I'm very happy with this update. The agent actually goes to Bangkok and does stuff, I was able to get a good hour to hour and half worth of gameplay out of this update.
My one gripe is that there are a lot of situations that are teased that end up going nowhere. For example, meeting the old guy at the bar, jumping into the pool with the two agents in underwear or partying with those 6 guys late at night. You hope something ends up happening, but no, the scene suddenly ends because our agent has an early morning meeting.
Yeah I really thought the
thing would go somewhere. Maybe some scenes get fleshed out
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I thought that was a good update, very substantial. Surprised it was as much of a WiP as it was (shout out to TK, hardest working man in FA). I think once Crush nails the writing, the next thing he should figure out is meaningful choice. 90% of choices are pointless decisions between saying 'hey' or 'yeah' with no impact on either the situation or your stats. Screwing up or protesting sexual action rewards you with more scenes (and more interesting scenes) than wanting sex or successfully having it. It prevents it from being a really great game.
It's nice to see others in this thread who enjoys the game even though there are issues with the development. I also think this overall was a positive update. I'd like more meaningful choices as well, and ideally such a long update would include more than one sex scene, but I'd expect that to change gradually as the mission develops.
Personally I think it's OK that the teased situations didn't go any further, as long as it's an intentional part of the development of her character. If I was given the choice to sleep with the bachelor from the stag night, I'd probably do it; if I was given the choice to join the old man from the bar in his hotel room, I'd probably do it as well, and so on. But maybe it's for the best that we're prevented from making these choices at this point of the story? If Kate doesn't have any issues with voluntarily sleeping with a fat, old dude even before her mission starts, a lot of the choices she'll have to make would feel less interesting.
I could see similar scenarios playing out later on, where her possible reactions are influenced by her experiences during the mission. If a similar old dude approaches her in a few months, she'd realistically have several more ways to react. She could shut him down, maybe even lose her temper with him, because her view on sex has changed because of the uncomfortable things she's had to do; she could decide to sleep with him because it's simply less of a big deal for her at this point; she could do it to regain control of her situation, by actually choosing to sleep with someone of her own free will; or she could do it in an attempt to experience some sort of intimacy after all those transactional sexual experiences at the club.
If Crush's intentions with the teasing scenes are something along those lines (which is only guessing at this point, admittedly), I think they are well executed as they are.
Also I thought the one sex scene was really well written. Most Bangkok sex scenes will have to balance being dark and slightly uncomfortable with still being hot and not
too uncomfortable, and I think the first scene indicates that he's got the skills to master that. Kate had her limits challenged and had no other choice than to sleep with him for the mission to go on, but it still felt hot, and she had the chance to keep a certain control of the situation. I think the scene overall also hints at more future content with him, where she could decide to have sex with him either because she feels like she's got no choice, because it could give her some sort of benefit in the mission or in her day to day life in Bangkok, or simply because she'd enjoy it.
