#supposedly my gameplay house and yet idk

[moonwoodhollow]

a home

[sarasa-cat]

random fannish cp77 nonsense

Now that time is supposedly more available & flexible for most of the 2nd half of this year, I am FINALLY getting really jazzed about Cyberpunk 2077 in general, including a few things from the (now long ago) 1.6 patch that reference Edgerunners (the amount of Adult Responsibilities in my life was a fucking nightmare from Aug 22 until late Spring of this year), and playing/spec'ing my characters (all my Vs) far more purposefully and strategically from the moment I first touch the character creation screens and onward. And mods-- obviously-- with a focus on VP.

Realizing a few more things after spending last night watching YouTube vids of all sorts of craftily spec'ed Vs doing their thing during missions.

When I initially played CP2077 on PS5, despite enjoying it SO MUCH and having way too much fun, my V was very much a blunt weapon who tried to be all strategy and tactics (because I love tactical play after engaging in slow reconnaissance), my build was very ad-hoc -- too much of a jack of all trades, master of none.

I think console play on normal difficulty made me care less about spec'ing in a purposeful manner. Most of that comes from not really wanting to read lots of text (lol) when playing a console game with tiny text that looks far better up close on PC but it also comes from console gaming being a more social act in my house -- thus gameplay becomes a bit more spontaneous and entertainment-focused -- plus all of that "first time through a complex game" syndrome while wanting to see and collect all the things.

But now? Now that I have actually taken time to make sense of different builds, and finally (lol, I'm slow) taking the time to learn the real differences between weapon types (facepalm) plus find out about equipment and weapons I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WERE IN THE GAME (monowire, the sandevistan OS, etc) --- oh the possibilities. Also, some of the other cyberware I was only vaguely aware of now intrigues.

Well, I want to re-spec my nomad V (and my corpo V) and accidentally at least one streetkid suddenly asked to come into existence (like I have the time, lol, well, ahahah, I need fun in my life and fun that provides creative fuel is even better).

I am still sorting out who gets what and how it will shape headcanon.

I sort of feel like, idk, that sense of after having a mild crush for a long while but then, suddenly, not only do the stars align but I fall head of heels, lol.

Also, I miss having and once again need to have a fandom obsession in my life. The past bunch of (too many) years weren't kind. I need to be back in the sort of Creativity-Exploding-Everywhere headspace that fandom gave me from 2007-2014.

And I'm making it so.

(also, with brand new custom-ordered laptop being overpowered and thus much better as my all around work machine, the gaming machine is now only a gaming machine and has been moved out of my office and is upstairs in the writing nook so it will be used FOR gaming and my office is now only for work, which is SO MUCH BETTER).

(fwiw, I'm still planning on returning to writing ff7 fanfic -- monsters headcanon -- and also have some DA meta in the works with a casual DA2 playthough happening yet again. plus random indie games and visual novels and other such queued up too.)

All I know is that fandom creativity begets OTHER creativity and I need that river of OTHER creativity to flow so prioritizing fandom once again is also, very much, a strategic decision in addition to being a good+fun decision. ;)

[cayenne-twilight]

Professor Layton Iceberg Explanation

As I said in the tags of the original, the iceberg I made was a meme consisting of both real theories and satire/parodies/fandom memes. If anyone is interested, I can work on an unironic version that only has real theories.

Buckle in because this post is LONG and heavily saturated with lore and information.

Actual theories

Parallel universe 1960s where the world wars didn’t happen. There’s an unused file in Curious Village that shows the year as 1960 and the time machine from UF is set to 1973, ten years into the future. The series canonically takes place in an undefined time period (hence the technological inaccuracies and fantasy elements), but it’s based off the 60s. There’s more evidence but we don’t have time to go over every little thing. I linked my “no wars” theory below but TL;DR the outdated airplanes and underdeveloped medicine in the Layton series imply that the world wars may never have happened. https://cayenne-twilight.tumblr.com/post/632205992162099200/outofcontextdiscord-timegearremix-zonosils-war

The real meaning behind the statue in Future London. In UF, the purpose of the statue is to spark Layton and Luke’s conversation about their friendship. Luke is stressing out about moving overseas and sees himself and the professor in the story behind the statue, but in the bigger picture, Clive must have been the one to commission it. Some theorize that the little boy is Clive and the man is either his father or the professor. One idea I’ve seen is that Clive wishes he could be Luke for real, while another is that he wishes he died ten years ago, and another is that he’s literally terminally ill explaining why he doesn’t care about consequence. Personally, I think “the boy succumbed to his illness” refers to his mental illness seeing as he wanted the professor to save him from his madness as he saved him all those years ago.

