Great story, and beautiful girls. I can't get enough of Skyler or Scarlett. Excited to see where things go with Alyssa and Alice as well. My only concern is with the pacing. Almost a year between episode releases, and I feel like there' s still so much story to cover. I know it'll be worth the wait, I'm just impatient I guess.
VN - Ren'Py - Ripples [v0.8.0 Public] [Jestur]
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Ozzfest
Ripples [v0.8.0] by Jestur
Ripples is a romance and sci-fi visual novel with deep story, emotional moments, and strong characters. It's more about the journey than just the adult scenes.
+Superb Visuals
The renders are consistently high-quality and well-lit. Character models are beautiful and diverse without looking overly generic.
+Intriguing Sci-Fi Plot
What starts as a normal college romance quickly turns into a layered story with sci-fi, time travel, and mystery. It adds a lot of depth beyond the usual adult game narrative.
+Emotional Depth
The game delivers genuinely emotional moments, including grief, nostalgia, and anxiety. It handles them with care, not melodrama.
+Strong Writing and Dialogue
Conversations feel natural, and the pacing keeps things engaging without dumping too much exposition. Jestur knows how to keep the story moving while letting characters breathe.
+Meaningful Choices
Your decisions actually shape the story and relationships. The MC’s personality and bonds can develop differently depending on how you play.
+Excellent Music and Sound Design
The background music is thoughtfully chosen and used to enhance scenes instead of just filling silence.
+Realistic Romance
Relationships evolve gradually through meaningful interactions. There’s buildup and chemistry, not just instant gratification.
– Slow Burn Start
It takes a while for the sci-fi and supernatural elements to kick in. The early game leans heavily on slice-of-life and character setup.
– Slow Update Schedule
Updates are high quality but spaced out. Jestur clearly puts a lot of care into each release, but you’ll need some patience.
– Can Be Confusing at Times
The timeline and story events involving time travel or visions can be hard to follow unless you’re paying close attention.
– Limited Adult Scenes Early On
If you're here just for lewd content, the early parts of the game might feel a bit dry. The focus is more on story and character development at first.
– Some Side Characters Are Underused
While the main cast is fleshed out, a few secondary characters could use more attention or involvement in the story.
The game is still in development, and while updates take time, each one adds solid content and story. If you don’t mind waiting, it’s definitely worth following. -
Jonmanchu
Love the art,story,visuals.Started as a porn game but stayed for the story,now that the update is near by i forgot i didnot give rating to this cream of the crop avn.hopefully many get to play this masterpiece.Much love to jestur -
onebowlofsoup
PRO:
- What can I say? It just works. The combination of high production quality and inspired effort shown in Ripples stands out in the field of adult VNs.
- Creative and carefully constructed sex scenarios, with above average sound design. An adult scene lasts many minutes. There's buildup, intimacy, copious foreplay, women getting off, fun and sexy dialogue, positions, finishing, afterglow. The sound effects are tasteful. The creator clearly has a great understanding of what makes things hot and satisfying as a consumer of it, not just narratively, but also cinematographically speaking. This alone elevates this game above most of the top rated games in the field. Those little details in the animations, like when characters kind of roll up their eyes in pleasure? Absolute cinema.
- High-quality writing that feels professional. The script is fun, cute, interesting. Characters have distinct personalities, and you want to see more of them. The banter doesnt make you fast forward all of it immediately. It's amazing how a good writer can elevate almost every aspect of such a game. I think this might be the best I seen in the genre on a metric of "average quality / line"
- Numerous animations and renders with attention to detail. None of those terrible Honey Select catatonic seizure orgasms and creepy weird smiles. Its probably not on the artistic level of Eternum, but it beats pretty much everything else.
- In the microcosm of adult VN beauty standards, the character models body proportions are on the more realistic, real-life side. No backbreaking inflated balloons and brazilian buttjobs. Sadly rare, but highly appreciated.
- generic, stock Honey Select assets, which dont really look good. In terms of the creativity and pure technical quality of the models and textures, there could be big improvements. All of the girls hair stand out as being the worst of the bunch, closely followed by faces. Eye shapes and facial features feel repetitive. Middle aged people dont look middle aged, old people dont look old. The men are the exact same characters like we seen in every other Honey Select game.
- Way too many LIs. I know... it's a harem, what are you talking about? But hear me out. I think this is a pitfall of many harem stories. When the writing is so good and characters feel interesting, I want the content to be tall/deep, so I can spend more time with these interesting characters. But instead you only get to barely meet and spend time with these interesting people, which feels like a disservice to the quality of the writing. There are so many girls in play, it's implausible to imagine there ever will be enough time or content for them all. When the development inevitably ends, I cant help but to feel thid will feel somewhat dissatisfying.
- The usual trope of MC having a life-threateningly enormous penis, the prettiest, biggest, irresistible and addictive. One way or another, most sexual scenarios boil down to revolve around this, constantly talked about, constantly yearned after. MC slams his monstrosity into everyone and its the best experience they ever had. I find this the most tired trope in adult games. Don't misunderstand. Everyone being attracted to MC is a hot fantasy. But why does it have to be because of the comically large dick every time? For the record, every other adult game does this as well. So it's not like this would be uniquely bad about Ripples. With all that said, the whole thing is a pretty vanilla experience... you're definitely not going to live out your fetishes here, unless it's a woman taking control sometimes. Or being in a blindfold. But that vanillaness, is a very well-executed one.
