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  • Berin@discuss.tchncs.deMEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    I’m following elevator’s example and copying my comment from the otome community o/

    I’ve finally continued my current run of Jack Jeanne (an otome game by the Tokyo Ghoul author about an all-boys theatre school)! My wired headphones broke some time ago so I put off playing until I got new ones lol

    I’m still on Soshiro’s route, and it’s a really…different experience? so far. I’ll get into it a little more detail in the spoiler, but he’s really struggling with not keeping up with his peers.

    spoilers for Soshiro's route

    In the first plays, Soshiro only gets minor roles, and he isn’t even picked for a role at all for the third one (at first). He really, really, struggles with not being able to perform on the same level as Suzu and the protag. I don’t really remember playing an otome game with a love interest who deals with this kind of issues before. At one point, he’s blaming himself for “destroying his own dream of performing on stage”. The VA is also doing an absolutely fantastic job of communicating this. I feel so bad for him ;v;

    Last session, I played through a training camp section, where everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer. Soshiro’s perspective really recontextualizes this whole scene, since the topic must hit super close to home for him.

    Things will start looking up for him from the third play on, though, and I’m really curious to see how he’ll develop.

    I’m also challenging myself to clear all rhythm games on extreme this time around, it’s not as hard as I expected \o/

    Apart from that, I started watching Demily Pyro’s VODs of her of The Devil playthrough after already playing through all the available episodes myself. There’s quite a lot of foreshadowing for several plot points that I completely missed the first time around. Especially

    of The Devil Episode 1 spoiler

    How all of the windows in David’s flat are one-way due to his horrifying experience with a stalker

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      Huh, I actually looked at Jack Jeanne when browsing VNDB a few days ago so it’s funny to see it mentioned here. Spoilers sound pretty interesting, too bad I don’t have a switch to check it out myself. Maybe some day. Congrats on the rhythm sections!

      I’m tempted by the of The Devil spoilers but I still need to play the damn thing (it’s on my PC, waiting… calling…). I’ll just bookmark this comment for later.

      • Berin@discuss.tchncs.deMEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        I got a switch just to play this game lol :,) Theres lots of other switch exclusive otome games as well

        Also yes go play otDevil!! do it!!

        • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          3·
          17 days ago

          I will, I just need to survive the next few… weeks, if I’m lucky. It’s not getting forgotten, that much I can promise.