True location of Monte D’Or. there are no deserts on the British isles to my knowledge, so it makes the most sense for Monte D’Or to be in Southwest USA where English is the default language, they have a desert, and there exists a city famous for flashy hotels, casinos, and entertainment. What makes it odd is that nobody ever mentions overseas travel, and all the major characters are from England.

Loosha’s origins are not explicitly explained if I remember correctly, but the implication was that her prehistoric (supposedly) species was sealed away along with the garden, allowing them to survive all the way to the time of LS until Loosha was the only one left. The garden provided a good habitat and protection from predators, and it’s logical that they’d slowly die out anyways, but there’s no explanation of any specific factors that led to Loosha being the last.

Beasley is not a bee I wrote a post about this one as well, but TL;DR Beasly lacks several defining bee traits whilst having several human ones. He is not human, yet, by definition, not a bee. It’s possible that he is the result of Dimitri’s testing, but whatever his untold story is, he remains an enigma of nature. https://cayenne-twilight.tumblr.com/post/632381715250282496/theory-beasly-isnt-a-bee

Subject 2’s identity is currently unknown. There is a subject one (parrot) and subject 3 (rabbit) so there has to be a second. For a long time, people suspected Beasly to be him seeing as he’s a bit of an amalgamation and definitely not a regular bee (see above). After the release of LMJ, though, people began to suspect Sherl, the intelligent hound who could speak to certain people but not others. That being said, it’s possible for one to be subject 4. Sherl’s memory of a bright flash matches up with subject 3’s memory of being electrocuted. They never explain why the animals were being experimented on, but it was probably Dimitri making sure the conditions of his machine were safe for humans before reliving the incident from ten years ago.

Lady Violet died from the plague from DB. There’s no evidence for this or anything, it’s just an idea. People say she died from the flu but I don’t remember them saying that in the game, at least the US version. Extending off my “no war” theory: it’s theorized that the Spanish Flu was spread by the travlelling soldiers, so if that’s true, it’s possible for the epidemic to have been averted for some decades. Maybe the Spanish Flu reached England later than in real life. The hole in this is that DB’s plague must’ve been close in time to 1918 while Violet’s death was much later, so it would’ve had to stick around.

Bill Hawks is working with Targent and Arthur Cantabella. There was a force in the shadows buying the time machine technology from Bill. Someone with a ton of money who helped him cover up a freak accident and get away with it completely, a feat that involved shady means like violence by hired thugs. Some theorize that it was Targent, seeking power over time in exchange for a little mafia magic. The Labarynthia project was sponsored by the UK government, so as the PM, Bill must’ve known about it. He probably supported dubiously ethical, high stakes (witch pun) psychological experiments like Cantabella’s and helped him stay in the shadows.

All the NPCs in St. Mystere and Folsense are dead. I make fun of this type of theory later, but they’re admittedly captivating. I’m pretty sure the canon in CV is that the villagers are Bruno and Augustus’s OCs that they made robots of and built a town around, but it’s more interesting to think that the village was there before, and the townspeople died of a plague and were replaced like Lady Violet. In Folsense, there really was a plague and they never explain the NPCs there. They’re either real people who appear way younger than they are due to hallucinations (even the ones who already look old ?), or they don’t exist at all, which is pretty spooky. This part of the story is a gaping plot hole. In a similar vein to CV, the edgy yet plausible theory is that they used to live in Folsense but died of the plague and now live on as hallucinations.

Hershel seeing everything as a puzzle is a coping mechanism for all his trauma. This was a joke but I thought about it for more than five seconds and it makes way too much sense.

Plot holes and unexplained questions that we like to overthink because it’s fun

The downfall of the Azran was vaguely explained in canon by people being so greedy that it lead to the civilization collapsing. It’s not a stretch to imagine that happening, but it would’ve been more interesting with a little more detail.

