Hey! So originally you would have a lot of people telling you no, we don’t even have villainesses most of the time. Then some fans of the “isekaied into an otome as its villainess” genre started making actual otome games after it.

The My Next Life as a Villainess series, with this exact premise, got an otome game based off of it in Japan that also has an English release for Nintendo Switch.

Everything else I mention can be played on PC.

Save the Villainess also has this exact premise, although there has been drama behind the behavior of its devs in regards to criticism.

Haven’t played The Villainess Just Wants To Eat! yet but same premise.

I gave Saintess of the Golden Bow a shot which does have MC isekaied into a romance fantasy world, albeit not as the villainess and she got isekaied into a BL novel instead.

Do not know from the description yet if Villainess Menage has her isekaied but you definitely have MC as the villainess.

There are probably more that I’m forgetting right now!

I hope you enjoy that binge. I really enjoy that manga/manwha genre.

I am also one of those people who gets hung up on production values. It seems I might have different standards though. I have specific taste in artstyles and the screenshots here do not seem to violate it. There are some rough-looking non-VNs that I have issues with because it does not really look coherent or good, but I think because VNs usually both demand good art but you do not have to make as many art assets for a zillion objects and environments and NPCs, you can focus on making good art for comparatively fewer things.

Hey, thanks for the images and writeup, we need more original content like this on Lemmy! Sounds interesting, especially since other people clearly saw the value in this diamond in the rough. I tend to actually prefer more sketchy-looking art (as in “clearly the artist’s rough draft” and not “creepy, bad, or not-entirely-legal”), so the images you have shown do not turn me off at all. It’s cool to learn about this.

Now I’m curious about what the LIs’ and MC’s storylines in regard to theatre are. And I can indeed tell you that performing arts, while fun, can become very competitive and full of stressful comparisons of yourself to others (or an ideal you who practices more and has more “grit” and determination), because in the end that is what happens when people audition. Each auditionee gets evaluated on if they fit any part in the show, and if multiple people fit multiple parts they get compared to others, especially on if they have the skills to pull off what it takes. This causes lots of drama and angst in real life, and I’m wondering if the game’s storylines match on to the patterns that I know exist in real life.

I loved taking personality quizzes and “what do the [intellectual property] characters think of you” quizzes as a tweenager and it turns out they are still fun to take as an adult! I also started filling out surveys for academic studies on r/samplesize as I got older, and I think my enjoyment of that comes from the same place that makes me enjoy these types of quizzes.

I got Jumin Han from Mystic Messenger, which tracks because he’s the one I pursued in that game. I feel the quiz pegged what I’m looking for, what I’d be like, etc. in a relationship pretty well.

So a skill issue on his part, literally. Yeah, I have not really seen that in otome.

everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer.

That’s definitely a wild plot. Is this tapir a dream-eater, or is it specifically about destroying that one singer’s dream?

Best wishes with the rhythm game!

The art looks very nice in my opinion! The plot seems interesting. Definitely keeping my eye on these.

On one hand I did often see toxicity downvoted on Reddit, and the very few times I saw spam it was correctly heavily downvoted.

I also often saw subs with “be civil!” as a rule frequently let comments that made good points but just had to throw in an unnecessary insult at the end, even when the person they replied to did not bring any kind of aggression at all. Or comments that were nothing but an insult, as long as the person they were insulting expressed an unpopular opinion. And I often saw unpopular opinions, expressed politely; that weren’t “well it’s just my opinion of course, you are free to disagree :) but I think it would be best for everyone if the Jews were all gassed,” that were not obviously hateful opinions expressed in polite wording but that actually added to the discussion, get downvoted. I often hold majority opinions online so I am not usually the victim of this, but man did it feel bad seeing a reasonable, friendly person who maybe wasn’t as anticorporate as everyone else or as informed about things get punished and shown disapproval in a way that should have been reserved for comments of “fucking idiot :)”. Which actually received upvotes for being said to someone expressing a non-hateful opinion politely and reasonably.

I also see all that unkind behavior on Lemmy, though less often. Poke your head in enough “bad news” posts, especially “company does anticonsumer move” posts on [email protected] and you’ll probably see some of what I am talking about. I have since learned to either just read the title, or click to the news article and avoid the comments like the plague if I do not want to be upset by “amazing explanation of a point you agree with followed by mean words to someone who wasn’t being offensive,” or “people online fighting again” or “comment whose only content is insults gets upvoted”

Most people consider lootbox/gacha predatory and regular advertising a necessary evil. Regular advertising is often manipulative too, but most people consider lootbox/gacha to be more so, especially because of the addictive gambling mechanics it uses that regular advertising doesn’t. Also, most people are used to advertising, and putting lootboxes/gacha in video games is something I am assuming most Lemmy posters can remember there being a controversy over before microtransactions became The New Normal.

Necktie makes him feel a bit… sad and pathetic. And I usually have no problem with neckties! It’s just the way it looks on this particular duck… team bow tie all the way.

Also, is he plumper on the bow tie side? The models definitely look different so this might not actually be a fair comparison. Plump duck might look good with a necktie. But the picture you gave us on the left… well…

For folks browsing the thread, not OP who already is done with Hades, I came to this thread to plug Hades because I hate roguelikes but enjoyed Hades. Story suckered me in, and it turns out the gameplay was fun too.

Let robots that don’t experience emotions or pain take away the dangerous, backbreaking stuff. Not the safe jobs people do because they love them. Whose idea was this in the first place? Why the arts anyways, I thought “starving artist” was a phrase for a reason, is there really that much money to be made here?

Thanks for the TL;DR!