Romantic HOLIC: Otome game v1.0.7

★★★★★

Alex Agustin

I enjoyed it! This was my first game like this and I got it through play pass. I enjoyed it and generally felt like my choices mattered. However, unless you start early on favoring one of the candidates, you may end up with no one at the end. If you're generally on the fence maybe keep that in mind lol. I really like that there is an option to try for each ending and it brings you to the right moment to pursue it.

★★★★

Vella Roth

I feel teased. It's well written with good illustrations, simple to navigate, and the achievements make each replay worth it. The chapters with key moments make it easy as you don't have to go through the entirety of the story to focus on a particular goal. However, this is a story about cruel fate and the resolution it offers may not leave you satisfied. I will note that the side stories do suffer from translation but that aside I highly reccomend this for interactive story fans.

★★★

Ash

So far I'm nearing the end of the game and it is great. As other reviews said, you have to side early on with who you want to be with. Only reason for low rating so far is that I'm unable to pick choices sometimes. Not sure if it's a bug, but a few times (no matter if I try to save and load it back) it doesn't matter which of the 2-3 dialogue options you pick, it defaults to one of the answers, as the others are unpickable. Makes it a bit frustrating when I'm trying to get more substance.

★★

evilynice Nava

I don't understand how so many people enjoyed it without being confused, unless it was only me. The dialog was off a lot of the times. I can tell something was supposed to be said by the other characters but was said by someone else. And sometimes the dialog didn't make sense. Liam apologized to me for calling me his girlfriend to Rebecca but he never did that. So I got lost as to why he would say that to me, when that never came up. I can't continue this.

★

Lilac Bundle

For a game with a PEGI 12 classification it's not okay the way it normalizes and romanticizes stalking and abuse as being part of a desired romantic relationship. I gave up after the 4th chapter but I cannot think of a way it could have been redeemed. All romantic interests have major ( and dangerous) red flags portrayed as desirable traits.