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Man, Jestur really gives Caribdis a run for his money in terms of cliffhangers. 
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I agree that this last one is a tough pill to swallow, having to wait to know how much danger we are going to be in. The previous one was a lot less nerve wracking because even though we didn’t know what happened, at least we knew our Skyler was safe.Man, Jestur really gives Caribdis a run for his money in terms of cliffhangers.
I'm pretty sure that Dani at least was mostly due to fanbase. Many people already liked the character, and didn't anything implying that she could be a LI. She's a cutie though.Limiting the number of Lis certainly can help focusing the story.
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.
Man what a ride, I just finally tried this one out over the weekend. I am so conflicted... this is one of those games you hear about constantly, I mean this game is so popular and established that other games include little cameo / easter egg things by showing the ripples title screen in the background on a screen or poster in random scenes... but I had never actually sat down and played it before. I was really curious to see what all the hype is about.
As far as I know, the game was started in 2019. So I guess my biggest question is, how is the story not further developed at this point? I was thinking it would be very very far along at this point - nope - I played through an entire run in a few hours. Granted, you could go back and replay it a few different ways, since it seems that pursuing certain characters effectively cockblocks you from pursuing others. However, most of the characters I did not pursue... I simply don't have any interest in pursuing. For example, the literal grandma who keeps flirting with the MC... and the various moms that seem to have the hots for the MC... really just not my thing. I have said this before but I will continue saying it, it makes no sense that the MC would pursue all these women 20-40 years older than him when he has a legion of hotter younger girls in his own age range interested in him. The only thing I would maybe try on a second run is pursue Krystal/Daphne and not worry about whether that will piss off Darci, and pursue Jessica instead of Skylar (only because I did all of Skylar's stuff already on my first run, which seems to have locked out some Jessica scenes.)
The quality is pretty amazing, clearly a lot of effort has been put in here, and it shows - the cinematic sequences with little details setting up scenes are nice, and the animations are very high quality. The story is also pretty funny, I laughed insanely hard at a number of scenes, like some of the exchanges with Darci, Riley's shenanigans (go go gadget copter!) - etc.
I am just... shocked that now, as 2023 draws to a close, we are only 6 episodes deep and the MC has time traveled I think twice. In a game where the main story is supposed to be about time travel lol.
This game also seems to suffer massively from "let's add more LIs" syndrome... like dude why are you adding a Dani path in ep 6 when you still don't have main characters fully developed yet? We have not even banged Darci yet and she is pretty much the first LI introduced to the MC, and fairly integral to the story. Don't get me wrong, Dani is hot sure but like... holy fuck I would rather have a handful of completely developed LIs with a full set of scenes than like a million LIs with a couple of scenes each, especially since the first couple scenes are generally all really tame. You can always add more in later, but finish what you started first, IMO. And characters like Dani are not really advancing the core storyline, which seems to have taken the back burner at this point.
IDK curious to see what others think - am I the only one saying this is kinda short for being ~4 years in?
As far as I know, the game was started in 2019. So I guess my biggest question is, how is the story not further developed at this point? I was thinking it would be very very far along at this point - nope - I played through an entire run in a few hours. Granted, you could go back and replay it a few different ways, since it seems that pursuing certain characters effectively cockblocks you from pursuing others. However, most of the characters I did not pursue... I simply don't have any interest in pursuing. For example, the literal grandma who keeps flirting with the MC... and the various moms that seem to have the hots for the MC... really just not my thing. I have said this before but I will continue saying it, it makes no sense that the MC would pursue all these women 20-40 years older than him when he has a legion of hotter younger girls in his own age range interested in him. The only thing I would maybe try on a second run is pursue Krystal/Daphne and not worry about whether that will piss off Darci, and pursue Jessica instead of Skylar (only because I did all of Skylar's stuff already on my first run, which seems to have locked out some Jessica scenes.)
The quality is pretty amazing, clearly a lot of effort has been put in here, and it shows - the cinematic sequences with little details setting up scenes are nice, and the animations are very high quality. The story is also pretty funny, I laughed insanely hard at a number of scenes, like some of the exchanges with Darci, Riley's shenanigans (go go gadget copter!) - etc.
I am just... shocked that now, as 2023 draws to a close, we are only 6 episodes deep and the MC has time traveled I think twice. In a game where the main story is supposed to be about time travel lol.
