Suzumus new story will release in the next days and i can wholeheartedly recommend it! It has another interesting detective case now more focused on a Vtuber and it plays at Seimei hospital! Not just that, Sentaro Kyogoku of RMD will play a bigger role :D If you haven’t given Tokyo Love Hustle a try, now is a good time to catch up on it. Though it may feel lighthearted it also addresses pretty serious topics that may make your heart ache!
It has a very interesting, mysterious plot, very unique characters, a lot of funny interactions and 4th wall breaks and from all the current Voltage games i feel like they put the most effort into it :D Even if you can’t effort the hearts, the story is still very funny and interesting and worth a read without hearts!
I would recommend it to fans of “True Love, Sweet Lies”, “Her Love in the Force”, “Love Letter of Thief X” and “Romance: MD” !
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lovestruck could have been a very popular app if they just had a competent marketing staff and wouldn’t go on a full witch hunt against their own fandom
Missing the LLFTX transfer date is pretty damn devastating.
Having been on hiatus and not following Voltage as closely over the last few months, I’d only seen the transfer date was closing for EITM in the next couple of weeks. Having gone on to see what was needed to be moved over, it’s pretty disheartening to see that LLFTX is over and I’ve probably lost easily more than £50 worth of stories/sub stories. I really do think if the app isn’t being pulled for another few months they should have allowed longer, especially knowing people have spent a lot of money on these apps :/ but maybe that’s just me…
Well, looks like account loading has been disabled.
This means if you have alternate accounts- do not log out of your current one to log into a different one, because it’ll lock you out of the accounts permanently.
This is really the final breaths of our beloved Lovestruck. *wistful sigh*
I don’t know who’s stuck with me for a while but some may remember I was really into an App called Lovestruck. You may even recognize my profile image as a route from there.
I truly loved the app and the stories and a part of me still does. I have fond memories of playing the routes and meeting so many fun characters. And now it’s shutting down. I’m not to surprised by this; a bad advertising campaign, bad choices in payment of their staff, and a tendency to treat fans badly have cropped up in the last while with them.
I still have tickets and hearts on the app and I’m thinking of replaying some old favourites one last time. I know a few people are archiving it on YouTube so I’ll be able to read the stories that way, and I’ll be fine with that. It simply…
I started with Astoria: Fate’s Kiss when it was an independent app. It was so much fun and I adored it. I bought all the routes, squeaked over Cyprin and giggled over Cerberus. I got Gangsters in Love and adored Ash right away.
The Lovestruck app came out and I fell for August and Isuel. Havenfall came and I loved Mac, JD, Razi and Diego. My interest slowly waned here but the app gives me fond memories of my college dorm, laying on my bed and wasting an hour or two while listening to 8tracks.
It’s sad really, but at the same time it feels… like a story is ending. Maybe I’m just thinking about it more after finishing the POTSOD chapter and feeling the excitement and relief from that.
A chapter of my life is ending. I’m saying goodbye to an app that brought me joy and happiness. Maybe I’ll find another app like it with fun characters and lovely stories, maybe I won’t. But… yeah. For over six years I’ve played the game. And it’s time to say goodbye.
I’ve seen some people who prefer more traditional visual novels (with impactful choices and branching paths and all) complain about the way Lovestruck handled their narratives, and i can understand where they’re coming from. yes, it can be fun to replay and pick different options to see how they affect your outcome, and it can make you feel like you got your money’s worth or like you have agency, etc. but i think there’s an upside to the more linear approach, and i have always defended it.
because instead of having one main storyline where you only ever get to have small scenes here and there with your chosen LI, branching off from and reconverging with the main path, LS gave us entirely unique storylines tailor-made for your chosen LI. this allowed for more time with and a deeper exploration of the character and a more diverse experience of the setting. imo, this strength is most evident in lore-heavy canons like RP and EAA.
and why not implement branching paths for a single route? they were a small company; there was a constraint on budget/time/programming, so number and diversity of LIs would be the trade-off.
and lastly, eliminating the possibility of a wrong choice or a bad end meant that you could never waste your tickets on an outcome you’d rather have avoided. happy endings are guaranteed. that’s the Lovestruck philosophy.
I love seeing posts like these, as someone who plays a diverse range of VNs. I think comparing Lovestruck’s model to its contemporaries is super interesting.
I’ve always believed there’s a time and place for both methods, and I think Lovestruck worked best with linear routes. The older routes that do have different endings you can get (Thrilling/Passionate) frustrated me, because LS was not an app built for quick re-reads. I can’t speak for the original Astoria or Gangster’s apps, but in Lovestruck, there is no quick and easy way to reread things to get alternate endings and dialogue, because of the ticket system. It meant that I, a completionism who always goes for all endings, basically would have had to waste my time and resources to get the second ending. So I was personally glad when they ditched this, it made it much easier to feel content finishing a season, knowing there wasn’t some alternate episode I was missing.
Now, it would have been okay if after you read a season you no longer had to spend tickets on it, because then you could just speed through the route to re-pick all your dialogue choices. Routes with branching endings are best served for complete package visual novels, where you buy it once and can consume at your leisure.
I think Altea would be mid 30s here and Helena would be closing in on 50. I’ll add more visible aging traits to their faces in the rendering process :)
Context: the year is 2019. It’s march, and Sweet Enchantments was being absolutely flamed for the first few Runa seasons. Suddenly we get more Gangsters in Love episodes, and a new series even though SE JUST came out (hence the surprise)
I may not have as strong of a dislike for Runa these days but this post still makes me chuckle
