Finished playing yesterday. Just curious, how many branches we will have later, it's crazy. I like the game a lot, the plot there is so interesting. But I guess maybe, it would be better to have less branches but more plot by the episode. Just because we have tons of branches, we need to have like more than 6 save files and do the same shit in freeroam every time. I like all branches yes but if I didn't know about them or could have a few girls by one branch, it would be so much simpler. And now we will have only more branches...
To be frank, I just created a mod for myself just to go through all branches in this episode by one run and I guess, for developers it becomes more and more complex too, as result, DPC will need to cut some branches or we will get less and less plot in episodes just because there like 15 girls that needs to be written and animated and supported by code. Or we will wait episodes for years. So interesting and at the same time so sad.
I’ve been trying to make a list, probably incomplete:
One for each LI path gives us 5 assuming you count Maya and Jose as one.
Add one for Zoey (6)
Add one for No one (7)
Add six for possible LIs (Quinn, Camilla, Rio, Nicole, Lilly, Melanie & Sarah (13)
Add another one for possible consequences relating to various side girls like Sally, Tiffani, rest of the pink ladies et. al. (14)
Add the Milf squad,Jade, Cathy and Nora (17).
Now here’s where it gets tricky, most paths seem to have the potential for future variants. Obvious ones are Josy and Maya splitting up, or the MC cheating on an LI ( Bianca with Jill, keep tapping Jade while seeing Sage etc.) Some may get the opportunity to switch LI like hopping on board the Zoey train.
So we could add 8 variants to cover cheating on each LI, throuple split, running off with Zoey (25).
Add to this the affinity variations, most will be minor, but some may have major consequences? It gets trickier than that since there’s both LIs and side girls that are affinity exclusive and have their own mini branches that relate to other major choices. Those are harder to count but there might be up to 30 or so branches depending on your definition.
And this doesn’t include the other forms of variations in the game. Like does getting blown by Heather or hooking up with Elena have differing dialogue or consequences to various subbranches? The game is almost too big for its oven good.