Breaking News (to Me)
Oct. 21st, 2025 03:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elyusionSo Voltage (of even if TEMPEST fame) is releasing a new game in December called Neon Clash - Echoes of the Lost -. This is the bilingual site, so be sure to change the language to English if you need that. I really like the MC design, and the love interest with light gray-blue hair is pretty cute, but the others look sooooo whatever. I believe their last game was The Red Bell's Lament, and when I heard about that I thought the concept sounded interesting but all the love interests looked boring, so it was kiiiind of nice that they at least got one for me this time. Come to think of it, I think only one love interest in even if TEMPEST is cute too... (If you can guess who it is you will win $0 :D!)
Anyways, I sent the characters page of Neon Clash to a friend so someone else can hate on the boys too, but I accidentally scrolled down too far and saw the side characters. What the hell. They're much, much more interesting looking than the love interests!? Are they kidding me? And I remember feeling this exact same way about The Red Bell's Lament too. But this time it's tenfold. They can't be serious making the other characters look like that and then seriously expecting me to give a flip about these fools in the forefront (besides the MC, who is lowkey kinda *bites lip*).
I don't think they even make fandiscs that make those characters romanceable. What the hell, Voltage? ?? ???? !!!?!?!?
Trying out this thing called posting about stuff when I hear about it instead of letting it languish in my bookmarks for weeks and months.
>wine red/dark hot pink(??) not-short hair
>freckles
>snake bites
>kinda quiet
yea... youre going in the tote bag
Anyways, I sent the characters page of Neon Clash to a friend so someone else can hate on the boys too, but I accidentally scrolled down too far and saw the side characters. What the hell. They're much, much more interesting looking than the love interests!? Are they kidding me? And I remember feeling this exact same way about The Red Bell's Lament too. But this time it's tenfold. They can't be serious making the other characters look like that and then seriously expecting me to give a flip about these fools in the forefront (besides the MC, who is lowkey kinda *bites lip*).
I don't think they even make fandiscs that make those characters romanceable. What the hell, Voltage? ?? ???? !!!?!?!?
Trying out this thing called posting about stuff when I hear about it instead of letting it languish in my bookmarks for weeks and months.
>wine red/dark hot pink(??) not-short hair
>freckles
>snake bites
>kinda quiet
yea... youre going in the tote bag
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Date: 2025-10-22 03:02 am (UTC)Plus in that art style anyone looks like a bishie unless they exaggerate features. The game's about a gang, so to me it speaks to a sort of cowardice or assumed cowardice of the audience. Why wouldn't someone who wants to imagine dating gangsters dislike piercings (besides the earlobe) and tattoos? Come on
None of the guys in Sweet Fuse look strongly like "my type" https://vndb.org/v10115/chars but they're so different and fun-looking that the game is in my 2026 to-play list. I need more otome games that have fun when making the love interests rather than solely depending on market research and combining as many attractive traits and tropes as they can think of. Ex. whatever Ace Attorney has going on in the chara design department. I prolly need to play more indie lol