Alright, thanks to the miracles of SaveEditor, I managed to get out of the softlock that kept me away from being able to progress through Hora's realm. I just finished the whole thing...
What a horrendous update. Oh we were sweet-summer-children when we complained about Franziska's realm being a crawl, because Deka outdid himself, brought the worst of Franny's realm and multiplied it by 100. I hope you guys love snail races, because that's quite literally 99% of the content in this update. Amputate all your limbs, crawl through all the realms with a dumb angel sitting on top of you, bantering all the time the same 10 lines of texts and go for the most excruciating fetch quest in the game.
Actual porn content in this update: Kinda sub par. Nothing too interesting. An improvement from Raa, I guess?
Actual lore of this update: Just a lot of nonsensical jibbity-jabber and poor attempt to make sense of the "red light" and answer questions with actual non-answers or more answers that only brings more questions. Let's be real... Who the heck cares about the lore of Domina? The game has been "Beat 13 evil goddesses because?" from the very beginning and now, on the 9th Domina, there's an attempt to flesh out the lore? It's honestly too little too late and impossible to take it seriously.
Actual gameplay:
(I think there's even less walking in Death Stranding)
Hora's realm: Unfinished, glitchy in some spots (Deka loves putting the wrong tiles everywhere), just unpolished overall... But in general, it is still not as big of an offense as Raa.
Hora's fight: Once again, no grapple moves, Deka just straight up gave up on those. So it only feels like the Raa fight once more. So overall, very meh.
Hora herself: Concept is good on paper. In practice, completely wasted.
Now you can start booing me out of the building for shitting over the game just for the sake of shitting when honestly, it's not great.