Unnecessary Series - Otome Games
Part of why I wanted to make a post about otome games is to share screenshots like these:
These are from the game EPHEMERAL -FANTASY ON DARK-. Those lines, I just LOL'd.
I go crazy with the screenshots in these games. I've collected almost, if not over, a thousand by now. I will take screenshots of the characters with the same expression on each new background they appear on. Is that even normal? I don't know. And I'm obssessed with any time the characters blush. It's too cute.
Like I wrote at the end of my anime post, this post is going to be really silly - hence why the whole post is beneath a LJ-cut. If you're at my LJ for Kis-My-Ft2 (or even SixTONES) posts, I don't want you to be bothered by this on your friends page.
Way back in 1998, I had a subscription to Mixx Zine (which eventually became Tokyopop) and in the back of the magazine was an add for Graduation '95, a sim game available in English. I was intrigued, but also 13 years old, so I couldn't just buy PC games (especially when you've been saving up for an N64). So, I just forgot about it. Then when I watched the movie Lovely Complex in 2007, it reminded me of otome games and I really wanted to play them, but since they weren't easily available in America, I didn't.
If you haven't noticed I'm obviously a huge Miyata Toshiya fan and, even with the collaboration he did with Uta no Prince-sama for his solo song for the HOME tour, it hadn't clicked in my brain to try to play an otome game. Watch the anime, yes, but play an otome game? I've watched anime that are from otome games (one recent one I watched and loved is Prince of Stride Alternative (I really want to play that game - I want Heath to romance me LOL)), it's just that, for some reason when I started watching My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom! something clicked and I had to play an otome game LOL.
I'm not going to write about all the games I'm playing, mostly because that's a pretty long list at this point LOL. So, here are just some of my favorites.
The first game I downloaded to play on my Nintendo Swith Lite was Kitty Love -Way to look for love-. The biggest criticism for the game is that the translation isn't that great (but apparently better than when it was first available based on reviews I read). Some storylines don't have as many typos as others. But, you can understand the story - I don't want you to think it's so bad you don't have any idea what's going on.
The plot is that you work at a flower shop and become cursed so that you turn into a cat at night. The curse can only be broken by true love's kiss.
I started the game with the Fujimoto Shogo storyline. Shogo's a police officer - I can't resist a man in uniform LOL. I consider his storyline average. It was satisfying, but not heart fluttering LOL.
My favorite storyline ended up being Suguri Takuma, the flower shop owner who is your boss. He is voiced by Saito Soma who, with even my lack of knowledge about seiyuu, I have heard of. Yes, my heart fluttered.
Pub Encounter. I'm going to take a quote from this page on Otome Kitten:
"Most of the reviews were actually quite good, as long as you don’t mind romancing older men (chuckles)."
My response to that is - apparently I don't mind romancing older men LOL. But, I'm at least a decade older than the heroine is in the game, so a 41-year-old man isn't that much of an age gap. This game isn't voiced, but I liked it anyway.
The latest games I finished were Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~, Code: Realize ~Future Blessings~, and Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~. I started with Victor Frankenstein's storyline and my favorite storyline was Impey Barbicane's. I just love Impey so much. I even bought the character singles for those two characters - limited editions that came with adorable key holders. And the anime was on sale at the Funimation shop so I bought that too.
Recently I've played the 'A' Class Prologue for the first Uta no Prince-sama game (Switch remake), but it will take me awhile to get through the game because it's still being fan-translated.
Final note: During my trip to Japan last year, the gallery at Tokyo Dome City was having an Uta no Prince-sama event. Everyday there was a huge line of women waiting to get in. My sister was like, "What is that line for?" I took a picture of the flags for it and looked it up on my phone and I told her, "It's a multimedia franchise I've heard of." She replied, "So, you'll be in those lines someday." Ha, ha, I thought to myself a bit sarcastically.
Little did I know...
These are from the game EPHEMERAL -FANTASY ON DARK-. Those lines, I just LOL'd.
I go crazy with the screenshots in these games. I've collected almost, if not over, a thousand by now. I will take screenshots of the characters with the same expression on each new background they appear on. Is that even normal? I don't know. And I'm obssessed with any time the characters blush. It's too cute.
Like I wrote at the end of my anime post, this post is going to be really silly - hence why the whole post is beneath a LJ-cut. If you're at my LJ for Kis-My-Ft2 (or even SixTONES) posts, I don't want you to be bothered by this on your friends page.
Way back in 1998, I had a subscription to Mixx Zine (which eventually became Tokyopop) and in the back of the magazine was an add for Graduation '95, a sim game available in English. I was intrigued, but also 13 years old, so I couldn't just buy PC games (especially when you've been saving up for an N64). So, I just forgot about it. Then when I watched the movie Lovely Complex in 2007, it reminded me of otome games and I really wanted to play them, but since they weren't easily available in America, I didn't.
If you haven't noticed I'm obviously a huge Miyata Toshiya fan and, even with the collaboration he did with Uta no Prince-sama for his solo song for the HOME tour, it hadn't clicked in my brain to try to play an otome game. Watch the anime, yes, but play an otome game? I've watched anime that are from otome games (one recent one I watched and loved is Prince of Stride Alternative (I really want to play that game - I want Heath to romance me LOL)), it's just that, for some reason when I started watching My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom! something clicked and I had to play an otome game LOL.
I'm not going to write about all the games I'm playing, mostly because that's a pretty long list at this point LOL. So, here are just some of my favorites.
The first game I downloaded to play on my Nintendo Swith Lite was Kitty Love -Way to look for love-. The biggest criticism for the game is that the translation isn't that great (but apparently better than when it was first available based on reviews I read). Some storylines don't have as many typos as others. But, you can understand the story - I don't want you to think it's so bad you don't have any idea what's going on.
The plot is that you work at a flower shop and become cursed so that you turn into a cat at night. The curse can only be broken by true love's kiss.
I started the game with the Fujimoto Shogo storyline. Shogo's a police officer - I can't resist a man in uniform LOL. I consider his storyline average. It was satisfying, but not heart fluttering LOL.
My favorite storyline ended up being Suguri Takuma, the flower shop owner who is your boss. He is voiced by Saito Soma who, with even my lack of knowledge about seiyuu, I have heard of. Yes, my heart fluttered.
Pub Encounter. I'm going to take a quote from this page on Otome Kitten:
"Most of the reviews were actually quite good, as long as you don’t mind romancing older men (chuckles)."
My response to that is - apparently I don't mind romancing older men LOL. But, I'm at least a decade older than the heroine is in the game, so a 41-year-old man isn't that much of an age gap. This game isn't voiced, but I liked it anyway.
The latest games I finished were Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~, Code: Realize ~Future Blessings~, and Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~. I started with Victor Frankenstein's storyline and my favorite storyline was Impey Barbicane's. I just love Impey so much. I even bought the character singles for those two characters - limited editions that came with adorable key holders. And the anime was on sale at the Funimation shop so I bought that too.
Recently I've played the 'A' Class Prologue for the first Uta no Prince-sama game (Switch remake), but it will take me awhile to get through the game because it's still being fan-translated.
Final note: During my trip to Japan last year, the gallery at Tokyo Dome City was having an Uta no Prince-sama event. Everyday there was a huge line of women waiting to get in. My sister was like, "What is that line for?" I took a picture of the flags for it and looked it up on my phone and I told her, "It's a multimedia franchise I've heard of." She replied, "So, you'll be in those lines someday." Ha, ha, I thought to myself a bit sarcastically.
Little did I know...
