User blog comment:Auric Drake/Paradox Part 3 predictions/@comment-36184859-20180812041202

Certainly seems likely, but regarding the "Needs affection maxed to not have them leave", what would be max affection? Getting all their reward list? I feel that talking to them in camp/making choices that agree with their point of view (For example, I noticed that Ilias likes being on the Marine's side, but wont argue if you pick pirate). Besides, the people you tend to have high affection on also tend to be your main party... so...having the people at 0 affection leave isn't gonna hurt much. (Like, my LoC party has 20 K + affection? (Totally not due to level 5 trials giving 500 affection... nope.))

I feel that Luka would be able to make the choice to murder both sides if Black Alice can convince him that it would "reset" the world and fix everything (Or she's lying)

Im personally a fan of "No one is truly evil", so being able to "save" Black Alice would be nice for me. Even if she's totally faking it, ready to backstab us... (But she cant once she's under our control :P)

I feel that a NG+ like that seems hard to pull off, first of all, as you mentioned, it should start at part 3, as starting from part 1 or 2, with your presumably level 90 max geared (Not even counting any LoC shenanigans), and being able to one shot everything in the way seems to be a good way to bore the player to death. Even if its just part 3, that would be the same as making a part 4 to the game: There's too many things that change. Even simple things like preventing you know who's death in the Alice route vastly changes the entire story.

Speaking of NG+, I feel that it IS already kinda canon, beating armored berserker makes Alice/Ilias note that they shouldn't be able to do so at this point. Bringing Hild to her boss battle has Boss Hild note that its a cross world encounter, therefore its somewhat vague to what exactly Reaper does to "Start Life Anew" as what she calls NG + (And "See you Space Shota"? Hmmmmmm). Theres also that back exit in Hades, which Reaper notes that entering is one way, whats behind there? (Betting on the Debug room. Its just the three Imps messing with a switch...)

That last Tartarus... well, so far we got: Couple years into future, A few years into the past, doomed world in 30 years lots of years into the past, unknown due to being unable to enter, and the last one. Not sure about you, but I've been wondering about the Chaos path that leads to the portal that leads to these Alt worlds. Perhaps they mean something. The one that lead to the world that was closest(Couple years into the future) was basically straight forward. The one that lead to the past was more of a winding path, and the one that traveled the most, was a spiral, unlike the others, you entered from the top, not the bottom. Therefore, for the last one, I feel it would be this: Its the true world, and Luka and Co meet up with the true Luka, perhaps moments after He entered the Heaven's Gate. This is where you would regain Alice/Ilias's true form, Alice because she meets up with herself, and time and space bend to make them equal (After all, I don't recall anyone meeting themselves in the Tartarus Pits) For Ilias, its returning to Heaven and absorbing the pure Holy Elements there that restore her form OR the other Ilias dying and Ilias absorbing that.

(Oh, I tend to ramble on about stuff and lose track of what I was saying. So ask me if anything seems unclear.)