The interactions while watching the band are more about character development than they are about sex, but IMHO they don't work all that well in most cases.
Felica's is nice, but very understated. Mina's is okay depending on what you're looking for with her, though it might be easy to miss future content you'd want if you don't make the right choices. Hana's bit on stage is short and would have worked better if it had been limited to her girlfriend path, but it's fun in that context. I think Veronica's is supposed to be about her and the MC slowly dropping their pretenses, but it skips over the crucial interactions needed for that progression; I do still love the bit with the bartender, though. Killian and Jacob's bit is interesting, but not particularly gripping (though the rest of Killian's material at the club if you encouraged him to introspect is very well done). If you manage to miss all main cast interactions (including Killian), the scene with Eve (the bartender) is excellent - but ultimately just filler, I presume. Rosalind's is just depressing and unpleasant - again, all IMHO.
So yeah, I have mixed feelings about those scenes, too. They aren't bad (Rosalind aside), but they don't pack the punch I was expecting.
The individual Carnation scenes were meant to be extra parts for the build-a-romance workshop. Nothing excessive, just a topping for after their individual dates from earlier in the week -
if you for whatever reason didn't want anything to do with Mina or Hana. The main gist of the event was positioning Mina in various ways, vs. Killian, vs. Hana, vs. Veronica, vs. Edwin etc. It didn't even occur to me that some people would be disappointed they weren't fleshed out because my mindset was that the alternative was no scenes for the Carnations.
With that said, cross faded Rosalind ended up being my favorite moment, though.
Yeah, the possibilities for actual impactful scenes are waisted in my opinion. It's the first time everyone is in the same location at once and nearly everything that happens is just a fizzle. I haven't seen the bartender scene yet but no matter how good it may be it will likely be irrelevant to anything after that night, just there for a sex scene. The biggest outcome from what I've seen is being in a relationship with Hanna and Mina. The ending of that one feels like it could be very good or very bad depending on your previous choices. Unlike the rest that scenario feels like it actually matters going forward.
While I also think that a couple subpaths in the Club are rather short and the development time for it very long, I really like the info dump (we get quite a lot of background info), realtionship interaction (not only your LI, but the general fabric) and "choice matters" (some choices you do will(!) have impact later) aspects of the Club part.
If Felicia is your LI, her scenes are short but sweet and funny, e.g. "wifely duties" or "I didn´t not miss that" (double negation is fun
, even if English double neg is not quite the same as in my mother tongue). The Club part also shows a divide between the Carnations again. Felicia is sitting, deliberately overdressed, a bit apart from the other Carnations in the VIP room and you have the option to give her a slight advantage for the next competition. As for the divide, Rosi is drunk and high, so she is not quite as distant to Felicia by design, but Veronica´s dislike is underlined here.
I got that the Club scene was mainly there to position Mina, which I did. I helped introspective Ian to get a talk with her. There might be a reconciliation possible.
While doing various choices to see the variants of how the club time will go, It showed me that (at least in my opinion) the Hana-Mina-Edwin threesome is something for fun, nothing for the longterm. The whole club stuff simply highlighted that in 99% of the play variants Edwin is Mina´s rebound and in the 1% he really is not just a rebound, Edwin and Mina are simply into each other.
I will keep my "Hana-Mina-Trouple" to see what will come out of it, but it is not a favourite one. I keep to my Hana, Felicia and Sophia saves.
