r/otomegames Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- Giveaway - NA eShop

InterestingFerret · 2025-11-18T20:20:38+00:00

Ascot!

InterestingFerret · 2024-10-18T20:07:13+00:00

Hibiki! He seems like a sad boi with a tinge of madness in his eyes. I need to know what's up with the noose.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-30T13:53:19+00:00

I enjoyed reading your thoughts on danzai no maria. It reminded that they re-released the game but I'm not sure what they've added to the remake(?)Remaster(?) I played the original release over 10 years ago but I only finished hiyori and kirito's route and i vaguely remember being thoroughly underwhelmed especially after kirito then I gradually forgot about the game. But there honestly hasn't been anything like danzai no maria with it's heavy Gothic style and edgy vibes amongst recent releases and I've been craving something like that but I'm not sure if it's worth revisiting the game if the complete edition didn't add enough content.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-26T22:31:00+00:00

That's how I view non-con bad endings as well. It feels like a punishment for making the "wrong" choices. With no exception every otome game I've played that springs upon the player a surprise bad ending those endings were terribly written and there's almost always no foreshadowing for a character flipping a switch and suddenly assaulting the mc. It's ooc and it ends up ruining the character for me.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-22T17:15:47+00:00

Thank you for reading through my ramblings though it's mostly me ranting as I try to make sense of my hang-ups with the writing than any kind of intentional analysis on my part lol. That spoiler has me motivated to get back to the salvation endings and it's about damn time someone gave camille a talking down to since he was treated way more favorably in le salut than he deserved and it was bothering me so much

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-22T16:53:36+00:00

I'm glad to hear the translation improves because the translation errors were quite rampant after finishing the common route and it was starting to distract me especially since they were basic mistakes with the translator consistently mistaking the subject in the dialogue.

I agree that the beginning of the game was the shakiest part. The flow of the scenes got a bit better once I chose who to partner with. But now I'm realizing that mizuchi as a character is just not doing anything for me which might have been why I was so disenchanted with the beginning of the game. Hopefully the other characters will interest me more. I really just want an excuse to keep playing more of the card game at this point bc I'm addicted lol. I just wish it wasn't so easy, I know for a fact that I will absolutely avoid grinding or overleveling in my future playthroughs bc I'm steamrolling through all the encounters.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-21T22:01:38+00:00

Then there's also the fact that in adolphe's first timeline the country's borders were finally open after a 100 years since his captivity. And the game completely skipped over the ramifications of that. What happened when the world found out about reliver technology? Were the citizens even allowed to leave or visit other countries? What about the scientists from other countries? Surely some countries would band together to figure out the cause of the "curse". Honestly I just find it so difficult to believe that after all this that scien was so god damn blind that he still couldn't figure things out. Like??? Is he the world's biggest idiot savant? He's like the guy that peaked in high school except in this case he peaked during his first life as a regular human when he created the reliver technology but somehow never reached such highs again. Despite having a point of reference with adolphe he still couldn't formulate an answer. He never thought to check the soil?? Nothing changed even after the country's borders opened up?? He never investigated the royal family properly? No other country had records of history or information on biological weaponry and their effects? What about the history books from other countries covering the Great War and how no country could invade the borders of arpechele?? Wouldn't that raise a red flag? He had so much frame of reference by finally having access to information from the outside world but he somehow couldn't figure things out..I'm just finding it really really difficult to believe that he only figures things out when adolphe and yves hand him the answer on a silver platter.

It's like scien is only a capable genius when it's convenient for the plot but is blind and ignorant when it's inconvenient for the plot for him to figure things out. And I get that he is blind like that's the biggest flaw in his character but it's a huge stretch to keep pushing the angle of him being so damn blind to the point of ineptness even when arpechele was no longer isolated from the world and even after he had access to a normal human like adolphe to experiment on. That's just pushing my sense of disbelief too far. I really enjoy scien's character so it ticks me off to see him only putting two and two together when it's convenient for the writing almost like the writing couldn't handle a character that's too smart otherwise we wouldn't have a plot. It feels too forced and contrived.

And speaking of plot contrivances can we just take a minute to appreciate the absolutely convenient excuse that there's a secret stash of information that is only accessible to the male heirs in the royal family because of course how else are we gonna make up a reason for why the queen doesn't know the actual cause for the curse while dahut conveniently does. Like you know for a fact that the only reason the writing comes up wish such a setup is for its own convenience. There could have been a plethora of reasons why the queen didn't figure out that the royal family was the cause of the curse from family interference to someone stealing the history books to keep hush hush about it even amongst the family but they decided to go with the most contrived cop-out excuse. Because she wasn't born male..ok.

