Well, maybe the dust is settling here again. Any place not much disturbed for 5 months can gather a lot of dust to kick up when a crowd suddenly calls round. It's surprising how many fans expected more action than was actually delivered. It's as if they hadn't known this was going to be just 2 segments of 1 playable day, or that this was AWAM & L&P.
So, to the update & it's a mixed bag IMO. First the animations & as I know nothing of how to create them, difficulties, time factors etc., except what I read here, I can only look at them as a general viewer. I thought they were very good. Yes, I've seen better & have also seen far worse. Did they add to the story? Yes, or at least they added something to one of the side-bars to one particular path within the main story. Were they worth a massive delay? No, absolutely not but I appreciate that this was something of a practice run for later. Now a problem occurs as to whether there'll be a "later" given AWAM's pace of a Galapagos giant tortoise born when Queen Victoria was crowned.
I've got no qualms about the animations being created with secondary characters. IMO the people involved are more important to the story than many other secondary folks of San Alejo's populace acquainted with Sophia. [Both side-jobs contain quite a few....just glad it wasn't the Apostles].
Now, the save transfer to Part 2.......nightmare. I gave up on the patch after trying a few times, managed to access a revised Part 1, downloaded that & took it from there. This involved a far longer timespan than was needed to play the update. That I wasn't the only one with 'issues' can be seen in the foregoing thread. After 5 months....well ~#@* &?£$**>! I am of a generation that had a computer in school. Yes, A (as in 1), computer for well over 1,000 people...cutting edge, took up half a room. It was mainly tinkered with by science teachers & boffins. Its' impact on me was zero, (& on the school as a whole as far as I could see). AWAM has a diverse bunch of fans & that includes age range.
As to the VN itself, I have to say that because of choices I must have made previously, (it's been so long I've forgotten what they were), there was no scene at the diner for me. That means no Dylan but I can certainly accept that because I like him 'in the background' as much as possible. There was no Don Morello either because asking the Mafia for help, after just avoiding being in their debt is, IMO, the greater (& stupider) of 2 evils, especially when we know from 'outside' information that Bennett is on his way out, (if he ever reappears). That just left the 4th task to run through.
This post is now long enough, so I'll come back to the subject of the task in another commentary.