Good of you to pop in, even if only temporarily! It's really interesting hearing your thoughts and different ways the game could have gone, the different what if's. Can imagine there's a lot of notes involved in keeping track of all the different variables and paths!That's been scrapped. That took the game where I didn't want it to go, way too dark. Same with the Lucas path. It was way too dark and would ruin a certain love interest. That's why I took it out and am rewriting it while doing the rerenders of earlier episodes. I haven't forgotten about it. You wouldn't believe how many notes I have.
I'm personally glad you moved away from the much darker material. I wouldn't mind there being more consequences for cheating or being an idiot, but glad it moved away from darker corruption routes. I think the fact that so many people really hate even the toned down version of Ethan shows the game is well written. People care about the characters and don't want anything bad to happen to them. I'm not sure I'd enjoy the stress of always worrying that something really nasty might happen...
Looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here, good luck!