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*does worry about too much plot at times!*
You haven't reached the point of too much plot until you can't fit it all in to anything less than 40 pages of dry exposition. That is, if it takes your entire novel to lay out the plot like it's a history text then... you might have too much plot... at least for one book/VN/game/etc. That's the point when you need to think about serialization.I suppose just to re-iterate you don't have to actually get stuck into all the many plots etc that are going on around your MC. It's not obligatory and you can play it as a standard waifu hunt I suppose - but if you delve I think it's a much more fun game.
Admits I did once consider writing a novel in the form of a religious book - every bit as dry as a history text, room for all 47 partially to fully intersecting plot lines and all 329 characters across seven generations. Got as far as the start of generation 3 and realized it was so dry even i couldn't stand reading it enough to edit.