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Title: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on October 03, 2013, 12:50:40 AM
This is the new Contract Marriage discussion thread~! Rant or gush to your heart's content~

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Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Anie on October 03, 2013, 02:29:50 AM
Though I haven't gotten very far with all of the storylines, can I just say that
threatening someone to marry you with blackmail material and threats of suicide
is the lowest thing someone can do? Can't say I was very pleased with Toma. I haven't gotten very far, so I can't really provide full judgement, but so far, I think Arima's the most sensible. I barely started Soji's so we'll see.

But yeah, so far I am cringing at Toma... e H e )|||||
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: alogado on October 03, 2013, 02:31:56 AM
So, I don't know about you, but I think that all those men who make otome games for us (because, come on, how could have women written so much.. crap) don't understand as at all und probably think we are huge idiots who are satisfied with the crappy tv soap opera niveau, but, COME ON.

First of all, the very beginning of the game.

Toma spoilers until Chapter 6~
Alright, having a huge debt is a pretty old plot device, I don't mind those as long as they are used well. But in this game? It's absolutely ridiculous. I reread the first few episodes because I somehow thought her parents were dead. No, they are not dead. Her father calls her and tells her they have a debt.

Uh, alright, sorry dad, that's really unfortunate but I'm gonna help you as much as I can. What? *I* am supposed to pay? The yakuza are gonna knock on my door? What the hell is wrong with you, exactly?

This would make somewhat sense if her parents are dead, but they are not. So what business do the bad guys have with her? Why is it her responsiblity to pay it back?
And wasn't she supposed to work at her parents shop? What's she doing working in a company? This confuses me.

Oh well, I guess, I can close my eyes for this one. There are more ridiculous premises for otome games.
But then.
She sees a man jump into the river. What does she do. She dives in. At night. With her clothes on. Without being ABSOLUTELY sure to save him. That's not even stupid, that's freaking suicidal. Helping others is nice and everything, but putting yourself into danger by doing so is something you should not do under any circumstances. 1 dead person is better than two.
So, she dives in and of course she can't handle it. Really. That surprised me a lot. What happens. He saves her. Alright, I guess I can accept that but, after that...
Since she saved him (which she did NOT do, on the contrary), it's HER responsibility to take care he doesn't kill himself again. That's the moment you call the police and tell them to put him into a hospital, girl. So of course he drags her all the way with him to a hotel, where both of them are alone. At this point I was pretty sure she really wanted to die. I mean, what the hell? Really? Sure, he is a man, you are only a weak, japanese woman, but he must be *really* strong to drag you all the way to a hotel. No excuses. That's fucking stupid.

And then, he blackmails her into marrying him. Sure, I was wondering how exactly they would explain her agreeing with this whole thing (because, I mean, she made it so far so she has a bit of common sense, right?) and they use blackmail. That does not make Toma more attractive. Quite on the contrary. Taking a nude picture of her and threatening her to show it to everybody? What the hell is wrong with you, bro? At that point I really wanted to stop playing because this is just a no go. (Like all the [attempted] harassment scenes... sigh... Dear Writer, women do not actually like to be molested. Sincerly, every woman on this planet.)

But I kept playing. I mean, it is only a game, right? I just shouldn't take everything so seriously. And Toma does look good (being a molesting creep is acceptable is the guy is attractive #otome game logic).

