I like this game, so I really wish I didn't have to say this, but this update is complete and utter drivel of the highest order. It is honestly impressive how poorly it's written and designed. The entire auction section is absurdly bad. There is literally no point to any of the free roam because you gain no relevant information from it, then everything is simply told to you between free roam sections. This kind of design completely invalidates itself, there is no mystery because it is impossible to solve due to the fact that literally everything is a red herring and you are not even able to ask relevant questions.
Sophia is a complete idiot and everything she says invalidates her own arguments. "Solana cares for me. That's why she didn't bring me back to my brother and instead turned me into a cold-blooded killer." Sophia herself recognizes that she's become a bad person, yet she's mad at the MC who had nothing to do with that, rather than Solana who kidnapped her, isolated her from her family and friends, and molded her into the bad person that Sophia doesn't even want to be.
The h-scene with Cassie is tremendously tone-deaf. The h-scene with Hannah is fine, but it makes the melodrama with MC being a whiny retard all the more pointless since it doesn't even have a real payoff seeing as they're just back to how they were before as if it never happened.
The h-scene with Alice is the only part of this update that is actually good.