Showing posts with label misty's attraction to fictional characters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misty's attraction to fictional characters. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
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SPOILERS DOWN BELOW! :)
So, I literally just reached Lupin's dramatic love confession scene, and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo romantic. This might actually be one of my favourite routes, to be honest. It was so cute because Lupin started talking about the one he loved, and Cardia was so oblivious, she thought he was in love with someone else when he actually loved her. :)
If you read my post about Sainty-G's route, then you would've seen that I was wondering whether Idea were after Cardia in every single route or if it was only a thing in Saint-Germain's alternate timeline/route. But the stuff with Idea is also happening in this route, so that's pretty cool. And Saint-Germain, even though he isn't romantically involved with Cardia here, he still protected her from them instead of trying to kill her like he did in his own route. Like, why didn't he try to kill her this time? Well, I think that maybe he just wasn't tasked to kill her in this timeline. I'm going to call each route a "timeline", because I kind of think of them as all parallel dimensions where in each one Cardia ends up with someone else.
Even though in Victor's route Queen Victoria was a villain, this time she's meant to be a good guy, and I don't think she's in charge of plotting any terrorist plots this time.
We also got the obligatory game title drop in this route. I don't think I could've predicted when I went into this game that Code: Realize was the name of a terrorist plot. I thought it was just some gibberish that didn't make sense.
I think I've already talked about this, but this game actually reminds me a lot of Hakuoki, but that's probably because I saw somebody mention it online. In both games, the title drop is in the main guy's route, the MC is some kind of monster/demon thing looking for her father who ends up running into a bunch of handsome men, and there's an evil twin brother. It's not really surprising that they're kind of the same, because they were both developed and localised by the same companies. But the games are still different though, I'm not trying to say that Code: Realize is a knock off or anything.
I don't think I could pick a favourite out of the two games though. They're both very different. It's harder to choose a favourite love interest from Hakuoki because they're all so awesome, but even though I like everybody from Code: Realize, Van Helsing will probably always be the best one in my opinion.
After I've done Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly and the C:R fan-discs, I might purchase a few Japanese otome games. I've been browsing Amazon.co.jp to see what's out there for the Vita, and there are so many choices!
Apparently games like PsychicEmotion6 and Hakuoki SSL are some of the easiest to start off with, so I might buy those. There's also those Uta no Prince-Sama games that I've heard great things about. I will definitely be playing Hakuoki SSL before I die though, and Diabolik Lovers. Those have been on my list for a long time, and are my main motivations to study Japanese.
Even though people say that Diabolik Lovers is really weird, I really like the art and I like most yandere characters so I should enjoy it. If I play it in public, at least nobody can look over my shoulder and see the weird shit that goes on in those games, because it'll all be in Japanese so they can't read it! Hopefully I'll be able to understand it if I get it. I'm on Lesson 4 on the first Genki book so my Japanese is very basic.
Hakuoki SSL just sounds cute, and nobody dies, so that's great! Plus, Kazama has an actual route here instead of just a single ending where he kisses you and that's it. I could always just buy the PS Vita two part Hakuoki re-make in English as well, because Kazama has extra scenes there too. But I don't wanna play the same game again, and I don't know if there is enough extra content to justify getting it. There are new routes though, so maybe I should get it after I've gone through the rest of the English Vita otome library.
No matter what I play, I'll be sure to write it down here. If I play a Japanese one I'll try to recap the plots more for those people who can't play it because of language barriers. I also should get around to playing V's route and Ray's good ending, but I really need a break from Mystic Messenger. Having to take time out of the middle of your day to get a certain chat room gets tiring eventually.
I certainly am excited for the future of my otome gaming career!
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Wednesday, 16 January 2019
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This blog should just be called "Misty's Otome Blog" now, because all I write about are those games!
So, I finished Impey's route. I knew I should've changed the MC's name to something other than my real name during this route, because everytime he said "I love you, (insert my real name here).", it made me gag and feel kind of awkward. It's weird because I've never felt that before when "dating" my least favourite love interest.
I'm sure Impey is the perfect boyfriend for someone out there, but he's just not my type. I don't find him attractive at all. At least the story and the art was nice. In the after story there was another one of those shirtless fan-service CGs to add to the collection.
I'm getting a lot of PlayStation trophies from this game. With my Xbox I'm really bad at everything so I never get any achievements, but with these visual novels they're so easy so the achievements keep coming through. Now I can use this time to advertise my PSN account because I have no friends. Please add me, my name is strangepigeon333! (My Xbox Live ID is itsdehhhhhh).
This morning I skipped through the common route like a VHS tape, and now I'm on Victor's route. Luckily he's a person I am actually attracted to. It's starting to look like he's got a depressing back story, like everybody else in this game. I've noticed that near the end of every route, there's always a really long part where the chosen love interest explains their back story to the player. I'm not complaining, it's just something I've noticed.
Hopefully this route will turn out to be as good as all the others!
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Now, I'm going to change the subject.
I have quite a lot of posts on this blog now. At first I was writing them for people to read them, but now it feels like I'm not doing it for online fame, just for myself to look back at this at a later date and either cringe or feel nostalgic. That's probably a good thing, because they say that it's bad to be desperate for fame. This place is kind of like a diary.
... And that's all I have to write for today. Typing this has made me realise that I've forgotten to watch the new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home that came out yesterday! Oh well.
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Christmas DLC
I just managed to get the Mystic Messenger Xmas DLC with a 30% discount. Tomorrow, I'm going to start playing it.
I'm excited!
I'm excited!
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
What Should I Call This Post???
(Spoilers below for about two different games.)
