SE--
I gotta come on these Forums to praise you guys for a fantastic story, the best one so far, in my opinion. Thank you for taking the time to think carefully about this world and the characters--they are your characters but they are 'ours' too, in a way, being in this story for so long and being so emotionally invested in it.
I want to praise you in particular for the way, in some of this patch's cutscenes, you let us pick from multiple dialogue options. This is huge to me. For example, when you and Alisae are having an intimate conversation, you can bring up one of three different aspects to your adventures. And she reacts, AT LENGTH, to whichever option you choose! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this so much, thank you SO MUCH for this, this gives us SO much more depth as a protagonist and makes us feel like we're doing so much more in this world, that we MEAN so much more in these characters' lives, than a simple stoic head-nod.
It is my humble request, whenever possible, that you include dialogue options like this in the future. They don't have to be long huge obscene branching trees, but real differences in selection, with real differences in how the NPCs react to them, is an excellent touch that I really appreciate.
In addition, I have one final request...
In a future patch, let me see Minfilia again, and--in a dialogue selection branch like the one you've implemented here, let me say that I love her. Let me select the actual words "I love you Minfilia" on a dialogue tree, and let her react to it. I've been waiting to say these words since 1.0, devs, don't let my character be that guy who never says those words and they turn out to never get spoken. Don't make me just 'imagine' I said it to myself with a knowing head-nod + smile, don't make me resort to fanfiction.
Let me say those words, and let her react to them. Hnnng.
Great patch guys. Renewing sub another 6 months.