very cool!!
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The Make It Rain Campaign 2025 - In the Court of the Cards' Own King | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone
(eu.finalfantasyxiv.com)
The competitive drama mainly happens between the first year students, the older ones already are more or less settled in their "hierarchy".
Though they do mention that the two star students who usually play the main roles and work as a pair used to beef a lot due to a talent mismatch 🤔
It's based on a mythical creature called baku that eats nightmares. The play is called "Baku to Boku", so "The Baku and Me", I think.
I would have rather expected this kind of plot in a shonen manga/anime about competitive sports, not in a romance game. I really like it though! They set up this competitive environment early on in the common route, via a bully side-character, and it really makes sense. Only the best get to play the big roles and join the theatre troupe at the end, after all. It's really relateable as well tbh
It's also a huge contrast to Suzu's route, which I played first. He's brimming with confidence and talent and naturally grabs all the attention, so you never really see him faltering like that.
I got a switch just to play this game lol :,) Theres lots of other switch exclusive otome games as well
Also yes go play otDevil!! do it!!
I'm following elevator's example and copying my comment from the otome community o/
I've finally continued my current run of Jack Jeanne (an otome game by the Tokyo Ghoul author about an all-boys theatre school)! My wired headphones broke some time ago so I put off playing until I got new ones lol
I'm still on Soshiro's route, and it's a really...different experience? so far. I'll get into it a little more detail in the spoiler, but he's really struggling with not keeping up with his peers.
spoilers for Soshiro's route
In the first plays, Soshiro only gets minor roles, and he isn't even picked for a role at all for the third one (at first). He really, really, struggles with not being able to perform on the same level as Suzu and the protag. I don't really remember playing an otome game with a love interest who deals with this kind of issues before. At one point, he's blaming himself for "destroying his own dream of performing on stage". The VA is also doing an absolutely fantastic job of communicating this. I feel so bad for him ;v;
Last session, I played through a training camp section, where everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer. Soshiro's perspective really recontextualizes this whole scene, since the topic must hit super close to home for him.
Things will start looking up for him from the third play on, though, and I'm really curious to see how he'll develop.
I'm also challenging myself to clear all rhythm games on extreme this time around, it's not as hard as I expected \o/
Apart from that, I started watching Demily Pyro's VODs of her of The Devil playthrough after already playing through all the available episodes myself. There's quite a lot of foreshadowing for several plot points that I completely missed the first time around. Especially
of The Devil Episode 1 spoiler
How all of the windows in David's flat are one-way due to his horrifying experience with a stalker
I've finally continued my current run of Jack Jeanne! My wired headphones broke some time ago so I put off playing until I got new ones lol
I'm still on Soshiro's route, and it's a really...different experience? so far. I'll get into it a little more detail in the spoiler, but he's really struggling with not keeping up with his peers.
spoilers for Soshiro's route
In the first plays, Soshiro only gets minor roles, and he isn't even picked for a role at all for the third one (at first). He really, really, struggles with not being able to perform on the same level as Suzu and the protag. I don't really remember playing an otome game with a love interest who deals with this kind of issues before. At one point, he's blaming himself for "destroying his own dream of performing on stage". The VA is also doing an absolutely fantastic job of communicating this. I feel so bad for him ;v;
Last session, I played through a training camp section, where everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer. Soshiro's perspective really recontextualizes this whole scene, since the topic must hit super close to home for him.
Things start looking up for him from the third play on, though, and I'm really curious to see how he'll develop.
I'm also challenging myself to clear all rhythm games on extreme this time around, it's not as hard as I expected \o/
its just the visual novel of all time^^ its sort of a meme. the original post says:
What is it? A poll to determine the vn of all time ofc! Best of all time? Weirdest of all time? Something else of all time? Who can say. But it is of ALL TIME!
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ebi-hime announces new horror yuri visual novel set in an isolated abbey, The Darkness Delivers
(store.steampowered.com)
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ebi-hime announces new horror yuri visual novel set in an isolated abbey, The Darkness Delivers
(store.steampowered.com)
I use Mastodon and Goblin
It's a wild mix of the worst aspects of romance fantasy novels and fanfic I think
It's an event hosted by Crystal Game Works (and by extension, the DevTalk discord, which is a discord for VN-Dev/Narrative games), so I thought it would be appropriate 😅 It probably is going to have lots of narrative games at the end
This is a neat overview!! I like to federate my posts from microblogs as well, and did some tests.
Here are a few of my notes:
Viewing communities (from Mastodon) - that kind of depends? All communities I follow show up with their posts intact on mastodon (.social), but not when I use a different instance (e.g. mastodon.de) or software (examples: RenPy, Otome Games)
Viewing profiles (from Mastodon) - That also seems to depend on the instance. For example, here's my profile as seen from mastodon.social. Viewing it from my Mastodon account, I can see all of the original posts and replies.