Another Story is amazing so far! I managed to get onto Ray's route without any issues. The romance comes so quickly compared to the other routes, but I'm not really complaining, because I downloaded this game so I could see some of that. However, now I'm at the bit where Rika "cleanses" him and turns him into an abusive douchebag. I'd watched some of the scenes from this part and I kind of enjoyed them, but now that I'm actually playing it, I realise that if I was treated that way in real life, I would feel really uncomfortable.
The game is giving me choices where I can either act a bit wimpy towards Saeran or try and stand up for myself. I chose the options that I would do in real life, but they are mostly the pushover options, so I won't be surprised if I get a bad ending.
In the Casual Story and Deep Story I didn't really think much of V, but now that I'm seeing him often in the RFA chat rooms, I want to play his route a bit more now. Before Ray's route existed, I had no desire to get Another Story at all. I wasn't interested in V enough to want to save up for it.
The chats are so much longer now, which is good because you have more content, but bad when you're busy and you want to get through the chat quickly. The new soundtrack is great, but I don't get to hear it often because most of the time I'm playing the game in a public place.
I almost finished Seven's secret ending, too. The voice acting was so intense during the emotional scenes, when the characters were angry or depressed, it even made me feel a bit sad and uncomfortable, like in real life, where I feel weird when somebody nearby is really upset or annoyed. But I played most of the later parts without sound, but I might go back to them just to hear some of that acting.
And I've almost done every good ending on Hakuouki now. I'm almost at the end of Harada's route. He's a nice guy and all that, but I was never really interested in dating him. I don't really find him that attractive either. His route is the most normal of the bunch, because he doesn't have any problems or anything and only a few minor characters die. He doesn't even drink the Water of Life, so you don't have to decide whether to feed him blood or not. I think if you don't give them blood or medicine they get corrupted which leads to a bad ending, but since you can't do that on Harada's route, the bad endings must work a bit differently.
Kazama isn't even present that much either during Harada's route, you get Shiranui instead. I don't really mind because I like Shiranui. I actually thought that he was a girl at first. He's quirky and somewhat interesting. I thought that he might have been one of the new characters you can date in Kyoto Winds/Edo Blossoms, but I was a bit disappointed when I found that was not the case. Maybe there wasn't any romantic interest in him amongst fans so the developers decided not to add him.
I dunno what I'm gonna do once I've completed this route. I could replay and and try to get bad endings. Every time I've started the common route again, I've been skipping through all of the bits I had already read. Is that technically cheating? Do normal people do that, or do they just reread every thing? To be honest, I don't know why I'm concerned if that's cheating when I cheat everyday by using a walkthrough to check whether I'm selecting the right choices.
Next time I play I could just make my own choices and see what route I get, but I fear I might end up with the normal ending again. Maybe I should also stop writing posts about the same two games, too...
I just want a PS Vita so badly so I can play more of these games. My PC could easily handle visual novels but if I get them on Steam, I won't play them as often since they are not on a handheld. But I could always save up to buy one of those handheld Windows computers, like that one for gaming, I can't remember its name, but I think it begins with GPD?
It's Christmas soon, so who knows what kinds of games I will get. I was thinking of getting Forza Horizon 4, but I think I'll wait until the price goes down before picking it up. I got my Xbox One last year but I find that I am hardly using it! I'll go through phases where I don't game for a couple of months, then I'll be playing all the time for a few weeks, then I'll go back to not playing anything.
I have so many games I have started and not finished, especially on my Xbox 360. Ever since I upgraded I've been neglecting it a bit. One game I got really cheap on Amazon for the 360 is Kameo, it's really good but I only managed to play it about three times over a span of about six months. Some of these games get too difficult for me sometimes, so I lose my motivation to keep playing.
This post is really long. Someone even looked over my shoulder (I'm typing this at school, unfortunately) and commented on how much text there was.
Maybe I should stop writing now. Goodbye. Have a nice day!
Another Story is amazing so far! I managed to get onto Ray's route without any issues. The romance comes so quickly compared to the other routes, but I'm not really complaining, because I downloaded this game so I could see some of that. However, now I'm at the bit where Rika "cleanses" him and turns him into an abusive douchebag. I'd watched some of the scenes from this part and I kind of enjoyed them, but now that I'm actually playing it, I realise that if I was treated that way in real life, I would feel really uncomfortable.
The game is giving me choices where I can either act a bit wimpy towards Saeran or try and stand up for myself. I chose the options that I would do in real life, but they are mostly the pushover options, so I won't be surprised if I get a bad ending.
In the Casual Story and Deep Story I didn't really think much of V, but now that I'm seeing him often in the RFA chat rooms, I want to play his route a bit more now. Before Ray's route existed, I had no desire to get Another Story at all. I wasn't interested in V enough to want to save up for it.
The chats are so much longer now, which is good because you have more content, but bad when you're busy and you want to get through the chat quickly. The new soundtrack is great, but I don't get to hear it often because most of the time I'm playing the game in a public place.
I almost finished Seven's secret ending, too. The voice acting was so intense during the emotional scenes, when the characters were angry or depressed, it even made me feel a bit sad and uncomfortable, like in real life, where I feel weird when somebody nearby is really upset or annoyed. But I played most of the later parts without sound, but I might go back to them just to hear some of that acting.
And I've almost done every good ending on Hakuouki now. I'm almost at the end of Harada's route. He's a nice guy and all that, but I was never really interested in dating him. I don't really find him that attractive either. His route is the most normal of the bunch, because he doesn't have any problems or anything and only a few minor characters die. He doesn't even drink the Water of Life, so you don't have to decide whether to feed him blood or not. I think if you don't give them blood or medicine they get corrupted which leads to a bad ending, but since you can't do that on Harada's route, the bad endings must work a bit differently.
