Whats your opinion on poster boys / Favorite poster boy LI?

[b3rryb3rry]

I honestly like the idea of one of the LIs being the "true"/canon route, especially when they break the fourth wall like Seven in Mystic Messenger.
I really liked the use of Shin as a poster boy in Amnesia as a way to subvert the player's expectations and make us not expect Ukyo's route. I do wish Ukyo got a bigger place in the marketing, he is my favourite character. It would've been cool if he was on the cover of one of the fandiscs.

 

[nerim-w]

I honestly like the idea of one of the LIs being the "true"/canon route, especially when they break the fourth wall like Seven in Mystic Messenger.
I really liked the use of Shin as a poster boy in Amnesia as a way to subvert the player's expectations and make us not expect Ukyo's route. I do wish Ukyo got a bigger place in the marketing, he is my favourite character. It would've been cool if he was on the cover of one of the fandiscs.

Yes I love the way Amnesia handled it. Ukyo is my favourite LI too, he deserves everything it also helped take some spotlight off Shin and didnt feel like Shin was the games favourite child. And because we thought Shin was going to be the important It boy, suddenly learning about Ukyo made it so much more devastating ugh just so amazing ugh I cried so much in his route

 

[Litth]

I just realized I actually don't have many poster boy LIs that I'm biased , except Yves from Virche. And ironically, his route isn't even the true route lol.

 

[murasetowa]

for the most part i don't really like them besides a few exceptions... i actually dread doing their routes most of the time lol. my fav would be ankou in virche's fd though and he's my all time favorite LI in general hehe ♡

 

[scorpies]

i like them, it might as well be good for the plot sometimes no? good for marketing too

i think not everyone should get the same stuff, i lowkey hate the government assigned kiss scenes. why do all of them kiss at the same point of the route some games with sex/marriage too. like its boring, predictible etc. and wouldn't it makes more sense for different stuff to happen/ happen differently since their personalities are not the same i don't mind if one of them gets more CG's too. but i understand people are not into these

 

[Marrychan]

I think I can say that the fact a character is the 'poster boy' really influences me; I approach everything with a very open mind—even personalities that aren't really my cup of tea. In some cases, I think they are making a clear distinction between the true route and the poster boy route. Which are also usually the closed routes.
Regarding Mistonia, for instance, I'm not a huge fan of the original route; I hated how Aphrose simply gave up her body to act as a "vessel" until Tia recovered, as well as the pseudo-"harem" ending—and I have nothing against harem endings.
It's much the same situation as Virche: Yves route basically gives you a good chunk of the main plot explanation. I have to admit I didn't really like the fact that the supernatural element turned out to be scientific rather than truly supernatural (though that's just my personal preference). I did like Adolphe/Ankou route, though; the game was very well written, and I suffered just the right amount. Even though their route is more about Adolphe than Ankou—despite them theoretically being the same 'character'—I liked Ankou a lot more.
Sins of Kaleido goes a bit deeper for me; apparently, I felt the same way about Amulit games. Reaching the game's 'true' route is quite a journey, and when you finally unlock the good endings... well, personally, I didn't like any of the good endings (lol). I loved the game's overall concept; Red Bell and Even If share the same mechanics, but the difference is that I actually liked Ciaran's route in Red Bell. At least Amulit does a good job of hiding the "poster boy" on the game's cover, though it becomes pretty clear who the main guy is based on the interactions.

 

[Junonon]

i don't really like poster boys tbh. when i played code: realize, i felt like lupin was constantly treated as the "canon" LI and got way more focus than the others, which honestly annoyed me a lot since my favorites were saint-germain and impey

the only poster boy i can think of that i actually like is probably yves from virche evermore lol

 

[Yuhiru]

There's not so many title that i played, but i do love them mostly (about 80%)!

The good side of their route is:
- closer to canon
- safe(?) choice
- maybe or maybe not kind but strong vibe (?)

The bad side of their route is:
- mostly they come up as a central LI with important role the most that their existence is under-perform other LIs thus making it kinda unfair for other LIs.
- Locked behind other route, between behind the locked route or the last route instead.
- cursed with plot dumps and plot dumps on top of heavy lore fact that burdening their route story. Sometimes but not always their route ended with minimal romance interaction between them and MC. Thus making it the least romantic route for some people.

Back then poster boy is almost canon i guess, but nowadays i think there's a bound between poster boy and secret route boy that i do find them as a second lead instead.

About my favorite poster boy, let's see..i like Lupin from code realize despite only watching the anime, 707 from Mysme, Kakeru from norn9, Kureha from 9 R.I.P and then there's Kaize that i recently finished as my last route from OVER REQUIEMZ, Hijikata from Hakuouki is also fine too but i am leaning toward yamazaki more tbh.