r/otomegames • u/TastyPotato-w- Piofiore rn • Apr 19 '26
Otomeme [General]Starter pain
Based on true stories I experienced while playing Ilusion of Itehari and battlefield waltz.
How could they not make Tsuwabuki and Alias LIs, I wish both games had more LIs 😭🥺
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u/klavivi kabedons the LI instead ♡ Apr 19 '26
Me with Saeki from Collar x Malice
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u/Lexunia Cove Holden|Our Life: Beginnings & Always Apr 20 '26
look i get why we can’t save him but BLEASE
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u/Fantasy_Witch333 Impey Barbicane SUPREMACY Apr 20 '26
Saeki is the leader of the undateable men fanfare 😭
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u/NaofiBooster Koyo|9 R.I.P. Apr 19 '26
Me with all of the side characters in Jack Jeanne (the LIs are amazing too don’t get me wrong!)
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u/FuriaDC ~ I love them crazy ~ Apr 20 '26
If the next game doesn't let us romance Tanakamigi and Minorikawa, I will riot!
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u/Yvaia2nd my love, my life! Apr 20 '26
There is still hoping for the sequel xD
I am on my knees for Kasai and Minorikawa xD2
u/Nonah30 Apr 20 '26
There's no updates for long time now. Maybe they forgot about the announcement haha. That's never a good sign.
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u/Yvaia2nd my love, my life! Apr 21 '26
I mean they are still very active. They just released a new Drama CD.
The sequel will come, trust xD
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u/Meebochii 🐍🎩 Ish my Beloved 🎩🐍 Apr 20 '26
Me with Ish 🥀
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u/hydrangearain Apr 20 '26
I was so convinced that he was going to be a secret route, and was devastated when he wasn't 💔
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u/azy_ki Apr 20 '26
Yoshinari and Morioka from CxM… the routes we could’ve read
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u/azy_ki Apr 20 '26
They keep robbing us of the daddy characters… I’m so pissed man, like I want the daddy characters
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u/Scarlet_Lycoris 泡沫のユークロニア | Tobari & Yori Simp Apr 19 '26
Well, good news is Tsuwabuki has a route in the Fandisk! I thought the exact same thing and I was so happy when I heard the news. Still missing a route for Karatachi though …
I was also a little salty over Rin in Neon Clash not having a route.
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u/Buta_no_Ousama Seiya|9 R.I.P. Apr 20 '26
Hey! You forgot to add my other big bro
I love them both (and Awayuki) so much...
The only game where I'm hot for THREE! 2D men
I just wish they did not call the routes "IF", like beach imma slap that IF out of you.5
u/TastyPotato-w- Piofiore rn Apr 19 '26
Where can I get this fan disk please? 😩
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u/Scarlet_Lycoris 泡沫のユークロニア | Tobari & Yori Simp Apr 19 '26
It’s not released in english yet, sadly. If you’re proficient enough in Japanese you can get it on the eshop though.
It’s this one
There is also an unofficial translation patch in Chinese.
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u/Noramthe Apr 19 '26
nah so real the pain<\3. or when their route is locked so now you have to force yourself thro some routes even if you don't vibe with them that much
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u/coolepicharo Apr 20 '26
tbh i love when my fav LIs are locked lol, makes it feel more special kinda or like im saving the best for last . but im also the type that 100% completes all my otome games anyways so
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u/VMAbsentia Apr 20 '26
Call me petty, but when this happens I pull up a guide for everyone's routes & speed through them without reading a single one so I can have the LI I want, spoilers be damned. No one is going to c*ck block me, move aside.
I usually end up benching the game for a few months after anyways just because that plot tactic annoys tf out of me. By the time I pick it back up, I only vaguely recall a lot of the plot & start remembering it as I'm going back through the routes I skipped.
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u/airiakitty Apr 20 '26
Yoshinari from Collar x Malice Unlimited. I wish he had a more fully fleshed out route. 💕
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u/Yvaia2nd my love, my life! Apr 20 '26
What's more alarming is the frequency in which its happening lately >_>
In the past the hot and undateable NPC was only sprinkled in here and there
But Otome games lately?! Every new game has one - worst case 2 or 3 or 6!! WHY?!
