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I made a very cute Warlock in B&S today.

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Omg there really is a Part 2

Wow... Okay... Time to tear this apart again.

Low-Detail Students - You’ve already brought this up previously?  What’s the point in bringing it up again?  Because someone already did low-detail NPCs and did it better?

Morning Conversations - Again, what reason does Yandere-chan have to care without player intervention?  Also, if the only way to know about features is through your YouTube videos and blog posts, then you’re doing something wrong.  That’s plain bad game design.  “B-but this is a sand box testing build”, BUT it also very much appears like Yandere Dev is making the testing build the final game.  That’s not what a testing build is for. In any case, as for this issue, maybe just... make a tutorial?  A tutorial that states what you can do for Elimination Methods and how to pull them off?  A tutorial that gives examples of things that can raise your stats? Honestly, if it’s to tell you about items that can raise your stats, make it a player choice to learn about them by conversing with or eavesdropping on students and teachers.  Again, Yandere Dev has stated various times that Yandere-chan cares nothing about anyone who isn’t Senpai, her rivals, or her rival’s suitor.

2D Backgrounds - You make $5k a month for working on the game.  You didn’t pay your volunteers until people got on your ass about it.  You live with your parents.  You can afford whatever you want.

Headphones - I thought this video was about Persona, not Metal Gear Solid?  Also I highly doubt students are allowed to use any portable entertainment system during normal school hours.

Book Bags - ... It... it never occurred to you until now... that... students... carry... their book bags around with them?  IT’S A SCHOOL AND YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD LOOK AWKWARD!?  Oh my days... Yandere Simulator is already a monstrosity with clipping issues.  It doesn’t matter if book bags, of all things, have these issues.  Or... ya know... have... characters... hold... their... book bags... in... their... hands...

School Store - Like... I don’t see a problem with the potential School Store character being invincible... It literally presents a challenge and an area to avoid committing a crime in.  At most, let the player be able to distract the person running the store somehow.

Culture Festival - I Googled this.  A vast majority of Japanese High Schools hold Culture Festivals on or around November 3rd (Culture Day).  Yandere Simulator is set in the first 10 weeks of the school year.  There is absolutely no reason for the school to hold a Culture Festival that early in the year.  He would literally need to change the calendar to accommodate a Culture Festival. Oh wait... by changing the calendar he’d literally have to give mechanics to the sakura trees or delete them altogether.  In 2017, sakura trees only bloomed between late March and early May (one place started in January).  The blooming lasts for about a week and each region has a different bloom date.  So the sakura trees already need bloom mechanics.  Since the game takes place over 10 weeks and starts in April, It’s impossible for Yandere-chan to confess to Senpai while under the cherry blossoms.  But that’s a different issue entirely.

Student Stalkers - Wasn’t this idea brought up before?  I can’t remember.  Wouldn’t the Scooby Gang Photography Club fucking do this if they had some evidence?  Like I always thought this would be a staple for them.  Really though, I can’t see a Cowardly student stalking Yandere-chan.  A Social Butterfly?  Maybe.  A Heroic student?  Definitely.

Streets & Stores - Wasn’t this already stated to be a stretch goal or something along those lines? XD Also, I find it HILARIOUS how Yandere Dev is using Persona 5 as an example when he’s a fan of the franchise and Persona 3 and Persona 4 had the same thing albeit on a bit of a lesser scale since not every shop could be entered.  Though I think Persona 3′s Paulownia Mall and Iwatodai Station would’ve been adequate to present the idea of a single street.  He didn’t have to wait until Persona 5 to get a “good example”. XD “I will strive to match the quality of Persona 5′s streets and stores”.  Remember.  Persona 5 had a dedicated team and a budget.  This is just an indie developer with volunteers.

Umbrella Technology - I feel like the tone used is very condescending.  It makes it feel like I’m a child with limited understanding of the world.  The tone used is an outright insult to everyone’s intelligence.  Shut the fuck up.

In Conclusion - Bitch, please.  You’re a huge weeabo.  You already know enough of how a Japanese High School is supposed to be like.  The fact is you’re trying to justify playing Persona 5 when you should be implementing Osana.

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It’s been awhile since I played B&S (I last played around NA’s Wings of Raven update I think) so I have a few questions before I get back into it.

What’s the skill tree like now?  I’m completely unaware on if the skill tree has changed and what the balancing is like now so what are good PVE builds for Summoner and Force Master (I ran a Burn Build)?

Can you still change your skill points freely?

Does leveling take less time or is it still about the same?

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Oho~

So the developer has straight up admitted YanSim is 100% not original (x).  Also, what he plans to steal from Persona 5 (which I totally called upon learning he was playing Persona 5)?  Let’s take a look with my opinions, shall we?

