Last weekend I finally played through the update, but I hadn't had the time to comment on it here.
I have mixed feelings about it.
The new content was awesome as always, I love how the two of them made up, and I feel like now it will be time for things to start getting serious. I mean, now they can start working together for real this time against those thugs.
However, if I were to summarize what happened in the update, it would probably take me like 30 seconds. There are lots of gorgeous renders, lots of dialogue, and 4 easy coding mini-games, but for such a long development time the story barely moved forward. It's discouraging what an early state the game is at considering the number of characters that the dev has planned to get involved in the story, as well as some game mechanics that are supposed to be added later on such as increasing social stats. I can't see this game ever being completed if this is the development approach it's gonna have, which concerns me
Just my opinion: we could really do without certain aspects of the game that I think add nothing to the experience.
Firstly, those unnecessary sex scenes that no one cares about. The flashback sex scenes with Pia could add some interesting background to MC's past and help fill the lack of sex in specific updates, but the professor scene and the porn Baywatch scene were absurd. In my opinion, a loss of time for the dev with those renders and animations that could have been put somewhere else.
At this stage, I believe one meaningful sex scene per update would be more than enough; later, as more female characters are introduced, every update could already have a couple of good sex scenes or more as the dev sees fit according to the story.
After all, those of us who like this game are here mainly for the story and the atmosphere, not just for the porn part of it.
Secondly, I'm going to be cautious here because I can't really tell if it takes the same time to code 4 hacking mini-games as 2, but if development time does increase, I strongly suggest to cut down on the number of them. I don't really mind them and they're easy to solve, so I'm just talking about development time put on those.
That being said, I must thank the dev for now allowing us to see the full version of those scrolling renders, which I mentioned months ago. The experience with them is much better now.
And I saved the best part for last: almost 1 year ago I wrote that the first intimate scene with Selene was one of the best sex scenes I had seen in any adult VN; now I can safely say that the sauna scene is probably the best, most realistic, most satisfying, most genuine sex scene I have ever seen in any adult game ever. It just BLEW MY MIND. Absolutely splendid, from the initial conversation to the sequence after sauna time. Honestly, I'd love everyone on this site to experience it, because I'm positive they'd view sex scenes in other games quite differently.
