Oh, what to say. I really loved the first episode, to see an eroge with a slightly unusual story and in a more serious way, I was super looking forward to this new version, I won't say it was bad, but it did disappoint me, while the previous version moved away of the typical eroge that you can find in this forum, this new version is one of those typical eroges.
And I must say that I don't like the MC in this episode, I mean, he's already an adult, and he acts more childish than in the previous chapter, it could be understood that he acting like this before because of him being a young man, but now he's an adult, his new behavior makes me uncomfortable, I also hope that the revelation that he is the father of Mia and Ellie does not take much longer, I feel that this will only delay things and I do not think it will lead to something so interesting.
And related to that, I hope that Mia's handling is improved (She doesn't make much sense, sometimes she tease the MC, sometimes she smile at him for being a good guy, and sometimes she say she can't stand the MC and that she hate him), I'm not a big fan of those typical female characters that at the beginning of the game are super hateful, and after some updates, now she is super affectionate with the MC, I don't know , I prefer girls with a "normal" attitude, instead of one that at first wants to kill you and soon after can't live without you.
I also did not like the treatment that the dev is giving the MC, it is uncomfortable that he is humiliated so often, I am not saying that I want a giga chad MC (Commonly the games that have a giga chad MC makes me feel that is really devs wet dream, how they want to look like), but at least not a loser MC, in the previous version, MC was fine, he was a normal dude, in this version I can't help but feel like he's a total loser.
I would like to know what MC has done in these 15 years, I don't think he has only scratched his belly for 15 years, I was expected him to have done something like looking for cells of the organization that he ended in episode zero to also kill the other cells, at the end of the previous update it was put into John Wick mode, why not do it again? I hope dev shows what he did during those 15 years.
Even with my criticism, I admit that I really liked the new update, I loved Ellie, and I was dissatisfied with the little participation of Olivia in this update, I need more of Olivia.
And the thing that intrigues me the most is Lucas, or he is the best friend in the history of mankind and he deserves an altar to be built for him, or he hides something very dark, and I'm no saying that he has a strip club in his bar, but something much more darker, and if he gets caught, I think about he might framing the MC by him owning the bar too, I don't know, but the character of Lucas is very intriguing and I like that.