#I don't know if Asteria had all its remaining plot threads finished up but at least the game lasted nine years lol

[goldentigerfestival]

god what I wouldn't give for Namco to just reboot Crestoria. not this crossover-less manga that skipped half the story and altered major aspects of its own original cast. the story the way it was, with legacy characters deeply intertwined with the plot to the point that they were handled just like original characters.

I don't hate the manga but I'm very aggravated with it. I keep seeing people mention it's doing poorly and like... yeah??? this is taking a vague concept from the game that players loved the story and cast of and mashing it into a speedrun of "how many scenes from different chapters can we stick into a single manga chapter/manga arc". at first, I understood needing to remove crossover stuff for an original manga... but now it's at the point where they've completely changed whole storylines for its own original cast.

if any of y'all have seen some of my tags on my Cresty reblogs, you know I'm as stupid and just as silly a girl as one can get about Vicious. I'd have to say he's probably in a tie as my second place favorite overall character in the franchise.

so idk, watching the game turn into this empty shell of what I loved is hella painful lol. I want the game back with the full cast, legacy characters included, and I want to know all their roles and how they'd continue to be incorporated into the story. so many plots got left behind. Milla and Kasque, Milla and Velvet, Lloyd's group, Stahn and Leon, Barbatos, Yuri, Emil, Julius, Cless and Kanata, Asch... and that's obviously not everything but yeah (some of them I could argue never legitimately needed to show up again due to having their plot relevance completed more or less but could show up again just as Kanata's friends like Reid and Veigue).

I mean of course I'd love to play the game again for what it was, but it's the story and characters (legacy included) that kept me going even when the gameplay started to stagnate (which was probably a cost issue if I had to guess). the voice acting and music had a big part in it too.

there's no particular direction for this post; I just needed to vent about my frustrations with Crestoria's fate LOL. at this point if the already not great manga fails, they probably really will give up on it because it's "failed" twice (and to my knowledge it's entirely not the player base's fault it failed and in part had to do with JP players no longer funding the game after a huge refund scandal). I don't think they'd want to make a console game or anime out of it at that point or turn the game back on.

see, like, if they turned the game back on (if they even still had the code for it idk how that works with online service games shutting down), I wouldn't even mind entirely if they'd deleted player data (which at this point I imagine they would have). like I'd be bummed but... I'd go through it all again and wait for content I already knew if it meant new stuff was coming after. YEAH THAT'S HOW DESPERATE I AM.

anyway putting vicious crestoria in a gacha game was a sin and you can take that as a pun or not but it rly was a sin of them to put smth that great (also not a pun but it can be) and amazing in the confines of a gacha game that they ended up pulling the plug on after a year and a half anyway.

salt for dinner, folks!

my problem is that i love cresty too much and now im hurtin' for it.