Playing pathologic 3

[u/ComplexSecretary3057]

I’ve recently just finished my first run through of pathologic 2 and enjoyed it a lot once doing a deep dive into story and playing both endings. I don’t think I could play another run of pathologic 2 for a while because it is genuinely a draining experience, but how far does pathologic 3 differ?
I’ve heard it’s a bit more forgiving in the sense that it’s not “as hard of a game” I’m interested to play it but if it’s anywhere near as crushing as pathologic 2 can be I think I may just need to take a little break and come back to the series at a later point.

[u/spongeboblovesducks]

Yeah I really love both games personally. I didn't even mention the actual best part of 3, which is that you play as the bachelor and that means you can be a total dickhead to everyone

[u/ComplexSecretary3057 → u/spongeboblovesducks]

So I saw somewhere that when pathologic 2 first released it was supposed to have a changeling and bachelor route but got scrapped due to workload and other reasons. Is pathologic 3 supposed to be the bachelors route? Meaning it’s the same plague with same characters, and sort of second part of question if this is true I’m assuming a lot of characters from P2 will be different levels of important for P3? Like Lara and Rubin will be in the game but not as important and other characters will be more story involved if you get what I mean.

[u/spongeboblovesducks → u/ComplexSecretary3057]

Yes exactly, it's the same overall story but from a completely different perspective. The bachelor route has always been the most political of the 3, you're mostly talking to the leaders and upper class citizens, dealing with civil unrest, signing decrees, administering vaccines, etc. I have no idea what the changeling route will be like in P4, but I hope it's as radically different as 3 was.

[u/ComplexSecretary3057 → u/spongeboblovesducks]

Thank you for taking the time to answer, feel a lot more inclined to play P3 now rather than wait a bit