#GOOOOD they deserved better designs ):

[arttheclown]

thinking about them again

[arik-fonarik]

(sorry for using the alternate account but Tumblr is being weird again =_=) Anyhow, here's more art! :DD

I think I'm getting better at it overall tbh :DD

Even tried something a little more than the face this time! :DD

Took a shot at ur star child! THEY'RE DESIGN IS SOOOO GOOOOD AND PREDDDDY!! LOOOVE THE COLORS AND THE EMOTIONS!! THE HAIR IS REALLY FUN DESPITE THE SHAPE!! IM HEADCANONING THEM TO LIKE CAREBEEEARS <333

They deserve a good eep UvU

Hope you're doing well! Stay hydrated and take care of yourself :)

[fox-guardian]

love when you have an OC that's like super evil and awful but after a while they just get like. domesticated. not even in the story as an arc, you just change them to be less evil in general. I have an OC that was gonna be like an evil tyrant who was really mean and awful and now he's very nearly a himbo who just has some anger issues

[kingreywrites]

Of Captains and Change

Words count: 2705

Eugene Appreciation Week Day One: Captain

Summary: The day when Eugene Fitzherbert became Captain of the Guard was the worst day of Henry's life, hands down - and that was saying something, considering he had spent the last twenty-five years serving as a guard, and had lived through the Princess' kidnapping. That was a hard event to top, but Fitzherbert was a man of many talents, apparently.

Read it on ao3

My first contribution to the EAW! Thank you @fishskiin for organizing it :)

The day when Eugene Fitzherbert became Captain of the Guard was the worst day of Henry's life, hands down - and that was saying something, considering he had spent the last twenty-five years serving as a guard, and had lived through the Princess' kidnapping. That was a hard event to top, but Fitzherbert was a man of many talents, apparently.

"Captain-"

"Not your Captain anymore," the Captain- Henry's best friend- James answered, still packing his clothes quietly, looking smaller than Henry had ever seen him.

"You'll always be my Captain, I- James, please," Henry pressed, as he took hold of his arm and stopped him in his movement.

"I can't fight Cassandra, Henry, I can't," James said, trying his hardest to hide the tremors in his voice.

Henry didn't answer, because he didn't have any good responses to this. Of course, his friend wouldn't be able to fight his own daughter and even if Henry wanted to argue, he couldn't really stay Captain of the Guard if he couldn't face the biggest threat to Corona. Henry himself was uneasy at the idea, his thoughts always going back to the little adventurous girl that loved to dress up as a guard when she was ten - Cassandra was part of their family, because the Captain was. Well, James, not the Captain anymore, now the one who held the title was-

"Why Rider?"

"Fitzherbert," the ex-Captain corrected sternly, "and he is the leader Corona's Guard needs."

"Is he though? Because I seem to remember you firing him as a guard in one day! Listen, I like Fitzherbert, but as the Princess' friend, not my Captain-"

"Henry." James' look was serious and dark; Henry gulped, knowing already that this was his 'you fucked up' eyes. "Eugene Fitzherbert is Captain of the Guard and, as such, he deserves your respect. He has proved time and time again that he was much more than the Princess' friend, and if you can't trust him, trust me: he will be a good Captain."

And that was that. James left, Fitzherbert accepted his Captain's position after chasing after another Flynn Rider, and Henry stayed quiet, because he wasn't an idiot - most of the guards liked Fitzherbert and were eager to please him, and that was… good. He had to admit it. With Maximus' help, Fitzherbert helped shape up Corona's defenders and Henry, as sceptical as he had been, could accept that he was great at his job. Which didn't mean he liked the situation any better.

After the whole Cassandra's mess had been resolved - and yes, Fitzherbert had been primordial in that, Henry knew thank you - he went back to see James.

And, apparently, in his twenty-five years of service, Henry had become predictable, because his friend was waiting for him with a full meal prepared, looking more relaxed than ever. James even laughed at his confused look, much more playful now that he wasn't his superior.

Henry sat down, and they started to eat.

"And- he's so careless! He's our Captain but he keeps playing pranks on us, as if we were little kids," Henry kept ranting, stabbing his pasta vengefully, "just last time, he jumped out of a closet and startled Pete so bad he fainted!"

James hummed noncommittally, when Henry knew that a year ago, he would have been red with anger. "Well, what if he had been an assassin?"

"What?" Henry paused his fork.

