Hello! Welcome back to another post! For this post I would like to talk about songs that aren't in otome games or made for them. Instead I'll be talking about songs that you here on everyday radio. In more detail, then songs that remind you of an otome game or a certain character. Even when you are listening to a song sometimes you just end up thinking about a certain character or game even if you don't mean too. On this blog I have talked about otome songs, background music, etc, but this time I'm not talking about the music in an otome game. (Though I still would like to revisit the topic of character songs, so expect a blog like that at some point.)This time I am talking about the music you hear in everyday life, but some or all of the lyrics make you think about a certain game or character.
Of course people can also feel and think this way with multiple things, but since this is an otome blog for the most part. Then that is what we will be talking about. But I really enjoy talking about music so yet again, here is another music post. So let's get into it!
Since I'm such an otome gamer and music fanatic, then of course I would have a character or game linked to almost every song on my playlist or at least most of them. Not even all the songs I listen too are based off of just one game or character. It could be multiple. Like for instance if I listen to a song that I found or started listening to a lot when I first got into otome games, then of course it would give me a nostalgic feeling. (Which it does.) Since a song that you listen to could also link to a memory or moment in your life or connect deeply to you. In my next post at the moment I'm planning on making it a post based off of songs that make me think of a certain character or game, then connect the lyrics to them/it.
So, I guess you can say that this was more of an introduction post than anything, but I hope it got you thinking as well and maybe you will go back and listen to some songs that may give you a feeling of a character or game. So for my next post I will be asking about what songs make you think about a character or game? (Even if the lyrics don't really fit with them, it could also be the feeling or idea of the song as well!) So for now, I'll talk you guys later!
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Let's Continue From Where We Left Off! +Real Time Otome Games (Pt. 2)
Hello! Welcome back to another post! Surprisingly I actually decided to do a part two on this topic right away! In my last post I mentioned how I'm mostly talking about games like "Mystic Messenger" by Cheritz. Though in my last post I mostly talked about and summed it up about their new game that will be coming out called "The Ssum". Honestly I didn't even mean to talk about that game for the whole/most of the post. Though I will be summing up this topic in this post. In this post I will want to talk more about these types of games and more or less the idea of it. I would also like to mention about how you guys would feel if your favorite game ended up having a separate side game with this type of system.
Though one thing at a time. So I'll be starting this off with the idea/system of it. Honestly I actually really enjoy this. It makes the characters seem more realistic to me, even though we have to choose what we say and can't type what we can say. (Though I don't know for "The Ssum", since that is like just you and him, so we will see once the game comes out.) I enjoy the chatroom type of story/system as well. Because it's like I said, it seems more realistic, I don't really see it a lot, and I would like to say that it also makes me feel like I'm more in the story. Not only that but also since there are still some visual novel scenes and you end up with the character in the end if you choose right, then that still makes it known as an otome and still makes it enjoyable and more connected to the story. Something I also like is your private text messages with each other.
Though another thing I wanted to mention was, how would you react if your favorite game did this as a side game/thing? Honestly since it's just a thought, you don't really have to think about it that seriously. Though I feel like it would be quite interesting. Even if you aren't in it, but you are able to read the conversations in a group chat with all of the main characters/any characters from the game then that would be pretty cool and entertaining. Or maybe a chatroom for side characters, then one for the main ones. Or maybe you could even choose who's in each chatroom. Also you may be able to read their texts through each other off of the group chat? Though this is all an idea, though it would still be a fun thing to see.
For now though I'll end this post here. How do you feel about the idea of something side like, like this for one of your favorite games? Also how do you just feel like this overall? So for now, I'll talk to you guys later!
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Though one thing at a time. So I'll be starting this off with the idea/system of it. Honestly I actually really enjoy this. It makes the characters seem more realistic to me, even though we have to choose what we say and can't type what we can say. (Though I don't know for "The Ssum", since that is like just you and him, so we will see once the game comes out.) I enjoy the chatroom type of story/system as well. Because it's like I said, it seems more realistic, I don't really see it a lot, and I would like to say that it also makes me feel like I'm more in the story. Not only that but also since there are still some visual novel scenes and you end up with the character in the end if you choose right, then that still makes it known as an otome and still makes it enjoyable and more connected to the story. Something I also like is your private text messages with each other.
