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Hey you legends,
I feel the need to address something because I've seen and read a lot of concerns about this on different sites.
It's about the scaling back of the solo paths.
Maybe I should have been more precise when I first mentioned this, so that's on me.
I don't blame any of you for worrying.
First of all, all love interests are going to stay proper love interests.
No one is going to be demoted to sidegirl or anything like that.
It's all about scope. That's the keyword. And to take a specific example, which I mentioned to someone else:
On a dedicated Mio solo path you might get invited over to dinner, meet her father, have to declare your intentions(ngl this is def gonna happen),
whereas on a "scaled back" path you might just go on a normal date over dinner.
And that's just a comparison of two potential scenes.
In practical terms, it's all about the complexity of those scenes.
How many characters, settings and backstory goes into that.
For another example, on a Gemma solo path you might visit Driftport again(where they came from) for whatever reason and get some more deeper backstory,
whereas on a "scaled back" path its a much more contained scene with just some slice-of-life aspects.
It's mainly going to boil down to one scene being 20 mins long and the other "only" 15 mins long.
To be clear, I'm very confident that if I had never mentioned any of this, no one would have ever noticed any difference in the long term.
I don't regret sharing my thoughts, I just wanted to be transparent about my thought process.
That's also why I'm clarifying.
Everything is a learning process, and I surely learnt my lesson from this.
I hope this alleviates some of your worries.