Hey! This is the first continuation of my series on micro-narrative in otome games. I’ll be tagging all the entries under the acronym for “Wizardess Heart universal narrative key” so that they’re easy to find. This post gets more into set-ups and typical tropes/character development that goes into otome, and also with the interesting abbreviation of worldbuilding that characterises the mobile branch of these games. It would be useful to read my introduction first, if you haven’t done so already.
More under the cut!
For those of you who have known me for a while, you may know that I’m really interested in game narrative, micro-narrative and industries created on shilling these things to the public. I like short fiction magazines; I like interactive fiction and narrative games; I like ARGs and Echo Bazaar, which don’t seem at first blush like bedfellows but are, I do think, part of a similar umbrella enough to be grouped together. I’m going to be doing a multiple-part series highlighting a game made for the market of the Teenage Girl – a market I am passionately interested in on heaps of levels – casually exploring otome, the common narratives of otome games, story incentivizations and the pay-for-chapter model.
More under the cut!