#ntt solmare blood in roses

[ceragondubs]

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[girlinthetardis04]

You know what?

I really appreciate that Blood in Roses keeps rerunning old events even though the app was abandoned.

Thumbs up NTT Solmare, it's almost enough to make me forgive you for shutting down Story Jar before I could read Guilty Alice.

[hhoneypop]

@hhoneypop. — “ could get out of my hands when you lie in my bed, been tryna take it slow. . . ”

[dark-wizardess]

And we start off with what I love the most, Lore~ 😏👌 gotta love some lore.

[autumnlovesotome]

Okay. I'm back playing Wizardess Heart+ & Blood in Roses+ by Shall We Date? / NTT Solmare. I also downloaded the brand new social game, The Princess in the Mirror, by Voltage.

Here are my friend codes:

Wizardess Heart+

Blood in Roses+

The Princess in the Mirror

My name is the same in all three: Autumn Levain. If you send me a friend request and I can't accept it bc my list is full, feel free to send a little message here and I'll bump a random for you. Just keep in mind, I have a v limited friend list for the new Voltage game.

I am annoyed that BiR & WH didnt keep all my story ending process. It kept all my items, my coins, etc, but it says I've finished 2 endings in WH. Bitch, I played that game from release to when they released Leon - I finished EVERY available Happy Ending!

Same for BiR! I played that from launch until they released Finn, and it says I've completed 3 endings. I complete both Toccata and Staccato endings for every fricking character!

Oh well. I'm finishing Finn's route in BiR, since that was the one I was currently in the middle of, and I started over in WH. So I'm doing Elias's route.

Anyway. That's what's new! Here's hoping I remember I cant buy coins anymore, bc this time around, I'm broke! 😅😅

[cloudcountry]

HELPPPPO THE WITCH HUNT I WENT ON TO FIND THESE GAMES AGAIN (mostly blood in roses but whatevs)

context: blood in roses was one of my first otomes that i played way too young but i remember it every once in a while and i scoured everywhere for it. turns out it’s on a bundle with other apps by the same developers which were apparently NTT SOLMARE??????? so uh ig i didn’t realize the “shall we date thing” was a solmare thing and not just an otome thing. and they killed their other games in favor of obey me so fun

giggles in has downloaded wizardess heart

BUT YEA SOLMARE HAS A DEATH GRIP ON THE OTOME GAME INDUSTRY THEYRE EVERYWHERE

their games are always kinda meh though. cybird supremacy.

[prismatica-the-strange]

Prisma's Otome Game F/Os

I think it'd just be easier to separate them by brand first. (Screenshots & pictures from me and wiki)

Be My Princess Party

Roberto Button.

He's My number one Otome guy. I've played through his storyline a few times over the years and since the app still works I'm currently in the middle of a Joshua run (for the first time) and I desperately miss my Roberto.

Love Spirits (Hanabi Media) (Finished) (Unavailable)

Asim and Tahir (No Playlist Available)

Shall We Date (NTT Solmare) (I'll be honest I was busy with school and only finished like one of these stories)

These are no longer available to play but some have playthroughs on youtube

Gretel from My Fairy Tales+ (Unfinished) (Full Game Playlist)

Serge and Klaus from Wizardess Heart+ (Finished?) (Serge Playlist) (Klaus 1 Playlist)

My Ruvel and Raug from Angel or Devil+ (Unfinished for Ruvel) (Finished for Raug but it was nearly a decade ago) (Ruvel Playlist) (Raug Playlist)

Wesley from Oz+ (Unfinished) (Full Game Playlist)

Gordon from Blood in Roses+ (Unfinished) (Gordon Playlist)

Genius (I just started these but I love them)

Kit from Paranormal Cryptid Lovers (Unfinished) (Available)

Tarquinn from Monstrous Cravings (Unfinished) (Available)

And Possibly Cutthroat from Queen Pirate Love Adrift (Unfinished) (Available)

[angelicapocalypse]

• OML…. Who Knew Seth Was So Muscular ∑(ﾟДﾟ) •

[ceragondubs]

WOOHOO!! THE BLOOD IN ROSES FANDUB PROJECT IS FINALLY COMPLETED!!

[mallorygrayson]

[saorikuhara39]

If you know Obey Me and happen to see this post, please read.

This is from Kagura’s Normal Ending prize, from the game Ninja Shadow, a game made by Shall We Date, from NTT Solmare.

Would you look at the caption? It says, ‘Shall We Date? The No.1 Choice of Otome Game in the USA!’ This was back in December 2016.

