Alas, I too feel a bit as if this game is past its prime. Like Bilbo the Hobbit would say, the game feels more and more
"thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread." Of course, it remains a much better game than the vast majority, but still, there is a feeling of... tiredness that has been creeping in lately.
My humble opinion on how I feel about a few characters at this point:
Elena: Verily, this character makes me feel really bad. She doesn't have much going on in her life besides MC and D. Whenever we get in her mind, it's almost always MC or D who are occupying her thoughts. It's the most pathetic character of the game, more pathetic than the evil characters who cross paths with MC and D. A shame because I do like this character. She is funny, witty and straightforward. But Elena ( in my opinion ) comes off as a very sad person who clings on the little things she has in her life to find a meaning to it, but the thing is this: what she "has" is not truly hers because she constantly has to enter MC and D's inner circle to get to them. I have difficult time feeling like she's part of the "gang" like Georgina does now. I do hope she will get a good ending. I want her to be happy more than I want MC to have his way with her. I don't know if that is good or not for a porn game.
Georgina: Sometimes I like her, sometimes I don't. To be honest, I'm still expecting her to reveal herself as a serial killer or something. She is too conciliatory for my liking. It's hard to explain. There is something off with her, kinda like the femme fatales in erotic thrillers. They don't show how crazy they are at the beginning but at some moment, however, while they're straddling a man for example, they suddenly take a knife hidden underneath the pillow and stab the poor dude right in the heart. I have a hard time trusting her. Just who is she, really?
Margo: I just see her as a filler character made only for additional sex scenes.
Cassandra: Same.
Jennifer: To me she is Elena, but thrown in the washing machine and left to spin for a couple of days, hung to dry under a scorching red hot sun. Needless to say, not my favorite character.
Graham & Olivia: I felt like there was something great going on at first, then they were left on a shelf and weren't as interesting as they used to be once they were brought back. There seems to be a lack of closure here but obviously we will eventually get it...
Martin: I have mixed feelings. I liked Martin as a character in the early chapters. Now he has become someone else, as if he was bodysnatched by some horny alien creature, and his sole existence in the story now revolves around his love for D. Where did that come from? It feels unnatural and forced at this time in the story... But then again it remains a sex game and these things happen all the time.
Rachel: She was quickly introduced and subsequently maintained as this insufferable harpy hell-bent on making MC's life a mess but recently she almost made a 180 degrees spin ( "Macho Man" Randy Savage might've called it a 360 ) and we can sense a door has been opened... Redemption? Love route? Threesome with D? Who knows. It feels once again unnatural but I am still intrigued by this "New Rachel" since it's perhaps one of the only characters that might surprise us in the future.
Koko: Well, at least we have something new here too.
MC: Let's be honest, we get away with things way too easily with this guy of ours, overall making our choices less important. Then again, do we really want to see these characters crushed by guilt and remorse at this point? Probably not... I think we all want a good end, even if some endings may be bittersweet.
D: Up until this new chapter I would've said she had become a walking sex doll but now I can feel she is a bit more self-assured and is overall a spicier, different version in this new chapter. Are we going to get in a real argument with D soon? Will there be an ending where she dumps us? Who will get her pregnant for real? Will we manage to re-corrupt her? That "no creampie rule" is quite the remarkable aspect of this new chapter. I don't think any porn game has done that so far... Like it or not it's something special and unexpected.