L&P gotta be kidding "working on a new project" while AWAM is progressing like a turtle
As an aspiring writer, it seems as if L&P didn't do an outline for the dierection that they wanted the game to go. This is expecially critical when you're talking about "slow burn" stories. The Smartest thing that they should have done was to do an outline and/or several months worth of scripting before even beginning a project such as this. Plus, there are way too many characters introduced early on that began needing development for interaction with the main characters Sophia, Ellie, Dylan and Liam.
The scarcity of scenes with Liam is appropriate since he's off working and not able to spend a lot of time at the home, just like in RL. I feel that the problems arose when Sophia had an insane, unexplained MILF crush on Sam. The "cello lesson" and subsequent breastplay was introduced too soon, given that all of this happens within 21 game days. Not good for a so-called "slow burn". Not only that but, you had Sophia interacting with the maid sexually as well. Again, contradictory to the supposed "slow burn". Those two examples required some serious background development into Sophia's penchant for hot, young male and female bodies. There wasn't any IIRC, which makes Sophia's personality irrational. The constant inner turmoil that she has of "should I or shouldn't I" makes the whole premise fall flat.
Then, there are the side jobs. Again, without a personality background as a base, those mini stories just slows the development of Sophia's corruption. The nursing home jobs was totally useless since, if you paid attention, couldn't have worked since the Sam/maid scenes kind of established what our girl was into. And as much as some hated the tutoring job, it made more sense to me because it kept to the theme of Sophia liking young bodies but too young in this particular instance.
Again, using the game days as a base, Sophia's gym tryst shouldn't have happened either. It's only been 21 days in the new home and she's flirted with the movers, had sex with her husband, been accosted by her daughter, son and his best friend, groped and made out with a guy in the sauna alongside her daughter (which btw, produced No Shock value to Ellie. Why? Because, with Sophia doing so, it indicates that there's a marital problem in the home. There was nothing established, as far as I can recall to indicate that or give Ellie reason to indicate that). Plus you have Sophia going down on Ellie and doing HJs in a gym shower with her friend and the instructor bf. All of this behavior is too damn erratic, making this story go completely off the rails. I can't speak on L&P's motives as far as subscribers goes, beyond the obvious but, to me, when you have to add side scenes to keep a fanbase happy, you don't have much of a story to begin with. Either that or they allowed the infux of money and die-hard support system influence them and take them away from the original idea which was a "slow burn" corruption tale. There's a better slow-burn tale with Emily's Diary than with this one and in fact could be used as an example to L&P to get this game back on track. To me, the focus should be more on Sophia's interactions with the school and the students with Aiden and Andre slowly corrupting her there and then, at home with Patricia, Dylan, Ellie and Sam. With those six characters as the corrupting influences, Sophia wouldn't stand a chance and moves the story along a bit faster. Without a background story or flashbacks to establish Sophia's current behavior, those scenarios that I mentioned is the best way to get AWAM back on the rails but what do I know?
