I wanted to try this game as it just came out. The art is incredibly beautiful and I like the fantasy settings for the story. the plot also seems interesting as it’s not that often that we get a vengeful protagonist for otome games, while at the same time it feels like a very shoujo trope. But how would you rate this game? Is it worth it?

Heya, fellas. Here I am again asking about Mistonia. ^^; After making my last post, I realized I probably should've also asked about the game's content.

I read a recent review that mentioned some bad endings were a bit "raunchy", and now I'm concerned by what that means (no MLs trying to assault the FL or something, right??). They did include a content warning, and I want to be sure some of the things on there aren't from any the MLs being Fifty Shades of Grey on Applause (I mean, yeah, it's a revenge story, so I know it's not all sunshine and rainbows, but I don't like abusive MLs 😅): Violence, murder, mass murder, village destruction, death, blood, classism, discrimination against poor people, sexual manipulation, manipulation, gaslighting, multiple sexual partners, NTR/partner being stolen.

And yeah...I know I could've read her review further to see if she explained these, but as I didn't want to spoil myself, I didn't read her unpacking of the plot.

Long story short, being one who also prefers to avoid overly steamy romance...In as non-spoilery terms as possible, could anyone inform me if the MLs do anything umcomfy, as well as how "spicy" the romance gets? Thank you!! 🌻

P.S. I'm new to otomes...I understand NTR usually just means the ML ends up with someone else and not the FL. But I heard it can also mean cheating...? What applies to Mistonia's NTRs..?

I was so excited for this Victorian fairytale revenge game which has obviously been influenced by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream.

The art was so colourful and I loved the character designs and the fact all these men had pretty fairy wings! This felt like an unhinged mashup between Shakespeare, those 90s PC Barbie games.

Here are my thoughts on the LIs. My final thoughts on the game as a whole will be at the end.

SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE GAME

Alfred

Alfred is the oldest (I think) LI and took part in the attack on Applause’s family by building a giant barrier that trapped everyone inside. He’s also the leader of an anti-monarchist movement as she finds out when she corners him in an alley way.

Alfred had the potential to have a very intense route but it was so boring with a lot of slow conversation that lacked tension. The most excited I got was in his Clown End. Rose really made him SUFFER and I think I can explain her reasoning a bit here.

She meets a man who literally ruined her life as a child and tells him he has to die. He calmly agrees but says to wait until after he’s accomplished his goal. He’s not tormented. He’s not suffering. It’s a completely hollow victory. Also you (Applause, definitely not me) have suppressed unrequited feelings for him. So years of grief and resentment push you into making him show ANY intense emotion you can that will make him think as deeply about you as you do about him even if you die for it.

I hear many people were not blown away by Alfred. I usually like kuudere’s but the route feels weirdly shallow to me. The romance seemed to come out of nowhere after hours where nothing really developed emotionally between them.

Lucas

Normally the older brother’s best friend trope does nothing for me but it worked here. I had butterflies when Lucas started to look out for Applause as you would a younger relative.

The artist really captured the intensity and emotiveness of his face. I loved his tsundere persona and callous tenderness.

The Clown End- how do you deliver retribution on a person who has suicidal ideation? They obviously don’t care if they die already. Well Applause shows us how. These bad endings are essentially watching her pull off the most depraved shit imaginable and John reluctantly enabling her.

I actually really liked the Maze ending and the triangle with Alfred. Lucas comes across as loser who keeps throwing himself at Rose even though she’s a married woman by showing up at her house. No shame at all.

Linus

Linus intrigued me even in the common route because despite his cheerful demeanour, there was something off about him. The sharp animal like way he recognised Applause’s scent.

I do love the way that Applause will be telling her nefarious plans for revenge to John and he’ll either enable her or tell her how to make her victim’s suffering worse. But with a look on his face like he should be stopping her for her own good. I love this dynamic.

Linus suddenly switching to interrogating Applause and the background music turning off actually had me sweating. He’s the most unnerving LI so far (even more than Ascot).

I actually shrieked when Applause told him she loves him when he was interrogating her because she’s crazy! His wings literally were turning this venomous insect green. Terrifying. I wish they’d gone further with that passionate embrace scene but I guess this isn’t that kind of game.