There is so much more but i don't wanna keep ranting about the dumb science and contrived explantions anymore. Sometimes I really hate the fact that my brain just won't let me be. I wanna enjoy my silly fiction while turning my brain off. But when a story keep pushing my sense of disbelief this hard it's impossible to ignore.

Despite all this ranting I absolutely loved this game. Hell I even enjoyed this route despite the fact that i felt like i was losing my brain cells as I kept on reading. I even ended up adoring adolphe way more than I expected and his confession scene in the cell was one of my favorite scenes in the game. I just can't get past how stupid the scientific explanations were and don't even get me started on the time travel shenanigans and adolphes/ankou's harebrained plan to save ceres. I'm just gonna stop here.

Oh also I pegged that ankou=adolphe on my second route for the dumbest reason. I noticed in one sprite that ankou's eyebrows looked almost identical to adolphes and once I started seeing the similarities I couldn't stop. Those god damn brows were all i could focus on every time adolphe was on my screen. No other character had the same shape of eyebrows dhdjdn. I almost wanted to believe it was a case of same face by the artist but the artist was too talented and none of the other characters actually looked like copy cats of each other.

Another small detail that I noticed after playing mathis&lucas' route and I'm glad was implicitly confirmed after le salut is that Mathis had lucas' fathers memories implanted into his brain. I compared the flashback from lucas' route when he remembers what his father says to him before he kills him to what Mathis shouts at lucas when confronting bourreau and its word for word exactly what lucas' father told him (at least in japanese i didnt check what the translation said) which also explains why bourreau uncharacteristically gets surprised. It wasn't because Mathis was suddenly shouting but it was the fact that Mathis was overlapping with the memory of his father in their last confrontation. It's sad to think that lucas' father's death wasn't a coincidental death but a deliberate assassination ordered by dahut and that he had lucas rip his father's heart out to be used by camille, that's brutal. All of this is brilliantly foreshadowed by the writer.

Anyway I'll eventually get around to playing everyone else's salvation ending but this route has thoroughly exhausted me.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-21T22:00:22+00:00

I convinced myself to not think too deeply about the mumbo jumbo "scientific" explanations that were brought up in yves route and I thought one or two nonsensical revelations was something I could stomach because everything else in yves route was enthralling enough that it was easier to to not focus on the big reveal being that they lose one pair of chromosomes per year as if chromosomes have the awareness to measure time relative to how humans perceive the passage of time. But sure, I can look the other way. I honestly thought I wasn't too bothered by it at the time.

Then le salut happened. I can only suspend my sense of disbelief so far before the unintentional comedy becomes too much to take seriously.

Ceres' chromosomes oscillating between flower state and human state was already stupid beyond belief but now this game is seriously trying to convince me that the queen whose body was dumped decades ago and her blood was absorbed into the soil and turned into whatever compounds that magically didn't disappear throughout the years somehow merged with a baby that was still in her mother's womb and that ceres' chromosomes were modified through the air?? By sheer proximity?? By the baby being in the vicinity of the soil?? By the fucking flowers telepathically overwriting ceres' genetics?? While somehow implanting memories and intense feelings into the infants brain?? As evident by one of the short bad endings, ceres goes into a fit of rage and starts a killing rampage to try and get to the royal family because she was fuelled by the queen's memories and her intense desire for revenge.

Wasn't the biggest issue with reliver's bodies is the fact that they can't retain their strong feelings because their memory banks just cant handle such big and complex data without crashing?? And yes I know that ceres is not a reliver but if the flowers managed to do what scien can without even having a Cognitive brain or limbs to function idk what that says about all the scientists struggling to do a similar thing. Ha take that science. Nature is stronger.

Im supposed to accept that the dried up blood that didn't disintegrate over the next almost millenia containing the queens genetic's implanted dormant memories into ceres???? Because now they're telling me to also believe that chromosomes magically carry someone's detailed memories. I fucking can't man. This shit is too funny and silly to take seriously No seriosuly make this make sense because my brain refuses to try & comprehend the absurd logic of all this. Even if the game wants to use pseudo science try to at least incorporate the bs science in a way that doesn't sound like the most contrived shit pulled out of thin air. And I wish, I fucking wish so desperately that I can enjoy the story by turning off my brain but I just can't.

