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No. 192885

Discuss any otome game-related topics here and please tag your spoilers.

What is an otome game?
>An otome game is a romance-focused game within the wider genre "joseimuke", meaning female-targeted games, and feature unlockable illustrated images known as CGs. The player character in otome games is always a female protagonist and can make choices to pursue male love interests over the course of the story. Otome games, or "otoge" for short, are most often text-based visual novels, but they can also be stat-raisers, rhythm games, or JRPGs.

Possible Discussion topics
>Otome game news
>What are your most memorable otome game moments?
>What got you into otome games?
>What is your all-time favorite otome game or character and why?
>What are you currently playing and what's your impression on it so far?
>Which otome games are you looking forward to playing?
>Which otome games do you want to be localized?
>What is your opinion on the current state of otome game localization?
>What do you want to see more of in otome games?
>Do you prefer PC, console, or mobile otome games and why?
>Do you prefer more story-heavy or more romance-heavy games and why?
>What are your favorite tropes in otome games?
>What are your thoughts on OEL otome games? Are there any that you liked, disliked, or are wanting to play?

Resources
>VNDB otome game tag https://vndb.org/g542
>Otome Game spreadsheet sorted by Japanese language difficulty for learners https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1frGAK7JBEb6YwHKQK-u7HHFjGXPV-aABsFDN0luiHpM/edit#gid=399911934
>List of Japanese otome games localized in English and available on the Nintendo Switch https://otomekitten.com/2020/05/06/otome-games-in-nintendo-switch-english/
>List of otome games available in English (note: includes Japanese, OEL, and amare games) https://www.englishotomegames.net/list

No. 192887

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>What are your thoughts on OEL otome games? Are there any that you liked, disliked, or are wanting to play?
Honestly I stay away from OEL otome games because the art just… isn't my thing. I'd love to play one but soo many of ugly art IMO
>Which otome games do you want to be localized?
Clock Zero and the Uta no Prince-Sama series! And any of the Ruby Party otome games. Also, Meiji Tokyo Renka… Honestly there's so many I want localized…

No. 192888

>>192887
Samefag, meant to say soo many of them have ugly art

No. 192890

any otome games with an ugly/average mc?

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No. 192900

>>192890
otome MCs are exceptional beings. only play if you have high self-esteem

No. 192901

As always interested if any proper femdom game has come out yet.

No. 192906

>>192890
Nameless' MC is average with short hair and she's kinda unpopular and weird but the art doesn't make her like straight up ugly or anything.

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>>192885
>What got you into otome games?
I forgot exactly how I got into otome or how I found out about it, but it was probably something like this:
>fujo with a bit of yumejo at 14-15
>on deviantART looking for art of hot guys (preferably with glasses)
>find a flash yaoi game (very shitty quality but made with tons of love and effort)
>want to learn more about these "dating sims"
>find indie OELVN otome games
>play RE:Alistair and the Date Warp demo, left wanting to play more
>find out about Japanese otome games such as Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 1 which had gotten a fan translation recently
I dropped it because I couldn't figure out how to get a good ending but a few years later I played through the 3 games there were at the time and loved them. It was also around that time that I bought Backstage Pass when it had just been released in early access.

>What do you want to see more of in otome games?

I want more classic/old-school shit like what otoge had in the 2000's or early 10's. I don't like the newer artstyles or boy types, for the most part. Or the plots, for that matter. Too much focus on having dark edgy fantasy plots lately, IMO.
I would love it if there were more games for women who liked all the high school otome/shoujo stuff in their teenage years, but about college age or working characters instead. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like more josei-like stuff in otome? But not just in adult games. I like both realistic and mature fiction, and cutesy light-hearted stuff.

>Which otome games are you looking forward to playing?

Not new but I can't wait to play the first Angelique games. Unfortunately I don't know enough Japanese to be able to play them untranslated yet, unless I take the time to look everything up in a dictionary but it would probably take me months.
Also I should've made the thread when I could, I would've used a much better pic

>Do you prefer PC, console, or mobile otome games and why?

PC > Console > Mobile
PC because I can't afford consoles, I feel like VNs (which is what most otome games are) look better on it, and it allows me to emulate most console and mobile games, also all the adult games are on PC.
Console because those games are often high quality (relatively speaking, and not including mobage ports).
Mobile otoge is cheap, lazily made trash with a few exceptions. Also I hate microtransactions or any game where you need to play every single day to be able to finish it without them. If there's even an ending.

>Do you prefer more story-heavy or more romance-heavy games and why?

Romance-heavy because I feel that's the point of otome games. Of course, if there's a good amount of both romance and plot, that'd be awesome. But I don't like otome games that focus primarily on the plot.
I guess more serious story-heavy games with deep, complex themes (which I like, of course) and romance aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but advertising such a game as "otome" just feels wrong IMO. It can obviously still be a game for women but not exactly a romance game.

>What are your thoughts on OEL otome games?

The older games were better. Nowadays the western otome scene has been ruined (with exceptions) with Tumblr/Twitterfaggotry. My main complaint is the shitty art(style). Like, I don't inherently hate western art styles like many weebs do, but the art in most of these western otoge is truly hideous. Also, thank fuck amare is a thing now, I don't mind maybe one female love interest in my otoge (in fact, I like elegant/tomboyish/masculine women in otome games and sometimes wish they were romanceable), but half or more of them being female while the game is still supposed to be an "otome" game is ridiculous. Not to mention the trans shit.

No. 192937

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>>192890
Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo
https://vndb.org/v3549
>The main character, Hitomi Sakuragawa, was once a cute, beautiful girl, winning beauty contests in childhood. However, after losing to the temptation of junk food received from fans, she has steadily gained weight… until she reached 100 kg in her second year of high school.

>At the beginning of the school year, the main character and her brother move into her father’s mansion-like dorm. Surprise awaits as she discovers that the school’s most popular guys are also moving in. Their impressions on her, shock her into starting a diet.

No. 192975

>What got you into otome games?
I discovered Hakuoki on the 3DS. My life changed that day

No. 192985

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Out of curiosity I started playing hanabi otome games. They're very short but still decent.

No. 193012

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I hate how this otome game group on Steam announces new and upcoming releases every single day but since otome games are rare in comparison, they share moid porn games almost daily. When it's not that, it's "LGBTQ+ and dating sims", shitty RPGs, general VNs, "honorable mentions of other genres" and BL games. I don't mind these as much as the scrote nukige that they advertise (which is pretty insulting imo) but it's still frustrating to not see a single otome game in their updates most of the time.

No. 193026

>>192975
>>192937
A long time ago I used to browse this forum and they had a dating sim subforum. I watched some women play these games and we'd all react and draw funny art and shit of the characters. Good times.

No. 193031

>>192900
damn, rip then i can't play any otomes

No. 193081

I learned Japanese for otome games, then realized that most otome is boring stuff that doesn't have the settings or type of guys I like. I need more sci-fi romance.

No. 193117

>>193012
Why the fuck are they called "Otome Sekai" then. Absolutely retarded. I will stay away from them

No. 193134

I first found out about otome games through shoujo manga like Lovely Complex, but I could only play pre-patched pirated ones. I got back into the genre the last couple years and part of it is because even though its super small, the community feels like how old fandoms once did. Maybe I'm just coping though and miss the late 00's internet.
The other part is because I can afford to buy shit now. I like that more games are getting localized, but I also wish they could translate older games too.

No. 193135

If there was a game aimed at women with a more mature, assertive mc would it still be called otome? Are josei/redi games a thing?

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>>193117
Otome means maiden so ig maiden world makes sense. Wish they would stop mistagging their trash and stepping on toes with their name
>>193134
I can't wait to play old ass games when my japanese improves, i'd give a kidney to play the edgy shit like picrel

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>>193117
The saddest part is that they're the biggest and most active otome game group on Steam lol

>>193081
>then realized that most otome is boring stuff that doesn't have the settings or type of guys I like.
kek same, I say I'm an otome fan but in reality not many otome games seem interesting to me due to the setting and the boys.
>I need more sci-fi romance.
I would love to hear your ideas if you have any. I'm glad we can discuss this sort of thing here since fun is not allowed on /blog/
I think sci-fi is also rare in BL but still more common than in otome, they even have a mecha game. Imagine an otome game with mechas, holy shit, that'd be awesome.
Does Date Warp (an EVN) count as sci-fi? Though I'm assuming you want something "more sci-fi" than that.

>>193135
Yeah that would still be called otome. There are some adult otome games that are still considered part of the genre, which have settings that are kind of similar to that (but assertive MC is still rare). The protagonist type doesn't change the genre, but I have seen someone compare picrel (Sachi no Tenbin) to josei manga, so I guess you're not the only person who has wondered about that.
>redi
Surprised to see someone else on here know about redi-komi lol
From what I know about lady comics, ChouDoku would be the most similar.
But not all the games with more mature adult protagonists are R18. The difficult part is finding a protagonist who isn't a doormat.

No. 193164

>>193139
oh god, I love the artstyle! Can't tell if a Shuffle! autist is responsible for it, Carnelian or someone else. Honestly, I would try to texthook it if it wasn't so difficult to set it up.

No. 193169

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Absolutely love Collar Malice. The MC isn’t a pushover and actually yells and rejects some of the romance options and doesn’t rely on them either. Also I found myself enjoying the story/mystery as much if not a bit more than the romance options. Also the art is pretty

No. 193202

>>193169
Same here. I was skeptical at first because I was worried it'd just be a plot-heavy VN with some romance instead of a real dating sim, but it ended up being one of my top otome. Usually I think the plot for otome can be pretty weak since obviously the focus is on cute boys and it can be pretty silly, but I was pleasantly surprised. If you haven't played Unlimited yet, I totally recommend it!

No. 193205

>>193202
I just started it! I finished Mineo’s route because he’s my fav and I just started Yanagi

No. 193211

>>193202
>instead of a real dating sim
Nona, a real dating sim is what you'd call a "stat raiser".

No. 193267

>>193161
Isn't date warp just time travel? That's boring, especially when they only use it to go into the past. I want games set in space or other planets. Or at least cyberpunky with robots.
There's a few old PS2 games like Little Anchor that I've been meaning to play. And there was a game on Vita with mecha (Yuukyuu no Tierblade) but I can't emulate that and I'm not buying a dead system.

/blog/ is just obsessed with that new mobile game now, but their not completely against this kind of discussion.

No. 193733

>>193169
Do you have any recommendations for other games on the switch? Just finished Amnesia: Memories but didn't really like any of the LIs that much compared to Collar x Malice. I was thinking about trying Code: Realize but the reviews look like a mixed bag, have any other nonas played? What did you think?

