Any thoughts that this game is funneling all players towards a tragedy pretty much regardless of what decisions you make as a player.
Playing from the beginning you're told that the protagonist is happy with his life and situation with his father before college, while implying that he is not happy now.
First, any guesses on when our protagonist is retelling his story? Is he a sophomore in college? Is he an old fart reminiscing about his college days?
My guess is that Dr.P's initial idea was that we play as the tragic hero in this drama, especially if you're playing the namesake DIK route. But seeing as he probably wrote this seven or eight years ago, he's deviating from his story quite a bit in order to satisfy his audience and to give everyone a potential 'happy' feel good ending. Also to milk this project for as long as possible now that he has a winning video game, I don't blame him for that, but usually when you mess around with your narrative midway through, it tends to turn into garbage.
I don't think the game's story has advanced much since episode 8. There's been some revelations, but the story has been stuck in the mud for a while now.