Well, that's kind the question I was asking, I'm simply curious *if* and *how* all these interactions will play out.
It's already the case that some parts of the dialogues depend on previous actions/conditions, e.g. whether she had or not sex with Liam, there are just different dialogues/thoughts that makes things coherent with the situation.
So at the very least one could expect that such a big and defining event as the extramarital affair have some influence on **just the dialogues** to account different thoughts or exchanges based on if that happened or not. To use your example, I'm not saying that the outcome of another later event with a different character **has to be** different based on whether the event on PD 16 happened or not. But I think that there will be (or even should be) some influence and the dialogues/thoughts will be a little different but all leading to the same outcome for this new event, otherwise we will have again that sort of "reset effect".
And don't get me wrong, I'm always for minimising the entropy, even in RL
, so I'm all in for keeping it simple and manageable and avoid that branching madness you mention. But once you have all these intertwined storyline you
cannot expect that they proceed as completely watertight, self-contained paths when major events like the first extramarital affair happen (and the events are on "compatible" path, obviously). I emphasized
cannot expect in the sense of preserving the storytelling quality of this VN, and, if you will, the so-much-discussed "realism".