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>>193733
Hi nonnie! I have the same problem. Since I’ve played CxM it’s been hard to play anything else. However I heard Amnesia Memory is being released this summer on the switch? It looks like it’s the same team and artist by Collar x Malice and it looks story driven! Haven’t played it but it’s on steam and vita
I’m thinking of trying Code Realize. I haven’t heard too bad of things from it. What have you heard ?

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>>193743
Yep, maybe it's just my bias because I liked CxM too much kek. It seems like the Code Realize reviews are split between people who like it a lot and people who compare it unfavorably to CxM since it's the opposite in a couple ways, like the common route is apparently quite a bit longer so people felt the romance in the character-specific routes to be more rushed in comparison, especially because it takes place in a steampunk fantasy setting so they need to do more world-building.
But some people also like C:R more because of the world-building being more immersive and more fluffy moments in the game compared to CxM which revolves more around suspense, which is one of the main aspects of CxM I liked. Idk though, I might try picrel because it's more similar along those lines.

No. 195561

>>195553
Just go on vndb and search the tags and ratings. It's no help if you don't give a single specific.

No. 195666

>>195553
I liked the The Second Reproduction a lot and it has steamy scenes in each route. It's on PC and there's an fan English patch floating on the internet somewhere. Most spicy otome that are easily available in English are on mobile and will mostly be steamy writing. The ikemen series games for example. There's also the Love365 app from Voltage that has a bunch of different games, but is also pay per route. I also see people suggest the PC otome game Fxxk Me Royally for both steamy writing and visuals, but I also see people say the CGs look like they were made for moids. I haven't played it myself to say for sure though.

No. 195868

>>195666
>Fxxk Me Royally
Yep, definitely don't play this one. I haven't played it but most of the CGs lack female-gazey male focus, and there's also shotacon where the two guys, I think, are magically turned into kids. I've read many bad and lukewarm reviews of it and it looks like the romance is shit, and it's worse in some areas than the previous Kalmia8 game published by MangaGamer which was Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome. Both have, like, the bare minimum of what an otome game should have to be part of the genre. Thinking about it, maybe that's why MG picked those two titles for their first R18 otome, so that moids could buy it.
Remember, this is a game where the protagonist, who almost looks like a loli designed by and for scrotes, is an alien princess from a planet called Cameltoe (lmao, what woman finds that shit funny?? I never even see women say that word, it's always males), where it's completely normal to walk around naked in public and make out with random people. This sounds like it gives a (very shitty) excuse to make the protagonist "dominant" or assertive for once, but not at all in a way that is written for a female audience.
And that's not to mention other more general issues, like the wonky art.

No. 195993

>>195980
>Ugh i really want to play blood moon calling because of the hot white-haired guy
kek, me too
I hate mobage shit, why can't they port this one to PC already?

No. 196391

>>196319
cringe at both your post and that hideous art in the picrel

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>>196319
fixed

No. 196439

>>196438
samefag, accidentally cropped it lol but i don't feel like starting over

No. 196806

>>196438
Whoa she actually looks a lot better here now..

No. 219503

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Don't you think it's kinda curious how "galge" (romance/sex games for straight men) are named after the female love interests and "otomege" are named after the protagonist/players? I think it should be called "ikege" or "guyge" tbh
Picrel, it's an otome game but the player characters are the only ones featured on the cover

>>196319

me lol
It's just that it occupying the whole screen is too overwhelming

No. 219507

>>219503
Your picrel is like one of the only examples of only heroines on the cover and it's a PS2 game. I also think otoge protags are usually more interesting than galge protags

No. 219512

>>219507
>Your picrel is like one of the only examples of only heroines on the cover and it's a PS2 game
Yeah, it's an extreme example but the protagonist is often featured prominently on the cover too.
>I also think otoge protags are usually more interesting than galge protags
That's true, but I don't know if it's necessarily better or not.

No. 219515

>>219512
I can't speak for everyone but I play otoge like they're romance novels. I think the protag is important and a huge part of the story so I'm glad some games have fleshed out heroines with personalities and backstories rather than generic pieces of cardboard. I enjoy games with generic heroines too but the most memorable are the ones where the protagonist is her own character. I've also played a few galge and I enjoyed some of them but generic brown-haired boy gets fucking old after a while. I'd probably enjoy them more if the protagonists were more interesting or looked cooler kek

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>>219515
>I can't speak for everyone but I play otoge like they're romance novels.
This is exactly how I play too. I don't self-insert–I just want to read a GxB love story, be it otome, manga, or novel.

>>219503
Ikege could be a good name for categorizing otomege with faceless female MCs or even joseimuke with male-only casts that aren't necessarily BL. I think the term galge makes sense for moids though because they only care about the female characters and thus prefer a male MC that as bland as cheap printer paper and acts only as a witness to the girls doing interesting things/carrying the plot forward. At least that's what the few moid harem anime I've seen has led me to believe anyway.

>>219712

I like Yang but he isn't my favorite and yet I always find myself going back to stare at his CGs the most

Also I'm super hype for picrel. I was avoiding Shuuen no Virche anything just in case they never localize it and I'd get excited over nothing. But now it's officially going to be localized!

No. 219797

>219726
I'm excited too. I was so happy they announced it. I was losing hope when they announced Radiant Tale's trailer first but then when Virche came on I think I let out a scream. I love otome like CxM, Bustafellows, and Even if Tempest.

Speaking of Even if Tempest, it was really good for Voltage's 1st long otome. Its still short compared to Otomate but its ok. I really enjoyed the new mechanics. I loved all 4 of the boys and don't have a favorite because each of their routes made me happy. Lucien needs more fluff though because his route had too much plot crap, same for Zenn. Could really use a fandisc actually.

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So I know I'm like 10 years late but I just started playing Amnesia and god do I hate Shin. I'm all for cute tsundere guys but he's just an asshole and I wish the mc could talk back to him lol I know nothing about the game except for the yandere route so I hope it'll become more enjoyable later on

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>>221494
The routes I enjoyed the most are Kent's and Toma's. Shin spends most of the time investigating than acting like boyfriend potential and Ikki is a slut, so I dislike him. I love how Orion compensate for the heroine's lack of personality . I think I wouldn't have enjoyed this game as much as I did if Orion wasn't there, and ended up caring more our friendship than about the relationship with the others guys. I wish Amnesia Later was translated, since Orion has focus in it.

No. 221589

>>221494
All the guys were unlikeable. I only liked Shin and Toma in an OT3 with MC.

No. 221627

>>221570
I agree, normally I don't like "sidekick" characters but Orion did add something and it wouldn't have been as enjoyable without him. Especially in Ikki's route, which I found super boring otherwise because I didn't like Ikki at all. I agree with >>221494 with regard to Shin but even then he was better than Ikki.

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>>221570
Great news, nona!
Funnily enough, I started to like Shin now when I'm playing Ikki's route and he's not being so mean to the mc and has more awkward/cute moments. I like Ikki so far even though he's a slut and treats mc like a prize to win I'm sorry

No. 221692

anyone else played bustafellows? Its described as steamy but I didn't see any steamy parts tbh

No. 221712

>>221688
Ikki is pretty popular, even though I personally dislike him I get why others enjoy his route even if he is a ho. And I like Toma's route the most even though he's objectively the worst love interest, so no room to talk. Kent is really the only LI who doesn't suck at least a little, but I would still choose Toma because I like yanderes.

>>221688
Oh hell yeah, that's exciting

No. 221716

>>221692 I played bustafellows a few months ago but only got through crow and Shu so far. Shu has some suggestive-ish CGs but that's about it.Definitely not what I would consider spicy. If you want actual spice I'd try out Olympia soiree

No. 221720

>>221692
Yeah, I liked it a lot since it was top comfy, gives you feeling of hanging out with the boys. Mozu is also a S tier boy in my book.
In that way, it's the exact opposite of steamy. I thought the romance even kind of sucked since the character routes felt short compared to the relatively lengthy common route.

No. 221833

I fucking love Club Suicide and it kills me (kek) that only one route has been translated. Really hope that some publisher picks it up. I feel like it would greatly appeal to depressive zoomer/millenial weebs with its themes of mental illness/health, recovery etc. If it was a scroteshit game instead of otome, a translation would already exist, whether official or fanmade.
I tried reading with machine translation but had big problem setting it up so the text would not be garbled or repeated.

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I hope I'm not shitting up the thread with my Amnesia blogposting but I love Ukyo's little cameos and can't wait to unlock his route!
I'm especially intrigued by his remarks about killing the mc and how he's able to shift through realities, he's probably going to become my husbando, I can feel it
>>221833
This game sounds really interesting nonnie, is the english patch still available?

No. 222482

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>>222403
I'm not completely finished with Amnesia (I still have to do all of Ukyo's bad endings), but he was my favorite by far the good ending was so fucking sweet, it made him my husbando. Also the story for his route is really interesting as well, it never felt boring unlike the other routes.
>>221688
>I like Ikki so far even though he's a slut and treats mc like a prize to win I'm sorry
kek ngl I can understand why. Ignoring the fact that he's a manwhore and a doormat he's pretty nice and is really attractive (I personally think he's the most attractive guy in the game, but the other stuff prevents him from being my fave). Also I can understand why you like Shin more in the other routes, I did his route first and hated him but he was a lot more tolerable in the other ones. I don't think it makes sense that he would be meaner to his gf than a friend/acquaintance but whatever

No. 222576

>>222482
>I don't think it makes sense that he would be meaner to his gf than a friend/acquaintance
Tsundere logic

No. 223057

is it possible to play mystic messenger on a pc using an emulator to time travel so I don't miss any messages? or torrent it from somewhere where I can play it without having to worry about missing messages and farming hourglasses? I've done all the casual story routes once and I still don't have enough hourglasses to do jumins or 707s and it's pretty irritating

No. 223197

>>223057
you can use an android emulator like memu or nox, but time travel is not possible and is grounds for a ban. the hacks for android are dead, only iphone has it and you need a jailbreak to use it. i have some old accounts with hourglasses on them but i honestly don't know how to share

No. 223534

>>223197
ah dang thanks nonna, I'll just have to farm hourglasses until I have enough

No. 223620

who are your favorite VAs?

No. 223648

>>223620
Daisuke Ono because he voice acted my first otome husband (and possibly -still- the only otoge husband).
I kind of wish he had NSFW CDramas, but I understand…

No. 223649

>>223648
He has some BL drama CDs that are NSFW but it's the otome game thread so I doubt that's what you're looking for.

