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Vil
Sep 10, 2011

Fangz posted:

1. Don't follow a social linking guide, those are tedious as hell.
3. Party member social links are definitely worth it. Be warned, the penultimate one for each female PC lets you enter into a romance. Don't choose more than one girl, you will regret this. Also Chie is the Correct Choice.

These are somewhat related, too. It's worth noting that many (all?) of the max social link guides are written under the assumption that you're a heartbreaking jackass who romances everyone. Instead of, ya know, a more reasonable "if you want to romance X, answer Y here; if you're in a romance with X, pick this, otherwise pick that" to let the reader choose.

Some of them also assume that you want to go with basketball for Strength and drama for Sun. So yeah, I'd second the advice to just ignore them. And even if you want to go for max social links in NG+ or something, probably better to start with their template but then modify it to reflect your own preferences in romance, Strength, and Sun.

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Vil
Sep 10, 2011

Also bear in mind that if you did bite the bullet and follow a guide, you'd either have to modify the guide's recommendations or find yourself being a complete rear end on February 14. For some reason, there don't seem to be any non-harem max-social link guides that I can find.

Vil
Sep 10, 2011

It'd just be nice if the guides had something to the tune of "if on friend-route answer X, else if on lover-route answer Y" vs. what they actually have, which is "answer Y because guide author arbitrarily decided you must be lovers". Not just for the actual decision itself but for the follow-up events which tend to be a little different and call for different answers to get good points.

It's true that it's not that big a deal though - simply give the appropriate answer to the friend/lover decision and do your own legwork for best answers to the later events. I'm just mildly irked at the unnecessary inconvenience, in a style of guide that's otherwise all about having all the important information right there conveniently in one place.

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