"I mean, Fitzherbert scared Pete so bad he fainted so, what if it had been an assassin? What if Pete fainted then, and let the way open to the King and Queen's chambers?" There was nothing more frustrating than someone trying to use reason when you wanted to be angry, Henry realised, especially when they had a point.

"Isn't there a more normal way to do this?" Henry grumbled anyway.

"I used the normal way with Pete for the last ten years, and he never changed. At least, he won't forget the lesson this time."

God, Henry hated it when James was right. They finished their meal talking about sports, because it was easier this way.

Henry's life kept its rhythm. He was a great and experienced guard so Fitzherbert often consulted him on different strategies and- well, they had very divergent opinions. Henry had respect for the title, so he didn't yell, but he nearly smashed his head on the table in frustration numerous times, while Fitzherbert seemed relatively calm about the whole situation.

"Thanks Henry!" He always shouted as he left, a bright grin on his face, and Henry struggled every time to not grimace too much.

Nonetheless, calling Fitzherbert Captain was almost natural now. Sometimes, thinking back on his Flynn Rider's days left Henry reeling at the changes the kingdom had went through in barely five years - but it also made the fact the he trusted Fitzherbert all the more obvious.

Yes, as annoying, unconventional, and all around infuriating as he thought his Captain to be, Henry trusted him, with both his and his friends' lives - the highest honour there was in his eyes.

"He's so childish," he still moaned over a drink.

"But?" James asked serenely, now used to Henry's constant rants about the Captain.

"But he's so gooood," was the morose answer. "The guards are the best we've had in years, and we keep learning with him!"

"So there's no problem?" James laughed. "You like him, don't you?"

"... Shut up."

Henry should really stop talking to James - he was getting way too smug with time.

He was overjoyed, however, when James came back to act as Captain for the Princess' wedding - even if it was because he didn't want their current Captain to worry too much about it, since he was getting married. Their planning sessions were delightful, and Henry fully remembered what he loved about James' command - he was straightforward and concise, with everyone given a clear designated role.

That's what he told James after the wedding went on without a hitch - implying not too subtly that maybe, just maybe, he could come back? James was quick to shot this down, however.

"Henry, why do you think this strategy worked?"

"Because it was a good one?" he answered, unsure since he could smell the trap question.

"Yes, it was, as were all my strategies before this one. I'm a great Captain, and I know it, but if this worked when so many other plans failed, it's because it was Eugene Fitzherbert's guards acting under my command."

"That's…"

"True, don't deny it." James smiled and put a hand on Henry's shoulder. "Even you, old friend, you're way quicker on your feet than you used to be!"

"James, you were a great Captain," Henry protested.

"I know! Don't worry, I'm not saying I was bad at my job, I'm trying to make you understand that Fitzherbert is way better with people than I ever was. He inspires the guards, he inspires you to be better, even when you don't realise it."

"But…" Henry sighed, knowing that he didn't have anything to contradict this statement.

"Henry," James insisted softly, "I may have left my position because of the situation I was in, but I am happy. I don't want to be a guard anymore and I never regretted naming Eugene as Captain."

Well, what could one answer to that? Henry bit his tongue, and they changed the topic. Honestly, at this point, he wasn't sure what it was that he didn't like about his Captain - and, perhaps, there wasn't anything. Perhaps he only liked ranting about him, even when there wasn't any fire in his words anymore. Henry's ways were old school, and his Captain's certainly were not, but the Captain was great listener, and he knew how to exploit his team's capacities to their best. The Captain even told Henry once that he liked his brutal honesty.

"I know," Fitzherbert had said, "that you always have Corona's interests at heart when you contradict me. And I also know that, however much you disagree with my solution, you'll never question my orders once they are given so… Thank you for that."

Henry had honest to god blushed under the praise, even if he only answered with a gruff "you're welcome". (He forgot, sometimes, just how much younger his Captain was - his talent overshadowed his lack of experience in certain fields, without mentioning that he was a quick learner - but when Fitzherbert smiled so genuinely, it was impossible to ignore.) And, despite his doubts, Henry had to be fair: none of his Captain's strategy had failed yet.

Well, until now. He probably jinxed them himself with this thought.

"Snow," Fitzherbert groaned feebly, "why is it always snow?"

