Finally played it and it was a breath of fresh air.
Finally Vika stopped bothering us and Julia, and I hope it stays that way.
She could be another character to help loosen Julia up, but the way she's so insistant, rude and could even be considered a sexual assailtant (making someone go naked before other people against their will multiple times is not normal "teasing" behavior) is a turn off for me.
Again, massages (and the sexual arousal that comes from it, especially the "dick poking out of underwear on it own" bit) are very cliché and I find it to be a very weak plot point, but I'm happy that Julia is coming out of her shell.
I was very dissatisfied with the previous updates, but this one made me hopeful that it can get back on tracks!
But I still think this game needs lots of QoL improvements, the bigger one being the forced orientation on Android.
I just finished playing it while I only played the NTS path , idk if it's me but this update made me start to dislike Julia.
It's starting to feel she to me like she is doing things without telling us and I get the feeling might start tip toe in the grey area between NTS and NTR on the NTS path. Like I had no issue with her giving the handjob because of my choices but just not the way it was executed. As it felt like it would be a big step forward for her to do something like that but when she just went and did it without asking our thoughts , while she does when she is just teasing him made it feel a little off to me since she normally isn't like that. So im hoping she tells us about it in the next update.
Also I didn't like how she is smoking when she is with Markus alone at the party when she supposedly quit. Making me dislike him and thinking he is a bad influence on her.
On the sharing route I think she was teasing him and things got out of hand. Like she got horny with the whole setup, did more than she had planned, and few moments later regreted it, exactly because she notices that this was a big step and she hadn't asked for your opinion yet, so I believe next chapter she'll come clean about it or ask us if that would be okay, ommiting that she already tried before and stopped.
Honestly, I don't think it's such a big issue. They're experimenting new things and there aren't clear boundaries yet, so what matters the most is her intentions, which I believe it was just because we've been encouraging her.
The smoking on the other hand, makes me more bummed out. Hahaha
I always hated cigarettes. I prefer people smoking pot near me than cigarettes.
Tobacco is smelly and the smoke makes me cough and makes it harder to breath, and pot to me just smells weird to me.
Thanks, good update!
The cam audio update so you can hear/read their dialogue is a big game mechanic win.
I think it would be even more immersive if the other cam views occasionally showed random / boring life events, maybe even a FNAF type scare as Julia cleans near to the camera lens without noticing and MC freaks out.
It would be very cool, but the camera sometimes fails to show even what it should show, I don't think that's a possibility for now.
Multiple times characters say X thing is happening in Y room, and if you go to the camera there's nothing there. Only after some more messages that the camera blinks green it is updated, so I don't even know why the camera icon is there all the times, since there's only content when it warns you.