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by hanako » Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:46 pm
Short answer: almost certainly not.
Longer answer: there's been a lot of threads about this, though even I have trouble finding them on short notice. The game was never originally designed to do multiple years, though. The magic system isn't set up for it. Half the cast would be immediately removed from play because all the seniors would have graduated and left. All the Damien routes, for example, would be unable to continue, because he can't come back to the school (and sometimes the protagonist can't either, if you got THAT ending). Continuing the Grabiner route would also be really unlikely to work well in the same game as everything else. People writing Grabiner fanfic often want to go off to England with him to meet his family, or to get involved in complicated Otherworld drama, all of which would be really interesting but is so completely different from what would be happening to a normal student that it would be ruled out as part of a general year 2 game.
The original design was to be able to do freshman year in all six halls, learning more about the characters through different perspectives and getting to date different people in each game. It's unlikely that all six will actually happen, but Wolf Hall is out now, and contains a lot of interesting plotlines for someone who's played Horse Hall. Lots of questions about Minnie, Damien, William, Musette, and even Grabiner will get answers, and a bunch of new characters that weren't seen at all or only barely in Horse Hall get their chance for introductions.
There are no current plans for what, if anything, to do after Wolf Hall. Originally it would have been Butterfly after Wolf, but I don't know if that's really the best choice. The most important plotline which still hasn't been shown and was intended for a later game is Raven's, which will answer some HUGE questions about the setting when she finally gets a main route, things that her side route in Wolf Hall didn't even touch on.