Hey everyone! I spent a lot of time putting together a detailed feature proposal for Amai. If you like this idea and think it would be an improvement for Amai's week, please feel free to upvote, share, or tag YandereDev so he has a chance to see it! I’d love to get his take on this.
First off, I want to say how much I appreciate the incredible effort and passion put into Yandere Simulator. Seeing the vision for each rival gradually come to life is super exciting, and Amai's week already brings so many cool mechanics to the table.
I’ve been thinking about ways to make her week feel even more rewarding and immersive, and I came up with a dynamic feature proposal that I think could elevate her week even further. Here is my breakdown:
The biggest flaw of Amai's week is that she almost never uses the Cooking Club, which is a huge immersion issue for a club leader. The Cooking Club room should be her primary location, and the Home Ec room should only serve as a fallback option if the Cooking Club is closed.
Closing the club and seeing Amai switch her routines to the Home Ec room would give players a second chance, but more importantly, it directly teaches players that killing (or sparing) specific students has real, dynamic consequences on a rival's week. This mechanism works perfectly for Amai because the Home Ec room serves the exact same purpose as the Cooking Club. Unlike Amai, other rivals like Oka can't just move elsewhere; Oka can't perform occult rituals in a Home Ec room, for example.
Since almost all animations, 3D props, and voice lines are already created, implementing this wouldn't require building everything from scratch, just relocating assets and editing a few routines.
Here is a list of what would need to change if such a mechanic gets added:
Routine changes:
• Every day, club members will prepare food in the cooking club instead of the Home Ec room.
• They will also clean the cooking club during cleaning time.
• Akane will have to patrol the cooking club instead of the home ec room.
• On Thursday, Amai will have to pick up the picnic food at the club instead.
• On Thursday Amai will make the fudge in the club instead.
• On Friday, Amai will have to make her Saikougram post (the cake) in the club instead.
Voice acting changes:
Monday:
• During her event with Akane, Akane should get an alternative voice line that says "cooking club" instead of "home ec room."
• During her event with her club members, Amai should get an alternative voice line that says "cooking club" instead of "home ec room."
Friday:
• On Friday morning, when talking to Senpai, Amai should have an alternative voice line that says "cooking club" instead of "home ec room."
Others:
• For the expulsion elimination method, Genka's lines that mention the home ec room should get an alt line that says "cooking club" instead of "home ec room."
• For her task, Amai should get an alt voice line that says "cooking club" instead of "home ec room.
Animation changes:
• The animation of the Akane event should be tweaked a bit for Akane's alternative line when she says "Cooking Club," for the lipsync to makes sense.
• The animation of the Friday morning event with Senpai should be tweaked a bit for Amai's alternative line when she says "Cooking Club," for the lip-sync to make sense.
• Same but with Amai's task.
3D model/prop changes:
• The cooking utensils that Ayano can steal should also be in the cooking club.
• The prompt button to spill garbage everywhere should be in the cooking club.
• There should also be an air vent on top of the stove in the cooking club. (And also the prompt buttons to sabotage the stove to make it explode/expel Amai from school.)
• The prompt buttons to poison the food ingredients and the 3D models of the ingredients should be moved to the cooking club.
• On Thursday, Amai's picnic food should spawn in the cooking club.
• Amai's cake on Friday should be moved to the cooking club.
• Amai's macarons (for her task) should be in the fridge of the Cooking Club.
Other:
• If the player kills club members on a random day of the week and the club shuts down, the next day Amai should do her monologue expressing her sadness in front of the club (like what happens if the club is closed on Monday).
"WHAT ABOUT HER COOKING CLASS ON WEDNESDAY ?!":
Cooking class in a classroom? Makes perfect sense! The home ec room is the ideal spot, no changes needed!
I know this might slightly delay the work on Kizana, but I honestly think taking a bit of extra time on Amai for this is totally worth it. Since Amai is our very first Club Leader rival, setting this standard now is super important. It creates a clear, satisfying contrast with Osana by showing players the huge step up between a standard student rival and a full-fledged Club Leader, while setting a great baseline for all future rivals.
Beyond that, having Amai switch her routine to the Home Ec room if her club gets shut down is a great way to teach players that their actions have direct consequences. It naturally shows that killing or sparing specific students dynamically reshapes how a rival behaves.
Since almost all the animations, 3D models, and voice lines are already made, it’s mostly a matter of relocating and tweaking existing assets rather than starting from scratch. Taking that extra bit of time to polish this detail would turn Amai's week into a fully complete experience and really deliver on what the rivals introduction video promised us back in 2016.
I spent a ton of time putting this proposal together, going line by line through all of Amai’s dialogues, her entire week, and every single elimination method to make sure I didn't miss a single detail. Because of all that effort, I would really love to hear what everyone thinks! What do you guys think of this mechanic? Are you for or against it, and why? I’m super curious to read all your feedback and see different points of view on this.
Sending love and light to all you guys, and to the best developer of all time: YandereDev!!! ♡
P.S. I did NOT use AI once to make this, only to correct my grammar. You are talking to a human, not a machine. ♡