#and to get my health stuff sorted out i guess thats important too huh :/

[truthundressing]

harry won 2 grammys today and im dropping out of uni....our joint slay😋

[tomiyeee]

finished the story quests for bl3 (but barely any of the side missions yet) and i got...Opinions(tm)

(sorry if this doesn’t cut on mobile! also if you want to hide spoilers i’m tagging all my bl3 posts as “bl3 spoilers” so ny’all can blacklist it)

in no particular order:

i honestly wanted to give gearbox some slack and try my best to like this game bc i know people had probably unfairly high expectations for this game given all the build up, but they really just kept letting me down in everything but the graphics

said this before but overall, the characters are all Quite lackluster

^^ tyreen and troy included. adding the word "bitch" to every sentence does not automatically make it funnier

that being said, i super love their backstory + relationship with typhon/nekofeyo-whatever

the character designs are equally boring. moxxi was the only one who got a real improvement imo. lilith and maya are okay. rhys...i dont think i have to explain. lia...i dislike her hair; the black felt like it balanced out her design better and the white streak was interesting and cool but full white just looks bad tbh. zer0 feels less sleek and more bulky which doesnt fit him much. tina lost her pretty color palette and cute outfit. where are all the bright pretty color palettes in general???? there are other colors besides brown and black???? use them?????

ending of pre-sequel: “you will need all the vault hunters you can get” me: “ooh does that mean all the vh’s from previous games are back? i can’t wait to see everyone meet each other! :D” bl3: only nine of them come back, 3 of them die, the rest are involved in maybe one mission at most

boss fights. super. boring. and tedious. i mean this could be partly because i was playing on ps4 which made it extra not fun but if the only reason the fight is difficult is because they have a lot of health...it's not fun or challenging. i want fights like handsome jack with interesting mechanics. i want fights like angel with emotional impact. i want fights like the pre-sequel final boss that i forgot the name of with variation that isnt just "now they have an attack that shines bright lights in ur eyes, covers the whole arena, and can knock you down in one hit im looking at you traunt and killavolt". tyreens fight was the only one that i somewhat enjoyed because of this. all the others were just like "ughhhh again?"

im really enjoying melee amara playstyle. taking out badass enemies in four hits is my jam. this is just my fallout 4 playthrough all over again babey heck yea

typhon just wanted to be a good dad!!! he called tyreen starlight which is adorable!!! he did the best he could and tyreen hated him for it!!! i don’t blame either of them for that tbh, it makes sense from both their perspectives. tyreen definitely should have been more understanding, but she’s a dick so :/ (not saying this is a writing flaw, just a character flaw)

hammerlock needs higher standards in men but i really appreciate the undeniably in-your-face "fuck you" to all gamer dudes

i really. hate. how little the player character seems to matter in the story. in pre-sequel the vh's all had unique dialogue AND npcs would respond, sometimes even with character-specific lines. even when it was the same across vh's, it still felt like the npcs were interacting and speaking directly to them. the player character felt like a character of their own, rather than just a vessel for the player to do quests and kill enemies with or an errand runner for the important characters. i thought that was the direction they were going in with bl3 too but this just feels like bl2 only worse. there’s a separation again between you and the story and it feels like you’re just watching things happen. now ur not just a silent protagonist, but instead your a speaking protagonist who gets completely ignored. whats the point of including unique dialogue if it's not even acknowledged beyond an "uh-huh, moving on"?

sometimes the logic just feels kinda dumb. the twins killed/disabled maya and lilith in a heartbeat, they can literally disintegrate the most powerful beings in the universe, but the vault hunters? absolutely not. they must fight them for 40 minutes and then die.

after the fight with troy, no one even touched tyreen. there's no way they could have thought "yup she's definitely dead, no need to shoot her in the head or anything just to make sure. we didn't do anything to even hurt her, we just assumed." turns out she's 100% alive and gets up to start the apocalypse. who'da thunk! i know they wanted the end to seem more dramatic but it just seems stupid that they could have stopped tyreen like 5 missions earlier had they even the slightest bit of common sense.

lilith was one of the biggest threats to tyreen and troy's whole plan. of course they should leave her alive and simply steal her powers. let's kill the monk siren instead.

i know they didn't include this to give all players a fair experience instead of favoring sirens, but it kinda sucks playing a siren character and it's just completely ignored outside of ur action skill. tyreen and troy are sapping siren powers left and right, but they choose to leave you with yours. when you enter the eridian place with typhon tannis starts glowing because it has "something to do with sirens". what about the one standing right next to her? this applies to bl2 as well...jack i would willingly charge ur vault key for u pls why do u take lilith instead :'(

oh yeah speaking of tannis! i LOVE that she got angels powers. for some reason it just makes me really happy. maybe it's bc i think it's sweet that part of angel survived. maybe it's because it makes for cool fanart. maybe it's just cool. idk. also like that we got a solid explanation of what angel's powers were (influence over technology). i always thought her having control over it in bl2 might've been cuz it was hyperion tech and she had access to it same as she had access to the satellite from bl1. it wasn't super clear since it seemed like she could also materialize things like the ammo during her fight.

that also reminds me: all the dramatic reveals in this game felt kinda badly done.

