Overall solid release, things are heating up. I do get the feeling that the girls are going to be corrupted by multiple guys and basically end up as village sluts, not my personal favorite, but something I can tolerate. I prefer 1 guy doing the corruption and stealing the girl, instead of the girl sleeping around.
But Im liking the pacing overall, and while I preferred the old art better, the new stuff has gotten better since the teaser images, or at least I've gotten used to it, either way, its not an issue at all.
I do worry about the new memory system, I would rather the scenes unlock when I encounter them instead of having some arbitrary resource to go collect. But that's also not a big deal since I'm just going to use a cheating tool to skip that anyways.
The loading has been much improved for me, the only stutter I noticed was when leaving the house, that has never been much of an issue to me, but the improvement is nice.
Great work, I cant wait for all the stuff that has been setup with girls around town to start playing out. I look forward to the next release.