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Finished Yuu's route. Liked the story of his route better than Ari's but liked Ari better. But now I've playing all routes of Gilded Shadows.

I pulled up Speakeasy, because I backed it in Kickstarter and got my Steam Key. Didn't grab me outright but intros can be a slog even if the story is good. Mostly just got school stuff to focus on right now that really slows down my reading time.

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I started a finished Rose of Segunda, 6 routes. 2 hours for the first route, 90 minute or less read for the subsequent routes. I laughed so much! if you like Pride and Prejudice movies/books, you'll like it.

I'm also finishing up Yuu's route in Gilded Shadows which is my favorite visual novel so far ever in the 4 years of reading them. I am enjoyed myself.

And then after I think I'll play Heroine for Hire.

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Reading the Aslan DLC for Love Spell, but really wanting a darker more interactive story. It feels like a kinetic novel at this point. But I want to mark it off my list.

I read the openings for both Collar X Malice and Code: Realize last night to see which one attracted me more first. Code Realize seems more like what I'm in the mood for, protagonist wise, but the first Love Interest I met seems like a rolling eyes moment (Lupin) CxM had a protagonist introduced as having problems with telling people no and also a pretty contrived modern world situation.

When I looked into Variable barricade it seemed like it was just... a rich 17 year old ordered by rich grandpa to live in mansion with 4 other dudes and pick a husband. And they're all way older so it just sounded not ideal. Did it turn out better than I thought?

The romance interest story order is

Crius the Knight Supervisor
Tyril the Inquisitor
Zenn the Isekai detective
Lucien the 3rd prince

although it's a stretch to call some of these romances. It's similar to Steam Prison where it's focused more on the badass protagonist getting through the narrative. And Anastasia was a great protagonist! In my top 5.

I don't think the title, Even if Tempest,bhad anything to do with anything. Things were chaotic I suppose (tempest). But these things are often not originally English and sometimes they just throw some words together.

Zenn was the one who stole my heart with the most romantic murder ever. Lucien didn't really have time to breathe as a romance on screen, crius got the most stereotypical romance stuff, and Tyril had some but still very little romance scenes.

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I'm playing Even If Tempest. Bought on sale in the summer but didn't touch until I was on vacation with my Switch.

Long common route where there where there was two events you could choose what you say/do but it literally doesn't matter because it's scripted to fail. Which is frustrating. I like more heavily interactive games. I don't remember who's romanceable so I'm playing blind. But worried her own knight supervisor that watched her grow up is an option! Gross.

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I wasn't playing Otome for many months now. First it was because of life and now it's because of Baldur's Gate 3. But once I finish that game, I do see myself going back to Otome. I still have so many I already purchased and want to read. I especially enjoyed the thread we were doing about trying this year's Otome Jam games because those are ignored on Reddit. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So these is very little other places to even interact about them..but I do see that there is even less activity than when it started in the summer.

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 which has romance but not as much as I'd like.

I PLAN to play Yu's route from Gilded Shadows, which is an Indie VN, as soon as I get done with that.

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Vampire Hunter looks interesting. The other two have art where the woman seems passive or background so they don't appeal to me on their face.

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Is it this one? https://synokoria.itch.io/halloween-otome

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Sometimes I'm still too in love with the last LI to enjoy being away from them on the new route. That happened to me twice on Gilded Shadows. but I generally don't replay a route, or replay a game for that matter.

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I prefer to pay for content, 100%, but it gets ridiculous that last decade or so, the shops themselves stop supporting digital content from their servers. So one is not guaranteed the content they bought 'forever'. And that kinda feels like stealing in a way, on their part. At the same time, I think it is close to never that I replay any game. Even my favorite, Dragon Age, I played 5 times each. I still talk about the world and want to see more, but I don't know if I'd ever sit down and play them again all the way through, every quest. So do I really need them to support the content beyond 10 years? probably not. But they are even stopping selling physical content so it's like, I'm losing my right to store a game on my dusty shelf while they max their profits.

I relate to this a lot. I don't think my sleep schedule is every good when a riveting story is occurring. I did this so hard with Gilded Shadows.

Inspired by Bo from Lost Girl being a mature succubus story that still gets steamy and has strong romance. Coming of age story about a succubus figuring out their powers and making decisions about what they care about and what they want their future to be. Navigating difficult parental relationships. And definitely lots of mature steamy sex, romance optional.

Also just kind of haunting epic fantasy hero stories, more like Oathbreaker 1 and 2. But I'm like anti slice of life and super into Dragon Age so I'm biased. :D

Oh ya, that was my issue with Yune in Steam Prison. I don't care if you're 1000 years old immortal person, you look like a little boy. At least there was zero spice in the route so it didn't get awkward.

Demonheart:

one of the romantic interests becomes obsessed with MC- I think he's just a meathead that literally can't tell lust from love. Tries to kiss and rape you you no matter what you say or do. She can fight him off and kick him in the balls. And somehow you can get an "let's be together" confession from this creature.

It's insane.

That's the least offensive but still bad route I've completed. I won't bring up the game I've nicknamed "The Rapists of Yoshiwara."

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I guess I'm a weirdo. I don't go CG hunting. Especially bad end CGs, definitely not looking for those. XD

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I personally don't think flashbacks ever go well in a visual novel. I'll take a couple of lines during a "didn't you see I was the villain all along? " Or detective wrapping things up. Everywhere else, come on. Change the story to make it work present time.

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I didn't know how far out you wanted this thread to be. Are you planning it for a monthly

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