Recent content by purplebeetle

I don't like them because I feel they make me lose time of actually reading the story.

They're not popular lmao it's a niche inside of a niche. Unless you're talking about popular Chinese games which have a lot of capital backing them up so success is guaranteed...

It used to bother me at the beginning but now I understand the logistics of making this all work so I don't fault them now. I appreciate the simplicity for what it is.

As closer to reality as possible tbh, I don't know why but fantasy just bores me. Well, making real life scenarios sound appealing is part of the challenge for the writer in a way.

I always use the predetermined name as I love it when the LIs say it out loud. It's just as exciting to me as if they'd be saying my own name so I don't think this is because I don't self-insert.

None, the best stuff nowadays is doujin/indie.

No, I'd better prefer to use my time to read actual stuff that I have in my backlog and a lot of the times joke vns are just a disguise to sell contempt for the medium to the original target audience. Actual parodies would be made with love for the medium by someone who's very knowledgeable...

There's nothing we can do about this. It's one of the cultural differences Japanese creators have in comparison to the West.

2D because 3D games still seem like they're stuck in the uncanny valley.

I just think that then that's not an otome game anymore. It'd be just a romance game and that's okay. Otome isn't a label that should be pasted on anything even remotely related to romance. Let's not treat it as a buzzword...

I don't think the music is the issue for me, it'd say it's rather bad sound design or mad mixing (be it for general ambient sounds that loop weirdly or that of the voices where they all seem to be set at different volumes)

I find using a guide more time efficient.

I really need to play more doujin games, man...

I think it's a pretty safe choice to recommend to people who're complete newbies to the genre.

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I don't play these kinds of games. If I pay for something I want to know I own it. And I also like the stories I read to have a proper ending, otherwise the overall journey ends up feeling kinda aimless to me.