I really liked this update. Yes, it took awhile, but seriously, the attention to detail in the renders and backgrounds is quite good. Plus, each character has a great personaliy, that is unique to the story. I'm not going to bash any other games specifically, but there are quite a lot of games I play here (while waiting for my favorites to be released) where none of the characters have much personality whatsoever, other than interest in the MC. Plus, with all that is going on in the world right now, I can't blame any dev for taking a little easy these days. I know I am
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The dialog is great too, I smiled a lot playing this.
The MC is strangely helpless in this episode, which doesn't seem very reasonable. I can understand getting tired with a head injury, but couldn't he take a taxi from the train station? It seemed a little strange for a mostly grown adult to act like he couldn't even find the doctors office once he made it to the hospital. Maybe it's all an act to encourage Emily's mothering instincts, but it was a little too much. Hopefully the dev will tone it down before the MC ends up a total basket case.
Speedy sex scenes don't interest me for the most part (though WVM does a good job with it), so I like the slow burn of Halfway House. If long delays for sex scenes, and stolen kisses or hand holding don't interest you, you should defintely try one of the other 90% of the games here where all the women want to jump on the MC within hours of meeting.
Emily is getting cuter and cuter, which I didn't think was possible, which is great. Ashley isn't really doing it for me this update, but maybe she will grow on me. I absolutely loved the scenes with Dr. Kunieda. She is quite cute in an understated way, and I feel her personality is starting to shine a little. I really look forward to getting to know her better in further updates. The scenes with her and Emily and their banter over the MC are really well done, and quite funny. Probably not a realistic portrayal of any doctor anywhere, but it works. I like Emily a lot, but can we trade her for Dr. Kuneda as the main love interest
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