-HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD-
This update left me so disappointed that i decided to make my first ever post to rant about it. I found this game when 0.9. was the current version (last scene: Gretchen wakes up Astrid to take her to her mother), and i played it from start to end in one night. That was an amazing experience because for me this was the first Bbc ntr game with an actual plot, interesting characters who have personality etc.
I'm playing on the Jamal love path, which i believe is (or was) the main path given how the game is described. Update 1.0. started really good for this path when Gretchen killed the gang leader with Jamal. But since then basically nothing happenned on this route. Instead the story gets completely stretched with unnecessary stuff, i mean Taylor Swift? For real?
Don't get me wrong, what i very much like about this game is that it has a plot apart from the classic bully/cuck story. It's interesting that there is something like a secret organization that planned the murdering of MCs father and its cool that Taylor Swift is part of this organization but this shouldn't be the main focus. And after the last two updates it sadly feels like the focus shifts from Gretchens and Jamals relationship and her gang involvement to MCs fight with the remaining enemies at school and Gretchens career/rivalry with Savannah.
This game is still advertised as a story about a boy who lost his father and suffers from a Black bully while his mother starts to fuck the bully. In addition there is a serial killer who murders friends/classmates of the MC all while MC tries to figure out who killed his father.
Apart from Astrid getting killed, this main plot didn't advance a single step in the last two updates. MC has lost everyone he cared for (except Gretchen) but he still doesn't give up or submit. What else needs to happen until he is to weak to continue and simply accepts being a cuck for Gretchen and Jamals relationship?
About their relationship: after the murder of the gang leader (start of 1.0.), Gretchen and Jamal had zero interactions. Literally zero. If not a sex scene it could've been a phone call at least.
I really hope that the game gets back to its roots and stops adding more and more irrelevant characters and side plots. After 0.9. i felt that there was not much stuff left and that the game should be completed after the next 2-3 updates. So here we are after two updates and well..not much progress.
Just an example for a scene i had hoped to see in 1.1.: Jamal has to hide at Gretchens house after the death of the gang leader. This leads to a heated argument between her and MC and they agree that Jamal has to sleep on the couch. But during the night both Jamal and Gretchen crave each other, so he sneaks into her room and they have passionate sex. MC wakes up from the moans and when he takes a look in Gretchens bedroom he sees her and Jamal happily arm in arm, which is the first time MC sees his mother smiling in a long time.