Layton and Luke are programmed to routinely forget how to walk. I didn’t know whether to list this in the joke section or not, but it’s odd that the characters actively participate in the walking tutorial (as opposed to showing a little memo to the player) as if they didn’t know how to before, especially when they go through this several times a year.

The truth behind Pavel. He’s simply a joke character who teleports, is a polyglot (sort of, at least he wants us to think he is) and is mega confused all the time. He’s a fun character to make crack theories about because of his cryptic nature that even he doesn’t seem to understand.

Miracle Mask deleted scenes. The first trailer for MM featured animations that were not in the final game. One was the Randall falling scene, except in a slightly different style than the one we know. Others were completely foreign, like Layton and Luke pacing across a theatre stage as if Layton’s about to expose someone with a dramatic point. Cut content and “could’ve beens” are always curious to think about.

Evan Barde: secret mastermind. Arianna and Tony’s dad is a mysterious character who died under mysterious circumstances. I think the canon is that his death was a genuine accident, but concept art of him making a creepy evil face suggests that maybe he originally had a larger role in the first drafts of LS than the finished game.

The secret to how Paul and Des pull off their disguises is unclear and will remain unclear. There is no plausible explanation for their shape shifting. Unless Paul is just a little dude wearing a human suit like that one Wizard of Oz species and Des is the best quick-changer ever and hides his naturally feminine legs under his cloak.

Alfendi’s mom. When LBMR came out people scrambled to piece together who Hershel had a kid with, but there’s no way alfendi is his biological son. This happened with Kat as well and her biological parents turned out to be brand new characters, so I’m sure Al will get an adoption backstory if his arc continues, be his parents old major characters or nameless, faceless NPCs.

Granny Riddleton and Stachenscarfen are omnipotent deities. Idk which section this fits best under, but these two characters have some serious power. At first introduction, they’re implied to be robots, but they appear everywhere in later games. They follow the Professor wherever he goes and assist him on his adventures, GR collecting puzzles and housing them by some odd magic, and Stachen teaches you how to walk. They both introduce and supervise the gameplay. By extension, I guess this idea could apply to Albus as well in the prequels. GR and Stachen even had the power to appear in LMJ, something no major character could do. I consider them akin to the velvet room attendants from the Persona games.

Clive’s kill count is a vague subject in the game for the sake of keeping it PG. I don’t know if anyone’s ever mathematically estimated the damage he caused, and I sure don’t want to try, but the game appears to push the idea that he didn’t kill anyone at all, saying they stopped him in the nick of time and things like that, even though we watch him raze the city. If they ever want to bring him back post-time skip, I can see them twisting it so that the mobile fortress cutscene wasn’t a linear sequence of events, but instead a compilation of scenes over the course of hours so that London neighborhoods around him could be evacuated and have it make sense. Knowing Level-5, it’s more likely that they wouldn’t think this deep and do something more lazy, though.

Memes and references

Post-time skip Flora is real references the famous L is real theory from Super Mario 64. Like Luigi in SM64, Flora was also a highly anticipated character who didn’t appear in a new game, in this case LMJ or LMDA. In the end, Luigi did become real in the DS port so hopefully Flora is real will be realized as well.

Hershel can’t read is a veteran fandom meme referring to how in the first few games, especially Curious Village, Layton asks Luke to read every document out loud for him. Perhaps this was an exercise to improve Luke’s reading skills and independent thinking, or perhaps he was just too lazy or preoccupied to do it himself, but this grew into the joke that our genius Professor was actually illiterate this whole time.

Layton’s smash invitation is hidden in PLvsAA. It’s no secret that the fandom would kill a man to get the Professor into the smash brothers franchise. In PLvsAA one of the puzzle artworks features a goat eating a familiar white envelope with a red stamp, sparking the joke that either Layton or Wright got the invitation their respective fans desired, but it got lost along the way.

The science board is the mysteriously vague organization Don Paolo got kicked out of for the crime of being evil. It’s the epitome of liberal arts majors and art school graduates trying to bs their way around not knowing any science and failing miserably. “He was very good at all the sciences, but then the CEO of science told him to stop because he was using the power of science for evil science”. They do this again when “Dr. Stahngun” describes his time machine what with the soolha coils and whatnot.

