meh, not enough blood

Otome isn't supposed to have blood.  It's supposed to have nice love stories and cool magic.

Oh yeah, that's the one where you're a musical instrument dating Charmie.

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.

shhh, don't slander my rhinodogs!

My parrotcats are way cooler than your rhinodogs!

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.

The prince's a way to feed you more setting info.  You're falling in love with the setting.

Who's Charmie?

Prince Marius.  The guy halff of us are fallung in lvoe with.

@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 you got magicall theory?  Sorry 4 you!  I got histofies of all the nearbi villages!

@ohmydog wait what? how many versions of the infodump did the devs write??

@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.

@gryf-fun wait she did THAT?  I nefer saw she was THAT evil!

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.

What's the weirdest route you all have gotten?

I got one where we I got us all really into the space races.  I got... I think five of them by the end?  And one of them was longer-range and Lunetta and I ended up trying to wreck each other's ships around that Moon of Ascension.  And that must've triggered something, because then she kept plotting to get her and Charmie out there again.  Not sure what those ritual components were for... surely the programmers weren't really planning to have her ascend to become a god?  I thought of accusing her of that, but nobody believed it when I tried to hint at it, so I ended up busting her for stealing some of the components instead.

The fuck?? You should write up a guide to getting that route. By the way, anyone else think it's weird how much detail this game has? I thought it was from a small studio.

Huh, one time when I extorted/hacked a datadump from that Selvya AI, there were some notes on the Moon of Ascension.  Let's see... yeah, someone posted them here on the wiki.  Not really detailed, too many question marks, but makes me wonder whether the programmers had something more than hints about it...

@yellow-coward Yeah!  Loev the detaul!  They must'fe been worink on ti 4 a while!

I'm going to send some of the cutscenes with equations to a friend of mine who's a physicist. I wouldn't be shocked if they're not just random gibberish. It seems like nothing in the game is random gibberish.

@fauntasee Thanks! Maybe they'll add more in later updates, or maybe there's a hidden route none of us have found yet;)

Yeah, they love their setting!  Checked out some of the types-of-star references from the interstellar trade cutscene, and yeah, it's all real.

I wish!  All real except the magic!