#Skullshatterer

[dawnbrigayde]

i made more

[viperhearted]

fins who steal. fins who kill

[kara-knuckles]

People like to joke about bullying Crownslayer, but if you look at module missions, you will realize that the real loser is actually Skullshatterer. There are at least 12 missions that require a certain op to defeat them. In comparison, Crownslayer only has 2.

[arknights-archive]

Global 4th anniversary artbook previews

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[tactically-cute]

Maybe I'm just not getting things but Skullshatterer's (and by proxy Reunion's) motives are entirely delusional, right? Like he's got a vendetta against Rhodes Island because they killed his comrades/other infected. The comrades that attacked them first. On his orders. While they're trying to help treat the infected. And then Misha, who saw Rhodes Island getting constantly ambushed is like "y'know he has a point, why did you kill the people actively trying to kill you?"

I'm not going to call Rhodes Island saintly or anything but from the very beginning of what we get to see, Reuinion attacked first in every encounter. Strangely, Talulah seemed the least bothered by Rhodes of the antagonists we've encountered thus far, as of 3-5. It seemed more like a grudging respect. Well, there's W but she is I think a special case.

[arkiwii]

her troops? wuuh??

WUHH????

[bingus35]

I’ve been surfing lofter and came across uh. quite a few mephisto am///pu///tee art. And there’s some comments on bilibili mentioning him having a bad leg too?

Don’t remember anything like that so I looked back to see if it was mentioned in the story and found this dialogue

The translation “that man cut my leg” gave me the impression it was like a small cut/a slash on his leg. But I wonder if the original Chinese was something closer to “that man cut off my leg”…

Edit: yeah.

I don’t speak chinese and there’s still a chance DeepL is wrong, but seems unlikely. Jesus this is fucked up

Aside from this there’s also how his arts staff doubles as a walking crutch, and W mentioned his limbs were torn off in an explosion (though that could just be a threat).

So that’s why his leg is drawn so weird…

[totallyseiso]

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[stelladess]

what are some reasons you love amiya bc amiya fans are having our moment rn 🙏🫶 -@greythroat

There are many reasons, many of which I have talked about before. But for some of them; 1. Her design is extremely versatile, able to be twisted pretty far for comedic or badass effect and still instantly read as Amiya 2. She has a very fun personality and fun/interesting dynamics with lots of other characters I really like (W/Wis´adel, Kal´tsit, Blaze, Rosmontis, etc) 3. Her powerset and in game kits are really cool And then the big thing... the entire reason I began playing Arknights. Back when the anime aired I checked it out cause I had plenty of time at my hands back then and I have always been a big fan of paragons like superman or other such heroes. And when it got to the whole Skullshatterer thing in the anime and Amiya was placed in a pretty classic paragon situation of having to break their own morals or risk losing someone they care about... and she breaks against her own morals right away. She feels awful about it but she still did it. And it struck me that she isnt a paragon, she is a traumatised child soldier trying to be a paragon. Who feels she has a responsibility to be a savior. Who considers herself a failure because she is only a regular person who cannot live up to her own impossible ideals. So I went and played the game, which I fell in love with. I love Amiya so much in large part because she is a normal, imperfect, "broken" person who cannot live up to her own ideals. But she keeps trying. She will always strive for the beautifle future Theresa dreamed of even if it is not possible. "Dreams are worth it because they are more then we can be" - Superman She also has such an incredible character arc. I am really excited to see what is in store for her in the future as well~!

[cerastes]

Are you going to give Arknights: endfield a go when it releases?

Yep, but I've been honest on stream about my current impression on it: It doesn't look too good. We talked about it, and basically, Liduke wasn't the best option for art director to be honest. She's really good at what she does but what she does, is lacking in scope: The colors don't look good, too muted, too sterile, designs aren't super good, no design has wowed me the way pre-release Arknights designs wowed me (Specter, Hoshiguma and Skullshatterer made me very hype, to name a few). It's like I'm looking at a slab of dirt. Just... Where's the color? In the maps and the designs of the characters. The moment Angelina showed up in her Bloodline of Combat fit, it was so funny to me, because her bright red jacket instantly became the single most colorful thing in the entire game.

Liduke works very well with pale blacks, whites, reds, yellows, and complimentary winter palettes. Look at Hellagur, Schwarz, (her) W, (her) Ines, etc, they look really good. But that's because we have an overarching cast and world of color to contrast them to. When everything is like that, it doesn't look good. I'm a bit disappointed by Endfield's presentation, to be honest.

The gameplay, or what we've seen of it... Doesn't really look fun. It's plain and simple as that.

It's rather difficult for me to write this because I strongly believe in not doomposting and looking at the virtues of things, but at least from what we've seen, it's just being very difficult to find these virtues in Endfield. The best thing I can say is that I still have faith in it simply because Arknights has really delivered to hell and back in terms of being a game and in terms of sheer raw style. The way it keeps evolving Tower Defense (and Tower Offense, to be honest!) is impressive, so I have no doubt brilliant and passionate minds are working behind Endfield, but it feels bad framing it this way because I'm saying "I like their other work" without being able to find a lot to say about Endfield by itself.

I'll give it a try, because I love Arknights and Hypergryph has been phenomenal in my opinion, but if this was a stand alone game not associated with HG or AK, I really don't think I'd look at it twice, and it saddens me to say. I'm hoping to be proven wrong.

[dawnbrigayde]

sorry. i've been on a roll.

[thegreatyin]

gotta say i think a lot more than just the legs were broken there buddy

gone. reduced to atoms.

[viperhearted]

[nero-draco]

I checked what 3-8 stage is and it turns out to be Skullshatterer (Misha) stage. Yeah, okay, makes sense as that's where I got gatekeep'd too for a long time.

[arknights-archive]

Prelude to Dawn Blu-ray

[superchat]

actually kind of nuts watching this knowing more about W and the culture around Sarkaz thats so deeply tied with her. she was probably really fucking mad whens she heard Misha was going to stay cuz it sounded like she was just giving up. thats why W was mocking her so hard

but Misha taking on the name of Skullshatterer so he lives on, for both him and for the people who followed him is exactly the kind of thing Sarkaz do in war, when they pick up a weapon, they take on the name of the fallen owner, in a way to honor them and for them to live on (thats how i remembered it feel free to correct me though). once W saw that, she didnt force her to leave because the promise she made to Skullshatterer was no longer there, the new Skullshatterer had their own will and agency and she wouldnt get in their way