Having finished the game now I can say that overall, I think it's pretty good, but it trips over its own feet quite often. The game is by far at it's best when the MC is interacting with the LIs, the dialogue is generally pretty good and the characters are mostly likable. The police/crime drama however is a serious Achilles' heel, its painfully dull, there's nothing original or interesting about it, at all. The MC is also dumber than he should be, although I wouldn't necessarily say he's dumb. Come on, the dude didn't even wear gloves when he stole a car, broke into multiple houses, and murdered an ex-cop with gang ties. Yet this dude is an FBI agent?
Beth's direction continues to be perplexing. The blushing virgin trope/archetype is only endearing when the girl is actually a virgin, like Hannah, Miko, Chris, and presumably, Ashley. Its just annoying for a character who doesn't actually live up to the billing.
Charles is basically a non-entity in the game and might as well have not been in it at all. He adds almost literally nothing beneficial. You can't even really say that his presence creates netori, which some people are into, because the dude straight up says that his relationship with Beth is essentially just live in friends at this point and that she'll probably leave soon anyway, and he's not even sad about it.
Most of the H-scenes are really well done, but for some unknown reason a significant amount of them interrupt themselves, which kills the pacing of those scenes. If the scene is going to continue after the interruption is dealt with anyway, there was no actual point to include it in the first place. I'm not a fan of teasing H-scenes by ending them before the action, but at least there's a consequence to that type of interruption, rather than just wasting my time making me click through worthless text.
