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Limiting the number of Lis certainly can help focusing the story.There does seem to be a sweet spot for number of LIs. 5-8 seems to work best in terms of fleshing them out into distinct characters. Too many and they just become cardboard cutouts with tropes and just become a checklist of characters to see lewd scenes of. Too few and you lack variety of choice. I think there should be more games where if you choose one LI it blocks off others or if you attempt to woo multiple it can cause severe problems or even a bad end. It would increase the replay factor in these games in order to see different choices and consequences instead of there typically being one optimal path to see all content.
Just to make it clear: I'm enjoying Ripples and it certainly is one of the best games on this side (at least of the ones I played), but I also think that there would've been easy ways to make it even better. Apparently playing through Ep. 6 I'm also now on routes with Dani and Shelby?!
Another slight criticism for/from me would be, that apparently all the women want to be taken hard and called sluts etc. There is no variety here, even though you have like ~15 female characters that could at least be somewhat different from each other. Why don't make some of them like more soft and gentle and some like it rough and hard?!
I don't know...maybe that contrast is meant for Darci?! Like she is all rough and tumble and does MMA, but she wants sex to be tame and soft in the end? We'll see, I guess.
And I know, I've now wrote paragraphs of criticism and it makes it look like I don't like the game, but most of this is just petty nitpicking.