Though another thing I wanted to mention was, how would you react if your favorite game did this as a side game/thing? Honestly since it's just a thought, you don't really have to think about it that seriously. Though I feel like it would be quite interesting. Even if you aren't in it, but you are able to read the conversations in a group chat with all of the main characters/any characters from the game then that would be pretty cool and entertaining. Or maybe a chatroom for side characters, then one for the main ones. Or maybe you could even choose who's in each chatroom. Also you may be able to read their texts through each other off of the group chat? Though this is all an idea, though it would still be a fun thing to see.
For now though I'll end this post here. How do you feel about the idea of something side like, like this for one of your favorite games? Also how do you just feel like this overall? So for now, I'll talk to you guys later!
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Sunday, April 15, 2018
Let's Talk About The Present Situation! +Real Time Otome Games (Pt. 1)
Hello! Welcome back to another post! For this post I will be talking about real time otome games! More or less for people to get a gist of what I'm talking about then games like "Mystic Messenger". I mostly want to talk about this topic since Cheritz will be releasing a new game for IOS and Android called "The Ssum". It's like "Mystic Messenger" but also not, since it's more just you and goes off of your schedule and everything. (Check out the link below to the homepage for it to find out more.)
But I want to talk about this topic since I would like to know other people's thoughts on this a bit more. I personally think it's a cool idea and I'm actually quite excited to play this! The only problem more or less is playing it everyday and that it's technically endless. Though if I get hooked on it then I'll for sure play it everyday (I mean I login and play "Uta no Prince-Sama: Shining Live" everyday since the day it got released in English so I have faith in myself), but I guess I'll just have to wait and see what will happen.
Though I personally feel like this is something that I will get into heavily. Like I'll be quite hooked on it. I'm always down for some more interaction and story. Also since I loved how "Mystic Messenger" was and how you played it, since to me that was extremely fun (system wise) and yet also not good for anxiety. I still enjoyed it a whole bunch. I like the texting features and since this game seems to be based off of your schedule, then that will help with a whole lot of other things as well!
So I can't wait for this game to come out and for us all to start playing it! Though please comment down below your feelings for games like these and I'll be writing more about this topic (hopefully, since I'm bad at doing part two's of things) next week! So, for now I'll talk to you guys later!
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"The Ssum" Official Website: https://ssum.cheritz.com/en
"Mystic Messenger" ITunes (App Store/IOS): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mystic-messenger/id1116027365?mt=8
"Mystic Messenger" Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Cheritz.MysticMessenger&hl=en
But I want to talk about this topic since I would like to know other people's thoughts on this a bit more. I personally think it's a cool idea and I'm actually quite excited to play this! The only problem more or less is playing it everyday and that it's technically endless. Though if I get hooked on it then I'll for sure play it everyday (I mean I login and play "Uta no Prince-Sama: Shining Live" everyday since the day it got released in English so I have faith in myself), but I guess I'll just have to wait and see what will happen.
Though I personally feel like this is something that I will get into heavily. Like I'll be quite hooked on it. I'm always down for some more interaction and story. Also since I loved how "Mystic Messenger" was and how you played it, since to me that was extremely fun (system wise) and yet also not good for anxiety. I still enjoyed it a whole bunch. I like the texting features and since this game seems to be based off of your schedule, then that will help with a whole lot of other things as well!
So I can't wait for this game to come out and for us all to start playing it! Though please comment down below your feelings for games like these and I'll be writing more about this topic (hopefully, since I'm bad at doing part two's of things) next week! So, for now I'll talk to you guys later!
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"The Ssum" Official Website: https://ssum.cheritz.com/en
"Mystic Messenger" ITunes (App Store/IOS): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mystic-messenger/id1116027365?mt=8
"Mystic Messenger" Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Cheritz.MysticMessenger&hl=en
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Pastries That Are Alike! +Otome Step-Siblings
Hello! Welcome back to another post! For this post I will be talking about step-siblings in otome games. Though before I get to that I would like to mention that in Voltage Inc's all in one app they have now released four previous side stories that were once in "Seduced in the Sleepless City". This announcement was made today and you can get them for free for three days! Once you get them they are yours forever! So if you are a fan or have the rest of the stories then go get these side stories! But let's get onto the main part of this post.