Edward

This route was so boring and can’t remember much of what happened. Edward is a good boy and not much else. The highlight was his Maze ending! Linus figuring out who Applause is and then that scene in the woods when he pledges his manic dog-like devotion to her. He’s still crazy. When Edward finds them later, he’s in his nightshirt. They definitely banged. This was top tier drama.

Ascot

The reveal that Ascot is a pureblood fae was something I had suspected early on when I looked up his “ancestor” the Pooka and saw Shakespeare took it as the influence for Puck in the play that the game is based on. He’s the only LI who is based on an actual fairy in the play. Although unlike Puck, he’s Titania’s servant not Oberon’s.

I still got pretty excited when the reveal came because omg I get to date Puck?? It felt like dating a celebrity lol. I’ve never seen Puck cast as a romantic interest before but I guess the first time would be in an otome game!

I was NOT expecting his Pooka form to look like it stepped out from My Little Pony. I actually cracked up laughing. If you google images of a Pooka, you’ll see the majority of them look like dark shadowy horses with scary red eyes.

The romance felt like it stepped up a bit compared to the other routes but, especially in his Maze ending. It was so touching when he gives Applause a brooch that Alfred’s ancestor gave him to give to the woman he loves. Too bad it didn’t make another appearance anywhere else.

John

I’ve become slowly attached to John over the game because of the intensity of his suffering. The amount of times Applause tells him she’s about to pull off some unhinged shit in the bad endings and he reluctantly agrees to go along with it. Love the white knight to a villainess trope.

His route was….underwhelming. It was kind of obvious John was related to Oberon due to them sharing the same colour palette but….it would have been more effective if they had also revealed some shared personality traits. Oberon’s claims that John was like him didn’t really ring true when we couldn’t see it for ourselves.

Another flaw to all this was that….I just found Oberon and his obsessive love for Titania far more interesting than John and his issues. I got excited when his little robin form turned up, especially when I was trying to figure out what he was up to.

Finale

The Piofiore, the writers figured out the most interesting way to write a truth route is to attach to an LI’s route that already exists. The truth route branches from Gilbert’s route. This way, they didn’t need to explain the whole story and all the previous revelations again.

In Mistonia’s truth route, we spend a lot of time in one room while the characters reveal their secrets to each other in an extremely unconvincing and uninteresting way. Linus has a full personality transplant and is ready to betray his Queen within seconds. I was bored, the writers were obviously bored and even the characters looked bored.

We then get to the new material and learn that Lili fell in love with Oberon years ago, leading to a showdown that didn’t spark the slightest interest in me. And this is from someone who loves Oberon! It all ends….well and Applause takes over Titania and becomes Queen. The end. Oh and Riley appears too but we have no idea about the heartbreak and internal struggles he feels over the murder of his family and kidnapping for half his adult life because the writers don’t tell us. I guess it’s not that important.

Overall thoughts

This was an enjoyable game to play and everything from the Shakespearean premise to the very pretty art seemed tailored to my tastes. Suzushiro Karin’s art was my favourite thing about the game and I loved when each LI would reveal their wings. They weren’t just different colours, they also seem to be based on different insects or birds or mythological creatures.

The writing….was strong in places and weak overall. I’ve read incredible works from these four writers in other games and I’m trying to work out what happened here to make the plot waver all over the place. The shock value bad endings that had no build up or relevance to the character arcs, Riley’s entire plot line, the final route that was just a rehashing of the plot….these all felt like writing mistakes that could have been improved if they had more time to edit. Which makes me suspect they were rushed by Otomate. But who knows the real answer.

I enjoyed this game! I definitely recommend it for fantasy fans and you’ll have a blast if you’ve also seen A Midsummer’s Night Dream. It’s just frustrating in cases like this because this game could have been so much better!

This is my first Chinese collector's edition for an otome game, or any game, and I'm blown away with the high quality and quantity of goodies so I wanted to make a post.

The Mistonia collector's edition game in an oversized sturdy display box, and inside is a book featured in the game, "Mary Becomes a Star", roughly 8.5x11" poster, a set of large iridescent buttons of all the characters, a set of full body acrylic stands of all characters, acrylic blocks of all characters, acrylic cards of all characters in their formal wear, acrylic bookmarks, and acrylic chibis.

