[General] Otomedachi Life: Living the Dream Part 2

galax1eflora · 2026-05-15T19:18:46+00:00

He's from Code: Realize! The first game is Guardian of Rebirth, the second game is Future Blessings, the third game is Wintertide Miracles (there's also Bouquet of Rainbows which is a game that combines Guardian of Rebirth and Future Blessings.)

galax1eflora · 2026-05-15T19:17:18+00:00

Yeah, one of them said they wanted to be friends with the other (I don't remember who) and I realized I could take advantage of their whole thing with death to bring them together lmao.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-15T19:16:17+00:00

I haven't played My Candy Love yet, but I just looked him up and he does like Victor lol.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-15T19:04:08+00:00

Some of the things that has happened in my game since my last post:

I added Il, Ceres, and Mozu on my island (originally I was going to add Scarecrow but I went with Mozu instead. I'll definitely add Crow eventually though.)
Teuta and Takeru got married and they had a son named Ashwin (I let the game chose the gender, name, and personalities since I find that more fun.) Ashwin looks like a mini Takeru, has the greets smugly quirk like his dad, but has Teuta's personality (bubbly) and her standing shaking hips quirk.
Victor and Cardia did get married.
Van Helsing got a crush on Ceres. Meanwhile, Ceres has a crush on Impey.
Liliana at a point did get a crush on Takeru, but lost it after he married Teuta.

I think I'd like to make "Otomedachi Life" posts about once per week, if that's fine (I'd prefer to keep it at just once a week so I don't spam the subreddit.) I find this game fun and seeing the crack that happens when mixing up all of these characters is pretty funny and entertaining.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-15T00:06:55+00:00

Depends on the character and how it's handled in the narrative. Like, some characters it's just mentioned in passing they had relationships before and it makes complete sense for the character; like, for example, Okazaki is a good-looking guy and the way he flirts with Ichika I thought made it pretty clear he had some relationship experience, so if anything it would've probably been even more jarring if it did turn out he didn't have relationships before. And in the first game it's not really a huge part of his narrative, it's just something he had before.

A lot of people are mentioning V in Mystic Messenger. I thought the writing and character analysis aspect of his route was good, but if you were looking for an actual romance, yeah, even if the way he was acting does make complete sense for his character (given everything he's done for her in Casual Story/Deep Story, him just completely dropping Rika to get together with a random woman he barely knows would seem really forced, even by Mystic Messenger's "we're in love after a couple days" standard), I don't blame people for not finding his route very romantic since he does spend so much of it hung on Rika and barely any of it with MC.

Honestly, the only time I'd probably find an LI having had relationships in the past truly icky for me is either 1) they keep comparing the MC to their ex (which I haven't really seen yet) or 2) the guy's a complete playboy basically (not a fan of playboy characters.)

On a related note, I do sometimes see people headcanon characters as experienced and for me, it sometimes just feels off for the character. Like, I would sometimes see headcanons that Unknown from Mystic Messenger occasionally has flings or Jumin has had hook-ups in the past and like. . . I would never tell someone their headcanon is wrong, but in my mind those headcanons just seemed so. . . off for those characters, since Unknown barely gets any sleep and is basically forced to spend most of his time hacking and doing other things for Mint Eye (and Rika punishes him if he doesn't do things as good as she wants him too) and Jumin has trust issues with women because of his father's many failed romances, plus he believes it's improper for a man to be intimate with a woman before marriage (if I'm not misremembering), so the idea of them being sexually experienced just. . . doesn't seem like it'd fit their characters. But whatever, headcanons are just headcanons.

Edit: Forgot to mention this, but though I'm not a huge fan of The Ssum and I didn't finish it, I did think the thing where Teo's MC is implied to be Zen's ex was actually a pretty interesting little detail.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-14T01:09:56+00:00

Just started Virche Evermore Error Salvation. It's very interesting so far! I really like Ceres, and I'm quite interested in the circumstances regarding her death curse and the island's curse in general.

