Fun discussion and hot takes! I recently played through Even if Tempest and then the fan disk. I was hooked. And then the fan disk wrapped up some of the hanging plot points and brought in the romance (since the base story is very lacking for romance.) So all together I had a great time with it. I thought it was clever how they used the fatal rewind concept to bring you through each route. I haven’t played a whole lot of otome games yet- I just discovered the genre. This is the most interactive one I’ve read through so far. Happy to find your channel for discussions and titles I might wanna try!
Welcome back! What's inside this podcast? ☕ 💖 Intro & General Review of the Game 0:00 💚 Crius Breakdown 36:14 💜 Tyril Breakdown 50:05 ❤ Zenn Breakdown 1:12:33 💙 Lucien Breakdown 1:24:47 🤍 After Story & Final Thoughts 1:33:14 TW: This game is dark and gruesome, so make sure you're in a good mental space before playing! Details at the start of the video.
One thing we totally forgot to touch on is that the main promotional image of the game and the menu with that black monster looking character holding MC never appears in the main game or after stories. It's possible they show it in one of the Sad Love Ends so we don't want to say this was 100% a dropped plot or cut content (let us know in the comments if you know), but it's not at all a major component of the game so we do feel confident saying it was a poor choice and misleading to use it as the main promotional image and menu image.
@@latteandfoam I’m holding off on watching the video until I can play it, and just wanted to say it’s so disappointing that the creature doesn’t appear again! That was the biggest appeal of the game for me-getting to romance a Howl-like character. 😭 hoping Voltage will add a secret LI route and it will be him?? 🙏🙏
@@latteandfoam omg, that makes me think of the dumpster on fire meme. i listened to the ost on youtube and didn't like it at all. while i didn't plan on buying the game because of how 'dark' it looked for an otome game, i expected the pv to be accurate so it's disappointing that the black monster isn't really part of the story. but yeah, thanks for the review~ you two made me laugh 🤣
@@atelier_rabbit the running theory is that he is one of the LIs if he were to have been taken over by the membrum which could potentially happen in a sad love end our bad end that we missed! Can’t wait to hear what you think of the game!! 💓🌸
@@kokoro_flow glad you could enjoy the podcast! And definitely a lot of confusing and seemingly dropped plots in this one for sure - the main monster image being one of them 😆
Well, I enjoyed Even if Tempest it definitely is a very flawed game {I wouldn’t call it perfect and I hope if Voltage does another Console release it is better.} . I didn’t love it but I did have a fun time only because I enjoy over the top death scenes {I like bad endings In otome. This is why I enjoy Anmesia and Piofiore so much amongst other reasons} I liked the idea of different gameplay mechanics like the idea of influence but it barely got used. Since it would been interesting if you could get various endings in trials based on each of the characters influences. Also, I noticed the lack of evidence collecting isn’t something in common it was something I wished there was more of in Collar x Malice. So I liked some the ideas they had but plot wise especially the extra scene they added to try to fill plot holes. I wanted more time with the witch of ruin {I wanted him as an LI and he was still one of my favs I like villian characters though} I know I am saying a lot of negatives but this is what kept me from loving it but I think it can be fun for the out there dark scenes and some LIs. I hated the crashing in the game they need to patch it. It crashed 20 times at least during my playthrough. I liked the characters but like Piofiore I didn’t like when they were inconsistent. I liked Tyril for example in some parts and Zenn they were my favorites. Also, I didn’t like Anastasia that much either. She reminds of Steam Prision’s mc were her actions were that she annoyed me for her naivety and they were strong in some ways but were less realistic in how they were written. I like strong mc’s {I just recently finished Birushana and Shanao is a pretty good mc} but Anastasia was selfish and how dense she was annoying. It isn’t worth 50{there are cheaper otome on the switch or ones that are 50 that are more polished.} But it can be fun especially if they patch the game so it doesn’t crash. So if it goes on sale maybe I could recommend it.
