It pisses me off that I'm missing out on cute stories just cuz im broke/ has bad luck. That's pretty much the reason why I prefer one-time purchase games and TRYYY to avoid gacha otomes if possible.
I never liked the concept of stalking in otome games, it makes me really uncomfortable. Even if it's a fictional settings, I still can't tolerate it. Almost like there's a giant wall between me and those love interest with a stalker trope. I just can't bro,,
It really depends. Rather if its blood-related or not, IF the plot does it well it could be on a hear me out list. I've seen a game with terrible plots and a blood-related brother route, that was just awful.
I love when I get to explore routes and make choices that actually matter and affect the plot. When I do my first playthrough, it becomes a route that I chose, without any guides or tutorials, and that makes the experience feel much more interesting and personal.
When there are choices that...
I LOVE childhood friend plots, so I usually just go along with the storyline and fill in the missing parts with my own imagination. When an otome game does it well, I can always resonate with the emotions and the past events that were supposed to have happened, even if I didn't get to experience...
As someone who started otome games with more indie ones, I have noticed that CG inconsistency happens really often. At first it really bothered me and even gave me the ick mid gameplays, but as time went on, I kind of just accepted that not all CGs would be pretty and started looking at them...
hmm I've been a fan of romance related content like shoujo animes and stuff since a long time ago,, Playing otome games is a nice casual entertainment, to me it's like watching a cute show with you as the mc/ in the mc's perspective.
On the dating side, there's also much more things to consider...
Him the Smile and Bloom, the guys in the game are all super cute, but the mc is a little too y/n for my liking.. I never got the courage to finish this game ;)