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

One of the best VNs ive seen. Great renders, probably best animations, great music, best sound effects, pretty common plot twist but quite enjoyable nevertheless, great characters and interesting dialogs. Overall easily top 5 VNs i would say. Great work out there!

One of the best porn games I've played so far!
I love Darcy she's so cute.
I'm just a little scared because the story reminds me of the "Dark" series and I don't want to spoiler but if the same thing happens (genetically speaking) then it might be a little weird, but fortunately we are not there yet.

Really good for an HS game, those don't usually appeal to me, but there's something special about this.

The images are really good, they look better than the standard HS games.

The characters are believable and have different personalities which is a plus.

I like the harem aspect of this one a lot. Not just because it's a harem game, but because it's done well. The way the paths weave in and out with the girls is very thoughtful.

Overall just a wonderful laid back game that will hit you ever now and then. I'd say give it a try.

play v0.4.6 with french trad (which explains my poor written English, sorry)

story: 5/5 Despite the very average translation I had, I found the story very good, a good mix of humor, drama and SF

characters: 5/5 The female characters are all very well done and we get attached to them without any problem

sex scene: 5/5 They are really very erotic, and for the most part a great length with different scenes!

renders: 5/5 Absolutely beautiful, I find nothing to say about it

animation: 4/5 Just like the renderings, the animations are absolutely beautiful and in very good quantities! on the other hand, I can't put 5, because I don't know if it's only for me, but at each beginning of animation there is like a past image that appears furtively, which is quite unpleasant

sound: The erotic sounds and the music are very good, but as in many games there are sometimes empty moments without music

gameplay: 4/5 The choices are not extremely numerous, but it is not disturbing in this kind of vn that relies mainly on its story

To preface this I would say I'm not usually someone who enjoys VNs because I'm too scatterbrained and unable to stay focused especially when things start to get dull. However, I am glad I gave this a fair try.

TLDR: Great game, Great animation, Great immersion and Great characters Good overall story.

After finishing v0.4.6 I would say this is one of the best on the site. It does well in all categories. What really wins me over in games is good immersive animations and this game scores a 10 in that and not just because of the great animation itself. It's the sound effects. No matter how good some animation is in some games if all I have is some common royalty free music to go with it, my immersion isn't going to be all there.

What really earned my 5 stars is the story and characters aswell. As I said at first it's hard for me to focus, so when the story, scene or character start to get dull or repetitive I get too skip happy and ruin entire games for myself. To sum it up, this game does what it's trying to do real well.

The overall main story isn't the most unpredictable and that's honestly fine, because I feel like Ripples does real well at making you interested in the characters themselves.

Definitely, one of the best game here.

The first thing I want to mention it is sex sounds. They are the best. For some reasons there are not a lot of games that have at least some sex sounds. I am not even saying about a good one. If you are not ok with sex sounds u can turn off them in settings.

The sex scenes and animations are great.

The plot is not my cup if tea but it is also not weak spot so no nagging about it from my side.

I would like to have a more diversity between girls fashion styles and facial expression (It is classic problem of HS games). Some of them looks too similar. Please, understand, me correctly, it is not a critical problem at all. it is just a point for improvement.

The game is not sandbox and that's great because devs usually do not have skills and resources to implement sandbox in a good and decent way.

There are some sex scenes without actual sex. I hate them honestly speaking but there are not too much of them.

Huge thanks and respect to the developer!

Very good. Please keep it up. The game is fun and interactive. Scenes are just marvelous, Please keep updating the game, then after you finish this. make a new one. I'll play it.

Sex scenes are just right, Playthroughs are fun. Characters are consistent and un-boring. Actually no complain other than the limit of character design, but thats just how it is with renpy or the software the author is using. Give this game a chance.

I will rate it 3.5/5. It is one of those time travel paradox plots, thanks to "Dark" we have quite the abundance. It is ambitious but difficult to pull off a reasonable time travel plot without plotholes. I have doubts that this one will be successful. It takes a rather serious tone to writing. As of end of Ep. 4, story is intriguing enough to hook the audience to play the updates, but its quality hangs by a thread imo.

