Took the dive for you, and personally I'm going to have to tell you that it wasn't worth it for me. I was hoping that the mystery character would be at least tangential to the main characters, but they were really more flashbacks for the story than development of the other characters. Personally, for characters that we don't have any build-up for, I didn't enjoy how I spent around 80% of the update watching those scenes.If anyone does have access to the $20 version, I would deeply appreciate reading some general feedback over the next few days. No need for any specific spoilers, but it won't be out on itch.io until the weekend, and I'm... pretty on the fence after reading the changelog, where half of the main story scenes are devoted to some mystery character. Just general impressions, I suppose, of whether this feels like there is some momentum or if it's another huge sidetrack like the undercover questline.
Because right now, I'm hopelessly torn between taking a chance on it, or waiting to buy the next update instead and just playing both of them back-to-back sometime in December.
I usually always pay for any of the Rose and Cyanna updates, but I'd say the scenes were short for the wait (quality is still good and you can tell the animation and art is being worked on though). Actually, the Cyanna scene was so short I didn't even expect it to cut off without another scene. Their story also didn't move much compared to some backdrop involving the "mystery character" though.
If you saw the undercover questline as a huge sidetrack, then I think you'd find this update to be worse in terms of momentum, development (of Rose/Cyanna, not the story).