Definitely agree the problems are the price point for the length and crashing its unforgivable! Tyril and Zenn are definitely our favorites too. It had it's good points, but the good outweighed the bad for us here! It also frustrated us they underused some of the cool gameplay features.
I appreciate you ladies doing an in depth review of this game. I was considering buying this game just because I'm a fan of voltage games but think I'll be skipping this one after hearing you say this is a linear game that's not heavy on the romance. I enjoy visual novels, but I buy voltage games for their focus on romance and ability to choose your love interest after the intro.
I was tempted to play this game since I do enjoy darker storylines as much as my fluffy ones- but dear lord this sounds like a total mess! ToT at least it made for a funny video to have in the background, you guys are always entertaining with your opinions on otome^^
Haha so glad you at least could enjoy the pod! It was definitely a catastrophe of a game, and we are surprised there’s so many people who think it was amazing - but to each their own! 😆💓
(spoilers for the whole game!!) Hi hi! I’m really late in commenting, I just finished the game and watched your review! I agree on the quality not being the same as other console releases, If it was a lower price point like $30, maybe $40 max, I could maybe understand but for $50, I want more meat, in quality and in story length/content. I bought it for $25 in late June, and even compared to other console otome games I bought on sale that were at a similar price point (started at ~$50, on sale for ~$30, Code: Realize for example), I feel like I got more of my money’s worth there than here. Art/CGs, I agree, I expected better and more consistency, I think the best quality CGs I can think of are for Crius’ Epilogue and Lucien’s Epilogue (the final one). Another thing was the placement of CGs, I felt like certain moments there was a cg for it may have not needed one, put some pivotal moments there wasn’t one, and some of them I found that they should have been zoomed out more/from a farther distance, I wanted more variety in the perspective/angle of the cg . I wanted more ost songs, like character theme songs, especially for the LIs, the MC and The Witch of Ruin. The story should have been longer, there were so many concepts thrown in and they weren’t really given the breath that they needed, I wanted to hear more about the kingdom corruption, more about the country and their neighbors in general, I wanted more story about the royal family being exposed, etc. and more sense of the trials. Like it brought up the moral questions of what really is a witch and why are they demonized and the thing about a membrum being a normal person but I felt it could have gone farther. Also what y’all mentioned about the whole membrum thing, I didn’t even think about it, there had to be teleportation magic not only with the first case but also with the second, Prince Lucien getting out in the garden and his killer just randomly showing up who definitely has no way to get to the Palace nor clearance to even get onto the grounds . Plus the power to do that, I feel like the killer in the first case couldn’t do that without given magic of like super strength or similar There were elements that should have gotten a better check by qa: The UI, I like the design style too but the functionality was frustrating. The flow chart should have just been off the main menu instead of just accessible from a save slot, and when the epilogues were unlocked, it would have been better as an overall/system save, how they had it was too messy. The cg menu, it should have had tabs to find cgs love interests. I also expected an ost/music player but there wasn’t. Even now, I had like 5 crashes, definitely needed a better look over. I also felt kind of uncomfortable with Zenn and the basketball thing, I was like “they couldn’t think of anything else?” I might pick up the upcoming fandisk when it gets a discount, because I like the LIs and want to see more of their character. I hope that since it’ll be fluffy and more romantic oriented, the elements will come together better.
Hi! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Definitely agree on all your points. We are also interested about the fan disk though we don’t think we will be purchasing - let us know your thoughts if you do! 💖
LOL The shade! Otomate games we rarely finish all the way through since they can be 40-60+ hours in length whereas this one was 25. We may do a review on VariBarri soon though and/or talk about our thoughts on some otomate games in general for a pod. VariBarri would be the first Otomate game we completed in full aside from Kayla's amnesia memories playthrough! Oh and Yana has finished Code Realize!