No. 223680

>>223620
Tachibana Shinnosuke, Morikubo Shoutarou and Hanae Natsuki. Them voicing a character is enough to make me play their route first.

No. 223694

has anyone played hatsuoki? i want to know if it's easy to self-insert as the mc, that's the first thing i look into an otome game to be honest lol if she has too much of a personality then it kinda ruins my immersion

No. 223700

>>223694
did you mean hakuouki? i think shes fine as a self-insert. if you see fans complaining about mc having no personality or being useless its a good way to tell if a game is better for self-insert kek

No. 223703

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Any nonnie played Palais de Reine? Who was your favorite LI? Hardest LI to get?
I just got Quin's end and I'm so happy! Maybe being a priestfag/robofag played a part, but his route was so sweet. He asks for a fucking kiss on his mask then he gets so overwhelmed it BREAKS
I'm trying to get the Baron's route but he is so hard to get. Bitch.

No. 223706

>>223700
yes…it was hakuoki… i'm stupid

No. 223707

is diabolik lovers translated?

No. 223709

>>223707
there is a vita game translated, i think its diabolik lovers limited v. an older game was translated by text only

No. 223710

>>223709
with how popular this series was in the west, i'm surprised there is no official release. even my normie friends know the series

No. 223711

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I just played Steam Prision and I don't have enough words to say how much I fucking hated it. The protagonist has to be one of the worse female MC I have ever played as, and the story…. my god, the way it progressed went from bad to worse.

>>223703
I'm crying inside nonnie, I bought the game through Steam and was so excited to play it, but I was unable to install it because for some goddamn reason after an update the game has now a trojan. Is it as good as it sounds?

>>221692
Not steamy at all that's for sure, but I absolutely adored it. It's one of the first visual novels where I was actually interested in the story and not only the characters. Teuta was adorable and I loved that she actually has a personality. Plus it has Shu, what else can I ask for.

No. 223712

>>223710
Rejet doesn't like the west and assumes it'll only get pirated which I guess isn't wrong kek

No. 223716

NON BRAIN DEAD MC WHEN?!

No. 223719

>>223716
sadly the latest localizations have all the strong sassy mcs you want

No. 223729

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>>223711
>Is it as good as it sounds?
Let's see. It's mainly a game where you try to win the throne and the romance is a side thing. You interact with the knights you hired and also with the lords(lesser than the knights) to gain their support. Later upon the end of the game you choose a character to be with (only if you are close enough) and you get their special scene + the end scene.
Some knights have decent amount of romance in their interaction but not all.
It has no fucking CG gallery, but you can view some when replaying scenes you unlocked.

It's fun when you replay the game and discover new things. Also has some secrets..Really needs some guides to see everything. Unfortunately there is barely anything in english.
Oh and bad optimization. Personally, I had no issues installing I got it cracked kek

>>223716
Empty vessel MC in english otome when?

No. 223753

>>223711
I liked steam prison because I'm a retard just like the protag and Yune is cute

No. 223806

>>223711
>but I was unable to install it because for some goddamn reason after an update the game has now a trojan.
Are you sure it's a trojan and not a false positive? What do the reviews say?
Also you can download old versions of games but I forgot how

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>>223753
Yune is cute I agree with you but don't say that anon, love yourself, no one can be as retarded as Cyrus "I don't know what love or sex is and I'm not sure where babies come from". What frustrated me the most about Steam Prison was the potential. There was so much they could have done with Cyrus yet they made her a brain dead MC terribly characterized and inconsistent, the writers expect you to think she is a strong character just because she doesn't like dresses and knows how to use a sword which she barely gets to use anyway.

Every route feels mostly useless until the very end, I mean c'mon we spent half of Ines route teaching him useless shit that doesn't have any impact on the story. I ended up skipping several dialogues in hopes that at the very least the romance would be good since it was rated 17+ and nothing.fucking.happens, there is barely any romance and the CGs are terribly boring. I get the writers were trying to play with Cyrus upbringing but they went above and beyond to make her plain dumb instead of naive. Also Elcreed's route is nightmare fuel and I can't believe someone greenlighted it, there is a goddamn scene where Cyrus literally says that she can't reject him because he is her employer or some shit like that. That said I thought the world building was good, if only they had done something good with it. I'm sorry I just have so many feelings kek

>>223806
According to some reviews it is a trojan, the devs said that it was nothing and that we should just whitelist it, but imo sounds kinda shady

No. 223825

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Why do we have characters like Yune and Orlok if we can't tempt them with womanly wiles?

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>>223710
>>223712
It's so interesting to me because both seasons of the anime got an official English dub and the entire point of the anime was to advertise the game kek And yeah it is extremely popular for an otome, at one point you could get DL merch at local weeb stores here and I'm from a shithole country where barely anything aside from manga gets localized and just like the other anon said even my normie friends know DL, there's even been a western DL fandom revival in the recent years

No. 223838

>you need a ps vita if you want to play diabolik lovers in english because the stupid translators couldn't do a pc version
it's not fair, it was really common a few years ago for moids to translate multiple galge visual novels (i know because i played little busters with an english patch) but nothing for such a popular otome?

No. 223839

>>223838
oh wait the game never had a pc version… because otome games were limited to ps vita only…

No. 223840

>>223825
because our proxy tends to be a halfwit who probably thinks boys are also the same down there

No. 223848

>>223838
>>223839
Diabolik Lovers is a PS Vita exclusive? no way

>>223825
that ear kek

No. 223884

>>223838
I have a PSVita, but I'm not sure I would enjoy that VN since I hated the anime. I'm curious now.

No. 223891

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>>223884
It depends on what you're into, Dl is pretty dark but also… goofy? It's like it can't settle on what kind of game it wants to be. The tone changes frequently from horror to psychological to fluffy to comedic. Nothing explicit is shown but there is a lot violence and implied sexual abuse. The mc has more agency in the games and I liked hearing her thoughts. The art and music are gorgeous. Each route is very different, if we're talking about the first game then
>Ayato's route is perfectly in the middle imo, it's not as tame as Reiji's but definitely not as fucked up as Laito's, it has dark moments but they're balanced out by his comedic stupidity, he's way less obnoxious than in the anime, you'll like his route if you're into retard jock characters falling for quiet nice girls and getting embarassed by it, has some tsundere moments here and there
>Kanato's route has a lot of horror and supernatural elements and he's a yandere throughout the whole route
>Laito's route is generally considered the most fucked up because of his mind games and backstory, also sexual undertones, imo he's the best written character and his route has quite a few sad moments
>Shu's route
>Reiji's route is the least fucked up and he has the healthiest relationship with mc, it's the most comedic of them all but in a tasteful way imo, Reiji has the most character development
>Subaru's route has many sad, edgy and fluffy moments, he's a tsundere with a lot of self hatred, his route has very a romantic feel to it at times
Pardon my sperg, I'm a huge DLfag

No. 223892

>>223891
NTA but
>megane is best boy
Nice.

No. 223896

>>223892
As a Reijifag I agree
>>223891
Just realized I left Shu's rotue blank because I don't care about him, oops.
>Shu's route is mostly him teasing the mc and being the cool guy who acts like he doesn't care, his character is well explored and shocases his relationship with Reiji, as far as I know he's the most popular character among Japanese fans, has some melancholic moments and a lot of teasing

No. 223897

>>223838
Scrotes do not have you buy the game before they give you access to the patch. Idk if it makes them better or worse when it comes to fantraslations. Otome games are a niche, so I can kind of understand the gatekeeping

No. 223902

>>223897
gatekeeping the dialovers vita patch until someone showed you a receipt and sometimes rejecting them anyway was so ridiculous though. i love whoever shared it and said fuck gatekeeping kek

No. 223912

>>223902
The fandom in general likes to act retarded. I appreciate the translators' work and that it's free but come on, as if Rejet would support a fanmade patch just because you pay for the game beforehand. I wish we had a dl thread, some of my personal cows were part of dialovers tumblr

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Does anyone know the drama with the BroCon translation? I keep checking translation groups but they’re all just sharing dumb discord drama with no updates on translation or patches.. I know precious baby will never be localized but a woman can hope to uncuck yusuke one day

No. 223926

>>223891
I've always thought DL was terrible yet at the same time can't help to want to play it. Like you said I think it's the tone that's just so over the place I can't help but forgive the fact most characters are terrible men.
Also I just really wanted to do things to Shu.

No. 223927

>>223902
>>223912
The same thing happened with Club Suicide patch. I don't think it's a DL thing as much as an otome fans wanting to support the genre.
I had no idea that the DL translators rejected people who actually bought the game. What the fuck

No. 223930

>>192885
Has anyone played Taisho X Alice? I finished it a couple weeks ago and I still can't stop thinking about it. I love Kaguya so much, even the silly cockney accent really grew on me. I'm looking forward to the fan disk, especially for Woolfe's route. He's really cute.

No. 223933

I want to play diabolik lovers for the nostalgia factor. I don't really care that the LIs are trashy, it reminds me of my middle school vampire phase lol

No. 223950

>>223933
Same, it's like if Vampire Knight was an equally trashy yet amazing otoge. And I mean that in the best way possible.

No. 224011

>>223838
At least for the first four games, Vita3k emulates them no issue and there's web translations.
Lunatic Parade also has web translations, but it and Lost Eden have frequent portrait bugs.
It is pretty fuckin shocking that there aren't more patches or just an official translation though, DL is probably the most known otome game next to Toma's circus.

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>>223930
My second favorite otome game personally. The localizers seemed to be freewheeling it too hard but I enjoyed it anyway, Yurika is a lot of fun and Alice is probably my favorite otome LI, he comes out swinging every time. They're a strong pair. I just wish his route was less of a plot dump.

No. 224024

I swear we need more mcs that don't look like goddesses, moids will get the blandest looking #262739 brown hair mc that the average joe can project on and we get absolute turbostacies that only a minority can relate to. I know it's probably thanks to the very high standards of beauty society forced on women but someone has to make a change and be more inclusive to their female fanbase.

No. 224035

>>223950
Even now I think a Vampire Knight otoge would make me spontaneously combust

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>>224035
Well, you're in luck because they made one and apparently there's and English patch.

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>>224024
>Throwing out hex codes like that
Jokes aside, I like when the MCs look interesting and pretty. Imo they look better next to the love interests and its usually accompanied with better writing than faceless MCs

No. 224067

>>224038
Wow this brings me back lol
I used to play this game on my DS as a teen while in VK cosplay… My japanese back then was so shitty, I could barely understand it. But i still had fun.

