I think this update is the worst update this game has ever gotten. Let me explain, It is not because of the minimal romance scenes. As someone said earlier, even if sqwl said "you know what, fuck lucy. This game won't have anymore sex scenes in it." I would still fcking love this game. The reason I love this game is its side characters. Elsa is a mysterious, total reailistic and dangeoursly intelligent character with a lot of potential. Alice seems like the ultimate girl nextdoor. Cute, loveable and just a little bit stupid.
The reason I didn't like this update is: it is extremely short(storywise). Don't get me wrong I'm sure those bar scenes took a lot of time to render, but were those really necessary to understand Edward is a obsessed individual with a fuckboy friend. Didn't we already know that? We have 1 short scene with Alice and this scenes dialogue is the worst dialogue in this game(oh girls only use me, what are you 12?) but it builds up to something in the next update. We have few really short scenes with Elsa and almost all of them is meaningless at this point, all of them builds up to something but in our current standing, all of them are empty. I don't have anything to say about Lucy bc I cannot care less about her. I think the only reason that lucy exists is that the game needs an easy-to-fuck girl to count as a romantic VN. I am very much aware this is a build up update, we will see the running race with Alice, we will see whatever the text is about with elsa probably in the next update. I hope when I play v0.5 I will say "well yep, the build up update was necessary". I don't know why but after nearly 1 year of developing, I expected more from sqwl in this update.
P.S. If the story is actually bigger and I somehow fucked it up because of my choices in the game, I'm sorry.