My thought on 0.35;
The Asu/Ino treehouse POV seemed really... badly written, but I could tell there was also dodgy translation at play. Neither Asuna nor Inoda seemed consistant with how they've acted in the past; Inoda doing his 'the puppy obeys' thing, and Asuna just seemed all over the place. I'll have to rewatch it to double check.
The end of the school arc going into a corporate arc will make it feel less like SAO, I feel. Slowly but surely we're drifting further and further away from anything canon based and more into Fujino's alt universe, which I know is already all over the place regarding the timeline. Maybe it's just a way for Fujino to inject his own experiences as an overworked corporate slave.
The ongoing substory with Klein and Alice would probably have been better as a separate spin-off game, at this point. The more it goes on, the more I think 'Alice as a real person' was a bad move. It completely guts and undermines all of Alicization, so none of that plot can happen as we know it, nor even be referenced properly. If this is set post Alicization, then everyone would have known who Alice was and she wouldn't be a random cop. She's not even a Fluctlight as is.
But thinking about it, we have the school -> company plot as the Real World story, and I guess Fujino needed more of a plot for 'in FOG' and that's where all the underground investigation comes in. The 'ntr plot' of Asuna falling for Inoda is sort of weaved throughout these other plots.
I liked the development of Leafa, but it's also weird that neither Kirito or Klein knows it's Suguha yet. I like that Asada got some screentime and development again, but I want to see where this is going. I like when the side girls have short developments that we discover while doing something else; it shows that their stories and characters are ongoing even without us handholding them.
The blowjob scenes were great. The camping trip is a cool setup and I hope the next couple of updates really make the most of it, along with Inoda's powers and Asuna's growing willingness to help him cum.
And oh yeah, this version is buggy as fuck. Softlocks, glitched maps and frequent crashes. I'm wondering if the amount of content is starting to tax the game engine. I can easily see this needing to become a Part 3 and maybe Part 4, given how much progress is left that is planned.
I dunno. We got more out out the update than we were expecting, but I can't tell if I liked it or not.
