I liked the update. I think this is the first time Sophia is actually dropping her asexual nun-character...a bit. The dialogue is quite weird, though ("I'll show you my areolas"...really?).
I got into it a bit late, and there were
a lot of times where they set up various VN tropes like son spies on mother, and a lot of times where they could have gone more explicit.
I also didn't like the whole punk set-up and its implications. Was a bit bummed that it took up like 60-70% of the whole update.
Or a lot of times where doing something that would probably get you killed in real life (like inviting a bunch of guys in for breakfast
and flirting with them hungrily) didn't have the logical real world consequence.
And the only real ramification of the spa scene at the moment is "daughter
might get a new boyfriend"?
Honestly normally I wouldn't even bother to care about whether there are downer endings, but I feel like this game sets up... anticlimax in every direction. And also if you don't play things perfectly with the neighbor kid you don't even have the ability to progress with Dylan. Or if you invite the girl to go with you and the daughter to shop for clothes, I think you're 1 point short of progressing with her later on. I think there ought to be a little wiggle room.
It can eventually be a good game at some point, but I feel like it's taken too long to get there in the narrative for the amount of points required to do stuff. Right now the main advantage is that I have a persistent file somewhere in my registry so I can skip options for when I redownload a more complete version of the game.
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