April 22, 2024
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Author: Andrew Osmond.
Many readers of this blog will know what a dating sim is. This is a computer game in which your character develops a romantic relationship with someone else, usually one of several “possible” characters.
In fact, the definition is more controversial than that. The above description can be applied to many visual novels where relationships are important in branching stories, including epic fateful night and Steins;Gate. But you’ll find people online claiming that dating sims are no Visual novel. Instead, dating sims should be viewed as a different type of game, typically focusing on saying the right thing to the right person at the right time, with you graded on how well your relationship is going.
Visual novels aside, dating sims are a blurry continuum. Some action role-playing games contain dating simulation elements, including persona and Sakura Wars series. But one obvious way to categorize a dating sim is into male and female. Dating sims in which girls woo boys are known as “girly” games and range from fantasy to Alice Heart Country to history Hakuoukiboth adapted into animation.
One of the jokes inside Falling into a dating sim Its hapless hero finds himself trapped in an “otome” game, ultimately turning it into a boy-dates-girl game. But this was definitely not his intention. He wants to have as little involvement in dating sims as possible. He is initially unnamed (which is the case with many game characters at the beginning until named by the player). We join him as he plays what he considers to be a chronically terrible otome game. He is only struggling because he is being blackmailed by his sister. (What was on his sister is a mystery, but it must be something very dirty.)
So our hero Hate plays the brave girl protagonist of the game in a posh school full of cute boys who love her, mean girls who hate her, and endless tea parties. Even more incongruously, there are monster-filled dungeons, flying motorcycles, and battles with giant robots. The “reason” is that this is a game made by a studio that generally caters to a male audience, undermines what it knows, and interferes with world-building. finally, after sky The difficulty of this nonsense is so high that players complete this stupid game. He stood up, walked outside…and, exhausted, fell down the steps of his apartment, apparently fatally.
Of course, he found himself stuck in a game that he hated so much, with its incoherent world-building and all. You think he’s going to be one of the main characters, but instead he finds himself reduced to a background actor, a common nobody. In RPG terms, he is a common or garden “mob”; the anime’s official subtitle is “The world of otome games is tough for mobs.” Only then was he given a name – he was Leon Fou Bartfort, the son of a minor baronet who didn’t even compete.
This suits Leon well. He’s happy to stay on the fringes of a story he hates, like a Tolkien hater hiding in the sixth nameless hobbit from the left. However, fate drags Leon into the plot through some silly and ridiculous tricks. First, he is threatened by marriage with greedy nobles – this is a matriarchal society. To avoid this, Leon goes on a treasure hunt, eventually finding an ancient artificial intelligence who becomes his secret confidant – we told you the world was built randomly. Leon’s plan is to find a wife in the game who has a lower status in school and live a quiet life. Only the success of his treasure hunt will elevate his status to Baron, forcing him to court the high-ranking ladies at the heart of the game…
As you may have gathered, this is not a power fantasy; It’s a farce about an otherwise predictable situation that escapes the protagonist’s control. As soon as Leon entered the academy, things went awry. The “main” girl (Olivia) is around, but she’s no longer the main character; the other girl seems to have stolen her script and story. Despite Leon’s cynicism, he couldn’t help but feel sorry for the lonely Olivia, and also for Angelica, the game’s designated “villain” who treated her betrothed prince with a stranger Flirting feels angry. Before long, Leon’s planned peaceful life was forgotten as he fought monsters, dueled in mechas, and enjoyed being the school’s pariah without noticing how much he was interfering with events. But when he lets the characters around him rest Character and growth beyond their script, will he learn to grow himself?
The series is adapted from the light novel by Mishima Yumu (like many successful LN series, it also spawned a manga). Given that “reincarnation” devices are a staple of Japanese portal fantasies, it’s no surprise Falling into a dating sim begins at pine snowflakes website, where a lot of these stories started. Some fans complained that the series felt nothing like Play A dating sim, but this will definitely broaden its audience. Aside from the laughably counter-world-building, where you go from school to flying island to gleaming spaceship in an instant, the main punchline seems to be how one character’s mistake can mess up a predictable romance — and Shrek. There was also a strange girl who stole the B heroine role. In the words of fans, she is trying to turn a Mary Sue into a Mary Sue.
According to reports, “otome game” stories are currently very popular in light novels and comics. As of this writing, there is an animated series Why did Leliana end up at the Duke’s Palace?, from Korean novels and comics. This is not an otome game, but another story where a character (a woman) reincarnates and rewrites a story from the inside where romance and murder are intertwined. Of course, there are also animated adaptations I fell in love with the evil girlher reincarnation of a white-collar lady begins to turn a “straight” otome story into a Yuri The romance of her dreams.
Andrew Osmond is 100 animated feature films. Falling into a dating sim Distributed in the UK by Crunchyroll.
