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Otome games are great, but many of the titles getting localized are visual novels. While reading is also pretty amazing, sometimes you don’t want to spend your time reading thousands of words on route to romancing a digital dude. Sometimes, you want a little more stimulation while searching for the (virtual) one.

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Just thinking of something because of people asking why otome heroine is being hated. This is, not only problem in west, but also in Japan itself actually.

What people said about otome heroine so far that I’ve ever read: - This girl has no personality. I can’t relate her. - This girl is too weak!! - This girl is fight for the boys? I can’t relate something like that. - This girl is too childish and noisy. - This girl is too matured like obasan. etc etc etc…

Honestly, I don’t think culture difference is the only reason. See, there are a lot of galgame out there before otome game as well-known as now, but I hardly hear of galgame’s being hated. (is there?)

I think the problem is… well, female player might be more picky about the character who will represent their selves on the game? (It should be no problem if you look the heroine as the third party actually)

Oh, how about adding various personality type of the heroine? Yes if you know Akai XXXX, this might be the game you want. You can choose between spiritful, cool, dumb girl, clever, or sadistic.  But then the game only got ratings 3/5 from amazon japan. Why?

Review said that, that the game is too short (even though it actually has 2x usual company otome game length, because of too many variations) Imagine, you need to romance the characters 5 (personalities) times X 1guy (there are 6 to romance). The story feels so short because some people just finished the story once rather than replay it again with other personality. And people who replayed the game various times to see the guys expression (different depends on the personality) start to feel it’s frustrating.  This is similar with my experience with ET Kurenai, where I found most of people want to play once for all rather than choice the seme uke or other :/ It’s tiring for them.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgMd2j4AAo)

Hope this works (I keep failing to embed youtube on tumblr)

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