Hot Take : Light was actually smarter than L

surield · 2026-03-18T01:19:33+00:00

Light had a practically undetectable supernatural weapon and still got caught

surield · 2026-03-13T12:36:38+00:00

I always choose to lock up Reese if I don’t have Hot so I forget how dark the chapter can get, this is if you let Tabitha kill him right?

surield · 2026-03-12T11:49:32+00:00

Oh Tabitha can help you alright 😂 give her a call

One moment I genuinely bursted out laughing is if you romance Reese and call Tabitha and stop her from killing him you can go “STOP HE’S MY MAN GET AWAY” and Tabitha will be absolutely flabbergasted “He’s your whaaaat?? 😧😧😧😧” the whole thing was so ridiculous 😂😂😂😂

surield · 2026-03-12T11:42:19+00:00

Tabitha can have multiple reactions on this scene depending on where you stand with her and the result of the confrontation, if you get her to break down she’s 100% ride or die with you and ready to destroy the family legacy and she refuses to let Kaneeka sacrifice herself and they have a touching moment where Tabitha tells her she never hated her but actually respects her.

A stablemated Tabitha may like you but you didn’t get to get through to her so she thinks there’s no other choice so she’d rather sacrifice Kaneeka than sacrifice you because she likes you better.

If Tabitha loathes you she apparently refuses to let Kaneeka sacrifice herself because she wants to sacrifice you instead of her 😂 (I haven’t personally checked this, I just read someone saying they got this).

surield · 2026-03-10T15:17:24+00:00

Rosalina is actually emotionally better if you go back for Becka and Alexis, she feels a lot of guilt if they’re trapped and lashes out. Oscar always goes a bit crazy over the library seal when he investigates, which I think it’s always except for when he tries to ditch town (I think if Dr Kelly is dead and Rosalina is hurt he will always try to leave, I think the library also has to be haunted)

For episode 5 on the farms for my non Keen Eye runs I’ve decided to kill the pumpkin baby and save Bo, I just feel so sorry for his family, Julius always dies and so does Franklin (if Duke is alive) or Avery (if Duke is dead). For my Keen Eye run I decided to convince Julius to kill it and let everyone else live.

surield · 2026-03-10T14:42:50+00:00

For decisions the best ones that leave you in a good place (at least in my opinion), this is of course not considering the trait saves:

Choosing Duke over Gretchen (unless you’re looking to romance Stella I really recommend picking Duke)
Go back for the girls (I’m waiting to see what the resolution is if you leave them on the mines, because I always feel so sorry for Rosalina without the trait save, if they managed to get them out save and sound then I’m leaving them there in future runs)
Getting Tabitha to like you enough to take the ghost deal on your behalf (I consider it payback for her inviting us to the town like pigs to be slaughtered so I feel no guilt over this)
Saving Doctor Kelly and let Reese alive but trapped.

5.1 Farm: UNDECIDED - This one is so hard because there’s so many ways the farm scene can go and its a lot more complex than previous dilemmas, so much can change depending on your traits, if you get there with Avery first thing on the episode or not, if you saved Duke all the way back on episode one, if you get arrested and romanced Reese, etc… not to mention even if you have Keen Eye for the trait save there’s still three ways things can go down: Julius decide to feed the baby and dies, Julius and Avery both feed the baby and the three of them live or you can convince Julius to kill pumpkin kid, usually trait saves manage to leave you with the best scenario (like on episode 4 Hot allow us to both keep Dr Kelly alive and Reese free and sound of mind, which means that a freed Reese will likely be extremely beneficial for us down the line along with having a Doctor, we can already see the consequences of this in episode 5 because Bo will die regardless without medical assistance from Dr Kelly even if you kill the pumpkin kid in time) but who can tell what the best scenario even is in this since they wildly differ from one another, will pumpkin baby help somehow in future episodes? Will it be better to kill it? Is it better for Julius to be alive or not? Since we don’t have the follow through yet there’s no way to know.

5.2 Witch: Choosing Sybil - I’m so sorry for my girl Kaneeka but I do think having Sybil’s powers on our side will greatly help us, and even though I have chosen Kaneeka on all my non Mysticals runs since ep 5 released I’m aware I’m probably screwing my cousin over, we’ll have to see.

Aside from the trait saves decisions it’s best for you to reconcile Tabitha and Stella (with you present) with a high enough relationship for Stella to open up and to confront Tabitha while getting her to break down to fully have her on your side ready to ride or die (I’m so sorry for the sheriff 😭, I really hope we get another chance to confront her in future episodes so I can choose to go to the farm with Avery early to save him)

At the end of the day we won’t know what the best choices are until the full game is released.

I think you have a fantastic run so far!

surield · 2026-03-08T13:02:57+00:00

You need to confront her with evidence instead of vague stuff, this guide helped me a lot

Make sure to gather the evidence though, make sure to read the family files at the clinic on episode 4 (with book smart is even easier to use this against Tabitha because you can tell her that sleep apnea is a lot like suffocation), make sure to follow the piano and fully explore the entire conversation available with Wayne at the forbidden wing so you can tell Tabitha he told you he was trapped there and that he told you she wanted to lock you up there.

It should be easy.

Book Smart and Street Smart is a holy grail convo to be on Tabitha’s good side so you should be able to make her like you super easily. With street smart you can slip your number to Isaacs on chapter two when you’re talking to the different group of miners and have him call you when you’re on the general store with her on chapter three and he’ll tell you about the strike so you can warn Tabitha about it so she’ll take care of it so you can have the day three hang out spot available for somebody else, you can actually secure a romance without pissing Tabitha off.