Looking back, this is one big joke. ALL of the otome games from Shall We Date, of NTT Solmare have either stopped updating, or erased from existence. Yes, even that Story Jar app that they are trying to market so hard, had stopped updating.

Instead, they are trying to put all of their resources on their very popular Joseimuke game in English-speaking countries, Obey Me. At the point of writing, they are currently marketing their game to the Japanese audience, scheduled to be released in December 2020.

Many fans are praising the game and the development team non-stop, saying that it’s a great game with a great story. But did you know the story of what the company had made in the past, around 8-9 years ago? (Note: the following are my observations I’ve made so far from my 2 years of playing SWD games. I’m not a very long player of these games, so these are what I’ve known about according to my observations.)

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NTT Solmare, under their Shall We Date? name, have made otome games, LOTS of otome games exclusive to English that have many players liking and praising. But everything changed when the Apple Nation attacked, where they discourage the publishing of cookie cutter apps. (i.e. similar apps from the same company)

So, they tried to concentrate all their content into fewer apps. But some unknown circumstances from the company have made them keep changing directions all over. The original writers were gone, so the rest of the team which produced the games have no idea what they are writing for the characters’ routes and their sequels. (Guard Me, Sherlock is one example.) Then the company is driven by greed and wants the players’ money, more and more, to the point that they are too obvious. Players have commented their feedback on Facebook, but they all fell to blind eyes. They are a Japanese company, so for whether it’s a case of miscommunication of unable to convey the feedback in English to the Japanese staff, we’ll never know. Everything about their games went downhill.

In the end, the company that was once great has lost many players. The remaining players have to see their games shut down one by one. The games stopped updating without giving any notice, which of course, further upset the players.

Then they had Story Jar, an all-in-one app that they had built from scratch, which they plan to put their otome routes in, and include some non-otome stories in there as well. They tried to move the routes from Lost Alice in and they planned to continue developing stories form there. Alas, what the company received were major backlash and tons of angry reacts on their Facebook page. As the app is built from scratch, there is no way players can move their save data from the standalone apps to the Story Jar app. Also, players have to pay for premium choices with diamonds to get good endings, which they can do it FOR FREE in the standalone app. Which would you prefer, if you were the one playing it? Hence, due to various reasons on their own, Story Jar had stopped updating since April 2020.

And in the year 2020, they are going to stop having new events for the last of their three remaining otome games: Blood in Roses, Wizardess Heart, Ninja Shadow. This time, they did it with notice to players, so it wasn’t as bad as before.

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Back in 2019, Obey Me was announced. Back then, I was excited to play the game and even made the first ever fan art of Obey Me in existence, before the game release.

This post was published on 3 September 2019.

Then the game was released on December 2019. I thought it would be like any other game on the app store. But something unexpected to me happened - the game got EXPLOSIVELY POPULAR, thanks to the ads and marketing that were catered towards their English-speaking audience.

I’ve felt Envy. I was envious of the huge success that the game - the company - had become. The company had changed its gears, and succeeded. Seeing the praises from the unknowing new players had me jealous of their success, which I don’t think they deserved. They outsourced most of their game development to a different company, which means they are being run by a different team.

The company might have changed, sure. But that doesn’t change the fact that I despise them, and I’m still living under Solmare’s shadow. I tried hard to get behind it, but well, even in the game they are so proud of, their true colours start to show: Harder lessons that are impossible to beat without a UR card or using a glowstick; lesser opportunities to get Devil Points as you play (which in turn will have you to spend real money on them if you’re desperate); increased variety of items needed to unlock spaces in Devil’s Tree; decreased drop rates for items in lessons, etc.

I like the characters, but what’s the use if I cannot enjoy the game and end up frustrating myself?

So, with a heavy heart, I’ve decided to quit. After Ninja Shadow’s last day of update, I will stop playing all SWD games. I will stop living under Solmare’s shadow, and be free.

[dark-wizardess]

So... since I've been getting back to playing Otome game I decided to start one of my earliest ever otomes along with wizardess Heart... that being blood in roses.

So my question to you guys is this: Which ending is supposed to be the happy one exactly? 😅 no seriously someone tell me before I waste my tickets on the wrong ending.

P.s should I also go back to love Tangle? 🤔

[kaitome]

Hello!

This is a side blog! I purged my main blog and switched it to kaitome-main so I will be replying to comments under that! I would love to be friends with people who share the same interests, please feel free to leave comments or recommendations on my posts! My ask box is also always open! 😀

Games I play:

Cybird

Ikemen Sengoku

Ikemen Revolution

Ikemen Vampire

Ikemen Prince

Midnight Cinderella

NTT Solmare

Obey Me

Voltage Inc.