No. 224074

>>224024
>we get absolute turbostacies that only a minority can relate to.
You think "only a minority" can relate to the pretty MCs? kek, I don't know why it's so hard for you. I do want more plain MCs with a more dominating personality (to reflect mine) but "Stacy" MCs aren't a big deal either.
Also there's a lot of otome players that don't try to self-insert like
>>219515
>>219726
And that seems to be the more popular opinion so we're not getting more romance-focused yume otome games anytime soon.

No. 224079

>>224072
NTA but I think that's simply because in otome, the artists only know how to draw pretty girls, while galge artists generally have no fucking idea how to draw attractive men of any kind. So in otome, "plain" protagonists are effortlessly cute (even when they're not supposed to be) while plain galge protagonists are actually plain or even ugly.
Also hentai is a whole other category where this difference is even more exaggerated, sometimes the protagonist will be drawn as ugly as a toad on purpose because scrotes love degrading women by imagining them being fucked by a hideous male, even better if that male is like themselves.

>>224077

I agree about the sex scenes but I think the problem there is not so much the protagonist being too pretty (different from "pornified") but the artist not knowing how to draw female gaze or using the same angles that are used in porn for males.

No. 224083

i used to use otome games as a replacement for romance media to get away from trannies, but the latest localized games are not for me. i was playing steam prison and felt absolutely cucked by how stereotypically attractive cyrus and ulrik were together. i was like why am i even playing this kek. it sucks the focus is on more defined mcs now. if i'm playing something gxb, i expect some semblance of control over it so the characters can actually feel like my LIs. i don't see any point in non self-insert otome. call me autistic but it's not the way i want to play

No. 224086

>>224083
I agree. My problem isn't so much with the protagonist's design but the big focus on story + defined MC personality. I don't wanna read all that shit just to maybe get some cute romantic interactions between a cute guy and a gal that doesn't even act (or even look) like me. If I wanted that, I'd just read/watch shoujo or read a het ship fic.
This trend of localizing only the games with big ambitious plots and almost no control over the romance feels alienating. It's clear they only do it because it has a wider appeal than just the core otome audience, since some moids might try these VNs for the story and pretty MCs.

No. 224088

>>224086
Also don't get me started on adult otome games. AFAIK the only two such games that have been officially localized so far have been Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome and Horny Magical Princess published by MangaGamer. They couldn't have picked a worse R18 otoge than the latter. Obviously they chose the games that were most likely to be bought by their big scrote audience, and both them and Aksys give no fucks about the otome players that just want to self-insert to romance hot guys because we're such a small niche (or so it seems).

No. 224090

Are there any good otome for adults on PC? I can't seem to find anything good on steam, and Nintendo switch only has around two or three otoges for adults with NSFW scenes.

No. 224105

>>224083
this is exactly how i feel, i know a lot of otome players don't self-insert but i thought the point of otome is to feel like you, the player, is dating these characters. isn't this how the genre started? i really don't get any enjoyment out of pairing the same girl with 5 different boys if that girl isn't meant to represent me. if i wanted to read that type of romance i would just pick up a shoujo manga or YA novel

No. 224147

>>224126
I mean we're talking about Japan here… For them women above 1.7m probably are freakishly tall since even scrotes there not always reach that height

No. 224149

>>224126
That's actually pretty tall in Japan. The average height for women there is like 149 cm/4'9'', you must be from Europe or something lol

No. 224205

>>224149
I would feel like a huge monster if I ever went to Japan

No. 224211

>>224205
Don't worry plenty of tall gaijin go to Japan annually

No. 224218

>>224149
more like 157 cm, they're short but not THAT short

No. 224227

>>224218
I'm 157 and I felt completely average in Japan, I loved it. Shopping for clothes was so much easier when I lived there because on top of that I'm thin and have no boobs. I know much taller women and while they looked skinny or fit like models they told me shopping in Japan was a pain in the ass just because of their height. So yeah I also confirm that a Japanese women who's 170cm tall would look way taller than average.

No. 224236

>>224227
Interesting that you say this. the average japanese woman is also petite and small breasted, so what's with this new trend of making otome protagonists stacked? Like i understand coomer media for moids but i can't wrap my head around why does byleth (she's otome-adjacent I'd say) looks like THAT

No. 224240

>>224236
Byleth from FE3H you mean? She looks average in her art by Kurahana Chinatsu, I have no clue why her 3D model has huge breasts because the difference is obvious. I don't play otome games yet so I haven't noticed a trend yet, I'm guessing it's because Japanese women who play these games want to self insert in a good looking MC and want escapism? Shopping for bras was hell there, unlike for anything else, almost all the cute bras that looked cute were very padded, so I'm sure most Japanese women were wearing padded bras too.

No. 224279

>>224236
It's either Japanese women wanting their self-insert to be more conventionally sexy like >>224240 said, and/or the artists are attached to this idea that they must draw all women with prominent breasts and they're so used to seeing/drawing it that they don't even notice how massive these characters' tits are.

No. 224282

>>224279
it's sad that they think the LIs wouldn't be attracted to them unless they were super sexy, meanwhile moids feel no shame drawing pretty girls with ugly bastards

No. 224300

I'm playing uta no prince-sama, but I can't seem to find any translation except for a wikipage that stops mid route. It's still fun with the mini games

>>224236
that's true

No. 224344

>>224279
Aren't designers aware that scrotes will want to play as a hot woman for cooming?

No. 224347

>>224236
Nothing wrong with pretending to be big titty woman
FemByleth's design looks like shit though

No. 224391

>>224236
It’s bizarre that Robin/Corrin were designed by a man and look fine but Byleth is hideous coomer bait.

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>>224391
No idea how that worked out for FE3H exactly, but Yusuke Kozaki did the character designs and in-game portraits for the characters in Awakening and Fates, while in 3H from what I can see despite having confirmation, Chinatsu Kurahana did the character design, made f!Byleth look proportionate, and the art director who's an IS employee did all the in-game portraits and some of the NPC's character designs. And given that he did the art for Noire, Rinka and Rhajat in FEH, I'm sure he just decided to make f!Byleth's breasts larger just because he could and he's a coomer. There's also the fact that Corrin and Robin are customizable and never have balloon tits but Byleth isn't. I'm not posting his shit art and tainting my laptop by downloading it, here's how f!Byleth looks like when done by Kurahana.

No. 224431

When does Cupid Parasite pick up? I'm on Shelby's route and I'm so bored… I usually enjoy more action paced otome (Collar x Malice, Bustafellows, Tempest) but I've been trying to knock out my backlog. But..I'm so bored… I had this problem with Piofiore where Dante and Nicola's routes were literal snoozefests. Is Shelby like that too?

I found the common route a lot more fun. I do have Variable Barricade I started playing too, even though its a more relaxed setting (imo vs others) I really like Hibari so I am keeping my interest more (I think because she's voiced).

No. 224528

>>224431
I do think I remember Shelby's route being kind of boring. Gill's is also a bit shite since it's 50% flashbacks 50% MC brain damage. And god, do I hate misunderstandings like those routes had.
Others should be better, or at least more interesting.

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I feel like otome game is cursed as a genre for english readers.
There are barely any decent PC releases over the past 4 years.
And even Nintendo Switch releases are hit or miss, steam storetags love placing any dating sim under otome game tag too.
The only PC release I enjoyed was Degraman, which despite its art style turned out to be one of the few recent steam otome games that actually ended up being incredibly interesting.
I really miss old otome game forums and tumblr fangirling, not what we have now.
And I wish I could finally get a translation patch of the last SS game that I still never played (or found any translation on, other than on a website that asks you to login and register, but the website has been inactive for over 5 years).
I generally miss Honeybee games, I feel bad that they just stopped selling their games altogether now, and back when eng-hype was a thing, they would threaten fans with a lawsuit for translating the games. And now you can't even buy them!

No. 227015

>>226938
what is SS?

No. 227020

>>227015
Starry*Sky

No. 227055

Anyone play Ikemen Sengoku recently? How are the new routes? I haven't played it in years, but I actually learned Japanese just to read it before it was ever translated because I was a lonely kid. I hated waiting for the mobile game tickets or whatever to replenish so I always had 50 otome android games downloaded at once to keep me busy kek.

No. 227147

>>227055
Girl, my main motivation for picking Japanese back up is to play otome games (yeah, knowing just to know is good too and it could open career options but games just feels more motivating rn lol). The English ones we get are crap and I'm impatient.

No. 227206

>>227055
omg no I haven't played any Ikesen in so long probably for 4 months. I know that they're expanding the story with an "act 2" and adding ranmaru obligatory femmeboy shota route. I also haven't been keeping up with IkeVamp. I loved Leo's route it reminds me so much of Gilbert's route in piofiore classy and beautiful sunkissed italian men

No. 227212

>>227055
the 3 new boys they added? I haven't played their routes yet but while on the ikesen topic has anyone played Kennyos route? is it any good? he kinda scares me so I was holding off but his is the last route I haven't done yet (other than the 3 new boys)

No. 227248

>>227147
The main reason I learned Japanese in the first place was to play otome games, then I realized that most of them are pretty boring and not to my tastes… Now I just use my knowledge to watch youtubers.

No. 227939

New free game where you get to play as an aggressive girl and kabedon cute boys, hope it gets translated into english. I want to play it but my japanese isn't good enough.

No. 229771

>>227939
Fuck yeah, first the translated game by that one artist, and now this. I hope this is the start of a new trend in otome.

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I'm playing Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu rn and am on Garaiya-kuns, the Chuunis, route. He was about to cry because we drank out of the same bottle, he's so adorable, I love him. I hope bad ending is him actually going full-on Yandere.

No. 231135

>>231133
Oh God, he's so pretty. I need to play that someday

No. 231215

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>>231135
Please do, I just finished his route and, while I guess some people might say it's too long or cheesy, the confession scene was the cutest shit I've ever seen. I've only played two out of ten (or eleven, depending how you see it) routes, but I doubt anyone's going to top him, I'm a puddle of bliss right now. He's not just a great husbando for the game series, he's a top contender for outside of it, too. I love him so much, playing his route after Yuri-kuns already felt like cheating, but I don't think I can play any of the other routes for a while. It's a shame the routes are pretty short and linear overall, but at least there's a fandisk so that's nice enough.

No. 231230

>>231215
i'm a slut for chuunibyou characters, just wish there was an english patch for the game.

