I also preordered the first game and played it on release, because it seemed right up my alley. Gothic fiction with beautiful art? I had to cop. It has super good reviews, but honestly in retrospect I think it was… too melodramatic? Like, it had too many plot twists or something. But I still like it. :]
The queue thing is that for a while I’ve been on a mission to play every Angelique game. I was playing them mostly in order, but there was some hopping around as I decided to not play certain games but then reversed my decisions and decided I was going to play EVERY Angelique game, even if it’s just “[game title] but better,” or “AU board game.” I have one last Angelique game to go, and then my new mission is to play every Ruby Party (the Koei studio who created Angelique and in charge of many other games aimed at women, mostly romance games) game in release order. Minus the games that are part of the Angelique series. Because I’ll have already played those. :P
“games aimed at women, mostly romance games”—non-otome or otome? Interested in hearing either way. I looked them up and they’re responsible for the La Corda d’Oro games. As a musician I want to play that series so badly but I’m regionlocked out of buying any of it on Steam… gotta figure out how to get around that.
Did you enjoy the games that you decided not to play? And also, curious if you understand Japanese or if any of these games have English patches or even releases.
None of them have English releases; I know Japanese well enough to get around. Most of Ruby Party’s games are otome - Angelique, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, and La Corda d’Oro are all otome. Some other games they made that stand alone are otome, but some aren’t (like, they were the ones mainly in charge of Touken Ranbu Warriors), and some are romantic but too focused on something else to solidly be otome.
The games I was going to skip I don’t regret playing. I’m glad I tried them! The board game one made me look up how to complete any slide puzzle because of a minigame where you have to complete a slide puzzle in 5 minutes of a picture they show you for half a second 😭 New skill obtained! The one for Game Boy Color was like a really cute school AU, and I appreciated any more time spent with my boys. And the RPG one… well, I’m excited to see how they refined the groundwork they laid there to kick off a new series of games, the Haruka series.
I also preordered the first game and played it on release, because it seemed right up my alley. Gothic fiction with beautiful art? I had to cop. It has super good reviews, but honestly in retrospect I think it was… too melodramatic? Like, it had too many plot twists or something. But I still like it. :]
The queue thing is that for a while I’ve been on a mission to play every Angelique game. I was playing them mostly in order, but there was some hopping around as I decided to not play certain games but then reversed my decisions and decided I was going to play EVERY Angelique game, even if it’s just “[game title] but better,” or “AU board game.” I have one last Angelique game to go, and then my new mission is to play every Ruby Party (the Koei studio who created Angelique and in charge of many other games aimed at women, mostly romance games) game in release order. Minus the games that are part of the Angelique series. Because I’ll have already played those. :P
“games aimed at women, mostly romance games”—non-otome or otome? Interested in hearing either way. I looked them up and they’re responsible for the La Corda d’Oro games. As a musician I want to play that series so badly but I’m regionlocked out of buying any of it on Steam… gotta figure out how to get around that.
Did you enjoy the games that you decided not to play? And also, curious if you understand Japanese or if any of these games have English patches or even releases.
None of them have English releases; I know Japanese well enough to get around. Most of Ruby Party’s games are otome - Angelique, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, and La Corda d’Oro are all otome. Some other games they made that stand alone are otome, but some aren’t (like, they were the ones mainly in charge of Touken Ranbu Warriors), and some are romantic but too focused on something else to solidly be otome.
The games I was going to skip I don’t regret playing. I’m glad I tried them! The board game one made me look up how to complete any slide puzzle because of a minigame where you have to complete a slide puzzle in 5 minutes of a picture they show you for half a second 😭 New skill obtained! The one for Game Boy Color was like a really cute school AU, and I appreciated any more time spent with my boys. And the RPG one… well, I’m excited to see how they refined the groundwork they laid there to kick off a new series of games, the Haruka series.
I looked into that and it sounds cool. I might join you on that Ruby Party quest someday…