Kazama isn't even present that much either during Harada's route, you get Shiranui instead. I don't really mind because I like Shiranui. I actually thought that he was a girl at first. He's quirky and somewhat interesting. I thought that he might have been one of the new characters you can date in Kyoto Winds/Edo Blossoms, but I was a bit disappointed when I found that was not the case. Maybe there wasn't any romantic interest in him amongst fans so the developers decided not to add him.
I dunno what I'm gonna do once I've completed this route. I could replay and and try to get bad endings. Every time I've started the common route again, I've been skipping through all of the bits I had already read. Is that technically cheating? Do normal people do that, or do they just reread every thing? To be honest, I don't know why I'm concerned if that's cheating when I cheat everyday by using a walkthrough to check whether I'm selecting the right choices.
Next time I play I could just make my own choices and see what route I get, but I fear I might end up with the normal ending again. Maybe I should also stop writing posts about the same two games, too...
I just want a PS Vita so badly so I can play more of these games. My PC could easily handle visual novels but if I get them on Steam, I won't play them as often since they are not on a handheld. But I could always save up to buy one of those handheld Windows computers, like that one for gaming, I can't remember its name, but I think it begins with GPD?
It's Christmas soon, so who knows what kinds of games I will get. I was thinking of getting Forza Horizon 4, but I think I'll wait until the price goes down before picking it up. I got my Xbox One last year but I find that I am hardly using it! I'll go through phases where I don't game for a couple of months, then I'll be playing all the time for a few weeks, then I'll go back to not playing anything.
I have so many games I have started and not finished, especially on my Xbox 360. Ever since I upgraded I've been neglecting it a bit. One game I got really cheap on Amazon for the 360 is Kameo, it's really good but I only managed to play it about three times over a span of about six months. Some of these games get too difficult for me sometimes, so I lose my motivation to keep playing.
This post is really long. Someone even looked over my shoulder (I'm typing this at school, unfortunately) and commented on how much text there was.
Maybe I should stop writing now. Goodbye. Have a nice day!
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
I'M FINALLY PLAYING IT!
I was going to wait until Friday to play Another Story, but I couldn't wait!!!!
The game is so good so far, I'll get into spoilers later on, since this is just a quick post! And there are new ringtones and notification tones for each of the characters!!! They all sound so awesome!!!
I sound really excited here, don't I?
Anyway, stay tuned to see my initial impressions on Another Story!!!
Okita's Route
Well, today's Halloween. I wanted to go trick or treating (I've only ever been once) but I can't find anybody to go with me. Oh well. I don't need to eat sweets anyway. The weather's also really wet and miserable, like it always is on Halloween.
...And this post is about Hakuouki again.
I completed Okita's route earlier, and even though he isn't my favourite love interest, his route is my favourite so far. It felt like there were more interactions between him and the main character, whereas in the other routes I've played sometimes there was more historical war stuff instead.
Now I'm aiming to get Heisuke, and yes, I'm still using the walkthrough. Once I've done every single route I may try to play without it and see what route I land on. I might even try to get some bad endings.
Guess what? I'm only about five hourglasses away from unlocking Another Story! Either today or tomorrow, I should end up having enough. I always start new Mystic Messenger routes on a Friday, because I stay up longer so I have a better chance of getting all more of the chat rooms.
Apparently, Another Story is quite emotionally draining and it can make you cry, but my mood normally isn't affected by the media I consume. If I didn't cry during Infinity War, then Mystic Messenger shouldn't make me sad at all.
I already know what a lot of the CGs from Another Story look like, and I listened to one of the calls on YouTube. This was ages ago. I spoiled myself because I didn't expect myself to ever be able to afford it.
I'm going to play V's route too, only because you have to buy it with Ray's and it would be a waste if I didn't check it out. Before Ray's route existed, I never had any plans on playing it because I didn't care about V enough to want to save up. Hopefully, it won't break my heart playing his route when Ray's right there too. It's hard enough trying not to flirt with Seven when I'm trying to get Jumin's route.
Did I tell you that the other day I got Jumin's bad ending where he keeps you in a cage? I think I probably did. I'd already seen it on YouTube, but I wanted it anyway, for collection purposes.
I'm super excited to play Another Story! The other day when I read the Halloween event chats with Ray in them, I actually squealed in delight like some kind of crazy fangirl. I'm kind of ashamed that I am so attached to fictional people that I'll get over excited about them.
Hopefully you'll all have a nice Halloween. I got a nice costume to go out in, but I fear I am doomed to give out sweets again this year. At least there'll always be some leftovers for me to salvage. There are lots of trick or treaters on my street, but I've lived in places where you would only get one or two knocking on your door.
I have to go now, so goodbye!
Have a Happy Halloween!
...And this post is about Hakuouki again.
I completed Okita's route earlier, and even though he isn't my favourite love interest, his route is my favourite so far. It felt like there were more interactions between him and the main character, whereas in the other routes I've played sometimes there was more historical war stuff instead.
Now I'm aiming to get Heisuke, and yes, I'm still using the walkthrough. Once I've done every single route I may try to play without it and see what route I land on. I might even try to get some bad endings.
Guess what? I'm only about five hourglasses away from unlocking Another Story! Either today or tomorrow, I should end up having enough. I always start new Mystic Messenger routes on a Friday, because I stay up longer so I have a better chance of getting all more of the chat rooms.
Apparently, Another Story is quite emotionally draining and it can make you cry, but my mood normally isn't affected by the media I consume. If I didn't cry during Infinity War, then Mystic Messenger shouldn't make me sad at all.
I already know what a lot of the CGs from Another Story look like, and I listened to one of the calls on YouTube. This was ages ago. I spoiled myself because I didn't expect myself to ever be able to afford it.
