I believe the core concept of the game is good, but I think there is room for improvements, especially for the price being asked for the game.
Pros:
The Minigame: Its a unique minigame especially being able to incorporate it in the storyline/otome game element. I like how certain words help progress the story and shows the consequences of the choices, espeically for the ending you get/love interest route
Art: The art is beautiful. All the characters have really unique sprites, and along with the voice acting, really brings this game to life. As well as the CG for the characters, its so cute and really shows the relationship/personality of each characters.
Cons:
Pacing/Storyline: I felt as if the storyline, more specifically with the love interest part, wasn't really that developed. The making of the game storyline was written well, especially since we got to learn the backstory of the love interest, but what its lacking is the "otome" game portion. With the ending being a timeskip, and not really showing the development of the love interest, on how they got with MC and their ending, it felt like the otome portion of the game was extremely lacking. The beginning portion before the love interest route gave a good starting point for the love interest, but the "otome" portion of the game fell a bit short at the end.
I think if this game was looked at a more "visual novel" game rather than an otome game, it can be well written. But because this is supposed to be an otome game, I felt the dating/love portion of this game was extremely lacking. I think for future games, if making more "otome" esc games don't forget to make that build up for that portion. Overall this was still a well written storyline, and I think there is so much potential that could be made!
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