I'm reviewing the new update specifically and feel forced to give it a two, simply because based on my experience, I am either experiencing a game-breaking bug, the game requires ungodly amounts of grinding, it is mathematically impossible to satisfy all the parameters simultaneously and you must cheat, there's a very unintuitive method of progressing I'm not finding, the update is much smaller than it seems and does not properly communicate this, or some combination of the above.
The initial chapter (corruption 0) is a simple system of satisfying the guy's needs, sitting at a bench to lower suspicion from the husband, and working at a library for money.
In my corruption 1 stage, the guy is sitting at the bench, blocking it's usage, meaning you cannot lower husband suspicion. This makes it mathematically impossible to satisfying all parameters, because if you try to lower suspicion by simply never visiting the guy at night, then the other parameters (satisfaction) will all be impossible to fill up at an adequate rate.
At this point I've tested and tried every possible interaction to see if it forces an event or change that resolves this issue, but to no avail. I only have repeating events with no new interactions, and either my corruption level meter is moving ungodly slow or stopped progressing entirely.
This combined with some people in the thread claiming they've unlocked it all, I'm left assuming I have a bug where a vital script for an event isn't triggering, rendering me incapable of advancing.
I suspect a bug, because alongside this game-breaking issue, I've encountered the following additional bugs:
-One book claims to skip the cleaning "minigame," but it doesn't.
-Corruption 1 suggests it should permanently change her outfit. It doesn't. She goes right back to the old outfit for all interactions and only wears the new one for new interactions, obviously because there's only art with the new interaction.
-Attempting to access the changelog on the main menu to check if maybe I've actually experienced all of the content results in an error message, forcing me to close the game.
-Corruption 1 in the recollection room is inaccessible. There's a guy in the thread who posted a darkened image of this room to ask how to unlock the remaining scenes. He both has more scenes than me, so I must have some bug blocking progress, and I know precisely why his screenshot is darkened: that's the game immediately kicking him out when he tries to enter that room. He had to rush the screenshot during the brief transition and ended up getting a fade-to-black rendition.
-Recollection room is strangely only accessible at night
Overall: Even if we may desperately want to like this update after such a long wait, a game-breaking bug or some extremely unintuitive method of progressing forward after literal years of development for this is not a good look.
Would advise anyone wanting to try this to not be shy about using the cheat option, but also download a full save from someone else and have it ready as an alternative method of experiencing the content in case you get locked out like me.
...Oh wait, did I say snag a full save? I tried downloading one and again, I cannot enter the recollection room for Corruption 1, rendering it moot. Wow.