This game is pretty incredible. Honestly, it should be a crime to make such an abundance of gorgeous lovable characters and stick them all into one game that doesn't seem to have a harem path. This does, however, lead to one of the game's biggest issues, which is simply that I can't actually tell which characters are and aren't full LIs other than the handful of characters from the beginning that have demarcated paths and/or stats in the mod. Like, Robin, Nia, and Zara, are they LIs, or are they just prominent side characters? I can only assume that Sasha and Sonya are since I've seen them marketed pretty heavily, even though they both have very little content.
There's some weird continuity stuff with the classroom change which I don't think quite makes sense and also Nia's backstory. Nami says that she saw Nia fucking some guy on her stream, but Nia acts as though she's never done something like that, saying things like "girls who are lucky enough to have guys to do this with" and that she doesn't bring guys to her place because they only see her as a trophy. It's not necessarily inconsistent, but it does seem incongruent with how Nia is written during the scene at her place, although I suppose she could've just been lying/omitting certain details, but I don't think that would really fit either.
As a personal aside, I really hope that Bella is a virgin, she keeps teasing the MC about it, but with the way she's withdrawn from pretty much everyone other than her close female friends, it wouldn't make any sense for her to have hooked up with some rando, or even to have had a boyfriend.
I'm also holding out hope, perhaps futilely, that the Nami Bi-sexual variable is a gateway to some kind of multi-LI ending.
I'm going to touch on some of your other points that the virgin thing. Personally, people have their history their whole life, and I'm okay with that, I'm okay with a story having characters with different pasts. Too many games have the same characters with different hairstyles. Ocean's actually though carefully about who these people are.
I can almost guarantee Sonya is a virgin (given how her family treat her) if you are only interested in virgin paths.
So the points:
- this game will never have a harem path as the dev hates harem games. THe most there wil be is a throuple, and those will be challenging to achieve and keep because of jealousy. I think it's actually refreshing for a dev to creat lots of full characters, and even give sidecharacters in depth personalities.
- Seeing the number of LI's versus 'side' characters as an issue is a matter of perception. If a person has dialogue, they're important to the story. THe only true sidecharacters are the people milling around in the crowds. Regarding LI's I feel it's great that they're not obvious. It makes you play like every choice counts, and forces you to think about what the ramifications of those choices are. Some LI's paths might only be opened by how you treat other characters ie you can only date Mila if you've refused Vic, I'm guessing the way you treat Robin will play a big part in the way Sasha percieves you, same with Bella and Eva. All the characters interact and know what you've done with the others via gossip, so you have to play differently. Playing with a mod doesn't allow you to know what the stats do. I personally prefer not knowing what stats or switches are triggered, it increases the impact of choices and scenes.
- Season two will likely open all the LI paths to some extent, even if there won't necessarily be equal lewd content. We don't know any of that yet. Ocean is introducing characters as Nika meets them and starts interacting properly with them. Season 2 will have quite a few more events with these strangers that he's only known for a week. The barn/game event, the martial arts studio, the cabin trip, moving in with Mila/working on her Venus account, meeting more of the basketball team, the bar opening, the yoga classes, the Zara competitions - there are a lot of potential events that will have multiple characters for Nika to get to know. I don't know if Ocean will even fit all of these in season 2, along with the main plot threads. The main thing is that Nika currently has not been moving in all these character's social circles, he's just starting to get to know them as the events push him into their orbits.
- The continuity stuff is the last part of the rework that we'll get when Season 1 is released. Replay from the start once it is, as OCean will change all kinds of little things all over the place to fix the gaps that were in the beta, because it is a beta.
- the virgin stuff, as stated above, all kinds of characters for all kinds of players.
I guess the fun thing about a game is making the choices we feel are authentic to us. I'll probabaly replay this from the start with every new season, given how I can't decide who I want to pursue