“The second same-sex romance option in the game and, if anything, she received more backlash from homophobic fans due to her being more overtly feminine than Celina was :(”
I'm currently in vacations, and yesterday it was like 2:00AM and I was bored, so I decided to pass some time doing some pic crew, and then I saw this particular dress-up model character and suddenly it reminded me of Miguel!!! So I decided to do for others as well.
Oliver, Wylder and Ivy I did using another one (in hope I would be able to do Miguel again, but nope)
But it suddenly made me want to play again!! (I hope I didn't lose my account since I had to delete the game in my phone for not having enough space).
Guys before you go crazy over the new chara, this is NOT solmare's first time on making "yuri route" (IF the new chara is female and you self insert the MC as female, since the MC technically non binary in the global release)
I'm kinda out of touch with the fandom so idk much about the whole problem, but someone pls explain on why having these new chara is a bad idea since they're there for MC's "love interest" not as rival?
If aanyone curious on who's the yuri route they made before:
Shall We Date? Love Tangle Part 13 - Ivy Attwood and William Moss Routes
Now that I can take a closer look at Ivy, I guess she does look pretty good, especially her eyes haha. Anyway, so Ivy is interviewing her about Kaleido leopards and William is getting help from her on how he should decorate the succession ceremony that should fit the theme for the leopards? Ooh Alexey is an astronaut! Sounds like such a silly name though lol. Anyway, the leopard got poisoned? The leopard can never catch a break in these stories lol.
Ooh Maxim is a college professor, I like his appearance! But wow, Ivy must really like the heroine to even take a break from her job to be the heroine’s assistant and help her out lol. Can she even just be the assistant just like that and go into the research institute like this? Sounds so iffy lol. Gotta say that Ivy tucking her in to sleep was pretty comforting haha. Heroine gets attacked and William saves her and then lets her rest at his place and then even quickly makes a lavender bouquet to soothe her nerves?? Hahaha, it’s so random just because he’s a florist loll. I didn’t expect the poison to actually be from a true blue rose that William created years ago that was stolen by someone. Have to say that I can kinda understand his sentiments though, I love the colour blue and have always found blue roses very unique and beautiful, if I were to receive/buy roses, I’d definitely want blue roses. Kinda saddening that the thief who stole the blue rose was probably also related to the incident of someone trying to poison Ivy but ended up poisoning her friend instead, so glad her friend didn’t die, that would be so terrible.
Will is really such a sweet guy to apologise to Ivy so many times in regards to what happened to her friend, it’s not even his fault since he wanted to dispose of the poisonous flower😢 It was pretty cute how the heroine walked Ivy back to her room after their discussion, it’s such a short walk but such a considerate and nice thing to do. So brave of Ivy to protect her from the assailant that attacked her before even though she was so scared too; scared of the attacker and scared that she’ll get hurt like her friend did too. Lol, heroine’s first impression of Ivy’s room is that it fits her perfectly, my first impression of her room is that it looks exactly like Alice’s real world room in Lost Alice lol. Nice of Ivy to get out of her comfort zone to tell the heroine how messy her room really is just to show that even she isn’t perfect and that it’s okay to not be perfect etc.
Hmm so everything was done to wreck the succession ceremony somehow as usual~ poor leopard! Creative that they’re planning to kill with a rose and are sneaking it into the ceremony through the real flowers art🤔 It was so cool when Ivy recorded what the uncle said with the poisoner and then both her and the heroine so boldly declared that the uncle did such a thing once they saw the poisoner waiter take soup to Henrik. And then they spend a steamy night at a hotel and have a bubble bath together! That’s so fun and nice~ Anyway, the plot is more interesting than with Silvan’s so I’m happy about that but it was still kinda bland, especially in terms of the romance. I feel like they were so focused on capturing the culprit of all this, and considering how obvious who the culprit ended up being, it wasn’t very interesting and then the romance became lacking when they focused was on that. Like, the heroine and Ivy seemed like good work partners and friends, but the romance just didn’t feel like it was there, sadly.
I really like Will and I really admire how passionate he is about wanting to make a true blue rose, it felt like I could really see his passion, so I can see why he would be so mad that his “failed” creation that is poisonous would hurt him so much and make him feel so responsible that he would want to fix things so that no one else gets hurt. He’s a good guy. Nice of the heroine to help him out at his flower shop😄 He’s such a hard worker, he never rests! Both the heroine and him sound like workaholics so it’s nice to see them work hard to get a day off and just walk around the city enjoying the sights and then kneading bread, that sounds really cool. I’m surprised that Will can’t leave his shop to anyone though considering how popular it is and everything, you would expect him to have employees to help him manage it, especially if he would be in charge of something so big like a royal ceremony!
Who thinks it’s weird to ask someone else to eat the bread they make?! It’s free food and Will’s good at it!! Ridiculous to reject such a thing thinking it’s too much or over the top or whatever, who rejects free food that actually tastes good and it’s something he’s passionate about. Wow, how dangerous of Henrik to be wandering around himself trying to get clues and evidence in relation to the poisoning of the leopard being related to the succession ceremony. Very understandable for William to want to call Carter, especially after knowing that Henrik was wandering around this late at night because he ran out of money, like seriously, it’s dangerous to just call a cab for him right now considering how unlikely it would be for people to not recognise him! Definitely dangerous! I’m glad William convinced him by telling him how important of a person he is to this country and how a good king knows when to swallow his pride. Sure, it’s admirable that Henrik wants to do things himself, but knowing how to order people to do the right things is something very important as well. I love how comfortable they’ve gotten with each other that they can just sit on the couch and fall asleep next to each other😊
As in Ivy’s route, the poisonous blue rose is probably in the painting, and since Ivy’s company is a sponsor, they’re getting in to the place to check if it really is William’s rose with her help. Since they’re going in like spies, it can’t be helped that the heroine would be scared and nervous, so it’s nice that Will acknowledges that he’s nervous too but brings her to this greenhouse rose garden that he’s an administrator for just to calm her down and make her more relaxed😊 Also, it was pretty cool to have the uncle so blatantly (stupidly) bid for that painting and then have the car chase to track him down, I like how they bothered to change the way the uncle gets caught in the two routes. I’m also really happy that Will finally got to destroy the rose and then show the heroine the greenhouse that allowed him to develop true blue roses that he can name after her😊
Overall, I definitely enjoyed Will’s route much more than Ivy’s, I felt like it was much more well rounded and flowed better as a story. I always thought that Ivy’s cooperation with heroine felt rather forced and choppy considering that her “job” was never really important to the story even though all the routes try to entangle that into their stories. She basically threw her job aside to be with the heroine and help her out and yeah, that was boring. I feel like the story was much more well catered to Will just because he was the one who created this rose and so he wants to be the one to destroy it and it made much more sense, and their romance developed nicely in the background and as they investigated stuff together. They had a common goal with different motives but the beliefs they shared entwined and I think that was shown nicely. It’s been a while since I enjoyed a route in this game so I’m happy that I quite liked Will himself and his route☺️☺️