+The renders are good but Honey Select greatly minimizes variety of physical appearances of girls.
+Sexual content is satisfactory with animations, sound etc.
+Lots of pop culture and retro references
-Lots of filler dialogue
-Average and unoriginal setting
-Quirky plot development with deus ex machinas all around.
-Relationship dynamic with girls are too shallow.
-The story seriously lacks male characters. MC doesn't have a male BFF in a highschool drama. Yeah it is a harem game probably but dude get some bros before hoes to talk. That Darci character could have had a dick and just merge her tomboyness and "sexual practices" into Jessica. Right now Jessica has no impact.

In overall, the plot makes you wonder and play the game, so you bear with averageness in writing besides the main plot. Lewd scenes are good enough to distract the player on the way. I will keep coming back to this game but can't say I am amazed.

Meh, story. Nothing really sets it apart from anything else on this site.Models in the game are ok, there is an animation in the beginning of the game that almost made me turn it off right then and there with how ridiculous is looked.

Overall, not the worst VN I've played, but probably won't return until it's completed...if I return at all.

Absolute top tier game. High model quality is visible in the screenshots. The animations are also excellent, not the very best I've ever seen (House in The Rift) but still great.

The girls are all distinct and have their own appeal, and IMO they are all appealing beyond their looks.

Then of course there's the story. I would play this game even without the porn. The story is actually engaging and I find myself playing even when I'm not horny

While the story initially seems a bit cookie cutter I find enough character and unique bits and pieces that I'm really enjoying the game.

A lot of the choices are more about the level of relationship you want with the people involved as opposed to the storyline. I suppose if I were to make s suggestion it might be to do as I've seen in other games to identify if a choice is really significant to the future path. Since this is a time travel situation it can be a little more challenging than usual. Particularly if you were going to try to pickup the game on a new update after several months.

Overall - story quite good, relationships pretty hot. (really like Jenny and Skylar), programming seems fairly solid, animations are fluid. Only glitch I noticed was getting the sound out of sync when spanking Skylar and clicking the mouse instead of letting the seen play out. (my bad)

Really look forward to updates!

[0.4.6]
Review mentions some points of plot, anything crucial but be aware of it.

● Story/plot - 9.5/10
Plot is great, one of I enjoyed most in recent VNs.

I like it looks like another "big dick guy at school" but there is something more and that whole main plot I find interesting. I really enjoyed the "backstage" too, like MC playing real VN games, talking about real(?) anime with passion and I really felt they are interested in it in the way they were talking about it. It even made me looking for some anime to watch myself but meh, that's not for me unfortunately. Interactions and dialogues are solid in general with nice sense of humor. I also like intensity of action, it feels very natural although I was only like 3 days in-game time? Time traveling tho is dangerous topic to play with and is easy to make it look bad, devs handled it quite well I would say.

What I liked less were some behaviors sometimes, like what happened after "shit ninja". After 5 minutes it looked like they all got over with it. I mean lol, Brad had it on the phone, why didn't they watch it again and discuss it or show it to Jackie who knows shit about physics? They barely talked about it at all like it was "another day at school"... Also everyone is a bit too nice to each other in dialogues and MC mentiones too often that he helped someone with something, like he is hungry for praise or something.

● Graphics/visuals/renders quality - 9/10
I'm not anime fan but those who are will be amazed by these renders. Although I really like them, they are great quality and it is nice to see something different yet still at high level.

● Animations - 9.5/10
Same as above, top notch if graphics style in general suits you.

● Music - 5/10
I find it the hardest part for many VNs. Although music is fine and well matched there is too little variety of it and it often gets annoying when scene lasts a while and all I hear is 15 seconds looped music. Also there are some problems from the coding perspective I think, like new scene starts new song, I go next scene, go back and music sometimes reset and sometimes goes mute completely.

● Characters - 9/10
I love mimics and overall behavior of each character. They all act great, dialogues look natural with nice sense of humor. Tbh every female character is adorable and could be main LI, it is hard to like most just one of them and there are loooots of them. Despite this amount of them I didn't feel like they are repeatable or something, at least not in bad way. There are barely any male characters but it is better this way than having another jester-best-friend.

