At this point I guess anyone who wanted to play 0.175 did that, if not, don't read this post.
To my surprise, that was the best update so far, better than Sophia/Ellie shower event and Dylan/Amber shenanigans. Build-up and anticipation most of the time are more important than the end result. Here L&P managed to excel this aspect of his VN. The whole sequence felt coherent. Can't picture how good gonna be Dylan's seduction, who's gonna be manipulating whom.
In previous chapters L&P hinted at some possible paths. Here we might have 2 more towards the end of the game or maybe that's simply my imagination: Dylan/Sophia/Sam and/or Sophia/Sam/Ellie.
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Let me add not a grain, but a full pound of salt though. Animations. At this point they only drag the process down the line. It would've been suffice to use standard 10fps loops. Really good small teams of animators on this resource create 8-10 mins movies within 2 months. He or his assistant
are kinda slacking on this part of game. They do feel unnecessary right now, at least for me. He could've made more renders like below instead, first POV and, boy, it looks fabulous.
Most of us remember 0.115 (3 events in total) taking 3 months to be completed and that seemed slow. Now it takes 3 months for only one. That's progress, just reversed. He mentioned animations will be added in the next updates, most likely 0.185 & 0.190, thus hopes for wrapping up this PD by mid-late summer 2023 are dwindling swiftly.
It's not the first time he sort of alluded his love/hate relationship with F95 and Patreon in AWAM. That scene with Dylan/Ellie at the coffee house and a story about pigeon and rat, regulars here know the details. Now he's thanking his supporters through Sophia. He ain't dumb as some might believe. He has his core fanbase and they demand the feast to continue. We all want to live that day when anyone but Liam finally "enters" Sophia's holy sanctuary.
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