I think slice-of-the-life stories are good too. I especially tend to look for them when I play games that only have bad endings where the protagonist and heroine keep dying.
To be honest, I'm not sure whether most of the English voice actors participating in otome games are genuinely motivated to be involved. It wasn't a realistic voice, but more like reading a school textbook, and I rarely played an otome game dubbed only in English all the way through.
I always listen to games with good background music. The games that paid attention to music definitely fit the background, character, and voice actors' voices, so I listen to them without fail.
Like many of you above, I think I tend to watch reviews after playing all the games. Even if it's the same, everyone has different feelings, but I couldn't get rid of the feeling that if I watch a review, the content of the review is correct (even though it may be different from what I think)...
I looked at this question and thought about it, and I think I'm a story-oriented person. I think romance is established when the story is somewhat understandable. If romance is overemphasized, at some point, there are only embarrassing situations filled with question marks
In reality, incest is probably a target of criticism, but I personally think it is okay to be dealt with in various ways in unrealistic spaces such as games and cartoons.
I remember Noise-Voice of Snow- being the first Otome game I encountered (surprised that there was one person up there) but I can't remember who the character was for the first time, but I remember the last ending was impressive.
It's the most memorable of the few games that 7'carlet didn't finish. Time hasn't gone by for a few days and there aren't many events, but when I suddenly saw people falling in love, I thought I couldn't do it, so I stopped.
I started studying Japanese because I became interested in BL games and Otome games a lot, but listening, speaking, and reading are okay, but it's not easy to write. I think Chinese characters are definitely difficult.
I love the teuta of bustafellows. It's a rare main character with a voice in an ottome game, but it was also a game I played because I liked the main character more.
When I play, I try to concentrate until I watch all the endings of one game. If I play multiple games at the same time, I can't concentrate well, so I can't finish anything.
I used to play without information, but after watching all the bad endings, I started liking watching the happy endings for the last time, I preferred to start with information.