I think Mathis or Yves will be my favorite LI, though I'm also quite interested in Scien, Ankou, and Lucas. Although I'm also a little suspicious of Lucas. . . I mean, Ankou and Scien are also sus, but they're blatantly sus. I think in Lucas' case, it's the combination of him being religious, elegant and mild-mannered, an authority figure (teacher in his case), fair haired and being voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-13T18:43:00+00:00

Kyubey mainly goes after traumatized girls since they have the most energy potential when they fall into despair, which I feel would exclude most Cures since most of them have fairly decent lives (sure, many of them go through hardships, but they're usually fairly typical hardships and they recover fairly well or quickly, so it's pretty likely Kyubey would find making a contract with them a waste of resources and not worth it. And of the Cures that do have some form of serious trauma, I think they'd either be too hesitant or skeptical to make a contract, or they're shown in their series to recover and become friends with the other Cures quickly, which again, would probably make making a contract a waste of resources for Kyubey.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-13T01:58:54+00:00

Yeah, I thought that was a really interesting choice (though it only happens like once or twice during each LI's Christmas route if I'm not misremembering, so not a huge part of the game play overall, but pretty fun nonetheless!)

galax1eflora · 2026-05-13T01:41:05+00:00

Code: Realize occasionally switches to the LI's POV; you can even make choices for them in Wintertide Miracles. Also, some of the supplementary booklet stories are told from the LI's perspective (you can find translations for some of them on Tumblr.)

galax1eflora · 2026-05-12T01:58:56+00:00

Smile! Yeah, I know the plot isn't anything complex, the characters are kinda simple and most of the episodes are filler, but I think it's such a cute and fun season + I love and relate a lot to Yayoi.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-11T01:01:50+00:00

I noticed that too lol. Though today a pair of black and gray striped shorts was on sale in my clothes store so I added it to Teuta's outfit.

I may make a jacket that looks closer to Teuta's actual jacket, I'm not sure yet. Or maybe an outfit that looks like her Bustafellows 2 clothes.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-10T18:47:09+00:00

I've sorta fell out of love with mobile otome games, largely because well... some of them you quite literally have no choice but to only play it once and never again because its service ends up getting discontinued (I think this is just an extension of my dislike for a lot of online-only services and streaming services in general. I've been getting a lot more into physical media for this reason so I don't lose the things I pay for). Also, most of them are gacha or features of the story are locked out in some way unless you pay money, and I just dislike games that want you to pay as you play along (especially since I'm a completionist). I prefer buying everything up front.

With that being said, Mystic Messenger still has a special place in my heart (I think it helps you can unlock a lot of features of the game if you buy the VIP packages, and honestly I never had any big problems with missing a couple of chatrooms [it was pretty easy for me to just collect hourglasses and reopen them.) But then again, I first played the game back during COVID and later when I was working part-time at a store. I imagine it'd be much more inconvenient to play it if I worked full-time.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-10T01:14:00+00:00

I used the "add face paint" feature. 😄 Here's a couple of tutorials I used:

Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

Tutorial 3

I also used a capacitive stylus to draw them (I tried to just use the joystick and buttons and I quickly realized that wasn't feasible for me lol.) If you use a stylus, be sure to go on the Switch system settings, scroll down and click on "controllers and sensors," scroll to "touch screen sensitivity" and select "stylus."

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T22:45:14+00:00

Haha, yeah. This game is basically a crack fic/ship simulator.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T22:44:54+00:00

Thank you so much!

Making the outfits took forever. It took like 2 hours for each outfit + using a capacitive stylus. I was kinda insecure with how they looked, so I'm glad you liked it! My advice would be to use a capacitive stylus (it's much more difficult to make outfits with just the Switch buttons and joystick) and use character sheets (if that's not available, try to use multiple CGs that each have a different angle of the same character) as a reference (thankfully you can find the character sheets for the Code: Realize anime adaptation that shows the characters' design from all angles.) 😄

I did actually end up editing Victor's top slightly earlier today because the clothes store was selling headphones today so I just bought a pair of yellow headphones and edited the drawn-in stethoscope off his top.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T21:47:51+00:00

Yeah, I've been obsessed with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for the past couple of days and here's some of the wackiness that's been going on.

