Hi. It's yo favorite n word; giving you summaries of the Tri Stone Era. This go around; these are characters hailing from Story #13: Bringing the Signz. It's a story about an elven (disregard the lack of ear art) fantasy, high in magical content & potency world. Big huge massive planet with six continents, a south pole & a north pole. All lands are highly magical, fruitful, bountiful, mysterious & the thing that's going to always be there; dangerous.
These two groups of characters are fairies & solo elves. In a clockwise motion, starting at noon; the Fairy of Our Sun, the Fairy of Death, the Fairy of Treats, the Fairy of Hearts, the Fairy of Rainbows & the Fairy of Sounds. Fairies are like gods, they belong to where thrones are said to be. They are the heart of nations in a grand scheme, how the people treat them determines how prosperous a nation's lands will be. They are home to the temple under the castles/thrones but have free range of doing whatever they desire.
The soloists, in a clockwise motion; starting at the top... Slauta Cra is a traveling sorceress, always ready to slaughter; fucking always. Mystara, she's a tale of tales created by the Ladies of the Tri Stone Era; you'll discover her target someday. Collette is a traveling wizardress; always up for ruining societies. 3 Zhipper, formerly a slave; luck blessed him highly someday to the point that he is now a mage with three huge chips on his shoulder. Halvory, the leader of a community of the Zoristas Continent; he is revered as a hero amongst his people & will help the Five Brothers bring royalty back to Zoristas. Finally, Gred Galius; a man filled to the brim with revenge against the Brotherhood. By any means necessary will be a detriment to all societies.
Hello, the other day you told me that you played Wizardess Heart, how was you experience with that one? For me was my second otome after MCL and I was actively playing it since 2016. Today the game ended (or more like stopped updating) and sadly we got a very rushed ending and broken promises on routes and spinoff that would never be. I wish we have a response on why all this happened like this, but still is a game I keep so dear to my heart ❤️
I used to play the game a long time ago on facebook, you got me curious so I checked and I found out I used to play the game in 2015. I don’t remember absolutely anything, some little bits and pieces here and there, like main guy who used to turn into a little pig guhijhjlk I looked at all the routes, I played the first 10 and apparently there are 33? Gosh... someone should tell Beemoov...
As I said I don’t remember anything but looking through my old account my eyes rested on Klaus and my heart skipped a bit, the hearts remember things the mind doesn’t. He was main boy’s older brother, right? And I see TWO Klaus in the list? What’s that about?
Yes I’m pretty sure he was my favourite, I also have this vague memory I used to like all of them really but Yukiya too a bit more and was Azusa the antagonist? I think I remember I was excited to play his route because it was the bad guy’s route but it ended up being a bit disappoiting.
All in all I think I stopped because the game was a bit childish for me, did it... evolve in time? 👀
I know I say this around Chapter 7 of almost every new Guy (except Hisaka❤) but I just cannot get into the story. I am still weirded out/uncomfortable with the MC dating her former Headmaster. Do I stay with Willem? Is the payoff worth it or do I switch midstream to this new hottie Noix?
So the first thing I want to talk about is the Shall we Date series. They are a japanese group that develops dating sim games mostly for smartphones, but you can also link the game to your facebook account and play it from there. Now I have a lot to say about them because most of the games I’ve played so far are from this company.
The first thing I’ll point out is that all of the games have an interesting system of “rewards”. Of course, all gaming apps will want you to go back to them periodically, and this series has its own system of “tickets” that you have to use to read each part of a chapter of the story. When I first started to play, I thought I could read as many chapters as I wanted (oh silly me) but it turns out each ticket takes 4 hours to reload (cries) and there’s a limit of 5 free tickets (so you have to keep using them to get more). You also have two types of currency: normally jewels/coins, which are paid for with real money or earned very scarcey in the game (I’ll probably write a post about tapjoy later lol), and some other type of currency (they vary in name: lune, token, etc.) that is earned through the mini games (or as rewards) of each game. Both of these currencies are needed in the game, usually when the story reaches a certain point where you have to chose to either take a “premium” route or a “normal” route - the premium is usually to have a more “special” moment with the character of your choosing. It makes a lot of difference in some games, I found, and I’ll write a review on that later.
In every game of this franchise there’s an avatar that you can dress up (the heroine aka you) and a mini game, that you necessarily have to play to earn enough points (lady level, magic grade, sweetie points, etc.) and demands “energy”. This energy, much like the tickets, is recovered slowly and you have the option to use recovery items. The points that you earn playing these mini games are used later in the game to pass challenges - so my advice for you is play them as often as possible so you have enough points to pass the challenges later in the game with no problems! There’s also the possibility of buying these points, but they usually cost real money (aka coins/jewels). The mini games consist, in almost every game, of something like a competition; your avatar is compared to a random one, and you have to “guess” if you have more (style points, charm level, etc) than that other person, which you acquire the more dressing items you have (I think that’s their way of stimulating you to buy more in-game clothes). You also get (romance points) from this mini game and you can “make a date” - it’s really just points to play a slot and get free things.
(Honestly, writting it down like this it seems like a lot but it really isn’t and you get used to this type of game pretty fast, and soon enough you’ll create a habit. If you’re a chill player I envy you, because I created a very methodic habit around these games lol.)
In each game you normally choose one character to be your love interest and the decisions you make in the game impact your finale with this character - you have to raise your “intimacy level” to a certain point to get a happy ending, which is a little tricky in games like Lost Alice where you have not two, but three options of dialogue to choose from. Of course, like everything in the Shall we Date games, if you don’t have enough intimacy to be with that one guy you like, you can always buy his affection.
Jokes aside, you could literally buy your way through these games - but that would cost you around US$260 for one single character (I calculated it very poorly but it would be something around that).
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Review time!
I like most Shall we Date games. It’s an option for you if you like sappy romances like me and enjoy shoujo mangas but wants something more interactive or different. If you’re into Harem, that’s definetely your thing. I’ll be reviewing each game individually, but I thought this one developer deserved my special attention, because their MO is basically the same with every game. There are some slight changes in each gameplay (maybe they’re trying to test which one works better?) that led me to choose one game over another - for instance, the Wizardress Heart series doesn’t demand that you “buy” a scene of MC and the love interest, they “give” you the picture, and so far I think this is the only game that does this (correct me if I’m wrong), other games usually only “give” you the happy ending picture and the rest are “premium story” pictures (can you tell I’m bitter over that?). I’ll give this game a proper review, which I’m still developing a criteria to, but I think it’s gonna be something like this (the importance of these items are in no particular order):
1. Story
2. Artwork
3. Avatar Items
4. MC’s personality
5. Mini-games
6. Reward system
7. Events
8. Love interests (ofc)
I think for now that’s it. If I find something else important, I’ll add!
Thanks for getting this far! Bear in mind english is not my first language and I’m looking forward to developing my writting skills. I’m just doing this for fun and maybe help someone who’s thinking of starting to play one of these games, and of course, this is my personal opinion on them.