- Camerawork in sex scenes could be better, but its already better than most. The situations where I felt that it's a bit cheap for example: the same blowjob animation is shown from north, east, south, west. That's not really different "angles", and don't really add value... or the least, just the minimum effort for variety.
- Please, no more "I have to talk to Jenny about working at the power plant". For god's sake...
One of the highest quality adult VN games I ever played. If this would be the new standard, luxury space communism must not be far away either. Highly recommended to anyone who are into a spectacularly executed, mostly vanilla and entirely straight experience. For many this will be their favorite, and I can clearly see why. -
noobtrain
What a gem of a game! The author does nearly everything well and oftentimes great.
Pros
- Excellent character models (for a Honey Select game)
- Excellent renders and visuals (for a Honey Select game)
- Excellent story
- Excellent writing
- Excellent English
- Excellent character development
- Excellent lewd/sex scenes
- Excellent animations
- Excellent humor
- Near perfect blend of story vs lewd content
- Good game pace
- Fun and lighthearted story/game
- Since this is a Honey Select game, all the female character models have large hips and large asses which looks a bit odd. All female characters are basically pear shaped.
- Honey Select character models also lack skin detail and have perfect skin making them look like porcelain dolls to some extent.
- Music in the game is nearly all instrumental. Some of the music got old and repetitive. Some music didn't fit the scene IMO.
- Some story and dialog text got a bit wordy for me (i.e. too verbose). When critical information wasn't been shown I sometimes found myself skipping through some text and dialog. The very best games I've played never inspired me to skip any of the text, dialog, or story.
- Inner thoughts are a bit overdone/excessive
- The game is mostly a power fantasy where the MC is highly thirsted after by all the female love interests. The MC doesn't have to work very hard to get some of the LIs in bed. Pretty much all the LIs love the MC's huge cock.
- A slightly smaller cast would make the game more enjoyable for me. Oftentimes it took so long to cycle to the same love interest again that I forgot their background and story. This long delay until the story cycles back to the LI also made me lose interest in them a bit. I would have preferred a smaller cast where more time is spent on each unique character! This would result in shorter delays until time was spent with each character again.
- It often isn't obvious on what the best choice is and so it's easy to make the wrong choice if you don't use a guide or the mod.
The cons are mostly minor complaints, I have no major ones.
My biggest complaint with the game is that it's a bit too wordy for me. Too many authors think that more writing equates to good writing and this is not the case. Good writing = good writing and it doesn't have to be a long, verbose, or wordy novel. The writing is excellent, it just takes a while to get to the point sometimes which caused me to skip some of it when critical information wasn't being told. I have played other adult games and visual novels where I didn't skip a word (the very best games on this site) but unfortunately and sadly this wasn't the case here. Still this isn't a major complaint but a moderate one.
Overall the game is excellent in nearly every way! The game is fun to play and the developer has a great sense of humor. It's rare to see a dev that's good at both storytelling and sex scenes and this author does both well. The visuals are the best I've found for a Honey Select game. The animations are excellent and smooth. The sex scenes are immersive and passionate. Thank you very much dev for putting some serious work into the sex scenes and not making them short and lackluster! (a big problem with many other games)
I highly recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try. -
Archimus
Yo this game is fucking awesome!
You smelly pirate hooker!
11/10, would smash
Art: noice
Animation: double noice
Story: noicity fo sho
Mechanics: well though out and implemented. and super noice
So of course this is a game and a story, which means there will be a disconnect from reality. However, it is very grounded and the characters feel real and very much believable. Mad respect, please keep it up and I wish the developers the pinnacle of success to their dreams.
Like really, I would pay to learn how to do the animation and work that's done in this game if I weren't a bum.
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fnray9
I haven't even gotten very far into it, but omg this is amazing. I keep laughing my arse off, and haven't even gotten to an actual scene yet...
but at this point this is a legit game and deserves a perfect 5/5 or more.
though it's choices are often limited to just 2 or 3, they feel natural choices and so do the responses that you would expect your character to be making with those choices. It doesn't feel forced, it feels like the characters come to life and you get to know them, like a real novel / game should be.
** It's alot more fun than i can describe easily and what's more it's even manages to make up for being a VN which are usually too simplistic for me to enjoy, this one makes up for that with depth of characters. ** -
Alderamin
I had this on my list for a while now but never got around to playing. I'd say I missed out.
I was very much entertained. Probably I'm way off but the masked person reminded me of the mysterious masked stranger in Misfits season 2 (British show, I hope it is ok to reference tv shows if not other games).
Overall very enjoyable.
What I liked
The story flows nicely and you get some eye candy and h-action along the way.
h-scenes are nicely done and get the job done for me
animation is outstanding. I am fine with just still images if the animation is not well executed because it disrupts more than it supports the action. This is must definitely not the case here, quite the opposite. Animation of non h-scenes is done very nicely and adds a cinematic quality to the game.
While I was initially not really charmed by the looks of the character models they grew on me and now I would not want to change them.
Music and sounds are decent, UI is nice
Made me laugh quite a few times
I love some of the characters and I would consider putting one of them in my sig if I could only decide which one ... hot contenders are Luna, Riley and the glorious Scarlett.
What I did not like
magic dick syndrome - not the first and not the last game to use it but I have to list it.
Shelby - I find it hard to believe that people are bitchy just because. She is portrayed as very one-dimensional bad person with no motivation whatsoever. Perhaps that is still coming but until I see some depths she is on my bad list.
Had to revise my opinion after the restaurant scene,