Now in some otome games (more in Japan than in the US) there may be a step-brother route. (Though it's like that for all routes for "Brothers Conflict".) A good example that people may know is Shiki's route in "Period: Cube ~Shackles of Amadeus~", since he is the step brother of the MC Kazuha since they were little, through their parent's getting married to each other. I do know though that a lot of people may feel uncomfortable with this though however. Though I would also say that from what I read and find then it mostly seems to be fifty/fifty.
I would say that I don't necessarily have a problem with this? Mostly because these aren't blood related. If they were blood related then I could not get into it. It would be very hard for me to digest that, since it's absolutely a no-no when it comes to blood related siblings. That is the only thing I can't get into, actual blown out incest. Though a game can get away with step-siblings to me. It is more of just a blood related thing and being blown out siblings. Even if step-siblings are little when they meet. To me that is still more or less okay.
In the end I guess it is more based off of how you feel and your own opinion. So I would like to hear what you all have to say about this in the comments below! Or else I'll talk to you guys later!
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Now in some otome games (more in Japan than in the US) there may be a step-brother route. (Though it's like that for all routes for "Brothers Conflict".) A good example that people may know is Shiki's route in "Period: Cube ~Shackles of Amadeus~", since he is the step brother of the MC Kazuha since they were little, through their parent's getting married to each other. I do know though that a lot of people may feel uncomfortable with this though however. Though I would also say that from what I read and find then it mostly seems to be fifty/fifty.
I would say that I don't necessarily have a problem with this? Mostly because these aren't blood related. If they were blood related then I could not get into it. It would be very hard for me to digest that, since it's absolutely a no-no when it comes to blood related siblings. That is the only thing I can't get into, actual blown out incest. Though a game can get away with step-siblings to me. It is more of just a blood related thing and being blown out siblings. Even if step-siblings are little when they meet. To me that is still more or less okay.
In the end I guess it is more based off of how you feel and your own opinion. So I would like to hear what you all have to say about this in the comments below! Or else I'll talk to you guys later!
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Sunday, April 1, 2018
Shipped Over Ingredients! +Otomate Titles
Hello! Welcome back to another post! For this post I will be talking about Japanese Otomate titles. Though more or less just ones that I wouldn't mind being translated to English. In this post I will be talking about two titles, out of their newest releases through out 2017 and so far this year. Please keep in mind that I would have others as well, though these are just the two that first came to mind.
The first one I will be talking about is "Shiro to Kuro no Arisu", which translates to "Alice of Black and White". This is an "Alice in Wonderland" based game, and you can play as two heroines with different routes attached.
Synopsis (Link, https://vndb.org/v19716 ):
Route: White ✦
The sky, covered in clouds — the World of White. On a rainy day, the heroine Airi, a high school second year student who lives a peaceful life, meets a certain young man on her way home. The young man, drenched in the rain without an umbrella, tells Airi that he’s ‘come to meet her.’ In fear and confusion, Airi runs away from him, but ends up getting caught. Suddenly, she finds herself in a place she has no recollection of. The same young man introduces himself as ‘the Black Rabbit, Rain’ and tells her this: ‘Alice, you will now become the queen of this world——’
Route: Black ✦
A blue sky with no edges — the World of Black. A sudden coup d’état takes place in the land that the second heroine, Luna, rules as the queen. The Queen’s advisors — the Black Rabbit, Rain, and the White Rabbit, Snow — who saw this as a serious threat, executed a plan which involved Luna taking refuge in the World of White while a candidate for the new queen would be brought back to the World of Black. And so, Luna was brought to the World of White, and Airi to the World of Black. The two girls who swap places; the secret behind their two worlds is……?
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Obviously from my other blogs, I would want this due to the "Alice in Wonderland" theme. Though the story also interests me and it seems to be a different sort of twist (like vampires?). The next game I want to mention is "Library Cross ∞". This one is actually a mobile otome game, but besides your main heroine and main boys. There is also some of their old otome characters in this from their more older/previous games!
Synopsis (Link, https://vndb.org/r53199 ):
You have all been chosen to complete this book. In order to do so, you must defeat ayakashi. If the book is not completed, all of you will die.
You have until…1pm.
You awake in a world you’ve never seen before. When you look up, you notice a huge clock with 13 hours marked on it. Lying next to you is a ‘white book’ that is familiar to you. You find 9 young men trapped in the same library as you. Though you try to escape through a large set of doors at the back of the room, it has been firmly locked.
