[lyssa]

I finished Keith's route the other day, and I'm replaying Joshua's to save some Cruz. Next route will be a tough choice...

I'm tempted to throw away the fully upgraded town spots, but I would be sad~ BUT keep expanding warehouse seems like such a waste of gems. But still... T.T

[Aquitaine]

I liked Roberto's main route~ He's like the best friend and type of enjoyable person I would want to be with in real life. I am on my way to my third ending with him. I also finished two Glenn endings, but it was really only the part with Yu and jealousy that I did not like. Alan's cuteness was a plus, though~~

That's the thing that I didn't like in the V route... he acted way immature. Roberto seems fun at least so I will choose him.

Glenn isn't forceful in his MS like he was in the Valentine's event. That was off putting. I'm finishing his route today (for the 2nd time though :P) I also love Josh and was sleeping through Ed, so we've got similar tastes ^^ I'd recommend Roberto, then Glenn, then Wilfred for you. (Though Glenn's personality is probably the closest to Joshua, minus the cluelessness)

Weirdly I do not like many of the event routes. I didn't even like Josh in his bday event. 

Wilfred seems to be kind of similar to Edward and the whole engagement thing seems like a bore so your planning seems perfect. 

Thank you!!

[Aiwethryne]

Roberto always acts immature in his events, which is why I was surprised by how much I liked him in his main story. However, one of the big plot points in Roberto's PARTY/GREE route is that...

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he also gets engaged to someone else.

After I finish this Roberto route, I'll do him again for the HE. As I had done the SHE in GREE, I plan to skip it in PARTY until I have enough Gems to recollect the CGs for every character. I really don't need to read the special scenes until then. Just hope that PARTY does not perish like GREE before I can.

[Aquitaine]

Why did I read the spoiler 

Does it drag a lot?

So it's only Josh who doesn't have one? Because Keith more or less also had one and I know already that Wilfred does.

[Aiwethryne]

I did not think it was that bad, but it does go on until the ending. Regardless, she is not even important enough to get her own sprite. =w=

Laura's such a priss. Keith's MS was my first route ages ago, so I barely remembered that was how Keith's story went down.

[Washu_Takahashi]

lyssa - I wouldn't throw away town spots, because then your town gets downgraded. And you get gems for upgrading your town, so better to keep them and earn gems (you won't get gems for re-hitting a previous level if you drop down)

Josh and Glenn don't. Glenn's too young to worry about it yet xD

I hate Laura on like 5 different levels. Is it even possible to be worse of a human being?

On the flip side though I love Cynthia. She'd be a great friend to have IRL xD

[tssf]

The girls of BMP... i usually dislike female side-characters, but BMP can be quite an exception.

Cynthia is great, she's such a wonderful friend and overall a supporting person. What I love about her is how you never have to worry about her backstabbing you or being your rival.

Laura is a... We all know what. But going through Keith's stories, main, event, anything else, i always wonder why MC would still believe her...

And Robbie is just a huge sweetheart, he does seem immature, but there's actually an explanation, he isn't as childish as he seems and most important, he's a wonderful friend.

[Aiwethryne]

If only MCs actually had, you know, friends. Emphasis on the plural. In manga and otome games, the average number of female friends an MC ever gets is, like, two. (Cannot help but remember that AoD's MC has a best friend who never even visits her when she's about to die in every route.) Any male friend is a love victim, so she does not deserve good male friends who do not have hearts in their eyes. Well, unless they are gay and pose no threat to the love interest.

In BMP, the MC would go out of her way to take a leisurely trip out to Charles Kingdom, just to hang out with Naomi (that's her name, right?), but that is like the only friend she has who is not a prince. Depending on the route, she'd get all chummy with Cynthia, Cecilie, and Catherine. What's up with these C names? Oh, and Alba, but she's all mentor status. And there's the nameless maids.

[SecretHaven]

Oh my gosh, it bothers me so much how more often than not, the MC doesn't have a lot of female friends her own age. In GREE's MSB, there are Midori and Kosugi, but sometimes I'm unsure if Kosugi is even female (though I blame ambiguous pronouns in the translation for that). If a female character appears, I automatically expect her to be a rival for the guy's affection, rather than a potential friend for the MC. So people like Cynthia and Fuko (SCP) are really refreshing to see.

Also, I know this defeats the whole purpose of an otome game, but I wish that when playing a certain guy's route, not every other guy has to be head-over-heels in love with the MC. I feel like it's not possible. The attention is flattering, but it makes me uncomfortable in a way, to have that many people fawning over one girl. Surely they can't all be in love with her to the same extent? Use the guy's own route to set up a love story. I can tolerate a love triangle at most, but love polygons can get ridiculous when a route is supposed to focus on one guy. Do people understand what I'm saying?

