VN - Ren'Py - Ripples [v0.7.0 BETA] [Jestur]

Those animations are sublime
I mean god this is really a impressive work from the developper
Plus the storyline looks interesting
I have done a small portion of the game so far and I'm quite impressed and looking forward to more content

Honestly one of the best VN's on here. A story and plot that is actually interesting, engaging and pulls you in. You get the faps, as well as a quality story that makes you come back for more. The animations are really well done and overall it's a phenomenal experience.

Characters all have their individual storylines with an accompanying background story that keeps you invested. The writing in this area is really well done and it's not like the other games on here that have a half-assed story. It seems like the creator really cares about creating a cohesive world for us to be drawn into.

Honestly, can't go wrong with this one 5/5.

Absolutely deserves a 5 star rating.

This game is another level, a really unique game i ever encoutered.
This is some new engine i think, havent seen it in other games.
Everything is sooo smoooth and beautiful.
The plot itself is really good, i can see other people liking it for sure.
Music is great.
There are so many funny moments its so good.
I say everyone try this game for themselves

Really impressive visual storytelling. I haven't seen many developers doing a better job with camera angles and using small animations beyond the sex stuff. The story is certainly interesting - time travel has its pitfalls, though. Looking forward to learning more here. Really hot sex scenes are the cherry on top.

Keep up the good work!

WOW...Fantastic story telling and art! It keeps you wanting to go on and find out what is happening. The relationships being built have me going back and forth who I’m rooting the MC ends up with, as well.

This keeps getting better and better Jestur already knows how I feel but damn the little details in everything makes this game top notch. Its in my top 3 on this site.

The music in every track makes the game feel more alive, the background sound is crisp and makes me. I keep finding myself stopping to listen to the music the scene direction is amazing I can't wait to see chapter 5. The girls are all so funny and heartwarming.

Very good story. Not the usual harem story but there is certain thing that make you very interested in this.

Very good render and animation. One of the best render.

The quality of the sex scenes is very high. the way it presented is very nice.

Wow, this game surprised me in the best way. The models are great and the animation flow is just the way I like it. But the best part is the story. The writing is really good so that it feels engaging even though it isn't a new concept. Really good mystery story going on.

Frankly this is incredible, amazing scene, (sex or not) great and varied character, superbs model and incredible animations, the writing and pacing is top notch, i don't know man, i just wanted to keep playing, ahh one of my top three, probably second, I'm hoping i manage to forget it and come back to a finished product because in the mean time, it's all gonna be tasteless! See ya!

This game is laugh out loud funny. Great personalities for the girls and hot scenes, beginning from their setup and ending in great (HS) graphics and some of the best animations available. There might be a girl for everyone in this one. Great, varied cast.

As of v0.3.6 well over 6 hours of steamy and intriguing content and a great mystery-story to go along. Can't wait for more.

Can't think of a single bad thing or an improvement to suggest. Gotta support the dev.

Ripples is home to the single funniest conversation I have ever read in any AVN, involving strawberry jam and an omegaGILF who can - *sip* - fucking get it.

Sure, the main thrust of the plot has been done before, but I don't care, it's still compelling. There isn't a single thing this game lacks, everything from the animations and visual design (for Honey Select) to the character writing to the plot to the humor to the music selection is all some of the best in class.

And especially, if you're into Tool references (I counted 4), headbanging to Opeth, and the opportunity to cuck Bob Seger, this is the place for you.

There's a good amount of content as of 0.3.6 so no reason not to give it a shot.

Excellent renders! A lot of time has and effort went into the environment, and it shows. I was impressed by the by all the background action like cars on the street, and people walking past during dialog scenes.
I especially liked the models used for the girls, very pretty choices on most, and some were downright stunning. Thanks so much for not doing like every other developer on this site seems to do and filling the screen with 3 foot wide asses and 36 triple k tits.
I want to support this project, and will be signing on to do so as soon as I finish here.
Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
P.S. How did you get such great render quality on the models skins? What mods are you using?

Brilliant game that is a near masterpiece!

