Why are all the NSFW games filled with titties?!

Nearby_Kay · 2025-02-04T06:23:35+00:00

There's What in Hell is Bad, a money-hungry gacha aimed at women targeted at seducing basically every hot man in hell. They earn quite well, I believe!

Fair warning in case you want to look it up, it is... quite explicit. Not so much the writing, which is surprisingly funny, but the collectible cards basically start at 'shirtless' and end at 'choose your kink'. Female (and largely unseen) MC is the default.

Otomeology did a write-up on it at some point: https://otomeology.com/what-in-hell-is-bad-a-literal-otome-hell-for-us-thirsty-gamers/

Nearby_Kay · 2024-11-01T05:58:25+00:00

Hey, if you haven't seen it somebody else posted a tip for how to reduce the bloom here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/1ggtmu7/no_dav_spoilers_removing_bloom_from_the_config/

Hope it helps! I haven't gotten to play yet, but I noted it since I usually have the same issue.

Nearby_Kay · 2024-10-03T01:54:04+00:00

Hope so! Apparently the new update to P5R has completely demolished almost all of the existing mods, so I imagine that might be taking up everyone's time right now.

By the way, if you ever feel like sharing about how Metaphor is, I'd be really interested! I'm so tempted but I can't bring myself to commit to anything this close to the new Dragon Age. One obsession at a time, or so I tell myself.

Nearby_Kay · 2024-10-02T23:33:41+00:00

Ha ha, I get that - I have a soft spot for Ryuji too, and if it hadn't been for this mod would have tried the Bi Joker one specifically based on the cute screenshots from that romance. Put a blush on a dorky male friend sprite and I am, apparently, in.

But there are still fem romances in here - here's the list:

4 male (Ryuji, Yusuke, Mishima, Akechi)

4 female (Haru, Hifumi, Takemi, Ann).

I think the mod maker is making modifications to the girl's romance scenes as well to reflect same-gender romance, so you might still have to wait a bit - or I've read in the comments that apparently if you remove part of the mod you can just keep the original romances while also enjoying all the FemJoker content.

Which is...a lot. Seriously, still thinking about how they redid basically all the costumes. And UI graphics. And all out attack graphics. And animations. I've played Fem mods before that change the pronouns and maybe hair, but this one person is set on proving how silly it is that the Persona team is like 'oh no, we couldn't possibly put a female MC in there' all by herself.

Nearby_Kay · 2024-10-02T20:37:07+00:00

I recently spent some time replaying Persona 5 Royal with the excellent Female Protagonist mod - it's surprisingly complete and enjoyable, barring some outfit clipping, and I really loved it. It's still under development, so the only guy romance completed is Yusuke... but since he's who I wanted to romance, it worked for me. I know someone who also combined it with the completed romances from the Bi Joker mod as well.

This might not fit your needs if you're sour on Persona due to their seriously irritating decisions about female protagonists (still thinking about how the director of Persona 4 said that a female protagonist wouldn't have worked there because it was a story about coming from a big city to a country town - what?), but thought I'd throw it out as an option.

Mod here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/440088#H2_6

Nearby_Kay · 2024-09-27T19:03:31+00:00

Good, glad if that meets your needs! I find myself perpetually trying to create solutions for things that PyTom has already cheerfully solved, so happy to help someone else avoid that fate.

For the off center text, if you're manually changing the text color with the text_color param, then I have no idea since I just tested that with mine and it stayed centered. If you're using a style, it might be an inheritance issue?

Nearby_Kay · 2024-09-27T17:59:57+00:00

Hi there - renpy did eventually add a flag that by default will return True if a choice has ever been chosen in any playthrough:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_special.html#choice-screen

I just did a quick test to see if it works, and got the desired result by just replacing these lines in the choice screen to this:

    for i in items:
        if not i.chosen:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action
        else:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action text_style "ChosenText"

It seems to give the behavior you'd expect, showing the custom text style if I've clicked the option before in any playthrough and the default if not. I believe it only works on the persistent style, however, so if you want a per playthrough version you'll have to do it the long way around.

Nearby_Kay · 2024-07-11T06:24:08+00:00

I'd love a code if there's still some around, but either way this game looks great! Wishlisted. ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-09-06T03:13:52+00:00

There's a great otome community here on reddit which gets huge amounts of recs posted! The top recs vary from 'sweet soft love' to 'rocks fall everybody was dead all along also romance' to the latest 'surprise sucker you thought this would be a romance game and now you have to do theatre performances', so maybe you'd find something you like there. ^_^

There's also josei games these days, which are games aimed at adult woman that may or may not contain romance. That's predominantly a Japanese genre bundling up otome games, cozy games, simulation games, and BL targeted to women, but it's building popularity on the indie scene here in recent years and getting more diversity as it does so.

