No offense, but I think some of you guys should take a step back or something. She's a LI with a planned romance route in a porn VN. I mean, yeah, the dev COULD base her off the most frustratingly hateable addict that many of you are imagining and just torture the fuck out of us. Or, he could... you know... better secure his bonus income and reward his players' patience by allowing them some choice in how they help Risa?
Perhaps a satisfying arc for her that will be pleasing by the end?
I'm sorry for being a snarky smartass, but you're the nth person to hate Risa for these same reasons and I'm just really baffled. Not by the fact that you dislike her, sometimes a character just isn't for you; but the reasoning I keep reading just flies past my head for sure.
The main LIs are on the frontpage. Any girls outside of those are minor characters that won't be the focus. I think it's fine.
From the perspective of a finished game, it will be very, very appreciated by players new and old. I think that's the best way to think about it, especially since Neon is planning to release it on Steam at some point.
None of this applies to this game. In case someone reads this and buys into the weird panic of "too much LIs" "game is starting to go down hill". I don't know wtf some of ya'll are smoking.. so far, nothing I've seen in this game reminds me of the shit I've had to put up with in others. And those games were even pretty mediocre on day 1, with all due respect to the devs which I'm sure are working very hard. I played them purely for a kink fix or because there isn't much else to choose from.
If this were another shitty harem game where the writing is clearly thrown in to move along to the next scene, I might sorta understand your fears. But it's not, and thank fucking Christ