Author Topic: Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart Discussion (Read 35812 times)

Nightshade Rose · **Reply #45 on:** April 09, 2016, 09:29:28 PM

I just started playing this game, but I haven't seen anything that seems to flesh out the story more. Though, as I said I just started and I am feeling very underwhelmed by the story. I am hoping it picks up since I choose Yukiya's story.

zephyr · **Reply #46 on:** April 09, 2016, 10:00:46 PM

Quote from: Nightshade Rose on April 09, 2016, 09:29:28 PM

I just started playing this game, but I haven't seen anything that seems to flesh out the story more. Though, as I said I just started and I am feeling very underwhelmed by the story. I am hoping it picks up since I choose Yukiya's story.

If there's anyone who's played all routes and has an idea of an order to through in terms of background, etc., then please do chime in!

I've played Yukiya's and Elias' routes so far. No intention of playing through Luca's. But from what I learned from Elias' and Yukiya's, you should play Yukiya's first. Then Elias'/Luca's. Elias', Luca's, and Yukiya's routes are all under the Tower of Sorrow series, so the Tower is no doubt mentioned in all routes. Not all my questions were answered Elias' route, so maybe someone who's played Luca's route can tell us a bit more?

As for the others, some previous posters mentioned going, in order, from Klaus to Randy to Azusa so as not to be too spoiled for the next series.

Quote from: Aiwethryne on April 06, 2016, 02:14:24 PM

Since I've already played all of the characters by now, Joel's background in his story was just a little silly compared to the others.
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Raised a girl so that Leanansidhe would not wisk him away for being talented.

If I'm not mistaken, this is an old Japanese custom. I don't know the details, as I only heard/read about it via anime/manga.

Quote from: Bambikins on April 07, 2016, 07:39:15 AM

At the same time, I get it, these are free games. Can't expect the same amount of depth in content as a paid game. But I also just finished my first route in BiR (Raymond's) and I thought it was really well written and interesting. So my question is: are all of the routes in WH like that? And are there any follow up stories like sequels or whatever to flesh out the world?

I was actually thinking of quitting BiR after finishing Daniel's and Humphrey's routes, but your comment about Raymond's route has me interested in the game again. :)

On the other hand, I think it's all a matter of perspective. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Facebook SWD games' writing in general, but they are the games that got me into otomes, so I can't say that I dislike them. D:

Aside from the side stories and event stories, I don't think there are any sequels. But maybe I should let a WH vet answer that instead of a nooblet like me. I was under the impression that the WH otome was based off of something else.

If you're looking for free games that have decent writing (better than WH, at least), try checking out Cybird's games, Midnight Cinderella and Destined to Love.

Aiwethryne · **Reply #47 on:** April 09, 2016, 11:12:58 PM

Like what Aquitaine said months back, routes like Randy and Luca are kind of support and probably better understood after the others in their sections. Elias is as basic as it goes for the world.

Since Zephyr does not want to play Luca, I'll just make a plain spoiler about his background.

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After Elias or Yukiya, either of the remaining Tower of Sorrow characters are fine. In Spring of Unicorns, Klaus is probably a good first after Tower of Sorrow because it actually explains why the Heroine ~~has destiny powers~~ is so bad at everything. Maybe Azusa second. I personally think that the route with the most serious tone was Azusa's, and the Heroine was certainly less cheerful in it. I liked Azusa, but playing other Unicorn stories (particularly Randy's) before his would definitely taint his image significantly in the eyes of an animal rights activist. I feel like if I had started out with Vincent before Joel, the whole fairies aspect would have been a little more drowned out and vague.

But if you want sheer spoilers about every character, I have this stuff that I had been typing out: character profiles galore! The WH Glossary section is mostly a paste dump from the in-game Glossary, but the very end has my understanding of the world.

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The writers fail to properly explain everything, whereas some portions are repeated verbatim in multiple routes.

Each route is sort of the same formula. She comes to school all dumb and dumberer and spends time with whatever guy because of the Buddy system. She tries to do magic and fails every single time, which is infuriating whenever I answer her class questions correctly. She feels all doki doki because guy pheromones confuse her. Mystery happens. LOVE IS TOO STRONG...! Then Judgment Day, and every single story has it where...

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There are really no sequels to any character, as lame as that is. Anything that gave more information into the world was during the limited time events, and the event with the most information was a Klaus event, in which the characters participated in a play about how Gedonelune was founded. I pretty much talk about that in the Glossary section.

Since I started with the old gen SWD games, I keep wanting steamier stories in the Facebook SWD apps. Instead, here's this generic ditz of a naive human who I frequently roll my eyes at for her stupidity and lack of actual character growth in any route but Klaus'. But even in the oldest SWD games, the too-innocent-to-live MCs ended up sleeping with her beau.

Bambikins · **Reply #48 on:** April 11, 2016, 02:56:01 AM

Quote from: zephyr on April 09, 2016, 10:00:46 PM

I was actually thinking of quitting BiR after finishing Daniel's and Humphrey's routes, but your comment about Raymond's route has me interested in the game again. :)

On the other hand, I think it's all a matter of perspective. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Facebook SWD games' writing in general, but they are the games that got me into otomes, so I can't say that I dislike them. D:

Aside from the side stories and event stories, I don't think there are any sequels. But maybe I should let a WH vet answer that instead of a nooblet like me. I was under the impression that the WH otome was based off of something else.

If you're looking for free games that have decent writing (better than WH, at least), try checking out Cybird's games, Midnight Cinderella and Destined to Love.

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though idk maybe Blood in Roses just really spoke to me or something. I like that kind of story where the sense of claustrophobia is being overcome by the heroine's tenacity (like Fruits Basket or something, though Tohru is definitely different from the heroine in this game.)

I've been putting off Cybird's games cuz they look like another black hole of time and I'm already struggling with these SWD games

Will for sure keep that in mind though.

Quote from: Aiwethryne on April 09, 2016, 11:12:58 PM

Since I started with the old gen SWD games, I keep wanting steamier stories in the Facebook SWD apps. Instead, here's this generic ditz of a naive human who I frequently roll my eyes at for her stupidity and lack of actual character growth in any route but Klaus'. But even in the oldest SWD games, the too-innocent-to-live MCs ended up sleeping with her beau.

Yeahh I played Ninja ~~Sex~~ Love and Heian Love way back and yeo was expecting that out of these

The weird thing is that sex is still in these games like

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But they just like, tell you that it happened without any descriptions whatsoever. So it's like, why even bother including that in the first place? It certainly didn't add to the story in any way at least imo.

Now, all the negativity aside, Joel is a cutie. He's redeeming the game ever so slightly right now so I'm ok wit it