and say which one you chose and why in the comments ;)
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I think I asked mostly as a "what platform" question that in retrospect, I probably should have looked up on a search engine. (Released on Super Famicom. Also, apparently "A Game Boy Advance version was released on March 21, 2003. A full remake titled Angelique Retour (アンジェリーク ルトゥール) was released for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.") I too am interested in otome with more gameplay than just making choices. I do like interactive fiction and visual novels, but I also play more genres than just those, and I wonder why otome has trended towards being a visual novel without having any other genres.
I know people talk about how the manga about being transmigrated into an otome game don't reflect otome very well. But given the amount of manga with otome RPGs... part of me wishes it did reflect otome better so that I could have an otome RPG lol. I think Love and Deepspace is supposed to be like that, but the 3D models just don't resonate with me well. They feel weird and off, but not in the uncanny valley THIS IS CREEPY kind of way... I'm also deathly allergic to freemium.
Love and Deepspace doesn't have a guy who is my type, but I'm glad it doesn't because I would cry if a game that was so interactive and had my type in it existed but was a gacha. I hate gacha games. I don't even like blind bags. Someone needs to make these things illegal internationally. I don't read "otome" manga on principle, but it's funny they made up an idea of what otome games are and everyone has followed suit. I don't even read Villainess stuff, and after playing Angelique I feel even crazier seeing them because Rosalia, the rival character supposedly spawning the villainess phenomena, is nothing like that. ... More people who aren't Ruby Party should make otome RPGs though. Earnest ones with unique settings, no parodies or anything.
I may be talking out of my butt because I didn't consume that much shoujo content as a girl, I remember reading Shugo Chara! and Kitchen Princess, but I'd bet that the "villainess" phenomenon might come from the bullies seen in shoujo?
As for otome with gameplay, I just found this link with a ton, including a section for RPGs. I'll probably make a separate post for that in a few days. In a dream world I'd make an otome with this, in reality time constraints, my terribad fiction writing abilities (will there be spelling errors? No. Will it be fun to read and will I have any idea of where to take the plot? Also no), and my programmer-tier art (I was one of the "good artists"... in middle school) means this isn't happening. At best I program for someone else's otome game.
Don't mind me, just saving that link for later use 👀