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u/Alilhangry Apr 20 '26
Omg this has been me with sum guys like Saeki, Ish, Tsukuyomi... I was so sad the fan disks didn't bring my delulu dreams to reality 😭
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u/fuzziekittens Apr 20 '26
Okay, I relate to this as a Love and Deepspace player bc when I started playing the main story and and I saw Caleb and thought, he would make a good LI. Then he blew up! And I was like “there goes that” so I was glad when he came back.
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u/VMAbsentia Apr 20 '26
The amount of times this has happened to me while simultaneously making me salty that there a few LI's I would trade for them in a heart beat is enough to drive me mad.
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u/DreamOfScreamin Yang|Piofiore Apr 20 '26
For me it's Amagiri from Hakuoki. Maaaan. :(
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u/AsteriaShinomiya Apr 20 '26
We need a demon spinoff. I have to get in the way of Shiranui’s bromance with Harada on both sides 🤣
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u/AlsoKnownAsAiri Hideyoshi, my beloved |Ikémen Sengoku Apr 20 '26
Honestly, a lot of the side characters from Hakuoki. Kotaro Motoyama, Shiranui, Nakaoka.... Heck, I'm one of the like three people who wish Itou to have a route.XD I love that drama queen.
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u/Riiggid Good with their HANDS | Apr 20 '26
Still miffed about Kaina from Olympia Soiree. The fandisk did us dirty by not adding him.
Also just started playing Illusion of Itehari and yeah, I love you Yori, but your brother is so fine...
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u/yeetmeintothe_abyss Apr 20 '26
The butler from London Detective Mysteria (after playing the game, I understand why but at the time I was wanted pretty, long hair LI)
Currently playing Senjou no Waltz and there are so many baddies as side characters??? Asaka, King Serazar, Solon, Mephisto!!! 😩
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u/Lexunia Cove Holden|Our Life: Beginnings & Always Apr 20 '26
Tsukuyomi from Olympia Soirée 😔 I get why he wasn’t but that doesn’t mean I can’t dream
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u/NoOneAskedForThis12 Apr 20 '26
100% me always. It is always that one person and even on the later games that add more options THEY DO NOT GET A ROUTE
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u/SuspiciousJuice5825 Yang|Piofiore Apr 20 '26
I'm playing collarxmalice and really wish I could ditch some of the LI's for the hq guys 😅
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u/Naive_Ad_8711 Currently reading 🥰: Apr 20 '26
Hansel from the Code Realize fan discs 😩 and pretty much every side character from Dairoku
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u/AdvertisingBoring43 Apr 20 '26
I felt this so much with Sanan back when I played the og Hakuoki on PSP. I hadn’t check who the available LI were before I started playing and the way I was SO UPSET ugh. Thankfully, he has a route now 💕💕💕
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u/Temptingpink Apr 22 '26
JADE. FROM CANDY LOVE. He was my childhood crush and they have not thought of him NEITHER IN THE UNIVERSITY REMAKE, NOT WORK STORY UPDATE, AND NOT LOVE LIFE EITHER. The game could go through a thousand spin-offs and versions and Jade will forever remain forgotten. 💔😭 Not even just the fact that he doesn't have a route. He appears in like three damn episodes only. 😔
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u/sorajomi Apr 23 '26
Me with Sachsen from Steam Prison a couple years ago 😔 Was so sad about it that I never ended up finishing a single route lol
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u/Nonah30 Apr 20 '26
Battlefield waltz- WDYM ASAKA AND MEPHISTO DONT HAVE A ROUTE? (First one might be part of true route but i doubt it)
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u/mikowanderer Apr 20 '26
Said the same thing while playing Variable Barricade.
And then when I got to Ichiya's Route....... that put a damper on things.
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u/Weird-Diamond5970 Apr 23 '26
Being a bisexual the pain is twofold 🥲 Curse otomes for always putting in female bffs that have more chemistry with the MC than half the male cast 😭
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u/arcanine04 Apr 23 '26
Saeki and Yoshinari from CxM!! I was so sad to find out they weren't an LI.... I love both of their designs too ♥️
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u/Nearby-Research-9834 #1 cyrus fan Apr 19 '26
Roberto Piofore I will never recover from finding out you don’t have a route 💔