No mini games

[Shady 8 Rounds]

With mini games off, I seem to fail the fixing the mansion mission and rusty has to sell his car every time. Anyone know what the heck i'm missing?

[spqs]

If you have the VIP pass for the Pink Rose and don't volunteer for the elderly home you'll always lose the mansion when playing without mini games.
You'll notice that in a way the game is telling you that if you make those choices you're not really a reliable person.

Edit: also, you need a certain quantity of RPs with the D.IKs to win without mini games.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

Even on my super biggest ♥♥♥ ever play through, I somehow lost it. Like 8 different play throughs. Im just blazing through on skip to try to fix decisions I made in season 1 & 2 locking me out choices in the newest episode, so honestly im not paying that much attention. but i feel like i took every choice to help to the situation. Volunteering/working whenever it was a choice. I wonder if choosing to sleep with ladies causes you to miss chances to work/volunteer.

[spqs]

The two conditions to win the mansion without mini games are as I explained before.

You can't have the VIP pass for the Pink Rose and avoid volunteering for the elederly home. Also, you need at least 5 RPs with the D.IKs.

My personal opinion is that the game is better with mini games. I just tried once without to see what it was like and I missed the excitement of the mini games.

[Quetz]

The mini-games are fun, but personally, I find the mansion one too tedious while replaying for missed content. So I'm happy it's optional.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

Me too. All my first play throughs are mini games on. But im missing like 5 scenes from the newest episode even with 8 different save routes due to choices i made in these seasons. So im trying to go quick. So it seems like i dont want to win the hell week competition so i dont get the vip pass. It just seems like i went to the pink rose and worked, volunteered at the old folks home and at the library. And still lost

[spqs]

Actually, mini games are especially useful for repeated play throughs with small changes in choices. It could be tedious to replay all the game just to get a scene or a render, fortunately the mini games give you something to do besides pressing the skip key.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

I like the mini games, don't get me wrong. I''m just trying to blaze through to get some scenes in episode 11. I got them all now. Only took like 20+ hours. lol

[AdaBngst]

if you win in hell week, dont take the prize.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

See when I played with mini games on I recall having had the options to not take it and/or sell it if I was failing. I dunno if I just missed them from going too fast, but I didnt seem to have either option playing with them off.

[willjoy2012]

If you win Hell Week against Derek you ALWAYS have the choice of taking the VIP pass or not. If Derek wins I believe he always gives it up and puts the money towards the mansion

[spartakisteqc]

Originally posted by willjoy2012:

If you win Hell Week against Derek you ALWAYS have the choice of taking the VIP pass or not. If Derek wins I believe he always gives it up and puts the money towards the mansion

Yep, Derek will always relinquish the prize to do his part for the fraternity. When you play without minigames however, if you don't refuse the prize, you won't finish repairing the mansion in time, so although you have the choice, keeping it has negative consequences.

When you play with minigames and you keep it, it just means that you have to 10 more money with work which is easy enough to do unless you have terrible luck with the work offers.

[rALYNN]

That's funny, I only had one play through where I failed the mansion, but I roll Chik/neutral most of the time and that was one of my few ♥♥♥ runs. Ultimately, you can't do the strip club and need to focus on helping.

[notacrux]

Originally posted by spartakisteqc:

When you play with minigames and you keep it, it just means that you have to 10 more money with work which is easy enough to do unless you have terrible luck with the work offers.

That'd take some seriously awful luck. I finish fixing the mansion in 5 turns which leaves 4 turns with all 9 brothers working. 3 brothers working on turn 5.
You would need about half the brothers only able to work $1 jobs the rest of the turns to fail.

Edit: I forgot that I never buy superglue, that's a waste of money, so I start turn 1 with $7. And I also forgot about the money from the in-story jobs.
I'm now thinking it's impossible to fail the mansion mini-game except deliberately or by forgetting a room, which I actually did once.

[Shady 8 Rounds]

Yeah, with mini games on it was ridiculously easy. Don't think i ever had to sell the pass and was usually pretty much done ahead of schedule.