Samurai Love Ballad Party

Court of Darkness

Mihoyo

Tears of Themis

Genshin Impact

Games I played:

Cinderella Phenomenon

Mystic Messenger

Code: Realize (and Future Blessings)

Collar x Malice (and Unlimited)

Indefinite Hiatus

Blood in Roses+

Guard Me, Sherlock+

Wizardess Heart+

Love Tangle+

Destined to Love

Ninja Shadow

Lost Alice

[obeymeprompts]

Otome Game reviews? SEE HERE!

So, I’ve been away due to a heavy writer’s block + nearly no Obey Me content after finishing the whole game AGAIN and exploring new otome content, both PC and mobile. Not only that but I’m having mentorship with an artist I’ve loved for a long time now and painting B&W statues is taking a looooong time and draining me out, hhh!

I want to let you know once again I read all of your lovely inbox and I will respond everything when I feel like I’m not lacking quality! ;;;

For now, I’ll be writing a long ass post on reviewing the stuff I’ve done in the meantime. I mean, why not? Just please, take everything I say here with a grain of salt and know my opinions are not absolute.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* IKEMEN REVOLUTION (mobile) *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

✧ PROS:

story doesn’t feels 100% romance driven. Like do you ever play an otome game and it feels like the characters have no other reason to exist other than being fanservice/routes? YEAH Ikerev doesnt felt like that for me at least,,,

like they legit had their own issues and problems other than fighting for the heroine and making sure everything surrounded MC,,,,

plus ghuh i love dudes in uniforms... and as far as the ikemen series go, this is the one i chose to play because the character design looked the best for me and less same dude different trope

if you know the massive friend add x greet trick you can pass through love challenges pretty easily. no premium choices too.

characters are literally so captivating and not only appearance-wise.

✧ CONS

i’m still to figure out how the destiny duels(like the miss rose challenges in BiR) work???

if you want to complete a route without spending money, you’ll have to play everyday for at least 30 days. you get 5 tickets everyday and you spend 5 tickets for each chapter. on top of that, you’ll also need some affection tests and stuff like that.

gacha is pretty expensive and depends a lot on your daily login thingy. 

maybe obey me has spoiled me as an otome player really but there is a point in which there is just plain nothing you can do other than wait more time to grind for destiny duel affection points, then 24h chapter tickets again.

✧ Gender options? No, female only. It will depict MC as female and treat it with female pronouns.

✧ CGs? Yes, though I’ve only got only one through free mode so far(chapter 18?).

✧ Voice acting? Yes, but sparsely.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* BLOOD IN ROSES (mobile) *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ

✧ PROS

If you want, you can f2p. Literally just add 50 people and use the mass greet button, you’ll get 1000 tokens everyday, plus whenever they’re having any launch event there are bunches of story tickets for free.

Like literally I’m in my 4th route now and I’ve only used offer coins. I’ve spent a HUGE time stuck in Gerard’s avatar checkpoint trying to grind tokens via Miss Rose Contest.

It has two WLW routes, one added recently.

Two heroine options -- witch and hunter.

✧ CONS

Fandom is basically dead from what I keep trying to grasp??? Not without reason, because recently NTTS kept giving people limited time story tickets and all,,,,

UHHH not trying to badmouth anyone but depending on where you go for the fandom, you’ll find a good bunch of people being specially mean towards the female routes and saying it’s just “not their taste to have lesbian routes”,,,,,,,,,, like not trying to say it was what pushed me out of some FB groups,,,,,,,,,,

I find it very weird that they mix old sprites with new ones, so I kind of cringe when I see a perfectly soft shaded Caelus sided with Cedric but??? Okay?

EDIT: literally a few hours after i posted this, the game ended. The team released a note saying they will no longer be launching new characters or events so yeah sad.

✧ Gender options? Nope. Female only. It will depict MC as female and treat it with female pronouns.

✧ CGs? It you play 100% free mode, you’ll get two CGs, one in the beggining and one in the ending, if I’m not mistaken(at least it was like this when I played Matilda). Plus, there are multiple endings.

✧ Voice acting? No.

Let me know if you want me to continue reviewing stuff. I still have to comment on Men of Yoshiwara, Ikesen, possibly even the old school Solmare stuff and that daddy dating stuff??? Ughhh so little time,,,,,

[otome4dummies]

(this is a result of not sleeping for 18 hours straight because of events and the time limit of free tickets)

[lucaordeusorlem]

All three heroines in Blood in Roses+

How much does she look like her decendants?

A lot more like one than the other 👌