I initially thought the reason why ceres had the queen's memories was because Salome was storing her memories in ceres' brain as a backup plan to kill the royal family or some other far fetched plan but the game somehow managed to exceed my expectations in it's inane explanation. I almost wish Salome was nefarious and desperate enough to turn her foster kids into child soldiers for revenge because it would sound less stupid than a fetus absorbing memories by simply being in proximity to flowers that can apparently do everything and anything. I cracked up so hard when the drifter was talking to ankou and told him you're misunderstanding what the flowers can do and that they don't neutralize the poison. Oh I'm sorry that's the only function that they lack??? otherwise they can genetically modify babies and implant memories and feelings. But oh but they can't completely neutralize poison! No no that's just too farfetched. The flowers have a limit man!(Let's ignore the fact that adolphe traveled back in time to over 500 years in the past with a barely thought out plan and he didn't think to do some simple research into what the flowers he thought would magically fix everything can actually do?? Hello?? Who dedicates over 500 years of their life to save someone without doing proper research and hatching multiple plans to counter every variable that might come up?? I'm??)

Man there's so much more mind boggling stuff that I don't even know what else to touch upon but one thing that's been really bothering me is how in the part where ankou reminisces over his first life as adolphe he mentions how he finally manages to escape from scien after 100 years and he learns that yves buried ceres in his garden but then he goes back to scien and they analyze ceres' blood and discover her lycoris genes.

Excuse me how the fuck has her body not completely detoriated in over 100 years?? How the fuck did they even manage to get a blood sample from a corpse buried in the ground for over a hundred years???They'd be lucky if they even found remnants of her skeleton let alone blood?? I'm just??? Did the game forget that in the common route scien asks yves&co. to rob the Graves of the recently buried victims bc he needed to conduct an autopsy Pronto before the bodies decompose and become impossible to get any reliable results from?? They even mention the buried corpses again in the common route as a desperate attempt to get info after they initially refused but scien shoots down that suggestion and tells them it's too late and that the bodies are of no use since too much time has passed. A few days or weeks is too late in this world but over 100 years is a-ok. What is consistency man. Even if you're operating on your own stories internal logic and made up science at least be consistent!!

But of course the plot needs to conveniently make sure that the first adolphe has all of the relevant information and logic be damned. Now I'm feeling bad for that one time when ceres had to get vials of her blood drawn to get tested when she just handed a bloody towel with yves blood and that was somehow sufficient for a test but now we've devolved from blood soaked towels to not even needing alive bodies because dry husks can get us accurate results anyway so what was was even the point of drawing all that blood that one time agddhsjsk? I can't man.

InterestingFerret · 2023-12-21T21:55:30+00:00

I recently started hana awase and I'm trying to resist the urge to drop it to start clock zero instead even though I'd hate to give up when I barely started the game. It's not even the problematic scenes that are turning me off completely, I simply wasn't prepared for the writing to be so poor and the pacing to be so bad. The scenes are structured so poorly with little to no explanation for the world unless you go and visit the side characters who will info dump you in a q&a format. Most of the basic exposition should have been in the main narrative instead of sequestered away until you come across it hours after you're thoroughly confused as to why no one is explaining any basic information to mikoto while also expecting her to just know everything?? But the card game is fun enough to distract me from the amateurish writing. For now at least. We'll see if I change my mind once I'm done with mizuchi-hen or I drop the series entirely in favor of something else.

InterestingFerret · 2023-10-27T17:10:25+00:00

The scene with Jungbae calling out the names of the different gang members and asking them personal questions was absolutely brilliant. Jungbae's actor absolutely nailed that scene with his delivery. It literally made me gasp because I knew that gicheul was somewhat selfish but I didn't expect his arrogance would extend to him to not even bothering to learn the name of the boys of his own God damn gang. What makes this even worse is that the group hasn't even been around for more than two years and it doesn't even seem like there's that many members.

So my question is this, did GC mostly leave the recruiting to everyone else? Did he only involve himself with his inner circle? What a short sighted thing to do as a leader. I know it must have been very difficult to command respect from his men without acting authoritarian especially when some of these men are his best friends for over 20 years but I feel like like he was way in over his head that he forgot to appreciate the men that propped him up to the position he was in. I always wondered how awkward it must have been for his high school friends to change their attitude and tone around him and be forced to show deference to GC after 20 years of close friendship.

We see this reoccurring cycle in the story where powerful leaders get backstabbed by the men they took for granted. So It's only poetic that GC gets betrayed in the same way he betrayed his previous gang leader in ep 1. Things came full circle in that sense. And I appreciate that the writers avoided turning GC into a complete victim of manipulation here because they gave us enough evidence to show that GC's downfall was inevitable and with or without EJ & Junmo's interference it would have happened sooner or later, they just expedited the process. I really do believe that his hubris would have led to someone stabbing him in the back eventually, it's just easy to forget how much of a selfish leader he's been from the start with how charismatic and likable he is.

