#swd guard me sherlock

[peacefulrestvalley]

I've uploaded the Cutest Eye Candy event story that introduces Mikah as a love interest (eughhgh) in SWD's Guard Me, Sherlock!

The playlist can be found here: ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDwNSPks2E6Dt9-FxZyc8GBUjffxfnE3_ )

[trickster-kat]

Mikah Uploaded!

Premium Route

[dreamieotome]

Taking A Break From

MLQC - I feel I am so behind on the story and I’m so confused on the plot. I am dreading jumping back into it :’)

Mystic Messenger - I played through all the routes and then i lost my account RIP LOL so I’m trying to slowly restart it and get all the endings (I’m a completionist)

LoveUnholyc - I love prettybusy but by god they have such unfriendly UI and game mechanics like trying to play the game actually gives me mental damage. I’ve finished Hi’s route.

Finished/Dropped & Fave Route/Character

A3! (company discontinued the EN version)

Amnesia: Memories (Toma</3)

Ayakashi Romance Reborn

Bustafellows (Mozu)

Cindrella Phenomenon

Collar X Malice (Kei)

Cupid Parasite (Shelby)

Ikemen Revolution

Ikemen Sengoku

Ikemen Vampire (on my knees for Arthur)

JackJeanne (Minorikawa)

Lover Pretend (Riku)

Midnight Cinderella

Mystic Code (William's boobs haunt me to this day)

My Candy Love

Nameless: The One Thing You Must Recall

Olympia Soiree (Kuroba & Akaza)

Obey Me! (dropped bc I dont like the company LOL i still have a soft spot for Mammon and Beel tho)

Paradigm Paradox (Kamui)

Princess of The Moon (Seraphino)

Star Project

SWD: Blood In Roses

SWD: Destiny Ninja 2+

SWD: Guard Me, Sherlock!

SWD: Lost Island

SWD: Lost Alice+

SWD: Modern Cinderella

SWD: The Niflheim

SWD: Wizardess Heart+ (I... have so many feelings about this one)

Tengoku Struggle: Strayside (YONA)

Variable Barricade (ICHIYA♡♡♡)

Wannabe Challenge (dropped)

I swear I must have played ALL of the Shall We Date series lmao

I will eventually make individual posts reviewing all of them bc I have. Thoughts™ . Especially with games that don't have much media presence online. Many people worked hard on them, and I think they deserve to be remembered (even if they're terrible) (looking at you, Princess of the Moon) (what the fuck was that)

[guardmesherlock-rowan]

I just wanted to share some of my dreams for this blog with everyone

I know I cannot recreate the game and I’m stuck in what I’m limited to, so I’m mostly thinking about stories and fanfiction.  Most of these I had proposed to SWD, and I even wrote them recently, but it does not seem they are watching their emails at this time for GMS.  

Fun stories based off of events I thought would’ve been fun in game:

Old School Monsters - I think this would’ve made a fun biscuit event, with MC falling asleep during a classic horror movie.  

Murder Mystery Party - Having a Clue themed story (I thought this would’ve made a fun biscuit party)

MC Volunteering for a Haunted House

More meeting the parents of the other suitors

Additional versions of ‘Jingle my Bells’

Projects to complete:

Into the Haunted House with Aggie

Monster Mash Up

This One’s Mine - Fangs of Sorrow Jack

Bigger stories:

One of the things I really want to do is “what if I wrote their routes?” 

Routes for:

Sebastian Moran

Jack Stillman

George Lestrade

Henry Jekyll

Edward Hyde

Jeremy Cassel

Hercule Poirot

Arthur Hastings

A reimagining of werecat ‘Irene

Mycroft Holmes - a season 2

And a few other characters I thought would’ve made wonderful additions to the game.

Erik Leroux - the Phantom of the Opera

Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein

Adam Frankenstein - Frankenstein

I also want to share the Aggie stories, and I hope you all enjoy her tale as much as I have over these years. 

Please share your thoughts as well!

Thank you!

[thecrazyanimegirl]

Sebastian with cats is so relatable

[alfredmybae]

Omg mc

So forward

[zack4eva]

Boi why the fuck you lying? Ntt solmare gave up on your game! Oh and for those of you who are wondering, my lockscreen picture is of my fiancé. Yupp I’m an engaged woman! I kept forgetting to mention it here lol.

[cinnamonteaandbiscuits]

Portrait of the Ripper

[stylesona]

👀

So I’m kinda scared of the devs turning luke from ‘aww my precious baby’ to ‘pLS SIR CALL ME BABY’ ya know? It’s a genuine fear that keeps me awake at night, like this could happen SOON

Remember what they did to Mikah? 😭

Like???

LIKE?!?!

And I know technically he’s older than us already, and I guess he’s still with the rest of the new dateables...but still??

MY SWEET CINNAMON STICK CHILD!! STAY YOUNG, CUTE, AND PURE!!

edit// wait are they, or are they not dateables I’m kinda confused, just started lesson 21, and I reallyyy wanna love solomon everyone. Is this normal?

[w1tchy13itch-blog]

This....this is such good dialogue oh my god I love this game so much

[eye-cri]

YALL- 

THIS IS AN OFFICAL PHOTO DFJKBVH

[saorikuhara39]

If you know Obey Me and happen to see this post, please read.

This is from Kagura’s Normal Ending prize, from the game Ninja Shadow, a game made by Shall We Date, from NTT Solmare.

Would you look at the caption? It says, ‘Shall We Date? The No.1 Choice of Otome Game in the USA!’ This was back in December 2016.