To escape from this world, you have no choice but to follow the orders of a mysterious book……
In addition to the game’s original characters, characters and the worlds from 5 of Otomate’s previous games will also be making an appearance. (Hakuouki, AMNESIA, NORN9, Moujuu-tsukai to Ohime-sama, Yunohana SpRING!)
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Now of course I only know the characters from the ones that got localized, but I still find it cool and charming! Not only that but I'm kinda trash for themes like this for an otome game, with like this mystical element. I also know that some of you must be like, "but another mobile otome?". I honestly get what you guys are saying, but I like the concept for this one and to me it doesn't really seem like a mobile otome at all. Though the down fall with this is not getting references for when they cross over with a game.
In the end though I do know that for some people Otomate is a hit or miss or people either straight up like it or not. Honestly probably looking at what people say and think about this company probably doesn't help either. So I'm neutral about them and try not to think about them a lot. Though this will be then end of this post! Please comment down below the ones you want Otomate to translate as well as your feelings towards them! Or else talk to you guys later!
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"Alice of Black and White" Official Website: http://www.otomate.jp/bw_alice/
"Library Cross ∞" Official Website: https://librarycross.net/
The first one I will be talking about is "Shiro to Kuro no Arisu", which translates to "Alice of Black and White". This is an "Alice in Wonderland" based game, and you can play as two heroines with different routes attached.
Synopsis (Link, https://vndb.org/v19716 ):
Route: White ✦
The sky, covered in clouds — the World of White. On a rainy day, the heroine Airi, a high school second year student who lives a peaceful life, meets a certain young man on her way home. The young man, drenched in the rain without an umbrella, tells Airi that he’s ‘come to meet her.’ In fear and confusion, Airi runs away from him, but ends up getting caught. Suddenly, she finds herself in a place she has no recollection of. The same young man introduces himself as ‘the Black Rabbit, Rain’ and tells her this: ‘Alice, you will now become the queen of this world——’
Route: Black ✦
A blue sky with no edges — the World of Black. A sudden coup d’état takes place in the land that the second heroine, Luna, rules as the queen. The Queen’s advisors — the Black Rabbit, Rain, and the White Rabbit, Snow — who saw this as a serious threat, executed a plan which involved Luna taking refuge in the World of White while a candidate for the new queen would be brought back to the World of Black. And so, Luna was brought to the World of White, and Airi to the World of Black. The two girls who swap places; the secret behind their two worlds is……?
(END)
Obviously from my other blogs, I would want this due to the "Alice in Wonderland" theme. Though the story also interests me and it seems to be a different sort of twist (like vampires?). The next game I want to mention is "Library Cross ∞". This one is actually a mobile otome game, but besides your main heroine and main boys. There is also some of their old otome characters in this from their more older/previous games!
Synopsis (Link, https://vndb.org/r53199 ):
You have all been chosen to complete this book. In order to do so, you must defeat ayakashi. If the book is not completed, all of you will die.
You have until…1pm.
You awake in a world you’ve never seen before. When you look up, you notice a huge clock with 13 hours marked on it. Lying next to you is a ‘white book’ that is familiar to you. You find 9 young men trapped in the same library as you. Though you try to escape through a large set of doors at the back of the room, it has been firmly locked.
To escape from this world, you have no choice but to follow the orders of a mysterious book……
In addition to the game’s original characters, characters and the worlds from 5 of Otomate’s previous games will also be making an appearance. (Hakuouki, AMNESIA, NORN9, Moujuu-tsukai to Ohime-sama, Yunohana SpRING!)
(END)
Now of course I only know the characters from the ones that got localized, but I still find it cool and charming! Not only that but I'm kinda trash for themes like this for an otome game, with like this mystical element. I also know that some of you must be like, "but another mobile otome?". I honestly get what you guys are saying, but I like the concept for this one and to me it doesn't really seem like a mobile otome at all. Though the down fall with this is not getting references for when they cross over with a game.
In the end though I do know that for some people Otomate is a hit or miss or people either straight up like it or not. Honestly probably looking at what people say and think about this company probably doesn't help either. So I'm neutral about them and try not to think about them a lot. Though this will be then end of this post! Please comment down below the ones you want Otomate to translate as well as your feelings towards them! Or else talk to you guys later!
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"Alice of Black and White" Official Website: http://www.otomate.jp/bw_alice/
"Library Cross ∞" Official Website: https://librarycross.net/
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