Hoogland is death cult initiation is a parody of “Mario 64 is Freemason initiation” which is ridiculous, just like the creepy human sacrifice subplot of AL.

You can see the reflection of someone watching you in Aurora’s eye references the famous, creepy Talking Angela theory. In retrospect it would’ve been funnier if I said Angela instead of Aurora.

Every copy of Professor Layton is personalized references the famous “every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized”

Clive’s fat ass in HD is a meme that originated from the announcement of UFHD, saying that half of the excited fans wanted to cry again while the other half were simply attracted to Clive. If we want to enter real bottom-section-of-the-iceberg-chart territory then let’s say Clive’s character has some sort of psychological siren properties that draw people to him like a magnet and/or Harry Styles.

Things I pulled out of my ass for shits and giggles

Infinite hint coin hack: I’m sure a tech savvy cheater could hack the game for infinite hint coins, but there’s no easy or interesting way. I don’t know why someone would do that though, considering a lot of the hints suck and there are puzzle guides on the internet.

Cringy, unused Randall villain monologue. This joke is derived from the actual scrapped MM content as well as deleted content being a popular element of iceberg charts, but it’s sadly not real. Would’ve been hilarious, though.

Last Specter Puzzle 031: Light Height tracks and records children’s intelligence level. It doesn’t, but it’s always fun to make fun of arguably THE most ridiculously difficult puzzle in the franchise. (Seriously, do they expect 7+ year olds to know trigonometry???)

Hershel struggles with tea addiction. Hershel from the games drinks tea in moderation, but the manga begs to differ. He has a tea set in the Laytonmobile, and an attempt at teatime while driving causes him to crash.

Folsense is a metaphor for Alzheimer’s. This is inspired by those edgy kids’ show theories where everyone’s in hell or something, but nobody has ever said this.

London Life is reality and the plot of the games is all in Luke’s head. That’s one way to fill every plot hole. How funny would it be if Luke made up crazy characters and stories based off his fellow townspeople Sharkboy and Lavagirl style. “This dude who lives in a castle and asks people to give him all their money for nothing in return is a vampire from 50 years ago involved in a tragic love story”.

Secret ending encoded into Tago’s Head Gymnastics. It’d be crazy if there was, and Dimitri would hound Tago for the secret to time travel. If you didn’t know, the Layton games started as an adaption of Akira Tago’s puzzle series, except they decided to add a story to make it more interesting and marketable.

Daily puzzles datamine your DS. I’m bad with technology but is it even possible to datamine a DS??? Idk, but I think my DS lite from 2008 is safe.

[alkhale]

THEORIES ON THE ROUTES/PLAY THRUS FOR THREE HOUSES??!?

HAHAHAHA I DUNNO IT SEEMS SO HARD TO GAUGE!

As far as things go right now, it seems the ability to choose at least three routes is obvious. People have speculated the possibility of a fourth like Revelations for Fire Emblem Fates, where you choose the neither and have a supposedly harder time doing a lot more stuff but have the option to recruit across various houses. I don’t know how that would work into the story yet with so little we know. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a later download code you could do to try that tho.

Purely in speculation from what we’ve gathered between the trailers and the demos and bits and pieces on character bios, my in-depth guess on the way the routes can go is kinda like this:

Black Eagles

I’m going out on a limb here, but this seems like the most balanced route between the three. I was considering the Golden Deer’s route to be that one, but there’s just something about the well-roundedness of their appearance seeming like it’s story line will be the most straight forward. Edelgard already comes off as a character that doesn’t believe so much in the more religious and sacred aspects of history and finds them chaining to the future. Crests pretty much seem like an important part of the game, and the Black Eagles are currently the ones with the least amount of crests, I think. So their story might either center a lot on the crests or avoid it entirely, but I feel like it’s the former but my hunch might be horribly wrong lol.

Just seems like a solid route tbh.

Blue Lions

Okay, the biggest thing with this route is obviously the fact that something happens to Dimitri that you don’t seem to be capable of stopping and choosing this route has now seemed the most popular in regards to wanting to help Dimitri. This kinda gives it the air of being the “Conquest” sort of route for the game, the supposedly harder one that seems like you’ve got to pick the bad side to help the people turn good.

