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>>>/m/192885Discuss 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 otome games available in English (note: includes Japanese, OEL, and amare games): https://www.englishotomegames.net/list No. 473222
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>>473219LOLing at that ENGRISH.
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>>473217I bought this from DLsite exactly a year ago and never got around to it. Time to finally check it out.
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>>473237Please post screenshots!
Didn't know that DLsite had the 'Submissive Man' tag.
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Guys, I'm currently playing Olympia Soiree (I'm on Tokisada's route rn and already finished Riku's) and I tried to find this info everywhere but I can't. Is Akasa's or Himuka's route longer than the other ones? I thought Riku's route was actually really quickly paced.
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"yuri with extra steps" being passed off as an otome game
No. 473367
>>473169nightshade has a
yandere>>473328i really doubt it is possible to have arms that thin and tits that large, i'm very thin and my tits aren't even half that size. Oh well, slutty catboy
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>>473366kek this reminded me of the 'let men also be protagonists of otoges' discussion people were having with LADS the other day
promoting your VN with a transman MC on a otoge board shows how they really feel about them
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>>473144Oh my god thank you for linking the original thread anon, thought I was going crazy for years thinking there was another thread we had but it wasnt appearing on my catalog
>>473310How are you finding it anon? I paused the game halfway since I couldnt get immersed into the world and I didnt really enjoy Olympia herself, even though I'm fine with other otomate mcs
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>>473144What are your thoughts on Tears of Themis nonas?
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>>473366Even worse, it's "T4T" which means the protagonist is apparently a troon and the LI is a fakeboi. Gendieshit aside, charging $3.99 for a 7k word long VN is a fucking joke.
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>>473446holy shit. this fucker completely omitted that fact in the otomegames post, saying in the comments that "don't worry MC is a woman!!!" so nevermind.
Well, it's a straight relationship, at least this person was truthful about
that… lol.
wonder how many minds would change if they found out about this but this is reddit we're talking about.
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>>473374oh, that makes sense, thx, nonna! i tried looking it up and got a huge spoiler about himuka's route by accident so i was scared in trying to look more
>>473383i'm liking it!! it's not really my favorite otoge and i totally understand not being able to get totally immersed in the world because lowkey the color class system is just convoluted and dumb. i hate when they do this in general actually - introduce themes in the game to put in the most basic social commentary in the world and then we have to spend hours on end having to see the characters come to the unprecedented conclusion that omg racism is bad!!!11!1
with riku's route i felt like there was also an issue of olympia falling in love too fast?? like
she watches him dance once and eat a sandwhich and suddenly she's head over heels in love with him so it sort of fails the "enemies to lovers"-lite arc that it's supposed to be. however, when they get together it's super cute, specially the scenes where olympia teases riku, it's adorable how easy it is for him to blush/get embarassed so my main complaint is that there wasn't more of that teasing in his route
i also really liked that, in riku's route, shura is portrayed in a really nuanced manner? she's opposed to olympia marrying riku because it's a threat to the power of the blue clan (bc olympia can only bear children who are of the color white, and the blue clan needs more "blue" children who can wield batsu since its the main source of their social standing) and she's sort of a bitch to olympia but she's also someone who has to deal with both being a leader of a primary color class and being a woman at the same time, so she's both an enemy to olympia, trying to get in her way, and also trying to improve the social standing of other women in the island, making a new school so that they can actually learn. i thought that was an interesting conflict and i like that shura ends up wielding to olympia without turning into a full fledged villain bc i was afraid she would just be the designated bitch older woman of the castwith tokisada i'm still not done but the pacing is a lot better imo maybe bc they start out as very believable friends in the prologue and there's more scenes of them together. i'm not that into him tho i dont mind the young looking boys but eh the constant "onee-san" is annoying. himuka's and akasa's routes are the one i'm most excited to play
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It's pretty based tbh, hime rakuen.
No. 473718
>>473626Yes. Can lick their buttholes and play with their assholes too.
>>473678It's for women like me at least.
