The "happy ending in the future" scenario would actually make a lot more sense if we see where he's at *when gradating college.* if you're going, say, the Sage route, then seeing Sage watch him graduate and all the rest is very easy to believe, whereas there's no reason to assume that whover he gets involved with this early in his life, will be the one he's stll with aged 50 and the mother of all his children... happy ending doesn't have to mean happy ever after.I agree with you that purely from playing, we will not have more than 1 year of B&R. We lay the foundation for the MC's character development through our decisions during that time.
However, I could see the game ending with the completion of the entire degree, so after 4 years. DPC could extrapolate the last 3 years based on our decisions and present different endings in comic form. This is purely technically possible and would probably be a milestone again.![]()