I'm going to play V's route too, only because you have to buy it with Ray's and it would be a waste if I didn't check it out. Before Ray's route existed, I never had any plans on playing it because I didn't care about V enough to want to save up. Hopefully, it won't break my heart playing his route when Ray's right there too. It's hard enough trying not to flirt with Seven when I'm trying to get Jumin's route.
Did I tell you that the other day I got Jumin's bad ending where he keeps you in a cage? I think I probably did. I'd already seen it on YouTube, but I wanted it anyway, for collection purposes.
I'm super excited to play Another Story! The other day when I read the Halloween event chats with Ray in them, I actually squealed in delight like some kind of crazy fangirl. I'm kind of ashamed that I am so attached to fictional people that I'll get over excited about them.
Hopefully you'll all have a nice Halloween. I got a nice costume to go out in, but I fear I am doomed to give out sweets again this year. At least there'll always be some leftovers for me to salvage. There are lots of trick or treaters on my street, but I've lived in places where you would only get one or two knocking on your door.
I have to go now, so goodbye!
Have a Happy Halloween!
Monday, 29 October 2018
Disappointment
(Spoilers up ahead!)
Well, I finished Saito's route yesterday. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Today I decided to play Chikage's route, because he's interested me from the start and he wants to marry you from the start so I expected there to be more romance early on.
I spent about twenty minutes skipping through the text in the common route, making the right choices so that I wouldn't end up dating somebody else instead. It took me two times because I didn't use a walkthrough, and somehow I ended up getting Hijikata's route even though I hardly paid any attention to him.
Eventually I got to the end of the common route, and Chikage decided to kissme the main character. It was very exciting, and I expected the MC to go off with him and get married or something sweet like that. But it just ended.
The credits started rolling, and I said out loud (even though I was in the school library) "Is that it?".
I had heard that his route would be short, but I didn't expect it to be that short. All that happened was the same things that happened on the normal ending that I got on my first playthrough, then he just kissed you once, admitted that he had fallen for you, and that was it.
This game is very good and and I really love it, but I still can't help but be disappointed. You couldn't even call that a route. It's just really an ending, but neither a good ending or a bad ending.
After doing some research, I found out that the two part PS Vita/PC remake gives him more romantic scenes. Now I have another reason to get a Vita. I was planning not to buy the remake if I ever got a Vita, because it's really the same story and it's a lot more expensive, but I really want a better route for my dear Chikage so I might end up purchasing it after I've burned through every other otome on the platform. You get more love interests and romance scenes, so it sounds like it may be worth it. It's just a shame that it's split into two. The first game, Kyoto Winds, has only the common route on it, which I am just skipping through now as I am replaying it to get different routes.
I just want the spin-off game, Hakuouki SSL to be translated into English! That game looks like it would have a lot of sweet romantic scenes in it. I could just buy the Japanese version but I am terrible at Japanese. I would probably spend an hour attempting to read it with Google Translate then give up and never touch it again.
Now I'm starting to play Okita's route. I'm playing the routes in order of interest. I would have played Chikage first if I could unlock him straight away, but I think if I did it may have given me a slightly worse impression of the game. Next I'm going to do Heisuke's route. He looks cool, but I've never been romantically interested in him. Harada is last because I have no interest in him. When I first saw him I thought he was just a side character. I was surprised when I found out that he was a love interest.
I'm starting to notice a pattern on this blog. I'll gain an interest in something, write four or five posts about it, then move on to writing about something else for another few posts. It must be really boring for someone who has an interest in my blog to see me ramble on about dating simulators.
Sorry, if you're reading this and you don't like what I post about.
I still haven't learnt how to write proper conclusions for blog posts, so I'm just gonna end it here.
GOODBYE!
Well, I finished Saito's route yesterday. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Today I decided to play Chikage's route, because he's interested me from the start and he wants to marry you from the start so I expected there to be more romance early on.
I spent about twenty minutes skipping through the text in the common route, making the right choices so that I wouldn't end up dating somebody else instead. It took me two times because I didn't use a walkthrough, and somehow I ended up getting Hijikata's route even though I hardly paid any attention to him.
Eventually I got to the end of the common route, and Chikage decided to kiss
The credits started rolling, and I said out loud (even though I was in the school library) "Is that it?".
I had heard that his route would be short, but I didn't expect it to be that short. All that happened was the same things that happened on the normal ending that I got on my first playthrough, then he just kissed you once, admitted that he had fallen for you, and that was it.
This game is very good and and I really love it, but I still can't help but be disappointed. You couldn't even call that a route. It's just really an ending, but neither a good ending or a bad ending.
After doing some research, I found out that the two part PS Vita/PC remake gives him more romantic scenes. Now I have another reason to get a Vita. I was planning not to buy the remake if I ever got a Vita, because it's really the same story and it's a lot more expensive, but I really want a better route for my dear Chikage so I might end up purchasing it after I've burned through every other otome on the platform. You get more love interests and romance scenes, so it sounds like it may be worth it. It's just a shame that it's split into two. The first game, Kyoto Winds, has only the common route on it, which I am just skipping through now as I am replaying it to get different routes.
I just want the spin-off game, Hakuouki SSL to be translated into English! That game looks like it would have a lot of sweet romantic scenes in it. I could just buy the Japanese version but I am terrible at Japanese. I would probably spend an hour attempting to read it with Google Translate then give up and never touch it again.
Now I'm starting to play Okita's route. I'm playing the routes in order of interest. I would have played Chikage first if I could unlock him straight away, but I think if I did it may have given me a slightly worse impression of the game. Next I'm going to do Heisuke's route. He looks cool, but I've never been romantically interested in him. Harada is last because I have no interest in him. When I first saw him I thought he was just a side character. I was surprised when I found out that he was a love interest.