Chatter Effects - Good job on stealing that right away, YanDev.  Honestly though, YanSim legitimately did not need chatter effects.  YanDev has proved that it’s within his and his volunteer’s capability to give students idle animations.  As long as they had idle motions that alluded to them talking (which they now do due to these chatter effects), that was all it really needed.

Student Reactions - School Atmosphere is already a thing.  There is no need for this.  It’s redundant.  As School Atmosphere decreases, students and teachers get more on edge and their idle animations reflect it.  They also gain the ability to see and hear further distances. If I remember correctly, Yandere Dev has previously stated that Yandere-chan gives fuck all about NPCs who are NOT IMPORTANT TO HER (only rivals, suitors for rivals, and Senpai are important to her).  She has no reason to care about their thoughts of the situation.  At the very most, there should be certain NPCs who the player can choose to talk to. Yandere-chan also has the ability to eavesdrop. There’s 100% no reason for this.

Memorial Services - “Punishment for a sloppy murder”?  No.  If done properly, this feels like it’ll try to guilt the player into feeling bad for murdering a student.  YanDev insists that Yandere-chan is a monster.  There is zero reason for the player to have to sit through a cutscene of a memorial service when Yandere-chan herself wouldn’t care and would not pay attention to any memorial service.  At the very most, just make it skip straight to class after a “sloppy murder”.

School Props - This guy is a fan of Persona, watches anime regularly, and reads manga regularly and he still doesn’t know how to properly set up the school?  Give me a fucking break.  At most, he’d only need to have seen Clannad to have an okay idea of how to set up a school.  Also, what happened to his Japanese School Teacher contact?  Couldn’t they have given him an idea of how the schools are structured?  Why not look up Japense High Schools on Google Images?  [x][x][x][x][x][x] Aside from lockers, the hallways look pretty barren to me while the classrooms look like a standard classroom.

Transitions - Can your outdated programming program even handle this?  Also, the calender is fine.  It’s a horror game where the protagonist is the monster and she doesn’t care about anything other than Senpai.  It doesn’t need anything fancy.

Third Eye - It... it never occurred to you NATURALLY to change  her pose while Yandere Vision is active?  Lmfao.  Leave Persona 5 alone.

Uniform Variety - Yandere Dev claims he wants the high school to be realistic, BUT he also has many anime tropes.  In actual Japanese schools, the Persona students would not GET AWAY WITH THIS LEVEL OF ALTERATION.  I literally just googled “japanese high school dress code” and clicked on the third link. [x]  Let’s look at the ones that stand out: -You may not change your natural appearance. For example, dying your hair, wearing makeup, wearing colored contacts, tweezing your eyebrows, painting your fingernails etc. Okay, so, literally every student except Senpai, Yandere-chan, the Martial Art’s Club (if I remember correctly that is) and the Occult Club break this rule.  Persona also breaks this rule. -You may not wear a bright colored sweater or jacket over your uniform during winter. You may wear a tan, gray, navy, or black sweater or jacket only. I don’t even think I need to say that the Persona games break this rule. - These uniform rules must be followed anytime students wear their uniform. Even while the students are not in school or at school, they must wear their uniforms properly to be good representatives of their school. Wearing the uniform improperly is a huge “no-no”.  Persona breaks this rule. - Students undershirts for their uniform must be a solid plain white gray or cream color. Again, this is a rule that Persona breaks. Which is it?  Do you want Yandere Simulator to have a realistic high school or to be an anime high school?  You can’t have both, YanDev.

Opening Animation - I... I thought there was already going to be an opening cutscene with Yandere-chan’s voice over??????  Oh, you want an actual theme too?????  Okay, YanDev’s claiming it’s too expensive.  I did a quick search. [x] It varies, but it’d likely be about $3k per minute.  That’s $4.5k for a 90 second video.  Yes, it could run more, BUT honestly YanDev makes $5k a month.  This is affordable.

Student Comments - What reason does Yandere-chan have to care?  None.  Again, just have NPCs the player can choose to converse with or eavesdrop on.  I also felt the text boxes were a bit intrusive in Persona 5 and I would’ve vastly preferred just having voiced lines.

Art Style - Maybe you shouldn’t have stuck with store bought assets for years.  Just a thought.

Also, I need to point out.  It seems Yandere Dev’s forgotten that YanSim is being developed by one person +volunteers (there’s still no word on tinyBuild’s involvement) whereas the games he’s stealing from drawing inspiration from had a dedicated team and a budget.

Edit #1:  People also need to remember that for so long Yandere Dev has called YanSim a horror game and is adamant that it is not a dating simulator or school simulator.  A majority of the aspects he wants to rip from Persona are more in-line with a dating simulator/school simulator.

