I always aim for 100% completion of the route. But if it feels unbearable, usually I'd take a break and still completing them game 100%, although it took more time.
I'm the spectator type. Because I feel awkward if I self-insert myself XD
But still, I still get emotionally invested although I'm not self-inserting myself.
For me, I never self-insert myself as a MC. I view the MC as MC, and for me.
I feel awkward if I self-insert myself, so I just positioning myself as the reader of the story lol
My first otome game was Amnesia, then after that, got really interested in otome genre, started to play the older otome games and iirc Hakuoki that's still not getting localization yet.
And started learning Japanese through VN just to play the other VNs and titles hehe
Me too! Everytime I play new otome game or VNs, the first thing I did was tweaking the audio.
Mostly make the charas voice to 100%, and tweaking the BGM to 70% or lower.
I prefer MC with face, because it's more appealing and make me more immersed into the game.
And MC with face, it give the them more personality and expressions.
Other than that, I love to look at our MCs beauty hehe
I discovered otome games because I was really into Visual Novel, then I stumbled upon Amnesia, and after trying a bit of the game, I become interested in otome game since then hehe.
I love to use the canon name, because it feels awkward for me to self-insert myself. And the other reason, because with the canon name, some of them are voiced hehe
I prefer 2D as well!
Since otome game mostly Visual Novel, it works more in 2D.
But, I also open and want to give a try for 3D otomes, like Silent Whispers hehe