To me it was an important step in the right direction for her corruption.
But that said, I think if the scene had been written better most people wouldn't have had a problem with it. I bitched about it when the update came out, but I'm still upset by it. While not every scene can be like the Ellie/Julia/Sophia pool scene in terms of quality, I think the sauna scene was L&P at his weakest. The entire scene was poorly constructed; the writing was weak, it used the bare minimum renders possible, and overall it felt rushed. I have never felt before that L&P mishandled a scene, but I was never more bored than when clicking through the uninspired sauna scene. While the renders are as nice as ever, the scene really turns into a drag when DeShawn and Sophia have a "conversation". I say "conversation" because really it was just the narrator telling us about their conversation and that it was good. Then, when we finally do get some payoff, it was short and lame even by AWAM standards. I wasn't expecting a full-on sex show, but literally two more renders would have gone a long way. Instead, it was something like 5 renders from when Sophia finds them having sex, to when she interrupts them and they stop.
The scene felt like an encapsulation of every single issue I've ever had with this game.
That’s mostly how the first time job with the old guys has been presented until now. We don’t know those guys, their personalities, their interactions with Sophia, how she views them. Just a narrator telling us that they are talking about various subjects.
They are just the old guys.
It’s like L&p didn’t know what to do with them and just put them here to please the old/young kinks fans.
That was not a problem before because it was only present in the first time job. But now it seems like he will do that for other events too.
On the topic of the sides jobs, the second one has his own problems too .
First we have the biology lesson that Sophia teach the kids . It’s long, boring and uninteresting. It tells us nothing. Here a narrator telling us that Sophia is teaching them on various subjects would have been more appropriate. And then you come back to the dialogue when Sophia realize that they have zero knowledge in sex-ed.
Another problem in that event, his her discussion after that with their mom. We have several paragraph back and forth where they each argue why the kids should or shouldn’t have some sex-ed. The mom doesn’t seem convinced at all by Sophia argument. But suddenly the narrator appear and tell us that “somehow, Sophia convince the mom...” .
I mean what the point of having a argument between two characters if the resolution is that lazy.
Maybe it’s to win some time,
Weirdly enough, if you take the update with the janitor “shower scene” that update is composed of 4 events :
The janitor scene
Dylan masturbating in the shower while Sophia is taking a bath.
The spa event with Logan Patricia and Ellie
And the massage event where Sophia watch Ellie getting massaged.
Well guess what, that update has only 300 renders.
But none of those events feels short or too long or that they are cheaply written.
And they involve main and sub characters. The second ones didn’t need to have their event shortened to make room for the other.