Bah crap, I copy pasted into html and made it normal, but it didn't retain what I posted =/
What I was going to say was that reusing resources are fine. Now, I'm looking at this in a purely story perspective though, not gaming. But even for gaming, if the missions are different, and the same setting was used for a completely differente scenario, I think that it's fine. What if one the routes featured a change or revelation in the game's universe that required a different play style?
But that's another talk, I'm specificly talking about story and story only.
It's fine to reuse resources like skins, models, maps, etc. VN's are the worst offenders of reusing resources and good ones make each route feel absolutely fresh and amazing. JRPGs with bigger budgets can pull it off easily.