BUT IM NOT SURE. I harbor this lowkey fear that you might need to pick another route to help Dimitri out hahaha, but picking his route, therefore giving him the hands on guidance he probably needs to not become an angry feral warlord does seem the most obvious. Hopefully the little bits of gameplay before you have to pick a house will show a little more so the choice can be made. Blue Lions does seem to be a really interesting route and maybe the more complex depending if its the characters you want to focus on or the story.

Golden Deer

I dunno, Golden Deer has definitely been a mystery to me HAHAHA. It’s really hard for me to gauge for some reason? And I don’t know why? Maybe it’s because Claude is so beautiful but he’s? Sneaky? 

Their group is interesting because it’s the only alliance compared to the two other kingdoms. Claude comes from a group that’s more about diplomacy and working together with a group of individuals to form one greater good. A lot of people think this is the easiest, more peaceful path of the three, especially with Claude’s line about friendship and overcoming walls in the recent trailer but....

Claude’s character has been stated in his bio to be the kind of guy “you have to keep your guard up around” or in some translations, a cunning guy who harbors another side beyond his friendly, easy-going nature. I’ve always loved double-edged characters like this who people might say are two-faced, but idk they’re always interesting so I’ve definitely been considering it. His route having something to do with the possibility of something more sinister working behind the scenes or revolutionary overthrow would be kind of cool, while working with Claude is supposed to help him overcome that more cunning side and learn to openly trust people and not just be friendly to have them in their favor.

In conclusion of this randomly in-depth thought rambling about the game I’ve been considering because I’m getting really excited for the game, I’m probably still a dummy who’s going to make a decision when she sees that game opening/the characters/decides on the spot HAHAHA. I think playing through any of them will be fun and hey, there’s multiple save slots for a reason

[itsclydebitches]

Soo like 6 days ago I started watching the Witcher stopped at ep 7 bought the Witcher 3 and have been playing it nonstop. The shows okay? I think? (From someone who only knows what the series is from a 4 hour critic video that I had no idea what was going on in BUT- the game is so funnnn. Like I barely know what’s going on, from that video and people discussing things online but WOW??? Like how was I not told about this shit earlier??? Dandelions realllllly icky thooo like I thought he’d be more fun and less “wow your straight fucking scum” but I mean at least he cares about his friends? Triss and yennifer are... Oof rough BUT I’m only just in the game, hope they’ll grow on me? Or change? But Ciri? Is adorable? Her parts are so fun to play her dodge is so fun.

The novels! Have You read them? Where does one get them lmao Ik they’re translated?

[old timey fisherman's voice] WE CAUGHT ANOTHER ONE, BOYS!

Ahhhh new Witcher 3 fan!! Congratulations, anon, you've unlocked my numerous Thoughts™ and Opinions™ on the matter that I am now going to dump on you in bullet point form. No spoilers though!

Okay, okay, yeah I like this game a totally normal amount. I've sunk at least 250 hours into it (so far) which might not be much compared to the Pro Gamers and whatnot, but it's an insane amount for someone like me who possesses the attention span of a goldfish. I don't do any of the same thing for 250 hours (except write things on tumblr, I guess)

I didn't know what was going on either when I first played. I didn't even have the show to sort of help me out, Witcher 3 was the first Witcher story I ever dove into. The great thing though is you can just... google stuff? See, idk if you've worked this out yet, but the games all take place post-book series. All the stuff in the series happened, then Witcher 1 starts with Geralt having amnesia, and everything else in the games is new content. Which means that though there's obviously a fair number of book spoilers throughout, it's pretty easy to google worldbuilding questions without getting game spoilers. So once I understood that I was able to supplement what I was getting via game osmosis with stuff like, "Who the fuck is Nilfgaard again and why does everyone hate them?" or "What did Triss do to Geralt?" without getting any quest-specific spoilers. Basic wiki articles with, "Such and such is related to such and such and once did This Thing" was super helpful.

Yeah, the show is just okay. I'm far less enamored with it a year later than I was at the start. I think I was trying to like it more than I actually did... Honestly, I'm actually somewhat wary of getting more seasons simply because of how TV shows tend to dominate fandoms. The Jaskier/Geralt dynamic is a perfect example: once the show does something, a very large portion of the fandom tends to take that as their preferred canon. Finding non-TV!Jaskier/Geralt content is more of a struggle now. Which isn't a bad thing, god knows I'm happy to have more Witcher content in general, it's just too bad that we have game and book dynamics that are, at least here on tumblr, largely overshadowed by the show. My fave in the whole franchise - Regis - is someone I'm particularly worried for because if the show does him dirty and the whole fandom takes that characterization as gospel, I may not recover lol.

