After years of being a patron, I will leave his Patreon today.
I talked with Chyos, and after trying to reason with him on something that I qualify as "serious offence" or severe, he has chosen a path, so I will choose mine.
A piece of advice, be careful if you're around the discord server, you have been warned. If you want to know more ask me in pm or zARRR.
About the update, it is clearly that Chyos got overwhelmed by it, and got surpassed.
He focused on the environment (that is good but not complete) and the scenes (some of them are unfinished in frames), and left apart the history, development of the routes, conclusion and aftermath.
The environment is nice, the details are well done, you have books to read, but you can easily overlook them.
The grind is frustrating, you have to give them food, wait 24 hours and repeat, 1 month of time in the game minimum.
The murder case is good, you have to go around finding clues and asking for testimonies, even you have to look on the corpse.
But it is disappointing in their final steps and the reactions from them. The "red herring "is bullshit when even the end is left in confusion.
After grinding and when you find the "true murderer", the consequences of it on the route are worthless.
The deus ex machina in the church route is obvious, simple and poor made, the "helper" on the ritual doesn't get what it deserves, the reactions of the aftermath doesn't exist, the "character" that appears "forced with shoehorn" doesn't make sense, why he appears there? Only god knows.
It was a painful and frustrating experience in general, you would need a guide to do it well, and even so, it is not so clear as you may think because you could miss some steps, block some dialogues, making you reload, or get lost because you are not in the exact spot, at the right time.
In the end it is disappointing and very mediocre, if months before I had to choose between keep going or leave it unfinished, I would choose the latter, at least the quality would be intact, instead of this mess.
If you think that after all these months the "monastery part" is finished, it clearly isn't, and doesn't feel like it.
Have a nice day.