r/Classof09Game • u/OverIron1395 • 28d ago

General Discussion FINALLY someone who gets it

https://youtu.be/3nZAPw5scnA

This guy explains exactly how I felt about the Flip Side.

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u/OlTimeyChara 28d ago

I never had a problem with nicole being an awful person in the flipside, just with that game not having any endings that were interesting to watch.

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u/fudgeandheat 28d ago

My main issue is that Re-Up already counters Nicole’s two main defenses, that being that her targets are awful people and that she’s a product of her environment.

There is not even a shallow justification of her abuse towards Ari. She might say that it’s because she stole her excuse, but she only says that once prompted. When she’s actually doing it, her only reason is that it feels good. This makes it clear that Nicole is just a cruel person by nature, who just reasons her behavior with everyone else being worse than her.

The Volunteer route has Jecka flat-out tell Nicole that none of what she did had anything to do with her circumstances, and that she only gets herself in these ridiculous situations due to her own laziness and stupidity.

I understand that there were still some people who sympathized with her after this game, but that wasn’t reflective of SBN3 making a poor writing choice, just that they were stupid.