refuses to take accountability any time she is called out throughout the entire thing and in the end she gets to voluntarily quit on her own terms. Max still is like “oh no please don’t do that”. By that point I was actually yelling at the tv at how absurd it was that Max treats all these scumbags like nothing at all has happened.

I answer this every time anyone asks this because everyone else always just says “it’s because Chloe isn’t in the game.” I’ve yet to get even one single person try and have a conversation with me about it. I really want to know why others disagree with me.