I played the visual novel. sigh
No no no no. The routes were “simulations” created by the Little Busters’ minds, specially Kyousuke’s, whose intention was to make Riki become stronger. Each of the girls had their own regrets, and they would like to have them fulfilled before leaving the world; but this was combined with Riki needs to become stronger.
Since you didn’t play the VN, you didn’t notice that after each route, Riki changed and became more self-confident, some lines were changed in the common route. When you say the routes were all over the place to the plot, you’re seriously wrong. It clearly shows how bad the anime was in handling those information.
And always when you help others, you need to increase your self confidence and self esteem. It doesn’t apply just to LB!
And @LinkThinks , it’s not like this. He’s watched the anime, so he has the right to discuss about Riki. The topic didn’t specify Little Busters! anime, VN, manga or whatever. If it was like this, we couldn’t even be discussing Nao from Charlotte, since we haven’t watched the anime…