i do agree with you on that note that there need to be balance if game is to be "game" not book with renders or fap fest where story is second to sex scenes (nothing wrong with that i also "play" lol that types of games) and for me perfect balance is where story is captivating yet you feel like you are in control of it with choices you are making yet you are not overloaded with them and after some progress you think back if you eFed up or not by choosing this or that... but and big but if dev overshoot his capabilities and give ton of choices project is either to have slow progres or is doomed becouse of the amount of work that needs to be done rendering writing coding etc.. there is good example of too mutch choice idk if you had chance to play its been years since that game is dead https://f95zone.to/threads/dirty-pool-v1-1-pirot-king.10792/ just check out guide file game started to be soo messy it got abandoned and dev started new project that have less branching and less pointless choicesTough question. Not enough choice and the AVN gets labeled as a "Kinetic Novel." Too much choice and it drifts away from AVN into more a "porn game" than a story.
My own preference is on the story side. Personally, I prefer to explore the environment as a story with some character development. That's a big part that is lost when there are "too many choices," whether those choices are actions or LIs. The more choices, the harder it is for characters to have any depth to their personalities, let alone opportunities to grow (for the record, I'm not considering penile growth and pregnancy growth as character growth).
isnt it sad that project labeled as "kinetic novel" are trashed upon on this forum for that particular difference that is lack of choices? lack of choices in kinetic novels with good writing where time is invested in deep character development outweighs "problem" with having no choices from my point of view people dont get what they are doing is not playing but more like reading a book with renders and animations and whole experience is in hands of writer and dev and only when they dont like something in story or how characters look they start to bash on kinetic novels i think whole gender of KN is misunderstood on this forum by majority of users...