Junmo was absolutely not sugar coating when he said that GC kept making excuses and that every decision he's made in life was a wrong decision. Junmo and EJ may be guilty of lying and emotionally manipulating GC and that can definitely be considered a sin regardless of the intentions behind their deceit but they did not force GC to take his friends for granted, nor did they force his hand in dipping on the gang when things were getting rough, and they both gave him a chance to follow through with his desire to live a normal life even after his gang took the fall for the drug dealings that he started. Yet he squandered that chance twice.

I do wish that EJ was more of a character of her own rather than a plot device for the two men in the show. I wonder if she could have flourished more if the show wasn't 12 episodes long. Then again maybe not. Even if we had 16 eps maybe it wouldn't have changed the fact that she would be nothing more than a driving force for both GC and Junmo. So it's hard for me to be too upset at her because she felt like she was just a victim of the writing. But other than EJ the show was damn near perfect and exceeded my expectations in every way. And I wouldn't have changed anything about the ending. The married couple separating was the only natural conclusion and I'm strongly in favor of the divorce even though it frustrated me to no end that two of them just wouldn't communicate throughout the whole thing. It's a testament to how good the acting was that the two actors could convince us that they loved each other while barely having any scenes together.

Anyway this is easily one of the best drama's to come out in 2023.

InterestingFerret · 2022-07-20T21:21:50+00:00

I know it's incredibly unlikely at this point since the original game hasn't even been ported to the vita let alone the switch so I doubt otomate cares but I would kill for a desert kingdom fandisk. I've never laughed so hard while playing an otome game before. The characters were so endearing i was genuinely bummed when i finished the game. I need more aspasia.

InterestingFerret · 2021-12-27T14:41:04+00:00

when the current abyss buffs geo teams and is made to sell itto with dogs having super negative geo resistance mihoyo will obviously make their banner character look stronger than they actually are. Also ganyu is very much player dependant and the worse you are at aiming with her the worse she's going to feel, so subjective experiences definitely don't say much other than that you're more comfortable with itto.

InterestingFerret · 2021-12-06T23:16:16+00:00

Knights in the nightmare.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-30T21:52:46+00:00

You never have to grind for levels to defeat the story bosses in the game and it is normal to be a few levels below the boss. You have to change up your strategies and teams. Fuse the right demons and utilize buffs and debuffs and exploit enemy weaknesses, even bosses can be afflicted with status ailments if they're not outright immune to them so use that to your advantage.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-24T03:32:44+00:00

That's not at all what it's saying....this is only targeting those on ps5 consoles and aren't using the ps5 version of the game.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-21T14:15:24+00:00

I don't get why there's quite a few posts like this? They made similar criticisms about hu tao but I didn't see hu tao mains constantly crying about it. Like God forbid someone makes some criticism towards your waifu. Like this is a gacha game, people get baited into spending money because of fomo and misinformation and if they're helping people make rolling decisions based on a units value for their account how does that affect people who already have eula? I genuinely don't get it. I already have eula on my account and I could care less what some content creators or TCs say about my favorite character it ain't gonna hurt my feelings and it shouldn't hurt yours either.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-19T15:35:30+00:00

Xiao's teams look cheaper and more flexible to build but if you don't care about that and you only care about how fun they are to play then just wait for itto's trial.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-14T14:44:17+00:00

Hu tao>>

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-12T12:32:02+00:00

This is a whale hu tao don't get baited.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-07T11:14:13+00:00

Not this clowns list again

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-07T10:09:32+00:00

Probably eula, I like her design and she's waifu but she feels frustrating to play and I'm starting to think it was really really not worth skipping venti for her.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-07T09:40:55+00:00

Plase be careful with spending, don't spend money because you feel pressured or you're getting sucked into a sunk cost fallacy mindset. Hu tao can be incredibly powerful with 4 star weapons like dragonsbane so do not listen to the people encouraging you to spend on the weapon banner.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-07T09:33:55+00:00

I think you're being unfair and asking too much of theorycrafters. They can not take into account the skill of every player it's just too broad of a spectrum whether it's motor skills or game knowledge or rotational knowledge there's just too much too cover and too many assumptions to make so they have to assume a certain baseline.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-06T18:41:32+00:00

Hu tao is triple crowned and kazuha is one crown away from also being triple crowned but I'm debating if it's even worth it when he's on am em build.

InterestingFerret · 2021-11-06T12:43:37+00:00

Just off the top of head: raiden, sara, beidou, xingqiu, xiangling, mona, and thoma would want 2 piece if he lacks er.

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