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Fun discussion and hot takes! I recently played through Even if Tempest and then the fan disk. I was hooked. And then the fan disk wrapped up some of the hanging plot points and brought in the romance (since the base story is very lacking for romance.) So all together I had a great time with it. I thought it was clever how they used the fatal rewind concept to bring you through each route. I haven’t played a whole lot of otome games yet- I just discovered the genre. This is the most interactive one I’ve read through so far. Happy to find your channel for discussions and titles I might wanna try!
Welcome back! What's inside this podcast? ☕
💖 Intro & General Review of the Game 0:00
💚 Crius Breakdown 36:14
💜 Tyril Breakdown 50:05
❤ Zenn Breakdown 1:12:33
💙 Lucien Breakdown 1:24:47
🤍 After Story & Final Thoughts 1:33:14
TW: This game is dark and gruesome, so make sure you're in a good mental space before playing! Details at the start of the video.
One thing we totally forgot to touch on is that the main promotional image of the game and the menu with that black monster looking character holding MC never appears in the main game or after stories. It's possible they show it in one of the Sad Love Ends so we don't want to say this was 100% a dropped plot or cut content (let us know in the comments if you know), but it's not at all a major component of the game so we do feel confident saying it was a poor choice and misleading to use it as the main promotional image and menu image.
@@latteandfoam I’m holding off on watching the video until I can play it, and just wanted to say it’s so disappointing that the creature doesn’t appear again! That was the biggest appeal of the game for me-getting to romance a Howl-like character. 😭 hoping Voltage will add a secret LI route and it will be him?? 🙏🙏
@@latteandfoam omg, that makes me think of the dumpster on fire meme. i listened to the ost on youtube and didn't like it at all. while i didn't plan on buying the game because of how 'dark' it looked for an otome game, i expected the pv to be accurate so it's disappointing that the black monster isn't really part of the story. but yeah, thanks for the review~ you two made me laugh 🤣
@@atelier_rabbit the running theory is that he is one of the LIs if he were to have been taken over by the membrum which could potentially happen in a sad love end our bad end that we missed! Can’t wait to hear what you think of the game!! 💓🌸
@@kokoro_flow glad you could enjoy the podcast! And definitely a lot of confusing and seemingly dropped plots in this one for sure - the main monster image being one of them 😆
Well, I enjoyed Even if Tempest it definitely is a very flawed game {I wouldn’t call it perfect and I hope if Voltage does another Console release it is better.} . I didn’t love it but I did have a fun time only because I enjoy over the top death scenes {I like bad endings In otome. This is why I enjoy Anmesia and Piofiore so much amongst other reasons} I liked the idea of different gameplay mechanics like the idea of influence but it barely got used. Since it would been interesting if you could get various endings in trials based on each of the characters influences. Also, I noticed the lack of evidence collecting isn’t something in common it was something I wished there was more of in Collar x Malice. So I liked some the ideas they had but plot wise especially the extra scene they added to try to fill plot holes. I wanted more time with the witch of ruin {I wanted him as an LI and he was still one of my favs I like villian characters though} I know I am saying a lot of negatives but this is what kept me from loving it but I think it can be fun for the out there dark scenes and some LIs.
I hated the crashing in the game they need to patch it. It crashed 20 times at least during my playthrough.
I liked the characters but like Piofiore I didn’t like when they were inconsistent. I liked Tyril for example in some parts and Zenn they were my favorites.
Also, I didn’t like Anastasia that much either. She reminds of Steam Prision’s mc were her actions were that she annoyed me for her naivety and they were strong in some ways but were less realistic in how they were written. I like strong mc’s {I just recently finished Birushana and Shanao is a pretty good mc} but Anastasia was selfish and how dense she was annoying.
It isn’t worth 50{there are cheaper otome on the switch or ones that are 50 that are more polished.} But it can be fun especially if they patch the game so it doesn’t crash. So if it goes on sale maybe I could recommend it.
Definitely agree the problems are the price point for the length and crashing its unforgivable! Tyril and Zenn are definitely our favorites too. It had it's good points, but the good outweighed the bad for us here! It also frustrated us they underused some of the cool gameplay features.
