The authors of the game went too far with Fred's old man's potency, which killed the realism of the situation and failed the love triangle scene, ignoring the Nick-Fred line (which is strange for a professional screenwriter). But the biggest problem is the real lack of choice in the tavern. In the scene there are 3 options for refusing a deal with lumberjacks and 3 options for agreeing to a deal. Refusal options do not work (the game starts to fly out of locations, and after the beach, Lily always meets lumberjacks performing a deal, even if it was not concluded). The authors succeeded in nonlinearity twice - with Castor and the choice of dominance-submission with Fred after John. And the end of 1.6 generally makes a fork in the plot.