Well, here's my impressions on this game. I didnt play the 1st game (but downloaded it for later) but didnt bother trying it first as like the game said, Vikings now! I like the theme. It feels to me like a very short game. After finishing my BB path, i did a DR path. I didnt really like that it is basically 3 short games that are almost carbon copies instead of a bigger one and that you have to play all sides to fill the missing story gaps to know all the events to have the complete story but it still overall good and will have 3 saves. I also found it difficult to figure out who are the LI's. After my 2 runs, it feels like only the 3 "main" clan girls (Candrid, Nox, Astrja) are LI's and everything else is side girls. The clans feels very copy-pasted. The "main" girl that gives you scenes but only plays with you, the secondary girl that toward the end of current content develops a romance, and the 3rd girl thats evil and betrays her clan for power. I didn't do a wolves run, but towards the end i didnt see any Mathilda, so i assume she will be the wolves traitor. Sometimes it also have continuity issue with the game assuming you did an event without you doing it. For example, in the BB's, i went in the cursed ruins and found the red nail and got the lore etc. In my DR play, i never went there or got the quest, but at the battle, i had the red nail and was told i got it in the cursed cave which i never went to.
So, on with my BB run. AFter finding out, to my chagrin, that Sonja was married, i figured out i'd go for Candrid as her model was nice and i didnt care too much for Yrsa. Well, that didnt go well. I figured pretty fast that Candrid was the game's drama and "evil" route and you basically get almost nothing of importance with her as she just throws random side girls your way and i found that kinda lame. I reluctantly started Yrsa's path, which is pretty good, but not a model i like. Then, i finally was able to get Sonja and in the end, and with both of them maxed, i had to pick which one to dump and broke Yrsa's heart. I guess i am a wolf now because of my girl. I assume the true path of the BB is the evil one and might speedrun a playthrough later on when the game is done to experience it un interrupted. I liked the lore enough and it was short enough that i started another play.
I picked the DR. Black haired girls are my favorites, unless its a fit mommy. All was going well until i found they were all a bunch of communists. I was starting to like Nox, but then she started going nuts. To make it worst, i got drugged and r*ped and couldnt even tell her to F off and leave the clan, everything was fine without too much fuss. Katja also was clear very soon she was the evil girl of the faction so i mainly never picked her choices. I actually liked Lizgard a lot. A shame nothing happened until almost the end of the current content, after she saw me sex Nox and Milka and its not that great, but ill switch to her from Nox with further chapters. The story was also nice as we saw what happened with the Draugr.
Next will be the blondes i guess. They dont interest me much, but im curious about the unique story. So, i saw that the changelogs are on the low render sides and focused on single clans. How long are the update cycles? Especially since every 3 updates i assume are the same story but from 3 different angles, so very slow progression.