Fair enough! My thinking was just that given both stories heavily feature romance/romantic elements and tropes that even if R&J + PotO aren't romance stories *officially,* they're close enough to it that I thought they fit as examples

Nope. I'll admit romantic tragedies aren't my preference, but a happy ending isn't a Requirement for smth to be considered a romance; Romeo and Juliet and Phantom of the Opera being two of the quintessential examples coming to mind

The skull is generally really unwieldy/clunky to me too, BUT there is one hidden aspect to the weapon you can unlock later that imo pretty much completely fixes most of the issues w/ it and makes it really fun to mess with. Otherwise though, it's one of my least fave weapons lol