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To the dev, I just wanted to say I've been really enjoying your work on Studio Hearts. I've seen a pretty common take that people really miss Stormside and the branching narrative that game had, which I can't deny was a marvel to dive into. But I have to say, I've been enjoying Studio Hearts a lot more.

I personally don't feel the need for a game with choices that "matter" with crazy variations to the story, so long as the story that's being presented is high quality, which I'm happy to say, this game really is. There are some games that just have the sauce when it comes to narrative, and Studio Hearts is definitely one of them. Also helps that the animations are peak; some of the best out there imo.

Keep up the great work, man. Excited to see where it goes.

Read up on your hiatus, glad to hear you're back and working on a new awesome game. You have a great knack for writing interesting scenarios and fun dialogue that I really enjoy playing through. Branching narrative or not, the work you put out is good stuff :)

You need to get caught by Reginald in the kitchen scene

I was trying to explain that the reason why there are so many people downvoting the comment is because a lot of people that play porn games are probably also the kind of people that have bigoted viewpoints (not everyone, mind you, but a decent percentage). I think this is because a lot of porn games tend to objectify women and showcase unrealistic expectations for relationships (submissive women, virgins, alpha male type MC's, etc).

On that note, Eternum isn't too bad with that stuff, but the porn game community is still prevelant here, so obviously you'll still get people that will downvote a pronoun comment.

Makes sense that there's a correlation with people that like porn games and people that are against the "woke".  Objectifying women is very in line with those kind of people. Thankfully, Caribdis writes his stuff pretty respectfully, but it'll still attract the losers.

I don't leave comments on itch ever, but I've played a number of NSFW games on Itch, and I just have to share how much I love this game.

The way these girls are written is such a breath of fresh air. I won't name names, but there's so many harem games out there that boast a variety of girls, but all/most of the girls end up being some variation of inexperienced virgin that you get to deflower. But the girls in Ripples are so much more interesting. They're experienced and have different kinks and fetishes, and the scenes really feel like an exploration of sex and romance rather than a high schooler's fantasy of what sex is like. 

It also helps that the story is genuinely interesting as well. I like that we're shown different situations that are grounded and realistic while still having that sci-fi flair in the background. It makes it so that when the scenes do come around, they're exiciting. I know this game (as well as basically every other harem game out there) is obviously unrealistic in its depiction of real relationships, but sometimes I come across a scene and think to myself "wow, this reminds me of a fun time I've had" or "I can really imagine something like this happening".

Overall, awesome game. Great work on episode 8, and excited to see where it goes from here. Keep up the great work, Jestur!

Edit note: grammar mistakes