"Captain?" Henry exclaimed, immediately kneeling at his side, ignoring the snow soaking further his already wet clothes. Henry pushed Fitzherbert back down when he tried to raise himself up on shaking arms. "No, no, don't get up, you fell pretty hard-"

"I- I seem to remember us both falling," the Captain laughed, but he stayed down and that was all Henry wanted. "You okay?"

"I'm- yeah, the others are coming back for us but they didn't have enough rope."

The guards had been trying to find a group of bandits hiding out in the mountains, since they had been taking advantage of the isolation to rob people blind. The Captain had only taken five people with him and, at first, everything went as expected. The Captain sniffed out the bandits by having Henry pretend to be a merchant in a hurry who refused to go around the mountains. They others all hid in the carriage and when he got attacked, they all managed to arrest the three guys - it would all have been perfect, if one of them didn't try to throw Henry off a crack in the mountain, and if his Captain didn't have the bright idea to jump with him in desperate attempt to catch him.

They fell, and Henry had been dazed but that dissipated quickly once he saw his Captain still form not too far from him. Scrambling to his side was the worst five seconds of Henry's life (yes, it topped the day Fitzherbert became Captain. And yes, it wasn't only because he dreaded the mere idea of telling the Princess that her husband was dead, but because… he liked him, alright.)

Thankfully, his Captain was unconscious, but breathing. Henry had to yell at the others to stop yelling because they would bring the mountain down on them, and then they realised the rope they packed wasn't enough, so they made their way back to the kingdom with the three thieves, promising to come back as soon as possible.

"Well, that's between twenty and fifty minutes," the Captain mused quietly, when Henry told him, "depending on if they tell Rapunzel or not."

"It's a fifteen minutes walk to Corona, I don't see how the Princess could make it to us in five."

"She'll find a way," Fitzherbert laughed, and Henry noticed that he was already shivering hard. "You didn't tell me you were fine by the way, don't think I didn't notice."

"I- I'm fine," Henry coughed awkwardly. "I… You saved my life, Captain. Thank you."

Fitzherbert didn't answer right away, and Henry thought that was it - he thanked him and now they were back to manly ignoring their feelings again, as they should. That was why he startled when his Captain's quiet voice interrupted his thoughts.

"You shouldn't have been in any danger."

"... Well, you couldn't predict-"

"I should have!" Fitzherbert exclaimed, sitting up despite Henry's protest. He swayed a little, obviously concussed, but kept talking. "I- Your life, everyone's lives are mine to protect and I should have known- I should have played the merchant part, and you wouldn't have been isolated and unprotected, I-"

"Captain," Henry stopped him, putting a hand on his shoulder to calm him, like James had done to him so many times before. Now that he was closer, he could see how unfocused Fitzherbert's eyes were, and there was an impressive bruise starting to form on the right side of his head. "Captain, you did everything right. You couldn't have been the merchant because too many people know your face and you know it! Your strategy was flawless and this accident was just that, an accident."

As he was talking, Henry realised that it wasn't just words - he wasn't only trying to comfort and calm a wounded man down, until help could come. He genuinely believed that the Captain - his Captain had made the best plan he could have given the circumstances, and that it was a damn good plan because Eugene Fitzherbert was a damn good leader.

"I think I've never heard you say so many nice things about me in a single sentence," the Captain breathed out, before grinning like an idiot. "Aw, Henry, you do care!

Henry groaned, putting his head in his hands, suddenly conscious that he would not be able to stand another Captain teasing him relentlessly. James was bad enough.

"I think that you're not bad overall, Captain" he answered finally.

"That's as good as a standing ovation, coming for you," Fitzherbert laughed, "and you can call me Eugene, you know, shared near death experience and what not."

"I'd rather stick with Captain, Captain."

"I know in your head you're not calling me Captain everytime," Eugene insisted and… yeah, perhaps he was right, Eugene was easier than Fitzherbert. But he would stay Captain out loud. Before he could say it, Eugene flopped back down and closed his eyes, making every alarm in Henry's head go crazy.

"Captain?!"

"I'm not taking a nap, don't worry," Eugene sighed, looking much too pale for comfort as he opened his eyes back up. "Too cold for that, anyway."

"... You have to stay healthy, Captain, because I'm not telling the Princess you're dead."

Eugene barked a laugh, obviously surprised at Henry's joke. "Is that the only reason you're all protecting me? The threat of Rapunzel?"

"Not the only reason… I'm also not telling Mr. Strongbow."

"Lance scares you?"

