Everyone Gets The Shock Achievement

Everyone gets the shock achievement

Sometimes a ship is really good not because I want to see them kiss or whatever because I just want to see some absolutely unhinged nonsense. In a way that’s like. Fun.

Glados will never ever have a normal relationship with Chell but I do want to see her get drunk on intentionally downloaded malware and fill up Chells answering machine with increasingly deranged messages culminating in a hiccuping rendition of You Wouldn’t Know. Chell deletes them without listening.

I worked very hard on this

Why is he a NPC?...

I think part of the problem is that for new players, there's such a huge backlog of events to get through. I only started playing at the beginning of March and I got way too overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content to actually catch up on the event stories. Just picking up from the most current event isn't a great option either bc of how they're connected to previous ones. (For example: I thought that Akito and Mizuki were siblings for like a solid week bc I read the white day event and took "lil' bro" at face value)

Although reading them in full in the game is obviously the best option I think you can still get a good understanding of characters and plot without doing that.

Here's some alternatives:

It takes about two hours to watch an event but if you're a quick reader and don't mind skipping the voice acting, the scripts are available on the wiki (Only events with official translations)

There's also this video that gives a brief summary of the first year's worth of events.

And there's the recap pages over on TvTropes (only the first 3 events so far and no main stories)

And if you want to catch up on JP stories, you can use sekai.best to read them (you'll have to use a translator if you can't speak japanese, so there will be some errors). This one also has the voiceclips attached so you can still listen to them if you want.

Even if you just read excerpts and go back later to read the whole thing I think you can still get a good grasp on the story.