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‘Does anyone remember Rules of Engagement ? It's been a while and haven't seen many people talk about it.’

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[yourqueenb]

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[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews- Rules of Engagement

Welcome to the first official Cadybear's Reviews post! We'll be starting with Rules of Engagement, which I have ranked on the "Bronze Tier" at 5 stars out of a possible 10.

Frankly, ROE was a mixed bag for me.

To start off, I know everyone and their Nana has complained about it before, but I found it incredibly pointless that our MC could only have male love interest options. There was literally nothing about her storyline that would make zero sense with a female LI. “But Audrey and Mira–” yes but they’re love interests for established side characters that you play as, rather than love interests for the character that is meant to be “your character”. Luckily this is the only time PB has ever done a male-LIs-for-MC-only story, but still. 

Not that having a female love interest option would have changed how bland MC’s romance is. Even though the love interests we do get were nice characters, the romances between them and the MC are incredibly empty. I guess that’s to be expected when your nana basically forces you to marry by the end of the summer in order for you to get your inheritance, but yeah. 

Most of the other romances aren’t much better. Audrey is incredibly unfair to Bookish Twin in the first two books, crying about how she “doesn’t care about her” just because she chose to focus on pursuing her career instead of Nana’s stupid list (can we please retire this trope already holy fuck). Though their moments in Book 3 and onwards were thankfully more pleasant.

Brother and Elena’s romance was weird with some ups and downs, but it became a hot mess in the Jeff Willoughby arc. I don’t even know what was going on in there. And it was even worse in Newlyweds; while Elena has every right to be upset about Brother not telling her about his ex-wife from over a year ago, she acts ridiculously petty and immature towards him over it and that made the story very unpleasant. 

About the only romances that weren’t clusterfucks were Party Twin’s romances (and even then, her sole female love interest option is very sidelined) and Cousin’s romance with Chaz. I mean, they were just as shallow as the MC’s romance, but they at least felt less rushed? Considering they didn’t get married, after all.

And what I think bugs me most of all, something that I think does not get criticized nearly enough as it should: The fact that this entire story revolves around Nana having fucking quid pro quos on the shares of the inheritance money. Like… why is she putting weird conditional challenges on inheritance? Who the fuck does that?

"Oh my dear daughter MC has to find love and get married by the end of the summer in order to get her inheritance owo!" Bitch what if she ends up being aro or demi??? Or is just not ready to marry yet- especially since she spent the first two books, y’know, escaping an unfaithful and manipulative partner???? She's the last person who would be ready to marry right away. 

"My son please marry your girlfriend of two years" but then the next thing you know they break up because they realized they’re a lesbian and a gay man. What are you gonna do then, Nana? Huh?? Huh??? Does Brother not get his inheritance if he’s gay??? 

"Party Twin must hold a job for the summer" oh yeah because that's just sooooo easy isn't it? I mean it’s not like unemployment is a major issue in today’s society or anything.

"Bookish Twin has to do this list of trying new things" and why, why, why, why, WHY is getting a tattoo on this list? As someone who is kinda very squeamish about tattoo pen needles, I would tell Nana to fuck right off, and then get a temporary tattoo instead because fuck you. And if Dinesh bitches about it being a temporary tattoo and not a real one, I WILL drop kick his ass.

And this isn’t even getting into all the other fucking challenges that Nana adds onto the first ones. Like, Nana, I get you're trying to teach the kids about family and loyalty and adventure, but putting tasks onto your grandkids’ inheritance is just such a dick move. 

Fuck the Nana honestly, she’s the real villain of this story. Yeah she’s even worse than the fucking Aunt. YEAH I SAID IT. In fact how don’t I know the Aunt wouldn’t even be horrible in the first place had she not been raised by a mother who thinks it’s okay to put these kinds of quid pro quos on inheritance. Turned her into a greedy, competitive, abusive bitch raising her under that mindset. Fuck you, Nana. (Okay, okay, I’m getting a bit extreme here). 

Anyways. Instead, I think we should have gotten a story about the siblings and cousin wanting to get this inheritance, but having difficulty meeting the stupid quid pro quos, and then eventually admitting to themselves that the stupid quid pro quos are indeed stupid, and then finding ways to cheat the quid pro quos, and doing so successfully. 

For example:

MC tries to fall in love with someone, but realizes she’s rushing too quickly after getting cheated on, then agrees to have a fake marriage with the person (who is knowing of the fake marriage), only to divorce them right after they get the money. And then we get to decide if she wants to start building an actual romance with them or not. 

Brother and Elena realize they’re a lesbian and a gay man and don’t want to marry, so they have a mutually-agreed-upon lavender wedding and then divorce the moment the Brother gets his inheritance. 

I’m not sure about the rest of them, Bookish Twin could probably be the one who is most furious with Nana since she’s forced to get a tattoo, and so she gets a temporary tattoo because fuck the Nana. Party Twin, on the other hand, could be the one who minds it the least as she does seem to have motivation to hold a job for the summer, but she starts to come around when she realizes how difficult that is. IDK how she’s supposed to cheat hers tho.