"No, the Princess scares me, Mr. Strongbow would cry and I'm not equipped for that."

They exchanged a glance and both laughed. Well, Henry laughed, but he kept a careful eye on his Captain, because he was not really kidding, in the end. Who would he rant about to James without him?

He didn't have to wonder any longer, because he heard the worried voice of the Princess calling their names above him.

"How the hell did she manage to get here so fast?" He said after calling back.

"Told you," Eugene answered cheekily.

The rescue went pretty well, all things considered, the Princess' orders clear and accepting no contradiction. If she ever decided to abdicate the throne, she would make a great Captain, Henry thought bemused. In barely two minutes they had both been lifted up, bundled up in warmer clothing and evacuated in a hot air balloon. Henry was more than surprised to that James was part of the rescue party since, apparently, he had decided to visit right when the other guards came back (and, at this point, Henry half-suspected his friend had psychic powers, he could never hide anything from him for more than one hour).

"You okay?" James asked, and Henry nodded absently, his gaze automatically straying to his Captain as he was being fussed over by the Princess.

He looked still quite dazed and pale, but his smile was warm as he tried to reassure his wife. He was sitting down while she was kneeling at his side. The Princess was carding her fingers through his hair slowly and, at some point, he whispered something and she finally sat down fully next to him, before they snuggled closer.

"So?"

"So what?" Henry startled, his eyes going back to James'.

"Still not convinced by my choice?" James smiled smugly.

Henry groaned, his face a picture perfect of exasperation if one forgot the lift of his lips he couldn't conceal. That was an unfair question to ask when said choice was being all young and cute and heroic right beside them.

"You win," Henry admitted softly, "Eugene Fitzherbert is a damn good Captain."

[isabelisfun]

drag race snatch game commentary!

nicky is gonne im so sadd :(( ALSO WHY DID WE SEE NONE OF HER MESSAGE BEING READ TF

now that nicky’s gone i will establish myself as team jan, team jackie, and team gigi. i like crystal a lot too

snatch game babbyyyy! does this not seem a little early for snatch game?

widow have u seen this show switching characters doesnt exactly work most of the time

VANJIE IS HERE MY BABY SHE LOOKS SO PRETTY IM SO HAPPY

this is one of my favorite vanjie looks she looks gorgeous

every ep i must tell everyone how in love i am with crystal’s mullet

vanjie comforting crystal and wiping her tears is the cutest thing omg

OMG HAHA IM LIVING FOR JACKIE AND VANJIE #vanjkie

AND JACKIE BLUSHING IS SO CUTE

ooh gigi and crystal have very similar characters so one will definitely do better than the other and itll be really obvious who does

WHY IS DAHLIA STILL HERE

this mean girls cast thing is fun

oh heidi really got that leslie mannerisms

jaida got cardi’s mannerisms too we love that talented cast this season

wow jan and jackie are already standouts and nothing’s happened

GIGI IS SO GOOOOD (E) OMG

aiden’s performance is well...interesting

ok yah crystal is definitely giving poppy but poppy just isnt really a funny character so i could see how this could flop

oh i almost forgot miss 🍒 was here the editors really going hard on her

wow jackie IS DOING THIS THING WOWWWW also GIGI WOWWW

ok yah crystal is really good at being poppy but poppy isnt funny

yah brita is right aiden isnt doing well but NEITHER ARE U BRITA

jaida and heidi and jan are doing well

widow isnt bad but she isnt doing much

AGAIN JACKIE AND GIGI ARE PHENOMENAL

idk if quarantine and no social interaction is getting to my head but jackie out of drag is getting hotter by the minute

jackie kissing widow’s head was so cute ima cry

aw gigi sharing her story is so sweet we love a gender fluid icon

living for ru’s pink hair btw

runway time: heidi looks pretty, love jackie but hate this look, jaida is stunning as always, love jan’s wig reveal and i like the look for the most part, dont really love widow’s, gigi looks ADORABLE and her nose blush is so cute, aiden’s is kinda boring and low effort, i think brita looks really nice, crystal’s was boring until she took off her jacket and i was reminded how much i love a women in business attire, also i see they cut someone’s runway out which is kinda annoying to cut the designer’s work out

safe queens totally make sense

jackie getting the praise she deserves is really making sense with my fantasy

random note but brita’s makeup looks really nice

crystal’s look gives me lesbian vibes and im living

gigi winning is amazing she really did great but can we please let jackie win at some point

i mean i already know who wins this lipsync but even if i didnt know for a fact i think i would know

wtf this is not idina. its not even demi. truly dissapointing.

i mean brita is doing better but thats not saying much this is kind of a terrible lipsync. the sparklers were fun i guess.

thank god aiden is finally gone

[nyrator]

What are some of your favorite games?

