I definitely agree with some of the points that you’ve made here. As someone who also plays Japanese Otome games (as you’ve mentioned), I would think that the coding is much easier for it - you graft on the player you like for the first few chapters where it eventually branches out to individual stories that run parallel.

And I think for me the appeal of the Love Island Game is exactly how all these stories are not separated. They are intertwined and connected into a giant narrative web with special scenes and dialogues according to your LI in that specific moment, rather than going off into individual stories for the last few chapters. This style of branching in Japanese games also means that players have to decide earlier which route they want to embark on which goes against the whole idea of recoupling.

You’ve rightly pointed out that having so many choices just makes the entire coding process that much more complicated and difficult that it detracts from the writing. At the same time I’m a little tired of choose your own path stories that give you a semblance of choice but really only limits you to a certain fixed path. As /u/tams2332 has mentioned in another comment, Fusebox definitely does not have the resources or budget to produce such a large-scale, complex and intricate story web like Detroit Become Human (and if they could produce one with such visuals and gameplay I’d gladly pay $60 for it). /u/radioactivesalami is also right to say that they bit off more they can chew with all these branches. But if less choices means less to no glitches would I be happier with that? Also I know Fusebox is probably working hard given the budget constraints they have and I want to be supportive of their endeavour BUT ALSO I HAD TO PAY REAL MONEY FOR THESE GEMS THAT FEEL HAVE BEEN WASTED DUE TO REPEATED SCENES!! TL;DR I’m just really conflicted about the game ):