I totally forgot to add that I also don’t like gacha games. I had more of a tolerance for it when I was younger, though I was still annoyed by it.

I am one of those people who really likes those villainess stories. They’re entertaining!

I also notice that my gaming tastes spend more time looking back to pre-existing games (often I got there following a recommendation thread) than at new ones.

I tried Princess Debut and honestly, the rhythm aspects annoyed me a lot (it’s really ironic that I’m a musician who doesn’t really like rhythm games), and I did not like the game’s rearranges of the classical music. That alone stopped me from replaying different routes.

Where do you find out about these games, just curious?

(Also, I hope I’m not annoying you: I really do like discussing this stuff, hence me making the community :) )

I’m a sucker for things that are so bad they’re funny, and I also love drooling over high production value items. Absolutely need to step on trying to English patch it.

Haruka series

I looked into that and it sounds cool. I might join you on that Ruby Party quest someday…

I may be talking out of my butt because I didn’t consume that much shoujo content as a girl, I remember reading Shugo Chara! and Kitchen Princess, but I’d bet that the “villainess” phenomenon might come from the bullies seen in shoujo?

As for otome with gameplay, I just found this link with a ton, including a section for RPGs. I’ll probably make a separate post for that in a few days. In a dream world I’d make an otome with this, in reality time constraints, my terribad fiction writing abilities (will there be spelling errors? No. Will it be fun to read and will I have any idea of where to take the plot? Also no), and my programmer-tier art (I was one of the “good artists”… in middle school) means this isn’t happening. At best I program for someone else’s otome game.

“games aimed at women, mostly romance games”—non-otome or otome? Interested in hearing either way. I looked them up and they’re responsible for the La Corda d’Oro games. As a musician I want to play that series so badly but I’m regionlocked out of buying any of it on Steam… gotta figure out how to get around that.

Did you enjoy the games that you decided not to play? And also, curious if you understand Japanese or if any of these games have English patches or even releases.

I’m very interested to hear about the game. I’ve been trying to English patch it and it’s not working.

I think I asked mostly as a “what platform” question that in retrospect, I probably should have looked up on a search engine. (Released on Super Famicom. Also, apparently “A Game Boy Advance version was released on March 21, 2003. A full remake titled Angelique Retour (アンジェリーク ルトゥール) was released for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.”) I too am interested in otome with more gameplay than just making choices. I do like interactive fiction and visual novels, but I also play more genres than just those, and I wonder why otome has trended towards being a visual novel without having any other genres.

I know people talk about how the manga about being transmigrated into an otome game don’t reflect otome very well. But given the amount of manga with otome RPGs… part of me wishes it did reflect otome better so that I could have an otome RPG lol. I think Love and Deepspace is supposed to be like that, but the 3D models just don’t resonate with me well. They feel weird and off, but not in the uncanny valley THIS IS CREEPY kind of way… I’m also deathly allergic to freemium.

It’s okay that you don’t play otome, I understand it’s not to everyone’s taste. Although I would tell you a lot of manga that involves people transmigrating to otome games probably doesn’t do a great job at representing the genre. Yes, there are definitely capture targets/LIs for a female protagonist, but the settings in the mangas just aren’t what we usually have, at least in Western fandom, and if there were more like that in JP fandom I’m sure the people back on r/otomegames would have mentioned that instead of just talking about how these mangas don’t reflect the genre well. And we usually don’t have villainesses. Speaking as someone who is a fan of the “isekaied into an otome game” trope, not bashing on people who like those mangas at all!

I appreciate the advice you’re able to give via your perspective as a mod. I’m reading your links now. I do think that brittleness of instances is an issue, given I had a decent length of time on kbin.social before it died and then kbin.run before it died. But a decent stopgap for individual communities is to just make backups. It’s way less likely that two instances die on the same day. If Instance 1 goes down, just run to Instance 2 and set up a new backup on Instance 3 elsewhere.

That’s where I made my OtomeGamesBot that broke. I had login troubles for awhile, but this comment prompted me to try again and I got in and successfully made a test post with the bot. I appreciate the suggestion, I’ll look there again.

yes, you do

I honestly haven’t had time for otome games sadly. That should change after this year is over!

I had a goal to finish Band Camp Boyfriend before my last marching season is up. That means I probably need to play it soon.

I like to play otome seasonally: if it’s set in summer, play it in summer. If it’s set in winter, play it in winter. If it’s kinda ambiguous or spans multiple seasons, go off the game vibes. I started My Next Life as a Villainess: -Pirates of the Disturbance- in summer and made progress, and then progress basically stopped sometime in the fall. But I was able to step outside yesterday in a summer dress with no negative consequences, so :P hopefully I’ll finish that.

Winter’s Wishlist: Winter’s Wish and Variable Barricade. Cupid Parasite in February for Valentine’s Day, which is also in winter. Let’s see if I actually manage to stick to this.

Oh wow, Suzu’s eyes lol Pretty game art!

I looked up Epic Lycoris, for those out of the loop it is the Virche fandisk (Virche Evermore -ErroR: Salvation- is the main game and Virche Evermore -EpiC: Lycoris is this one).

So are you doing the main game first or hopping right into the fandisk?

I’m also very curious to hear about the structured queue.

Wait, so is Soshiro the childhood friend and only one to know the secret? Is Suzu the analytical one? Just trying to make sure I understand.

I am glad you are enjoying the game!

I do not exactly remember everything I have heard about Angelique but I do remember that everything I hear about it just makes me want to play it more. I think it is supposed to be one of the first otome, right? How did you play it?

You should probably tell !touhou@lemmy.world and !touhou@ani.social.

Checked, all LIs use he/him and a woman is playable.

Thanks for your elaboration! As you can probably guess I never looked at the equivalent Reddit communities, so I didn’t make my assumption off that, just off what I saw when I was first exploring https://ani.social—largely posts of anime women. Although I was aware “moe” can encompass things that don’t titillate as well as those that do, the presence of certain communities made me assume that the posts leaned more that way. I’m definitely not saying my assumptions are correct, as you have proven, but since you mod I thought you might want to know where my faulty assumptions came from.

I appreciate that you allow posts of other genders too! I am thinking back to when I posted a male tsundere on r/tsunderes forever ago and it died in New 😅

I am more the type to want to discuss specific anime fandoms I like than just general-purpose anime pictures, but I recognize the promotion of other communities and appreciate the work you are putting in to keep communities afloat/in the public eye :) Thank you for replying! I appreciate the effort.

Originally ignored all the Moe communities as a woman not romantically/sexually interested in my own gender. Saw this on Local, maybe I should check this community for outfit inspiration, that skirt caught my attention and I want it