Oooohhhh boy

Picking favorites is hard especially depending on my mood and how recently I played them but lesseee

long post so putting it under a read more but tl;dr Cave Story, TWEWY, and Yume Nikki are pretty cool as are some other games

Cave Story (PC)

This is what I think of when I think of the ideal “video game”. It just feels like what a video game should be to me. The great artstyle (and the + version has an increased resolution which is also great), the fantastic music and sound design (which again the + has three variations to choose from, “original 8-bit-esque”, “new wiiware interpretation-esque”, and “remastered renditions…esque”)…

and of course the gameplay is phenominal with an arsonal of useful weapons and great difficulty (the secret dungeon is incredibly hard and I’ve only beaten it once but man it felt good to beat it), the world and story are phenomenal, I’ve played 72+ hours worth of this game (at least five full playthroughs of it) and I loved every moment of it. Only thing I haven’t done is some of the ridiculous A-rank achievements, beat Boss Rush (got to the secret boss at least), or beat Hard Mode (got to the final final boss).

The gameplay is “travel around these different areas, shoot at monsters, platform and explore. Your weapons level up by collecting little triangles enemies drop, and de-level when you get hit. There’s three levels of weapons, and you can replace certain weapons at points in the story.”

I also always saved the person because when I first started playing this game, the only thing I looked up was “are there any missables” and I had a spoiler free list of things I should look out for and the most important ones were all about saving them so yeah.

also this entire game, soundtrack, visuals, everything, was made by one person and it blows my mind.

The World Ends with You (Nintendo DS)

this game is incredible.

Like. This game utilized everything the DS had to offer and it was incredible. I discovered it because of Nomura, the guy who worked on Kingdom Hearts, worked on this (and it really shows in the art). At first I thought it was just some random rhythm game, but then they announced it might appear in KH3D and I was like “okay fine I’m getting it”

and I got it and it is fantastic. You play as a punk antisocial kid named Neku, who hates people and wants to be left alone. Then stuff happens and your forced to play this game and end up with a partner and a timer on your hand (the timer is story only so no worries about that).

You play the game on both screens, playing as both characters with a shared HP bar. Early on you’ll have it on Auto-Play which means the AI can play the top screen, but once you learn how to manually play and combo multipliers together between the two screens, it becomes incredible.

The top screen is buttons (you can use either the D-pad or the ABXY buttons depending on your hand orientation), where you do attacks which end in a certain symbol. Get the right symbols and you can get stuff for a special combined attack. The bottom screen is the bulk of the action, where you play as Neku. You get pins and any way you can think of using the bottom screen, there’s a pin for it. Swipe, flurry of swipes, circles, taps, blowing into the mic, yelling into the mic, closing the DS itself (the only other game I know that did that was Hotel Dusk and mannnn did it take me forever to figure that out)

it’s so fun and hectic and good and I love it. It’s RPG-ish, it has equipment, stats, and a fantastic way of handling everything. You can replay any point in the story, you can set any BGM music you want for the pause menu, you can adjust your level with a slider and change difficulty at any time (and of course the lower level/higher difficulty means better percentages for rare specific item drops to collect), you have hundreds of pins to level up in a variety of ways, you have food you can feed your characters and they all have their individual likes and dislikes, you can dress them up with fashion for equipment (though no in-game model changes unfortunately), it’s so good with so many unique and convenient things

the music is great and skate and atmospheric and good. The art is great, the writing and characters are wonderful and snarky and a good amount of puns from some characters. There’s an underlying mystery and it’s like “ohhh that happened” “OHH WAIT THAT HAPPENED INSTEAD OH MAN” “ …. wait no no you mean THAT was what happened oh god” and yeah gooood stuff.

also everyone is like “oh man where do I find this game I can never find it” and I just got it for 20 dollars on Amazon in 2012 and I check and it’s still 22 dollars on Amazon so yeah (there’s also a phone port that I hear is better looking with full versions of all the music but the entire top screen removed which I feel is sad because it removes the whole “you need your partner” thing and simplifies the gameplay)

Yume Nikki (PC)

it’s

it’s an experience

Yume Nikki is like. I can’t recommend it as a game, because in terms of gameplay it’s pretty basic and open. But mann, it is some kind of art and I love it.