Dandelion's characterization in Witcher 3 is, sadly, not what I'd hoped it would be. To my mind book!Dandelion is superior to both game!Dandelion and TV!Jaskier. It's his dynamic with Geralt that made me ship them in the first place. He does grow on you in the game though (or at least he did for me), but he's definitely presented as more annoying/inept/creepy than in the books. And don't even get me started on how they butchered that relationship in the show... Though I WILL say game!Dandelion remains pretty funny. There's one quest in particular that never fails to make me laugh. Also his fashion is on point for a flamboyant bard.

Oof Triss and Yen... beware, anon, that is THE debate in this fandom and the one you might want to steer clear of lol. Personally, I'm not a fan of either. Triss is fine, I guess, but not someone I really, actively like and Yennefer is... well. Let's just say if I could do away with any character it would be her. I absolutely despised her in the game, was told she was better in the books, started the books, hated her even more, tried to give her a chance in the TV show, and ended up hating her there too. I'm just not a Yen fan, at all, which basically makes me the black sheep of the Witcher fandom lol. You might warm to them though, the majority do, however, know that you don't have to romance either of them. My Geralt was quite happy being a single father to his amazing daughter Ciri :D

I've read the short story collections and read enough of the novels to realize it wasn't my cup of tea. Basically, there are two collections of interconnected tales as Geralt goes about his witchering and then a six book epic following the hansa and everything with Ciri. Personally, I couldn't get into the epic and dropped the novels early on. In my humble opinion Sapkowski, writing a character like Geralt, (much like Doyle writing Holmes) excels in the short story format and then struggles stylistically in novel form. I found his writing tedious, the themes not nearly as poignant (many outright uncomfortable), and the fact that Yen is a central part of the whole tale didn't help sell things for me. Reading a six book series where a good chunk is dedicated to the supposedly epic love story of a couple where you hate one half and find the whole relationship cringy (though not in a way the story is purposefully acknowledging)... doesn't make for great reading imo lol. But I want to emphasize that that's my take and god knows it's a minority one. Most fans adore the books - and I do heartily recommend the short stories - so definitely give them a shot for yourself some time.

They are indeed translated (I can't read a word of Polish lol) and are very easy to find in a bookstore, online seller, etc. The wiki article lists them all.

(Though know that you definitely can't download ebooks for free via the Z Library. Nope. Not possible. Don't know why I'm even getting your hopes up.)

Really though, Witcher 3 is my fave, hands down. Out of the books, the show, the other games... Witcher 3 is the version of Geralt and the world that I truly fell in love with. When people say "Witcher" that's the version of Witcher I'm eager to discuss. However, if you can stomach early 2000s games with pretty terrible graphics, I recommend trying Witcher 1 and 2 once you're finished (I was immediately ready for more gameplay content after I'd finished lol). Witcher 1 is, in many ways, a mess. God the combat system drove me nuts... BUT it has a strange charm that I, in all seriousness, really loved. Meanwhile, Witcher 2 (Assassins of Kings) is far stronger. You can easily see the building blocks of Witcher 3 in the narrative choices and worldbuilding. Plus, AoK has Iroveth who is just such a fun character. Wish he'd made it into Wild Hunt :(

Also the comics! I bought the omnibus a while back and didn't regret the purchase for a second. House of Glass (the first story run) also has one of the saddest Geralt moments for me. Just this single panel that lives in my head, rent free, making me Feel Things on occasion lol. There's a new run, Fading Memories, releasing this month (!!!) which I can't wait to get ahold of once the trade paperback is out.

Oh god I could ramble about Witcher 3 for ages but this is already getting so long. Do all the side quests! Return to places you've already been to for fun surprises! Replay decisions to see how differently things turn out! Play lots of Gwent! Enjoy the gorgeous landscapes! Be sure to get the amazing DLCs when you're finished! Play Hearts of Stone first because Blood and Wine has an ending-ending and I didn't realize that, so it was a little weird to get the emotional finish and then have like 10+ hours of gameplay left! Oh, and if you haven't figure it out already know that you can put points into any skill in the General Skills tab (you don't build on it like the fighting/signs/alchemy tabs) and I would snag the "Gourmet" ability ASAP because it has saved my ass so many times.