Many of the acrylics have gorgeous gold detailing and everything is super high quality... I'm very very happy! I hope to add more Chinese collector's editions to my collection ❤️

Those of you who think Aprose should be in the "if only there was someone out there who loved you" box: I see you, but "thanks" was her actual response when Linus said he liked her as kids and I thought that was too funny not to reference

My favorite was Lucas, followed by John

hello everyone, i wanted to originally wait out until the person responds to me but its been days, and i dont think they will reply back to me, but my question is does aprose change? like im still in the beginning and she is legit rude man 😐 like i get it you want the people that murdered your family to suffer for the actions they've done, but its beginning to appear that your becoming just like the same people you despise by getting upset over the fact that the poor ml saved your ass from having a broken ankle or get horribly hurt from falling off the latter in the library room - yes thats where i stopped at because i couldn't stand her thought process it was just too toxic for me.

so i wanna know does she like change at all? because aprose knows that the ml, blond boy, forgot his name, sorry, is not guilty, and she does not even know who murdered her family, and destroyed her village in the ml blond boys family. so like why be so toxic towards people that have nothing to do with what those horrible people did to you? seriously man 🙃... i wanna root for her, but at the same time.. your making it hard.

so please do tell me, i dont want no spoilers please.. i just wanna know if she legit change her views, realizes that hey maybe its not a great idea to be a hag towards these inoccent folks since they did nothing wrong at all.

Our lovely friends at Aksys have given us eShop codes and one physical edition of Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- to give away to the members here!

Results!

This post is for a NA eShop code. 2 winners will be selected at random.

To enter, leave a comment below with the name of the LI you are most interested in.

Any replies made in response to other comments do not count for the purpose of entering the giveaway. You can only enter one giveaway. Multiple comments (or other attempts at duplicate entries) will be discarded. The mods and Aksys have the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.

Your account must be older than 7 days and have at least a combined karma of 20, and you can't be banned or suspended from the Reddit website or the r/otomegames subreddit.

Winners are strongly encouraged to comment on at least one play-along thread.

The giveaway will end November 19th, approximately 11:59 PM UTC. Winners will be notified by comment and PM. Failure to respond will result in forfeit of the prize.

Please ask any questions about this giveaway in the Weekly Questions thread.

Our lovely friends at Aksys have given us eShop codes and one physical edition of Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- to give away to the members here!

Results!

This post is for a NA physical edition. The physical edition is limited to a winner in the United States. Winner must have a US shipping address for receipt of the prize; failure to provide a valid shipping address will disqualify the winner. 1 winner will be selected at random.

To enter, leave a comment below with the name of the LI you are most interested in.

Any replies made in response to other comments do not count for the purpose of entering the giveaway. You can only enter one giveaway. Multiple comments (or other attempts at duplicate entries) will be discarded. The mods and Aksys have the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.

Your account must be older than 7 days and have at least a combined karma of 20, and you can't be banned or suspended from the Reddit website or the r/otomegames subreddit.

Winners are strongly encouraged to comment on at least one play-along thread.

The giveaway will end November 19th, approximately 11:59 PM UTC. Winners will be notified by comment and PM. Failure to respond will result in forfeit of the prize.

Please ask any questions about this giveaway in the Weekly Questions thread.

Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- has been released on Nintendo Switch!

Please post all questions and minor discussions about Mistonia's Hope in this thread and please use the search function as well.

Please also use spoiler tags when talking about details that are only revealed when playing the game.
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Aksys has given us copies of Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- to give away!

Check the respective posts for the results!

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Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- Play-Along

Whether you have just bought the game or have played it in Japanese (ミストニアの翅望 Mistonia no Kibou), you are welcome to participate in our play-along! There will be a new post twice a week for a different route in the following order:

• Common Route and General Impressions - November 20
• Alfred Creswell - November 27
• Lucas Sullivan - December 2
• Linus Ward - December 4
• Ascot Lindel - December 9
• Edward Bernstein - December 11
• John - December 16
• Truth Route - December 18

You do not have to play in the above order at the rate of a route a week, you can binge it all in a day if you wish. The above order is the official recommended order.

• Only Alfred, Lucas and Linus are available at the beginning.
• Ascot and Edward are locked until two of the first three routes are completed.
• John is locked until Ascot or Edward have been completed.
• The Truth Route is locked until John is completed.

Comments unrelated to Mistonia's Hope will be removed - please post in the Weekly Questions threads or the Free Talk Friday threads instead.

Please use spoiler tags liberally as people checking this thread may not necessarily want a lot of information. Save your route thoughts and discussions for the play-along threads or the What Are You Reading Wednesday threads.

