im mostly drawn to the characters and their personality and voice actors second the story and theme are the biggest deciding factor on how im gonna splurge (get limited ed or on release)
i have the weakest spot for yanderes i totally blame kisshu from tokyo mew mew for starting this lol my least would probably be kuudere unless they are insanely calculative or something or else it fails to grab me
first is definitely art style and characters that one always stands out to me the most. after that seiyuus are the deciding factor. but sadly ive played one where it had everything except the story was lacking so i'd definitely factor that too
probably like high school? my first otome game was amnesia after that i hadn't played any for a long time. Eventually i bought the switch and started playing cupid parasite and it has been going down ever since then lol