Just replayed the whole game and I want to adress the problem with the "update feeling shorter" once again. The main issue in my opinion is, that the whole Luna / Penny arc, except for the last few scenes including Luna lewd is ultimately just a filler arc. Since we can only see one of the sides in a single playthrough, the information / girl points / relationship progess you see in the other one can't be mandatory. Basically it is just a very long and complicated way of the questions we have with Dalia and Alex (Bagel or Donut) or Penny and Dalia (magic or physical), where you can give an additional, but not mandatory point to one of them. And storywise, we didn't get much aswell.
A really nice setting with the werewolves and the vampires, but considering it was nearly half of the update it is just to less storywise. And then we got a lot of lore just thrown at our feet right at the start in a simple conversation instead of having Orion and the girls make the discovery themselves. Why not make this big reveal the "main conclusion" of Ekhabar instead of giving it away just like this? Don't get me wrong, I think the whole arc was very well written as usual and not every arc can be heavy story focused, but comparing it to earlier updates, the arc felt a bit weak. In the space server, we got an amazing date with annie, a lewd scene with her AND very important story development. In the wild west server we didn't just got solo time with all 3 girls and 2 lewd scenes, but the Calypso lore and the development with the NPC and the manipulation item on top of it.
Some of the eternum theory experts in the forum may argue now, that there is a lot more lore during that arc than one might see on the first look. But if you just play the game normally instead of pausing after every sentence and look for a deeper meaning, I don't think you can find much more than what I mentioned. Comparing to 0.6 western server again, the calypso lore was presented very directly, you didn't need to read between the lines to find it. And yet it left more than enough room for speculation. Even an average player will wonder about the secrets, the plot and the "big picture" of the game after seeing that scene.
