Alright just finished up to the first half of the camping trip update (0.36), played the game through for the first time and its alright. Scenes pretty good, main storyline is...passable, gotta turn the brain off for the workarounds for Kirito not finding out about Asuna and Inoda but I mean you gotta do what you gotta do to make the things happen. Wondering when Asuna will turn from seeing her "helping" Inoda as something she wants herself and turns towards maybe feelings of affection instead of out of a sort of obligation cause of the way she is.
Side-stories/characters, couldn't give less than 2 shits about, just nice to see scenes from other SAO girls. Just way too uninteresting compared to at least watching Kirito/Asuna's relationship. Reading through the thread I didn't pick up on how the admin is a real part of the story, aside from the massage part I thought she was just a not real thing, but guess she has a role to play. Dunno how large it'll be.
I like that Asuna and Kirito obviously still love each other, even though Asuna has to be stuck in a NTR world and has this whole savior complex thing going on. Really wonder how she balances that love with what she does in her with Inoda in her mind but again, NTR world mentality. Really frustrating when we get dumb ntr logic between them, but dev does a nice job of bringing it back to kinda loving and nice, though again its through Asuna being pretty okay with things and Kirito being....Kirito. I know the story rests on them not having time to be together but man do I want more lovey-dovey stuff between them, not like one scene between them that half the time shows how inept Kirito is. I'd also rant about Kirito but he's also kinda a victim of the ntr world mentality so what can you do.
I dunno how far we are till the end of the story (if anyone has any insights I'd be curious to know, I don't follow the authors Ci-en page) but I wonder when we're gonna get a "route split" of Asuna going full down into the rabbit hole with Inoda and Liz probably falling too, and we get the classic bad (or good, depends on you) end. Or then the other route, where maybe your still oblivious or whatever, but you fight for your relationship and manage to stop Asuna from going in to deep (ha) and having your happy ending with her. At least I assume there will be a route slip, I dunno what the devs plans are but I hope the end isn't just you cant stop any shit happening and near the end, maybe depending on one/two choices, and get a "I will fight for Asuna~" or a "I get off on this whole Asuna cheating thing". Sucks when stuff is boiled down to like one/two choices at the end (see Fallen Bride Mege) even though I get maybe time restraints/workload stuff. Would love to explore the "full ntr" route or "you actually aren't dumb and save your gf" route. But thats just my two cents. Again dont follow the dev so I might just be crazy, if anyone has any other info I'd love to hear, I'll pick up the game again when its finished. Sometimes I wonder why the fuck I can write a short essay on a goddamn ntr game but here we are, maybe I can lie and just say I can appreciate it for more the the porn. 6/10 I keep for hot scenes and hopefully a nice good ending.