Mr. Celavie has done it again with Season 2 Episode 3. The graphics are just as excellent as the previous one, and the paths through are easy to follow. I played the whole S2, E1-3 again, and the few bugs in E2 have been reduced. There are still a couple of name errors in the dialogues or headers, and instead of all the hints from the icons down in the lower right corner passing through to the main script, only the first question does that (usually "How's our relationship?") and not for all girls at all times.
The dev has put in a new trick to reduce grinding, and it works. He puts a notice in the final dialog of a path segment, saying, "This is the end of this path for Ep 3", and you immediately know not to hit the starting fork for that line again. But the plan of not following a segment that you have seen before doesn't work anymore, as he has arranged the network of scenes so that there are branches after several starting graphics, so that two or more paths have the same beginnings but lead to different endings at different stages of progress. So you need to keep redoing the initial ones to find the paths which lead to new material. The "This is the end" stuff helps with this, and it never gets tedious. It took me 30 minutes to get through Ep 1, seeing just about everything, 90 minutes for each of Ep 2 and 3.
One hint: sleep late somedays.
Besides the graphics, the dev has a real knack for understanding how to keep the steps interesting. MBFD is still one of the best games I have found so far, although I recently found one with even better (higher resolution) graphics, way past the "uncanny valley" where Celavie lives. I haven't figured out yet how that dev does it, so I will keep digging.
