Samurai Love Ballad: PARTY 12+

I don’t typically like wasting my time by writing reviews, but I’m making an exception for this one :) the stories in the game make me smile and laugh at different points, and cry at other points. Some endings are happy, others are heartbreaking, but all are beautiful and well-written. If you persevere in playing the game for months, you can build up coins and pearls and energy hearts over time. Do the events, do the cooking classes when you can. Build up points, have in reading the stories and the diary entries and the letters. Visit allies daily because you can get a pearl from visiting allies pretty often, and pearls are used for most things in the game. If you use coins for the castle lottery, do the 10 draws at once, you usually have a chance to get pearls that way too. I highly recommend this game, but be warned that in the first few days and weeks, maybe even months, it can seem pointless to continue or boring if you hit a roadblock with pearls. Just keep trying because I’m telling you, these stories are SO worth it. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I have!! (In game purchases can help but are NOT necessary unless you get impatient with collecting pearls and coins!)

This game is fun, each story interesting and different, each samurai and/or ninja having a different personality appealing to masses but still each one have something gratifying and loving about them making every story worth playing even if you wouldnt match well, but there is one big problem if you dont have money im going to spare you some time and tell you to go ahead and take your eyes off this, its impossible to finish even one story without in-app purchases it feels, especially if you want portraits. Most in-app purchases also arent nearly worth it 1 pearl costs around 99¢ which would be more understandable to me if it was 3-5 but its a whole 99¢ for ONE which in game can get you about an onigri and a kick in the teeth. Also coins cant really get you anything maybe some accessories but thats about it and i have no closet space anyways bc it cost pearls to expand closet space so i basically have useless currency, it would be a whole lot nicer if pearls werent needed for EVERYTHING, you need them to buy outfits to progress the story, you need them them to expand your closet, you need them for when you run out of energy in cooking class, you get the drift. If half the things in this game that needed pearls could use coins it would be a lot more playable. It's a very fun game but if your not ready to get bleeded dry i woundnt waste the time, too bad im already emotional and financially invested in this game ://

I’ve tried other otome apps but have yet to find any that can compare to Slbp! The art style is incredible, the stories captivating and even free to play players can participate, enjoy and win awesome prizes from special events! The developers have made the app so you can earn the items (pearls in this case) to get the premium ending(s)! Of course if your impatient (like me lol) you can always purchase pearls and chapter tickets with real money but it’s so refreshing that you don’t have too and can still enjoy the story! On the note of purchasable items, I have to give the devs an extra pat on the back for making the price of the purchasable items reasonable!! I’ve bought items on other otome apps but they are jarringly expensive for what you need and can easily become a money pit and they pale in comparison to what slbp’s premium content actually contains!
I’ll stop rambling but seriously give Slbp a try you’ll love it!
Happy reading!
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