It’s an exploration game in RPG Maker 2003. You play as a girl known as Madotsuki, you’re in a room with a balcony, you have a TV and a video game system with one dreadful game for it, and all you can do otherwise is sleep. And when you sleep, you get access to 12 doors to explore, and can collect 24 Effects. … And that’s it. That’s the game. The only words in this game are the names of the effects. Some help, some are purely cosmetic, and some have specific uses or make NPCs do certain things.

It’s such a surreal, alien game. Just big areas to wander around in to find things, and then go deeper and deeper into the areas to newer areas. It’s all exploration. There’s no explanation, the things you see are so abstract that it’s mindblowing, and the creator… has never explained anything and has mysteriously vanished after the 10th update for the game in like 2008. Someone’s maintaining the webpage, and people say they have their approval to make things like merchandise and such, but to the general public this Kikiyama fellow is as mysterious as the game they created and it’s such a mystery.

I of course fell in love with the game. I used a written guide to give me a general idea of where things were (I only had trouble finding like two-three things and needed a visual aid for them), and I barely ran into the famous NPCs that are as iconic as the game is.

and man it’s incredible how this game has gotten popular and how people try to fill in the blanks. Like, people have their own agreed upon names for these NPCs. Like, Madotsuki is the only real “name” we have. Uboa (because of the scream), Monoko and Monoe (Monochrome Girls), Poniko (Pony-tail Girl), and most surprising of all the fan favorite Seccom Masada (Sentimental Komuro Michael Sakamoto Dada-sensei) how that got agreed upon I’ll never know

OKAY SO UH that’s pretty good for now right

honorable mentions:

Knytt series (exploration metroidvania-ish game that let’s you climb walls and collect stuff and explore to good ambient music, I recommend all of them including Within a Deep Forest which is a game where you play as a ball, which also crosses over with Knytt in Knytt Underground. Knytt Underground is fantastic and pretty and great collecting and exploring game but mannnn is the writing and character artwork god-awful, at least to me. It also has less abilities than the other games but what it does have it makes great use out of)

Animal Crossing New Leaf (I have played this game every day since launch and it is so relaxing, just live in a town and talk to neighbors and buy and sell stuff and decorate things)

Hyper Light Drifter (a very pretty game with great difficulty and visuals and wandering around and dying a lot but in fair ways. It’s a top down hack-n-slash-n-some-shooting game with fast dashing and deadly enemies and deadlier bosses)

999 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (a thriller visual novel/escape the room type game for the DS, the game itself was okay, the story does a fantastic job of making you believe what its talking about is actually real and deals with some theories that screw with you, and solving the mystery and figuring out who the bad guy is was mind-blowing. The other games in the series are alright and handle the gameplay better but mannn nothing will beat the way this game’s story messed with me)

Kingdom Hearts (this is more of a past me but yeah I used to love the action RPG of this game but I really need to replay the first two games to see how they feel since the newer games have left me “ehh”) Uhh off the top of my memory Re:coded was the most fun (fight me) and CoM had the best story, KH2 was too easy and I want to play the FM of it eventually, KH1 was great but had those early issues and stuff but also need to replay it.

Final Fantasy IX (I still haven’t beaten it legit but I sat and watched my neighbor play it when I was 9-10 and it was fantastic and I was always traumatized by Blank’s petrification because as a kid I never undid it, also Kuja is the best character of anything)

Grow Home (a short little game that deserves love because it’s so simple and you just grow plant towers in a pretty world and try to reach space)

Splatoon (listen man the aesthetics are great the gameplay is great and fast and tight and it’s a shooter that kept me active and it’s unique and I love it and I love my Splattershot Jr and character customization)

mmmm that’s all my mind wants to think of today so yeah~ I swear I’m always forgetting some really good ones too.

also uhhh Saints Row 2 was the best game I can imagine that genre being (good size map, minigames, huge amount of customization, good mix of humor and drama), and the Tony Hawk series (specifically 2 and Underground 2) those are also good games though I haven’t played the Tony Hawk games in ages (had THPS1-4, THUG2, and THAW, rented the original Underground though and did all the story stuff but never goofed around in it like UG2. American Wasteland was blehhh and didn’t bother with anything afterwards)