Oh the locals knowing what it's like to be downtown in any major city for a holiday was entirely believable. I know I do the same here, thanks but not worth the headache.I seriously thought I was fast enough to delete these banners. I made the mistake of not naming them right, thought they were different ones and uploaded. Oh well... I'll still use them in a month or two anyway, so no big deal.
I guess now everyone knows Chapter 4 will be named 'Echoes'...
Regarding Kim's content in Chapter 4, I'd say that half of it will depend on the choice made in Chapter 2—whether you forgave her or not, the rest will be there for plot purposes. However, this does not mean she won't try to get closer to you moving forward, and you can still change your mind on that choice and be more forgiving, which will open you back to her route.
As for Keyla, her content is mainly choice-driven. You can choose to hang out with her and her roommate, which will branch into everything else that happens later.
And yes, the call at the end of Chapter 3 is exactly for that reason—Keyla and Zeke with his girlfriend in the same place wouldn't work out.
For this part I was actually building a whole Times Square in Blender, but it would have taken way too long to finish, so I decided to scrap the idea and make the girls not want to go there instead. The scenes in the game are actually what happens after they came back from there, so I basically adapted the dialogues and scrapped the whole Christmas event thing.
Candace didn't know how crowded the place gets, so it wouldn't make sense for her to decline the invitation, so they actually go, but things escalate on the way and they change plans.
Maybe in version 1.0, after the game is fully finished, I might add this part back in.
My biggest hope for Kim's story is that it'll at least leave me feeling like I understood why she took the actions she did; namely keeping MC in the dark and leaving the way she did. And then if it was actually because her dad is really that bad/dangerous, why does she think MC'll be safe this time around.
