Sweet Fuse: At Your Side is delightful but only available for Sony PSP or Vita (and the latter is pretty much the best way to play this sort of game IMO.) Mystery, wacky hijinks, and a protagonist who's ready and willing to tell the other characters when they're being stupid. Posted by clearlydemon at 9:47 PM on Decemīest answer: Otome and visual novel are indeed the terms you want, and there are a decent number of good ones in English that aren't horrible in various ways. Google "let's play" and the name of the game. If you want to see a game for yourself without playing it, there are a few communities that play the games on forums, posting screenshots.
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This article has a few other recommendations, including a couple of free to play games.Īlso, English Otome Games has a lot of information on the genre. Hatoful Boyfriend and Hakuoki are very very popular, for different reasons that have already been explained. You basically have to poke a fully dressed guy with your stylus. It has a skinship feature, but it is way more innocent than it sounds. If your daughter already has a Nintendo DS, Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side: 1st Love is a great option. It allows same sex relationships, but there's nothing raunchy. You might want to ask your daughter if that's acceptable. It was made in the US but has an anime style.
Magical Diary is a game about a girl who attends a magical school (think Harry Potter's Hogwarts). They seem to be kinda cookie-cutter though, so maybe she should try one first instead of buying a bunch. has published several otome games in English. Posted by tickingclock at 9:37 PM on Decemīest answer: Yes, otome games is what you're looking for. If your daughter ends up playing this game, I hope you let me know which boy she likes the best. It's super fun and cute, and I really enjoyed it. The endings that I found weren't disturbing at all, though some were quite sad (memory loss). I didn't discover all endings, and I note that the review says some of the endings are "extremely dark,"īut I think this game might be appropriate for your kid. The owner of the speakeasy turns out to be a trans woman, and this is treated extremely well. There are three guys with different personalities to choose from, who are all sweet in their own way. The main character is a teenaged Chinese-American girl, who works at a speakeasy with magic users, and discovers that she herself has secret magic powers. The story takes place during the prohibition. The studio is American (or English-speaking, anyway), but the style is done in a pretty anime style, so your daughter may enjoy it anyway. Posted by Dalby at 7:34 PM on Decemīest answer: I had a good time with The Blind Griffin, which is a free dating stim/otome/visual novel created by an indie studio. Then again, vndb includes some sadist tags for the game, so maybe that's a heads up that there's something potentially foul going on. For instance, Diabolik Lovers is listed as an Otome Game with No Sexual Content, but if you check out the reviews of the anime adaptation, you'll see people mentioning the female lead being abused, having no self-esteem, but staying around the guys she's around. Sometimes a VN has been adapted into an anime show, and you can read reviews about that show too to get a better picture. You may have to try to look for reviews or blog comments about the VN in question. Despite a VN matching the above tags, they may still perpetuate unhealthy attitudes to relationships (sometimes subtly, other times not - though the latter may be less of an issue if they're understood beforehand as being unhealthy representations). This might be a bit difficult to filter out. Posted by Dalby at 7:19 PM on Decemīest answer: I forgot to address the part about: "I would like it not to be gross and awful to women." If you run into any issues or have any further questions, feel free to send me a message. vndb lists at the bottom of each page all the releases, so you can see if there is an English one.
You may run into issues however with a lot of these games not having official English releases. These games are usually aimed at a female audience." Here's a filter for "otome game" and "no sexual content". vndb gives a description of that tag as: "a game with a female protagonist, with the central focus on developing a relationship with one or more male characters. Here's a filter with the above three tags, but also a high school tag, which'll probably give you a good selection of your standard, school life, romance VN.Īnother tag that might be relevant would be "otome game". You can then sort by rating/popularity/score. Here's a filter which shows all the visual novels which: have no sexual content, have romance, and have a female protagonist. has a database of them which you can filter through tags. Best answer: Your daughter is essentially interested in Japanese visual novels.
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