Catching up on this was an was absolute delight. This is definitely one of the games I'll be real sore about not seeing an end to if it ever gets abandoned or I croak before then. I'm glad the church stuff wasn't over after your time there and that things are sticking with it and carrying on. I sorta feel if that gets flushed out a lot it'll be a whole game's worth of case (and then was wondering if the game would be split up by cases or something as some are by chapters with a save carrying over)... I mean Mia is still totally pure it seems so we've got a long way to go. That said when all the interactions are in (like just the boob viewing with Mia is now there) and if there's multiple cases to work through and multiple options with all the bits, like with the slutsquad for the bar, then it'll be quite an epic game to dive into.
It was a bit of a shame that some stuff is missing. Obviously it's not a completed game but stuff kinda in the middle not being there feels a bit odd. Some of it's no biggie like when you talk to Mia in the kitchen and it says interactions not available (though it's been like that from the first release I played). However, with the casino stuff as that occurs partway through a case and we're now past it then it's kinda of rough as while I did remember to keep a save back there to get to play it whenever it's added it won't quite fit the flow of things (and I wonder if I'll even notice and remember to load up that old save).
Also, and I imagine this'd be wrong and was for dramatic effect, but at the very end of the crypt you don't actually get to see what was down there and what they saw even though they mention it. So I wondered if there just wasn't time to put a scene in there, and maybe the models haven't been made yet or something. I made sure to roll back and re-enable transitions just in case that was it but still nothing (and I'm guessing that wouldn't be the case here as the dev codes stuff to re-enable it sometimes if needed, as I've found myself having to turn it off multiple times - which I do vastly prefer to missing stuff or not having the option to turn it off). But that made it feel rather anti-climatic after getting to the end.
A big question of mine is how the karma system works. I was having a look at the variables when you make choices and if you're mean they go down and nice they go up. But I enjoy playing as a jerk... so I'm hoping that it'll be used to change how your relationships to the girls develop, so loving/harsh, (say especially if you let Sage drink the last bottle of beer and go down that route - which was a fantastic scene and I noticed tanks your karma with her)... and not that it's something that'd be the kinda point farming there is in a lot of games where you need to get lots of points or you're just cut from seeing content with a girl. Given the excellent rough stuff in this and how well the game does being a bit of a monster then I'd doubt that it would be like that but as it's a free-roamy one with the cases and stuff then I'm not really going to want to play through multiple times changing little decisions here and there as it's not the kinda thing you can just hold down ctrl to get through all the stuff you've done/seen before.
I do wonder what purpose the lewd action in the interrogations serves. Maybe if I'd not pushed as hard with each thing each time maybe I'd have gotten more or something? I think it's just there for flavour but not sure, and maybe will be more flushed out later.
Another thing I've been thinking about is that there's only pages for Mia and Sophia in the heart menu. Before I thought it was because the other ones just hadn't been done yet, but the MC has gotten further with most of the other girls in the game at this point. It might be just that it's because those 2 are living with him, but as we know Sophia is an anomaly then I wonder if it's hinting at Mia being one too, which'd make sense as she's the MC's sister.
I quite like the puzzles, and that's coming from someone that doesn't really dig that stuff so I guess they're easy enough. I was a bit stumped in the crypt because I didn't realise the switch in the room with the fridge was there because there was writing in there too (had to see a screenshot in this thread to go back and check), and I thought that was a part of the puzzle from the first room to see the numbers there... and truth be told I still don't get why there was 3 switches in that room and just kinda randomly toggled them thinking it was something to do with how they sounded differently... though if I'd looked closely enough at the letters available in the scroll I shoulda been able to guess the word given what the case is all about without doing any of that to begin with, haha.
I remember one of my frustrations with my previous playthrough was when I had to pick who did it but was super suss about the mother superior, even without having met her, and annoyed I couldn't choose her, I'm glad that even if I wasn't presented the choice in the game at least it feels like I was on the right track with all of the stuff going on now.
So yeah, had a blast, I hope the dev keeps up the good work, the scenes with the 2 redheads (forest and jail) were great and I'll look forward to more rough stuff and being a jerk. I wonder if the dev has an armpit thing as with a full playthrough I noticed that's come up a few times in the game and isn't something you see much of and hadn't ever occurred to me.
