Dolores is hilarious...

Callum's is a great route too. Maddie is more confident with him and they are more forward with their feelings! Also, you have a couple of plot questions answered in his route.
You can always use the skip function at the start when interacting with Oscar if it makes you feel guilty! Plus you can still choose friendly responses to Oscar and progress your relationship with Callum.

Interesting... I was going to try Dolores, but I may go for Callum first.

Originally posted by Serenity Star:

Callum's is a great route too. Maddie is more confident with him and they are more forward with their feelings! Also, you have a couple of plot questions answered in his route.
You can always use the skip function at the start when interacting with Oscar if it makes you feel guilty! Plus you can still choose friendly responses to Oscar and progress your relationship with Callum.

Started Callum's route and it appears you're right. It still felt a bit like cheating on poor Oscar but it is leaps and bounds better than Nazagi's routes. And it also has Dolores around for the laughs

Oddly, I really enjoyed Nagazi's route. Oscar's route made me sad due to how unhappy his family obviously was about the whole thing. Callum's was definitely my favourite, but I'd put Nazagi as a strong second, followed by Gaston. Dolores' route was my least favourite by far - I really couldn't warm to her as a character.

Originally posted by mclemonx:

Oddly, I really enjoyed Nagazi's route. Oscar's route made me sad due to how unhappy his family obviously was about the whole thing. Callum's was definitely my favourite, but I'd put Nazagi as a strong second, followed by Gaston. Dolores' route was my least favourite by far - I really couldn't warm to her as a character.

For me it was Oscar > Callum > Dolores > Gaston > Nazagi

If you like Oscar, that's cool.

For me, it felt like the protagonist was always sort of humoring him/finding him slightly annoying with his emotional responses. I just don't consider it a great romance if she doesn't respect him. But that's a personal view. ::shrug::

My personal preference is Nazagi. Though I realize that's probably the polar opposite of Oscar.

I can't say I liked Zazagi.

I know this thread is ancient, but just wanted to add I felt the same way, but was satisfied with Oscar and Maddie commiting to friendship in the Callum route. The prologue still felt like you totally abandoned him, but it wasn't as bad as the Nazagi route where you just straight up ditch him and explain nothing. I don't think I'll play the Gaston route because the dude is hideous and I liked the Callum and Oscar routes so much I don't think I'll get any satisfaction from the others.

I definitely felt like the Callum route was supposed to be played "next" since it felt the most natural to me. The Nazagi route felt forced even as I went down it and I still don't understand why he decided to make his final offer to Maddie even as I watched it happen. Not sure why Maddie would choose Gaston or Dolores either. Also wondering how the king and queen planned to have Cassidy provide an heir regardless of who she ended up with? I guess that might get explained in the Gaston route, so I might speed through it afterall to find out.

I think Callum was probably my favorite romance option. That route had the most sexual tension and I also felt he was the one who treated Maddie most as an equal (beside Oscar). BUT mad respect to Oscar for saying "no" to the wedding proposal if you treat him like he's useless or try and abuse his love for you. I did not expect that at all and was pleasantly surprised by it on my bad end playthrough. Other Oscar pluses, his offer to sacrifice himself during the siege, his desire to buoy Cassidy's spirits, his care for her wellbeing and of Maddie's in ALL routes, and his happiness for Cassidy at the thought that she arranged her own kidnapping. He is a good kid, if not the brightest bulb in the box.

I was actually most attracted to Nazagi initially as I like the intelligent wiley type, but there just never felt like there was much of a connection between Maddie and himself on his route, more just two smart people playing a clever (?) game together. I'll be honest that the glasses angst also felt like a bit of a stretch, but that's likely just because the idea of spectacles making someone a social pariah is so far outside the realm of possibility for me. Honestly I thought the glasses made him HOTTER. But whatever. That's my two cents on which routes are worth it and not.

Indeed, I went for Callum after Oscar, I was Meh about Nazagi... and didn't play Gaston.

Just played Gaston route and I was meh. His reveal did get a laugh from me at the end. I didn't actually believe the maid was gay when Gaston said it since he didn't seem like a reliable source of info, but the bedroom scene with Colette and Maddie was cute and I liked the idea of Colette's family sort of adopting her. I also liked Maddie realizing it was stupid to be indignant at Colette for potentially seeing her naked when she didn't give an f about a bunch of hetrosexual dudes possibly seeing her naked. That was nice. Overall though I felt like it sort of dragged too much, which I guess was kind of my problem with the Nazagi route too. Watching your character sit and stew uselessly in a dungeon while the people closest to the situation and her (Cassidy/Callum/Oscar) do nothing is effing frustrating. Makes me want to shout at them all.

Feeling the same. I went for Nazagi as I was attracted to this icy cold type, things did go well but the endings! I can't imagine poor Maddie like this

Callum feels kinda natural - the also-spare child, he has things in common with M. I can see her looking away from Oscar and towards him much more easily than the others (with the exception of Oscar).