Well, unless they are gay and pose no threat to the love interest.

I agree with this too. As someone who believes in opposite-sex friendships, I find it frustrating that platonic relations between the MC and a guy are nonexistent. No, the guys must all be hopelessly in love with the MC, unless it's their route--then it's not hopeless. *eyeroll* Going back to Cynthia, I like how it's established early on that she has a boyfriend already (wish we knew more about him), and she and Roberto are simply friends.

Then again, the whole set-up of an otome game is usually unrealistic anyway, so I don't know why I'm complaining about this. xD

And BMP's MC is all-loving and forgiving, so why not believe Laura...over...and over...and over again. I wish she'd suspect Laura at least a little. You'd think the MC would learn that Laura can't be entirely trusted when it comes to Keith.

Sorry for the rant. I guess I needed to get these things off my chest.

[lyssa]

lyssa - I wouldn't throw away town spots, because then your town gets downgraded. And you get gems for upgrading your town, so better to keep them and earn gems (you won't get gems for re-hitting a previous level if you drop down)

Really? Thanks for the info!
My town levels up sometimes when I receive decoration items, but when I sell them I haven't seen my town being downgraded yet. I thought it worked the same for town spots.
Well at least I'm not torn between two options anymore x)

[Pocaguri]

Does the secret and regular endings have different in content storywise? I know only the prizes are different.

Secret happy- cg+avatar
Happy- CG
Is it the same cg or not?
Same story or not???

Secret normal - avatar
Normal - nothing
Same content or not???

So far I only play the SHEs and now  I'm about to be done and would likely choose the same guy this time since I didn't have chance to even buy a single town spot in his routes so far (save Cruz for events)

[tssf]

I'm actually not too bothered by the fact that the MC doesn't have friends. Actually, that's one of the more realistic aspects of the story in my opinion. Some people have tons of friends, others have only a few and I'm not exactly into reading a long story about MC traveling back and forth so she can talk to her friends/see them or reading a phone conversation. In BMPP it's pretty normal she wouldn't have friends at the beginning, she could have them at home, but she just moved to an entirely new country, so it's more or less normal and I like seeing how she makes new friends, even if they aren't exactly present. I would even say she might have friends at home and it's just never mentioned. I think it's great if she makes friends with the maids, why not, but of course they would be faceless, these games are focused only on the love interest which is rather sad. What bothers me more is how MC pours her heart out when talking to Cathy, though I'll never accept her canon age, she's still too young to be THE person to talk to when she has problems with Keith.

My main friend-problem with otome games usually is how they just love to give us the same type of friends – a (mostly single) boy-crazed girl… My problem is that they emphasize the friend-aspect less than the gossip part.  Even if they gave her many of those, I wouldn't care and would roll my eyes every time they appeared. That's probably why I like Cynthia more, she's just not an annoying something. I'm grateful there's one friend instead of having to deal with more than one if they're like this.

But the platonic friendship part really is a sad thing. It's sad how even the love interest often doesn't seem to have friends, except for a certain group – which would be fine if they could focus on it once in a while. I'm a lot happier reading the group interactions than another one of MC monologues about whatever, it's so much fun when the princes are talking to each other and it would be great if they could be MCs friends without being too attracted to her. Mostly Glenn, Keith and Joshua. The tsundere ones make it more uncomfortable, because it wouldn't be natural for behave the way they do if they weren't in love with her. I'm always happy when there's something like actual friendship between MC and a guy she didn't choose. And this one is probably our fault for demanding butler routes, but MC can't even be just friends with the butlers. In the end Roberto seems to be MCs best male friend no matter which route you choose, just because his personality is what it is and it's easy to imagine him behaving the way he always does even if he's just good friends with her.

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Ivan's route in BMP2 comes to mind. MC is really good friends with Sieg there.

A completely different story, but did anyone see Voltage's Tumblr for the PARTY series? Is it just me or does the whole layout look so… Is it really official?

[Washu_Takahashi]

I don't really mind the no friend thing too much. We at least get Naomi and Cynthia and our mom on occasion xD The butlers are BASICALLY your friends in most routes. But the problem with platonic MC-boy relationships in games is just...it CAN'T happen. Even if a character starts platonic, there's always a large chunk of the players who will want a route for that character. More routes = more money, so why wouldn't they make routes for every single character? I mean, take the butlers for example. How many of us would die of happiness if they actually released butler routes? xD

[Arisa-chan]

I'm always confused every time you wrote Cathy's canon age
what did canon here implied as?

[tssf]

It means official/what's true according to the author/is told in the game. She's supposed to be 7 according to the game, but I really can't believe it.