Hi! I finally played the update, because discussion with just the outtakes found on the Fora is not the best. I fast forward over the thngs we all know already: Simply too short for the time needed, good, but superfluous animations and some strange event happenings.
Now for the meat: As I suspected before the update landed, keeping the relationship between Ellie and Logan going on takes some serious plot contortions or at least some strange thoughts by the protagonists.
And I am all for keeping that relationship ongoing, not because of the player-as... Logan, but cause the triple date of Pat, Sophia and Ellie with Logan, Tyler and Co. is probably the first option to get Sophia some stranger dick.
Another lost chance in the Ellie bonus event is racking up serious Christine-Dylan points. Christine and Dylan have obviously a spark between them going and I can see her as one of the best girlfriend options for him. But the bonus event mostly lacks in that area, a chance to progress a good relationship lost. Again!
Now for one of the more sensitive topics and I state it clearly first, so there is no dumb talk coming. I abhor rape and rapists, but I think the "it was rape of Jen" faction will be in for a surprise in the coming updates. What you saw as rape, is an epic fail of the animations, mainly because what L&P wanted to show outstripped his capabilities quite far!
By the story description during the class room threesome it is made very clear that Jen after early reluctance gets into it and enjoys the fuck with Aiden and Andre, but we don´t see it in the animations. L&P simply wanted too much with his animation skills and botched the scene.
You might know that I am one of the vocal longtime critics of L&P, but here I really think that L&P did not want to show a rape, but a reluctant threesome, wsp. because he wanted a scene hot AF. A rape IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT hot as fuck, so I am sure L&P wanted to show a threesome, but his skills at animation are not good enough to show the shifting emotions.
The description makes it clear that the scene is meant as a reluctant and then hot threesome, but as said, L&P currently is simply not good enough to show this in animation. And he wanted to make sure that we see Aiden and especially Andre as more than simple classroom bullies, some guys who if not stopped or taught otherwise are on the road to full criminals.
This scene was obviously planned as a corruption scene for Sophia, with her getting into/hot watching the threesome and an option to make going to Morello palatable too. Because going to the Mob for help is actually quite idiotic! Aiden and his merry band are fullblown ass... and possible future criminals, but they are relatively small fish. Owing the Capo of a "La Familia" clan a boon is something you will never get away from.
I speculate that even on the Aiden corruption route there will be one or two options to change tack.
The threesome and the predating task 4 showed something else. While Aiden gets off on being in charge, feeling important and needs some serious wake up call to reality, his henchmen are worse. Aiden is one of the biggest a... bullies you can come across, but he still feels something, like the jealousy during the threesome. Andre and the others are junior psychopaths. He lacks any kind of empathy and is out for himself only, that is one of the hallmarks of a warped mind.
I speculate that one day Aiden might recognise that he did something out of the "Sorcere´s apprentice: " The spirits I called..." and will regret it.
Personally I think L&P should have made the threesome scene differently, since how he did it could as we saw come across as rape, since he was not good enough to show it in the animations what he wanted. He should have been aware of the varying sensibilities if you cannot pull off an ambigiously event.