I gotta give credit where it's due, Episode 1 was much better and enjoyable to me compared to the prologue. There was far too much content from Ron. He was everywhere, from seeing Iris and Lauren in all of their glory (which ticked me off tbh), to their annoying back and forth arguments. In episode 1 however the flow of the story feels much better, the MC grew a set of balls apparently. He came off as more mature, smarter, cunning, reasonable and even a bit manipulative, when needed of course. The best part for me was the ability to tell Ron to fuck off, ignoring him was the best part about this update.
I would've preferred not to have been dragged into this whole blackmail nonsense in the first place, but we probably wouldn't have a story now would we? If Ron is behind this then he needs to burn, only problem is the officer did say that the voice sounded like an adolescent so I kinda doubt it.
Billy the beta betrayed Lauren and threw her under the bus, which was a total dick move... speaking of dick, he secretly loves it. Not really surprised though, I knew something was off about him, but I just figured he was a cuck like Ron's dad Phill. In hindsight the only thing he accomplished was to bring Lauren and MC even closer and present the opportunity for MC to step up in the man of the house role. So thanks Billy. I chose to work with detective Ludwig obviously because I wanna see Lauren fully exonerated and get justice for her, it's fucked up how they ruined her reputation.
But to sum it all up I'm impressed with what I saw. A lot of things were cleared up for me in this episode so thankfully I can take this game more serious and give it a real chance and maybe even subscribe. By the way the new version of Iris is beautiful, her old version wasn't bad either. Maybe the Dev will have plans for that model and bring her back as someone else, who knows? Gotta say though, in terms of likeability Iris is up there with Caroline and Selina as my favorite big sisters. Lastly, I know there's a lot of pussy to chase in this game, but I'm content with the 4 ladies on my household, anything else is just an added bonus.