...One thing I think is interesting though is that most people seem to love Cait and Lyriel. Is this something fundamental to the both of them, I wonder, or is it just because those two are the big subs of the house and F95 is full of people who like to bully?
Reeeeeee don't kink shame the bullies! (/s)
I like Lyriel and Rae because they are fit, hot, feminine, have pretty faces, etc. This is a porn game, the attractiveness of the LIs is quite important. I also tend to like tsundere chicks if it's done right, and with Lyriel it's done right.
As for Cait I don't really get the hype. She is ok, she doesn't act hyper masculine, but she is just an average LI to me. Her face is just not as pretty and she kind of has this 'Little House on the Prairie' type vibe. She's not quite cute enough for her shyness to be endearing.
Blair is short and quite overweight, I don't find her face pretty, and she behaves really suspiciously when she first joins the house - she is just of no interest to me.
Yona and Naomi are way too masculine for my tastes. Giant ripped chicks that can bench hundreds of pounds are a major turn off for me.
I encountered a scene with Yona by accident not realizing what I was doing, and she and the MC screwed around in the shower - honestly it was creepy as fuck to me, it looked like a dude in drag with huge muscles and big masculine hands getting freaky with the MC. Which hey, if that's what your into, that's fine - but for me, I'm not into it at all.
I get that these characters were likely included to appeal to a wider base, versus Rae, Lyriel, and Cait who are largely going to appeal to people with very classic tastes. As long as it doesn't become mandatory to constantly fuck the characters you aren't into, I can live with that. If they add an eject button to kick out the characters you don't like, that would be fantastic but it will likely never happen.
...You know, that's not a terrible idea. Someone should make an H game that's like adult oriented survivor... A dude gets placed on an island with a bunch of women and every 2 weeks he has to decide on one to banish.