I actually think the branching will be easier than the previous paths. Up until now all sorts of paths and permutations of relationships were possible. I'm gonna try to list them off the top of my head, and I'm sure to miss something:
- M&J only
- M&J and Jill
- M&J, Jill and Sage
- M&J, Jill, Sage and Bella
- M&J and Sage
- M&J, Sage and Bella
- M&J and Bella
- Jill only
- Jill and Sage
- Jill, Sage and Bella
- Jill, Sage, Bella and Jade
- Jill and Bella
- Jill, Bella and Jade
- Jill and Jade
- Sage only
- Sage and Bella
- Sage, Bella and Quinn
- Sage, Bella, Quinn and Jade
- Sage and Quinn
- Sage, Quinn and Jade
- Sage and Jade
- Bella only
- Bella and Quinn
- Bella, Quinn and Jade
- Bella and Jade
- Quinn only
- Quinn and Jade
- Jade only
And that doesn't even include that you could start a path with Jade but have it end prematurely due to M&J, same goes with Quinn's path ending due to Jill and so on. Or that Cathy, Riona, Lily, Nicole etc are all thrown into the mix. Actually I should have added Nicole and Lily into the above combinations, but I really just can't be fucked (lucky that's not DPC'c attitude!), but that would just blow it out even further.
Al that shit is pretty fucking convoluted, and it's worked fine.
Now since the "crossroads", we're looking at:
- M&J only
- Jill only
- Sage only
- Bella only
- Others (basically all combinations of the below group)
- Quinn
- Jade
- Nicole
- Lily
I'm not sure how much Nicole's relationship with the mc is gonna progress. I get the impression they will just fuck from time-to-time, I don't think he's really the one she's looking for.
The Jade relationship is possibly about to go south big time due to this family meeting, or they could keep up their tryst.
It looks like there's going to be more happening with the Lily relationship since she wants to "Roll" with the mc.
And surely the Quinn relationship will keep progressing.
Oh yeah, and then there's Zoey!
So to me, it doesn't look like it's going to get more complicated with these branches, it'll actually be less so.