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[LordTheNightKnight]

"For every little twist you can do, the entire story has to be changed up, which takes time and money to create and implement. It's not just a matter of writing the scenario."

Not every little twist. That assumes minor changes cannot create minor effects in a short term scenario like this game.

Perhaps if Jason lived after that accident, Ethan's wife left him in these two years for different reasons and they split custody. Heck, perhaps the accident still cause Ethan to have problems, even though Jason lived, so that he could still have these blackouts and still see Jason as he was with that balloon two years ago. The only thing to add would be some extra dialog and putting Jason alive and older in a few scenes.