#adventures through twst gacha

[person8789]

Glorious Masquerade EN Info!!

We’re finally getting the event starting October 9th!!

Event start and end dates, as well as a story synopsis and confirmation that this will be a stamp based event : )

It seems Deuce is our story earned SR <3

We’ll have 5 rounds of stamps this time around, not odd for bigger event like this : )

All of our cards that will be in banners : )

Round 1 will be Azul and Epel starting with the event itself.

Round 2 will be Idia and Sebek starting on the 18th (this is who my focus will be on 🤣, wish me luck!)

Round 3 will be Malleus and Jamil starting on the 27th.

It seems, like the the 1st 2 Halloween events, there will be a big showcase with all of the cards at the end. Interesting enough, this showcase won’t be happening until after the event itself is over. Either way, those of you who are saving for Malleus will still have a chance to get Azul and Idia : )

Good luck to everyone on their gacha adventures!!

[dourpeep]

My first SSR card when I started was Riddle’s card too eheheh (you could only get Heartslabyul and Savanaclaw SSRs at the start)

There’s a lot of pain in the backstories of Twst indeed... Meanwhile, Crowley just makes me want to punt him-

The entire story is just so interesting to me because Twst being an adventure style rhythm game and such, there’s no romance in it and it’s basically MC living as a prefect and having to go through everything, build up friendship with the characters and solve problems because Crowley is too irresponsible and MC has no way to get home to their world </3

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ooo really?? So the other dorms weren't available until later? That's kinda cool, actually. And understandable--the current cast is rather wide-spread so starting out with something like that is no easy task.

And pain you say??? Ah buns

WAIT IT'S A RHYTHM GAME??? ngl I have no idea of what kind of game this is, I just heard a bunch about it and thought ah man why not- I do like that it's not romance-based, though! Very refreshing since a ton of mobile gacha games are geared towards that-

but yeah that being said, I'm going in entirely blind ehehe

The only thing that's stopping me is the load time OTL

[sorovalo]

OH BOY THIS WHOLE THING REGARDING YUU HAS BEEN PLAGUING MY MIND FOR SOOO LONG 😭😭. I want to ramble so so badly maybe it's not entirely about the topic but here goes nothing:

Anon's opinion (at least how i see it ) comes from the way they have engaged with blank slate protagonists: they played RPGs, maybe several visual novels before where main focus is directly on the player experiencing adventures and stories, while also having happened to play as a blank slate protagonists with loosely traits. The difference to twst is that, as piano said, Yuu is not a protagonist safe for minor involvement here and there throughout the plot. This leads to helplessness, the feeling as if player is underutilized and is just a bystander, something that alienates people who played games that are centered around the player protagonist. The fact that we experience the story through Yuu's eye's as a player but do not functionally do anything other than observe how present protagonists engage doesn't help at all. If we mainly saw events through Grim for instance, those feelings of dissonance would water down because he has distinct personality and design (i will get to it), he initiates with plot and his actions have weight and are far prominent than currently ours. Grim, most importantly, has far more significance within the plot. Crowley kinda said that we are some beast tamer, which imo gave false sense of significance because player doesn't fulfill that role (we literally just befriended the cat thing that was about to steal our clothes and almost burned us down in the first minutes of introduction) nor is it really brought up again as far as i remember.

Now here something that i completely agree with anon: our relevancy is so little that it's possible to write Yuu out and the story won't lose much. Grim would work as a protagonist much nicely than us actually, he could sign another shitty contract with Azul in exchange to use magic but give Ramshackle away and then pester Leona to help, befriend Malleus and give him cringy nickname. Now that i think about it, their dynamic could be so awesome, like Grim wanting to be as cool and powerful magician as Malleus like teleporting and fixing stuff (ch 5 and 6) with ease. And Grim becoming Malleus familiar in the end of the game 👀👀. Anywayssss. Im a pragmatic person so i think the reason why Yuu exist (because Grim can be player's lens in Twisted Wonderland, he is as unknowing as Yuu and inquires far more than we do) is because the game makes characters "hit on" Yuu (in story and through home screen) to make us, players, spend money on the characters. This is gacha, not PC visual novel. Have you heard max vignette level character lines?? Some of them sound super sus for a reason.

And finally, blank slate. What if i told you that you can project almost onto everything? Player can play the role of Grim, omnivorous cat looking monster who breathes fire and wants to become the strongest magician. He has personality, good and bad traits, goals and ambitions that he wants to achieve for reason(s) that most certainly will be given in the future. I can argue that projecting onto fleshed out characters feels much more better than onto blank slates with little to no personality and justified motivation. I believe that it's impossible to make a functioning blank slate character that i, as a player, would feel comfortable projecting onto. What if i don't want to help Ace? (seriously i would punish him too for eating my sweets 😒😒) Befriend Malleus? (hello, please leave my property) Talk to anyone from Octavinelle? (self explanatory) Get into mess Jamil made? (sorry about the situation but im literally a nobody) What if I don't want to leave Twisted Wonderland at all? (for now at least lmao) All those things alienate me further away from projection, it feels like watching Yuu standing there somewhere doing absolutely nothing when it's supposed to be me for some reason. If i were an established character like Yuuken or Yuuya (him specifically as his personality fits with Yuu's "involvement"), i would root or facepalm at them as i don't feel bad for their actions because it's not me who acts and i have enough emotional intelligence to connect with them on some level.

