Ikemen Vampire Otome Gam‪e Ratings and Reviews

Hello! The game is a very wonderful and fun game and I like the aspects that differ it from other otomes. I love the battle feature incredibly. And, personally, I like the fact that we are only granted one chapter a day. It makes sure that I don’t stay on the app for hours upon hours. Now, I’m going to focus on a rather big, yet small aspect of the game. That would be the avatar customization. Perhaps I missed a way to change this but, I feel as if there should be a way to change your avatar’s ethnicity. Otherwise, the game lacks relatability for many. Granted, the player is described as Japanese, but I don’t think that’s a good excuse for lack of skin color choices. I would ask for a more gender-neutral aspect of the game, but I don’t believe that, at this point, is possible, since the game is almost halfway done. These encounters do not effect me, but I can see frustrating situations occurring for others. Those are my biggest problems with the game so far. Otherwise, I will keep playing and eagerly awaiting the stories and updates.

The main stories have been very good so far but my main issues come with the quality of the events and side stories. It is very much a gamble on whether or not the content of the stories will be good, especially paid things like the epilogues or popular character stories in the kiss events. I have spent plenty of dollars on this game and have been disappointed at the storytelling and “action” that they often promise the content will have. They also sometimes don’t even have avatar gifts for completing some story events like they didn’t have designs prepared or anything. There is also a completely useless money system of gold along with the diamond that you can’t use to buy anything but the normal bonus stories for the main storyline. I have an absurd amount of gold and absolutely nothing to spend it on.
Also there is some noticeable variation in the quality of art of the characters. For example Arthur’s hands are atrociously large. Like a seriously absurd size. And it is noticeable the variation in the details they put into the characters design. Like some characters have shading and lines in their hands that others completely lack. It’s just a sloppy look that’s disappointing especially for us that choose to pay money. Don’t even get me started on the scene of the night sky with the stars over the black part of the moon. That’s such a basic thing they could have avoided with one single search... it bothers me to no end lol

So this game is truly amazing and the romance is incredibly written but one of the characters, who should be the Joan of Arc is changed into a male, now named Jean. This is so highly problematic I can’t even explain so shortly. Joan of Arc was a real woman and her entire life story and significance had a major impact on women everywhere, it is essential that she always is interpreted as a woman. Her struggles were one only women could face and her successes belong to women, not to be washed up as a man. If there’s anything her life story has taught us- is to GIVE CREDIT TO WOMEN. The change of her gender is not only offensive- it is highly sexist and tone-deaf. She did not die her death only to be later dishonored and even stripped of her gender. I get it that this game is trying to appeal to straight female audiences but why not just use another male historical figure instead of changing a famous female historical figure? This is very wrong. If you really want Joan of Arc, keep her gender and write it as a wlw storyline. A real romance writer will know how to work with that, and if you can’t write wlw or anything lgbtq related- then just don’t write romance at all. Again, the game is written beautifully but PLEASE diversify it. Allow the MC to be available in all races, and allow routes for different genders.

I love the story and the graphics and sound effects are really well done! I wish there were a way to just pay a flat rate for the stories, because it seems unnecessary to have a social/battle aspect to this game. All in all, I would recommend this with a little patience because it does seems to be a great story so far.

Unfortunately, chapters are very short and it’s costly to try and progress if you consider paying to move forward. I’ve paid for other games before, but I’d say this is more costly than others compared to the length of the content that you get.
For the free options, you can watch ads to get diamonds, but you only get 1 diamond per ad and there’s a limit on the ads. It’s disproportionately difficult to use this method to get free diamonds when I don’t believe there are any paid options below 100 diamonds. They also unfortunately use TapJoy which is glitchy at best and scammy at worst. I’ve never seen TapJoy work correctly in other games that I’ve seen that have it integrated. TapJoy is one of those companies that gives you diamonds in exchange for completing an action or purchasing something. It’s great IN THEORY, but I have never heard of it it working properly and it’s unfortunate that it’s linked with this game.

So far the game has been very entertaining and heartwarming, but a few things bother me. It’s quite crowded. You have to go to two or three places in order to get a mission done, which is easy to understand after persisting through it but very confusing when you don’t understand why you didn’t get the reward for completing something. The chapter tickets are very patchy, maybe you can do to them like you do with the stamina? Get a few tickets every few hours, just to keep players interesting. And everything is too expensive!!! You have to spend 300 diamonds on ONE gatcha! I understand that as a free game you need to make money somehow, but it’s clear to see that the game panders to those who are willing to pay a lot for diamonds and tickets. I’m fine with getting caught up for the fun of it, but if having diamonds and gatcha coins are required for beauty points and intimacy points; and all your in-game items cost 5000 diamonds when all you give us is 50 at a time? At some point we’re gonna hit a stand off where I cannot play until I get enough diamonds for the item required.

