Elevator7009
Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.
I totally forgot to add that I also don’t like gacha games. I had more of a tolerance for it when I was younger, though I was still annoyed by it.
I am one of those people who really likes those villainess stories. They’re entertaining!
I also notice that my gaming tastes spend more time looking back to pre-existing games (often I got there following a recommendation thread) than at new ones.
I tried Princess Debut and honestly, the rhythm aspects annoyed me a lot (it’s really ironic that I’m a musician who doesn’t really like rhythm games), and I did not like the game’s rearranges of the classical music. That alone stopped me from replaying different routes.
Where do you find out about these games, just curious?
(Also, I hope I’m not annoying you: I really do like discussing this stuff, hence me making the community :) )
I may be talking out of my butt because I didn’t consume that much shoujo content as a girl, I remember reading Shugo Chara! and Kitchen Princess, but I’d bet that the “villainess” phenomenon might come from the bullies seen in shoujo?
As for otome with gameplay, I just found this link with a ton, including a section for RPGs. I’ll probably make a separate post for that in a few days. In a dream world I’d make an otome with this, in reality time constraints, my terribad fiction writing abilities (will there be spelling errors? No. Will it be fun to read and will I have any idea of where to take the plot? Also no), and my programmer-tier art (I was one of the “good artists”… in middle school) means this isn’t happening. At best I program for someone else’s otome game.
“games aimed at women, mostly romance games”—non-otome or otome? Interested in hearing either way. I looked them up and they’re responsible for the La Corda d’Oro games. As a musician I want to play that series so badly but I’m regionlocked out of buying any of it on Steam… gotta figure out how to get around that.
Did you enjoy the games that you decided not to play? And also, curious if you understand Japanese or if any of these games have English patches or even releases.
I think I asked mostly as a “what platform” question that in retrospect, I probably should have looked up on a search engine. (Released on Super Famicom. Also, apparently “A Game Boy Advance version was released on March 21, 2003. A full remake titled Angelique Retour (アンジェリーク ルトゥール) was released for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.”) I too am interested in otome with more gameplay than just making choices. I do like interactive fiction and visual novels, but I also play more genres than just those, and I wonder why otome has trended towards being a visual novel without having any other genres.
I know people talk about how the manga about being transmigrated into an otome game don’t reflect otome very well. But given the amount of manga with otome RPGs… part of me wishes it did reflect otome better so that I could have an otome RPG lol. I think Love and Deepspace is supposed to be like that, but the 3D models just don’t resonate with me well. They feel weird and off, but not in the uncanny valley THIS IS CREEPY kind of way… I’m also deathly allergic to freemium.
It’s okay that you don’t play otome, I understand it’s not to everyone’s taste. Although I would tell you a lot of manga that involves people transmigrating to otome games probably doesn’t do a great job at representing the genre. Yes, there are definitely capture targets/LIs for a female protagonist, but the settings in the mangas just aren’t what we usually have, at least in Western fandom, and if there were more like that in JP fandom I’m sure the people back on r/otomegames would have mentioned that instead of just talking about how these mangas don’t reflect the genre well. And we usually don’t have villainesses. Speaking as someone who is a fan of the “isekaied into an otome game” trope, not bashing on people who like those mangas at all!
I appreciate the advice you’re able to give via your perspective as a mod. I’m reading your links now. I do think that brittleness of instances is an issue, given I had a decent length of time on kbin.social before it died and then kbin.run before it died. But a decent stopgap for individual communities is to just make backups. It’s way less likely that two instances die on the same day. If Instance 1 goes down, just run to Instance 2 and set up a new backup on Instance 3 elsewhere.
yes, you do
