I didn't realize they had that kind of reputation. Most of the sites I frequent love Adelta games. I do know that Ooe had a pretty big hate campaign when it came out. I think because people were upset a bl was ranking so high on vndb? I'd say give them a shot if you're interested in the other games in the bundle. The characters, at least in Hashihime, are probably the most polarizing aspect in my opinion, so if you're interested in them you'll probably have a good time.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of hate towards Adelta criticizing their writing and etc, which really concerned me since I already had their games wishlisted on Steam. But still, their games and more specifically, settings and characters in those games seem interesting, especially the MC's. MangaGamer probably should update their project status page on their blog. I hope that they'll release ooe's translation and announce something new this year...
Play in whichever order you want, they're all standalones.
About Tokyo Onmyouji, one of the guys Basara has a much shorter route than the others and his route is just porn without plot essentially. The other 3 guys actually have fully fledged out routes with actual unique stories/plots/romances. I'm telling you this cause I've seen lots of people being disappointed cause they either started or ended the game with Basara's route, so something to keep in mind when choosing the route order you're going with in this VN.
Adelta games BAD?? I would say they are some of the best modern visual novels have to offer, especally in the BL department! Adelta stories are very linear so that might turn some people off of them (aka you make NO choices in the games, you play a route and then you are able to move onto the next route as a branch off in the narative) but the stories themselves and the characters are wonderful and have so much care put into them from the era acurate language to the real literary references. I would easily recomend them.
Well kiwame is kinda like a "golden route" so some of the characters worse qualities never really had a chance to manafest as blatently like in the original game (particualry in masudas case). I wouldnt say that the characters act diffrently per say, because they kinda act the same way as when your not on their routes in the og game, but because of the diffrent circumstances and the group dynamics rather than the "us vs them" they all act a bit more chill (including to azuma, which after the other two games he DESERVES!).
I do think they are different. They obviously are the same characters with same personality and bad sides, but they are much more likeable. Even Mitsugi who spends so much time frowning and not caring about others in the og game showed his better side very early in Kiwame. For now, i dont find him insufferable, and KIwame Matsuda well he is like i wanted him to be (almost). Takara seems to still Takara but its fine!
he's so cute and fun tho, and after the shitty life he had he deserves to be at peace!! I wont let any LI of the og game get too close to him. Im only letting Musubi Matsuda approach him (i know its happening after the og game but to me he is a different character lol)
well... i currently have a lot of free time lmao. And when im into something i can binge it!
Is it a rap* route?Who's your favorite character in Suito wa Hakumei?
This might be a spoiler, but
I grew to like the hidden character, the demon. His voice and tsundere-like personality are cute.
It's not a perfect happy ending, but
I was glad there was a route for him.
Twilight Aqua Town and others HolicWorks VN are popular in my opinion, it's just that people don't usually recommend them much... By the way, did you see this on X? Would you like a remake or sequel of Omerta?
I barely see fanart/fics of it... even the pixic section of them is empty compared to Ooe...
tbh I think a lot of it just depends on chance... many of the English-speaking players don't actively keep up with jp releases themselves so an English post about the game has to gain traction on social media
Well I found Galtia's and Kintouka's romances (from the routes I've played at least) to be pretty crap tbh. Also they're very unnecessarily long VNs, I've seen a few people saying that they dropped Kintouka in the common route cause it was getting tedious for them to keep playing it and tbh it was pretty tedious for me too.
Weird for me I've always seen people talk well about Kintouka, it's just not very popular. Galtia seems even less popular than it. The writing (of kintouka) is also very beautiful for what I remember, it felt like reading a book. But also very hard U.U.
Gonna chime in as another person surprised at hearing that.
I mean when it comes to Kintouka I hated both Munesada and Kyou for turning out to be r*pists assholes, I have no idea why some people claimed in their reviews that their romances were completely consensual and healthy when it wasn't the case at all. Also Kyou had to literally
Oh wow, the most toxic? I'm surprised. O_O I remembered you played Arcadia right? (I think it was you who I quoted about it?) I found that game way more crazy, 2/3 of the love interests are straight up crazy... I was so uncomfortable reading the brown hair senpai route... and the blonde guy was even worse.... I recently played Ooe where the protagonist
Yeah I played Arcadia but I avoided Seri's route cause I knew it had unavoidable r*pe. Riou was forceful at times too but I didn't find him as bad as the 2 semes from Kintouka whose routes I've played, I mean in Kyou's route the protagonist says this after their first night together: 嫌がることはしないと言いながら、泣いても、止めてくれなかったり。and there are many horrible such lines in his route that I finally dropped it after the second H scene. Munesada also acted very badly in his second H scene too which made me drop his route as well.
The guy with brown hair (Rio) rally made me so uncomfortable. The main character didn't like him at all until her wore him down. And during the first sex scene he does what you say, MC keeps asking him to stop and says no but he continues. And when they do it once he keeps going at it even if the MC protested. I've seen a lot of slimy content in BL but he reminds me of those guys irl who can't take no for a hint lol
I mean that's exactly how Kyou behaved too for me, especially in his second H scene. I found him to be an even bigger incel than Riou, especially when he went on that angry rant after he caught the protagonist almost being r*ped by another man.
Oh the Senpai.. I forgot about him... his route starts with the main character getting molested and sexually assaulted by the Senpai so I'm not sure I'd call him heartwarming...
