i like small games so if a taken list is divided into multiple pages that tends to be a red flag for me for game size

ratio of big casts to small ones/lcws - are there huge casts (especially canons i don't know or dislike) dominating the game?

average apparent age of characters (i'm pretty canon blind on a lot of big fandoms so it's often guesses from icons if included or from things i think i know about the canons) - will my adult/teenager/special circumstances age character have people in their own age group to talk to or be thought of as annoying by the rest of the game?

having characters from at least a handful of canons i know is nice