Love Tangle might be winding down to a finish, but I recently completed Ryan’s Important Choice, so gonna post my thoughts on that.
As a note, I did Ryan’s sequel between reading other stories whenever I had the spare gems to pass the checkpoints, so not all of it is recent in my mind. I did the bartender ending first (a while ago) and the film director ending second.
This is quite an old(ish) event now, but I did it soon after Together with Timo and while I’ve yet to do Nolan’s sequel, the two that I’ve played so far have been fairly similar. This isn’t a bad thing. You completed your romance with these guys and you want to see your happy ending. That’s what these deliver. The big difference is that Timo’s opens with your engagement and the rest of the story is your lives after that, whereas in Ryan’s it builds up to the engagement happening at the end (no matter which ending you choose).
Something that Ryan’s sequel offers that the others don’t is the ability to choose between two different endings where Ryan follows one of his two careers. I like this and would’ve liked to have seen it in other sequels if we’d gotten any (okay so pretty much just for Noaki, let’s be honest).
The main story is focused on Ryan struggling to balance his two jobs while Julia worries about him and ends with him picking between the jobs, which you as the player get to do for him. I went into the story expecting that they’d play up the film director route as the “right” choice, but actually they didn’t. They showed some good reasons why Ryan also loves his job as a bartender and would like to keep doing that. To the point that I ended up picking the bartender ending first.
No matter which ending you pick, you do get to see Ryan wave goodbye to his other job. In the bartender ending, Ryan’s final film does get produced and in the film director ending, you get to see Ryan’s have one final night as a bartender before he gives it up. The difference is that in the bartender ending you get to learn a bit more of the backstory that inspired Ryan to become a bartender and in the film director ending you get more focus on Cody being in the movie that Ryan directed.
Beyond that, I don’t have much to say about this sequel. It’s nice and Ryan’s nice. If you like him, then you’ll probably enjoy it.