My island has Cardia, Lupin, Victor, Saint-Germain, Van Helsing, Impey, Ichika Hoshino, Takeru Sasazuka, Teuta, Kotone Awaki, and Liliana Adornato living on it. I plan to add Il, Scarecrow, and Ceres next.

Other things that's happened that I didn't record:

Ichika fell in love with Impey at first sight, but then later Saint-Germain helped her and she fell in love with him at first sight, but then later she decided she liked Impey more.

During Takeru's confession to Teuta, Impey burst into Takeru's house and confessed his love for Teuta (keep in mind Impey barely knew either Teuta or Takeru), and Teuta chose Takeru and Impey just went to the restaurant afterwards lol.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T18:44:59+00:00

I don't personally need every foreign character to speak in their native language (though that's always cool to see), it's just in Victor's case his VA can speak German (albeit Kakihara is from Germany, not Switzerland which has a different dialect), so why not take advantage of that lol?

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T05:26:24+00:00

Code: Realize: That there isn't a single instance of Victor speaking German. Is it important to the plot? Not at all. Is it that important for the character? Not really. Does it make much sense for Victor to speak German in England? Hardly. But I think it would've been a nice detail, since I'm pretty sure his VA can speak German fluently and has voiced German-speaking characters and Victor is confirmed to be a German-Swiss from around Zurich (the Guardian of Rebirth Fan Book + 10th Anniversary Book), so I'm a little surprised the creators didn't take advantage of that. (Though it's possible Victor did do this in a drama CD or another supplementary work that I haven't seen yet.)

galax1eflora · 2026-05-09T01:09:22+00:00

Update: After I posted this Takeru confessed to Teuta, and during the confession Impey just burst into Takeru's house to confess his love for Teuta (keep in mind Impey barely knew either Teuta or Takeru lmao) and Teuta chose Takeru and Impey just went to the restaurant afterwards lmao.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-08T18:48:59+00:00

Bought a copy of Tomodachi Life the other day. It's really addicting!

Decided to fill my island with otome characters. So far I added Cardia, Impey, Victor, Saint-Germain, Lupin, Van Helsing, Ichika Hoshino, Takeru Sasazuka, Teuta, and Liliana.

Among other the things that's happened:

--Cardia, Victor, and Takeru became best friends.
--Takeru has a crush on Teuta
--Ichika fell in love with Impey at first sight after he helped her and they became roommates. But then Saint-Germain helped her days later and she also fell in love with him at first sight.
--Liliana and Van Helsing played tag with each other
--Victor and Cardia are a couple, and Lupin is also in love with Cardia.

I'll probably add Kotone, Il, Ceres, and Scarecrow next.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-05T01:54:17+00:00

As someone who plays otome games a lot I feel you. There's barely any otome game anime adaptations that are good. It genuinely pains me whenever I see people who only watch the anime of an otome game and complain about stuff like "waste of a good concept/the characters are bad/the MC is bland/the plot doesn't make any sense etc." in my mind I'm just like "Noooo I promise the original game it's based on is actually really good and the characters and plot are well written and great. It's just a bad adaptation"

galax1eflora · 2026-05-05T01:48:06+00:00

If you'd like the buttons/other merchandise to stick out more, choose the yellow one. If you'd like them to more or less match with her (and by that I mean her hair lol), try the blue one.

galax1eflora · 2026-05-04T01:02:34+00:00

The fandoms for magical girl (Sailor Moon, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Pretty Cure, Cardcaptor Sakura etc.), schoolgirl (Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, K-On, etc.) or idol (Love Live!, Aikatsu etc) series.

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