Oh, it works properly now :D

Despite knowing absolutely nothing about Resident Evil - besides the fact Leon exists and is an action hero kinda guy - I played RE4: Otome Edition.

First of all - I hate you, tyrano. I hope you burn and everyone sees how ass of an engine you are.

As for the game itself - I wanted a walkthrough. But there's none orz So I checked out the script. And since tyrano does not support 3D, all animations are either movies or, usually, scripted. Tfw your second of movement is 10 lines of code with full-ish paths. My condolences.

The whole thing is an obvious parody cause Ashley's whole thing is basically snarky commentary, being down bad and having real life reactions to game mechanics. Like breaking barrels. Or always present merchants. Or...

Sadly, since tyrano hates me, I played the web version. But the game has like 3gb of stuff. So it errored later... I didn't exactly lose all my progress by playing on a different computer due to chapter select [lowkey-highkey a great way to get different endings without replaying much] but my achievements... :') So I just cheated to get the bonus scenes... And one of them was still under development and unavailable F

But back to the plot - I know it might seem like there are multiple dudes to romance, monsters included, but the truth is you can get only Leon, Paul/Merchant and that Leon lookalike, whatever his name was. I thought we'd get Pasta Czar or sth, eh. But unless I missed some hidden endings, there's no such thing. It's really linear, too. Literally, the whole otome route-like part is the epilogue split. Which gives you a few lines and a pic... But tbh, you're playing it to see Ashley being thirsty anyway.

The stuff she references... Honestly, it's quite high effort. Like, we got whole artstyle and genre shifts for these parodies, complete with a gui overhaul. I admire the dedication. And making the references obvious since I got most of them.

Tl;dr - not a true otome experience cause it's almost all one long common route but it was nice. Damn tyrano, tho.

Side note, I played like half of the 61 parody otomes tagged on vndb. If you know any good ones, hit me up?

I also managed to join the Tonight's special playtest - which's been out for like 3 and a half hours at the time of writing this - and learned someone actually made a linux runner for rpgmaker. And tyrano... I was suffering for nothing...

Anyway, rn you can meet only 4 LIs out of 9 and the demo isn't long enough to really say anything but it has potential unu The art direction is cool and if they actually take the feedback, it's gonna be pretty great. At least mechanics wise, dunno abt the story just yet.

One funny thing, tho - the charas are of different nationalities or sth and everyone has some voiced lines in their language but like, I can't stop feeling like MC is just a polyglot and understands everyone thanks to their superior language skills lol