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So I'm looking at what game to play next, and I'm thinking of this new "Roses of Villarosa." It sounds fun - a nice new sort of setting, space not the mythical past! Any of you played it?
Talk about the new hit otome game, "Roses of Villarosa"!
Haha very fun.
Viola's got some nice dresses. And a nice intro about rising from the masses to this special school. And yeah there are those scenes where you sing.
Ignoring tizio's... proclivities, this game is really cute! They have a bunch of animal fusions like beardogs and eaglemice and stuff, and they're not abominations at all - we don't talk about the mosquitobats, but most of them are adorable. And Viola has this thing where she launches into song and any nearby animals gather around her and start eating out of her hand. There's this one mean girl with a pet hummingbirdtrout that likes Viola better, and she makes the funniest face when her pet goes over to singing!Viola and accepts a treat. I really like the dev's attention to detail!
And the computer, let's not forget that wild AI computing with the villain. Cuter than any of those animals.
The aesthetic is interesting. All of these fantasy elements, but I think it's secretly hard sf. There's this one book you can find that talks about why ships don't just crash into planets and kill everyone - the lightspeed limit gets more constraining if you're in a region of space with a lot of mass nearby. They had equations and everything.
Yeah nice setting if you like settings. I dug into some of the econ one playthrough. Believe it or not they had some real stuff there about trade between planets! I think the devs like the setting more than the characters.
@fiction-the-science he's not THAT bad. sure he talks about the setting a lot, but that's because it's his job to take care of the people, and he wants to be a good prince. i'll admit the infodump about not!ramanujan and magical theory was a little embarrassing though. did we really need so many equations? he's an endearing nerd tho, i love him
@eelbat At least three. I got interstellar trade.
Not saying hes BAD. Just not as strong as the setting. Even if he wants to stretch himself all over it like a charming dragon.
no, he's a cutie. im not playing for the setting. I play for the ROMANCE. and the weird animals of course :)
I started it up last night just to dive into Villarosa again. Wish Id grown up there myself like Viola.
Was even thinkin of throwin the run - let that Lunetta have him long as I saw the world - till she hurt the critters singing my song with me. Didnt wanna let Marius end up with someone whod do that.
She literally kicks the dog! Beardog, whatever. It's after she starts to go nuts from jealousy, but she only gets this bad if you agree to hack her exam grades as a distraction in Act 1, and then lie to Marius and say she made that reporter harass Alessia on purpose instead of from carelessness. (To get the exam grade option you have to befriend Enzo, he's a hacker.)
@yellow-coward How'd you manage to hack any grades without that horrid Selvya AI finding you out right away? And then hacking your own grades back again?
You're hacking the teacher's airgapped tablet through a physical connection. If you change her A grade to a C or a D, Lunetta never figures out she was hacked. If you make it an F, she talks to the teacher, figures it out, and decides this other girl with good computer skills must have done it. Felice, I think her name was. Then she trashes Felice's possessions and uses an illusion to humiliate her to her crush so she leaves the school in shame.
@yellow-coward oh there it was; I only figured out how to hack airgapped tablets later, after school was already on vacation and Selvya had already planted backdoors.