No. 231707

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the ssum is finally out and has a whole bunch unnecessary social features for game item crumbs, including user created labs or forum topics

picrel is an example. i'm reporting the kinnie and kweer shit to set a standard kek

No. 231745

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Hey, my friend plays "Our Life" on steam and she says its pretty good. Does anybody else play who could reccomend similar titles? Steam, mobile, switch and xbox is what she can play on.

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Nonnies, did you know that you can fund the creation of Nekopara - Catboys paradise sequel by purchasing their merch? https://mobile.twitter.com/catboy_pr
Tbh I am willing to buy some because the game was so good and promising despite being short. On top of that, the devs hate trannies. I can only wonder if they would include R18 scenes, but afaik they said they didn't have it in their future plans, despite nekopara being a coomer franchise…sigh
>>231745
Some good free-to-play steam otome games:
Degraman
NEKOPARA Catboys Paradise
CUPID
Cinderella Phenomenon

No. 231814

>>231808
did they say something about trannies before? or just ignored them kek

No. 231818

>>231814
On steam community page they said that their game won't be affected by western ideology (something along these lines) because of the amount of questions about the fashionista genki catboy (people kept screaming that he could be a tranny despite him just being one of the otome game tropes). That is also why I remember they told that R18 would be unlikely (whuch sucks tbh considering how little R18 otome games there are). I don't know if there is a way to find these posts now, hut that was during the games first week.

No. 231836

>>231818
I remember the boys having dialogue like "we lick things to show affection" damn please show us in graphic detail.
Good on them for rejecting troonism though.

No. 231866

>>231745
Emulate Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side for the DS/PSP (you can do it on your phone), or if your friend knows Japanese she can play the newest game for the Switch

No. 232866

>>231707
Bleh, I don't like the art style. It's too uncanny, compared to mystic messenger/dandelion/nameless. I get that they were going for a "realistic" Korean dude but meh… I want anime boys in my anime games…

No. 239599

I'm probably late but Hakuouki is a good game. music and art are really good, story/writing as well.

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>>239599
Who's your fave? Mine was always Okita, but after playing Soumas route and crying for days literally teared up on the street several times thinking about their night before he turns himself in, especially that "Yukimura-senpai… no… Chizuru-san" part broke me, oh my god, I'm getting weak again just thinking about it I got swayed by him. I'm so mad I don't have a switch, I watched some of the trailers on the Otomate youtube channel and it seems like there's some new content instead of it just being a simple port, too. I bought a vita just for otome games, at this point I'm considering buying a switch just for this purpose, too…

No. 239658

>>239656
I loved star project… I was about 12 when I started playing it. I remember constantly trying to walk in on them on in the shower kek. I was really hopeful they would add the rest of the characters but suddenly it was just gone. It was really fun for preteen me. I wonder if there's anyway to "rewritten" it?

No. 239659

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It's Star Project missing hours nonnies. I don't remember the story being any good in fact, I don't remember any story at all but I had fun with my daily plays. So sad to see it was just gone one day. I think this game is one of the two major reasons for one of my favorite dynamics being manager-chan x idol-kun in otome games and manga.

No. 239660

>>239658
Whoops, sorry for deleting

No. 239665

>>239659
Oml i remember i loved playing it so much… from what i know the devs may have created a mobile game with female love interests.

No. 239806

which route is the best in bustafellows?

No. 239849

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>>239619
Mine is Hijikata, because I think his samurai shit was really cool and his voice when he's pissed off is sexy af. I still remember the last fight with the blond man (whose name I forgot)

No. 239859

>>239619
I haven't played the whole game yet, just one route so I can't say who my fave is. But the game still stood out to me.
you could buy a switch lite, they're cheaper.

No. 239886

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hakuoki nonnas, I've been thinking of playing this game but i am only interested in picrel because of his design. Can i play Edo Blossoms without playing Kyoto Winds, or is the otome game so good that I should play the first one too?
>>239659
The game is actually still (sort of) alive! You can play it on Mobile, it's named Idol Company (Star Project) but sometimes it's found on google play by googling Kpop idols or something. I am not sure how different it is from the old version, it has the same characters but i admit that it looks a bit scuffed for a mobile game, the screen seems to be too small.

No. 239922

>>239886
I haven't played Hakuoki but you also gotta take the localization into account. Apparently only the first (?) game was localized by Idea Factory and the rest of the releases were done by Aksys, with a noticeable drop in quality to the point that some dialogue doesn't even make sense in context or context is changed. I forgot which thread it was but some nonna who did play the games and knows Japanese elaborated on it in another /m/ thread (probably the localization one)

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>>239849
I get it lol. His voice actor is the reason why I've chosen his route among the first in other games, too lmao.
>>239859
I see… well, definitely recommend playing Soumas route next, if you like eager kouhais lol. I already thought about getting a switch light, but the last time I read up on them, there was something that made me hesitate. But considering I can't remember at all what it was, I guess it wasn't that much of a deal breaker and the switch light is cuter, anyways
>>239886
You definitely gotta play KW beforehand. EB isn't some fandisk or sequel, it's a direct continuation of the story, so you won't have any explanations why X is Y and what Zs goal is. Hakuouki originally had six routes packed into one game, but I guess the game got too big once they've expanded the routes up to twelve, so they split the story between the two different major arcs. If you aren't some Japanese history autist already, the story is hard enough to follow as it is, as it's based on the actual Shinsengumi and historical events, so unless you don't care about it and really are just in for the romance and wannabe vampire twist, I really wouldn't recommend it.
I have to see if I can find some emulator that isn't bluestacks, I'd love to play Star Project again lol.

No. 240048

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>>239886
you're interested in hijikata? he's my favorite and is also quite the tsundere type if you are into that - I like him with his long hair in kyoto winds so much
like the other reply said you should play both and there is also cute moments and good cgs in the first that you won't want to miss
personally hakuoki is my favorite otome game so I'm a bit biased

No. 241247

>>231818
People were seriously trying to troon Dill? He's so cute, why can't there be an otome guy who just happens to love fashion? Good on the creators for not pandering to that nonsense. I will look into that merch thing as well.

No. 241278

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Are any anons familiar with The Bell Chimes For Gold? Apparently it's about an alchemist who wanted to marry her mentor but he takes the money she and he made together to marry his childhood friend. He then tells her shes talented and can buy her own husband. so that's what she goes off to do. The game seems to be rpg/otome. the main character crafts things and then she meets with the LI who basically go and fight the dungeons with her. There are two versions of the game. the steam version is more family-friendly is apparently easier, they also changed the story it's unlike other games where you can just download an +18 patch to get h-scenes. The "adult" version which I found based on the reviews is darker story, harder to people unfamiliar with jrpgs, etc.
quote from a review" Differences between the versions:
- The 13+ version - this one - is more rounded up, everything is easier to understand for people not familiar with jrpgs and high fantasy.
- The 18+ version - which you'd have to look for over the web to find at a more expensive price - is more targeted to an audience familiar with JRPG tropes given the humor, the innuendos, and the sparse information about what the player is assumed to already know and expect. In that version, the relationship progression is packed with suspense, tension, more tooth rotting scenes and about 4-5 ero scenes; among which some that are kinda cringe-worthy (the way they draw men's body -especially the thief's- is something that requires courage to look at, but the way they draw hands and feet…oh my).
Notwithstanding… as long as have enough squinting skills to see only the text and forget about the peculiar drawing aesthetics… well you'll find that the narration is also less professional both technically and in terms of storytelling. So no, this version isn't really such a bad deal. Except for some scenes that were decently written. And, just in case you wondered, don't expect to get to wear the pants for long. (In any route. Not even with the elf. Yeah the dude they put in a maid outfit for promotional CG on their website. Because, you know, no woman really wants that in the end, right?)

>Anyway TLDR

Anyone familiar with The Bell Chimes for Gold?

No. 241285

>>241278
Repetitive drivel, really boring gameplay. Gross and boring LIs (like holy shit, i've never seen such a bad, trashy roster in any "otome" game, eyebleeding art, coochie drying sex scenes. The protagonist is cute design wise, but dumb and naive as fuck, and not in an endearing way. Like bitch, you using your hard won money to pay for drinking tabs and gambling debts of a guy you dont know after being dumped by a guy for being poor? wtaf
1/10, feels like a game written by men who have no idea of what women like or act like. Love yourself and dont play it. the thief looked like a tif, ugly as sin

No. 241289

>>241285
that's kind of what I got the idea of, I also chose not to mention how ugly the LI's were. Thanks for the response

No. 241382

>>241278
i don't mind the art but i just wanted to skip all the boring dungeon crawling parts also it was really annoying how the young pretty guy was the rapey one

No. 241423

>>241278
I like ojisans so it was ok. Samuel, the elf, and the thief were pretty good. The other two were only nice in the all ages routes cause they have shitty fetishes.
I really hate how this group likes older men, but they also like dark shit so most of their content isn't to my taste.

No. 243496

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Chou no Doku is getting an official English patch for the Switch and since it's console theyre removing all the r18 sex scenes. I understand why, but the censorship is still irritating. I know I should be happy we're getting a localization to begin with, but they keep cucking us dammit. Scrotes get to have their r18 games so why cant we? Same thing with the removal of the sex scenes in Koezaru wa Akai Hana which is also being localized for the Switch. Realistically, I guess all this means is that I should stop whining and keep studying Japanese

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>>243496
I don't think daddy Nintendo would be very happy with explicit sex on their console, particularly Chou no Doku's content
Just get textractor and the PC version and enjoy your Majima

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>>243496
Really? That happened to another fave of mine, Koezaru wa Akai Hana, which never had been translated at all, 0 fan patch, but then learned about it cutting out the r18. Oof. Cucked indeed.

No. 243541

>>241423
Same, I also hate how everything they put out has the men being abusive and the way they draw CGs is kinda scrotey. I just want a decent otome game about ojisans for once jfc. Agony/kinshiiku is even worse because I hate yanderes, the art is super shitty and the author has a fetish for older man/underage teen relationships.

No. 244731

let's say you can create an otome that suits your tastes, what would you do? fully customizable mc? more varied LIs?

No. 244734

>>244731
Faceless MC but that can have different hairstyles and skin tones, actually, I don't mind if she has a basic anime girl protagonist hairstyle as long as I can change the skin tone.

No. 244736

>>244731
>fully customizable MC
Not necessarily, just some variety in hair and skin color would be just fine, plus more dialogue options to make her act the way various players would (want her to) act. No "inclusive" "gender neutral" bullshit, thank you very much.
>more varied LIs
Yes! Both personality and appearance wise. If they can easily be described in 3 words or fewer and/or can easily be mistaken for each other if you switch the color palettes it's quite disappointing IMO.