This game also seems to suffer massively from "let's add more LIs" syndrome... like dude why are you adding a Dani path in ep 6 when you still don't have main characters fully developed yet? We have not even banged Darci yet and she is pretty much the first LI introduced to the MC, and fairly integral to the story. Don't get me wrong, Dani is hot sure but like... holy fuck I would rather have a handful of completely developed LIs with a full set of scenes than like a million LIs with a couple of scenes each, especially since the first couple scenes are generally all really tame. You can always add more in later, but finish what you started first, IMO. And characters like Dani are not really advancing the core storyline, which seems to have taken the back burner at this point.
IDK curious to see what others think - am I the only one saying this is kinda short for being ~4 years in?
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Not really. There's a kind of femdom play scene that upsets some sensitive guys, but I doubt it scratches the itch for the real femdom fans. It's toward the end of episode 6 (current release). There's also a scene with that character in episode 3 that will allow you to take a more passive role. It's super light femdom, if it can even be called that.
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There's femdom with two characters so far, with two scenes each, two are super light, one is somewhat light, and then there's one that's moderately femdom. The one that's a moderate level of femdom isn't until way later in the game, and it's a scene more akin to what you would expect with femdom.
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Initial release was July 2020. I don't know when Jestur started full-time work on it, but probably less than 9 months before initial release. So this recent update probably didn't take him to the 4 year anniversary yet. In any case, he's a one-man team, and I think there's a lot of content and a few storylines that have taken time to get established. I imagine the plot will start progressing with quicker developments now that many of the characters are developed and factions are have mostly taken shape. As you mentioned,
Quality takes time. Animations are very time consuming, especially the cinematic ones with a moving camera. Writing also takes time. Sure any of us can shit out a script in a few days, but to pen a script that makes sense, has good pacing, interesting and amusing dialogue, and proper dramatic tension takes a few drafts and several rewrites for even the most experienced authors and devs.
Everyone works at their own pace, so I say let him cook.
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There are devs out there that can crank out a solid update every two months, but they have a different approach:
- use paperdoll interactions for most scenes
- render only action/dramatic scenes
- animate only sex scenes
- have a team so you have at least an artist, a writer and a programmer working in parallel
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I wrote about the same thing the last couple of days. I like the game and it has some of the best animation work I've seen in a VN (which is probably also a reason, why development takes as long as it does). It feels like instead of feature creep like a lot of games have, this has a serious case of LI creep. Now he added Dani and Shelby as well...at this point we're at 20 or so female characters the MC either has or most likely will hook up with and a lot of these have no larger meaning for the story.
So I guess the focus of the game is simply put on the MC fucking as many women as possible and not actually on the - quite frankly - very interesting and intriguing story and you have to kinda accept that. It's not the focus I would've chosen, but it's also not my game, so...take it or leave it, I guess.
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Cant find that damn pineapple for the hidden render in the Lingerie Store... am i blind or is it because i dont like pineapple on my pizza or what?!
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The last time I played, the pineapple was there, but it wouldn't trigger the image. Has it disappeared altogether now?
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Is Jestus trying to tell us something by any chance? Is he finally committing to non-pineapple pizza? This must be one of the greatest mysteries eternity might ever witnesses! And what about the render thou? Its so fckn teasing! And i dont like to use mods to solve optainable content...
Also i had read here, someone wanted to unpack the mod for the gallery and it didnt work... is this a pineapple bug or a whole pineapple conspiracy?!
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Because I saw people talking about high cpu-usage:
This might be caused by having acrobat reader with the walkthrough open.
My cpu (ryzen 7 5800x3d) was running at 82°C and I couldn't figure out why, until I closed acrobat reader.
Apparently having page-caching active, which it is by default, will cause heavy cpu usage.
You can deactivate it by clicking edit ->settings ->page display and unselecting the "Use page cache" option.
Hopefully this helps some of you.
This might be caused by having acrobat reader with the walkthrough open.
My cpu (ryzen 7 5800x3d) was running at 82°C and I couldn't figure out why, until I closed acrobat reader.
Apparently having page-caching active, which it is by default, will cause heavy cpu usage.
You can deactivate it by clicking edit ->settings ->page display and unselecting the "Use page cache" option.
Hopefully this helps some of you.
This game is just phenomenal. Breezed through it.
Hard to pick a favourite, all the girls are written and designed so well. Guess mine is tiffany, most likely cause dev is blueballing us with her.
Hard to pick a favourite, all the girls are written and designed so well. Guess mine is tiffany, most likely cause dev is blueballing us with her.
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