Please just adjust the messed up in-game currency system if anything else, that would make the game(s) 10x better!

I've had this app downloaded on my phone for almost a month now and in that time i've tried countless times to play this app but I can't. The screen that first pops up when you start the app comes on fine but after that the screen goes completely black and won't load or anything just gets stuck on a black screen. I've deleted and reinstalled the app countless times but it's not working for me. Amazingly just today I managed to get past the black screen to the part where you have to agree to their conditions by either clicking okay or cancel I hit okay but the okay button grayed out and the screen got stuck again and wouldn't do anything.

I just deleted the app and reinstalled it again for the millionth time but if it doesn't work after this i'm deleting it for good.... i'm VERY upset that I can't play this app because 1.) i've heard such good things about it (so good in fact that i've been dying to play it all this time) and 2.) I play two other otome apps that were made by this same company: Ikémen Revolution and Ikémen Sengoku and I LOVE both of them so it was a no brainer that this otome would be just as good.

Bottom line is don't get your hopes up too much when downloading this app because what's happening to me might happen to you too 😞

I truly love this game if I could give it a higher rating I would but I have several issues with the game and they are the diamonds in order to complete the story or different muse you need to get more diamonds to do that and that requires money, now not everyone is made of money and can’t constantly buy 50 dollars iTunes cards to be Abel to get more diamonds, I wish you would make it easier to get larger number of diamonds when you play the game, I don’t like the tap joy free diamonds or how you have to get them that is very uncomfortable to just send your info out there, the free diamond if you watch videos need to be like 50 diamonds or higher than just the 1 diamonds you get when you do that option, I would also like to see the different set you do for event to less expensive and easier to get along with doing the events for longer times so people like myself will have more opportunities to play the events and get the sets with each event, I think you really need to make it more affordable and easier for your fans to get the items and merchandise for the game especially in the USA.

I’ve been playing the game for a while now and I’d give it five stars, but the diamonds are a real problem, they cost a lot of money and make you put your personal information, first of all I’m not made of money, second of all I wouldn’t be putting my personal information on any website unless it’s required, I can’t even get the premium story because I never have enough diamonds for it, and if you ask me “why don’t you save up” well it’s not like I haven’t tried that, at this point diamonds are so hard to get I always end up giving up, but you can fix this, at least put ads that make you get 400 diamonds or something, I also wanted to talk about another thing, the chapter stories are too short, but hey thats okay, if only I had more diamonds too buy more tickets, it’d be fine, but no I can’t even buy anything with diamonds. I don’t want to seem as rude, even if I probably did right now, I won’t play the game unless this diamond problem is fixed, it’s making me go insane, this is the first review I’ve written and I really hate writing reviews, so please hear me out on this one.

I like love the game! With the graphics and everything, it makes the whole storyline come together. I just have a problem with wanting the premium story. I understand that you need the money for the development of other games, and that’s understandable. But for some people they can’t buy the diamonds or use any of the offers to get free diamonds. It would be very helpful if you were able to get affordable offers for diamonds, such as playing a game until you reach the main building to level 10 or something around those lines. I’ve said the things about other games, like Destiny Ninja 2+ and other Shall We Date? games, thought they have fallen into the same predicament, not having affordable offers. This is just a problem with me, but I would really like to be able to play the premium routes and not have to pay for the diamonds. I do love this game and would have given it 5 stars if it wasn’t for the diamond problem. I hope to take my suggestions into consideration.

The different stories and varying options are amazing, even despite the short story chapters. You get five free story tickets per day, the bachelors have 25+ chapters with 5 parts per chapter that cost one ticket each. You can buy more tickets with diamonds, which are outrageously expensive. It would take at least 25 days to finish one bachelor’s storyline with the free tickets—except there are even more paywalls hidden behind “battles” and “avatar challenges” where you must buy cosmetic items or wait hours to have enough stamina to battle to accrue more points, etc. It’s a very exhausting system and too much to keep track of.

The general story is overall very cute and intriguing, but I wish I could just pay a flat price for access to the whole game and all of the stories. If you compare this to dating sims on PC or console, $40 for the whole game is about the most I’d pay for such a thing. The devs of this game are undoubtedly raking in much more than that thanks to whales, but for those of us who aren’t made of money, it’s a big obstacle with no way to get around it. All I want is to read the story. :(