AND ENJOY PLAYING

I wish I could play it for the first time again, but diving back into more Blood and Wine tonight will have to do :D

[steroidusr]

digimon anode tamer part 14: maybe the third-worst postgame ever

after the end credits, you get booted back to the title screen. but if you hit continue again...

...you find yourself back at super old man's house. THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

There are lots of trainers in the human world who’re strong like you. You don’t want to get beaten by those guys, do you?

dont you want to be the very best? like nyo one ever was?

i read that the bonus dungeon is supposed to pop out of that dark spot, but nobody knows how to actually unlock it

That means they’re hidden ones.

FOUR?????

...oh. i guess i just found a hidden dungeon.

DAMN, this hidden dungeon is FIERCE

this dungeon seems a lot longer than most of them so far, but every single digimon in it is a baby that goes down in one or two hits

aside from some digimon using summons that stop me from using items, im not really sure what the challenge is supposed to b--

...oh. im done.

yeah, super old man, give full ownership of an entire world of sentient creatures over to an 11-year-old, what could possibly go wrong

i cant believe this poorly-translated game that was never actually released in any english-speaking countries can spell "ogremon" correctly but crunchyroll cant

annnd here's hidden dungeon number 2

if you put ogremon and devimon on the same team, they can learn a special variable move

i died. that's enough for tonight, i think.

actually i should... uh, announce? something about the anode tamer livetweet

so you know how there are four postgame dungeons? we found two (and beat one) but i found out how to get the other two

the third one appears when you have 20 hours of playtime (wait, where does it even show how many hours youve played???), and the fourth one appears when youve either seen or befriended (i have no idea which...) every digimon in the game

since we're playing on an emulator, unlocking that fourth one is impossible, so we won't be doing it. oh well.

(that's it that's my "announcement")

last time we tried to tackle this dungeon! we died! let's try again!

alright, this doesnt look too bad. there was a yuramon there too but gatomon immediately used a variable move and killed it

pumpkin barrage aside we made it through the first room

deputymon may be slow as shit but at least he's a decent healer

also patamon dodges attacks a LOT

apparently your digimon's stats get better the more you use them but i havent really seen that at all...?

then again, ive only really been paying attention to dp and movement range...

okay, that's three rooms out of... um, five? the story dungeons were usually around that iirc but idk about the postgame ones

patamon's defense is pretty low so he has to run (fly) back to get healed after every other hit fortunately he has a really wide movement range and, again, dodges a lot

four down, and room five has.... 

another fucking kuwagamon

room five... 

room six... maybe it'll last ten rooms?

UHH... THIS DOESNT SEEM VERY CHILD-FRIENDLY

all clear!! next is the dungeon that supposedly unlocks once youve clocked in 20 hours of gameplay

also i just found out we have a pokedex

the variable digimon all have map sprites even though you cant actually use them normally...

SAME

i know one of the postgame dungeons is a tower that appears by gennai's house but idk if it's the one we're looking for

Where are the locations for all of the dungeons, after you beat Millenniummon? I’ve already found two of them, the one near ToyAgumon in the city, and the tower next to the first dungeon.

oh, this guy on gamefaqs is in the same boat as I am. there arent any replies yet but if I keep an eye on this page--

.....................oh.

alright, i did a bit more digging around, and... 

it's here. when you unlock this dungeon a hole appears in the center of this... spiraly thing

so, uh... shit, what do I do now? just leave the emulator open until ive got 20 hours in? oswan doesn't pause when the window is active (which is usually annoying as hell, but im grateful for it now), so...

i guess now i just wait. hmm.

there isnt even a way to see how long you've played so idek how long i'll have to wait is this what cool kids call an "idle game"?

[15 minutes later]

oh my god this is torture

okay, new plan: i'll run this shit like 10 minutes a day until i can unlock that fucking dungeon or maybe i can leave it running while I'm out of the house so i dont have to listen to this shitty repetitive music for 20 hours either way we can consider the digimon lp done until i can meet this bullshit requirement. hooray!!!