Priconne Finally Adds ‘Individual Route’ After 8.5 Years — Fans Rejoice, 5ch Asks ‘Wait, People Are Picking the Cow and the Alpaca?’

Background and Key Points

Priconne — officially Princess Connect! Re:Dive — is Cygames’ mobile RPG that launched in February 2018, making the “8.5 years” in the thread’s title literal: this is a title with a long-running, loyal fanbase and a cast that has swelled past 100 fully-voiced female characters. Unlike gacha games built around dating-sim mechanics, Priconne has historically kept its story ensemble-driven, deliberately avoiding scenes that single out one heroine as the protagonist’s favorite — a structural choice that heads off “shipping wars” among a playerbase attached to very different characters. An “individual route,” a term borrowed from visual-novel conventions, means a branch where the story narrows to one chosen girl exclusively; that Priconne finally added one, gated behind a final-boss event, is why longtime players are reacting with relief and nostalgia rather than casual interest.

The thread doesn’t actually argue about whether the feature was good — that’s assumed. The one flicker of disagreement is in the final exchange: one poster grumbles that skipping battle events (which many players do) locks them out of story content, while another reacts with surprise that some players used their one pick on the joke/animal-themed characters (referred to as “the cow” and “the alpaca”) rather than a marquee heroine.

What’s easy to miss without Priconne context: this isn’t a new dating-sim mode, just a single scene type added to one event, and the “shock” isn’t about the mechanic itself but about which characters got chosen — the humor assumes readers already know that Priconne’s cast includes several non-human, animal-humanoid side characters competing for attention alongside its human leads.