Kind of a shame, because when this first came out it easily could have turned into a five star game, but the updates since then have been pushing this in a less than great direction.
Pros:
-The wife is portrayed as considerate and loving without being a literal doormat. She has her own agency in the story, but not at the expense of her relationship with her husband. This is a balance that many writers struggle to achieve.
-The teasing photos that Lara sent when she was tutoring Lucas were great, but what was even better was how she reacted to what she did after. The regret and shame that she felt for jumping into this new idea too quickly and crossing several boundaries that she never thought she'd even come close to really hit her hard, and the conflicted emotions that she had over the situation really helped solidify that she does truly care for her husband, and wants to have a happy and healthy relationship with him.
-No humiliation. I pray the dev keeps their word on that. There are too many games out there where the wife is just nasty and mean to the MC, which is a huge turn off for me.
Cons:
-We already had a decent base of characters for the story to unfold, why the hell are we introduced to new people every single update? There's nothing wrong with having a decently sized cast, but so far every update has been focused on introducing one ore more new characters into the story, and that's a big concern. Tons of shallow characters do not make for a great story, and if they don't serve a purpose, they shouldn't be in the story in the first place. Why did we need the sleazy guy at the strip club to be introduced to give the first scene where Lana is tempted to fulfill her husband's cuck fantasies, why not use literally any of the preexisting characters? Why did we need Ben introduced to push the story forward with Lucas instead of things progressing naturally on their own? So many characters introduced in the early stages of this game makes it so there is no time to focus on any of them, and all of them feel shallow.
-Because so many characters are introduced repeatedly that all serve the same purpose, it feels like the story is retreading the same ground over and over. The update that introduced the strip club gave us Edgar, who hits on Lana but gets rejected because she's not ready to take that step yet and didn't like him. This update gave us Ben, who hits on the wife and while it's a cliffhanger ending is VERY likely to get rejected because she's still not ready to cross that step and also doesn't like him.
-Some of the characters' personalities are grating. Some of them were designed to be like that, but they're still annoying. Ben, Blake, Edgar, even Kenji to a lesser extent... too many of the characters are too unlikable. Especially with Blake, the dev is trying way too hard to make him unlikable and it's basically turned him into a caricature. We get it, he's a douche, you don't need to keep hammering it in every five seconds he's on the screen.
-The one coworker that confesses he and his wife are experimenting with swinging. Jesus Christ, this guy needs a hug. I know most people playing this game won't see his situation as bad since they like the idea of netorase and swinging, but holy fuck, that explanation he gave on how he got into that situation was just depressing. Dude's wife cheats on him and starts making out with random people in the club, yells at him for not being ok with the fact that she's making out with random people in the club, then gets gas lit and browbeaten by her and his therapist into accepting that she wants to cheat on him. Like, what the FUCK. Just because it aligns with the dev's/player's fetishes does not mean it's healthy, this situation is horrible.
TLDR:
Very promising start has been marred by too many new characters that don't feel necessary, and nearly all of them retread the same ground covered in the last update. While the relationship between the MC and his wife is depicted as healthy and loving, some of the side characters situations give me serious red flags on what the dev considers a "loving relationship" for netorase. Hope this one turns itself around, but it's really heading in the wrong direction for now.