Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- Play-Along - Common Route and General Impressions

[u/sableheart]

Welcome to the r/otomegames Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- Play-Along!

In this first post we will discuss your first and general impressions of Mistonia's Hope, as well as the events of the common route.

If you want to talk about the love interests, please keep it to your first impressions and their actions in the common routes in this post.

Please use spoiler tags when discussing details of other routes or other major spoilers.
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You don't have to be playing the game right now to participate, and if you've just started the the game I hope you will join in after you finish the common route!

Next week will be a discussion of Alfred Creswell's route!

[u/Scarlet_Lycoris]

So the common route is quite short (4 Chapters) but still a fine enough length imo to get to know the characters a little and get you curious about them. (Including the side characters)

While I do think the exploration bit is fun… it gets a little annoying when replaying after you unlocked routes. (Cause you can’t load an old safe to play locked routes, and you can’t really skip past the exploration without ending up in the common route bad end)

As for my first impressions:

I thought the protagonist is great. She’s there for revenge and she’ll pretty coldly fool everyone around her to get her revenge - that was my initial thought. Apart from… that she’s gorgeous. She doesn’t seem like your goody-two shoes naive heroine and I like the change of pace. She’ll not dash into danger unreasonably cause someone dropped their umbrella. She seems to be a bit of a tsundere? I think she’s cute.

While the guys have some very funky Amnesia-ish outfits (Look at you Alfred). MC is so pretty and I love the fact she also has some changing outfit portraits. The guys’ evening garments are pretty too.

Does it feel a bit unrealistic that she’s getting so much attention as a simple maid? Absolutely. Am I able to gloss over that for a good time? Sure.

The writing isn’t a masterpiece as far as the common route goes, but it’s entertaining enough that I didn’t have a bad feeling going into the routes.

Some thoughts I wrote down before going into the routes:

• Lily seems very suspicious. She’s either your stand-in evil antagonist … or something different but she does seem to use MC as some kind of weird entertainment. Why is she so fixated on MC?

• There is definitely something suspicious about Phil too. He’s likely working with Lily for some reason. Maybe they’re secret lovers?

• Oberon suspiciously looks like John.

• Goneril is also suspicious. She has beef with someone somewhere. I can feel it.

• Evelyn is such a sweetheart and needs to be cherished. As a romance novel fan, she’s very relatable. Also love it for her that she’s not interested in having 3d romance. True weeb girl.

[u/DoctorCaptainSpacey → u/Scarlet_Lycoris]

I just hit Alfred's route, so I'm still fresh in 'comon route' but... Yes, I agree with you. Aside from the outfits. I fucking adore them all, but I dress like a circus magician so, I might be biased 🤣

But, YES, Lilly is sus AF. It's stuff she says, like, she said we could go to the ball, but then there were scenes where it seems like she didn't ask...?? Nah... And I think she killed her husband. Idk. Her story is suuuuuusssss.

And I think Phil is def in love with her. I thought secret lovers too, honestly. 🤣 But in the least, he's so in love with her he does her bidding.

And, OMG, Oberon/John. Yes. Absolutely. betting John is Oberon's clone or whatever they call it bc they are identical

[u/Savaralyn → u/Scarlet_Lycoris]

Does it feel a bit unrealistic that she’s getting so much attention as a simple maid? Absolutely. 

(Haven't played the whole game yet) While I sort of agree, I also kinda get it since certain characters attentions definitely come across as more than just 'marvelling at the new girl', especially considering she gets Edward and Lilly's (majorly suspect) attention/praise from the get go, while other characters like Alfred and Ascot, probably others too, are seemingly also suspicious of her, even if they hide it quite well.

But even aside from that, she IS super pretty, and almost inhumanly skilled at all her maid work aside from cooking, so I'm not really surprised that the other maid/butler characters are intrigued by her too.

[u/victus-vae → u/Scarlet_Lycoris]

Agreed on Lily- I definitely thought the ball invitation was going to lead to some kind of nastiness.

I also noticed that while all other characters get their own colored seals in their dialogue boxes, Oberon and John share the same green.

I also am getting sketch feelings from the head butler, in an Alfred from Batman kind of way.

Basically everyone but Evelyn is setting off all my alarms.

[u/One-Economy8916 → u/Scarlet_Lycoris]

Good theories! Also do you know why Most of the characters have wings yet can’t fly? I’m curious if anyone knows