Welp i don't feel like making a proper conclusion, i just wanted to share my thoughts. Hopefully it was interesting to read this half baked essay~~

To be completely honest, I have to completely disagree about Yuu being a good blankslate character. I think they are one of the worst that I've ever come across and are one of my goto examples about what to avoid when writing a protagonist. Good blankslate characters allow you to project onto them, but they still have an impact on the plot and some personality traits. Think of ones like Joker from Persona 5, "Survivor" from Fallout and Link from Legend of Zelda. Whereas Yuu is the the exact opposite, they have zero impact on the plot most of the time to the point that you could write them out of the game completely and have absolutely no difference outside of a couple exceptions like Azul's arc. That's just a poorly written character. Protagonists should always be active characters who impact the plot and push the story along.

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That is exactly what makes Yuu a great blank slate character. 😂 There literally isn't anything about them, aside from the fact they have no magic, and they seem to live in a world similar to ours except there's probably no Disney. They're blank, aka they don't have much of a personality or even a design.

Remember that this is a visual novel, a kind of game that lets the players interact with the story and not just watch characters go through their journey. Yuu is meant to be the character that lets players immerse themselves in due to their blankness and consequently make it a more interactive experience for everyone in general. For a visual novel that aims to be interactive and inclusive, Yuu does a wonderful job of letting players imagine themselves in the story. Just look at the amount of OCs and Yuusonas in the fandom. Yuu fulfills the role as a visual novel character very well.

The characters you specified (Joker, Link) are from RPGs and not visual novels. They have designs (with Link having how many versions of himself 😂) and set personalities, however little they have. So these characters ultimately aren't blank, and it still gives players the experience that they're watching a character go through their journey, just that they're controlling them. So that interactive element is not as evident as it is in a visual novel. They're fulfilling their roles as RPG characters.

Furthermore, the thing with Yuu is that they are the player, not the protagonist. Yuu is essentially the player's way to enter the world of Twisted Wonderland, to meet and get to know all these talented and dysfunctional characters. They're our lens in Twisted Wonderland.

If anything, the protagonists in this game are all the students. Just as they play the roles of villains, they also play the roles of protagonists, just that they act out such roles in different episodes of the main story. Yuu is the way for people to see these characters undergo their struggles and whatnot.

[person8789]

It’s time for the boy 😌🫡

[person8789]

I got some pretty boys today 😌🥰

But most importantly…

THE BOY’S HERE‼️‼️🎉

Happy birthday cay 🥰🥰

[burnin-hot]

Haven't a lot of people already said the reason it wasn't possible to add female characters into the game because they're at an all-boys school, or did you not hear that the first fifty times they told you? Which part of "all-boys school" isn't clear to you? The only way I can think of for female characters to be added into the game is as school administrators.

TBH I don't really have a say in this because I've never played it, but considering this point has been repeated, what, thrice now? I think I have the right to be annoyed :P

However, I will say one thing confidently: TWST isn't an otome. I asked a friend who does play the game about it, and they said it was actually a card collection gacha adventure game (??? I don't really know how to describe it well. They said you collect character cards through events and there's story-based progression).

Even if it were an otome, well... you do understand who the target audience of otomes are, right? It's straight women. I don't know if you know this, but straight women typically aren't attracted to other women and do not want to date them. If you want to play a game where you have the ability to date women, go play lesbian/GL/yuri/shoujo ai/queer VNs or dating sims.

Personally as someone who recently discovered Twisted Wonderland, I found the game to be disappointing. I would have found the game more appealing if there were some playable female characters. I had played because I went in thinking that certain characters were female characters.

Heck! One is even named Lilia which is commonly a name for women. So I was highly disappointed to discover that none of them were women at all.

Like what’s the deal? What is so wrong with including female characters? And why do people get so pissy and angry about it when someone says they would have liked to have female characters?

Personally. I don’t get it.

Also, I why do people get mad when someone wants to see the MC as female? What is the problem with that?!

I feel like things could have been more interesting if female characters were included as well. I get that people say it is an Otome game, but you know it could be more inclusive too…

[person8789]

Manifesting the boy coming home 😌

[person8789]

Manifesting him being nice to me and coming home please

[person8789]

Me and Azul are not getting along rn‼️‼️‼️

[person8789]

Ortho PLEASE be nice on May 1st….

[person8789]

Words cannot describe the joy I am feeling right now

[person8789]

Let this be a sign of good luck in your birthday gacha pulls 🥰🥰

[person8789]

Have I mentioned how much I love Riddle

[person8789]

Actively shaking and sobbing /j

The event itself almost going into December 😅😭

[person8789]

WELL THATS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

[person8789]

THANK YOU KING I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH