I'm definitely curious what New Maya will do. It's not like she has much to lose, since she's more or less already lost the only two people she cares about, to Niki. (Maya isn't a sharer)
Reversal of perspective? It'd certainly be a new take on the resets, having them start with Akira trying to prevent Maya's death, rather than the opposite. But Maya would have no reason to kill herself before the loops either.
So you need a roadmap to the roadmap...
Thanks, this is really weird though. I'm comparing the old version with the new version and basically Maya (2 more), Ayane (2 more) and Makoto (2 more) got events added to them, but at the same time we lost 4 events overall from a double update (total events for both of the updates got down to 18 from the usual 20 - or rather 36 to the expected 40).
I'd probably prefer factory resetting myself rather than her rebounding with Otoha. There is a very small number of things that'd make me despise this game and that is one of them.
I would assume the Ayane event from old .45 is one of the three Ayane events in nu.45, and some of those one-off events may be reclassified as main events because they're part of the party, or something.
Less about the care packages themselves and more about the drama surrounding them once they got posted here.
Why did he want his own game delisted? I get he's a bit, uh, "special" in this regard but that seems counterproductive to his own goals.
Long version: Frustrated that the game was leaking here within minutes of an update going live, he created care packages to try and generate more subscriptions as something that couldn't be uploaded here because of rule 7 -- de-aged versions of the characters in optional animations.
Pretty funny looking through his earliest posts (if his account hasn't been deleted yet) where he seems like a completely different person, either he's been going through a rough patch in the last couple years or the money really did get to his head.
The dark route will be chapter 6 of the story and it will also be the shortest chapter of all.
I believe things went south after he quit his day job to work on the game full time and suddenly minor fluctuations in his subscriber count became a much bigger deal.
Likely himself, as New Maya is just Maya as well. The "it's finally you again" from Maya is likely her saying that "it's finally the you that can remember who you are without imploding". Remember that if it was someone else in his body there'd be no reason for them breaking when hearing Maya saying she loved them, and that happened a whole lot. She's probably the top reason for most of them being factory reset.
The only thing that makes sense to me from the clue about being the shortest chapter, and where the story could go dark enough to be the dark route is if the entire dark route took part in the same time span as one reset, except something broke and things can't / don't reset. Someone tries to bluejay and it works this time. Makoto has to worry about her choices again. Chika finds out about Maya being Sensei's #1 and she assaults / kills (New) Maya in front of everyone. Himawari actively trying to defend Ayane. The backroom Mayas start appearing to everyone trying to reestablish control. Hell why not kill Chinami during this time (or don't and go for the subversion of killing Tsukasa or something)
I was going to say this. He must have realised he could set up a big 2 month cliffhanger with some big update and give him more time for side projects and couldn't resist. We've kinda shit on 0.43 for being an update to set up an update and he was about to take a vacation on a equally as important update.
