Interesting. We're currently at 56% of Chapter 4 Update 1's animation count (not counting any unregistered completions). We're closing ground at ~10.5% per week thanks to the recent growth spurt. So we're still a couple weeks out from what I'd put as the ballpark "respectably close" zone. Not that I'd mind winding up shy of that mark; the game was great even before it added animations, and Ch4 Up3 already has a solid render count and conspicuously high number of words. Plus, 'animations' are a notoriously fungible metric since a given animation can vary widely by length. The important thing is that the update delivers on story, character and sexiness. Animations aren't the only - or even necessarily the best - tool in the toolbox when it comes to meeting those needs.
In fact, I have to admit I'm a little skeptical about adding non-sex animations. They can certainly be a good thing in the right circumstances, but I've seen so many games lose their mind trying to animate utterly trivial details to no real effect beyond ballooning the development time (*cough*
BaDIK *cough*cough*). You'd think they were trying to make an animated movie rather than a visual novel.
I don't mean to sound as insulting as I probably do here; you two have done an excellent job making the visuals serve the game's needs so if you say the non-sex animations are worth adding, I believe you. I'm not even sure how long the animations take to create in HS vs a 3D rendering engine. It's basically just a kneejerk reaction on my part. But I'd be lying if I said my eyebrow didn't raise when I read it.