But I really, really, really, really hate what they did in Chapter 5.
So, Natsuki loves his brother. He knows his brother is in love with a girl. He knows his brother married someone else, but not why. He's worried about his brother getting hurt. Then he has some kind of unexplainable thought process and molests his brother's wife. What. Um? I seriously thought I missed something in there.
Where did THAT come from? That's just.. it is so completely out of character. Dear Writers, if your character does something out of character there needs to be a VERY good reason. Being worried about his brother is not sufficient.
And on top of that the whole is so extremely creepy. I don't mind romancing high school aged boys, not at all, I love tokimeki. That is as long as the protagonist is in the same age range. AND willing.
A 28 years old woman molested by a 16 years old boy? Come on, stop with the wish fulfillment crap, that's just, ugh. /shudder
Of course this scene creates a misunderstandment. Alright, those are the A and O of otome games (count how many otome games you know that could be resolved by simply talking about something immediately! Me, me! Oh, you! How many? Uhm, about almost everyone? Ding ding, we have a winner!) and I have accepted them. I do not like them but it seems like you can't escape them here. Fine.
But then, instead of a big blown up conflict (that's the only thing I liked about this, no huge melodrama!) it's suddenly fine. Oh, Natsuki was worried. He had a reason. It's fine. Yeah, it totally is. Now I'm gonna cook food for the boy who molested me! What a good wife.
....
....
....
SERIOUSLY?
Ugh. This whole scene was just an incredibly poor method to get the protagonist and Toma to talk about Sayaka. Really? Was that really necessary? Why not use the protagonist's coworker instead? I mean, he did kiss her after all.
So I thought, okay, there is a specific reason why it had to be his brother. Toma loves him after all a lot and everything and this would probably create a huge conflict and so on. But nope. There is no excuse for doing this to poor Natsuki. Just let him be an innocent high school student, please. :(
Sigh.

I don't know. Maybe they are gonna talk about this again. Maybe they save the coworker for later, when Toma develops feelings for her too, I don't know.

[[Oh and, what are you getting all said for protag-chan, anyway? You don't like you. He molested you, blackmailed you and paid you. There is no emotional attachment between you to. Then why are you suddenly feeling sad when he embraces another girl? Jeez.]]


Phew, that god quite long... but I read a lot of stories today and it just makes me so angry that they are always using the same crap. And corrupt poor Natsuki just because they couldn't think of anything better.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Anie on October 03, 2013, 03:14:29 AM
@alogado we are on the same page with Toma, I see.

But otome games in general keep using those weird formulas that just don't make sense? If I'd met a lot of these guys in real like (ESPECIALLY Toma) I would've called the police a long time ago. Blackmail and threats just don't (and should never) be romanticized.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Hagu_TL on October 03, 2013, 03:37:34 AM
Thanks to Aiwethryne for creating a Contract Marriage thread. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was struck by the shadiness of this all. By the way, Tota Murase, the "doe-eyed agent of evil" I mentioned, appears in Soji's route to sort-of-try-to-seduce-you and definitely frame you on two different occasions, and from what I've read, he's even more vile in Ryo Kurosaki's route. What's really annoying, though, is that the MC never really gets mad at him.

It seems to me that this whole jumping the gun / straight to marriage business was tailored for the ?M audiences.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on October 07, 2013, 01:45:27 AM
With the amount of... questionable shoujo and jousei manga, obviously authored by women, that I read, it does not seem beyond women to write this trash that we know we keep reading because they are in this form of media. I mean, with all the flack that certain vampire stories receive, you've got to admit that generally popular shoujo manga are notorious for featuring the same things.

It is not to say, though, that the male influences are not pushing these stories into being cookie-cutter made. I know this one guy who has been drawing shoujo manga for at least ten years, and his females tend to behave in the way he truly seems to want women - his disillusioned views about ideal girls. Well, it's pretty much everything that a feminist would head bash him for. Or maybe that's just me. But people like them because the stories have their cute moments, the style is attractive, and it is free.

...LOL That instead became a rant about my manga experiences.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Anie on October 07, 2013, 04:39:55 AM
I agree... some of these stories just scream out: "This is what I think women want/like" and/or "This is what I want women to want/like". By being spoon-fed this bullcrap for so long, it's no wonder you see women adopting this mentality in writing. We hardly get much variety in otome games, so people just go with the flow.

Judging from what I've seen of Toma's route so far, it's safe to say that the MC has no backbone at all. I understand that accepting the contract is the point of the game and is the premise of the whole thing, but... the execution of it left a sour taste in my mouth.

As for Soji,
I barely started, but his demands were also a bit too high?! 500k is a large sum of money for sure, but is that really worth a lifetime of slavery? Granted, if there is a time limit to this, I haven't gotten to it yet. But yes, needless to say he also threatened to release her information and have her fired, so it wasn't really a choice. -sigh- Aaahh blackmail~ So yes, he also conveniently leaves out the important part about what kind of slave she'd be. What her duties would be, what he would "teach" her. Of course, MC probably won't find out until after she's signed~
So far, these two storylines spell Stockholm Syndrome~ Toma's for sure, Soji is still pending, depending on his demands.

