- Aug 22, 2018
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AL and Rockstar etc.. are dating sims. The whole point of those is to pick a girl.I understand your point but in this type of games you're basically forced to.
If you (the dev) force the player to pick a girl early on and stick with her to achieve the happy ending, you're both limiting the amount of content the players see each update and you're forcing them to have multiple play-through. I'm sure 80%+ of the players won't bother making a second/parallel play-through and as a dev you want them to see as much content as possible, so the updates seem bigger.
Some game (ie: Acting Lesson, probably Becoming a Rockstar) punish the player if you stray from the chosen girl, which is both realistic and just, but in my opinion is bad UX (User eXperience) since you're forcing them to start all over when their fault was trying to view as much content as possible.
The problem this game has now is it has to end with a whole game harem or no one at all. Either way it's going to piss people off.