>>473708This made me laugh so hard, thanks
nonny. Yeah I don't get this, if you have a fetish that's not your typical normie vanilla stuff or uwu M piggu cage rape = that's for moids.
I don't get it.
No. 473744
>>473742They just enjoys getting their assses played by their girl, doesn't make them faggots. They're the M piggus for once and get off by getting humiliated and treated like onnaholes.
If it was yaoi they'd fuck each other in the ass.
No. 473837
>>473442i got too busy to play when it released and then was never able to catch up, but in general it shares the same issue that i have with LADS and other similar games: i hate that romantic progression is stuck on character cards and do not affect the main story
that makes it so the relationship's growth feels confusing and you could be marrying a character in a card and going back to treating them ambiguously in the main story
i like the gameplay and mistery aspect tho and vyn and marius are my favorites but all of the LIs are cool
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>>473217The protagonist's loli-ish design put me off at first, but if there's no reversal and the CGs are good, I'm willing to give it a try.
>>473264Yes, it's a great tag, but I'm pretty sure you won't find it under the advanced search options, at least not on the English site. I discovered it by accident when I happened to look at the tags of an audio work.
>>473366>and your boyfriend blushes when you pat him on the head!What's the fucking point if "he" is just a woman? It pisses me off greatly when TIFs act as if it's anything revolutionary for a female who's pretending to be male to do stereotypically feminine things. Yeah, I want more cute blushing boys in my otome alright, MALE ones. Is this just another case of "becoming the boyfriend"?
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>>473742There are non-fujos in Japan who actually don't like butt stuff in their female seme media or get
triggered if something reminds them of yaoi (they'll go "don't mix up onnaseme and BL reeee"), but it's just their personal preference and there are others who do like it. They disagree with each other about these things, but they don't go accusing other women of being male for being into weird shit like you did here
>>473678Besides, for the millionth time, it's just fantasy, and these fictional men don't have to think like real moids who might be closeted faggots in real life, so if the author says they're 100% heterosexual, they are, because they're not real.
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>Year 2085, anon is still jamming to Jack Jeanne songs
I cant wait for the sequel game even though its probably still a long way away
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I would recommend playing older games before the gendie brainrot truly took over. When I was younger I played many flash based games that looked simple but had god tier writing compared to today's slop. Let me namedrop some creators whose works I enjoyed. (picrel is from Saccharine: A Misleading Sim Date)
>AmiraloShe used to make dark, often tragic stories that had morally complex characters. Most of her older stuff was flash based but she did release one game on itch.io in recent years (it's a bit gorey and horror-like despite the otome category, though). I highly rec Reverie, where adabanas grow and saccharine if you're ok playing games on flash (I explained how here
>>>/m/411496)
https://amiralo.newgrounds.com/https://amiralo.itch.io/ityh-a-horror-otome
>ROSEVERTEI've been playing her games since 2010ish and her style has changed a bit over time. In the beginning she used to make more psychological and less fluffy games that took more risks and I liked, but in the recent years she has moved to more wholesome cute games like her "how to …." series (because of market demand probably). I think she is originally JP based.
https://roseverte.net/en/games.html
>Hanako GamesHanako's game studio is kind of a wild card, I remember liking a few while finding others (some of the new ones where probably collaborated with others) garbage. But I think Magical Diary: Horse Hall is really worth playing, it was ahead of its time. Fatal Hearts and Date Warp were fun in their own way (the character designs are kinda amateurish but the stories make up for them imo)The royal trap is good but I remember gendies reeing at how the game handled one character's parental abuse backstory, kek. Iirc the game didn't call that character trans at all, but gendies appropriated him
https://www.hanakogames.com/
>WinterwolvesUsed to make otomes with a very western feel but nowadays have more coomery designs I don't like. At least it seems like the games are still mostly female oriented. Out of the early games I remember playing the Heileen series, the stories were politically incorrect in a way today's games could never. Loren the amazon princess was set in a matriarchial society which was fun, and you could play the game in sexualized mode where both men and women dressed very scantily lmaoo. The flower shop games were also fun, but the first one wasn't otome (it had a male mc whom you could woo in the otome sequel).
https://www.winterwolves.com/pc_games.php
>ZeivaI played X-note and Area-X by Zeiva which were equal parts mystery and otome. Their art is always very clean and unique, and the stories tend to be serious and tragic (I'm still salty over Dragon Essence's sad ending). But they have also made some parody otomes like Other age 1,2 and Cliché.
