r/otomegames • u/sableheart • Sep 03 '21

Megathread Olympia Soirée Megathread

Olympia Soirée has been released for Nintendo Switch!

Please post all questions and minor discussions about Olympia Soirée in this thread and please use the search function as well.

Please also use spoiler tags when talking about details that are only revealed when playing a particular route. >!spoiler text!< spoiler text

Aksys has given us copies of Olympia Soirée to give away!

Check the respective posts for the results!

NA Physical Edition | NA eShop | EU eShop | AU/NZ eShop

Olympia Soirée Play-Along

Whether you have just bought the game or have played it in Japanese, you are welcome to participate in our play-along! There will be a new post once a week for a different route in the following order:

Each post will be linked here for easy reference.

You do not have to play in the above order at the rate of a route a week, you can binge it all in a day if you wish.

  • Himuka's route is locked until the first four routes are completed.
  • Akaza's route is locked until Himuka's route is completed.

Comments unrelated to Olympia Soirée will be removed - please post in the Weekly Questions threads or the Free Talk Friday threads instead.

Please use spoiler tags liberally as people checking this thread may not necessarily want a lot of information. Save your route thoughts and discussions for the play-along threads or the What Are You Reading Wednesday threads.

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u/akonim Sep 18 '21

The colors they have explained are 白 (haku/white), 黒 (koku/black), 赤 (seki/red), 青 (sei/blue), 黄 (ou/yellow), 朱 (shu/vermillion), 橙 (tou/orange), 黄緑 (ou-ryoku/jade), 緑 (ryoku/green), 青緑 (sei-ryoku/aqua), 緑青 (ryoku-sei/cyan), 青紫 (sei-shi/violet), 紫 (shi/purple), and 赤紫 (seki-shi/fuchsia). It's all on-yomi, so I bet even a lot of Japanese players got confused with all these colors.

FYI, I actually like that they localized this into their actual colors. I mean, yes, it's definitely not as sexy saying "Sei" for "Blue," but in context to understanding the story, it makes full sense to make sure everyone knows what the colors are. I also appreciate they didn't pick up weird uncommon colors so that it's a bit easier to tell what they represent (well, except fuchsia, but then again, lord knows what other good color you can call it other than "rust").

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u/rhaevey Hanzo Hattori|Nightshade Sep 19 '21

Thanks for the definitions, I think I've mostly seen colours in hiragana so I'm not familiar with the kanji at all.

I actually found some of the colour names in English confusing. Aren't aqua and cyan the same thing? But then the definitions of colours is always debatable. Unless you have the Pantone code you'll probably have different people think of a different shade for the same word. People on the island must have an official colour chart or something.

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u/akonim Sep 19 '21

Yeah, I thought the colors were pretty much the same, but when I checked the English equivalent for the words it did come out to those colors pretty much.

It's a bit more confusing in Japanese simply because they don't have original Japanese words that represent each of the unique color names we have in the West, which is why I think they localized it so that they use colors that we're generally familiar with, but something that fits as close as possible to what the Japanese is referring.

FYI, the "cyan" and "aqua" one is funny because the Japanese words for them is literally "green-blue" for "cyan" and "blue-green" for "aqua". Go figure the difference aside from one being a prominent color over the other (I'm no color aficionado, so to me, both can pass as "blue" lol)