It is all that bad because very few players will play more than 1 or 2 playthroughs for multiple routes so you will be alienating the hard core harem fans. As well as it being a dating sim with points or flags whatever system you use means every choice or the majority of them should or will have consequences. So whenever a story branching choice or point(s) takes place the a player has to make a save and so on. You are thinking chick flick rom com when you should be thinking fap flix and chill. This is just my opinion and it's yours to do with as you please but remember most players don't like gaming mechanics in vn's. Yet dev's keep beating a dying horse trying to make it get up. Either way good luck. and my final point I have tried to learn daz myself and just can't get to the outcome I am striving for but as much work goes into all the art and animations why make something that some players will never see? It boggles my mind say it takes 30-90 days for an update most dev's can make that timeframe sometimes things happen but let's go in between and say 45 days so you put it all together and release your hard work don't you want your player especially those who want it to have the full experience? Or do you prefer to say no you have to play it 3 times to see everything. So there are so many conversations and interactions that are repeated and so on it get's boring. Not to mention as I said above most of the time dev's don't warn hey this is a major branching decision you should save here. So we are left guessing which decisions changed the course because not all dev's make it obvious and very few of them account for different player personalities. They just put a +/- or a + this stat or that stat.I don't think it's all that bad, it's not like I'm gonna do one route for each girl and in each of that route, you'll only get that one girl. It's more about the girls at the house and for the relationship to be a bit more meaningful, so the MC isn't at home with a mother and her two daughters and they all just want to have sex with him at once, with no regard for each other.
What I have in mind, and I feel like I'm just repeating myself at this point, is that there will be True romantic relationships with the three main girls, which will contain all the scenes with that girl. If you have that True relationship, the other two girls know about it and you can't have one with them. And then there being sort of secret relationship, more superficial, where you can have multiple of them, but don't have all the scenes. I could see making myself a magic button, which unlocks this and you can have all the relationship, sort of a cheat, but I wouldn't accommodate this with a story, as it wouldn't make all that much sense, without bending the story to make sense of it as I did in TS. If that makes sense.
TLR I could make a cheat button to unlock all relationship no matter what, but I wouldn't make sense of it with the story and I wouldn't write around it, which could result in some inconsistencies.
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