No, but you’ll miss content. It is a romance game, but friendships are important too.
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Oh gosh, I would love to know what the early days of Unit Bravo working together was. I need that in my life.
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@Unknown_Player Romance is very interwoven into the story but there is a friend route if you don’t want to romance anyone!
Edit: Ninja’d by Angstraptor Jr
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If you don’t romance anyone do you have to be friends with people?
Nope, this game will get going no matter what. Feel free to do whatever you like.
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You can have tense and unfriendly relationships with everyone but romance and the character interaction is a big part of the game so if you opt out of that you will be missing a lot of the meat of the game.
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The story will continue as if you were friends with them. Your relationship with the unit is a BIG focus of the story.
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If I remember correctly, Sera did mention that the friendship between the MC and UB will grow organically throughout the series so you can’t really be a distant character forever.
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What is a bigger focus? The relationships or the detective work? Would it be worth it to play through the game where you are on only neutral terms with everyone?
I never made even one choice that may hurt the team’s feelings through out the game.
Now you’ve mentioned this, I wonder should I go back and start a new game just to test out If the MC is been extremly negative about the team yet understand supernatural world with no problem.
That will be something, though I’m not sure if that will help, cos I think if friendship point is too low, you will miss interaction sidelines.
I’d say the relationships are the bigger focus between the two. The first game wasn’t so much a mystery, but that might change in the upcoming books, we don’t know for sure.
If you want to have neutral relationships, personally, I wouldn’t say it’s worth it but I can’t speak for everyone. The characters are the focus
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The series is based very heavily on relationships with other characters. If you didn’t like any of tge characters at all… You’re going to have a tough time, I think.
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The focus is on both, really. Being able to work with the team is part of the detective work, as well it should be when you’re thrust into a situation where you’re working with new people.
I’m not sure how the game would proceed if you had no friendship points with anyone at all, or if that’s even possible to do (you may accidentally get friend points with Nate because he’s just that nice, Felix just by being unintentionally funny, or even with Mason by challenging him via glaring or telling him to stuff it when he hits on you). I imagine it’s possible, but your detective is going to have to work with the team, like it or not (much like in real life when you’re forced to work with people you didn’t ask to work with!).
I will say that If you’re looking for a game that is shallower, completely focused on being super-powered and being able to do it all by yourself, this one probably isn’t for you. It’s an actual interactive story, with a great deal of depth and character growth in the real sense, not in the ‘level grind and become a god’ sense. Personally, I think most people who give it a shot would like it, though. JMHO. 
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@Unknown_Player
Detective work isn’t actually the main focus of the game, it’s the relationship (platonic and otherwise). There is an option for a no-romance playthrough, but you miss a majority of the content as this is a romance-focused game, but the friendships are still there. They’re no way around that, really.
If you can’t enjoy the characters, you’re probably not going to enjoy the game.
@Hannah_Minger Here, a graduation gift from me:
Agent Handler: Are…are you certain you want to be placed on Unit Bravo?
A: [punches a wall in frustration]
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THANK YOU! I love it! And saved it to my phone immediately.
My brother told me to tell you all that there is only one thing that Unit Alpha could be, one thing that is better, more versatile than vampires, and it is… ninja robots. Led by none other than Inspector Gadget.
A hates them because—“Gogo Gadget Holy Water! Get it? Get it? ‘Cause you’re a vampire!”
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Perfect.
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So. We gotta do a Lilo and Stich cross-over now, right? I mean. I think it’s nessesary. The question is who is who?
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A–Nani (stressed, just trying to do things right, nominal parent)
N–David (close to Nani, also nominal parent, much more relaxed, Nice Guy)
F–Stitch (enjoys causing chaos, from not-Earth, an angel)
M–Jumba (encourages F’s shenanigans)
Murphy–Captain Gambu (scary, “humans are snacks,” abducts people)
Rebecca–Cobra Bubbles (secret agent, somehow won trust and respect of non-humans)
Detective–Lilo (crazy supernatural stuff going on, but no one told her until someone tried to abduct her–then got abducted for real)
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Please consider then the Detective pleading with the Agency higher ups because of a screw up they made and UB has to be sanctioned (horribly)
/cue this is my family spiel
@Mewsly @Hannah_Minger @rose-court Have it nailed. It’s the relationships between the characters. There’s not really a lot of detective work you have to do (like the beginning of SoH3), and while the stats do play a role, it’s a rather small role. So if you are looking for a detective procedural (with tons of investigation and stat building and juggling) that has romance, this really isn’t it.
But if you are looking for a good story with a great cast of characters and some detective intrigue, I think this series would be good for you.
And now to go back to lurking mode. 
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I would still recommend for you to try it out if you look for something different. It is a nice change of pace from other CoG and HG titles.
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COUGH.
I think most of them are kind of hairless in those places because of the transformation trying to make them as…aerodynamic as possible for speed and agility, haha
So…do they not have to, erm…manscape…? or at least more minimal chances of, ahem, finding hair between teeth.
Oh fuck me, this means lucky fucking female Unit Bravo definitely don’t have to suffer the hell that is bikini waxes/shaving. That’s just not fair.
Alright guys, I’m just going to preemptively ask everyone to keep comments on this PG-13, and if you can’t do that, then please put it under a summary, which can be done by writing:
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Now…who else agrees that Mason or Nate were probably the hairiest pre-transformation?
I have no evidence for this, it’s just my gut saying, “Yeah, probably.”
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You know what?
Let’s discuss this much, much safer topic instead:
As for how Unit Bravo decorate their own rooms, you’ll have to wait and see
So what does everyone imagine Unit B’s rooms to look like?
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