There are three that stuck out to me most.
In Black Wolves Saga, that small section about Auger and Mejojo's mother when they both were younger made me gasp when I realized what was going on in that scene with the bookshelf.
Taisho x Alice Shirayuki, near the ending of his route also made me...
Anything dark or with high stakes / extremely tense moments. Charade Maniacs had a fun concept but I wish they went a little darker with it... But that's just my preference! If there were ever a Danganronpa-like otome game I'd be insanely happy lol
I love Honeybee and Honeybee black! Honeybee black has darker and more mature titles which I personally really love. Blackish House is one of my top favorite games by them, and I'm slowly working through their Dynamic Chord series. I really wish they would make a comeback, I really love all of...
Mystic Messenger was my first, I think. I was on the fandom side of Tumblr a lot when it came out, and some fancomics ended up in my feed. I thought the characters looked interesting and I decided to give it a try, and here I am now lol. I still go back and replay my favorite routes out of...
As long as they're not blood related, I really enjoy them! Bonus points if they're the mature type who end up being yanderes or just straight up derranged. I have older brothers in real life, I'd feel weird playing a brother route where they're actually related, even if its just a fictional...
I don't personally like it... Having a faceless MC next to the other characters looks sort of silly to me. I like having an MC with a face and a cute character design!
I used VNR paired with DeepL for the translations. I remember it was a massive headache trying to get it work, and I honestly don't know what I even did to make it work... but I've been too scared to mess with any of the settings out of fear of breaking it lol. Most days I just translate in my...
I play blind first to see which LI I naturally end up with. But if there is an LI that I really like / I end up with an LI I really don't like, I'll pull up a guide lol.
I love reading romance stories. But I've always found Western romance novels uh... a bit corny? I'm not sure how to phrase it, but I've never really enjoyed the tropes or writing in Western romance books that much, if that makes any sense.
I also grew up reading tons of fanfiction. Especially...
For me, it's primarily based on whether or not I like the character designs of the LIs. After that, it's the artwork.l If I see that the artwork was one by one of my favorite artists, it really makes me want to play so that I can admire their artwork lol.
Hirose Yuuya as Noa from Blackish House and Masuda Toshiki as Kaguya from Taishou x Alice. I love softer voices, and they both perfectly capture everything I like in a LI's voice :lapi_happy:
Kaji Yuuki and Ishikawa Kaito both voice a lot of my favorite LIs as well.
I know exactly what you mean! I was having a hard time putting that art style into words, so I just left it out of my original comment lol. Something about western artstyles just doesn't interest me at all... That style seems common with Indie otomes. But I feel the same exact way! It makes it...
Thank you for the list! I appreciate them being categorized. I had a suggestion that I didn't see on your list.
Spoilering so as not to accidentally spoil anyone:
I was having a hard time debating whether he'd fall under sadistic or manipulative more, because his route includes a mix of both...
I'm not a fan of realistic art styles like Love and Deepspace, for example. It feels a bit uncanny to me personally, even though I've heard a lot of good things about the game itself :( I just can't get past the art style.
Kaguya from TaiAli made me cry a few times. I still tear up when I think about his route :akazukin_cry:
A few routes in Ayakashi Gohan, Eba from Club Suicide, Ray from Mystic Messenger, Haruma & Noa's routes from Blackish House, and every single route in Re:Birthday Song made me cry at least...
That's definitely fair! I can see it being a pretty nice positive for those who like all of the LIs and can't decide who they want to go with first haha. The overall atmosphere of the game was really nice, and I loved the concept! I'm happy that we're getting darker otome games in general, too...
The opening song for 樟屋敷の物語 is one of my favorites. I really wasn't expecting such a cute song. I sometimes open the game just to listen to the opening theme haha. It's a shame the full version hasn't been uploaded to the developers Youtube channel.