Odd "bug".
I first did the save trick posted earlier in the thread to check out the new Pandora stuff. Was planning to play through the whole game anyways, but wanted to see if the characters I liked most got good new scenes. Was a bit bummed out since I really liked the Huntress and she got basically nothing.
I'm now playing through the game properly and uh, there's 3-4 new scenes I've gotten that have suddenly appeared on top of the ones that unlocked when I did the save trick. 2 for Huntress, 1 for Killi, and 1 for Lily. And those are the ones I've noticed the most, largely because I knew the Huntress/Killi stuff best.
So for those using the save trick, surprise it doesn't seem to work 100%. Which makes sense, Pandora gets a little weird, like during the big Act 3 bit I noticed basically all the "new" scenes vanished, even the ones not involving that event. So I'm guessing if you just forced your way into a new save Pandora would show a couple of new scenes but not all of them.
The further I get in the more I'm enjoying it frankly. I get why people are disappointed, this could have been much better. But it's a solid 3/5 or 4/5 in my books. The story has been great outside of the earlier Tibold stuff, the characters are decent in motivation, the new Pandora allowing you to mix and match makes it pretty obvious these were full clips that got cut up, but it's not difficult to remake them and just autoplay. I've actually grown to really like the SHMUP stuff as it's gotten harder and continues to add more enemy variation.
The ground combat is just straight up boring though. They should have made it space combat. Unlock new allies as you break them away from the Imperium, reuse the same models they used for the SHMUP stuff, just on a tactical grid. Get Dread Fleet post Act 1, Kloi Defectors post Act 2, Teelee Post Act 3, and Requital post Act 4. Would have better tied it together, but I guess FOW is about the weird monster stuff so ymmv.
Also on the topic of the Mantics from earlier. They have no self. It's not the Captain controlling them, it's the girls themselves. It's masturbation basically. Outside of the tentacles where I'm not actually quite sure what spawns those. The girls are fucking themselves. Or in many cases it's Lily getting off on them, so still girl on girl.