some rooms show the girls so there is a bit off fan service there a a purpose but in general i agree that the way the AVN is setup its more annoying then anything else
Erochaser probably had different idea's on the type AVN he wanted to make going in and changed his mind/style later on
Which means hes kinda stuck whit it based on the "coding foundation" off the avn (he could redo stuff but that would require a lot off work)
a other reason could be that hes just focusing on the main storyline for now and he set it up like this to easily add in new side content at any stage off the timeline in the game (so more content eventually down the line)
or possibly he just finds it easier to work whit how its setup right now
This is pretty accurate actually. When I started making 'From the Eclipse' it was my first time working with Renpy, and I was learning as I went. I had all these ideas based on a few games I played and implemented several systems. For those who remember playing the first several updates of the game when I first released the game may remember the visual mapping system. It looked really nice, but broke way too often and was hard to work around and add content to, so I got rid of it for the menu system I still use today.
Originally the game was going to be more choice oriented, where you can choose which girls you wanted to go with from the start. It was going to be a bit darker. I was going to release the game in stages, like one month you would get Path A, for example, then the next release would be Path B, then C, etc. And while I was preparing for this I kept getting a lot of feedback on how much people were enjoying the story, and learned that there are certain tags on games that people do not care for and actively avoid.
So now I mainly focus on the main story, and have learned from the mistakes I made early on. I think a lot of the abandoned games we find on here are abandoned because the devs find they bit of more then they could chew. I almost did this and was able to back up and find a way to avoid this.