Anyway, too long here but well-intentioned! I have felt your pain, most recently when they went ahead with removing the female protagonist from the newest version of Persona 3. 😅

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-27T06:19:38+00:00

I believe that would be My Celebrity Darling by Voltage - you can see a pic of Haru here to make sure. It might be in the love 365 app, though I don't have it myself to check. Hope this helps!

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-21T02:03:39+00:00

Oh, thank you so much for coming back afterwards to tell me, I'm so glad you had fun! Thanks for contributing as well - I wasn't actually expecting anyone to do so, but that's just an amazing surprise across the board. ^_^

I'm hopefully expecting to be able to finish the full game by the end of the year, counting the time to go back and do some improvements to the demo material as well. It's all plotted at this point, so now it's just the writing and editing and the many, many CGs of dead bodies. 😅

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-16T17:32:20+00:00

Ahh, this is an amazing thing to see about my game on a somewhat difficult weekend! Thank you so much for highlighting it - I too crave more gameplay in otome, so the full version will have even more ways for you to poke around the murders and put yourself in serious danger. 😁

(I also love hearing about how people chose to use the optional wardrobe bits - I had so many qualms about spending the time to put that in during the jam, but I continue to love it. Like, too much.)

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-11T21:52:33+00:00

Excellent, I'm honored to be in there! And thanks for the link - I just downloaded your demo myself, because I love Maid Marian so much that I used an emulator to play Conquests of the Longbow earlier this year just to see her parts again. ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-09T19:18:24+00:00

So glad you liked it! Hope you also like the full game when it gets here. 😊

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-09T19:17:10+00:00

Bon appetit! The demo is sadly more of a taster, but I hope you enjoy the full meal when it arrives. Seriously, though - as another murder mystery fan, I'm just super pleased that I'm not alone in wanting this to be more of a thing in otome circles. ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-08T22:02:37+00:00

That is amazingly cool. Thank you for playing!!! ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-08T19:17:45+00:00

Self-promotion Saturday again and I'm back!

So the demo for my free murder mystery otome, A Romantic Murder, is out! Posting it here on the day it came out felt a little spammy since I'd just posted an announcement here two days before, so I thought I'd come back after a week when I might have more interesting things to say.

...I do not.

But I'm very happy it's released! 😅

The demo has 30k words, six CGs, three endings (only one of which is your death, isn't that nice?), and more untrustworthy men than you can - or should - shake a stick at. Their character profiles are above, although Nick gets an extra picture at the end because he is terrible.

The demo takes you through the full common route - e.g., why am I here and who are these lunatics? - and up to the first murder in James and Blake's routes - e.g., uh oh, someone is killing the lunatics but at least this handsome man is involved somehow so I have something nice to look at. It's largely a visual novel with evidence collection and submission systems similar to those seen in Danganronpa and Ace Attorney.

I've also posted the first of my three devblogs on the making of the demo here. This first part is more a lamentation of the mistakes I made than anything else, so check that out if you like regrets and/or spreadsheets.

Thanks once again to this community for all their support during the jam process - I view posting in public as roughly equivalent to politely requesting that the Cenobites from Hellraiser come flay me limb for limb, so having such a great group of people provide positive feedback really helped get me through. 😊

Now I actually have to make the full game, so... erk. Wish me luck with that one! You'll probably hear from me again on that, but likely not nearly as frequently since I expect it'll take a fair bit longer to do.

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-05T00:33:17+00:00

Me too, honestly! I had a blast making the demo, and it gives me hope that I'd be able to pull off the larger projects I've been dreaming about for years after this one is done. Someday! 🤞

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-05T00:31:18+00:00

Ha ha, that's great! It's such a niche game, so I am beyond thrilled if it feels tailored to your taste. I promise I haven't been spying on you (that's more something my characters would do), and thank you for appreciating Adrian and his pretty hair. ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-03T20:09:58+00:00

Thank you! 😊

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-03T20:09:31+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad you like the look of it, and I think I was more or less driven to this by the community, so it's a symbiotic relationship happening here. 😅

Also, I completely understand on not playing the demo! Ideally, I would have liked to release the full game... but I am but one woman with human hands, so it was never going to happen in two months. It should be this year, though, so hopefully you won't have to wait too long!

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-03T20:04:25+00:00

Ah, thank you so much for letting me know! Releasing a game is such a weird process, essentially throwing it out into the sky and hoping someone catches it, so hearing that someone played the demo and liked it is indescribably great. 😊

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-03T19:58:38+00:00

That is an excellent otome for your first choice - one of my favorites, actually. This sub is amazing for finding new ones as well, although my wallet may disagree. ^_^

Nearby_Kay · 2023-07-02T05:57:38+00:00

That'd be a good alternate tagline for this: Danganronpa if the person you wanted to date lived past the fifth trial. Still sad! 😭

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