As for the update, it started well but I felt it petered out towards the end. Granted, I'm only playing a solo-Allison route which is clearly not the intended experience, but I was hoping for a more significant emotional connection with Allison in this episode. That doesn't really happen; the relationship is slowly mending and we can surprise Allison if we accept her advice, but overall the two are still dancing around the past (and the MC still leers at everything in sight no matter how hard I pull on the reins, which doesn't help). The closest we see to a genuine heart to heart winds up wasted when it's revealed Allison was already asleep. Instead we learn that Allison is feeling horny around the MC, which honestly feels like a regression after seeing her cook the MC dinner and letting him stay the night a couple updates ago. Maybe my tastes are just too eclectic, but as much as I adore the character I feel like her route - at least as I played it - doesn't flow very well.
I usually share your opinions mostly but this time i disagree. I think the development of the MC/Allie relationship is completly fine, we have to consider that just a few days passed at all since they really started to reconnect.
Allison being already asleep didnt really mattered imo in this case as both have already confirmed that they feel/felt like that, to other people and even to each other (at the ball for example), it was more about the MC realising it himself.
And i dont consider allison being aroused around the MC as character regression, she wasnt just eager for his cock, she is and was eager to share all these things together. Being the one who sits up front in deliah, being the one waking up in his arms and yeah of course being the one having sex with him. Its all part of the same thing: A life together.
Its kinda obvious that she never stopped wanting this and felt forced to divorce the MC, i think the possibility of the two of them breaking up simply never crossed her mind even when their relationship was bad.
And really the evening/night just after you had this future-deciding conference where you have been standing and talking all day long, isnt really the best time to have a deep emotional conversation about the past and future.
I think when being back home and esp after receiving the good information about lily's health is a way better opportunity for that.
I'm also still really confused by the MC lucking into a quarter million dollars at the end of the last update. Shouldn't that be a
huge deal? Instead, he apparently tosses the money in a duffle bag and forgets about it. I guess the idea is that he needs even more money eventually so the business trip still has to be his top priority, but it's really weird that he didn't at least drop a big chunk of money off with Kalani before leaving. And with Lily healing well at the end of the update, it's not clear how much longer the treatments need to continue. The whole thing feels really incongruous IMHO.
I don't want to come off too negatively since I still like the game and enjoyed playing the update, but I felt like it ended on a very flat note. Maybe things would feel more cohesive if I played more of the other content?
tl;dr Lots of awesome bits that don't fit well into a larger tapestry, but my experience may not be the best yardstick.
Its kind of the same like my answer to the first point but he got this money like 40 hours or something ago and had to prepare for the conference, there just wasnt really enough time (or at least its plausible that there may have not been time).
I think this will feels less confusing after the next episode is released and were playing it in one go.
Something else i not really noticed since i did a new playthrough just now, Allison started to wear her wedding ring again since the ball if the mc takes her with him which is kinda funny.