Anyways. I also realized that I just posted 5... things last night and almost beat my record for amount of posts in a year. So I decided to actually post another in order to beat it and so that it didn't look quite so pathetic that I posted five things right after the other.
I was lookin' through the page statistics... page and I saw a button that said I could turn off the thing that let it also track my page views. As in, the views that I myself gave to the blog. And I was like:
No.And that's how it ended. I don't want to know how many people see this!! I like to bask in the ignorant knowledge that I am the only one who sees what I write. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
I think I was gonna go on about some of my otome games but right now I feel like I wasn't. Maybe...? I have no idea.
So let's just talk about otome!!
To start things off, otome games are games that are specifically oriented towards young girls. They have male counterparts that I personally find much more prevalent in the English-speaking world. The most basic otome game is a dating simulation where you get a certain number of boys that you may "target" and hope to woo. They can get a bit more complicated such as having RPG-elements, battle modes, or by simply being instead these games called visual novels. Visual novels differ from otome games because it's more like you are simply in control of a character and making some life-changing decisions for her. Otome games will often times allow you to move around a city/country to play mini-games or to talk to the random guys that appear. For a shy, socially awkward person like myself, it's wonderful!
Some of the best games I've played are the following:
Starry☆Sky
Loren The Amazon Princess
(P)lanets - The Life of Normalcy has Ended
RE: Alistair++
Unfortunately only the last two are free games. But the other two are definitely worth the bucks! The Starry☆Sky series, however, is also in Japanese and there is only an English patch out there for ~ In Spring~. I have heard wonderful things about the others though and I have it from a trusted source that an American company may soon be officially translating and selling them in the United States (if the voice actors and their agencies don't mess that up for us that is). For LTAP, there is a demo that you can play (and it's also naturally in English!) but for the entire game and expansion, you must pay.
All of those games are very fun and very different. Starry☆Sky is centered on a girl (that you may rename) who is somehow involved with many boys throughout her school. I have no idea whether or not it's supposed to be like she's in an alternate universe each game where she didn't romance a guy from the last game or if she just has a lot of romance goin' on. If that makes sense. Loren can be played by both boys and girls because well you have that option. Do you play as Saren or Elenor? That's your choice and there are both straight and gay options for both of them. The gameplay is by far the most intriguing due to the RPG and turn-based battle elements implemented. However, it also contains some very brief nudity (that, however, may be turned off if you so choose). It's really my favorite game out of all of them (added to the fact that you don't have to do exact certain things to succeed in a romance such as obscurely buy the right dress and just so happen to buy the correct book before a certain encounter. It's very simple and the artwork is probably the most beautiful. Unless you really enjoy the shoujo manga style work that is featured in the Starry☆Sky series.
(P)lanets is centered around a girl who somehow manages to suddenly be able to read minds. She is then sent to a special school for special people like her with special powers. I'm only saying special because... I can't spell the word that I know applies to her. But anyways! She then must talk to boys and do stuff and so on. RE: Alistair++ is about a girl who plays a lot of video games and because of a certain event, she vows to get revenge on the boy who did it. She then must sort the boy who she must hate and the other two boys who are equally adorable.
But I've ranted enough. Time for you to enjoy those wonderful games I've just told you about.
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