I'm starting to notice a pattern on this blog. I'll gain an interest in something, write four or five posts about it, then move on to writing about something else for another few posts. It must be really boring for someone who has an interest in my blog to see me ramble on about dating simulators.
Sorry, if you're reading this and you don't like what I post about.
I still haven't learnt how to write proper conclusions for blog posts, so I'm just gonna end it here.
GOODBYE!
Saturday, 27 October 2018
I Played Another Otome Game...
So, last Thursday, Hakuoki (the PSP version) came to me through the post. I played it, and it was really good.
The first time I did it, I decided to only choose the choices that I would actually make in real life. Except those choices I made were really bad choices, and I ended up getting the "normal" ending where (Spoilers if anybody cares!) you end up spending some time with Chikage and everybody in the Shingensumi ends up dying off-screen. That depressing ending made me feel a bit empty and depressed.
If I had made the exact same choices that I did if I had already played two routes, I would have gotten to romance Chikage, who is turning out to be one of my favourite characters, even though he's a bit of a douchebag.
To ensure that I didn't end up getting any more bad endings, I decided to use a spoiler-free walkthrough. A few times I was going to make my own choices, but I quickly checked the Internet and found out that the options I were about to choose were the wrong ones. Using a walkthrough is a bit like cheating, but I really don't want to make any mistakes and end up making everybody die again.
I managed to complete Hijikata's route first, even though the Internet told me that he is best to leave for last. The story was really good, even though it was filled with a lot of Japanese history that I didn't understand. Before purchasing the game I heard that it would have a lot more plot than romance which concerned me, but I found myself not minding at all. It just makes it more meaningful when the romance scenes do eventually show up.
It took the main character forever to actually develop a relationship with Hijikata, but I guess it's more realistic than Mystic Messenger, where the romance only takes a bit more than a week to get going!
The soundtrack and the art work was amazing. I was really surprised when I found out that the entire game was pretty much fully voiced. It's a shame that I couldn't listen to the dialogue all the time, because most of the time I was playing it in public.
Now I'm currently completing Saito's route. I'm about more than halfway through, and it's really enjoyable. I can see why a lot of people like him the best out of the main cast. Saito seems like the kind of guy I would date in real life.
After I've done this route, I might throw the walkthrough away and actually use my own skills to play the game. I don't know if I'm going to try to aim for any bad endings, unless there are some where you don't have to act like a bitch to any of the love interests.
I've been so invested in Hakuoki that I don't really play any of my mobile otome games that much anymore. I'm still grinding on Mystic Messenger to unlock Another Story and I always log into Ikemen Sengoku to get coins, but I deleted Midnight Cinderella because I wasn't really interested in it anymore, and it ran terribly on my really fast iPhone. Also, I wasn't really getting that interested in the love interest I chose. Rayvis was a bit too boring for me.
I'm thinking of getting a blue and white PS Vita before they stop making them so I can enjoy more otome games! Most of the good games can be purchased on the PC, but I don't think I would ever complete them if they were on my laptop. Handheld gaming is more accessible for me because I can play anywhere I want.
A gaming shop nearby sells a lot of otome games for the Vita, including a special edition of Code: Realise that I want to grab before anybody else does!
Anyway, that's all I have to say for today.
I hope that everybody reading this has a great weekend, and a good Halloween!
The first time I did it, I decided to only choose the choices that I would actually make in real life. Except those choices I made were really bad choices, and I ended up getting the "normal" ending where (Spoilers if anybody cares!) you end up spending some time with Chikage and everybody in the Shingensumi ends up dying off-screen. That depressing ending made me feel a bit empty and depressed.
If I had made the exact same choices that I did if I had already played two routes, I would have gotten to romance Chikage, who is turning out to be one of my favourite characters, even though he's a bit of a douchebag.
To ensure that I didn't end up getting any more bad endings, I decided to use a spoiler-free walkthrough. A few times I was going to make my own choices, but I quickly checked the Internet and found out that the options I were about to choose were the wrong ones. Using a walkthrough is a bit like cheating, but I really don't want to make any mistakes and end up making everybody die again.
I managed to complete Hijikata's route first, even though the Internet told me that he is best to leave for last. The story was really good, even though it was filled with a lot of Japanese history that I didn't understand. Before purchasing the game I heard that it would have a lot more plot than romance which concerned me, but I found myself not minding at all. It just makes it more meaningful when the romance scenes do eventually show up.
It took the main character forever to actually develop a relationship with Hijikata, but I guess it's more realistic than Mystic Messenger, where the romance only takes a bit more than a week to get going!
The soundtrack and the art work was amazing. I was really surprised when I found out that the entire game was pretty much fully voiced. It's a shame that I couldn't listen to the dialogue all the time, because most of the time I was playing it in public.
Now I'm currently completing Saito's route. I'm about more than halfway through, and it's really enjoyable. I can see why a lot of people like him the best out of the main cast. Saito seems like the kind of guy I would date in real life.
After I've done this route, I might throw the walkthrough away and actually use my own skills to play the game. I don't know if I'm going to try to aim for any bad endings, unless there are some where you don't have to act like a bitch to any of the love interests.
I've been so invested in Hakuoki that I don't really play any of my mobile otome games that much anymore. I'm still grinding on Mystic Messenger to unlock Another Story and I always log into Ikemen Sengoku to get coins, but I deleted Midnight Cinderella because I wasn't really interested in it anymore, and it ran terribly on my really fast iPhone. Also, I wasn't really getting that interested in the love interest I chose. Rayvis was a bit too boring for me.
I'm thinking of getting a blue and white PS Vita before they stop making them so I can enjoy more otome games! Most of the good games can be purchased on the PC, but I don't think I would ever complete them if they were on my laptop. Handheld gaming is more accessible for me because I can play anywhere I want.
