Desperately hoping for a smart and competent MC instead of an average doorknob; going off of anime stereotypes with competent and powerful student councils. Even if that is not the main point and instead the point is a bunch of drama with the boys (which I love). Let the girls have a competence porn power fantasy too ;-;

EDIT:

from https://starrysky.fandom.com/wiki/Tsukiko_Yahisa (where I also learned this is a series)

Tsukiko is depicted as a kind, clumsy, naive and emotional girl with a pure heart who is also honest and hardworking. She is completely oblivious to the affections of her male peers. In the game, her personality can also vary depending on what the player's choices.

Tsukiko is the heroine of all of the Starry☆Sky games

OH GODDAMMIT. I do have fun with the obliviousness (as much as I know it's a pet peeve for other players) and appreciate honest and hardworking. But I admit I'm getting a little tired of the purehearted, clumsy, naive, emotional heroines. I wonder to what degree it varies with our choices.

Well, I'm very late to the game, but will be buying! From what I heard of the opening music it is great.

Hey, thanks for posting here!

3 of the guys feel kind of mysterious. Maybe that is just me and the game differentiates them better.

I do wonder if they'll do anything with her holy position. That made me wonder (bit of a tangent): I am curious how interested a Japanese audience, that I assume has more exposure to Shinto and Buddhism, would be in works exploring Christianity, especially from perspectives of people who faced religious abuse. Would they find it an interesting story of stuff that someone in a foreign country might go through? Would it not resonate because the popular Japanese religions and culture around it are different enough for it to be unrelatable? The hearsay I found online in fandom spaces suggests they might think Christianity is cool, though not sure if that is just an aesthetic thing.

Always happy to see small indie blogs like this!

I feel otome is niche enough our reviews are not flooded by bots pretending to be human and paid-for fake reviews, but it's still nice to see what's clearly a small independent site made by a person just offering their opinion.

I know the DARK routes will appeal to some of my friends and I find it interesting too because it can reveal aspects of what the character could be but didn't become if you did a different route.

Because of her black eyes and black hair, she is imprisoned for being “demon-possessed.”

oh boy, these folks finding out about what most people look like in our most-populated continent of Asia would go over so poorly. MC is isekai'd, presumably from Japan, so I wonder if she thinks the same thing that I just wrote…

Artstyle is very not my thing, but relevant to otome and single indie dev, so figured I might as well post

I remember reading about this on Bluesky. Nice to see a more forward MC, and pleased to see a bridged BlueSky! I was doing that with mine. Last I actually checked, I don't think Mastodon was bridging my BlueSky over so I have to check that.

Mobile gaming is going to be significantly larger because more people use phones and phone games are free, but I dont see PC gaming going anywhere.

Seeing mobile grow makes me seriously hope that console and PC stay relevant. I'd like nice premium otome to play, freemium drives me nuts, but worst comes to worst even if a freemium hellscape takes over and few to no console/PC releases happen, at least I can play my giant backlog of already-existing otome.

xcancel can be swapped for twitter in an URL and still get the post if I recall correctly

premise sounds interesting, hope it gets better than MTL

The article's assessment of the fan reaction to a boycott feels pretty in line with what I saw happening with Infold/Papergames' other recent game aimed at women, Infinity Nikki, and peoples' sentiments about that particular boycott, or #girlcott (which I think was what people started using to talk about it once posts with "boycott" started getting censored in official Infinity Nikki communities). Two blowups on big properties in relatively quick succession, wonder how they'll handle this.

Made a statement with nested links that elaborates more.

It is time to lend hands.

The premise sounds cool, especially the Princes' Path where multiple guys fight over you (great for fulfilling the fantasy of being wanted, as well as just goshdarn interesting, romantic drama is always fun). However, the fact it is originally a mobile game makes me a bit concerned, given how the port of Celestia: Chain of Fate from mobile to PC and Switch went down: poorly. (The lemmyverse.link title preview might make you think it is just a notice of the sale, but I discuss how it went badly in the post body.)