Recent content by kaloh

On a literal level, basically anything. As long as something is written well enough, I can stomach whatever gets thrown at me, even things I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole IRL. Fiction's fiction after all. From a more "spirit of the question" angle, probably argumentative or needlessly...

ごめん、マジで – ≠ME. One of my favorite b-sides by them!

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I also definitely prefer 2D. 3D otome games personally feel very "uncanny valley" to me, and the LI designs I've seen from those sorts of games tend to be much more homogenized than what is possible from 2D works. Even in 3D RPGs with romance elements it's hard for me to shut off my "this feels...

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For me it's less of an issue of too many characters than it is the routes becoming too short if there are too many. If there's a game with 10 LIs and a game with 5 LIs and they're of equal length, then unless there's some masterpiece-level writing in the former I'm going to prefer the one with...

There are a lot of yanderes I love, but in terms of "impact," it has to be Tei from Nameless, who was my first encounter with the concept in an otome game. When I read his route, I was still in middle school, so there was this "Is this allowed???" feeling that heightened all the creepiness. Bad...

I understand the mindset of wanting to stick to one game at a time, but I can't do it myself. Juggling multiple games helps me prevent myself from getting burned out, so I generally have a couple different otomes with different vibes (fantasy, sci fi, slice of life, etc) on rotation, plus other...

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Personally, I wouldn't read anyone else's otome fanfic unless it was very 1:1 with my personal interpretations. As every person's experience with an otome game is extremely variable (things such as the level of self-inserting, how you react to certain tropes, the choices/endings you prefer to...