I'm very bitterly disappointed with what this game has become. The first Alpha I played was wonderful: It allowed you to fuck or be fucked, it allowed you to actively progress and get stronger with each battle so you'll get the satisfaction of beating the witch, and it had a simple format that didn't require a ton of work to update.
Now it's this open world of emptiness, you can't get any exp from fights, the fucking quest notifier keeps telling me to duel my sister, in which I've lost 8 times in a row now and made no progress or exp (Maybe it is bugged, who fucking knows.) and there are no quest markers to indicate where to go, or what to do next. There are no criteria for completing a quest, and the Main Character is roughly 100 times more pathetic than he was before. I can't find the fucking cave supposedly 'by the lake' even though I've swum along the shores of the island 3 times now, and all in all, I'm literally stuck licking my sister's arse in a loop for all time.
I know some people are into this kinda thing, but to me, it's a horrible shift in direction that is only going to delay the content of this game by years on end. As if the original, much simpler format didn't already take the dev two fucking years to develop. If this isn't a classic example of a greedy dev purposefully expanding his/her ambitions to artificially inflate the amount of time needed to finish the project in order to milk more money out of their patrons, I don't know what is.