I suck so much at this game I lost it big time towards the end, I mangaed to kill three of my characters, but at least I saved shawn, I still can't believe it was shelby...

O.o

You really had that much trouble with the quick time events?

good point. this brings me to another point that I only remember now that I read your post.

why would Scott kill Manfred then call the cops? Seems kind of pointless. If he killed him, why not just say all the stuff eh said to Lauren, wipe their prints, then get out of there?

yes towards the end they got really hard lol, oh well at least next time i will know in advance what is going to happen, maybe i will, be able to save them all next time.

@perpride.

That part I understood (I think). Scott didn't want Lauren to find the list of names, and by calling the cops, it forced them to leave the store fast.

But the plan didn't work, as the first thing Lauren did when she saw the body was to look for the book. You can see at this point that Scott tries to talk her out of it. Scott was probably going to look for the book when he is wiping the fingerprints, while Lauren looks out for the cops at the front of the door.

I don't think the scene where Madison is shocked to find out the killers name is much of an issue. She's a reporter covering the case so it would stand to reason that she would know that a private investigator was working on it. It also seems reasonable that knowing this she would have asked him questions at some point regarding the case, perhaps explaining how she knew where he lived?

Ethan finding the oragami figures after his blackouts are probably the biggest issue I have with the plot. The only idea I can come up with is that his guilt of loosing Jason lead him to believe that he was the killer and so during his blackouts he made the oragami figures to satisfy this subconscious belief?

that son of a bitch!

Why even go to Manfred to begin with?  They were looking for the guy who own that typewriter that typed the letter to Lauren.  Knowing what we know now, Scott shouldn't have gone there unless he was tying up loose ends or implicate himself.

Uhh, that was the whole point of Scott "investigating", he was trying to tie up loose ends.  Hence why he visited all the victims' family and asked if there was any evidence, stuff like that.  He noticed that the typewriter might have been something to tie back to him, so he went to visit Manfred to dispose of evidence.

Hahahaha, he runs around killing children just so he can test the fathers. Thats not something a normal person would do, but it is something a sociopath would.

Thats not how it works in real life. Serial killers target specific people because it fulfills thier fantaasies, i.e. white blonde chicks with long legs. Few serial killers follow a code.

But really the motivation of the charaters is one of the bigger issues with the plot. Of course with Shelby they had to hide everything from the player until the end, just so it could be a surprise, but in the proscess they've made the ending an unbelievable mess of deus ex machina.