- How do you feel about the premise of this story?
This is perhaps the greatest parody humor I've seen apart from EarthBound. (personally)
So I'd say... You cannot grasp the true form of the circle's flirt? XD
But seriously:
If I think that I had to fight an enemy called "Abstract Art" in EarthBound, I think it kind of makes sense why I remembered it.
Well why not! When I scrolled the post, I didn't notice at the first exact second that the shapes were the "romanceables", and actually realized it on the second second. Which amplified the hilarity, of course, since I was like "Oh?" when I saw those simply colored shapes in the first second, and then I simply had to tell someone on Skype how hilarious it felt, especially quoting the part "a tsundere yellow triangle."As a whole, the premise is something I wouldn't expect in its exact from you, yet I am not surprised in a way, and it shows you have a good taste, the way I see it.
- Given the minimal information provided, which "romanceable" seems most interesting to you, and why?
I'll be honest and say that you tend to design romanceables which generally cause a lot of indecisiveness in my mind, same thing happened with the other game.
This is no exception, but let me say it like this:
I generally don't like circles because they can't tesselate.
While I like squares, the simple personality you showed seemed that the blue square is rather mellow in a weird way, which caused some "distortion" for me.
Yellow Tsundere
I'm not really a fan of yellow, though, and while I think triangles are awesome, I am still indecisive.
So in the end I don't know at all.
But it's a good bet that Yellow Tsundere Triangle made me laugh even more than the average EarthBound gag. I am actually combining colors with shapes as well in my project, though I use a little different method of colors.
- What are your feelings about otome games in general? What about blatantly ridiculous "otome" games?
Since you asked for "feelings" about it, I will answer generously on this one:
If making blatantly ridiculous otome games makes you happy, then I wish you that happiness, since it's something that I actually admire, but I am not sure if I would do that myself.
Answering this in reversed order, I never played an otome game, but it's clear that your otome games are going to be the first otome games I'll play, while I could easily browse for some free otome games to try the genre sooner, I'm kind of a person who finds things indirectly. Generally coincidences and interesting combinations of events in my life lead me to some things in my own ways. That's perhaps with a lot of things I am interested in, though not limited to interests alone.
I'd like to say that I generally can't imagine the actual feeling of being a female, though it's kind of interesting when I think about it that otome games might pretty certainly have some value for me as well. Clearly, writing from such a viewpoint might need quite some attention, as I believe it got to me that there are even tutorials how to properly write an otome game. While I wouldn't truly need those tutorials, I'm not really sure if I would make some things right.
It makes me think, and that means it's awesome. Maybe just like Korean pop makes me think, even though I don't listen to it often/nearly at all.
There is always something fun about trying new things and new genres altogether. I want to note that I am a person who wants to write several fiction novels, but can you guess what I read? I mostly read books about real life topics, rather than fiction. I don't understand this approach completely, but it seems that I seem to read only books about how to manage life better, how to manage stress, how to be a better person, and then there are books about sciences such as feng shui. I actually didn't read a fictional novel other than Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, and I read that in 2012-2013 I think, and I can't remember reading anything else around that time.
While that might not really relate to otome games, I am trying to understand myself a little more, and my thought patterns seem to be sometimes difficult to figure out for myself, as we are not always aware why we do some things. Because of that, I'd actually like to say that otome games are something mysterious for me, and I'd gladly play one sooner, but something is stopping me. Moving back to Korean pop music, I noticed the style uses a melodic "fiber" that seems to make me puzzled, it makes me think of the genre in a confused way, and I am perhaps confused about otome games as well, even though I didn't play one yet.
Really, it might be a bad idea to ask a person who hasn't played a single otome game about otome games, but I thought I would share my feelings anyway.
- What are your feelings about terrible puns?
As long as puns aren't obscene, they are perfect for me, and I can accept them positively. Now, terrible puns? Well, there are some puns even in my project, but I am not really able to distinguish if they are terrible or not. The way you call the example puns terrible, I think they are rather essentially deserving a chuckle, and I think they are worth having. I am not sure about other people, but judging by people's reactions, I'm not mistaken I guess.
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I can imagine the romance though, but words don't come to my mind exactly, rather, I am imagining....skits. For some odd reason your game reminded me of a Japanese series of sokoban-like puzzle games called Pazoo (not 100% sure about name), while I couldn't read the Japanese because of non-eastern Windows OS/correct language locale settings not supporting unicode, there were some illustrations, and to me it seemed like the protagonists typically found themselves in some weird zoo worlds. Then again, I don't know the story of those games at all, but for some reason I got reminded of them. Somewhat funny.
-Geistbas
