If the artist originally uploaded this to misskey… glad to see more creators of content on the Fediverse. Especially one whose artstyle I like a lot!

Still slowly progressing through My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance-. On Alan's route right now.

I find it interesting he's a tsundere but aware of his own crush on Katarina, especially because in the other routes I played so far it seems as if he's unaware of his own feelings and Mary has successfully kept him in the dark about them.

I appreciate Liliana shipping Katarina/Alan. It feels interesting to be an otome game player watching a character squee about a romance involving another otome game player. Although she said Alan was doing something possessive after he and Katarina hug and I was thinking... otome intentionally includes possessive characters in some games as it appeals to some people, so I assume the writers know what possessiveness is. But Alan did absolutely nothing possessive here. Mistranslation?

Hey, wake up you dumb rich girl!

What a weird thing for a prince probably richer than the girl in question to say.

All in all, Alan's route is my least favorite so far, and his route continues to be plagued with typos in a much higher frequency than the other guys' routes so far. I feel kinda bad about this especially since I was already not too excited for him. I have his last chapter to finish (provided I didn't just Bad End myself—I play without a walkthrough for my first run, and then use a walkthrough to collect other endings or learn where I went wrong) and then onto the non-canon new characters!

I like to promote topic-specific instances so also [email protected]

I also really enjoy the artstyle! Glad to see a S2 come out, wonder if it'll follow the manga or not

Yay for more villainess content!

Regionlocking is annoying. I want to play the La Corda d'Oro series as an otome lover who is also somewhat of a classical musician, but I get "This item is currently unavailable in your region" when I follow Steam links for games in the series.

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Getting this comic's vibes

I have been somewhat interested in this one, where MC manages a baseball team that also needs to sing and dance. It would be nice if this got an English release someday. Of course, I say this just knowing what the promo material shows… who knows if the routes would turn out to be something I actually like?

Can I ask what you typed out? I see @otomekitten.com, was there anything else to what you typed? For blerdyotome I searched @[email protected] and @[email protected]

Okay, the annoying part of this is that I get an error/cannot find her on Lemmy, but on Mbin I can find her. Looks like I'll have to get an alt involved or finally make a Mastodon.

Yeah, I can see possibilities for those two types of communities to get into fights with each other and it makes me happy when we just coexist. Although I admit it is also at least partially because right now we are super tiny.

It does not help that there were other women when I was initially on [email protected] but they dropped off eventually and kbin.social is dead. Not sure where they went or if they'll find this place.

A silver lining to the otome community being small on the Fediverse is that it is okay to make duplicate communities. I specifically created this community instead of trying to reactivate the inactive [email protected] because frankly the English errors in the sidebar were not a good look, and I wanted a community that could not fall prey to one of my greatest annoyances in online anime-adjacent fandom: the community being all fanart reposts, with little to no discussion or original fanart. [email protected] allowed non-original fanart, [email protected] does not. r/otomegames was more discussion and original fanart than just Pixiv reposts and I really liked that. I liked that a lot and wanted to bring some of that here. (And I also get to be less harsh on self-promoters. I understand not wanting the sub spammed with Discords or daily dev updates but I certainly do not want to chuck new communities in a weekly self-promo post nobody reads, or restrict new devs quite as heavily as r/otomegames does.)

Very glad [email protected] has interaction from people that are not me. Hoping to possibly poach some r/otomegames users, though it's not likely thanks to r/otomegames shoving all promotion of other communities into the Self-Promotion Sunday posts nobody looks at. And I still participate on r/otomegames in fear that one day they'll say "too much self-promo of another community, not enough normal community engagement, you are just trying to advertise, off you go!" I did actually use that sub normally before I left Reddit for the Fediverse. Also advertised it in otome Discords I am in.

I think I'm also getting more upvotes, if not engagement, thanks to the home instance being ani.social and otome games being a primarily Japanese genre with even the Western-released games usually following an anime artstyle.

For anyone confused like me, looking at this on the artist's Pixiv shows that the Star Sapphire-looking character is Kaguya's VTuber rig thingy. Kaguya's the one who said insulting things on stream, it is not her being angry at people forgiving Star Sapphire for that.

EDIT: Failed to realize this was posted 16 days ago, leaving this here for anyone coming across it browsing.

I love that garlic bread is listed as a character

Ahhh, text that looks nice, like old AA, instead of the remakes with text displayed in a way that just annoys me. Sounds like something I'd like :)

Always enjoy when VNs give you gameplay in addition to the usual "read and click a choice" gameplay.

I'm not a lesbian but will definitely be trying the demo! I enjoy RPGs, certain kinds of VNs, and queer stories.

Still playing My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance- very slowly. On Alan's route, finished Nicol, Keith, and Geordo.

I find it pretty interesting that the guys are said to like her at least partially for her not acting like a traditional noble, but a lot of the affection-gaining answers are choosing to have her act a little more dependent on them and like a traditional noble. This is partially explained by cultural differences between Japan and America, differences in what is seen as attractive in a woman, but it is still actively contradicting what the game said earlier about the LI's attractions to her… at least in every route Katarina can get involved in her own rescue in a conflict—less so than the LIs (which makes complete sense as they are more magically capable than her) but she does take action and that choice will give you affection.

Also, Alan's route has Liliana, a capable woman! She is also quite cute. I'm glad I was right about guessing her identity—although I got it immediately because of what I know from one of the routes I played before Alan's.

I find it funny that when Alan and her are fighting over each others' safety basically at the route start, it is the one time she is being reasonable and having normal thoughts and Alan is being the dummy.

The Alan route is the hardest for me to figure out the affection-giving answer without a walkthrough far. Every other guy I could get their GOOD END or HAPPY END with max affection without any help. I have not been using a walkthrough so far for Alan but I did hit the wrong answer sometimes.

I feel Silva does the most bad person pirate things on Alan's route so far.

Made it up to chapter 5 so far. Alan's route wins the award for most typo-ridden. Found 26 mistakes total across Geordo, Nicol, and Keith; did chapter 3 and 4 of Alan (stopped when I hit 5) and we are up to 48 text errors. That is 22 to just Alan's first and second chapter, nearly half the typos. sad.jpeg

My Itch has a collection full of otome I want to play, maybe I should filter by platform to find ones I can play on mobile, thank you for the suggestion!

Honestly, because I'm on my phone most often, I'd like to play on my phone—it would mean I play much more often. It would be easy to open, far less of a mental barrier (even though that "barrier" is often just as small as "flip open your computer two feet away from you, type the password, click Steam/go to Itch.io, go to your library, click the otome game, click play").

Realistically? The mobile otome I'm aware of either haven't captured my interest, or I know them to be freemium in a way that drives me up the wall. Premium currencies and locking story progression or making certain choices behind that currency, timegating the story, gacha… I understand devs have to make money somehow, but I'd rather just buy a premium game upfront and play at my own pace.

I've also noticed that because I sit in front of that computer more often, so it is not two feet away from me, I have also been playing otome more often.