No. 244747

>>244731
>otome that suits your tastes
I would make myself the player character and my husbandos the love interests kek (or make the LIs all cater to my tastes in every way possible)
But seriously, boy have I been thinking about this a lot. Regardless of whether we're talking about dating sims, visual novels or some other genre, as long as the art is 2D I think having a fully customizable MC is way too much work. I'd rather create an MC that appearence wise represents my target audience but is also a bit plain, and I'd add some personality customization feature with a range covering at least three or four different personality types, to allow players to feel truly represented in the MC's thoughts, dialogue, reactions, actions and choices, but that would require huge amounts of extra writing for it to actually affect the plot instead of just adding small, superficial dialogue changes here and there. I think that would be way more fun than just adding full visual customization, since a game must have strong interactivity, and a novel must have strong writing, and both must be engaging, or else instead of playing otome games you'd be looking at pictures of pretty anime boys online. That is, unless you're making a dress up game with romance elements or something, where customizing your avatar's appearance is the main appeal.
If there's going to be customization for the MC's skin, and adding an extensive range of options for every little detail, or a color picker, is not possible (would a color picker even work with pre-rendered 2D art?), then I'd rather not have that sort of customization than have lackluster or limited options that aren't even going to affect the story or your character's actions, which are the whole reason people play games. Then spend those resources on the personality options instead. I put so much emphasis on this because I prefer selfinserting , but if you asked me to make a more plot-focused otome game where the MC is not supposed to be a self insert I'd try to make her as cool and well-written as possible, and GNC because I'd like more female GNC or "masculine" protagonists in otome.

As for the LIs, of course they'd be the character types I like which tbh are rare or non existent in otome, with the added bonus that they'd offer a little bit more variety in the genre. Art and design wise I'd say it's important that they look distinct from eachh other and avoid sameface syndrome. The art wouldn't be very cutesy, but rather mature and detailed (not western style either, yuck. It's got to be beautiful and the boys must look handsome)

No. 244798

>>244731
Sci-Fi setting with all older characters.

No. 244811

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>>244731
>Option 1
Creepy/horror/disgusting atmosphere, with LIs and routes that would be appropriate for such themes. Yandere, yangire, hopelessly pathetic, otherworldly being that doesn't quite function as a normal person would, innocent but with infinite suffering, general schizo, some things along those lines. The MC should be unable to completely save them if not get dragged in their shit herself, and have strong visceral reactions. Art should be the roughly colored sort (e.g. pic related).
See: Kedamonotachi no Jikan, Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu, Degrees of Lewdity, Iyagatteru Kimi ga Suki, somewhat Aono-kun Sawaritai kara Shinitai
>Option 2
Fun MC and atmosphere with routes that focus on digging into their character and your relationship instead of some other plot. Essentially, Taisho Alice or Variable Barricade.
LIs can include autistic sweetheart, twin brother, pathetic and/or failure for you to smother in affection, clone of Kobato from Caligula Effect 2, vaguely spooky ethereal sort. Just avoid mr perfects. Art is preferably along the sharp side, e.g. Wooma, Sakusya2, 0oL_ou, 210gaso, Akira Akatsuki, etc.

No. 244814

>>244731
A simulation game where you kidnap an LI and train him to be your slave. Depending on the choices you make and what you're aiming for, he could end up being fearfully obedient or develop Stockholm syndrome and fall in love with you. His personality, speech, and mannerisms would also change based on how you train him. Also, most of the H-scenes would be POV so you mostly get to look at him instead of the MC's boobies being front and center like in every R18 otome ever.

No. 247648

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His dialogue is cringe but he is cute atleast.

No. 247882

>>247648
What game?

No. 247883

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>>247882
Error 143. Its a free game and the voice and dialogue are cringy at times, i do think its a good game since its free.

No. 248121

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Anyone trying out the games for spooktober on itch.io , are there any ones you like.

No. 257652

TELL ME WHAT TO BUY ON STEAM PLEASE
Very limited exp with otome but I like serious submissive and yandere. It'd be nice if it's horny but good plot is great too!

No. 257724

>>257652
I haven't really looked around the tag on Steam before, but taking a peek at it, from what I've played, Amnesia Memories might be alright. It's pretty standard in most areas so you'll be getting a real typical romance drama otome experience, but it is home to THE cage-kun himself, so you might like it if you're looking for yandere. As a bonus, they released that fandisc in english recently so you don't have to wait several years for an epilogue like everyone else did.

No. 258440

>>257724
Thank you I got it! Excited to kiss kiss fall in love.

No. 258491

>>257652
>Amnesia
>Bustafellows
>Nightshade
>Degraman (dont like the artstyle, but the writing is nice. First act is f2p)
>7Scarlet is a typical yandere otome. Drown in negative reviews because of normies going yucky over one of the love interests being a sibling.

No. 258524

>>257652
Nameless has a nice submissive clingy yandere among other kinds of yanderes

No. 258595

>>258491
>>258524
Kek fuck me I’ll get Nightshade and Nameless as well!

No. 258615

Sperg vent. I joined a big 18+ otome game discord server recently and so far I really liked it, but then somebody's boyfriend joined and now he pretty much dominates all conversation in the general channels. I at first thought he was a tif, but his typing style clocks him as male and even then all the other tifs talk about otomes unlike him. Is there a lolcow otoge server? I know there's a husbando one, but I'm not a husbandofag or even a self inserter

No. 258747

>>258615
Deadass why is he even there? Does he even like otome games? Can't they just kick him out or are the mods wusses or something

No. 258761

>>258615
It's really irritating how many otome spaces immediately start licking boots the moment a moid pops up. The moids in question always claim to like otome and require asspats because of it but never actually discuss the games. The otome subreddit is… surprisingly okay and hasnt been completely infested by moids and TIFs (yet) but I really wish there was a more gender critical leaning otome discussion server somewhere

No. 258889

>>258615
I am afraid that all of the 'good' otome game community times are gone, but maybe that's just me.
I am on a server for otome game fans too, but thankfully it's full of biological women and most of them just want to gush about tv shows and have fun, but there are still some incredible weirdos
>a FtM they/themie that starts shilling genshit impact in comparison to a nice indie otome game, complaining that 'it doesnt have diversity and genshit impact HAZ SO MUCH OF IT' and other bullcrap, always throws 'this LL is a tranny because i saw one pink, one blue and white item in his room uwu', 'he is bisexual because his room is purple!!11'-to which even the dev told that she didn't know that having a purple room means a person is bi.
>a 19yo polish nationalist-chan that does nothing but throws /pol/ manifestos and tiktok /pol/ info in one of the venting channel to prove a point in her hatred for no reason, when people use the channel to vent about their feelings (mostly)

No. 263300

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Breathing some life here. What do you guys think about touchstarved? I think the characters look pretty and i like the artstyle for a western VN. Just a bit worried for the possible woke stuff possibly in it. Their twitter has more information about the LIs
https://twitter.com/redspringstudio?s=20&t=C7nwaHoExTlU1UujRorzxA

No. 263306

Can you guys recommend some otome games that don't have any abusive LIs at all? I know I can just avoid them, but it sours my opinion of the game as a whole when they add in a token asshole LI.

No. 263307

>>263300
Probably the best art in a western otome I've seen. Thank you for posting anon, I'm interested.

No. 263308

>>263300
Style reminds me of Hades a little bit

No. 263339

>>263306
In terms of games I would personally recommend,
>Bustafellows is real bro hours. MC is one of the boys and they all banter with each other.
>Even if Tempest is more plot oriented, but all the LIs are very supportive of the MC and her struggles.
>I think Variable Barricade passes. Taiga is sarcastic and Shion might come off as a bit manipulative in a way, but they're normal people all in all. Only one I'd consider kind of an ass is the MC since she's an awkward sort.
>Shinigami to Shoujo is JP only so you'll need texthooker or nihongo skills, but it's a quality time in general.
And others I know that just don't have anything abusive
>Dairoku boys are a mild, nice bunch. Not my favorite game since it's "mild" in general but if you want something more comfy then it does that decently
>In the whole of the Tokimemo GS series I think the only ass is Majima in the second(?) game, but he's one of the obscure hidden characters in a game with 11 LIs so whatever
>Cafe Enchante has decent people

No. 263502

>>263300
>the prettiest has they/them pronouns
Because you can't be bishounen and male at the same time?

No. 265060

which otome games do you consider the classics or must plays? so far I've played all of the routes in hakuouki and ikemen sengoku plus done half of mystic messenger. I also have ozmafia and amnesia sitting in my steam library waiting to be played. what else should I add to my backlog?

No. 265079

>>265060
I noticed you seems to play a lot of Japanese period drama, so if you like them, you might like Birushana. I love the main character of this series. There's also a Chinese period drama called "A vow to my liege" that you can get on steam. I LOVE this game, and can't recommend it enough.
As for true classics, I would suggest playing Amnesia. It was one of my first otome games and I loved it to death.
I have more but these are my top ones, kek.

No. 265144

>>263502
Aw man I was actually considering this one. Normally, if it has "pick your pronouns" as a selling point, I stay the fuck away, but I really like this kind of western fantasy style art. So as long as the guys weren't gendies, I'd play it and maybe even back it. Welp. The desire to correct what they deem wrong about JP otome runs deep in the western indie circles and that's the reason I stay away from them. Also why coin the "amare" term if they never fucking use it.

No. 265169

>>265079
birushana sounds right up my alley, thanks for the rec. I really want to play more otomes like hakuouki and ikesen. I've seen amnesia being recommended a lot too itt and in other otome game communities so it must be good

No. 265171

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Are there any otome games you actually dislike?
Played pic related recently and couldn't stand it. It does everything wrong. Only positive thing I could say about it is Yuki is a good kid.

No. 265181

>>265171
Piofiore is the only otome I actively dislike. The heroine stands around cooking and cleaning and being scared while the plot happens around her and Orlok, the one character I actually liked and didn't think was a snoozefest gets the shit end of the stick anyways kek. I know everyone loves Yang but I thought he and his route were boring and trite.

No. 265358

Which should I play between Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk and Black Butterfly?

No. 265488

>>265358
That depends. They do different things.
I would technically say Ashen Hawk is better, since the story is more interesting, but it's also pretty much entirely linear with very little romance.
Black Butterfly's plot is not as entertaining, but it does at least give alternative routes for each of the characters, and I preferred the LIs here over the ones in AH.

