Hmmm i ruminated a lot on this one but I'd pick "Play your favorite Otome game for the first time again", except not to play a "favorite" but to play the Vampire Knight otome game for DS again, which is an incredibly entertaining train wreck.
I'm very interested to hear about the game. I've been trying to English patch it and it's not working.
Aww I hope you can get it running!
It vaguely follows the manga's plot and covers about the same arcs as the first season of the anime, except that it's turned the narrative into a reverse-harem and inserted fever-dream like filler arcs (like the protagonist dreaming up an entire beach-episode??) There were also a bunch of mini games, one of which had you literally stalking your love interest of choice.
I chose to go for a non-canon route for my only run so far, the love interest (Aidou Hanabusa) of which was originally obsessed with one of the canon love interests instead of the heroine. I failed to seduce him and he recruited me into the fanclub instead. I cried laughing when I got to the end.
On top of that the protagonist is just very.. juvenile, which I really dislike, but all of the LIs adore her for her weird antics :/
It's just...hilariously bad, but it has very high production value. It's even fully voiced!
It would be so easy for a genie to grant in a way that sucks for me, but that blue-violet sounds really good right now. The world would be the world of Angelique :D Which is nigh-utopian (if you live on the right planet)
I do not exactly remember everything I have heard about Angelique but I do remember that everything I hear about it just makes me want to play it more. I think it is supposed to be one of the first otome, right? How did you play it?
How did I play it? Definitely not with the most legal methods, I'll tell you what. But I believe anything that isn't on the market in a way where the people who made it would get the money is free real estate. So only Angelique Luminarise for Nintendo Switch (which has a free demo, but you need to have access to the JP eshop) I paid for like a normal law-abiding citizen.
But!! They recently added Angelique, the first game, the game to Japan's Nintendo Switch online. If you make a Nintendo account where your region is Japan, you can go on the JP eshop with it and download Super Famicom online. Then you can open the app just fine with your account that has a NSO membership. Of course, it's in Japanese... If you're really dedicated, you could hold Google Translate camera up to your screen for every dialogue box. Even if you don't want to play an entire game like that, if you have NSO I think it'd be nice just to try and see what the first otome game played like for a bit. It's kind of made me less excited to play visual novel games when other types of gameplay existed for otome games existed in the early age. But I like reading, so I swear I haven't abandoned VNs or anything.
