Hello. I have been enjoying the game so far and its been enjoyable to figure out character combinations. What I have been strugggling to find out though is how and when secondary growth is triggered. What is also unclear whether or not Story-Endings are affected by affection or not. Since for Aiko the Ending stays the same regardless whether she "enjoys the MCs company" or doesn´t. Some clarity would be great since there is no UI that indicated if answers are "correct" or not.
Most of your questions are answered in the info button inside the character screen.
Second growth is triggered only for 2 characters currently: Maria and Narrator-chan. It happens when they have 200 resonance and are already grown once. Then you will have to look through their passives and the condition will be written there.
Bond endings are indeed affected by choices. There are 6 states of affection and each 2 trigger a different ending. You can also go back and replay a certain episode in order to change your choice.
A little tip, choices are like this ALWAYS: top is bad, middle is neutral and botton is good. This is to make it easier to reach all endings. Also choices have some differenced for following dialogue too.
Hope this answers your questions!
This does answer most of my questions. Thank you. In case of Maria the bond quality did not refresh after redoing the choices until I replayed the first interaction. I also found Marias Secondary Growth Condition by chance shortly after writing my initial comment. Just need to unlock Narrator Chan still and see how it turns out there (last one I haven´t unlocked). Thank you for your detailed response.