Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-31763506-20180626010448/@comment-2804:431:B701:3979:851F:95AC:D626:3A94-20180627004831

Fluid-decanter wrote: A "true" walkthrough is impossible regardless because different players will want different things. Most notably, some players get off on whoring Qum and dominating Varia and similar morally questionable acts. I appreciate that but I don't necessarily agree, it will depend greatly on how TLS is wrapped up, but I expect the "optimal" version of different playthroughs to overlap considerably. Maybe not to the point where you can concisely unify all of them in a single walkthrough, but at least to the point where you can generalize it to no more than a handful of "true" walkthroughs. Understand that by a "true walkthrough" I just mean that I dont want the player to miss any additional content due to missing some collectibles or due to poor planning (such as the speculated ruin excavation dungeon), and to be as successful as they can afford to in the game's macro events. Also if the player really wants to deviate by doing something the walkthrough would have a hard time accounting for, such as a raped/reshaped Varia + cockwhore Altina + not whored Qum, they can just use the rest of the resources in the wiki to try and figure out their own way of making it work, but that's like asking me to account for someone who wants to play the game without ever equipping clothes on Qum because they want to roleplay and she doesn't really like wearing clothes, not being able to handle such extreme border cases shouldn't devalue the guide.

Fluid-decanter wrote: But also little things, like maybe somebody really has a thing for statues and wants to fund them whenever possible.

If its enough of a little thing that it isnt prohibitive, they can just go back to the walkthrough and things work out. Otherwise they can make a save, become one with the statues, realize that now half the world has been destroyed and regret everything

Fluid-decanter wrote: And what is someone to do if they played suboptimally until consulting the walkthrough, and now can't follow all the walkthrough's recommendations? Start over? Just go fuck themself?

That's what I did, just not necessarily in that order. But in all seriousness, I think TLS is the kind of game where you realize pretty quickly just how much you want to obsess over it, the kind of person who will want to use a walkthrough will probably not make it past chapter 1 without becoming seriously concerned about how well they have been doing thus far, at that point a reset isnt THAT excruciating.