A gaming shop nearby sells a lot of otome games for the Vita, including a special edition of Code: Realise that I want to grab before anybody else does!
Anyway, that's all I have to say for today.
I hope that everybody reading this has a great weekend, and a good Halloween!
Monday, 15 October 2018
24,000 Views!
I haven't exactly had time to set up my YouTube channel yet like I said in the last post. Hopefully it won't be another project I give up on.
My website has received over 24,000 views! I feel so proud of myself. According to the stats for my site on Neocities, the site is getting views pretty much everyday! I thought that maybe one or two people would visit my site a week, but I was wrong. It's a shame that this blog isn't getting the same attention though, because it's updated more often and it contains more of my personal thoughts.
I know I'm about to go completely off topic here, but the other day I walked into this shop and I found that they still had one Memory Stick Duo left from years ago. It wasn't at a discount or anything, but I still bought it because I had been looking for one for ages and I wasn't sure if I could trust the cheap Chinese ones you see on Amazon. Now I have 8GB to save my games.
So far I only have one game, and that game is Parappa the Rapper. Yesterday I ordered Hakuoki, because I was getting sick of playing free to play otome games. That should be coming next week. I've heard good things about it, so hopefully it's going to be good. There is a PS Vita version I saw in a shop yesterday but it's really expensive, and I don't have a Vita yet.
Speaking of free to play otome games, I've almost garnered enough hourglasses to unlock Another Story! Soon I'll finally be able to date Ray. He is my favourite out of all the possible love interests in Mystic Messenger, and I'm so excited to finally be able to be nice to him. In all of the other routes he's a villain and you're only allowed to act hostile to him which makes me sad.
Anyway, I'm typing this at school and it's almost lunchtime so I'd better finish this up. I'm only writing this in class because I've finished everything, so I'm not slacking off. I just don't want some other kid to look over my shoulder (I'm in a computer suite) and see that I'm writing embarrassing stuff about otome games.
Goodbye!!
My website has received over 24,000 views! I feel so proud of myself. According to the stats for my site on Neocities, the site is getting views pretty much everyday! I thought that maybe one or two people would visit my site a week, but I was wrong. It's a shame that this blog isn't getting the same attention though, because it's updated more often and it contains more of my personal thoughts.
I know I'm about to go completely off topic here, but the other day I walked into this shop and I found that they still had one Memory Stick Duo left from years ago. It wasn't at a discount or anything, but I still bought it because I had been looking for one for ages and I wasn't sure if I could trust the cheap Chinese ones you see on Amazon. Now I have 8GB to save my games.
So far I only have one game, and that game is Parappa the Rapper. Yesterday I ordered Hakuoki, because I was getting sick of playing free to play otome games. That should be coming next week. I've heard good things about it, so hopefully it's going to be good. There is a PS Vita version I saw in a shop yesterday but it's really expensive, and I don't have a Vita yet.
Speaking of free to play otome games, I've almost garnered enough hourglasses to unlock Another Story! Soon I'll finally be able to date Ray. He is my favourite out of all the possible love interests in Mystic Messenger, and I'm so excited to finally be able to be nice to him. In all of the other routes he's a villain and you're only allowed to act hostile to him which makes me sad.
Anyway, I'm typing this at school and it's almost lunchtime so I'd better finish this up. I'm only writing this in class because I've finished everything, so I'm not slacking off. I just don't want some other kid to look over my shoulder (I'm in a computer suite) and see that I'm writing embarrassing stuff about otome games.
Goodbye!!
Monday, 27 August 2018
.........
I'm currently replaying 707's route. It's amazing how much about the plot I have forgotten. This route is still my favourite. I forgot that I had to replay the prologue to get more hourglasses when I did Zen's route, so I made sure to go through it this time, using the max speed because I couldn't be bothered to read it all.
I wish 707's "maid" Vanderwood had his own route, because he's really attractive. But he really has nothing to do with the RFA so I have no idea how Cheritz would be able to shoehorn him into the main story.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. I should now use this opportunity to advertise my lonely Discord server.
https://discord.gg/2TZNqBy
I don't like Discord but it feels good owning a server.
Goodbye.
I wish 707's "maid" Vanderwood had his own route, because he's really attractive. But he really has nothing to do with the RFA so I have no idea how Cheritz would be able to shoehorn him into the main story.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. I should now use this opportunity to advertise my lonely Discord server.
https://discord.gg/2TZNqBy
I don't like Discord but it feels good owning a server.
Goodbye.
Sunday, 19 August 2018
I Finished Zen's Route...
Today I completed Zen's route in Mystic Messenger. I thought I would enjoy him since from the beginning he is always very romantic to the player, and he is kind of attractive. But he was so cheesy during his route, and he wanted to date me only a few days in!
When Saeran came to kidnap me halfway through I was happy, but there was no option for the player to actually want to be taken to "paradise", you just had to act like an annoying damsel in distress.
(I think these are the first images I have ever uploaded here to be used in a blog post.)
The only good thing about Zen's route for me is that you get loads of hourglasses for some reason. At the end during the party Zen decided to make the player go up on stage with him and announce him as his girlfriend, which made me cringe because in real life I would be dying of embarrassment.
Now I am just going to play the Deep Route again. I'm probably going to try and aim for Jumin's bad ending where he keeps you in a cage like a pet. I don't know why I want to get that route. It seems better than the other bad endings.
I'm sure I'll have enough hourglasses to play Saeran's route eventually. I don't know if I want to romance V, though. He just sounds like a whiny loser to me. I'll probably end up playing him eventually. I hope I don't end up being a replacement for Rika like I almost was with Yoosung.
