Romantic Player

Romantic Player is a story-driven game about Nie Guanxi, a dashing swordsman who travels through the martial world to recover seven lost blades. At the direction of his adoptive mother, Yuan Chuixue, he follows the story from an inexperienced newcomer toward becoming a great swordsman. His search brings a series of stories and encounters with women warriors.

Longmen Inn

Ten years ago, Tuoba Baixue was renowned for her peerless Juedao swordsmanship. Her aloof, proud manner earned her enemies across the martial world, who joined forces to attack Qixiang Tower. She survived, but her family and beloved were killed. Disheartened, she abandoned her swordsmanship and withdrew from the martial world.

Under the name Yuan Chuixue, she opened Longmen Inn in Longmen Market, a desert outpost on the route traveled by merchants from east and west. The market's largest inn provides lodging and also runs less visible business. Yuan Chuixue takes little interest in her surroundings until an abandoned infant comes into her life.

The inn is known for three figures: Nie Guanxi, a flirtatious attendant who refuses to serve guests; Linlin, a celebrated courtesan who sells her body but not her art; and its unseen owner, Yuan Chuixue.

The seven blades

The seven blades and their sword styles were created by Tuoba Baixue, the master of Qixiang Tower. Deep in the desert, the tower comprises seven differently colored pavilions arranged like the Big Dipper:

• Chenxiang Pavilion: holds Chenlei, a broad-backed saber whose powerful strikes can sink ships and churn the sea.
• Dingxiang Pavilion: holds Hongxiu, a short skirt-hidden blade kept in the most concealed place, made to kill with a single strike.
• Tanxiang Pavilion: holds Feigong, a seven-foot戒刀 without an edge or point, which attacks the heart rather than taking lives.
• Tianxiang Pavilion: holds Ziyan, a slender willow-leaf blade that moves like a bewildering profusion of flowers, hiding its true strikes among feints.
• Ruxiang Pavilion: holds Shuangyan, a matched pair of mother-and-child sabers, one long and one short, used together to maintain the advantage.
• Jiuxiang Pavilion: holds Bawang, a straight-bladed Mo dao associated with drinking and sweeping through a thousand foes in a bold, unrestrained cut.
• Fuxiang Pavilion: holds Liuxing, a crescent blade controlled with throwing techniques to strike from a hundred paces.

Tuoba Baixue's Juedao style is described by the saying: “Heaven leaves no one without a way out, but a blade can end a life.”

Encounters and endings

As Nie Guanxi meets women warriors, you face them in contests of swordsmanship and use your blade skills to lower their defenses and get to know them. An interaction mode lets you win over six women warriors, with the aim of making them yours in both body and heart. Choices in the story trigger different ending scenes, and the game has five possible endings.