There is the sense that the main character being female plays a huge role, so the game does not do a good job of portraying diverse love interests - it assumes cis-gendered heterosexuality.įurthermore, the main character takes on the task of hosting parties, and so must invite guests and make sure they attend this fundraising party, which is the ostensible purpose of this game. Nevertheless, the male characters have no choice but to make her a new member of the association until everything is figured out. These male love interests are not just shocked that someone has found their secret app, but that it is a woman who has done so. The player then meets the male characters through this app, and all are bewildered that she has “infiltrated” their RFA app as no one else is supposed to have access to it.
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The unknown person makes the main character go inside an empty apartment and has her download this messaging app called “RFA,” an acronym for Rika Fundraising Association. The game follows a female main character, who is contacted by an unknown person.
The game also has a “story mode” that focuses on visual storytelling elements that focuses more on the characters. The player can interact with the characters in the form of text messages, and the characters even send the player pictures as if they are talking to real people. It takes 11 days to play Mystic Messenger, which also contains audio, so the player can hear the voice of each of the characters and even get to make “phone calls” with them as they play. According to Ric Cowley, editor of Pocket Gamer, “Mystic Messenger has achieved 2.5 million downloads since launching in July 2016 almost entirely through word-of-mouth.”
The game was released in 2016, and it has racked up a lot of interest. It is a romance game that does not cater to the stereotypical male player, but emphasizes a female one instead. Mystic Messenger is an otome, or according to the Japanese dictionary, a “ dating simulation game with a female protagonist and male love interests.” It has reached wide-spread popularity, but does the game work against stereotypes or contribute to them? Mystic Messenger is a storytelling messenger game that works by asking players to chat with fictional male characters. It is now an era were women have opportunities to find games to take part in, but also the notion of female-based stereotypes to what games women should play and if it should be the traditional and cliche romance type games.
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