How many characters, is too many?

[jojo]

I asked a similar question about a month back:

Ideal number of statted NPCs

Within the constraints of a CoG title, what’s the ideal number of NPCs who you can have variable relationship with? I’m talking about how many should be tracked using a 0-100 bar, where it’s possible to be their best friend or worst enemy in different playthroughs. To take a selection: Eagle’s Heir has 9, Choice of Robots has 8, Hero Rise: HeroFall has 7 but Prodigy had 5. Usually there’s only so many people that you have time to talk to as often these games are structured so that spending tim…

The consensus seemed to be ‘about 7’. Did people who played The Eagle’s Heir find the large number of statted NPCs overwhelming? Did Heroes Rise improve with more main characters?

I didn’t thing the large number of significant characters in Slammed detracted from the game, it made the world seem more populated and rich.