Pros

• Excellent writing
• Excellent storytelling
• Excellent humor
• Fun characters who you grow to love
• Likeable MC
• Excellent lewd/sex scenes
• Excellent animations
• Good use of sound effects

Cons

• Honey Select game - outdated graphics and outdated character models
• Writing gets a bit verbose or drawn out, mainly just a couple of places in the game such as when the MC enters 1999 (beginning part). The game pace can get a bit slow at times (between events).
• Few meaningful choices in the game (I understand that this is a visual novel).
• MC needs more character development. The MC is likeable but I still don't really know who he is at this point aside from mundane facts. We know a lot about his quest for finding out the truth about the power plant disaster but we don't know very many defining characteristics about the MC aside from this. Some of the love interests in the game have the same problem. To the author's defense, many characters are still in early development.

I generally frown on Honey Select games because of the outdated and below average character models but there are a few out there that make up for it with superb writing and stories. This game is a real gem among Honey Select games! The visuals and character models are passable enough to not distract from the story, however there are plenty of games out there with much better visuals and character models.

One bonus for authors using Honey Select is that they can develop much faster due to lower rendering time. They don't have to have a PC with monster specs to render at a decent speed. I've followed a lot of developers and games on this site and those rendering in DAZ usually produce 50% less content per release as opposed to those rendering with Honey Select. There are tradeoffs either way.

The past two winners of the Christmas Developer Contest were Honey Select games. So using Honey Select isn't necessarily a bad thing...

I'm guessing this game was originally called 'Nipples'? The author's F95Zone profile says, "Nipples Dev". I'm guessing Patreon made him change the name to Ripples to fit their guidelines.

Jestur (the developer of this game) goes outside of the normal Honey Select animations and creates unique ones of his own. This is hugely refreshing as I get tired of seeing the same Honey Select default animations over and over again!

Jestur also makes good use of sound effects. It is extremely rare that an author will have excellent animations, writing, and sound effects! This makes the sex scenes something unique and special!

There isn't a lot of sex scenes in the game but the ones in it are done exceptionally well. I greatly prefer games that have good stories AND plenty of lewd content. There was enough to keep me satisfied. I was not disappointed.

There is some porn logic used with some of the lewd scenes but it is done better and is more believable than many other games I've played. The dev puts one foot in reality and one foot in fantasy (which I greatly prefer). The author doesn't take all reality and jettison it into space like I commonly see in other games. Thank you for keeping the game believable and real!

The thing that sets this game above many others is the excellent humor throughout the game! The humor feels natural and not forced which is rare. Too many games out there try to force the humor and you can tell and it often falls flat. This is not the case with this game. The game had me laughing many times! Thank you! It was a big stress reliever.

I'm hoping that there will be a harem option with this game. The author makes you fall in love with all of the the love interests in the game. It is a testament to the brilliant writing but will be very painful if I end up having to choose just one of them!

Thank you for not having a zillion love interests! The game focuses on four girls which gives the game more focus. This also allows the player to form deeper relationships with them.

One common pitfall I see with authors is their inability to develop deep and meaningful relationships with characters in the game. You see this in games where the author continually adds more and more pretty faces (new characters) into the game in order to keep things fresh and interesting. What you end up with is a ton of shallow characters with next to no character development. This author appears to be the opposite of that. Great authors have the skills and talents necessary to develop deep and meaningful relationships!

All the pieces fit together near perfectly in this game. It is well polished and a near masterpiece! I thoroughly enjoyed this game!

I highly recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try!

Magnificent VN. Witty, likeable characters and a storyline that's interesting enough to keep following. Lovely art style, good writing. This is most definitely in my top 5 (out of more than a hundred AVNs played).

Lewd scenes are absolutely top notch, there aren't a whole many but what it lacks in quantity it more than makes up in quality. These are among the sexiest animations I've seen in any AVN, and while titles such as ToN may have the upper hand in terms of graphical fidelity, there's something about the lewdness in Ripples that makes it stand out. Not just because the animations are so smooth, it's the sexual creativity that makes it so good (for instance the ice cream scene in the park, omg).

Anyway congrats on a well deserved 1st place in the 2021 contest Jestur and I hope you will be able to create more/similar content in the near future.

This is the most beautiful Honey Select game I've played. It's also probably the most immersive; you really feel like you're inside a world instead of just jumping between a ragtag set of generic locations. The writing is a little generic, but they are done so well that I honestly don't mind. The action/adventure part of the story is my least favorite (and it usually is with these games) but it's at least interesting thus far. The horror elements of said portion of the story aren't nearly as overdone as Dreams of Desire or the like. My preference is that porn games don't show nightmares where my dad dies violently, but maybe that's just me. I appreciate the meta-humor but it is a little overdone in some places. All of the women are hot and have fairly distinct personalities.

