I did a quick comparison between the scripts for 0.8.0 vs 0.8.5. I am not terribly familiar with RenPy so I am not sure what some of it means, but I don't see anything that should be a problem if you decide not to replay. I ignored changes in previous chapters.
Here are some notable changes. Not saying where these happen, you'll have to find that out for yourself.
And not that any of you would be such monsters as to trigger this:
Python:
$ harempath = False
I can't be sure I found everything that matters, and there were various changes which I don't know at all what they mean or if they affect anything because I don't know RenPy. But there are things like this added to some choices:
Python:
Jerry{#0.8,companion}
Which I suspect sets a variable.
Many dialogue and description fixes which aren't important enough to replay. But I'll be replaying because I want those points and the Annie variable, and this is the first time I've not waited for the public release.
Won't be soon, because I have other things to catch up on, but sometime before 0.9 drops.
Five years of lurking, broken to say but this -- This shit slaps, oh god it slaps... I'm like half and hour in and my ass is cracking the fuck up. This is honest to god, peak writing.
Five years of lurking, broken to say but this -- This shit slaps, oh god it slaps... I'm like half and hour in and my ass is cracking the fuck up. This is honest to god, peak writing.