My first route ever was Yoosung's, when I was trying to get Zen. Yoosung's nice and all that, but I wouldn't want to date him. He would just be nice as a friend. It didn't help that I thought he was a girl initially, either.
My second route ended up being Jaehee's, even though I tried so hard for Zen. Sometimes when you compliment Zen it gives you a heart for Jaehee instead, which can be frustrating. Jaehee's route was cool. I do like her as a character, although when I finally got Zen's route, she was being very annoying.
I have played some of the after endings in the game. After playing 707's route, I unlocked one of the secret endings. It cost 10 hourglasses per chapter! I managed to unlock all but one of them, because I eventually ran out of hourglasses to play any further. It's quite interesting. There are some very cute moments between Seven and the player in it.
This post turned into half of a review of Mystic Messenger. I should stop rambling on about this game and think of posting something different for once.
Goodbye.
Sorry for the abrupt end to this post.
When Saeran came to kidnap me halfway through I was happy, but there was no option for the player to actually want to be taken to "paradise", you just had to act like an annoying damsel in distress.
Saeran seemed incredibly attractive in this bit, too bad I haven't unlocked his route yet!
The only good thing about Zen's route for me is that you get loads of hourglasses for some reason. At the end during the party Zen decided to make the player go up on stage with him and announce him as his girlfriend, which made me cringe because in real life I would be dying of embarrassment.
Now I am just going to play the Deep Route again. I'm probably going to try and aim for Jumin's bad ending where he keeps you in a cage like a pet. I don't know why I want to get that route. It seems better than the other bad endings.
I'm sure I'll have enough hourglasses to play Saeran's route eventually. I don't know if I want to romance V, though. He just sounds like a whiny loser to me. I'll probably end up playing him eventually. I hope I don't end up being a replacement for Rika like I almost was with Yoosung.
My first route ever was Yoosung's, when I was trying to get Zen. Yoosung's nice and all that, but I wouldn't want to date him. He would just be nice as a friend. It didn't help that I thought he was a girl initially, either.
My second route ended up being Jaehee's, even though I tried so hard for Zen. Sometimes when you compliment Zen it gives you a heart for Jaehee instead, which can be frustrating. Jaehee's route was cool. I do like her as a character, although when I finally got Zen's route, she was being very annoying.
I have played some of the after endings in the game. After playing 707's route, I unlocked one of the secret endings. It cost 10 hourglasses per chapter! I managed to unlock all but one of them, because I eventually ran out of hourglasses to play any further. It's quite interesting. There are some very cute moments between Seven and the player in it.
This post turned into half of a review of Mystic Messenger. I should stop rambling on about this game and think of posting something different for once.
Goodbye.
Sorry for the abrupt end to this post.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
The Video Game Relationship Problems Post
I finally managed to get onto Zen's route on Mystic Messenger. When I first started playing the game, I thought he was one of the best possible love interests, but now I'm not so sure.
Zen is a nice guy and all that, and I never really cared about how he was a bit narcissistic, but now I'm finding him slightly annoying. Maybe it's because he's so overly romantic, even though he only met me around six days ago. I'm just finding this route kind of cheesy. I have no idea why.
I'm also getting a bit fed up with my Stardew Valley husband, Sebastian. One of the reasons I got married was to have an extra person to help me out on the farm. I thought that I had read somewhere that your in-game spouse would always feed the animals and water the plants, but Sebastian hardly does any of that! When he does feed the animals, I check up on them and there is no food and they are "looking thin"! And he hardly ever waters the plants. I would divorce him but I only have around 10,000g right now. I should have married Elliott or Shane. The reason I chose Sebastian was because he looked a bit like a Japanese light novel character I used to have a crush on.
But I was talking about Mystic Messenger, wasn't I? The only reason I downloaded it again was to see if I could gather 550 hourglasses for Saeran's route without spending real money. Now I'm in love with the game again like I was last year. And I've just been reading a load of things about the "Reset Theory", which is very interesting to me.
I have no idea how to conclude this blog post, so GOODBYE!
EDIT: I just changed the colours of the blog's theme. Hopefully my blog won't look like an eyesore to my lovely readers.
Zen is a nice guy and all that, and I never really cared about how he was a bit narcissistic, but now I'm finding him slightly annoying. Maybe it's because he's so overly romantic, even though he only met me around six days ago. I'm just finding this route kind of cheesy. I have no idea why.
I'm also getting a bit fed up with my Stardew Valley husband, Sebastian. One of the reasons I got married was to have an extra person to help me out on the farm. I thought that I had read somewhere that your in-game spouse would always feed the animals and water the plants, but Sebastian hardly does any of that! When he does feed the animals, I check up on them and there is no food and they are "looking thin"! And he hardly ever waters the plants. I would divorce him but I only have around 10,000g right now. I should have married Elliott or Shane. The reason I chose Sebastian was because he looked a bit like a Japanese light novel character I used to have a crush on.
But I was talking about Mystic Messenger, wasn't I? The only reason I downloaded it again was to see if I could gather 550 hourglasses for Saeran's route without spending real money. Now I'm in love with the game again like I was last year. And I've just been reading a load of things about the "Reset Theory", which is very interesting to me.
I have no idea how to conclude this blog post, so GOODBYE!
EDIT: I just changed the colours of the blog's theme. Hopefully my blog won't look like an eyesore to my lovely readers.
Friday, 10 August 2018
Oh No...
If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that last year I was playing this game called Mystic Messenger. Before Christmas started in 2017, I deleted that app. I enjoyed the game quite a bit, but it was annoying having to keep track of each chat room, trying not to miss them all.
Whilst browsing the Internet yesterday, I came across some images related to the app. And then I realised how I never got to do Zen's route. But the route I wanted to play the most was Ray's, but the only problem was that it cost over five-hundred hour glasses to unlock. The easiest thing to do would be to use real money to purchase the sufficient funds to play, but I'm never going to do that!