Do play with the walk-through mod. It will save you the annoyance of having to rollback when you make an (in hindsight) obviously bad decision. I'm not going to take a star off for it since the correct choices don't lock you out of content, but devs, please stop with meaningless choices. You're only giving yourselves more work to do and remember: if a choice is actually meaningful, you've doubled the amount of content you have to make. Allow the player to decide whether or not they want to pursue relationships with characters or see certain fetishes. Don't present an illusion of choice when the choices are right-or-wrong or there's no functional difference between them at all.

v.Ep 3 Part 1

It's been some time since I played this game, but I remember the story being very interesting and you can do time travel very wrongly, that is very boringly. The characters are pretty good, not just by looks but also personality.

Jestur has crafted an extraordinary game. It is clear from the moment one begins playing Ripples that there was an incredible amount of care involved. The music is top notch. The scenes meld humor and sensuality in a memorable, if not enchanting, way. The girls are all ridiculously gorgeous, especially if you're into blonde LIs: for my money, Daphne, Jessica, Darci, and Shelby are some amazing models.

A discussion of Ripples is incomplete without mentioning the story's framework, the character building/dialogue, and the stunning animations. Jestur has taken clear influence from a multitude of sci-fi movies, and his homages to them are appreciable without being excessive and cliche. The characters go beyond being empty archetypes with a fresh coat of HS paint airbrushed on: Krystal is not just that high school tart that your typical Ren'py game would see her be, Darci is not just a tomboy, etc etc. Their stories are explored and the player's perspective of the characters change accordingly. There is development, which is not common in these sorts of work.

Finally, the animations and visual work: it is plain to see that this is where Jestur puts his heart and soul. It is readily apparent that Jestur's videos are a cut above any other HS1 games. The perspectives are varied and manifold; they are unnecessary, yet Jestur has worked tirelessly to ensure that they are considered an essential part of the game. Other HS games released after Ripples have understandably taken notice and tried to emulate as best they can -- yet despite his name, Jestur is clearly still the King.

I highly recommend Ripples to everyone. The story is fun, the girls are hot, the scenes are awesome. Hope the fanbase continues to grow and the game receives the monetary support it unquestionably merits.

One of my most favorite game that i keep track each day. Animations are really well done and all characters are beautiful that you'll wonder when will they show up again on the story. Time travelling story, so expect some inconsistencies but for me, i don't care about that since this is a fantasy and i'm more than satisfied as long as we get to the ending with the current flow.

For version 0.3.6, Episode 3 Part 2:
This game is a lot of fun, the models, the animations and the ambience music are all very good. I like VNs with a sci-fi ingridient to them, the story is also interesting adding some mystery to it. Without spoiling too much, the time travel is a great twist which benefits the story and the conspiracy behind it.
And finally, the girls, each one has a different personality and it's hard not to like them. Some of the choices will be hard if you like more than one. The lewd scenes are great with the sound effects included. I know they are mostly blonde, but I don't have a problem with that. My favorite is Skylar, love her model and her personality.
I recommend this game for people who like some sci-fi mixed with mystery (with a special weakness on blonde hair), they will not be disappointed.

This one was fun, but I wanted to love it, and I didn't quite get there with it.

Honey Select seems to be very limiting, as all of the models manage to look the same, which is no fault of the Dev, whom is clearly very talented and passionate about the project.

The game is very sex-driven thus far, and most of the characters seem to be horny 24/7. Could be a plus for players looking for a quick nut, but I was lowkey hoping for a slowburn type of thing with heavy sc-fi elements.

I just can't immerse myself in the "girls throwing themselves at the nerdy MC suddenly" or Harem type stuff.

The sex scenes are really good, a bit vanilla aside from some lighter BDSM, but hot.

The dialogue itself is funny. Darci is hilarious and the (not) Sister character was refreshing because the Dev avoided the "bitchy Sister" trope, which made me so happy.

Overall, there is a lot of good here. And a TON of good for players wanting a quick nut. It just wasn't for me.

3*