Shinobu, however
seems to be the most reasonable, and dare I say, perfect candidate. His terms are simple: act as his wife, make the world believe they are in love. Need I mention he won't do anything to her without her permission? Of course kissing and touching is excluded, but hey, an act's an act. No threats, no blackmailing...just the grim reality check that such a large sum would result in poor career choices for poor MC and that yes, it would indeed destroy her if she went down that path. Also, hello time limit! 3 months! Although it's a bit short for 500k, I would've taken the deal in a heartbeat. I haven't gotten past the step-mom intro with him, but so far...
Shinobu is the only decent male of the three.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Mariel46 on October 07, 2013, 06:25:04 AM
So far, I like Soji. Hes pushy and arrogant, but isnt any different from say, subaru from msb or joshy from bmp. And he blushes sooo :blush:  :love2:  :crush:
and hes a megane...that's probably a big part of it...hahaha, I hope his b route stays good tho. ARGH I HATE THE DIARY THINGS. HOW YOU HAVE TO USE PLATINUM, WHICH YOU NEED TO BUY.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Hagu_TL on October 07, 2013, 08:21:46 AM
Quote from: "Aiwethryne"
It is not to say, though, that the male influences are not pushing these stories into being cookie-cutter made.
You--no, we have no idea, by which I mean, you are very correct. I daresay that there are probably some male writers out there feeling the executive whip, but I'll heartily agree that at the upper echelons are sties of men with ?s for eyes. Here's a bullet point from Arith-metic's description of their Arismile service, which Contract Marriage serves as a sort of gold standard:
(http://http://www.arith-metic.jp/arismile/)
Quote from: "Arismile page"
[/url]???????1????9????????6??????????+??????????????????????12???(1??3?????????)?
Lemme TL that for you: Arith-metic recommends to their partners (and themselves) that each character's route have approximately 90000 Japanese characters of text (so as not to cause favoritism-fueled wars between fans? I think not), exactly 6 CGs, enough character stills "as necessary," along with gatcha capsules blah blah 12 episodes with each episode containing 3 days' worth of material. This, apparently, is what the Suits currently believe to be the best risk for their reward, the most bang for their artist/author-paying buck.

It's got to take some incredible talent to insert anything creative into the cracks around the Business Plan. Few industries are free from the publishers', and behind them, stockholders' wagging fingers, but frankly, I've got to ask where the fledgling game industry executives get off forgoing experimentation for the One True Money Maker (I mean, Social Game). On the other hand, we know now that there's not a soul at Arith-metic who can claim to understand the finer points of English, so for better or for worse, the translator(s) have a fair amount of freedom. Speaking of which, I haven't checked on Contract Marriage for a while--have the translations been updated yet? Are people still saying "hummmm?"

On another note, Shinobu really is the most initially chivalrous of the three, and four including what I know of Ryo.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: alogado on October 08, 2013, 02:14:30 AM
(https://kokoro-cafe.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWQRKL4A.png&hash=b99038a470005f4345f74852145d51de)

This annoys me more than it probably should.
But really, they couldn't be bothered to fix that? :/
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: saki_yokushi on October 08, 2013, 03:21:08 PM
@ alogado:
Cool! You are very observant. I didn't notice that. But anyways, the game needs proper rendering and checking. I mean, there were some conversations that can't be read at all anymore because it got inserted with the conversation panel. And what's worse, when I've played Soji's route - I was so shocked because the whole scenario conversation is in complete Japanese! It got me pissed off. I rant to their contact email twice. At least, they already fixed them and gave me gacha tickets in return.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on October 09, 2013, 04:46:10 AM
Since I see random color pixels outside the lines all the time in BMP, MSB, and CD, seeing it here does not bother me as much, especially with the sprites in Contract Marriage not being dastardly pixelated like in the former. Also, as I obviously draw junky lineart and cell shade as well, I know how it is with the coloring. I always have to flash between a dark or light solid background to see these mistakes and zoom in 500% to clean things, then die scanning through every outer border. Unless they constantly do that, it is understandable that the artist(s) missed it. But that is what quality checkers are for. Those are the people who could have paid more attention.


