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Otome Community Thread: Happiness isn't a limited commodity, my love is boundless!
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It's all downhill from here, good luck.
Right, I assumed you were joking.
But I just couldn't believe that they would do that.
Kresnik258
Member
Downhill into otome-ness or downhill in terms of there's no better otome game?
Both? Definitely for the first, but the latter depends on your taste.
Kresnik258
Member
I think I'm already down the hill of otome-ness. I'm already looking forward to Collar x Malice next year, probably one of my more anticipated games.
Between Aksys & Sekai Project my Vita will be well-serviced next year.
Can you share a direct link? I can't find it on the AppStore.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mystic-messenger/id1116027365?mt=8
Be sure to register an account within 3 days to get an 850 hourglass bonus!
Thank you!
Whoa, I knew you said that it was a lot, but in practice that's basically $20-$25 worth, huh. What can it be used for besides unlocking the rest of the story (which IIRC was in the 300s total?)?
Collar x Malice is out in Japan now, so if anyone is picking it up I'd love to hear some non-spoilery impressions
Best bet is to find someone tweeting about it. I've been looking but no luck so far.
Yeah, found plenty of people excited about the game/or who said they'd buy it but no one that's actually playing it. Guess it'll take a few days.
Yeah, I'm not usually a stickler for spoilers, but since we already have a localization announcement I think I'd like to go in relatively dark for once. Mainly just want to know if the story/dudes/heroine are decent.
I have a feeling it's going to be really rough staying away from CR fandisc spoilers though x_x especially on Twitter where the fans can be...rather excitable lol
I have a feeling it's going to be really rough staying away from CR fandisc spoilers though x_x especially on Twitter where the fans can be...rather excitable lol
Can't wait to randomly stumble upon CGs from both games on tumblr.
If you don't mind me asking - who do you follow on twitter when it comes to CxM? I usually stick to tumblr and blogs but the people I follow don't seem overly interested in the game D:.
ahhhh that's the absolute worst x_x I don't use tumblr much anymore but that would always make me so mad, especially considering most never actually tagged CG sets as spoilers
I know Hinano (breadmasterlee) is and estearisa is for sure on twitter and waiting on their packages. There's a few more people I know that were interested in picking it up, but I'm not sure if they still are, so if I see any more people posting impressions I'll let you know!
You can use hourglasses to permanently unlock save files, call back on missed calls (not actually sure about this one, never tried it), and rewind chat conversations you missed out on (so instead of just being a spectator in a chat that popped at 1 am, you can go back and score affection points with your target). You can also use them to unlock a day's worth of chats.
If you're diligent about chats/don't care about making up missed ones, there's not a whole lot of use for hourglasses besides unlocking story content. There's potentially one or two other uses I could have missed listing here, but if they're minor enough that I've forgotten about them, they're pretty minor.
Kresnik258
Member
I'd also be interested in hearing CxM impressions. But mainly just if it's as good as it sounds. I'll like to go in mostly blind on the characters and details of the plot.
SouSouRocket
Member
Welcome +_+ there's always room for more... *steeples fingers*
Oh my god, Mystic Messenger is so good so far... I'm not fond of the free to play BS at all and it's kind of a pain to save scum in this game but it's the most immersive otome I've played in a looooong time. This is the first one where I want to pursue all of them except for
V
Jaehee
I want to be BFFs with her but I don't know if that's going to ruin things for me... and I have so many points with her already. Bitch better stop telling me to stay away from Zen though... I want to flirt with him in front of her but the game just won't let me 😂
Kresnik258
Member
Well that's what I like to hear.
I wonder how it'll sell. Seems to be doing alright on Amazon; noticed it was getting pre-ordered a bit in Rakuten too.
SouSouRocket
Member
Yes, that person is an option.
Well!
That sounds interesting... I'm too irritated with her constant cockblocking in this current route to think much of her anymore but I'm sure we'll get along better next file lol.
I seem to remember you mentioned you had some difficult with some of the endings because you kept getting too many hearts with other boys... but it's so hard to avoid and actually impossible sometimes! The game hasn't explained the heart system to me... like I get hearts from everyone and they add up in the column up at the top but it seems important to get as many hearts as you can from the boy you're pursuing... so what's the deal? Without spoilers... how do the hearts factor in? It seems like everything is going fabulously for me and my boo but I can't really tell.
I thought I was going to have trouble, but it ended up being fine. I do wish that they would add some sort of meter to see where you were in affection with each character...
Regarding the hearts: you need affection points/hearts from your chosen character to jump into their route, as usual. The game puts all the hearts you collect in one big pile, though, which you can redeem for hourglasses (100 hearts = 1 hourglass). I don't think redeeming hearts actually lowers your affection level with characters, but if anybody knows otherwise, let me know!
https://twitter.com/kairositykai
For Collar x Malice.
So far so good ☆(⌒▽⌒☆~.
For Collar x Malice.
So far so good ☆(⌒▽⌒
☆~.I've been tempted about Amnesia, but I've heard that it gets problematic at certain parts.
