I really liked the game a lot so far - until the begining of phase 2. The graphic was great, the character design close to excellent and the story was very interesting.
Then phase 2 came into this world. While it is not really bad, it is nevertheless very disappointing.
The character design is still closed to excellent, not doubt, even though I am not a fan of Margarie's growing habit of smoking.
But I have to agree that the pictures have indeed become significantly darker. And often light and darkness make no sense. Why is it quite dark inside while the windows show that is bright day outside? And why does the story then tells me that it is evening and the MC is going to bed?
But much worse is the transition from phase 1 to phase 2. Not using the old saves is bad. Simply using the predefined focuses is highly frustrating: Following two paths in phase 1, at its end I had one a love focused save (stats: Love = 27, Corruption = 1 - I guess, one point was inevitable somewhere -, Mom Love = 13, Emily Love = 15, Chloe Love = 7) and a corruption focused save (stats: Love = 18, Corruption = 42, Mom Love = 12, Emily Love = 12, Chloe Love = 2). And the predefined Love Focus results in stats of Love = 21, Corruption = 0, Margarie Love = 10, Emily Love = 10 and Chloe Love = 5 while the predefined Corruption Focus results in stats of Love = 14, Corruption = 40, Margarie Love = 9, Emily Love = 9, Choe Love = 1. Granted, the Corruption Focus is close to the possible, maximized result of phase 1, but the Love Focus is quite a joke, compared to what the player could achieve during playing phase 1. And the quiz is a buggy joke, too. Altough it is not bugged enough to crash, it just makes no sense in several cases: For example the question whether the MC knocked on the bathroom door has no influence on the result, because the variable ep1_enter is not used again after it beeing set after the question. And the question whether the MC asked Emily what was wrong and the following question if the MC resisted his urges both set the same variable (ep2_ask), making the first question futile because no matter what you answer the following questions overrides the answer. This is just bad.
So I really hope that the transition of phase 1 to phase 2 will be corrected at least for the final version of the game. It just can't stay this way.
It just makes me so angry because phase 1 is a proof that the dev can do much better.