In this version, besides adding content and other things, we have focused on improving the aesthetics and above all, on having a better quest system, and adding Gina and Jessy there
Some reps have been reduced or eliminated, but there's still a lot of work to be done in this regard. We will work on it for the next version
So after playing this a bit, there is still waaaay too much grinding for certain stats and others seem almost impossible to increase. I can't really tell how the grind improved from one version to the next. The study stat for instance jumping from 15 in one scene to 50 for the next is insane, especially when you consider you can only get a max of two points per day and that's only if you skip the 'distract' scenes. Jessy's affection stat also takes way too long to increase because there just aren't many opportunities to increase it. I guess you can complement her every morning at breakfast, but that still takes a while compared to how fast her sexuality stat goes up. Gina has the opposite problem, her sexuality stat only increase during the massages which are what, once or twice a week? Boosting stats only once a week is just not good enough. The scenes get repetitive very quickly and then the game is just a chore to play.
Also, this story is fucking dark, btw. Gina is basically whoring herself out to Scott because she can't afford not to. Her friend is fucking him behind her back and I'm pretty sure Gina knows about it based on the dialogue while watching the romantic movie where the starlet has to 'do what's necessary' to achieve her dreams. She is just staying with him because she hast to, despite her growing feelings for the MC and the MC can't even help her because he is as dependent on Scott as she is. I'm not judging her btw, but it is still really dark and depressing that they are both trapped by their need to rely on Scott's money and he knows that Gina can't leave him no matter what he does with Olivia or anyone else.
On a side note, will we ever get to punish Olivia or at least be a bit rough with her for betraying Gina? Because that would be nice and she definitely deserves it.
Anyway, I feel like this game would be so good if there was a whole lot more story progress with each girl and a whole lot less grinding for stats while watching the same scenes over and over and over again. I think the only scenes that change at this point are the erotic movie scenes and I'm just getting board all over again. I see lots of tasks left to unlock but I either can't make progress because I don't know how or I need to grind an excessive amount of stats to see them. This is why I will always prefer VN style games unless the are like Timestamps where you know exactly where to click to see the next scene and there is almost zero grinding.
I want to like this game because the models are gorgeous and I'm actually interest in the story, but I don't feel like I'm seeing enough content to justify the grind. I can understand a little bit of grinding, but there needs to be waaaay more opportunity to increase the stats or way less requirements for the scenes. I also think several of the repeatable quests would benefit from some kind of progress bar or something to show that you are making progress and not just endlessly repeating the same quests. Specifically training with Katia and the Olivia visits. For a while I didn't think I was making progress in the Katia quest and I couldn't figure out how to raise her sexuality stat because the training doesn't start adding to that stat until like the 6th time you play watch it.
Hopefully this can be tweaked more in the future and hopefully there will be way more story progress with each girl and way more variety with the existing scenes. I wouldn't mind the grind so much if there was more variation in the scenes EACH time you play them instead of watching them 15 times for ANY variation at all.
Please devs, take this criticism as constructive because that is how it is intended. I want the game to improve because I do think it can be fantastic if you keep making tweaks and improvements.
Edited my original post because I answered some of my own questions.