Having played through the Ep. 7 several times and even gone through the code itself, I'm left a bit disappointed. The sexual content's great and you'll need several playthroughs to see it all, but I was expecting the plot to finally thicken and progress.
We get some confirmation of long suspected facts, but also even more characters, locations and scenery being introduced.
I get it, it's a big world with lots of different people; knowing everyone half-way through a story would be weird looking at it from a not-a-fictional-work perspective. Designing new scenery is probably right up Tess' alley and up to a point it shows how decadent the Karlssons are. However, I find little attachment to those locations given how little time we spent with most scenery. Also, satisfying every combination of player actions with at least some new scene is gonna cost a lot of time - this is just the cost you pay the more fanned out you allow your players to make their own decisions.
I'd just hoped we would finally be on track to see the fruits of our decisions come to a crescendo of consequences, yet we're still in what's pretty much the entirety of episode 6 - some new setups, more concepts being talked about and still a lot of vagueness going forward.
I can see that there are going to be consequences from looking through the code. It's just such a shame we're still not over the peak and can't feel those consequences yet.
In short, Ep. 7 felt like it dragged a bit and just repeated a lot of what Ep. 6 did already. If all this setup is brought to a satisfying conclusion then all the wait will feel all the more sweeter. Sadly, it also means we're going to have to wait that much longer to experience all of this game in one complete playthrough.
I had that feeling too, the feeling that in this update the story basically stalled (except for a few moments).
I think the fact is that we have been waiting for this update for a very long time and everyone expected to receive some answers in it and did not receive it. Therefore, the update in many ways seems empty, although it is far from being the case.
For example: Personally, I'm glad that Olivia's family matter was revealed, BUT I'm not glad that Kane's language upgrade operation is still stalling.
I'll tell you this, half a year is a long time, BUT, the fate of Harville and the Domination Estate is much worse.
Plus, Tess once wrote that she wanted to leave the project because of the hate and persecution, but she didn’t, so once every half a year is much better than nothing. (I'm not talking about the fact that most don't pay a cent for this.)
And as for the unfulfilled expectations about 0.7, well, on the one hand, it’s stupid to disagree with you, but on the other hand, as one football player once said:
