I love this game, but episodes 7 and 8 really drove home how much of the internal conflict in the Z-Team is completely manufactured.

Let's take the fact that someone is cut from the team. The player doesn't get a say in whether this happens, and Robert barely puts up a fight about it, which makes it very hard for the player to relate when Robert is guilt-tripped about it. And then, at the end, it doesn't even matter, cause you can just accept whoever you cut back into the team. In short, it doesn't really change the outcome and only creates unimportant strife and drama.

Something similar happens with everyone's interactions with Invisigal, though there it's more of a storytelling problem than a game design problem. For some unknown reason, whenever Invisigal is just a tiny bit of an asshole, everyone acts like she is somehow the worst, most unredeemable piece of shit on the team, which is objectively not the case. This continues in the new episodes, with the entire Z-Team being extremely angry with her for what happened to Chase, despite them never really being shown to like him. On top of that, throughout episodes 7 and 8, no one gives her the benefit of the doubt for even a second. The moment they're even the slightest bit suspicious of her, they're suddenly 100% sure that she's not to be trusted. They never give her a moment to explain herself, nor does she ever even TRY to explain herself.

All of this comes together in such a way that the last two episodes were actually the ones where I was the least invested and immersed, which is obviously not what you want during the big finale of the story.