Yup. I have exactly ZERO use for the Pandora system. Can't even remember the last time I really bothered to look at it. I started playing this game for the porn, ended up playing it for the game cause the porn does sweet fuck all for me. Not here to watch mantics and the other crew fuck each other. I don't care it the crew fuck each other, I have fuckall interest in watching it.
Got it on steam too. A friend saw it on my wishlist who does reviews and game testing, so he gets a shitload of keys and passes them out amongst our discord channel. "Our" being a group of gamer friends playing various games together for 15ish years. It's sometimes handy not hiding the fact you're a perv who plays lewd games from your friends :}
I am too old to care what people think about what I play. I play a variety of games. Some of them are adult games
I think the only thing that keeps me interested in this game is the story. Now grant it, it's not like God of War story telling but it does a good job of keeping me interested. The voice acting is good.
Now like you mentioned about the pandora system. They have all these scenes which most of them you have no control of. You are basically just watching a gif play out. Some of them offer a way to increase the speed and a cum button. But other than that, there is no option to view the scenes from different angles or nothing. The number of mantic scenes is pathetically high. That there is no point in doing the space or ground combat mission that you can do by scanning different planets. I don't care about tentacles or machine gun vibrators. It just doesn't interest me. So yeah, on that front it's disappointing.
Now the combat is okay, but I found only in short bursts. Only doing a few of them at a time and stopping. Or else you are going to be bored to tears.
The game is okay. But if I am being honest. I enjoyed the Being Adik chapter 9 update more than I did this update.