I love so much about the game, but I get this pit of anxiety whenever a skill check below 50% comes up. I'm trying to avoid save scumming for particularly low checks, but I had leaving any stones unturned.
I'm enjoying the game, plenty, but is there an appropriate mindset or approach to the game to get the most out of it?
Also an aside, i have a question and a potentially minor spoiler for an early quest.
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Getting the two signatures for the youth centre, Kitsuragi seemed disappointed once I got the second signature. Without spoiling too much, is this something that will have a negative outcome for the fishing village and/or Kitsuragi's opinion of Harry?
Are those white checks or red checks? The white checks you can fail, go do something else, and return when you've earned enough experience for a skill point. You can retry them by advancing the story or by spending a point on the respective skill. If there's nothing else to do and you can't skill up you can use drugs to increase your base stats and then add the point. So it's pretty safe.
The red checks you can't fail, even if you nominally fail them you never get a "bad" ending because of it, just a different story. There are several very iconic moments that won't happen if you don't fail certain early checks.
The game is very well designed to keep you from save scumming. It's not necessary and the game will even comment on it if you seem to have supernatural good or bad luck. There's even a place where the game tells you to stop worrying because failures are as important as successes to a story.