Special Stories

The special stories are companion pieces to the main stories. Each side story comes with several episodes that are told from the perspective of the characters from that main story. Interestingly, the player is still able to make choices from time to time, deciding the character's feelings or actions. The player's choices have no influence upon the main story. Each special story episode requires that the player has seen a certain main story episode that corresponds to the special episode in some way. Special stories are available only for a limited time. It is unknown whether they will be re-released for players who missed them.

It's important to note that when the player finishes a main story in its entirety, the route will be reset all the way to the beginning. This can be a problem for special stories, which will then not register the player as having reached the necessary point to unlock an episode.

Trivia

 * The first special story to be released was for Rhys-Ana, followed by Mel-Ty, then Nik-Ana.
 * The Rhys-Ana special story was extended due to a glitch that had occurred during it, in which stamina was not being refilled properly. The glitch was fixed soon after its appearance and the special story extended to ensure players had a fair opportunity to finish it.
 * When special stories first appeared, the story still reset at the end of each route, so players had to have both reached a certain point in the main story and not have completed it. This may be why side-by-side main story play was introduced.
 * In Anastasia's routes in the main stories, upon Vladimir's first appearance, she is still angry with him for dragging her "off to freaking Greenland for survival training" instead of letting her and her mother mourn after her father's death, and it is clear that the memory still hurts her. However, in the prologue special story scene, showing what Anastasia was "up to before your story began," the two of them visit and seem to get along very well.