Fair warning, you do have to go through quite a bit of angst over the course of the game ^^' but the MC is no quitter and the kind of person who will fight for her happiness
I doubt I would like it but I'm actually really curious if anyone has more examples of games with this trope because I've never encountered it. If anything I feel like the LIs are always acting like the MC is their first love, which can be pretty unrealistic given how old some of these people are xD
I think I'm in the minority here but I really don't mind a long common route if the story is good! I like when the relationship between the MC and LIs is already a bit fleshed out before going into individual routes, it makes the romance feel more genuine when there is already a solid base of...
I'm gonna volunteer Dimitri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses because I like angsty routes and morally grey characters. Also I feel like the writers were personally shipping him with the main character, because why are there so many CGs/cutscenes of them holding hands xD
I play for the story first and foremost so I don't mind if the romance is more of a side plot (like Code:Realize and Bustafellows). The only thing that bothers me is when there are barely any romantic moments during a route and it's just shoe-horned in at the end (I'm thinking of Saitou's route...
I'm usually not a fan of bad ending and I tend to skip them, but I loved Noritsune's in Birushana. It was sad without being over-the-top dramatic and just really beautiful ;.; Both endings make sense for the story and I ended up liking them equally.
Honestly I would advise you to stay away from Virche Evermore even though I personally enjoyed it x) The game forces you to play through the bad endings first before you can unlock the "salvation" endings, but despite the name most of these are bittersweet at best (and one in particular is just...
One of the main reasons I was never really drawn to LADS is the graphics, but I'm not sure if it's because of the 3D in and of itself or if I just don't like that particular art style. They look too realistic for my taste haha and also a bit too similar to one another from what I've seen