So I'm going to download the app again and start Zen's route and keep playing all the other routes again to get the hour glasses. I did have quite a few of them until I spent them all on the after endings and the "secret" endings. At least it's the summer, so I'm able to catch almost every chat room.
I wish I didn't end up going down the Mystic Messenger rabbit hole again. But I won't be resting until I have enough hour glasses to unlock the route of my favourite character! I saw some screenshots of it online and it looks so romantic, I am very excited.
That's I have to say for now. Farewell.
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
My Opinion on Mystic Messenger so far
Warning: there may be spoilers for Mystic Messenger down here!
So far I have completed four Mystic Messenger routes. I just completed 707's route and it was by far the best route ever. Apparently I even unlocked the first secret ending! The secret ending adds another story to the game, it's really worth spending hourglasses on.
I didn't realise that each party guest you successfully invite gives you one hourglass! Yesterday I managed to claim about thirty of them! The part of the game where you have to invite party guests was the most difficult part for me. I could've just looked up walkthroughs online, but I was too lazy to do that.
Even though I didn't wake up at one o' clock in the morning for this game, it has taken up a lot of my life. That is why I am taking a short break. Maybe next week I might try Zen's route? I had tried to get his route before, but every time I tried to get hearts for him, I got hearts for Jaehee instead. I may have to play Yoosung's route again, even though he's my least favourite, because I only got the normal ending. That was because I was new to the game so I wasn't as good as convincing the party guests to attend. I'm not going to try and get all of the bad endings, because some of those require me to be a douchebag to the other characters.
During Jumin's ending and after ending, I kind of cringed a bit. If any of that had happened to me in real life, I probably would die of embarrassment. Not because I don't want someone proposing to me, it's just that for some reason I am a really shy person and that would just scare me if everybody was watching some man propose to me.
I don't know if I'll be able to play the DLC or V's route, since they cost a lot of hour glasses. I'm trying to play the game without spending money, so hourglasses are pretty hard to save up for. The things I want to spend hour glasses on are the after endings and the "Valentines Day specials". The after endings are really short to me, but that's because I normally speed through them because I am a fast reader.
When I got to the parts of the game where it shows an image of the player as a faceless girl with brown hair, it was really hard to imagine that girl as myself. It just felt like some random girl was stealing my love interest! That was probably because the girl looked nothing like me and because she was drawn wearing girly outfits I would never wear.
I think the character I would get along with most in real life would be 707. We mainly have the same interests, so we would probably have some interesting conversations. I'd probably get along with Yoosung, too. All of the other characters probably wouldn't find me interesting.
Most of the time I was playing the game without the sound on, so I missed out on a lot of the voice acting. I'm going to have to go through the history and listen to all of the calls properly.
I had a lot of fun with this game. I think I would rate it about eight or nine out of ten. Sometimes it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a great game. If you haven't played it yet, I would really recommend it!
Just a quick note before I leave: None of my blog posts are edited. On my old blogs I used to edit stuff, but the purpose of this site is just to provide a place where I can quickly spill my thoughts. I didn't really intend this post to turn into what it is now. I was just going to say that I was taking a break from the game!
So far I have completed four Mystic Messenger routes. I just completed 707's route and it was by far the best route ever. Apparently I even unlocked the first secret ending! The secret ending adds another story to the game, it's really worth spending hourglasses on.
I didn't realise that each party guest you successfully invite gives you one hourglass! Yesterday I managed to claim about thirty of them! The part of the game where you have to invite party guests was the most difficult part for me. I could've just looked up walkthroughs online, but I was too lazy to do that.
Even though I didn't wake up at one o' clock in the morning for this game, it has taken up a lot of my life. That is why I am taking a short break. Maybe next week I might try Zen's route? I had tried to get his route before, but every time I tried to get hearts for him, I got hearts for Jaehee instead. I may have to play Yoosung's route again, even though he's my least favourite, because I only got the normal ending. That was because I was new to the game so I wasn't as good as convincing the party guests to attend. I'm not going to try and get all of the bad endings, because some of those require me to be a douchebag to the other characters.
During Jumin's ending and after ending, I kind of cringed a bit. If any of that had happened to me in real life, I probably would die of embarrassment. Not because I don't want someone proposing to me, it's just that for some reason I am a really shy person and that would just scare me if everybody was watching some man propose to me.
I don't know if I'll be able to play the DLC or V's route, since they cost a lot of hour glasses. I'm trying to play the game without spending money, so hourglasses are pretty hard to save up for. The things I want to spend hour glasses on are the after endings and the "Valentines Day specials". The after endings are really short to me, but that's because I normally speed through them because I am a fast reader.
When I got to the parts of the game where it shows an image of the player as a faceless girl with brown hair, it was really hard to imagine that girl as myself. It just felt like some random girl was stealing my love interest! That was probably because the girl looked nothing like me and because she was drawn wearing girly outfits I would never wear.
I think the character I would get along with most in real life would be 707. We mainly have the same interests, so we would probably have some interesting conversations. I'd probably get along with Yoosung, too. All of the other characters probably wouldn't find me interesting.
Most of the time I was playing the game without the sound on, so I missed out on a lot of the voice acting. I'm going to have to go through the history and listen to all of the calls properly.
I had a lot of fun with this game. I think I would rate it about eight or nine out of ten. Sometimes it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a great game. If you haven't played it yet, I would really recommend it!
Just a quick note before I leave: None of my blog posts are edited. On my old blogs I used to edit stuff, but the purpose of this site is just to provide a place where I can quickly spill my thoughts. I didn't really intend this post to turn into what it is now. I was just going to say that I was taking a break from the game!
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