Author Topic: How did you become interested in otome games? (Read 6691 times)

Aiwethryne · **on:** January 24, 2014, 09:10:41 PM

I am trying to get people to post more, if at all, so I intend to create a couple or few “generic” discussion threads around the forum every week.

Please share your experiences~

In my case, I became intrigued by otoge simply by landing on them when I was just researching visual novels. I was already playing bishoujo VNs, but I thirsted for something different. Otome games seemed like a natural step, and now I am forever wandering the bishounen landscape.

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LadyAyaRose · **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2014, 09:27:03 PM

My super awesome granny....She is an avid player of them.
Though my first dating game was a boy and lots of girls. *cough* Clannad.....I searched more about that type of genre, so she gave me another type dedicated to girls....

At first it never appealed to me..And was stuck on playing Gal games for a few more years...Before I official dedicated myself to the English translation of otomes and got Hakuouki as a 2 for one deal in GAME......Though I never played it for ages...But I decided to pick up romance games after I liked playing RPG's with romance in them.

My gran officially hit the roof when I said I adore playing them....As she has been trying to leak them on to me for ages... ...But I missed out on sooooo many good ones that is only in Japanese....This was back when I forgot one of my main two languages..Haha.. But still going to support the English translation of them as they need more of them

So being a fan of an otome world I've only been like maybe a year now? But the official dating sim game..Like 10 years.....*cough*

Lilwyn · **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2014, 09:44:35 PM

I used to play a couple of online simulators when i was young but they were mainly girl harems and boring to me so i thought "there's gotta be one with boy harems ...." This being around lets say 03' and i looked around but sadly there weren't many and they weren't in english. I heard of Harvest Moon but never obtained it b/c at that time my brother hogged the Nintendo. So i stopped playing and just started reading mangas and watching anime.
So one day back in 09' i was reading Ouran High School and you know there's one girl who's obsessed with otome games and i remembered oh yeah i used to play something similar! So i looked into it and there was a couple but none that stood out to me and still many that were not translated.
Fast forward to 2012 when i happen to stumble across the Great Hajime Saito *Squeals* and was informed that so much has happened since i last looked. There were much more choices and some were even free! So that is how i got into Otome games :D

Persona · **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2014, 05:41:06 PM

Originally I stated this on my introduction topic but I could just expand it for this

So this was about 6 months ago.I was doing some research for my college course and I (I still don't remember how I managed it) managed to type in 'xnote' in google. I clicked it as it looked interesting as my browser gave me some images of it as well. I decided to be nosy and download its demo. So basically half an hour later I brought the full version.

After fully enjoying that game and its elements I decided to google its genre, causing me to stumble on the free game Alistair++.

A few months later I managed to get an iPhone, as my friends urged me because of its cool apps. Strangely enough I typed in the App Store 'Romance' and saw many of Voltages games. And since i like the style of anime boys I downloaded the non gree Be My Princess and then clicked on the 'Related' part and things went from there.

But basically 2 months ago now I googled the word 'Otome' and decided to buy a cheap PSP and played Hakuoki. But been meaning to buy Sweet Fuse as well, as heard good things about that one So I fully managed to get the full world of otomes in my handhelds and pc

And I must say I thank whoever who made me type in that error in google. If i didn't I don't know if I ever did stumble on these.

alogado · **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2014, 11:02:41 PM

Mhm, I think the first time being aware that games for the sole purpose of romance/dating existed was when I first watched Lucky Star. One of the characters, Konata, is an avid dating sim player and as soon as I heard those magical words I knew it: I have to play them myself.
I went looking for them on the internet, but somehow I didn't really find anything at all (I remember looking it up on wikipedia and using the elusive term renai adventure), except for the pacthesis games. It was only a bit later, when I remembered Lucky Star, that I seriously started to look for this. This was when I found RE:Alistair++ and I guess the rest is history. :D
Though I mainly played stat raiser like the tokimeki series and only just recently started playing "pure" Visual Novels with text only, since I remember trying out some text only bishoujo game and not liking it at all. But it all depends on the story, of course. :p

Aiwethryne · **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2014, 04:45:22 PM

@ Aya~
Supposing that I don't end up a spinster, someday I'll be that granny who tries to manipulate the young ones into liking otome games~~ I am fairly sure that the whole reason I got into visual novels in general was due to my sib's manipulations, having me watch all of those anime series based on VNs with him... Though I doubt he would have expected I'd go down the reverse harem route, considering how he did not know about Hakuouki a few years ago.