This is the main problem with "After" as an entertaining game. It's not as engaging as original game because Ryoka is already at her most corupted, and watching her gradual corupt, her transformation from a good girl to a bad one, is the core of such games. "After" lacks this core.
Yes definitely. It was quite the bummer to realise that this is what this game is. I could swear I read some comments saying that the game would take place the summer after the last game, taking off from the ending where nothing happened to Ryoka and the MC didnt confess either. A blank slate pretty much. Given the name of the game I could see where that confusion could have come from.
That would have been infinitely more interesting, even if what we get is basically the same as the first game, but with a different spin on things.
I really feel like it should have been a dlc which was the original intention.
The game introduces new UI elements with information about Ryoka's sexcapades, who has she had sex with, who creampied her etc but this is mostly meaningless because in most cases that UI is already filled out and mostly complete by virtue of Ryoka already having been corrupted at the start of the game.
Playing it and not expecting it to be more than what it is trying to be is definitely the best way to enjoy the game. My main complaint with the original was that the routes were a bit too short, I'd rather have had fewer of them but more fleshed out. This second game could really help with that issue but after playing a couple of the routes, I do feel like it lacked some direction as well.
I'm still happy the second game is a thing though. I hope that soon there will be a game that pushes the same buttons as the original was able to do.
