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I agree that there hasn't bee too much character development, but that seems like more a side effect of this game covering a whole year. You can't rush through a characters arc to quickly else they become irrelevant later on. There's at the very least been some groundwork for later events put down, like Tomoe's family thing and wedding, the potential threesome with Saki and Becky, plus a few more. So at the very least something is planned.best way to describe it it took me almost 3 hours just to skip through it all. the plots not boring or anything is actually pretty interesting though not very serious and there is plenty of sex scenes to get you going but its not the best to play if you dont have alot of time on your hands
Harem Hotel technically doesn't have any grind in it since all of the grinding stuff is optional and not necessary to continue the characters stories (they do however add alternative options to different scenes) if you add them together i would say that ecchi sensei may beat it in terms of length however i do think that quality of content does also matter and to me harem hotel definitely has better quality storytelling and characters than ecchi sensei (at least right now) and in terms of ecchi sensei's quality of content its just seems to be sex scene after sex scene which although great looking there's been no real plot or character development and (excluding Mao) no real story, (what is the main plot of this game right now?) in the last 2 weeks of this game.
i feel like the real reason bluecat is adding the sandbox aspect to this game is because they've made too many characters in the game too quickly and have oversaturated the story and have no real set or even rough plot outline going foward just key events planned for different characters and they've basically just said "fuck it im just gonna make a bunch of different scenes for different characters and you choose whose you wanna see and i'll prioritise whichever ones patreon wants me to"
And while I can't confirm it personally, high tier patrons apparently get access to 100 days worth of spoilers, and I've seen a few exchanges in the discord that lends weight to that. So, I'm pretty sure most of the story is planned out, though I imagine it's flexible enough to squeeze in new ideas.
i can definitely see the reason for the sandbox being that stringing scenes together being a pain in the arse. It's been in the works since around the Week 1 merge though. I think they decided to stop patrons influencing the game just before Month 1 Merge started, with them starting a side game for that instead. That's why there are no more T8+ characters being added any more. I think so, anyway. It's been a while since I looked into it.