Otome Games
Rules
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Please stay on-topic: post about otome games. Otome games are romance games aimed at women who want to romance men. For the purposes of this community, games with female love interests (LIs) count as long as it isn't mostly female LIs: men should be at least half of the LI options. Note that you do not have to be a straight woman to post: people outside the target demographic play too, and you are welcome here. Amare games will be allowed given how small the community on the Fediverse is for it, and how they overlap with otome, but if the community starts to overwhelmingly have non-otome amare posts I reserve the right to change this rule and redirect those posts to a new amare community.
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In an effort to keep this community more discussion-based, please only post fanart and the like if you made the art yourself. Your own fanart, cosplays, etc. are very welcome.
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Don’t be a jerk.
- No bigotry or discrimination. This includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
- Be respectful of other peoples’ tastes. You may absolutely despise an LI and want to discuss it, and that’s fine. Casting negative aspersions on or directly insulting people who love that LI is not fine. What we find interesting in fiction does not always directly translate to real-life desires.
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Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
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Tag any NSFW content as such. If you are not sure whether to tag it that way, err on the side of caution and tag.
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Please indicate spoilers. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for OtomeGame: The Game
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
That will appear as:
Spoilers for OtomeGame: The Game
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game! 7. When advertising something you have worked on (think your own otome review website, or an otome game you have worked on), please use common sense for what is spammy. If there's about four new posts here weekly, don't post a progress update weekly—we don't want self-promotion overwhelming the community. But finding new otome creators is cool, so do post them here every once in awhile! I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I'll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
Not Rules
Magazine/community icon from My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! -Pirates of the Disturbance-
Our backup community is !otomegames@lemmy.zip.
Q: Why is this needed?
A: TL;DR: We have had to start over a lot due to instances dying.
- First, otome on Lemmy/Mbin started with Kbin, at
[!otomegames@kbin.social](/c/otomegames@kbin.social), which went down when kbin.social had federation issues and eventually went down. - Then we moved to
[!otomegames@kbin.run](/c/otomegames@kbin.run), which went down when kbin.run unexpectedly vanished. - So we moved again to !otomegames@ani.social, where we can hopefully stay. If not, we jump to…
- !otomegames@lemmy.zip.
Other communities you may be interested in:
- !visualnovels@ani.social
- !vndev@discuss.tchncs.de (visual novel development)
- !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de (a non-VN game also aimed at women)
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I've seen multiple people see that having to choose between being queen/having a boyfriend sucks, but it doesn't bother me because I start saving often when I feel the LI is about to confess his love to me, and when it happens I read all of that ending and get my CG(s) and whatever, then load up the save from before that happened and focus on becoming queen without doing anything that'll make him do something rash like confess his undying love. (You can also reject the confession, by the way. In fact, you could get the option to confess first and he could reject you. Boy do I love RNGs.)
Because the goal of most Angelique games is to become queen, "they're all going to submit to me in <5 months" is referencing me becoming queen, and thus their boss, very soon. It's never taken me over 150 in-game days to beat a game, which is just below 5 months.
There are different universes with different guardians! The Holy/Sacred/etc. Bird Universe is where you meet the first set of guardians, the Holy/Sacred/etc. Beast is where we get the second set, and this game takes place in the Frozen Owl Universe. Slash mark between holy and sacred because the first two universes use different kanjis for their names but they mean nearly the same thing... I think later in the liveblog I may have called it the Sacred Bird Universe, but I'm making my mind up right now: The first one should be called Divine Bird and second Sacred Beast. Final answer.
Now I haven't figured out if this is mere coincedince or not, but when I had high intimacy with one character (Clavis) and another character (Lumiale) who was his closest friend when I started the game, I noticed eventually that when I checked his relationship chart thing his highest relationship was now some other guy, not Lumiale. So I wondered if by going on dates with them both I was tearing their relationship apart 😭 I haven't figured out how relationships between the NPCs change yet.
I hope the links are fixed now! I beat the game, so feel free to read the rest at your leisure. Not that there's a lot to read... I did not make the best decisions! LOLL