Despite this issue her professor is really impressed with her writing, and decides to take her on as an assistant for an upcoming project. With very little experience in the love department, everything she writes ends up packed with cliches.
Lover Pretend is an Otome game set in the film industry, with just the right amount of drama and smooching for my tastes.Ĭhiyuki Ueda is training to be a screenwriter, but she’s always really struggled at writing romantic scenes. Usually you’ll play as a female protagonist and have a variety of love interests to choose from, with settings ranging from feudal Japan to modern day. Otome games (for those who aren’t well versed in obscure Japanese genre terms) are games generally developed with a female audience in mind, and involving a hefty dose of romance. The vast majority of video games involve some amount of conflict, murder and violence, but what about love? For visual novel fans thankfully there’s no lack of love in their video games, especially those who branch out into the Otome part of the genre.