@ Saki~
Daaaawwwww. I want gacha tickets~~~ ;3; *sawbs in a corner* But that really is stupid on their part. They need more attentive QCers...
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: draikel on December 14, 2013, 05:13:40 AM
e.e

I've not gotten too far with this yet.... I don't have much patience for this style game. And I've only experienced bits of Soji so far. And I think I'm definitely out of the norm, here... From the moment he started, I was like, "Yes. YES. JUST SAY YES. STOP BEING THAT WAY. YES PLZ."
To be honest, I'm more than a little disappointed that things mellow out from the beginning, seemingly very, very quickly. For starters, she's not even a slave... she's a pet. There's a relatively huge difference there. And I'm alright with a master, falling in love with their slave and/or pet. I've RP'd this scenario, though it wasn't what we were aiming for in the RP, it's what happened... But IMO, Soji goes soft, way too fast.
. I look forward to the rest of his story, just because I hope it gets as juicy as it had been in the beginning, but I'm not holding my breath.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Nagisa on December 22, 2013, 07:14:57 PM
What really made me sad is
that Arima had more CG's than Soji.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Kuroneko13 on January 23, 2014, 01:44:02 AM
It's weird how when I first downloaded Contract Marriage, I thought of choosing Soji. But I ended up choosing Toma although he was the character I liked the least then. And now I've finished Toma route, I chose Shinobu over Soji. I'm liking Shinobu so far. LOL sorry Soji. Wait for me though.  :grin2:
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on February 09, 2014, 10:12:27 PM
You know that event that is happening right now? They did a grand job with the sprites this time~

It went from this type of clarity:
(https://kokoro-cafe.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWQRKL4A.png&hash=b99038a470005f4345f74852145d51de) (Yes, using the pic alogado posted a while back.)

To this blurriness:
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/d383e52cd530005eb78ec2dce297788d/tumblr_n0qm7zWSNt1rx70n9o1_1280.jpg) (https://31.media.tumblr.com/dbd6099597299fdc63bfd3d6b5baeb10/tumblr_n0qm7zWSNt1rx70n9o2_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Anie on February 13, 2014, 04:53:54 AM
So I stopped Toma's route midway cuz I couldn't take the idiocy.
I mean really, she falls in love with him for NO REASON at all. And so quickly. After he's done all of NOTHING to prove he's not such a shitty manipulative person.
Ugh. So I switched to Soji. And I must say I'm really enjoying his character. As much as Arima, even. But what I found annoying/exasperating was how the MC
just keeps attracting rapists. Seriously, first a robber decides to try and have his way with her, and barely a chapter later, someone kidnaps her and tries the same. Both times, of course, Soji rescues her. But what really bothered me was that one of the (+5) answers in that situation was to "give up". Seriously. I literally FUMED at this and wanted to slap MC across the face for having no strengths whatsoever.


Those were my only qualms for Soji's route so far. I will finish Toma last because he's a deek. So far, in terms of personalities, Arima comes first with Soji a close second.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: tssf on February 13, 2014, 03:48:19 PM
I managed to go through Toma's route, but it's probably the worst thing I ever read, I wanted MC to just do something, run away and not return, scream at Toma that she hates him, anything, but not that nonsense, there's no story behind it, she has no reason to fall in love with him. Playing his route made me think there should be an option for the ending to go with her co-worker.

Didn't play Soji's route, except for the event, but really?
Give up in a situation like that? What's wrong with the makers? Even the weakest, dumbest MC wouldn't and shouldn't give up there.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aquitaine on February 16, 2014, 11:27:06 PM
I loved Soji's route and would have liked more development on Shinobu's. But Toma's route was so crazy. I ended up enjoying it because of the craziness though it made absolute no sense.

