I think when a game have you decide between 2 girls (Jessica or Skylar) the term harem becomes nebulous here.
True. But while not conventional, when it comes to games I like to go for the multiple option, if there is one, because I suck at going for only 1 character at a time. Especially if all the characters are well developed, makes it even harder to turn them down. Which is why I had a hard time choosing the routes between Skylar and Jessica, so I just had saves for both of them and ran them simultaneously (which means I'll be doing double the work saving/loading through the same scenes to see the events that are route exclusive, at least skipping through the same content is an option, it just takes some time), I could've went with the mod, but I heard it breaks things. I only used the mod for all of the party events in one sitting, it might end up breaking things later, so I don't know the consequences of that yet.
For me the choice between Jess and Skylar being hard is what makes it interesting, I like choices and consequences, but well that's just me
I read it as meaning, not a BGGG scene, but that at some point in the game MC's sleeping with at least three girls. And Ripples definitely meets that criterion (we're up to at least seven, between 1999 and 2019, at least if you're on the Skylar path as I am).
yeah he's a world class idiot about some things. (just finished chapter 6 btw.) which i guess they established from the start, but even so it feel like we're left waiting for the mc to get up to speed on things the player already figured out a good while ago.
The point that Walter and me were making is that this is a silly f95 rule, and putting that tag on a game just because MC slept with 3 girls is ridiculous.
That is not how the rule is written:
I don't think it is. Is MC "engaging in consensual sex" with Krystal? Yes, he is--we use the present tense to indicate a recurring activity, even if it's not happening at the exact moment we speak (just as I might say "I'm attending classes at (some school)," even if I'm not actually in class at the time I say that). The same is true, at the same time and in the same way, of Daphne, Riley, and Skylar (if you're on her route), in 2019 alone.
Maybe I'm wrong, but if you look at the guide, theres some variables that have "poly" in them, not with all the girls but with some of them, I don't even now how many chapters are left so we'll see.So, does the harem TAG mean that the player gets to have all the girls in one playthrough, or that he will wind up in bed with all of them? Not at all. It just means that at one point in time the MC will have a sex scene with at least three girls at the same time. It doesn't even mean that the MC will wind up with any of those three girls at the end of the game. Maybe he will; maybe he won't; doesn't matter.
Is that what I would call a 'harem' game? Hell, no! Does its presence or absence mislead people? Hell, yes! But that is the rule for that tag here on F95.
You are correct: those variables are in the game and can by incremented, which I have done.
Probably needs to be re-defined then, with a second tag added:
Would you consider Ripples a Harem or pseudo-harem then?
As it stands through current development (and take this with a grain of salt since I haven't played it in over a year), it lands somewhere in-between. I *think* there's a point in two paths where you have to choose one or the other (?), which almost rules it out as a pure Harem, but it isn't finished so it's still close.
It's a bit early to get conclusions on that, since there's not even a clear end goal besides the main premise (as far as I am in mid chapter 7). For now I think itis fair to say Ripples is a pseudo-harem of sorts, for now at least.
I believe the developer has insisted that the divergence is just temporary, and the MC will, indeed, be able to romance both of them. However, one scene will be missed, depending on our choice.
Well you heard it wrong, LightmanP is a good modder and never had any issues with this mod or others like Eternum mod also made by them. What LightmanP did on that choice with Skylar was simply adding a variable that enables you to see both content until it merges anyway, and keeps both paths open.
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I already use URM for all my games nowadays instead of a traditional walkthrough mod. It just so happens I started using it in games after I finished Ripples up to the current content.Well you heard it wrong, LightmanP is a good modder and never had any issues with this mod or others like Eternum mod also made by them. What LightmanP did on that choice with Skylar was simply adding a variable that enables you to see both content until it merges anyway, and keeps both paths open.
This is the screenshot of the choice with URM showing the code and the variable detail (still a boolean with value unknown because didn't made the choice yet in this screen hehe) and the modder info bellow saying what it does, that is the sign of a good modder, giving info on a choice that uses "both".
I assure you it doesn't break anything, at least with all the content so far. And if ever does isn't an issue for me, I'll simply change those variables with URM if needed
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