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I went on a salt hunt with my SS Asura.  Here’s what I did:

Played as brain dead as possible

Intentionally whiffed catches

Intentionally used up my orbs/MP when I knew it wouldn’t catch

Honestly barely even tried

Used X-loop after catching

Steel Body, EA, Fox’s Meal, Fox Spirit, and Mana Drain were thrown in my X-loop at random

Sometimes didn’t cancel Fox’s Meal

Basically played as stupidly as I could

Started with:  32 or 33 wins; 12% of the way to SSS End Result:  ~30 wins (60 wins total) and 3 losses; 34% of the way to SSS Conclusion:  Why am I getting rewarded for playing like a dummy? Extra That I Forgot to Screenshot:  “X is just sad :c” - Random SS Asura I found that beat me I know... That was legitimately the entire point. See how stupidly I could play and win.

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Some platonic Ara x Aren headcanons?

The Haan siblings aren’t exactly close. In fact, the only close ones are Ara and Aren. The rest are scattered everywhere, none of them giving a damn about each other. 

Aren’s a terrible chef, but Ara always tells him his cooking is great, causing him to make more terrible food.

Ara gets a lot of scrapes and cuts due to her clumsiness and her active lifestyle, so Aren has first aid kits stashed all over the Haan family home. He even manages to put some in trees outside of their family home.

As kids, their parents made preserved rice. It ferments and becomes slightly alcoholic. Both of them like the preserved rice and go to great lengths to eat it.

They’ll actually start fights over cookies. It gets to the point where they abuse their powers as the youngest and the oldest to score cookies over the other.

Both of them have beautiful, calligraphic handwriting, but sometimes they’ll both write in chicken scrawl just to see whose handwriting can be worse.

In short, they’re competitive, but in a playful way, and they’re always there to take care of each other.

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Better than his initial in-game appearance, BUUUUUT he’s still gross looking  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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You can find this shipping meme here. Okay so since I have various lines between the same classes, lemme explain why.  These are really the only characters I care about and the only things I really ship for them.  I really don’t mind any ship for the rest of the cast, EXCEPT I can’t get behind Chung and Rose being shipped with anyone.  Don’t know why, just don’t really find them shippable.  Eve is a grey-area for me since I can’t see her getting involved with anyone.  Just personal opinion.

Now then, since it miiiiight be a bit hard to read the things I ship are under the cut, along with a short explanation for each ship.

OTP I really just ship Ara x Ciel, but it was easier to just match SD x RG, DL x YR, and DeM x AS than doing... 9 different lines... Basically, I just find Ara x Ciel really cute.  I feel that outside of Lu, Ara would be a light in Ciel’s life since she’s generally quite cheerful.  Due to having Eun, I feel she’d be able to somewhat relate to Ciel’s contract with Lu (perhaps even more so in Asura’s path).  Sure, it’s not the exact same thing, but there are likely some similarities they’d be able to bond over due to being tied to another entity.  Ciel can easily relate to Ara’s loss of her entire family and would very easily be able to understand her quest for her brother.  Whenever Ara loses hope and thinks it’s not worth it to find her brother or that she’ll never find him, I feel Ciel would be able to offer comfort and encouragement. BrOTP DL x Chiliarch - Look at their end poses.  They’re so casual with one another and seem super friendly with each other.  I get more of a guardian/child or best friends vibe over a romantic vibe from them so they’re totally the BrOTP for me. Love GrM x BM - They’re both rather strong classes who’d be able to bond through training and easily come up with battle strategies together.  Elesis, being more cheerful, would likely be able to be a shining light in Raven’s life. Mochi x Ara - I really have no reason other than I think it’s adorable and they’d be able to get along quite well. Mochi x CrA - I feel that due to understanding human emotions and being the more cheerful Ain, he’d be able to help ground CrA to reality... at least a little.  While he may not know the best methods to help her, he’d at least be able to listen to her if she ever chose to speak about her pain and perhaps help abate the Shade’s hold on her due to his Blatt Blume. Like Okay, so... NB x LP - I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY I LIKE THIS TBH I JUST DO Arme x NB - I think it offers a nice “forbidden love”, along with a “why the hell do I love something that’s supposed to be my enemy” aspect.  Admittedly, this likely wouldn’t be a healthy relationship.  Considering NB’s personality though, I don’t think she’d particularly care... as long as Arme never tried to use their meetings to murder her. Mochi x NB - Again, it offers a nice, “forbidden love” aspect.  I also feel that Mochi would be able to amuse NB through his more human antics while she’d show him a different aspect of demons.  Yes, NB’s still a haughty demon, but I feel she’d still retain some of her more child-like aspects from base Lu (less than Chiliarch, of course, but more than Diabla). AP x DiA - Apostasia, the one abandoned by God, and Diabla, the power hungry demon.  She’d totally get her claws in him.  Again, not really a healthy relationship but I doubt either of them would care as long as they didn’t turn against each other. DiE x YR - Both of them are unhinged just a little, DiE WAAAAAAAAAY more than YR.  They also have revival techniques.  Imagine if... they were in a relationship... and... YR permanently died.  Imagine DiE tearing apart time and space to find a reality where YR lives, but there is none. =) RF x YR - I don’t know.  Seems cute.  Especially imagining them as a battle team since they’re both rather ruthless. BM x AS - Asura’s the more mentally unstable Ara so I feel Raven would be able to calm her and encourage her. VC x CrA - I feel VC would be the one who could more easily take care of CrA.  VC has a strong sense of calm and patience to me, something CrA desperately needs. VC x GrM - I like them much for the same reason I love BM x GrM.  It’s just a bit less aesthetically pleasing. VC x SD - I think they’d be cute.  SD’s a very cheerful character and VC likely needs that cheerfulness in his life. RG x AS - ... I don’t even know why there’s a line here since I like all Ara x Ciel ships... I think I went on auto-pilot a bit.