Anyone noticed that they are somewhat introducing a new guy? Saioinji (sp?) comes up in the recent limited events but I've never seen him before.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: LadyAyaRose on February 17, 2014, 10:19:08 AM
Is this game still android only ? :|
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: OtomeBabe on March 16, 2014, 03:26:11 PM
Quote from: "LadyAyaRose"
Is this game still android only ? :|
egh?? it's available already for IOS
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on March 19, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Oh, yeah. I told myself to answer Aya long ago but forgot. XD This game was released on iOS and Android at the same time... That is the only reason why I created any of these threads, and you should kind of remember that I'm an iPhone person~ Still bitter over the lack of codes for iOS users.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: OtomeBabe on March 20, 2014, 02:37:41 AM
Tickles told me, IOS user has also invitation code now. I checked it and it's true.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on March 20, 2014, 03:38:25 AM
It almost seems useless at this point that they gave this now, when there were plenty of people who wanted to know in the beginning. Of course, there are always new otoge players to force codes upon. Office Lover still does not have a code, though. I guess Arithmetic is going in order. >__>
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: ceicli on April 07, 2014, 09:27:04 PM
I agree about Soji, she's more
of a pet than a slave. What annoyed the hell out of me in the beginning was that he wanted to force her in to it. If it's volontary it's fine, but NOT like this! It mellowed out and he lost his bad edge and except from "punishments" he is really nice. What I really want to know is how it was with his first love! Depending on the age difference, was they even in school together?
What I do like is that the MC is 28 yo. =)

Quote from: "draikel"
e.e

I've not gotten too far with this yet.... I don't have much patience for this style game. And I've only experienced bits of Soji so far. And I think I'm definitely out of the norm, here... From the moment he started, I was like, "Yes. YES. JUST SAY YES. STOP BEING THAT WAY. YES PLZ."
To be honest, I'm more than a little disappointed that things mellow out from the beginning, seemingly very, very quickly. For starters, she's not even a slave... she's a pet. There's a relatively huge difference there. And I'm alright with a master, falling in love with their slave and/or pet. I've RP'd this scenario, though it wasn't what we were aiming for in the RP, it's what happened... But IMO, Soji goes soft, way too fast.
. I look forward to the rest of his story, just because I hope it gets as juicy as it had been in the beginning, but I'm not holding my breath.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: LadyAyaRose on April 07, 2014, 10:54:27 PM
/random reply. Bit late however

Lol it was? Huh, I must miss things more than I usually do...../FAIL
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Meimi on May 14, 2014, 10:46:03 AM
:wry: Now I know that I'm good in picking wrong characters! I picked Toma cause I thought that he was a depressed actor who he had enough of whatever problems he has, but first he threaten MC to kill himself, then he taken a pic of her naked and blackmail her with it, and what's next?  :worried:

My Invite Code;
My Contract Marriage; 5EmaKj

-- Wed May 14, 2014 10:56 am --

Quote from: "alogado"
So, I don't know about you, but I think that all those men who make otome games for us (because, come on, how could have women written so much.. crap) don't understand as at all und probably think we are huge idiots who are satisfied with the crappy tv soap opera niveau, but, COME ON.

First of all, the very beginning of the game.

Toma spoilers until Chapter 6~
Alright, having a huge debt is a pretty old plot device, I don't mind those as long as they are used well. But in this game? It's absolutely ridiculous. I reread the first few episodes because I somehow thought her parents were dead. No, they are not dead. Her father calls her and tells her they have a debt.

Uh, alright, sorry dad, that's really unfortunate but I'm gonna help you as much as I can. What? *I* am supposed to pay? The yakuza are gonna knock on my door? What the hell is wrong with you, exactly?

This would make somewhat sense if her parents are dead, but they are not. So what business do the bad guys have with her? Why is it her responsiblity to pay it back?
And wasn't she supposed to work at her parents shop? What's she doing working in a company? This confuses me.

Oh well, I guess, I can close my eyes for this one. There are more ridiculous premises for otome games.
But then.
She sees a man jump into the river. What does she do. She dives in. At night. With her clothes on. Without being ABSOLUTELY sure to save him. That's not even stupid, that's freaking suicidal. Helping others is nice and everything, but putting yourself into danger by doing so is something you should not do under any circumstances. 1 dead person is better than two.
So, she dives in and of course she can't handle it. Really. That surprised me a lot. What happens. He saves her. Alright, I guess I can accept that but, after that...
Since she saved him (which she did NOT do, on the contrary), it's HER responsibility to take care he doesn't kill himself again. That's the moment you call the police and tell them to put him into a hospital, girl. So of course he drags her all the way with him to a hotel, where both of them are alone. At this point I was pretty sure she really wanted to die. I mean, what the hell? Really? Sure, he is a man, you are only a weak, japanese woman, but he must be *really* strong to drag you all the way to a hotel. No excuses. That's fucking stupid.

