Hey! Sorry for taking so long to reply, but here we go!
It really shouldn't happen, but there is the possibility for it to happen. There's a bottleneck in the story, and the event to leave Batria only fires when you've done a couple of other events. If you done them all, it should have fired so I'm not too sure what's happening. Could you send me your save file so I could take a closer look?
Not in the plans at the moment, sorry.
We really want to have it done before the end of the year. We like working on Rise but we have so many other ideas that we also want to work on, so we won't be working on it any more than we need to. (Though we need to make the game be aweasome! So that takes time)
I might add a bad end with the villain, not sure yet. And for who it is... That would be telling.
I have been thinking of adding a "bad end" route where Catherine gets enslaved early in the game and goes through the game as a slave. I'm thinking Jean would be behind that route, as an alternative to the Jeanne route, but people have asked for Kyo too, and just adding a new character would also be easier, so we're not entirely sure yet.
Thanks! Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
I am working on adding more dialogue for the routes, they just take a little bit as there's a lot of them and I want to make then fun and rewarding without taking too long to get through. Writing less is always harder than writing more.
Hum... Pretty sure it's different, but I can't recall out of the top of my mind.
Not at the moment, though that's probably something I should look into.