I'm an SA victim and I just.. y'know, read warnings. Just like my dad's lost people to gun violence and DV and such. We read the CW/TWs because it's what they're there for.
Otome games have worse SA-stuff in bigger company otome, even. Like Olympia Soiree has some succeeded ones in bad ends and a failed one in a good end.
This game's also a yandere game.They have dark and troubling behavior in general, it's sort of, y'know, the draw of them?
Maybe longer than my kids have been alive but as someone 35+ years old? I doubt longer than I have(I've been playing the genre since the more known English term was reverse dating sim to boot). And yes, Chou no Doku(AKA Butterfly's Poison) has a female LI, there's also been multiple(sadly mostly gone because app/server shut down) Japanese mobile otome that had a mix of female and male LIs. You don't like the vernacular used on the English side of the fandom? Then go stay out of the overall English otome-spaces because even the otome reddit is a-okay with stuff like this using the term, same with vndb. Or go hang out with the worst of the worst like the self-righteous tween LADS girlies on TikTok. o7
Restart Heart tho not fully implemented is full of yandere flavors, Nameless: The One Thing you Must Recall has a couple, many of the manga if you google those w/ obsessive in the title(even if only fan-translated) have a bit. There's yan-goodness in The Kid at the Back, too. Some of the characters in Princess of Ruin get some yan-tendencies and paths(depending on your choices). Also the tumblr "maleyanderecafe" has some good examples and games to try and such.
I'd personally not go off Mirai Nikki so much as a ref since not always but in general male and female yanderes have different tendencies. I've noticed male ones're less stab-habby/outwardly violent towards the person of their affection(maybe because violence against women is too real/deepseated in some ways?) but obsession, jealousy, drugging and/or locking up "for their protection", handling obstacles/threats to their love, etc are a lot more common.
*ETA* Oh yeah Melancholy Marionette's games often got some yandere flair to them.
Just an FYI although the portrait is fine whenever it has text messages/the phone pops up the android apk has an error you have to ignore to get past and it fully skips the phone messages. At least the first 2, I've already beat the game on desktop and was just fiddling w/ it mobile when trying to get my kid to sleep so I haven't gotten to the proper ones that have choices in it.
I've been waiting this whole time(as you know, been always around lurking and hype) finished 1 route and I have no regrets the game is beautiful and feelsy and holyfrickoli.
You did wonderful, don't feel bad on it at all. You've been through hell and back, lots of IRL stuff, drama, etc and you're wonderful and so is the game. Be proud of what you accomplished even if it took ya a while. It's 100% worth it, and even big game devs with many helpers have bugs and borks. You've made an overall polished, beautiful story and it's glorious.
Eee thank you so much! I almost did it today but figured I should ask first, and that since tomorrow is the first of December it'd fit better, anyway. :3
And yeah doing voices is throat intensive but definitely fun. I've definitely got more of my friends in to different otome they'd never known of from it than otherwise and it's friggin' great to have more peeps to AAAAH over stuff with. Even if I have a softer spot for the yanderes than most of them do.
In Vegas it's still been hot and icky, though at night the temps're at least starting to dip down, day time it's still been reaching in to the mid 80sF (like today legit is reaching 85F, AKA 29C). Which is down from the in the 100s it was a couple months ago at most, but still!
I don't like the heat. T3T