And then, he blackmails her into marrying him. Sure, I was wondering how exactly they would explain her agreeing with this whole thing (because, I mean, she made it so far so she has a bit of common sense, right?) and they use blackmail. That does not make Toma more attractive. Quite on the contrary. Taking a nude picture of her and threatening her to show it to everybody? What the hell is wrong with you, bro? At that point I really wanted to stop playing because this is just a no go. (Like all the [attempted] harassment scenes... sigh... Dear Writer, women do not actually like to be molested. Sincerly, every woman on this planet.)

But I kept playing. I mean, it is only a game, right? I just shouldn't take everything so seriously. And Toma does look good (being a molesting creep is acceptable is the guy is attractive #otome game logic).

But I really, really, really, really hate what they did in Chapter 5.
So, Natsuki loves his brother. He knows his brother is in love with a girl. He knows his brother married someone else, but not why. He's worried about his brother getting hurt. Then he has some kind of unexplainable thought process and molests his brother's wife. What. Um? I seriously thought I missed something in there.
Where did THAT come from? That's just.. it is so completely out of character. Dear Writers, if your character does something out of character there needs to be a VERY good reason. Being worried about his brother is not sufficient.
And on top of that the whole is so extremely creepy. I don't mind romancing high school aged boys, not at all, I love tokimeki. That is as long as the protagonist is in the same age range. AND willing.
A 28 years old woman molested by a 16 years old boy? Come on, stop with the wish fulfillment crap, that's just, ugh. /shudder
Of course this scene creates a misunderstandment. Alright, those are the A and O of otome games (count how many otome games you know that could be resolved by simply talking about something immediately! Me, me! Oh, you! How many? Uhm, about almost everyone? Ding ding, we have a winner!) and I have accepted them. I do not like them but it seems like you can't escape them here. Fine.
But then, instead of a big blown up conflict (that's the only thing I liked about this, no huge melodrama!) it's suddenly fine. Oh, Natsuki was worried. He had a reason. It's fine. Yeah, it totally is. Now I'm gonna cook food for the boy who molested me! What a good wife.
....
....
....
SERIOUSLY?
Ugh. This whole scene was just an incredibly poor method to get the protagonist and Toma to talk about Sayaka. Really? Was that really necessary? Why not use the protagonist's coworker instead? I mean, he did kiss her after all.
So I thought, okay, there is a specific reason why it had to be his brother. Toma loves him after all a lot and everything and this would probably create a huge conflict and so on. But nope. There is no excuse for doing this to poor Natsuki. Just let him be an innocent high school student, please. :(
Sigh.

I don't know. Maybe they are gonna talk about this again. Maybe they save the coworker for later, when Toma develops feelings for her too, I don't know.

[[Oh and, what are you getting all said for protag-chan, anyway? You don't like you. He molested you, blackmailed you and paid you. There is no emotional attachment between you to. Then why are you suddenly feeling sad when he embraces another girl? Jeez.]]


Phew, that god quite long... but I read a lot of stories today and it just makes me so angry that they are always using the same crap. And corrupt poor Natsuki just because they couldn't think of anything better.

