I'm actually really surprised that so many people are complaining about this update: "part 2 sucks, getting worse", "so little update this month" or "why no Asuna IRL scene?".
Maybe I'm not sophisticated enough, but I thought the update was fantastic though.
Although I'm looking forward to the IRL scenes, I enjoyed the Solgante-esque quest scene a lot and the battle scenes (I'm also failing to comprehend why is everyone so fixated on IRL).
I tried playing from the beginning after every 10 updates or so, I thought the story was great in part 2, it just feels like everyone who complains about the "horrible storyline" are too obsessed with the monthly deliverables. Then again, I'm probably too much of a pleb to understand the "connoisseurs".