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Kiana's hair looks fabulous! And Kayla's visage is dewy! 💖💖
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I appreciate you ladies doing an in depth review of this game. I was considering buying this game just because I'm a fan of voltage games but think I'll be skipping this one after hearing you say this is a linear game that's not heavy on the romance. I enjoy visual novels, but I buy voltage games for their focus on romance and ability to choose your love interest after the intro.
Yeah they definitely failed to deliver on their best points here!
I was tempted to play this game since I do enjoy darker storylines as much as my fluffy ones- but dear lord this sounds like a total mess! ToT at least it made for a funny video to have in the background, you guys are always entertaining with your opinions on otome^^
Haha so glad you at least could enjoy the pod! It was definitely a catastrophe of a game, and we are surprised there’s so many people who think it was amazing - but to each their own! 😆💓
(spoilers for the whole game!!)
Hi hi! I’m really late in commenting, I just finished the game and watched your review!
I agree on the quality not being the same as other console releases, If it was a lower price point like $30, maybe $40 max, I could maybe understand but for $50, I want more meat, in quality and in story length/content. I bought it for $25 in late June, and even compared to other console otome games I bought on sale that were at a similar price point (started at ~$50, on sale for ~$30, Code: Realize for example), I feel like I got more of my money’s worth there than here.
Art/CGs, I agree, I expected better and more consistency, I think the best quality CGs I can think of are for Crius’ Epilogue and Lucien’s Epilogue (the final one). Another thing was the placement of CGs, I felt like certain moments there was a cg for it may have not needed one, put some pivotal moments there wasn’t one, and some of them I found that they should have been zoomed out more/from a farther distance, I wanted more variety in the perspective/angle of the cg .
I wanted more ost songs, like character theme songs, especially for the LIs, the MC and The Witch of Ruin.
The story should have been longer, there were so many concepts thrown in and they weren’t really given the breath that they needed, I wanted to hear more about the kingdom corruption, more about the country and their neighbors in general, I wanted more story about the royal family being exposed, etc. and more sense of the trials. Like it brought up the moral questions of what really is a witch and why are they demonized and the thing about a membrum being a normal person but I felt it could have gone farther.
Also what y’all mentioned about the whole membrum thing, I didn’t even think about it, there had to be teleportation magic not only with the first case but also with the second, Prince Lucien getting out in the garden and his killer just randomly showing up who definitely has no way to get to the Palace nor clearance to even get onto the grounds . Plus the power to do that, I feel like the killer in the first case couldn’t do that without given magic of like super strength or similar
There were elements that should have gotten a better check by qa:
The UI, I like the design style too but the functionality was frustrating.
The flow chart should have just been off the main menu instead of just accessible from a save slot, and when the epilogues were unlocked, it would have been better as an overall/system save, how they had it was too messy. The cg menu, it should have had tabs to find cgs love interests. I also expected an ost/music player but there wasn’t.
Even now, I had like 5 crashes, definitely needed a better look over.
I also felt kind of uncomfortable with Zenn and the basketball thing, I was like “they couldn’t think of anything else?”
I might pick up the upcoming fandisk when it gets a discount, because I like the LIs and want to see more of their character. I hope that since it’ll be fluffy and more romantic oriented, the elements will come together better.
Hi! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Definitely agree on all your points. We are also interested about the fan disk though we don’t think we will be purchasing - let us know your thoughts if you do! 💖
Can y'all do reviews for games from Otomate? we all know they are superior to Voltage 😂
LOL The shade! Otomate games we rarely finish all the way through since they can be 40-60+ hours in length whereas this one was 25. We may do a review on VariBarri soon though and/or talk about our thoughts on some otomate games in general for a pod. VariBarri would be the first Otomate game we completed in full aside from Kayla's amnesia memories playthrough! Oh and Yana has finished Code Realize!
@@latteandfoam 😂 ok yes that was shade. As longtime voltage fan I love their games but there's plenty of room for improvement.
@@peachiest_peach9613 definitely and they haven’t been improving 😆