I am not a dev and mine are only guesses, but once you have assets and entities disappearing, and the action doesn’t make use of any shortcut strategy, isn’t it simpler to turn the whole thing in a scripted sequence of some kind, like a QTE sequence?

The encounters also seem to be very “episodic” in nature, so the moments in between could serve as loading/deloading moments.

And it would prevent people from turning around and making the necessary design more complex.

Second this. Bought Indika Deluxe edition including Artbook and FLAC soundtrack DRM-free for less than that this week.

No, absolutely. At the very least from Hegel onwards, the game changes.

I read Stoics, the few things we have from Epicureans, Plato, Aristotle and Cicero’s work on rhetoric.

Typical modern book as well. I keep reading classic philosophy just for being amazed at the amount of concepts crammed in under 100 pages.

I don’t think that is rendered as one complete map, probably there is only a short buffer behind the MC.