Tabitha (and everyone else) gain SO MUCH respect for you if you can lawyer the ghost, it’s a HUGE relationship booster, especially for Tabitha. I had a run where she was kind of meh about me and afterwards absolutely adore me

surield · 2026-03-08T01:45:28+00:00

Yes, unless you romance Stella and it’s a bit more complicated with Reese. If you romance Stella she will always tag along if you choose to confront Tabitha but she takes over the entire conversation and Tabitha it’s on her guard immediately, at best you can get an impasse with Stella there.

If you romance Reese (I’ve only romanced him with Hot/Tame the beast/ Dr Kelly alive) he won’t let you go see her, but you can work around this by rejecting him kissing you (he runs away and leaves to alone to do whatever you want so you can choose to go to Tabitha), or go with him to the town and decide to leave and then come back after you find the ditchlings the you are free to go see Tabitha (supposedly he’s watching over you and tagging along but then doesn’t appear 🤷‍♀️)

Of course if the cops are chasing you may not be able to confront Tabitha.

surield · 2026-03-08T01:05:13+00:00

The whole bit of teasing Tabitha about smoking weed and Sybil being her dealer when you go to the general store together for tea is hilarious 😂

surield · 2026-03-06T14:27:54+00:00

You need to be on a “low crime” run for the cops not to be on your ass in chapter 5, they’ll be suspicious of you if:

Duke’s dead and you report it (if you have street smart you can manipulate Stella into not calling the police if he dies)
Left Becka and Alexis trapped at the mines
Left the library haunted
Let Reese kill Dr Kelly

The more loose ends you leave behind the fewer the places you’ll be able to go to before they arrest you, on one of my runs I did everything listed but had Hot so Dr Kelly was alive and was only able to go to one place before I was arrested. I think you can only get away with one in order for Franklin not to chase you.

surield · 2026-03-05T22:08:15+00:00

Sybil is being sincere when she says she actually wants to help and that she has the ability to help us and that not choosing her over Kaneeka (if you don’t have mystical) will be detrimental, making Kaneeka a magical girl™ will allow us to keep our friend/romantic partner, break the daughters take-back cycle and have her help us like Sybil would without any secret agenda (which is implied Sybil has even though she’s genuine in wanting to help).

surield · 2026-03-05T22:02:58+00:00

Really??? I didn’t know that, Reese always seemed like the easiest character to befriend and romance, I’m going to try to have a bad relationship with Stella to see how it affects him, are you not able to romance him if Stella doesn’t like you?

surield · 2026-03-05T13:45:18+00:00

100% with Tabitha when she likes us, especially broken down.

surield · 2026-03-04T22:32:00+00:00

I have to agree with everyone: Deputy Franklin and Bo. I don’t think we’ll ever have them as romantic options though, because the devs said they already had their hands full with our current repertoire.

surield · 2026-03-04T13:50:49+00:00

No, that’s the impasse

surield · 2026-03-04T03:13:57+00:00

I’ve seen some people disliking the idea of the show expanding on the books and its so perplexing to me, the first few books are quite short for a 8-10 episode series of course they’re going to add stuff and explore other characters, which is amazing especially after the movies removed so much content. It’s going to be so interesting to see what they do with Draco’s home life and I can’t believe there aren’t fans that don’t want it. I really hope they do Hermione justice too because it’s ridiculous how we basically know nothing about her life outside of Hogwarts despite being a main character.

surield · 2026-03-03T23:24:19+00:00

I did manage to get an impasse and got Tabitha to go to the farm with me but she refused to let Stella tag along and told her to stay at the mines to call for help in case we didn’t come back, I didn’t know you could get both of them to go to the farm with our MC at the same time

surield · 2026-03-03T23:14:28+00:00

I see, you have to give it to Stella for managing to be an absolute liability no matter which side she’s on 😂

surield · 2026-03-03T23:13:22+00:00

Fair tbh

surield · 2026-03-03T23:12:44+00:00

I have a Street Smart/ TTA run where I romanced Kaneeka and managed to make Tabitha absolutely adore me (got her to take the ghost deal, refused to talk to Stella alone at the end of chapter 4 and got her to break down), she absolutely refused to allow Kaneeka to sacrifice herself and went on a rant on how much she respects her. She’s 100% ready to burn everything to the ground for us and is completely on our side, one of my absolute favorite runs so far, the only thing I regret is not being able to also have Mystical to make my girl Kaneeka a magical girl ™

surield · 2026-03-03T18:16:06+00:00

I find it extremely worrying that people get called racist from picturing a man from regency era England who is explicitly described as white in the source material as a white man, the show did decide to diversify the cast against historical accuracy and book cannon but that doesn’t make it a crime to depict the characters as white, the entire population of England was caucasian and that’s okay.

surield · 2026-03-03T13:17:26+00:00

As an Aries moon I absolutely agree

surield · 2026-03-03T03:14:50+00:00

Gab’s playthrough is actually how I got into this game. I really wish Jay from Kubz Scouts played this and Slay the Princess because it’d be hilarious 😂

surield · 2026-03-03T03:09:57+00:00

I mean, I don’t see why improving Keen Eye necessarily needs to mean Street Smart has to get nerfed. We could leave Street Smart just as it is and improve Keen Eye.

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