Players of her previous game. Would you say EK gave you a fair and balanced amount of 'good' and 'bad' endings? And how would you rate them overall? Do you have faith that she can/will deliver good endings for the LIs in this one or are you not that sure?
Generally I thought there was a good variation. Clearly some development time was spent on Ashley's more extreme endings, many of her love routes basically end in the same ways just with a different partner. I guess it could have been fun if Ash could have gone off travelling in arty circles with Dave or Jess, instead of their love routes being footnotes to Ash just being an office girl or independent model or something like that. A deeper dive into their character routes I guess.
That said there was some room for variation too. The girlfriend BBC ending with Eva was bugged but there was also options that accounted for Ashley being a lewd model with Danny while being with your various potential lovers.
ORS seems to be headed towards having endings pertaining to Ian and Lena's professional lives, their main love interests and then probably individual endings for each other character that will account for stuff like cheating and such if available.
Eva sort of harshly enforced Lena's romances when she commits to them, Ian, Holly or committing to them both, they stop her from cheating entirely unless she gives in to Seymour. In a simialar vein I've gotten the impression that the same is the case with Ian/Holly but I don't know how Ian works out with committing to Lena. All this as well as who is dominant to whom and such could lead to different ending variations. I expect most of the more complicated endings will involve the more invovled characters that we already experience writing delays from such as Holly, Cindy and Emma all of three whom have several potential lovers.
Cherry for example could be much simpler and perhaps have fewer ending variations because outside of Ian and some minor Perry indicators she is largely an isolated character in the story.
Will it be balanced? I'm not entirely sure. Lena seems to have more options towards being slutty than not, but does a slutty ending mean a bad ending? Lena was already a sexually liberal character when the game began, Ian perhaps a bit less so, but I think there will be some balance if you keep in mind that Lena being an innocent waif isn't her default state.
