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*** '''Long''': The upside is that you will have plenty of time to develop all of the characters at once through their interactions and [[World Building|establish the setting]]. The downside is that a few of the individual character routes may suffer because you don't get enough time to focus and develop on a single character and make up good plot related to that person. [[Hoshizora no Memoria]] in particular suffers from this problem.

*** '''Short''': The upside is that you have plenty of time to make up unique conflicts for each route by giving yourself enough time to add build-up within the diverging routes themselves and only leaving small tiny hints within the common route itself. The downside is that it gives you less time for [[World Building]] or you have to copy/paste text between the routes. [[Tsukihime]] has this problem to some degree even though it has a recommended route playing order. [[Fate/stay night]] removes the problem by having a forced playing order, but the first route's quality is sacrificed for the need to establish the setting.

*** '''Choices''': You need some, but not too much. Furthermore, make them intuitive or at least solvable with some thinking. [[Kara no Shoujo]] is known for [[Guide Dang It]] for having too many and too unintuitive choices.

*** '''Bad Ends''': You could just add a short event where the protagonist dies or falls into despair before showing a [[Game Over]] screen, but you know that you're better than that. Why don't you try punishing the player by forcing him to read a emotional [[Tear Jerker]] or some scarring [[Nightmare Fuel]]. [[School Days]] has such potent bad endings that it is generally believed that while [[School Days]] is decent on its own, the bad endings are what make the game a classic.

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