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

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.

This game is a completely underrated gem. I'm not a huge fan of Honey Select games but this is definitely the exception.

The writing is superb, and the animations and renders are great. The STORY though is what absolutely carries this.

You deserve more praise than you're getting. This is the best HS game on here, possibly even one of the best games in general. Keep at it!

Loving the story so far. Graphic style took a little time to get used to but I came around to it. The scenes are fantastic and the small added sound effects are great. This game does suffer from the same thing that a lot of others games do, where every single female character is into you. I'm slightly worried about development going forward, there seem to be a ton of branches.

First, I don't usually read any plot before the game is finished, so I can't rate that part.
What I can rate however, is the rest.
Personally I don't really see the difference between the old and new version, I don't exactly have the best memory tbh, but let's face it, the game looks GOOD.
The shader is crisp, clean,bright, the animations are smooth as a baby seal's skin.
Perhaps my only concern is that the girls lack visual heavy distinction, but they still look quite nice.
I have followed this game since its early release and will continue to do so.

The dev knows its stuff and I'm fairly confident about the continuity.


Update 2 years later

While the added content is a little short, the modified previous content is gooood like holy molly, the shader is clean and so damn nice, and the animations are just straight up smooth as silk, sometimes they completely look professionnal.
Can't wait to see more.

Version 0.4.6

Fantastic game, instantly shot into my top ten. I've ignored this game for a long time because I'm not usually a big Honey Select fan, but I'm glad I finally played it. It will be hard to choose between the LI's--they are all beautiful and my scenes with each have made me want to choose all of them. And I'm really invested in the story--I was sooo disappointed when this version ended because I want to know what happens next.

Great work, Dev!

Still though one of if not the best games on here. The animation and detail is amazing, the choices and how they affect the playthrough give this a solid amount of play time across multiple saves. The things you find, if you look hard enough, are rewarding and worth the time. bsolutely gorgeous, all the characters feel alive and are very lovable.
The sex scenes are very well made and beautiful. I wish the mc was not pink.

Version: v0.4.6

Pros:

• Nice renders with a variety of body types for the girls. This is really enjoyable for me as the cast is varied in character and in physique.
• Well-written sex scenes. The fetishes are interesting, you can decide the way you character reacts and where to lead the sex scene. That's really one of the strongest point of this adult game.
• Quite lengthy, I would say 6-8h hours if you do it all in one go ? Maybe more, I'm bad at judging this since I play in multiple runs.
• The game starts really strong. The story is interesting at first, you get a nice time-travel mystery...

Cons:

• ... and it quickly devolves into another slice-of-life where you explore each girl's path and get to know her life. That is not a negative if you're the kind of player that enjoys mindless slice-of-life. It just turned me off the story and I started skipping all text. You will see this shift right after you come back from the past. That's where it started going down hill for me.
• Lot of player choice that doesn't feel like it impacts the story, but at least you can "sort-of" choose how you react