Was it Yandere Town or something like this?
I was so excited for this.
I did hear about the animations being too much, and the title drop coming with logo all the time sounds just awful. I can handle aloof weirdos, though, and the premise is still something I really like. Thanks for the review!!
Totally valid post here, not sure why you are being downvoted. This content is on-topic and you're not being mean to anyone. You put in a lot of genuine effort, and this kind of OC is exactly what we need more of on Lemmy.
Hey, thanks for posting this! I meant to post it here but I admit I have been slipping on my posting-to-Lemmy mod duties. I've been sleeping a lot more post-surgery, and I find that where I would usually immediately click a link and post to Lemmy, I don't always have the energy for it now.
I'll probably be back to normal in a few weeks.
Given how often PC is treated like a second-class citizen for JP gaming I appreciate the release of an otome on Steam!
Hey thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Hey! So originally you would have a lot of people telling you no, we don't even have villainesses most of the time. Then some fans of the "isekaied into an otome as its villainess" genre started making actual otome games after it.
The My Next Life as a Villainess series, with this exact premise, got an otome game based off of it in Japan that also has an English release for Nintendo Switch.
Everything else I mention can be played on PC.
Save the Villainess also has this exact premise, although there has been drama behind the behavior of its devs in regards to criticism.
Haven't played The Villainess Just Wants To Eat! yet but same premise.
I gave Saintess of the Golden Bow a shot which does have MC isekaied into a romance fantasy world, albeit not as the villainess and she got isekaied into a BL novel instead.
Do not know from the description yet if Villainess Menage has her isekaied but you definitely have MC as the villainess.
There are probably more that I'm forgetting right now!
I hope you enjoy that binge. I really enjoy that manga/manwha genre.
I am also one of those people who gets hung up on production values. It seems I might have different standards though. I have specific taste in artstyles and the screenshots here do not seem to violate it. There are some rough-looking non-VNs that I have issues with because it does not really look coherent or good, but I think because VNs usually both demand good art but you do not have to make as many art assets for a zillion objects and environments and NPCs, you can focus on making good art for comparatively fewer things.
Hey, thanks for the images and writeup, we need more original content like this on Lemmy! Sounds interesting, especially since other people clearly saw the value in this diamond in the rough. I tend to actually prefer more sketchy-looking art (as in "clearly the artist's rough draft" and not "creepy, bad, or not-entirely-legal"), so the images you have shown do not turn me off at all. It's cool to learn about this.
Now I'm curious about what the LIs' and MC's storylines in regard to theatre are. And I can indeed tell you that performing arts, while fun, can become very competitive and full of stressful comparisons of yourself to others (or an ideal you who practices more and has more "grit" and determination), because in the end that is what happens when people audition. Each auditionee gets evaluated on if they fit any part in the show, and if multiple people fit multiple parts they get compared to others, especially on if they have the skills to pull off what it takes. This causes lots of drama and angst in real life, and I'm wondering if the game's storylines match on to the patterns that I know exist in real life.
I loved taking personality quizzes and "what do the [intellectual property] characters think of you" quizzes as a tweenager and it turns out they are still fun to take as an adult! I also started filling out surveys for academic studies on r/samplesize as I got older, and I think my enjoyment of that comes from the same place that makes me enjoy these types of quizzes.
I got Jumin Han from Mystic Messenger, which tracks because he's the one I pursued in that game. I feel the quiz pegged what I'm looking for, what I'd be like, etc. in a relationship pretty well.
So a skill issue on his part, literally. Yeah, I have not really seen that in otome.
everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer.
That's definitely a wild plot. Is this tapir a dream-eater, or is it specifically about destroying that one singer's dream?
Best wishes with the rhythm game!
if I recall correctly, MC getting locked in a cage by an LI isn't that uncommon