● Amount of content - 8/10
Well... It is E4 for now and I hope for many more to come, it took me some hours to get through it tho. Despite main plot there is anything really to do like free-roam or some mini-games, any character stats or so. That is not bad and I did not feel any need for for that since there is constantly some kind of action but still, it is just a VN type of game.

● Overall - 5/5
Great renders and animations, great characters, great and not easy to write well plot. Surprisingly this one is one of the top I ever played.

Ok, for a damn long time I've splept on this game. For some reason, the begining of the game didn't give me great vibes, Darci felt way too straight forward to me for just a "friend", and at the same time she had cousin vibes, I dunno. The dialogues sometimes also felt a bit corny, but were improving the more I played. I guess sometimes introductions aren't easy to do. Was for quite long time to try again due feedback but for no reason I got lazy to try it again.

Anyway, I finally gave the game another chance and the "theme" of the game finally had me hooked. Definitely wasn't expecting it, and the introduction of the thriller was very well introduced, I really felt the involvement in the game as a player. I have no idea why, but the powerplant tunnel vibe along with going into the past made me remember of Fallout for some reason.

Anyway, just starting the episode 2 at the moment, but now I know why Caribdis gave a shoutout for this on Oailt. It has a decent balance of comedy, thriller, and character growth so far. Also, the MC doesn't act like a douche, and all the girls in general are likeable (Maybe except Darci at the begining but she started to grow on me).

Definitely a fun game so far, and worthy of patronage if the quality keeps up on the next episodes. The dev also seems engaged within his fans from what I understand on the thread, which is nice. Give the game a try, and if you like it support it, seems worthy due quality and dev comunication.

This is one of the best games I have ever played. I really didn't expect much when I started playing but from story to voiced animations, everything blew my mind. I hope I will see the end of this game, I want to see how to dev puts an end to everything going on.

Absolutely fantastic so far!

The story itself is really, really good. It has all the usual clichês regarding the MC phisical atributes and such, but the investigation around the Power Plant and all of the misteries are so well done! I'm really excited for the next chapters.

The adult content itself is also really good. Animations and the construction/progression of the scenes is really well paced and animated. The pay-off is really good. On some rare ocasions there are scenes that go back-to-back and on a game with such a great narrative, it kinda breakes the pacing, but this is a personal opinion.

The only drawback are the audio FX/Moans. While good and well intended, they usually mismatch the scene and the mood, it would be nice to have an option to turn then down or something. (@EDIT: It's possible to workaround this with the settings for a better experience).

Overall, one of my favorites and I'm really looking forward for every next update!

I have weak spot for stories about travel to past or future , it has so much charm and entice , being able to change some elements that will be determining in present time.
Ripples is remarkable experience in that regard , also it has very cute characters that making whole thing like a dream.
Ripples truly is one of distinct games here and I love it.

One of the best adult games, beautiful girls (Jenny is just absolutely adorable, the same as Skylar) and perfect animation, also the story is good, I'm curious what happens next...
I like it very much. Thank you @Jestur

Great idea and execution. Some dialogues are a little boring, but I give 5 stars in advance, in anticipation of new episodes. It is a pity that there is no Russian version on the site, I had to download it elsewhere.

Ripples isn't just any game, it is the pinnacle of Honey Select games, crafted to such a degree with these impeccable models straight out of a highschool photoshoot.

The content isn't lacking as well, its has about 6-8 hours of playtime an amazing feat by VN standards. Most AA games can't even hit this benchmark. A true milestone and to be very honest it has cost me my relationship with my ex girlfriend of 3 years, she was just getting older and more fights started to happen over the fact that she feels inferior to these younger models.

Its absolutely not Darci's fault, that is unfair to her and completely out of line of my ex to be taking it out over some petty jealously fueled rant about how this is just a game.

Its more than that. Someone sat down and crafted this majestic piece of art for all us misunderstood individuals who love the look of minors. Plenty of normies complain about honey select games but I say there's not enough! Thats like complaining about a wooden whistle that someone painstakinly crafted with love because there area so many whistles already.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

This reminds me of MIST in in that it's very high quality, though it's different mechanically. Dialog especially can be a little contrived at times, but generally for good reasons. An interesting story; looking forward to seeing what newer episodes have in store!