No. 268357

I want to get into otome but I have such a huge non-otome backlog

No. 268363

>>268357
I would Google 'short otome games' and see if one interests you. That way you don't have to invest a lot of time if you hate them. One short game that is free is "nekopara catboy paradise". It's exactly as it sounds… Filled with catboys. Another short steam game is "My vow to my liege". I would advise you switch games, but those ones are generally much longer. There's also a lot of other short otome games' I can't think of off the top of my head, maybe someone else can pitch in? If not, Google is your friend.

No. 268373

>>268357
I have a big gaming backlog too. I just like to play a route of an otome in between whatever else I'm playing

No. 268522

>>265181
I want to like it. I rly do. Im
Still playing it but when I compare it to Collar Malice or Olympia Soiree the MC is SO BORING and the plot happens around her rather than her engaging in the plot like the other 2 games I mentioned

No. 268530

>>265171
It's been a long time since I played any of it, but I couldn't even get through Ozmafia. I remember the three main guys in it all being skeevy assholes, which was just unbearable coupled with the extremely naive protagonist. I can only accept mild asshole-ery from otome guys if the protag has some feist and can banter back. Also not really a point of hate on it, but it made me laugh my ass off when the canadian christian rock ed played, how did that even happen? "Hello Canadian Christian rock band, will you let us use your song about loving Jesus for our loving anime boy game with a brothel route?" insane

No. 268533

>>268522
I do like Piofiore but damn do I laugh when they're all having a shootout or fight or whatever and she's just standing there praying

No. 268538

>>268533
Lmao ok yeah me too. Like children will be dying and Liliana will be “dear father (GUN SHOT) who art in heaven… (BLAM)”

No. 268626

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Nonitas, I am desperately looking for an otome game on Nintendo switch. I already played Amnesia on Steam 5+ years ago.
i am looking for a game with
>a decent plot but not too plot-heavy to a point that there is no romance, or a very tiny amount of it.
I know Collar X Malice is shilled all over the reddit but I do wonder is it actually good, is it really worth it? I love detectives but I am in a mood for a romance. I couldn't finish BUSTAFELLOWS because it felt too plot-heavy to me rather than focusing on LL.
I also really like edgy/dark otome games, know Piofiore is known for that, but if you played it, why would you recommend and why wouldn't you recommend it?
>I am most interested in Olympia Soiree but I am still extremely curious about other games. Sadly I cannot buy Cupid Parasite on my amazon despite it seeming like a good mix for me.

No. 268628

>>268626
Unfortunately I haven't played bustafellows so I can't make any comparisons to that, but personally I felt the people talking about the importance of the plot and mystery stuff in Collar X Malice were over-exaggerating, it's absolutely an otome romance game first and foremost, I think it would probably be up your alley. You ultimately end up getting a full picture of the mystery, but each boy's individual route only gives you a piece of that, with the romance taking precedent imo

No. 268632

>>268628
people's praise made me think that the game itself has only, maybe 5% of the romance, i also saw some people asking 'when does it get interesting', wondering when they will reach their LL's romance. From what I can tell the plot is interesting despite being more or so generic, but in the end all i really want is the romance instead of being left with a plot-only focused visual novel.

No. 268636

>>268626
I love both CxM and Olympia Soiree I think both have interesting LIs AND world building. Yeah it focuses more on plot but I find the plot in both very interesting. Highly recommend

No. 268704

>>268626
I love CxM. I haven't played Bustafellows but everything I ever read about it makes me not want to play it at all. I do like Piofiore because the art is so beautiful and I like the romance in it a lot. Would I recommend it? I dunno. Half the subreddit pearl clutches over everything about it while I think it's barely as dark as the average YA novel. I felt Even If Tempest was a great amount of dark for an otome. I just had to keep playing to see some shred of happiness somewhere, anywhere kek. The romance in it does exist but it mostly gets wrapped up in the epilogues (and more in the upcoming fan disk). Sad you can't play Cupid Parasite. I just started Olympia Soiree myself and can see why it's so often recommended! A lot of people love the MC too and I think she's great

No. 268736

>>268626
Can't fault you for being cautious of the reddit. They have some odd people.
That aside, all the games you're looking at have a romance first plot second set up, so no need to worry there. My personal order of recommendation would go Olympia Soiree > CxM > Piofiore >> Cupid Parasite.
Olympia is good all around. CxM is good, a rather baseline otome, and they get a gold star for putting some extra effort into the fandisc. Piofiore, anons were discussing earlier, has a boring do-nothing MC, but I found some of the LIs and the mafia stuff entertaining enough, so while it's not a favorite of mine, it's not bad.
Cupid Parasite, on the other hand. I thought would be exactly up my ally, but the humor was the WACKY AND WILD kind, the MC wasn't as unique as I'd hoped, and I didn't care for most routes. Gil's pissed me off, even. I can understand why someone might like it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it either.
Shame you don't like Bustafellows, but I get it. It's criminally light on romance. I wanted more Mozu time.

No. 268834

>>268736
I’m in the fandisc right now and I love the villain route. The villains are so well written I’m glad they gave them more interactions. Who were your favorites ?

No. 268845

>>268834
I enjoyed all of them really, interesting to talk to the deranged, but in particular I remember your relationship with Rika and the twins being interesting, and of course Akito, Mikuni, and Saeki were the main attractions here being the ones with the most plot relevance. I appreciated how they handled Saeki too.
But my favorite part of the fandisc was how by some miracle the side character I liked got a mini-route. Ended up liking Yoshinari more than the LIs.

No. 268853

>>268704
I'm not sure why the subreddit has so many pearl clutchers, kind of makes me feel like a degen. I really liked all the bad endings in Olympia Soiree for example kek

No. 268980

>>268845
For me it was Soda. Maybe I’m biased bc if his voice actor but I thought he was adorable and funny >>268853
Oh me too! Especially Tokisada’s

No. 272384

in the old thread, someone mentioned a game from itch.io
but I can't remember it

No. 272391

>>272384
Gonna need seem details here anon, there's a lot.

No. 272542

>>272391
I think the demo was like.. the player works at a library and can choose an outfit at the start of the game.

No. 272695

>>272542
14 days with you

No. 274360

>>272695
yay, thank you

No. 275324

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MangaGamer has a Valentine's Day sale, including otome games:
>https://blog.mangagamer.org/2023/02/10/valentine-sale-2023/

No. 275600

>>275324
Why have those games for women such ugly artstyle.

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>>275600
It's an indie game developer.

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>>275600
It's because this artist, although female, mainly draws moeshit for moids. She clearly doesn't know how to draw cute males as well as moe girls. Here's her pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/43105
If you meant the wonky anatomy, idk, maybe the moeshit has prevented her from learning how to draw better and more consistently. Maybe they ran out of budget and could only get a subpar artist.
>>275636
"Indie" otome companies on the same level as Kalmia8 are regularly able to get better artists than that.
For comparison, here's some art from the company's first game. Although it's not perfect, it's certainly more pleasant to look at and not so obviously scrotey. Thats because the artist for that game regularly draws bishonen and biseinen: https://twitter.com/nishio_tor
and this is her pixiv, you can see that she has much better art skills overall: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/31231264/artworks

No. 275753

>>275636
they look weird as well.
>>275730
I don't know, her art looks like it was made for children or something.

No. 275878

we need to gatekeep this genre harder. I looked at a list written by some hack gaming journalist of otome games for switch and they had put scrote games on the it. They had also added Dream Daddy and while that game is targeted women it's such a streamer/meme bait game and was never meant to fufill afemale power fantasy so it's a crap otome

No. 275958

>>275878
Oh please. Are you reading this crap only to look for material to trigger lolcow farmers?

No. 275995

>>275878
games journalists are clueless retards regardless of what genre of games they are discussing, it's not just unique to otome

No. 276095

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Noonies just started chou no doku hana no kusari. So far I like the butler desu. Very qt and perfect for my daddy issues. The gardener is qt too, heard he is bestboy. I don't like richfag but I like his voice actor from the cds I listen to.

No. 276217

>>276095
are you playing on PC or console?

No. 276220

>>231808
Catboy Paradise was sort of fun, but nothing special. Not really much of a plot, just SoL and catboy appreciation. No wonder it's a free game.

No. 276238

>>276217
Pc bc no porn the console one. It's really good. I might play the console one too tho for the extras

No. 276459

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I'm going to try my hand on playing Dot Kareshi which is my second time playing an otome game on pc, first one was Hatoful Boyfriend years ago. I mostly played on the psvita but I played a few, most of which were forgettable to be honest. Gonna get tired of changing my locale every time I finish playing

No. 276587

Has anybody here played Palais de Reine? Seems like an old but interesting otome game, I'm currently unable to play but would like to. Interested in hearing others' experiences since the gameplay seems rather deep.

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>mfw i am still waiting for my local gameshop to put aksys games that i wanted to buy in stock, and its been 2 months
Do you nonnas prefer buying otome games digitally or physically?
Maybe anybody knows EU gamestore that sells otome games, too… aksys store had such shitty valentines sale in their EU shop, i am devastated.

No. 276884

>>276883
Who is this cutie nona?

No. 276898

>>276884
Ayakashi Gohan, from (dead) studio HONEYBEE.

No. 276932

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Anyone here making or has made a otome VN before? I finally started working on mine but im doing it alone which is scary. Im trying to keep things small scaled for now.

No. 276941

>>276932
Good luck nona! I've been wanting to make one for quite some time! I was thinking of making mine in RPG maker

No. 276957

>>276932
are you using renpy? I have not but am interested in attempting to make one if my art ever improves enough. are you planning on releasing it on steam or itch.io when you complete it?

No. 276963

>>276932
Yeah I'm also making several.
Just focus on writing the story first, that's the most important part of a visual novel. When you finish the story, everything else will be easy and you'll have a higher chance of actually finishing your project. The art can come later, and the programming on Ren'Py is a piece of cake when you already have the novel part written.
Not being a writer and wanting to make big scale VNs instead of something more simple first, is what screwed me over so I haven't finished any project yet. Don't make the same mistakes I made, nonnie.

No. 277040

>>276941
Thank you! Good luck to you too if you ever decide to do it!
>>276957
Yes i am using renpy at the moment. Since this is my first real project i thought id use the program most known for its accessibility to beginners. As for the releasing part, its probably going to be on a platform that allows nsfw. So most likely itch.io.
>>276963
Thats great advice, thank you! I started with the script first but couldn't hold off from making the first CG's already kek. I started looking at renpy tutorials too but I'll have to leave those for later or ill lose my mind with the workload. I noticed that a lot of successful western VN's nowadays have teams behind them so that clued me in that i must keep things simple for now since im doing everything on my own. I am planning to only have two routes and endings for now and keep the game short and sweet.

