So..snooping around with Kanojo Step indicates that there are jealousy scenarios...I think I'll get around to exploring it after I'm done with all open stories and doing closed ones.
Do you mean extra events triggering outside each heroine's route? Because especially in the open stories there's at least one chapter dedicated to jealousy and/or cheating.
I'm not done yet with Persona 5 but I still managed to finish
Kanojo Step in the meantime. I haven't completed it 100% since I still have most of the "secret" stories to go through, but that will have to wait a bit.
It's been mentioned earlier but I think SMEE took the shimoneta jokes a bit too far in this one. Their games always had a somewhat perverted teenager as a protagonist but some jokes or conversation topics, especially with the heroines was seriously off-putting. I was fine with it with Kuon since she's actually able to strike back with some of her own teasing but with some of the other heroines (Noe in particular) the things the MC says to them were sometimes seriously creepy, hard to image they wouldn't step away from him after some of his comments.
Thankfully the game isn't all about that and some parts are genuinely funny. My favorite route remains Kuon's for her ability to keep up with most of the MC's jokes rather than just let them fly through (Shiina) or blush silently (Noe & Asuka). SMEE still manages to make somewhat emotional scenes but I found that the transition from cheerful to tears, and back to cheerful was a bit brutal. The sudden bursts of tears felt a bit forced most of the time, and prevented me from connecting with the character as much as in some of the previous games. They still manage to bring out the characters' charming points well enough, even though I found it quite disappointing that most of the heroine's issues seemed to stem from the same root : lack of self-confidence. I would have enjoyed a bit more variation on that front.
I was rather surprised at the length and details of the secret character route. If you'd rather avoid using a walkthrough to find it like I had to, try to hunt the ??? events on the school map and she'll eventually show up. I first thought this extra route would involve Maki or Momomi-sensei but it's an entirely different character, and one I happened to appreciate more than most of the central heroines. She's certainly special and her route is one of the funniest, I really recommend taking the time to play it, especially as it doesn't really feel tacked on like most extras these days : it's still about 2/3 the length of one of the main heroine's one (both in kouryaku and actual route), she just doesn't have a open/secret option.
Almost time for October release, but I haven't really found anything great to look forward to. Still, here's what I'll be keeping a eye on :
Re：LieF ～親愛なるあなたへ～ : new studio, pretty standard "inaka" setting, might be good?
空のつくりかた -under the same sky，over the rainbow- : I haven't played anything from Cosmic Cute, it seems fairly generic but once again, why not?
愚者ノ教鞭 今しかできないことがたくさんあるんだ！ : Akabee Soft 3, which can be really hit or miss with me. Also, it seems to involve kids and it's 18+, which is kinda scary. I'll admit I can be quite the lolicon but that's a bit too young for me... Still, when reading the word Fool in the title and with a story about rebellion against a messed up world, I couldn't help but draw parallels to a certain Persona game I'm currently playing, enough to get me intrigued.
