Weekly “what are you playing” post!
Tears of Themis announced an event that I’ve been looking forward to all year. It doesn’t start til next week, but the trailer hype was a nice boost this week since I’m not super into the other events currently on. It’s a Victorian England-ish themed AU. The guys all look delicious in this era’s styles.
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It’s a Victorian England-ish themed AU. The guys all look delicious in this era’s styles.
I skimmed the trailer and agree with you. Men in fancy suits are always great!
What part(s) of the event are you excited for and why?
I’m excited for the whole setting in the card stories, because I like AUs. It’s fun to see how an existing character molds and changes with a new setting. Even though these stories aren’t canon to the game’s main timeline, they can still show you a lot about the characters or explore facets that can’t work in the main story
Vyn’s card story looks great, so that’s what I’m looking forward to most, and I’ll definitely end up buying his outfit. Love the Moritarty vibes. Not sure if I’ll roll for others’ cards.
I heard the temporary event gameplay (which takes place in the modern canon timeline on a similarly Victorianish-themed rail tour) didn’t go over great in the CN release, but I’m still here for it. MC’s chibi in the RPG preview near the end of the trailer looks adorable, and it seems like there will be some rare and fun side characters in play.
Honestly, making these posts is somewhat motivating me to play more otome instead of just reading about them and the like on the Fediverse, but the closest thing I did to playing an otome this week is adding more games to my backlog, whoops. Maybe I’ll come back and edit this comment if I play something today!
Anything promising among those new additions to the backlog? I’m also more motivated to play otome from this community.
I usually see the “love is useless, I am a supreme logical being” mindset on LIs. I’m interested in Subject: Love because it seems to be the mindset of the MC. And oh boy is it going to be fun reading from her perspective.
Emberfate simulates being an MMORPG guild leader to some extent, not quite sure how far it goes into that. Always thought MMORPGs might be fun but I’ve personally kept away from them because I have no interest in some 13-year-old spamming slurs at me because I made one mistake in a raid, and I know that I’d probably get horribly addicted. So the MMORPG aspect attracts me here because it seems like I’ll get all the fun parts of an MMO without having to deal with the nasty parts that keep me away from them in real life. There are also LIs—it is tagged otome, after all.
Added a lot more than just these two, but they’re the ones that seem like they might appeal to me the most.
Oh that does seem like an interesting twist for Subject: Love!
Emberfate looks like a really interesting concept; I love the idea of an otome+management sim blend, and in a setting I find so familiar too as someone who’s been playing MMOs for almost 20 years now. The LI count is a bit low for the super broad audience they seem to be targeting, so I will leave it off the backlog, but I see they’re adding a fourth and will keep a distant watch on it in case they continue adding more (or do a future game with more).
Thank you for the recs!