One of the routes gets bad, while another two or so can easily put people off. Two aren't bad, though. I'd say get it if you have nothing else to play and want an otome. Worst comes to worst you could ask for which routes to be wary of.
Which route are you going for if I may ask?
Edit:
And in return I can't believe I missed your reply. ;;
Thank you so much for the recommendation, I'll definitely have to try it out and the other recommendations after I am done consuming UtaPri in its' entirety, that series has really pulled me in for the moment :')
AtomskEater
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That sounds pretty good, I'm so glad this is getting localized. Also happy to hear about the sprites and how nice they look, I just played MuvLuv recently and liked all the work that went into having the sprites move around, zoom in and out, etc. I'm on the lookout for more games that give the sprites more life than as mere paper cutouts.
SouSouRocket
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Zen! I beat it and enjoyed it but unfortunately I got stuck in a bad ending loop before I figured out what I was doing wrong (Zen route spoilers)
Turns out being a jealous possessive fangirl and being horrible to Jaehee is not what the game wants you to do... which is honestly fine by me but I just assumed that that was what Zen wanted because he kept reacting positively to it... I don't like that the game lets you think you're doing great when you're actually headed to a bad ending. Or a normal one anyway. :I
Anyway I ran out of hourglasses because I wasted them replaying..
but I'm seriously pissed off at this free to play bullshit. The fact that fucking SAVE SLOTS are locked behind currency is the most aggressively-anti-player measure I've ever seen in one of these games. They're also going to start charging 5 hourglasses for loading so you can't save scum... which would require you to waste even more time and hourglasses starting over. I would have been so happy to pay $40 for a game I'm this immersed in but the free to play features are a serious disappointment. I DM'd them on twitter to express as much but I don't expect any response or for them to even really look at it.. I just wanted to put that opinion out there on the record.Does anyone have a screen cap so I can see these revolutionary sprites? I couldn't find anything
Very interesting. I haven't gotten any bad endings yet, but it's good to know that charters will react positively to the bad answers.
How were you able to go back and redo conversations? I thought that once you participated in a chat, that was it.
SouSouRocket
Member
I was just reloading my save files and playing the last two days over and over again like an idiot, I ran out of hourglasses
I shouldn't have been skipping forward. I'm just so mad about this free-to-play bullshit. It actively gets in the way of me enjoying this game sometimes. Now I have to just sit and wait for hours for a small conversation.I was just reloading my save files and playing the last two days over and over again like an idiot, I ran out of hourglasses
Oh geez. I've gotten into the habit of waiting for days to pass, so it doesn't bother me as much. Sad to hear that you're not having a good time.
I'd buy the game in a heartbeat if Cheritz released it as a normal, paid game.I had heard that Cheritz was going to start charging hourglasses to reload save files, but I hadn't seen them do it yet... Must've finally been implemented when I took a break from the game.
I've been building up hourglasses slowly but surely, and once I get back to the game and actually play through Jaehee's route, I'll probably blow through Jumin and 707.
SouSouRocket
Member
Oh geez. I've gotten into the habit of waiting for days to pass, so it doesn't bother me as much. Sad to hear that you're not having a good time.
I had heard that Cheritz was going to start charging hourglasses to reload save files, but I hadn't seen them do it yet... Must've finally been implemented when I took a break from the game.
I've been building up hourglasses slowly but surely, and once I get back to the game and actually play through Jaehee's route, I'll probably blow through Jumin and 707.
They haven't yet the game is just putting up a warning that they're going to start charging for it. I also have this really annoying thing happen where I lose conversations I've already played through when I go to play the game after I get a notif for a new one... so I have to spend hourglasses AGAIN :/ it's getting to be a bit much.
Have you been using the manual save, or just the autosave? I believe there are some issues with the latter (though I haven't experienced any myself yet, thank goodness), so much so that Cheritz has a new warning up in the Android version to manually save.
SouSouRocket
Member
Manual save... ;_; that's the part I don't get. I have no idea what the point of the autosave is.
Shizuka you changed your iconic av!! How will I recognize your quality posts now?! 8D
I'll probably change it back by the end of the week, but I'm very happy you think my posts are of quality!
Mystic Messenger is really good but I'm encountering a bug where I just can't get into one of the chat rooms which means I can't progress at all. ;__; I really really don't want to have to start over.
EDIT: Whew, logged out and then back in a couple times and I think that's fixed it.
EDIT: Whew, logged out and then back in a couple times and I think that's fixed it.
Oh geez. I've gotten into the habit of waiting for days to pass, so it doesn't bother me as much. Sad to hear that you're not having a good time.
I mean while I managed to try and keep up with the game but sometimes it felt really disheartening having missed some conversations and missing some calls just because I didn't have the app on, only having the hourglass system to fall back to so I could re-participate in some conversations.
But yeah as you say, I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it was a normal, paid game. The concept and the writing is so good and honestly my biggest qualm with it is simply the freemium stuff kinda keeping it back since while I think the tie to IRL time makes it a really organic/immersive experience it still felt really disheartening that I couldn't reload nor participate in like the 3AM conversations without paying for IAPs.
That is, unless I've been doing something wrong...