oh, repeatable scenes! that's the word. here's my problem:
okay so like, let's say you want to watch may and baobao kiss again- you'd have to take the bus to the city, go to the restaurant, start working- and then when you serve the top-right table, the event doesn't 'always' happen? so you might have to load a save, go back to the restaurant, save, and hope it kicks in the second time, and load if it doesn't. but then you can't load from the menu, which means if it doesn't, you have to end the game, go back to the title screen, and then load to try again
once you've saved in front of a repeatable scene you might want to repeat, you have it on the backburner, but- if the game ends up getting bigger (which i hope it will because its SO CUTE >3<) that's one less save slot you'll always have, capped at 19 + 1 (autosave). and increasing that cap still wouldn't be great because managing lots of separate save files is confusing @@ and because loading is removed from the menu, if you guess which save was at which scene, and your guess was wrong, its back to the title screen to try again
also! once the scene is done, if you, like me, are still trying to rub one out >~< you have to reload the save again. not the worst thing in the world but a little annoying to do with one hand. or if you change your mind and want to switch to looking at recollected scenes instead of repeatable scenes, you have to go to the recollection room-- and then if you change your mind again you have to reload the save
like, functionally the repeatable scenes are in fact, repeatable (real game design genius from me right here) but it's really inconvenient. in h-games where you get animations by getting hit by enemies (usually action games, platformers, some RPGs), you can repeat those as well, but then you have to go around looking for the right enemy and then walk into them to take damage multiple times @@
on a similar note, i think adding the cg to the recollection room would be really good! a lot of jp h-games in their gallery rooms will ask you if you want to just look at the pictures, or if you want to play the whole cutscene all over again. this gives people some good options because sometimes the context makes things more enjoyable but sometimes you just need the picture. the super important thing here (imo) is that it could work as a good stop-gap solution. like, repeatables could have their CG in the recollection room (since, in terms of tech, its basically just an NPC that shows a few pictures) and that could be a temporary fix while you think about what you want to do
but i'm just some rando who's mooching off your h-game, so i don't want to seem too pushy or anything here D: i just want to plead the case for repeatables in the recollection room, it's really nice to have everything all in one place