AAARGH!! isn't good!! dear writer you made Toma as the worst character of the story!!! :wry:
and Natsuki's brother you mean Toma? Why Toma didn't do anything to avoid the thing?  :shock2:
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Vixey on July 27, 2014, 08:11:58 AM
I missed two CGs because it did not seem that clear to me when they were happening. Now I understand it and it seems more clear, but it took me a while. In MSB it is very in-your-face about when you need to do/increase/have something to continue without missing the bonus material, to the point of being a roadblock but that's another story. And in Forbidden Love, it was clear what my love ranking level thing with the guy needed to be to get the bonus material, and it was also fairly easy to raise it. But with this game.. the only major way to raise it is picking the right answers, even when some of them um seem totally like wrong answers. I don't like to follow walkthroughs and instead like to follow my heart and pick what feels right for me to do/say in the situation based on the choices (and I get pissed off when none of the choices are something I would pick!) And the other way to increase your points is by gachas, only one of which is free (I'm pretty NOPE about spending my money) and you only gather the means to spin it by the login bonus and by greeting friends which you are only able to do I think once a day anyway? So it is really hard to increase your points when you need to for an upcoming CG. ESPECIALLY because with the few spins you can get feasibly get each day on the free gacha you might NOT EVEN GET SOMETHING THAT HELPS YOUR ROUTE LIKE WTF IS UP WITH THAT ARGGHGHG

I want to bang my head, why am I getting items that raise my points with guys whose routes I'm not on! If I wanted to raise my points with those guys I would be on their route! And spinning the gacha over there! avgduhgbiehfbkjd

Sorry I feel like I'm raging a lot with these games but in actuality I am enjoying them a lot.
I like that Soji got real soft and I've gotten to like him a whole lot, I personally didn't like the more wicked side of him at the start pushing the slave thing. But that's just me. And someone mentioned 'megane' I had to look that up, never heard the term but I'm glad to know it now because I've always had a thing for guys with glasses. :3
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on November 20, 2014, 06:36:26 AM
I'll be a jerk and revive this thread because the +... Plus version was released. Pluses are all the rage~ Took a grand smackin' year for that elusive character to have a route~

How does the Ryo character act? And he's a surgeon? He looks like a butler in the title image, LOL.

Oh, you never knew what megane meant before with your glasses preference? XD I feel ya about the whole... everything. Quite honestly, this was one of my least favorite games in terms of story. I'm hesitant to consider ever playing the new game because of how undesirable everything felt before. Morbid curiosity, now.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Vixey on November 20, 2014, 07:27:43 AM
Hm! This is unexpected. Instead of adding the content to the game they were like nah let's just release it separate. And add a plus! Because like you said those are all the rage these days haha.
I did finally finish my story with Soji despite the counterintuitive gacha/points system. I liked him, though after having played a lot more games since then, I like other guys a lot more. But I'd still be eager to revisit him.
The registration prizes I'm not sure are for the main app or the new app. Guess I'll find out. I hope the overall system is improved, they've come alongway since this game so I would think so. I'm guessing they just threw it on their Cinderella Contract style they've been reusing for every game now. Lol.

Speaking of Megane, I recently watched the anime Mythical Detective Loki (I stumble over how to spell the Japanese title, forgive me) and the one guy with glasses, Yamino, is frequently addressed as Megane. I was so excited when I heard it I was like hey! it's that word from my internet friends! :p

And you're totally right the surgeon guy looks like a butler in the one pic I had to scroll back and forth to make sure it was the same guy!

Edit: Installed now, yup the items are for the new game, you just have to get the code from the old game. The interface is squeaky clean and CC style as expected. They seem to have found what works for them I guess and stuck with it. The familiarity is nice and makes the learning curve with their new games very low. Already found where to change my nickname/social username so you'll find me under Vixey like always.

Update: Gah! Turns out there was also a registration bonus with Cinderella Contract. So if you play that use the code from there. It only lets you input one code in CM+ for the bonus items. The host game also gets a couple prizes, and I really wish now I had done it with CC and not for CM- since I have no use for any items in the latter. Boo.  I then checked Royal Midnight Kiss and Once Upon Blah Blah but neither had the campaign, at least not now.