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>>473796Sorry, forgot to reply to the
nonnie. Anyway this gives me an excuse to post even more recs.
Various games where mc is pretty gutsy
>a2 ~a due~>The Rose of Segunda>Yrsa Major (more of a kinetic novel)>Cinders (cinderella retelling, art detailed but slightly odd proportions)>The Deep Unknown (like a shounen adventure with mermans but otome)Miscellaneous recs:
>RE: Alistair (my first ever otome, very polished for a free game)>Locked heart (same creator as Cinderella phenomeon, cutesy art but pretty solid story) >Halloween Otome (and maybe other stuff by Synokoria but I haven't gone through them myself yet)>Summer found me (only reccing because of Seth, I love him)>Please Don't Hate Christmas (single LI, rare yandere boy that I liked, nice twists)>Crimson Spires (very nice voice acting and interesting setting but some route writing was crap, true route ruins everything)>Changeling (I found it interesting because I love fantasy and appreciated the worldbuilding a lot, but the art can give uncanny valley sometimes. Also I only played one route so can't speak for all routes)>Dawn of the Inverted Soul (more like a horror with marginal otome elements, amateur art but complex and interesting plot, had massive number of dead ends that I enjoyed, lol)>>474214Thanks
nonnie! Happy to see another Amiralo fan out in the wild. Have you played What’s Your Name? Amiralo did the art for it, and while it had a different writer and wasn't god tier psychological midnfuck for me like old Amiralo games were, it was still pretty good.
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>>474313Yves Kloss from Ikemen Prince
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>>473366Was looking through last year's otome jam entries and nonnies, it can get so much worse
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>>474179Just got to the yandere route (saved it for second to last). I was picrel when
Kuroyuki started his bullshit manipulation after saving Enju and thoroughly enjoyed the whole route.
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>>473796Backstage Pass and Date Warp
>>474303Why would anyone get mad at you for noticing an obvious archetype?
>why do I feel like there's an archetype of *an effeminate male in some otome games?Because there is. You new?
No. 476059
>>475467NTA but I feel like maybe she didn't want to point it out for fear of
triggering the weird fujoyume gay-husbando-straight-husbando samsara infight. Luckily /m/ seems to be a lot more chill when it comes to nonas who are that flavor of rabid kek.
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Why did this shit
>>>/m/465130 already get a manga adaption? Absolutely disgusting
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>hoping and praying that we by some miracle ever get a tmgs4 translation
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Look at the rating KEK
I've never seen such a low rating on DLsite garumani before.
>>476235There's a group working on it and the project is still active, they'll probably release it this year. I think they're on GBAtemp.
>>476234Manga like this one is just proof that the genre is getting worse and worse. It doesn't necessarily mean that the potential readers were asking for it, just look at the ratings. I think they were just trying to chase a shitty trend that can be seen in TL manga these days. Speaking of which, TL manga artists have to follow certain cucked guidelines most of the time, it's likely that whoever is in charge at Pure Wool told the artist to draw the most moidgaze piece of crap imaginable.
The ones that do enjoy smut this graphic have been psyopped by pornsick anime and hentai, naturally.
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Im in love
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Can prospective otome devs/writers use this thread to get opinions on whenever a certain story/character idea would be good or interesting for their target audience, or is the game dev thread a better place for it?
R/otomegames would probably be a better place to ask as well but that subreddit is kind of a shithole and I respect my fellow nonnies opinions more. My game is also kinda niche and dead dove do not eat in concept the MC doesn't get abused by the LI's though, don't worry, so I'm not really making it with reddit normies in mind.