Looking back, this is one big joke. ALL of the otome games from Shall We Date, of NTT Solmare have either stopped updating, or erased from existence. Yes, even that Story Jar app that they are trying to market so hard, had stopped updating.

Instead, they are trying to put all of their resources on their very popular Joseimuke game in English-speaking countries, Obey Me. At the point of writing, they are currently marketing their game to the Japanese audience, scheduled to be released in December 2020.

Many fans are praising the game and the development team non-stop, saying that it’s a great game with a great story. But did you know the story of what the company had made in the past, around 8-9 years ago? (Note: the following are my observations I’ve made so far from my 2 years of playing SWD games. I’m not a very long player of these games, so these are what I’ve known about according to my observations.)

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NTT Solmare, under their Shall We Date? name, have made otome games, LOTS of otome games exclusive to English that have many players liking and praising. But everything changed when the Apple Nation attacked, where they discourage the publishing of cookie cutter apps. (i.e. similar apps from the same company)

So, they tried to concentrate all their content into fewer apps. But some unknown circumstances from the company have made them keep changing directions all over. The original writers were gone, so the rest of the team which produced the games have no idea what they are writing for the characters’ routes and their sequels. (Guard Me, Sherlock is one example.) Then the company is driven by greed and wants the players’ money, more and more, to the point that they are too obvious. Players have commented their feedback on Facebook, but they all fell to blind eyes. They are a Japanese company, so for whether it’s a case of miscommunication of unable to convey the feedback in English to the Japanese staff, we’ll never know. Everything about their games went downhill.

In the end, the company that was once great has lost many players. The remaining players have to see their games shut down one by one. The games stopped updating without giving any notice, which of course, further upset the players.

Then they had Story Jar, an all-in-one app that they had built from scratch, which they plan to put their otome routes in, and include some non-otome stories in there as well. They tried to move the routes from Lost Alice in and they planned to continue developing stories form there. Alas, what the company received were major backlash and tons of angry reacts on their Facebook page. As the app is built from scratch, there is no way players can move their save data from the standalone apps to the Story Jar app. Also, players have to pay for premium choices with diamonds to get good endings, which they can do it FOR FREE in the standalone app. Which would you prefer, if you were the one playing it? Hence, due to various reasons on their own, Story Jar had stopped updating since April 2020.

And in the year 2020, they are going to stop having new events for the last of their three remaining otome games: Blood in Roses, Wizardess Heart, Ninja Shadow. This time, they did it with notice to players, so it wasn’t as bad as before.

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Back in 2019, Obey Me was announced. Back then, I was excited to play the game and even made the first ever fan art of Obey Me in existence, before the game release.

This post was published on 3 September 2019.

Then the game was released on December 2019. I thought it would be like any other game on the app store. But something unexpected to me happened - the game got EXPLOSIVELY POPULAR, thanks to the ads and marketing that were catered towards their English-speaking audience.

I’ve felt Envy. I was envious of the huge success that the game - the company - had become. The company had changed its gears, and succeeded. Seeing the praises from the unknowing new players had me jealous of their success, which I don’t think they deserved. They outsourced most of their game development to a different company, which means they are being run by a different team.

The company might have changed, sure. But that doesn’t change the fact that I despise them, and I’m still living under Solmare’s shadow. I tried hard to get behind it, but well, even in the game they are so proud of, their true colours start to show: Harder lessons that are impossible to beat without a UR card or using a glowstick; lesser opportunities to get Devil Points as you play (which in turn will have you to spend real money on them if you’re desperate); increased variety of items needed to unlock spaces in Devil’s Tree; decreased drop rates for items in lessons, etc.

I like the characters, but what’s the use if I cannot enjoy the game and end up frustrating myself?

So, with a heavy heart, I’ve decided to quit. After Ninja Shadow’s last day of update, I will stop playing all SWD games. I will stop living under Solmare’s shadow, and be free.

[trickster-kat]

Professor James Moriarty 2 Preview

[lucifer-please]

GUYS. Now that I can see this card properly let me say

That smile is hella scaring, tbh, where’s my Moriarty (but Jack too) I need him to protect myself now, help-

[guardmesherlock-rowan]

Another one I think a sequel would be good for would be the one you wrote where MC's parents and Sherlock's parents come to see them at the same time. We didn't actually see the exchange in the little snippet you wrote, so I think it would be cool to see that. I'll give you a lil sample:

MC: So anyway, this is my boyfriend, Sherlock. He's a very well-known detective, and he's incredibly talented.

MC's dad: So how did you two meet?

MC: Uhh-

Sherlock: She was being threatened and it seemed someone was after her. She asked for my assistance, and I said no.

MC's mom: You...what?

Sherlock: Don't worry, I said yes eventually.

MC: Um, Sherlock-

MC's dad: Do you usually engage in such dangerous activities with our daughter?

Sherlock: Well I wouldn't say usually, but sometimes, yes. For instance, there was that time she got kidnapped-

MC's dad: Alright, I think we've seen enough.

Sherlock: The time she fished John out of the river for the fifth time, the time she transported a cadaver to the morgue, the time she disguised herself as a member of the mafia, the time she handled the sulfuric acid for me, the time-

MC, stopping her dad as he tries to leave: No, please! He's really very sweet!

Sherlock: And just last week, we all went to prison.

Immediately in the back of my mind Aggie (the stunt double OC who is protective of Jane/MC just exclaimed “SEE?!  This is what’s I’m worried about!”)

Sherlock: “MC’s a very capable and dependable assistant.  You should be proud of her.”

[thecrazyanimegirl]

Why do I always name myself like this?