Also, clicking around to the options too early in game start apparently caused me to skip  the tutorial altogether because when I came back to my page it just had me starting from chapter 1. I'm not sure what all I missed, but I didn't get to enter anyone's invite code since that was part of the tutorial, and I'm sad about that. :(


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My invite code is EjgaGb.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Arisa-chan on November 24, 2014, 06:35:24 AM
[member=19266]Vixey[/member] : I also skipped that tutorial part when I input my invitation code... :angry2:
what's wrong with this CM+

just finished Soji story so will do Ryo for now in this Plus
wondering if Soji here different with the old one
I also did Shinobu at Karepet games simultaneously and quite like his story

Update!
okay, i found what's wrong with I-skipped-tutorial part
it turns out, if you start Plus game right away, you'll lose the tutorial part
ATTENTION: start the game from the old CM at the same page you get your pre-registration campaign
then you will get the tutorial part and also present from  pre-registration campaign

If you happened already install those both and still want to get all present from tutorial and pre-registration, you might want to do these steps:

1. Uninstall CM and CM+
2. Install back CM and get new pre-registration code (if you still in the middle of Soji/Shinobu/Toma, you might want to finish them first). Remember by doing this you will loose all your friend and love points
3. Install CM+ (don't do anything after that, just install it and close the application)
4. back to CM, open the page for pre-registration CM+ campaign, START the new Plus game from there
5. you will start with CM+ tutorial
6. At the end of tutorial you will be asked to input invitation code and pre-registration code
7. And you got: 5000 mari, 1 Campaign Classical Rooms, 1 Campaign White Teddy Bears, 1 Wedding Cakes, 1 Gacha Tickets, 2x Story Complete Recovery, 1000 mari for CM+

8. You will also get: 1 gacha ticket and 3x Scenario Ticket ALL for CM

Good luck :D
it's a good thing I just finished Soji story (already finish Toma and start Shinobu at karepet) so it doesn't matter to re-install CM

Note: just noticed that avatar we got from tutorial doesn't count in closet room BUT their charm does still . So it will looks like I only have 2 avatars, the bear and classical room while I got addition 45 charm from tutorial avatar. Can't be more happy with this
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Arisa-chan on November 24, 2014, 08:37:51 AM
[member=19266]Vixey[/member] : I wonder if you also can get those tutorial from pre-registration from CC
just uninstall CM+ and re-install it from pre-registration CC
except if you already did it thus that code won't work
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Vixey on November 24, 2014, 08:43:23 AM
Ah! I will try your suggestions and let you know, thanks!!
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Arisa-chan on November 24, 2014, 09:01:41 AM
guess what, I also succeeds install them from CC  :excited2:
and while all those gacha and recovery ticket for CM remained, I also manage to get recovery ticket and gacha for my CC ROFL

wonder if they also have campaign at their others game, I just need to uninstall and re-install this CM+ to get bonus for each game hohoho....
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Vixey on November 24, 2014, 10:16:03 AM
Wah! So I can get the CC bonus after all! squee! Arisa-chan what is your CM+ invite code, I must show my thanks!
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Arisa-chan on November 24, 2014, 11:24:53 AM
my code will be 8yxQyW  :love:

there's also their campaign at:
Vampire Darling
Starstruck
Bidding for Love
Arabian Nights desert Heat Love

if one not to lazy re-doing that tutorial again, you can get all 6x pre-campaign bonus (include CC and CM)  :sweat:

i might do so for Three Kingdoms and Sengoku  :giggle:

I'd love to invite you be my friend
Will send friends invitation if you're still get space left for CC, RMK and OUFL
and of course this CM+
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Aiwethryne on November 24, 2014, 12:28:21 PM
When I saw "Vampire Knight," I was, like, wait, what? But I know that was a brain fart that was meant to be "Vampire Darling." Since I'm giving away my VD account, I'm thinking I might do the same for my old CM account. Went and reinstalled them to glance over some things. It seems better to let someone have my dead accounts than to have all that former effort waste into nothing.
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Arisa-chan on November 24, 2014, 01:59:08 PM
lol yeah sorry about that "Vampire Knight" part
can't help it after read some blog talking about Kaname  :sweat:
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Vixey on December 19, 2014, 08:31:42 AM
Plus version is now on iOS! (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contract-marriage-plus/id937998011?mt=8)
Title: Re: Contract Marriage
Post by: Nobodyknows on March 18, 2018, 03:16:57 PM
Sorry, I fell out of otome gaming for a couple of years - can someone tell me, is this game still available? I see Contract Marriage+, but can't find the original version.

I remember finishing Soji's route, then starting Arima and then my phone got stolen in metro and everything went to hell ._.