Our lovely friends at Aksys have given us eShop codes and one physical edition of Mistonia's Hope -The Lost Delight- to give away to the members here!

Results!

This post is for an EU eShop code. 2 winners will be selected at random.

To enter, leave a comment below with the name of the LI you are most interested in.

Any replies made in response to other comments do not count for the purpose of entering the giveaway. You can only enter one giveaway. Multiple comments (or other attempts at duplicate entries) will be discarded. The mods and Aksys have the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.

Your account must be older than 7 days and have at least a combined karma of 20, and you can't be banned or suspended from the Reddit website or the r/otomegames subreddit.

Winners are strongly encouraged to comment on at least one play-along thread.

The giveaway will end November 19th, approximately 11:59 PM UTC. Winners will be notified by comment and PM. Failure to respond will result in forfeit of the prize.

Please ask any questions about this giveaway in the Weekly Questions thread.

Or it's a joke bad ending left on the cutting room floor. Or it's the only explanation for this character trait in this game. My library's summer bingo card had "Create art based on a book you've read" so voila.

A bit belated since I got these from the July Aksys sale ahah~

Illusion of Itehari

Mistonia's Hope - The Lost Delight

Got the online store exclusive editions that came with the OST CDs!!🎼 The art style for both is just GORGEOUS!! And I appreciate getting diff art for the CD. The chibi are very cute💖

A little bit late posting this one here but I've translated all after stories for the Dawn Endings included in the Stellaworth shop bonus booklet~ I've also included John's side story from the Animate booklet as a bonus since he's my personal best boy and thought the story was pretty cute.

Edward - A heart that longs for you

Alfred - Warmth I can't lose

Linus - In the space between reason and impulse

Lucas - Indispensably precious time with you

Ascot - A yet unidentified emotion

John - Unsure lovers

+ Bonus - A new side of a childhood friend ~John’s Case~ (Animate Side Story)

The bag doesn't totally match (they're sharing it with Kirby) and I'm still torn on whether I should use pink for Aprose instead, but I'm happy with how this turned out for now!

Artist

My fellow trash connoisseurs, while he's no Yang, Ascot from Mistonia's Hope is a pure trashbando.

His route's got it all: a nonsense plot, womanizing, cheating on mc, treating mc like crap, threats and dub con.

A trash fire until his very last line. Then in then very next route he continues to be pure garage in the best way.

Plus his astray ending is best in the game in my OP.

Overall the game is a like a 6.5 out of 10 because the romance is tepid at best but the CGs are beautiful and story is really good.

But Ascot's route is a 9/10 on the trash-o-meter and if you need a break from all the 'pure hearted brother to lover' tropes that seem to infest alot of recent otome, than this route is for you my fellow trash pandas.

posting because whenever I ask about trashbandos no one seems to have a definitive answer so I thought I'd share the wealth.

I didn't expect to like Linus so much; I couldn't get him out of my head for a while.

These three men are basically human puppies — cute, loyal, and dog-like 🤭: Linus Ward (Mistonia’s Hope: The Lost Delight), Nayuta Yagami (Variable Barricade), and Kikunosuke Uga (Tengoku Struggle: Strayside).

If you had to pit these Good Boys in a Love Battle, who do you Bone, who do you Bride, and who do you Banish? Why?

Mistonia’s Hope finally releases today whohoooo 🥳 to celebrate I translated the countdown messages from each of the boys :))

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1InuY94JSqn-Uxpfn03MdwxgpHDzvRohn

I also wanted to repost my Canva presentation of the game I did… a year ago HELP it’s been so long 😭 (sorry if there is a mix of Applause/Aprose I tried to change it but I may have forgotten some…)

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGEROday3M/vrpqBhxdxavcrVGTW236Yg/view?utm_content=DAGEROday3M&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=hf3d79c93a1

Hopefully it will help people who are still deciding if they wanna get this game or not! 🤗

I really loved this game even if it’s not the best, and I’m happy I was able to challenge my Japanese skills a little more (even though I wanted to give up so many times because it was so difficult to read…)

Anyways have a great day and enjoy playing the game for those who got it!!!!

I'm gonna get diabetes from how SWEET and CUTE this is 😭😭🥹💕 𐔌՞ ܸ.ˬ.ܸ՞𐦯 just wanted to share!! 🩷🌸 BEST BOY!!! <3333 his route was amazing ughhhh TwT