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Ha, so a rival appears, and even announces himself, the nerve... Jk, guess I'll focus in japanese otomes in January then! That's the best plan to flood Fuwa with otome mwahahaha!
Also congrats on becoming a otome trash.

Oh, and BTW, you're gonna have some competition soon. I'm officially proclaiming January 2018 an Otome Month on my blog.
This way I'll have an extra motivation to read through all those western Otome waiting in my Steam library - there's surprising number of free-to-play, but pretty highly rated ones on the platform. And going with themed periods should be a bit more interesting than just putting up random reviews. :>

Aye, althought Inquisition also made Sera, the worst Bioware character in history, as pretty much the main F/F romance options, so it's not without sins. The romance arcs I did (Josephine and Cullen) felt very thoughtful and compelling though, maybe more than I've expected. If only they weren't dilluted by the 60-70 hours of filler content - it's even hard to recommend that game with clear concience. With all its awesome storytelling and attention to details, the 160 hours I've burned on it was one of the major reasons I've banned myself from playing RPGs. I'm not even sure I'll break that rule for the next Dragon Age, Bioware was so disappointing lately they even made me quit Star Wars: The Old Republic, the only game that ever immersed me enough to make me want to RP and that nearly made me write fan fiction. Also the yuri romance on my main char there got irreversibly bugged, and considering it's an MMO with maybe hundreds of hours invested in that char, it was a hard pill to swallow.

You mentioned Mass Effect and Dragon Age, you've played any M/M arcs in Inquisition or Andromeda? TBH Dorian's and Iron Bull's gay romances looked so good that I would've probably played through them at some point if the game wasn't so damn long. In Andromeda on the other hand, F/F Peebee romance was so laughably bad that I didn't even feel compelled to check out the other ones on YouTube. They've also made Jaal retroactively bisexual with a patch, I don't imagine that producing a compelling storyarc.

You know what? At least for me, a first timer's opinion is as valuable than one from a veteran. I mean, sure, someone who played a lot of certain genre clearly knows what makes them so special, but a first time sometimes picks things up that veteran already are, I don't know, desensitized (is that a proper word?) and thus provide some fair, unbiased opinion. Ofc, if they are willing to give one, bc some dumb people just play like minutes of games of a genre they dislike only to bash it. 

*You got me on the Otome part* Is one of them Cinderella Phenomenon?  I really want to play it!! It'll be nice to read your opinion about it!
And I totally understand you, I should be writing my graduation thesis now...

Great review! And for free?  I'll definitely play this in my summer vacation (meaning: soon, I live in the south hemisphere)!!!

When I'm writing something like this I'm always a bit afraid that I'm overhyping it and setting people up for disappointment, because how you respond to this kind of story is probably very much a personal matter. But Analogue is definitely much more than it seems at first glance. I still have to play through Love's first VN, Digital: A Love Story, which is pretty much a text game in a retro internet browser stylistics, but also gets a lot of praise. Minimalism seems to be her default style. 

I didn't knew that such a powerful story was hidden behind a simple interface like this. Interesting.

After I wrote everything that I noticed the pattern XD  But yeah, somehow it's way easier to find dark themed BL than light heart themed BL. They DO exist, but you'll have more luck looking around dj circles stuff than big companies' works. That shows you how many sadistic girls are out there!
Paradise seems less hardcore, but this developer LOVES some terror stuff (like demons, pacts, jump scares) so I'm betting it's not for the faint heart!
But I'll talk about otomeges next week, the majority of them are a lot more sacarine   at least in comparison to the stained world of BL
Fiddle, I do love your collection of gifs! You have one for everything hahahahaha

So this week's accidental theme is "domination and sadism". Or is it just everywhere in BL games? :]

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