#TOKYO RG COUNT DOWN : 1 Day

[daria-trubnikova]

Rio 2016 - Rhythmic Gymnastics Group AA Final

[blackidyll]

i'm like half a year (well, three months if you just count the PC release) late to the party but oh man, i underestimated the amount of emotion i would feel just looking at the start screen.

and again when i went into the inventory and put on the NEO Twister record on.

and then again at every single reminder or call back to the first DS game. the remixes of the original TWEWY soundtrack! the art sytle!! the amount of noise (pun unintended) i made when i found my first pig noise!!!

i just finished day 2 and i'm chuckling to myself the entire time, chaining noise battles and grooving to the soundtrack. a couple of random thoughts as i was playing through:

love the options for japanese or english audio. i love the japanese voices for neku and joshua so much so i'm literally playing it with japanese voiceover just for them (then i forgot to turn subtitles on so i had to struggle along with my mediocre japanese during the first big cutscene when rindo and fret first got thrown in the game).

always loved how accurate shibuya is in the game (first time i went to tokyo, i navigated shibuya with my memories from TWEWY and did a TWEWY landmark self-tour). I'm super over the moon that Shibuya Hikarie is in the game now! when i was in tokyo in 2012 when the building was new, i remember going to the very top floors to take panoramas of the shibuya crossing area, and thinking how very apt it would be if Shibuya Hikarie was the composer's penthouse or something... (pork city what?).

new battle system threw me for a loop and i died like 3 times the first battle against a grizzly noise. I tried to play the Genshin Impact way (mouse and keyboard) and that did not work well for me (also i kept trying to pan my view with my mouse ala~ genshin's battle style) and NTWEWY's way of locking on targets and the super warp when a noise dies and your target auto switches across the map made me quite dizzy. also i sucked at coordinating my pins and powering up the groove meter at first because i was so used to neku being able to use all six pins at once. but once i got the hang of things the NTWEWY's system isn't too bad.

did the composer get the idea of now having teams for the Game instead of just pairs because technically it was like a four-way pact+teamwork that helped neku get through week3day7's multiple bosses and then defeat the conductor's final form?

what a treat to have rindo and fret already working so well together from the beginning. i love their friendship a lot. i did lol at the nice trend of the main characters not knowing that they are dead when starting the UG Game though (hello my headcanon that the composer takes a fee from each player, and in return also takes the memories of their final moments of death/dying. i mean, how traumatic it would be for players to wake up in the UG and remember dying, esp if it was something gruesome like a car accident and they're bleeding to death etc). speaking of which, what were fret and rindo's entry fees...?

lol at minamimoto's shade lmao. i'm warming up to minamimoto a lot in NTWEWY. i loled so badly when he took out his loudspeaker lololol.

was that the composer speaking at the end of day 1 (located high up looking down, musing when "someone" would wake up)? was that shiki in her RG form watching eiji ouji (can't remember if that's day 1 or 2)???

shoka is a serious mood. i wanna be like her and just be like, i'm off the clock can you go bother someone else? kthzbai~~. sigh, if only... also i cannot remember the names of any of the other reapers who introduced themselves so far, ya'll are not as iconic and memorable as shoka

currently starting Day 3 and cannot wait to meet nagi and unlock the threads part of the inventory! i got all of neku's clothes as a purchase bonus which makes me laugh a lot because it's like someone CAT stole neku's headphones, shirt, pants (description of the pants even says that one button looks like it was handsewn on) shoes and music player lmao. no wonder neku in the trailers is always wearing questionable clothing

I love TWEWY so much. what a joy it is to have a sequel after so many long years.