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I kind of feel the same way to a degree. There is no denying that the game was quite a bit more balanced in terms of lewd content and story(s) progression. At least with some characters anyway. It's no secret that there have and are characters in this game that always tend to get the spotlight. It's still like that now but maybe worse? I say that because the updates themselves lately have been lacking in any meaningful progression in any part of the story or characters. That's how it seems to me anyway.Yeah the lack of sex scenes is a disappointment (and unnecessary, the game used to have more sex scenes per update way earlier so this is certainly a new-ish development) but it's not just that, all the girls just feel more distant. Naomi is clearly being a control freak to the point of harming her relations (with both her crew and the people in the house). That fact that that didn't get addressed right away and the MC is just letting it happen is colossally stupid IMO. Rae barely gets any scenes any more and is blueballing us when she does appear, Cait just has study scene upon study scene instead of actually getting us closer to her, Yona is just eternally emotionally distant with no developments in that department and if recent events are anything to go by it's just going to keep being that way. Lyriel had been growing closer to us a while ago but that's since stopped. It's literally just Blair who is giving us any attention and emotional development and even then at about as slow a pace as you can go.
For the first couple of years of this game getting released, it was 100% my number one favorite game on this site, I looked forward to the updates like nothing else. Now, that's just not the case. And it's not because I've changed. The game has changed, particularly in focus and in pacing. And I'm not saying I want less story, I'm saying that we can, and should, get both sex scenes and story developments. We USED to get that. Somehow at the moment we get barely any sex scenes and in return, the story develops even slower, getting to know the girls has slowed down enormously.
I'm not saying the game is bad and I'm still holding out hope, but it's just a let down when you know what it used to be like; when Rae used to be all over the MC and way more open, when we were still teasing and slowly opening up Cait to her sexual side, and even more so with Lyriel and corrupting here, when there was still hope that Naomi could be a character we could conquer instead of becoming a control freak and just growing distant. Those were the peak days of this game. And I genuinely hope we can go back to that time of better pacing, a decent amount of sex scenes and girls that didn't grow more and more distant.
In a way it almost seems like the dev has reached the point of the story that was thought out and they are writing it as they go now. The updates still come out about as regularly as they have but they have been much smaller in scope and no where near as balanced. There's no way of knowing what is going on but something somewhere has changed. I still really like the game but I'm not as invested as I used to be. I used to be excited for every update but now I don't download for three or four. Partly because of the technical side of things but, I don't know.