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I've been obsessed with tokimemo gs lately, playing the first and third games DS versions on emulator (didn't find the boys in the second one that interesting so I skipped that. maybe I'll try it too). So far my favourite boys are Suzuka and Morimura from the first and Konno and Taira from the third. Suzuka is cute when he gets all flustered and Morimura is so sweet, I seem to like the smart boys the best. I am propably going to play Morimura's route again bc it was my first playthrough and I kept having sound issues, also I missed a lot of his CG:s. Also loved the secret character from 3rd Taira's route, loved when he thought I was going to give him valentines choco lol. It was also sweet that he thought he's not good enough for me.
The third game is a nice improvement from the first. I like how the chocolate minigame is less stressful. Somehow I kept messing up in it in the first game. Decorating the chocolates is fun, even though I don't fully understand how the style is determined. I also like the girls in the games. Karen is cute, I love her, just don't call me Bambi kek. I have not yet experienced the love triangle mechanic, (now playing through the Konno and Shitara route) but it seems interesting.
does anyone know if someone has translated the lines the boys say when you start the game after you got his ending? Would also help if there's transcript of the lines in japanese somewhere. Googling was not any help.
The fourth game seems nice too, I hope it gets translated.

No. 278324

>>276932
I want to, I have a lot of ideas but unfortunately I have absolutely no writing ability…

No. 278369

>>278314
The love triangle mode in Tokimemo is my guilty pleasure. It's just so fun to have two guys fighting over you, making them jealous of each other, and watching them ruin their friendship for you.

No. 278407

>>278314
>Taira
My man, I don't actually care too much for these games but him and Taiyo were very cute. The secret characters are generally pretty nice. Need more background NPC-kuns.

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I went into this thread to ask a question about Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3 only to see that it currently is being discussed lol which just makes my question more appropriate I guess?

Is this game a good representation of the otome genre? Aside from free flash games à la Pacthesis and some indie visual novels with romance elements I don't have much experience with the otome genre. I'm finding Tokimeki Memorial a bit overwhelming in a way. I feel like there is a lot to micromanage and figure out what I should do in a day. I completed a year and no guy has shown interested in me romantically(I'm putting all my energy into one guy but still no luck). I know that the game is designed to be replayed and for each replay you get new information but I still find it hard to figure out how to gain any affection. I also do play without a guide since I prefer experimenting on my own when playing games but is this the type of game where a guide is crucial for a first time playtrough?
Should I try playing other otome games and come back to this one when I'm more familiar and experience with the genre? Or do I just need to stop overthinking every decision I make in the game?

No. 278751

>>278666
>Is this game a good representation of the otome genre?
No, not really. Stat raisers aren't very common and it largely lacks any plot so it's entirely different than most.
I would probably recommend using a guide, it takes quite some time to do a new playthrough if you mess up, and some of the hidden characters in these games are stupid obscure.
But if you wanted to get more used to the idea of stat raisers I could recommend Otometeki Love Revo, it's much shorter and pretty simple so a guide isn't really necessary, and you get more plot for your time. Even enjoyed the MC an amount.

No. 278766

>>278666
it's probably the least common but most mainstream type of otoge. I think there's some fun in playing blind because when you finally get the character to take interest in you, it feels earned. However… if the system is overwhelming and you want to enjoy the dating aspects, I highly recommended just modding the game so you have max stats. There is an ingame cheat item after completing the game 4 times with a max fashion stat, but that's a long process.

tl;dr cheat and have fun dating nonnie

No. 278783

Since TMGS is being discussed. Can anons recommend any other stat raisers? So far I've played all the TMGS games as well as Long Live The Queen and Princess Maker. It doesn't necessarily have to be otoge. (sorry for off-topic) I just love TMGS style of game so much and need something to do while I wait for the fan translation of TMGS4 to be completed.

No. 278784

>>278314
I'm glad I'm not the only one who loved the 1st and 3rd games, but not particularly the second. For some reason the boys in the 2nd one were a bit more unlikable? Especially the protagonists. In the first game Hazuki Kei comes off as more of a loner than a jerk but in the 2nd game the Saeki really isn't cute enough for me to care about his dramatic tsundere prince thing. I thought he was super obnoxious lol. Btw anon there's a fan project ongoing here https://discord.gg/DNzztvUQ to translate the 4th game.

No. 278795

>>278783
Not a hardcore stat raiser like Tokimemo or Long Live the Queen, but if you enjoyed Tokimemo, you may also like Storm Lovers. It has the same school life/slice-of-life feeling, and some lighter stat-raising too but that's def not where the emphasis of the game is.

If you liked Long Live the Queen, I can recommend a historical fantasy stat-raiser with lots of political intrigue called 7KPP (Seven Kingdoms, the Princess Problem). It's unfortunately still stuck in development hell at the moment, so only the demo is playable, but it's surprisingly beefy and I absolutely fell in love with it lol.

No. 278798

>>278314
>the boys say when you start the game
depending on the game's internal clock they say variations of good morning/good evening etc. They also say cheesy lines like "have you opened your eyes yet" and stuff. If you can find a video compilation/script I'm more than happy to translate for you.

Also idk if the previous games have it, but in the newer TMGS4 the boys have special lines for birthdays, holidays, etc at start up. But like the previous games, only the most recent boy's route completed will be heard.

>2nd game

to me, saeki is the only good route in that game. but his tsundere-ness doesnt get enduring unless you get all his flags and stuff.

No. 278896

>>278666
>Is this game a good representation of the otome genre?
The dating simulation genre is dead, unfortunately. Now all there is in otome is visual novels, which I personally find pretty boring to finish.
>I completed a year and no guy has shown interested in me romantically(I'm putting all my energy into one guy but still no luck)
Same thing happened to me the very first time I played. You need to raise the correct stats for the guy you want, it's not hard to guess which ones, and there's always 3 or so stats you have to focus on, or 4 for the prince IIRC. Choose a job, and a school club if you want, that raises the stats you need or at least doesn't lower them. Also ask him out to places he likes, and during dates you got to do skinship with him at every possible chance (carefully in the first stages of affection, but when they like you enough you can touch them pretty much any way you want).
Something very important that you have to know, is that in 1st Love and 2nd Kiss youd see their affection raise pretty quickly, but in 3rd Story you'll only see the effect in the chart after a year, so you're probably not doing anything wrong and just have to wait a little longer to see it. Trust me I also thought it was a mistake on my part the first time even though I already had experience with the previous games.
>I know that the game is designed to be replayed and for each replay you get new information but I still find it hard to figure out how to gain any affection.
Not really, you get new info each year in the same playthrough. What you get for new replays is certain items that you can earn as rewards for getting the Rose Queen title in 3rd year.

No. 278912

>>278314
>Decorating the chocolates is fun, even though I don't fully understand how the style is determined
nobody does kek
this guide might help if you know some Japanese:
>DS version http://www29.atwiki.jp/3rd_story/pages/1.html
>PSP version https://w.atwiki.jp/premium3rd_story/
You will also find the startup lines there, then you can Google Translate them. Here: https://w.atwiki.jp/premium3rd_story/pages/74.html Just click on the character's name and you'll be taken to their respective page where the lines are in white font to hide them (like spoilers)
>I also like the girls in the games
One thing I like about this franchise is that you can also befriend the girls and even have endings for them. I wish they had expanded upon this feature more in the 4th game since I've liked all the girls so far. Just make it both a boyfriend AND a girl friend simulator, why not?

>>278783
This VNDB search has only games in English and the tags Otome Game, and either Dating Simulation or Raising Simulation. Different things, and I could explain how but it'd be a massive rant and I don't want to clog the thread with that, unless someone wants to know? You however are looking for both genres, so here: https://vndb.org/v?q=&ch=&f=032gen80UJ1280D80E
Also keep in mind that there are several mistagged games because people don't know what dating simulation is (hint: it's not a visual novel), so for those check the game's official site and look at screenshots and footage to make sure it's properly tagged and what you're looking for.
I recommend Storm Lover Kai, like other nona said it's similar in setting to TMGS. https://vndb.org/v4597
RE: Alistair, a short, free Original English-language otoge: https://vndb.org/v3720
Backstage Pass, a commercial game by the same developer. https://vndb.org/v11948 (Right now this dev is developing a new romance simulation game. I like Sakevisual because they're one of the few devs that still make otome dating sims.)
And Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo, which someone mentioned upthread. https://vndb.org/v3549
>It doesn't necessarily have to be otoge
The original Tokimeki Memorial, the galge one, got a full translation recently. https://vndb.org/v19
A Chinese indie game called Prince Maker has an English translation, but I don't know if the game itself is still downloadable. https://vndb.org/v1424

No. 279233

>>278912
>Storm Lover Kai
where can I get it?

No. 279267

>>279233
I googled it and there's literally an english rom on the first google result. Download a PSP emulator then run that file, enjoy

https://cdromance.com/psp/stormlover-kai-english-patched/

No. 279367

>>278369
Looking forward to it kek. Bit bummer that the three person dates are a little boring compared to the regular ones, feels like you have less power over the outcome (unless theres the going home minigame) and the dialogue repeats if you go to same date spot. (Also Konno keeps asking us to go to flea market so I miss cheap shopping opportunies lol).
>>278784
>the boys in the 2nd one were a bit more unlikable
Now that you mentioned it, I remember watching a part of walkthrough on youtube and got the same impression. Doesn't help that the boy's designs are somehow boring to me.
>>278912
>you can also befriend the girls and even have endings for them
Yea that's super nice. and even if you are not going to their endings it's worth befriending them and going out with them for stat boosts. Arisawa and Karen are my favorites. Michiru in the fourth game looks cute too.
Also THANK YOU for the link! It's just what I was lookig for!

No. 279867

>>279267
thank you, dear nonna

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>NB
>Otome

Wot the fock does that mean m8.

No. 320622

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>>320618
Just read the description.

No. 320623

>>320618
It's not NB as in nonbinary. It's NB as in night-bringer.

No. 320630

>>320618
I thought obey me dropped the otome tag?

No. 320632

>>320623
>>320622

Lmao my bad I'm a retard.

Still though, the game actually does use they/them pronouns (I played it myself) for the MC instead of she/her—despite how painfully and blatantly otome-y it is.

Could you imagine the uproar scrotes would have if their precious bishoujo eroge did the same to their self-inserts? Godamn, women can't have anything for ourselves. Our shit has to be ~inclusive~ to every fucking gender there is while moid VNs get to be for moids only. It's not fair.

No. 320639

>>320632
Just get over it kek the game isn't good anyway



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