it seems like you have a real intuitive understanding of what i'm up to here
i am planning something quite like these but a little more intricate, instead of things changing upon new game plus or play cycles, the characters change based on what you do/learn with other characters, with most characters having a true game over where the new game + would just be undoing the game-over action...
a set of scenes i've been kind of procrastinating are the consequences of Jackie's "call to arms," basically she tells everyone to "look out" for you and it stages up the next fight you encounter, so as a kind of transformation Jackie will be triggering FFM scenes
everything does something, you know, like a puzzle box
i was really inspired by your idea that Paola should have multiple stages and flash back and forth when you try to seduce her while enraged so i have snuck in some content in today's patch .23, it is now possible to access her 3rd Stage form after enraging her in battle... you didn't want any hints, right? i bet you can find it. i am imagining her having 4 or 5 stages in total.