Good day. Writing this to vent out frustration in a constructive way. Hope devs understand this type of frustration shouldn't be part of this otherwise quite charming and pleasant game. I will keep spoilers to a minimum.
The investigation quest. I wish there were more of those in this game by the way. I'm completely obliterated by it. I.e. I ended up being fired. By the looks of it, I will have to start a new game if I want to get a different ending because I don't have a good recent save.
Here are two simple propositions that I think will help to improve the game a lot:
1. Quests should play out without needing to know about them in advance. Not in this case. To get a decent ending, one has to read a quest guide to learn about a lot of things: steps, items, responses and interactions, and also develop specific character attributes and multiple NPCs disposition well in advance (the reason I need to restart).
2. All alternative outcomes of quests should be fairly balanced. There should be at least two primary ones attainable without any special preparation as described in the premise number 1. This is not the case here: you get significantly worse job at the mall/gim and miss out on a lot of content.
Also, found that one character is missing in my game, namely Mike's secretary Shiori. I only know about her from wiki and from the investigation quest log step, and from her personal quest line, which is completely undeveloped in my case. In game I only heard about her from Lavish. I'm lost. When is she introduced? Did I forget and dismissed her by accident? Is it a bug?
Thank you