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

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!

This is one of the very best games of this kind. Top 5 easy. Everything about it is amazing including the story. Closest thing you can get to art... given you want to get off to the amazing girls in the game.

Playing through v0.4.6 and I'm on chapter 4 in the story...

This is officially in my top 10 favorite VNs!

• MODELS 4.5/5 = I love that we get a variety of tits & ass sizes. The reason this is not a full 5, is the faces are too similar (same face shape just different haircut) and all the same Caucasian looking race. Feels like a lost opportunity for actual variety other than hair color/style and T&A.
• STORY & WRITING 4/5 = The character thoughts and dialogue all are good. I just finished playing two other games that I was skipping the story/relationship talking parts because it was repetitious and boring. Here I've been playing for 6+hrs not done yet because I'm reading everything and NOT bored. We also get some humor and a sci-fi flavored story too.
• EROTIC and FAP CONTENT 5/5 = many of the games on this site are fab worthy, but this one also adds in some great eroticism versus jump straight from kissing to filling every hole type of scenes. A great use of kissing to build eroticism. And the sex scenes often last longer than 5 seconds, which I appreciate.
• ANIMATIONS 5/5 = great use of even subtle grinding of a girl against the MC or even the character's breathing. Animations are top notch here.

OVERALL:
Nothing I don't like about this VN other than part of the story being less than original (Back-to-the-Futuresque scenes with MC meeting his younger family members).

Worth supporting the Dev, imo. I cannot wait to finish current version and then immediately grab the next update when it comes out. This is one of those examples that other Devs should hold their work too.

I had high expectations for this game, mainly because I like the modeling/design of the characters, but after playing it, apart from the characters, I found its story very interesting.

What I like most about 18+ games, apart from the explicit content, is their plot and although this story is not entirely original (I played a game with a similar plot to this one, although this one has more 18+ content), the development I think the plot is very good, especially as the protagonist's interpersonal relationships evolve with most of the characters. So it is a game to enjoy the +18 and enjoy a very interesting story.

What strikes me the most, as the game progresses, is that (in my point of view) you can have or develop relationships with most of the female characters that appear, or at least that's what it seems to me. Because, the female character that appears, shows you your statistics in terms of the interpersonal relationship with her. So you will be able to enjoy your "time" with many waifus that the game brings and the best of all, each female character has a different personality and story from each other, so it will not be just seeing the same +18 scene with simply a change in the skin of the female characters, since each one has a different context from each other.

At first the story seems very normal to you, but then as the first part of the game unfolds, the game has a very interesting twist, which at least in my opinion, will cause you to continue playing to find out how the story develops.

Summary:

o Character Design/Visual: 5/5
o Background music/sound: 5/5
o Plot: 4.5/5 (Good plot, although I feel that there are some details that do not fit in the development of the story)
o Animation: 5/5 (EXCELLENT animations.)
o +18 Scenes: 4.5/5 (AT THE BEGINNING there are some erotic scenes and as the story progresses the scenes become more spicy, however there are some scenes that I do not see a solid context of why they develop)
o Gameplay: 5/5 (a visual novel, which allows you to make decisions that DO matter throughout the game and not just for the scene.)
Interface: 5/5

In the end, it is a very good game, I am looking forward to its updates, it is one of the few games of this type that really hooks you and it is not just the typical "Sex, Sex... poor story". It really is very enjoyable. I can only hope that they continue to develop the story correctly (Although there are situations where the context of things is a bit forced, but they are minuscule details) and hopefully, that there will be a harem ending, with all the female protagonists that present. I recommend you play it, have fun and enjoy all the moments that this story presents us

I loved the game and my only complaint is that it lacks Lizzie content, I felt in love with her instantly. She's the best looking by far, her personality is pure bliss and being lesbic would be the cherry of the cake if the mc wasn't a man.

I saw this game on the trending page many times whenever i searched good games to play but i never tried to play it because it has japanese-anime style renders which isn't my thing.
But i decided to play it out now of curiosity to see why is it rated so high since it's considered a quality game, and damn i was so wrong.
First i want to settle one thing before starting to rate the game, this isn't a hate review or anything it's purely my experience and view after i played this game.

Now that it's clear, i will start to talk first about writing and dialogue, it's extremely cringe and so mediocre that it hurts my entire soul when i tried to read, i had to skip entire dialogues because i literally couldn't continue to read without cringing every single word.
Especially those lines that Tiffany is saying when she is looking into the mirror and touching herself, like what the hell is that anyway? is it supposed be funny and comical? because it's like a 13 years old horny kid who watches too many hentai has written that dialogue, seriously, it's terrible.

When it comes to characters however, is the typical writting method for every fap material we all saw, every single female character is horny all the time and MC is the ultimate Gary Stew womanizer with a penis who is ready to satisfy all of them.
Literally all female characters are drooling after MC like he is the single male from Earth and they wet themselves instantly when they see him.
There are many scenes that don't make sense like Krystal who shows her panties during the class and for some reason no one noticed it besides MC and that Brad guy even though there are a dozen other students in the classroom, like i understand already that she is very horny and wants to get holed by MC like all the girls.
I could write entire pages about how bad written characters are but the reviews is getting way too long anyway.

The story of the game is very ordinary, a guy who lives with his mother/landlady and best friend/sister or whatever, we all seen that already, you just thrown out MC's father death mystery out there to make it more interesting but it feels very out of place, especially the whole time machine stuff or whatever that machine is.
It just that every idea doesn't connect with the story and the narrative line feels so forced that doesn't make any sense.
The choices the player is making doesn't seem to have any actual impact, is like all of the choices are the same but worded differently.

Overall this is pretty much the review of the game, is not even close to finish but like i said, it would take a lot and it will be too long to write about every bad thing in this game, for a fap game material it's ok, but for someone who wants to play an adult VN with good story and good written characters, it's very very bad and i don't recommend it at all.
I can't understand why is this on trending number 1 page because i didn't enjoyed playing it at all.

Regardless i wish you luck with the game even though it isn't for my taste.

This is one of the best games IMO. Incredible story, with nice graphics and characters with good background and personality.
It is also worth mentioning that the selection of sounds makes it very pleasant to play. I am looking forward to what will come next. Well done sir, you deserve 5 stars

I have played a lot of Honey Select 2 and thats why I was like why the girls' designe look so familiar. Speaking of design they are very pretty and cute. especially skylar, darci, krystal, lady boss. The story is also awesome and looking pretty well. I also enjoyed the animations and anime/pop culture references. Good Luck!
One thing is that maybe make the mature ladies look a bit more mature skin wise maybe. Also there should be consequences of going a certain path or hooking up with a specific girl. Maybe make the deviant system more fleshed out which makes the MC more dominating and controlling and regular path where he is normal and loving.