But for all its problems and all the criticism it gets… I didn’t hate it. Even with the whole premise of the plot being fundamentally fucked up right from the start. It was only Choices’s 4th series, so it’s clear they were still working out a lot of things. And as shitty as Nana was for putting quid pro quos on the inheritance,I did also enjoy some of the family ties themes, as well as the Cousin’s redemption arc. It was pretty lightheated for the most part and it felt much easier to take it as a silly soap opera style story (compared to something like TNA or TBB) because it didn’t feel like it was forcing me to take it seriously.

Overall, the series as a whole to me was just lighthearted dumb fun with a little touch of emotional family themes. It has… a lot of glaring problems and it could have been much better, but ultimately, it’s not something to be taken too seriously.

[the-unconquered-queen]

Niche thing to rant about by now since RoE is irrelevant, but god, Alex (older brother) and Elena are so obnoxious in Newlyweds, especially Elena imo.

Don’t get me wrong, she’s justified in being pissed (lord knows if I found out my fiancé had a whole-ass previous marriage he was intentionally hiding from me I’d just dump him on the spot), but for whatever reason, this woman still insists on tagging along to all family outings and activities, just to be catty and passive-aggressive and ruin the vibe the whole time. Girl, at that point, opt out and stay home. Also, it’s all so dumb?? This man seriously gets exposed as a divorcee and his reaction is to just go “Uh-oh 😲” and then he spends the entire book trying to pretend he didn’t get exposed, trying to bribe Elena into playing nice with him, and then neither of them actually make an effort to talk about it until the very last chapter, where his explanation and her forgiveness together take about two minutes of conversation they easily could’ve gotten out of the way immediately instead of dragging it out. Newlyweds is not a bad book or anything, but they’re easily the worst part of it.

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[zahrafilms]

i will make a unpopular statement about rules of engagement 🏌so yeah don't egg me for that.

The fact it was the first book of choices whose was a total rep of filipines' descendants and they couldn't make the mc being a little more relatable, even if she was the whole "glue" of the plot, makes me angry for a lot of reasons 🕴for fuck's sake it's hard to make a female lead southeast asian look more interesting than her love interests? She was the older sister of a orphaned family, she and her brother should being more on each other since they were basically alone with two toddlers. It's a fact their grandparents took them in but nobody seems to realize that she was the older one, why everybody is egging on her for the plotline choices gave to her? It's a genuine question, because I don't see anybody being annoying with the fact the brother also didn’t demonstrate so much care in the whole series (or even regret for not being able to be there for them).

Also seeing everybody looking more after Leo who doesn't have much of a plot besides being a abdicated prince and now is a "free" man doesn't go well for me, for a instance. 🤨

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‘Rules of Engagement with the whole inheritance thing reminds me of Pilla Zamindar movie, except RoE is more bland.’

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[yourqueenb]

And what’s gonna happen if I don’t bestie

[cadybear420]

So I didn't mind ROE as a whole and found it mostly just dumb fun with a bit of family themes to it. But if we're gonna get critical about it then we as a fandom do not talk nearly enough about the fact that the entire story revolves around Nana having fucking quid pro quos on the shares of the inheritance money. Like am I the only one who has issues with the idea of putting weird conditional challenges on inheritance?

"Oh my dear granddaughter MC has to find love and get married by the end of the summer in order to get her inheritance owo!" Bitch what if she ends up being aro or demi??? Or is just not ready to marry yet- especially since she spent the first two books escaping an unfaithful and manipulative partner? She's the last person who would be ready to marry right away.

"My grandson please marry your girlfriend of two years in order to get your inheritance" but then the next thing you know they break up because they realized they’re a lesbian and a gay man. Or because they lost interest in each other because their relationship is a total clusterfuck. 

"Party twin must hold a job for the summer in order to get your inheritance" oh yeah because that's just sooooo easy isn't it? I mean it’s not like unemployment is a major issue in today’s society or anything. 

"Bookish twin has to do this list of trying new things in order to get your inheritance" and why is getting a tattoo on this list? As someone who is kinda squeamish about tattoo pen needles I would tell Nana to fuck right off, then get a temporary tattoo instead because fuck you. And if Dinesh bitches about it being a temporary tattoo and not a real one, I WILL drop kick his ass.

And this isn’t even getting into all the other bitchass challenges that Nana adds onto the first ones. Like, Nana, I get you're trying to teach the kids about family and loyalty and adventure, but some of these are the worst conditions you could put onto inheritance. 

This story would have been a lot more interesting if it was about the siblings and cousin wanting to get this inheritance, but having difficulty meeting the stupid quid pro quos, and then eventually realizing and admitting that the stupid quid pro quos are indeed stupid, and then finding ways to cheat the quid pro quos.

MC realizing she's not ready for a new relationship and faking a marriage with one of the LIs. Elena and Brother realizing they're both gay and then also faking a marriage to each other. Bookish Twin finds ways around the list of trying new things, including getting a temporary tattoo. Party Twin uhhh... IDK how she's gonna fake holding a job but if it doesn't work out we'll just have her knock out Dinesh and rob the money, IDGAF. Anything that is these characters refusing to cater to these stupid quid pro quos is fine by me. And the best part is you can still work in the family themes and the cousin's arc with the evil Aunt and all that.

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