[ladyakul]

Ah!  Thank you very much!

I was wondering if anyone had the ENG skill translations for all of Ara’s skill and if they’d be willing to share it with me?  I’d prefer if it was the direct KR -> ENG, but the script for the ENG dub alone is fine, too.

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I was wondering if anyone had the ENG skill translations for all of Ara’s skill and if they’d be willing to share it with me?  I’d prefer if it was the direct KR -> ENG, but the script for the ENG dub alone is fine, too.

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Ara, we get it.  We know.  Yes, you love Aren, we know, you love Aren so much, he’s the light of your life, you love him so much, you just love Aren, we KNOW , you love Aren you fucking love Aren ok we know, we get it, YOU LOVE AREN. WE GET IT.

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So... Are we gonna talk about Edgey McEdgelord’s skill translations ‘cause like... if they’re still using Google Translate...

Lofty Wanderer

Brechen (Break)

Wechsel (Change???  Exchange???)

Geit Herrschaft (Goat's Domination lmfao i can't i can't i can't XD)

Alptraum (Nightmare good job on stealing DeM's skill name, too)

Entfernen (Remove/Erase)

Reflexion (... Reflection I'm guessing just spelled to sound edgy)

Schmerz (LITERALLY JUST PAIN GG KOG)

Verzweiflung (Despair)

Broken Faith (his only passive for this part)

Apostasia

Ende der Welt (End of the World)

Leere (Empty/Void)

Nichts Feld (Void Field aka I will never be over this)

Abgrund (Abyss)

Fesseln (Tie Up/Bonds)

Gott Vergessen Sense (God Forgotten Sense/Forgotten God's Sense)

Mauer (this literally is just Wall like wtf)

Totentanz (it's just a number of DANCES OF DEATH from Southern Germany)

Awakening (Yep, this is a passive)

New Belief (Another passive)

Absolute of Voidness (Paaaaaaaaaassssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiive)

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ucmonf said:

I was wondering how her hair looks like.... qwq thanks for sharing!

You’re welcome!  Her hair really is quite pretty so it’d be a crime to not share it!

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Me:  I want SR 5/5 for Elesis.

KoG:  Oh really?

KoG:  *releases trial IB for CM*

Me:  *buys it because I wanna see what Elesis’ hair looks like out of curiosity*

Me:  What’s SR?

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In NA... Why are people with Oath of Ruin so dumb?  This is a legit question.  I’ve run into people with Oath who don’t know how to play their characters and who don’t know how to deal with Scar of all things.

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*sees the new “balance” patch*

*sees the Ara “balance”* ... At least Asura’s relatively unchanged for now. =D

GrM’s back to Rushing Sword spam I see.

... Oh... So they’re going that way with NB?  Basically trying to force Soul Eruption and Swift Trash?  Can we actually get a fix for all her Critical vs Heavy?  No?�� Kay... *sees DL and DeM “balances”* ... Is Lu/Ciel in general just being placed into a casket, being lowered 20 feet into the ground, and being buried?

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So I looked up names that start with “her” and “Hermia” is a name.  So what if “Hernia” is just a typo of “Hermia” and no one ever noticed and when it got to the voicing stage, the actor and director were like, “wtf?  well... I guess this is the script we’ve been given”.  Then when they got to reviewing the recording they just thought, “well... too late now”?