You know how they say "brevity is the art of wit". Also your "I'm not counting renders" is just deflection, on a par with "I don't see color". There is no damn way we'll get a satisfactory exploration of anything in 5 chapters left, if they are the same size as the ones that came before. The barista and her potential interactions with Kayley, the MC, and Cassidy, the Leilani relationship and her corporate embezzlement or whatever plot, and again her possible interaction with Kayley, the club with the potential for corruption from the rich patrons, (maybe some rich guy wants to have sex with Kayley, maybe something forces the MC to accept that, "Indecent proposal"-style, like maybe Justine kicks him and Kayley out and they need money to survive, which would be a good fit for the hinted "dark path"). Or maybe one of the rich patrons of the club is someone from MC's company and he wants to have sex with Kayley or else he reveals the MC's corporate infractions to the police. So many possibilities and I'm sure a good writer could think of a lot more, but there is no way 5 minuscule chapters could explore anything like that properly.Like I said, if the plans haven't changed (idk what the Dev is planning now vs back then) he can do many things, what he's deciding to do, I have no clue. I'm not counting renders. I'm going by the playtime/plus the stuff he mentioned in the Early Access info box.
I don't know how long the 9th Chapter was since I didn't play it, so I don't know how much extra time you got with the second part of Chapter 9. Don't know how long this Chapter 10 will be if it's gonna be released next month. But seeing "substantial" let's see if it is indeed substantial or not.
Also, he mentions this in the EA box
“The early access build contains 6 chapters of the game.
Around 2 to 3 hours of content.
There's also some extra content in the -extra- menu.”
Seeing 6 Chapters = 2-3 hours' worth of content. When other games can have one Chapter last 1+ hours. I already knew it was going to be short and probably not have much content (li wise) I don't think they will have proper endings (the side girls) they are probably there just for a sex scene or two (idk since my MC is avoiding the side girls)
Another 6 or so Chapters and that's another 2-3+ hours' worth of play time. Since we are at Chapter 9, and you said it yourself, the updates before the 9th were short too. Usually, when a game gets updated in 2-3 months, the updates are never usually long.
“A chapter for the game usually takes 2 to 3 months to make which I release as updates regularly, I hope to continue delivering content at that cadence."
It also depends on the path you are on. If you stick to one path, that path probably doesn't get much content than the other path and etc. You can't expect a bunch of hours of gametime when the Dev is releasing updates quickly (2-3 months) and you have to take in the "animations" stuff too, which take a lot of time to make.
I do wonder what the "extra content" will include (I haven't checked it) is it more stuff to playthrough or just images?
301 renders! I listed all chapters above.I don't know how long the 9th Chapter was