But joking aside - here is my "Review" of this update.
First of all - I got to say it wasnt a big update, but not so small as some poeple sugest. I was actualy suprised in the ammount of writen text in the scenes, AND I LOVED that. Ofc this update was very short for people that made bad choices, or followed Good Wife Route - but only crazy ppl do that anyway ;]
But lets break it down to look at it more closely.
1. First scene - Dylan and Sam in the kitchen.
That was realy short scene, and a bit too inconsequential for my liking. It felt like it is a compleate filler, not affecting anything in the long run, but I guess it is ok as such scenes are bound to happen from time to time.
It didnt break the immersion or anything eighter so I say it was ok in the end
One good thing is - the scene is actualy diffrent depending if you have more Good or Bad Wife points.
Score: 5/10
2. Sophia Principal scene 1 - about Dylan's History Teacher
Again not much to write about it, needed bit of story to push that storyline forward. I am not a fan of Bennet, and I hate to see slime like him to get any pussy at all, so I am happy they dont waste too much time on this plotline. With the new plotline openning up Bennet just seems like a tiny little fly after all.
Score: not enough to matter
3. Aiden Cooper Gang Extrortion scene
This caught me compleatly by suprise ! I didnt expected such a manacing story twist to happen, and deffinetly so quickly.
I expected some plot with Aiden and Andre to happen at some point later in the story, but I am quite surprised it happened so fast, and such overwhealmingly hard.
Lets be honest - Sophia realy is Fucked ! More over (I hope) Alyssa is fucked as well ! On one hand I kind of dislike how such petty little gangster kid got leaverage over our pridefull Sophia so easly, but I got to hand it to the Author - he made the situation truely hopeless for Sophia for what it is, I could realy feel the Dread in the air.
I am half concerned and half excited but realy looking forward to how will this storyline unfold.
I realy wasnt expecting so dark and heavy plot happening to Sophia in L&P's game, and it could turn out realy Hardcore realy soon !
In the end it looks like we will be facing some REALY HEAVY NTR stuff happening in this game, with Sophia becoming a plaything to absolute scum ! I feel sorry for Dylan and Zack.
Another VERY important thing this plotline creates is the huge departure point with that choice you have to make, that may create a huge split in the storyline.
I fear it may lead to marginalization of Dylan storyline, as it will have to be kept small now, to acomodate to 2 variants of the story ...
Other than that - I enjoyed the writing of the scene, and the feeling of the story. I was truely holding my breath when Sophia entered that slums area, not sure how she will get out of it.
And she looked so HAWT standing defiantly in front of that gang...
In the end I give this scene a high score, for creating a realy intresting situation within a game. I am not sure if I am going o like where it will be going, but it certainly has potencial to be absolutely great. That 12 assigment game in public can turn realy hot realy fast !
Score 8/10
4. Sophia x Sam by the pool scene.
So this update basicly consists of this 2 big scenes. School Gang one, and that one - with Sam. If you dont have points with Sam - you basicly miss half of the update. Which further proves my point that this game doesnt realy have 2 routes, just one route played correctly (Bad Wife) or played Lamely (Good Wife)
And if you were Lame you missed A great Scene !
Seriously. Say what you will about this game lacking sex in it, but with scenes like that - I realy rather have more games compleatly without sex, but having an awesome moments like in this game.
Sam isnt my favourite character in the AWAM universe, but damn he had 2 amazing scenes in this game, that put to shame any other games out there.
First with the Music lessons, now with that conversation with Sophia by the pool.
Writing was soo good and so thick - I couldn't almost belived it that L&P had it in him. ABSOLUTELY GREAT WORK on the script.
Everything was perfect. From initial awkwardness, to Sam sensual confessions, and Sophia's reactions to it all - Perfect dialogs realy !
I loved how there were literaly pages of text describing Sophia inner monologues and moral dilemas !
I made a joke about it earlier how it ended with only Half-a-Boob-Flash, but I am totaly fine with that !
I think it only makes that scene more special, than if it just ended with her just taking of the bra entirely. It created truely unique and memorable moment, that stands out as one of the most sensual scenes out there (if only the game had music to amplify this).
Anyway - if you didnt notice it yet - I think the scene was amazing - probably one of the 2-3 best scenes in the game so far, or in any Western Adult game so far. Truely shining example how to write and direct a stories !
Score 10/10
5. Part time jobs
I didnt even see the scene with old geezers, I am not intrested in that stuff one bit. And new job is still mistery realy. Overall I think thouse are compleatly unnecessery only distracting from the main plots, and every minute spend on them is waste. But If Author wishes it then fine be it.
Score - not counting.
Overall - I have to say I liked the update very much. It is basicly just 2 scenes - but the writing is suprisingly better than even in the first episodes here ! One scene leads to potencialy realy strong heavy storyline of corruption, other is just bueatyfully made moment that realy stands out.
Only problem I have is - Is that enough for 50 days of development ... I cant realy tell. I wished it was beeing developed faster, and it can be done I am sure about it, but at least the quality is realy there. Quality that is unmatched in the industry I think. And becouse of that it is worth the wait.
FINAL SCORE - 8/10
AWAM continues to be probably best writen story on this site.
I have realy high hopes for the future - if author manages to at least continue with current pace of delivering the content - I can wait however many years it will take.
Angmir signing out
PS. One thing I forgot to mention.
I was dissapointed that Alyssa didnt get more "screen time" in this update. She sure should be more involved in a plot like that.
It would certainly fit well, and was a great ocasion to include her more prominenty into the story, but it was squandered.