the very first one with zer0/katagawa. like the whole time i was walking around looking for him i was trying to think why he might've turned/something must have happened to him or rhys. everyone was saying it was undeniably zer0. i finally meet him and take one look at his bright ass maliwan armor and its like. really. you couldnt have made it anymore obvious that thats not zer0. and then his helmet gets knocked off and surprise! it's not him. i totally didnt already figure that out with one glance 10 seconds ago. (maybe even earlier when you got glimpses of him around the building but i always missed it cuz i was looking at the fish tanks n shit)

also the tannis reveal. she was speaking to me in the same way that only known siren characters could. weird unexplained things were happening and seemed to be related to tannis. i wonder if she's a siren? surprise! she's a siren.

tyreen and troy knew about the great vault through some unknown means. typhon was talking about having a son and a daughter who he told stories about the great vault. typhon calls tyreen his daughter a while later and lilith acts surprised like honey ur a little slow, i figured that out several lines ago.

basically i'm not saying they were so obvious that i knew from the beginning of the game; i only figured them out a little before they were outright stated. but it was enough that it kinda ruined the effect and the characters acting surprised only when it was blatantly spelled out for them just made it annoying.

i feel like most of this is pretty negative, but i don’t mean that i hate the game and was miserable playing it. it was honestly okay...like i said i wanted to like it, but gearbox hates me specifically and killed/ruined all my faves just to spite me sooo...*waves hand back and forth in a sort of “ehhh” gesture*. i think my opinion on bl games from most to least fav would be: tftbl, bltps, bl2, bl3, and bl1. so it’s not the worst, but deeefinitely not one of my faves. i mean jack’s not in it (or if he is he doesn’t have a big role) so it’s already at a huge disadvantage. the ending was ok, it was all dramatic n stuff and it kinda makes sense i guess, but it was just about as okay as the rest of the game really. i don’t hate it but it’s not great either yknow?

[tumblunni]

Underrated yokai watch translation mistake: the subtle uncutening of Dr Maddiman

LIKE SERIOUSLY HE IS SO CUTE

EVEN CUTER IN JAPANESE

First off his japanese voice is a very nasally sort of 'underdog character' thing, with a singsong intonation to how he says stuff. And his english voice just sucks, i have no goddamn clue what possessed them to give him straight up the same voice as seargeant burly. WHAT! His english voice also seems to be missing a lot of his unique sound effects, in japanese he sorta..well..said sound effects. His damage and attacking sounds were hammy yells of 'bwaah!' 'doryaaa!' 'hiehhhh?!' etc. In english its just one single 'uhn' type generic vocalization. and even his laugh was toned down into "ha ha ha" (yes exactly as awkward as that) instead of "fufufu" "fuyahahaahahahahaaa!" and miscellaneous mad giggles and voice cracking type moments. Like even when he IS just saying "ha" it sounds more like a natural laugh of a dude who's having fun, perhaps a little too much fun, lol. He doesnt do anything as halfhearted at that damn english voice that just tries to YELL LOUDLY to make up for the loss of enthusiasm...

And then even his spoken dialogue is victim to less hamminess and specifically less cuteness also. A lot of it has been inexplicably turned into formal phrasing in english, i guess just because "he's a smart guy character"...? It strikes me as really similar to another favourite character of mine, Charon from pokemon. But in that case he actually is an elderly man speaking flowery formal japanese and trying to sound deliberately fancy (to the point where him dropping it for a few lines is a sign that he's really rattled) Maddiman not only has the opposite personality but even apparantly has an equivelantly opposite moment in japanese! (Switching from the ordinary/slightly feminine "watashi" to boastful "ware" only when he's doing dramatic speeches about his experiments) I dunno it just feels weird that as well as making him formal he's also got more scattered lines of I AM A BIG GENIUS boastfulness. Like did they need to fill empty space or something...?

Also maddimancs like.. Word choice? Is cute? In japanese? He continues to make sound effects of hamminess all the time in his written dialogue and almost all of them are edited out in english for reasons unknown. Examples: 'giehhhhhh?!' instead of "huh" or "oh no", lots of fuhuhu fuhaha fyaaah hyaa for no reason whenever he sees a prime chance, lol. All universally changed to the more generic 'mwahaha' in english, and always 'mwahaha' instead of the more natural sounding variations from sentence to sentence. Japanese maddiman also tends to...like..i guess i'll say singsong voice again? His word choices seem to only ever lie on the two extremes of short and cute vs long and complicated, and he flitters back and forth and sprinkles it around in a way that just makes his sentences look like something thatd be super fun to read out loud. That kind of mad scientist speak, not the formal boring kind! Every now and again he'll throw in something SUPER informal/cutesy that kinda takes you off guard and makes you go "oh you~!" Like the aforementioned "giehhhhhhhhhh" [continues on for like a whole text box], or how he interrupts his dramatic speech in Medal Wars to briefly say "oh by the way good morning" in THE most informal rural dialect old man type variant of the phrase. And instead of something more typical like "eureka" or "at last!" or whatever, in japanese his standard 'my experiment is complete' noise is YOSHAAAAA~!!

Oh and just to add, he often has multipke explanation marks, "?!" interrobang things and tildes even on lines that are very ordinary. Like he YELLS EVERYTHING at MAXIMUM ENTHUSIASM!!! This is a line! Of dialogue!! That i am saying!! Im just so happy about it!!

He also really does break his sentences up like that! And lots of other subtle "i am going a mile a minute and i cannot stop" type verbal tics, like repeating himself and sometimes stammering or streeeetching out voweeeels~ And pretty much any time there's a variant of a word containing "ya" or "fya" he's gonna pick that, even if it looks comically out of place in the sentence. I think thats the logic behind him sometimes saying stuff thats noteably more or less formal than the rest of the entire text box? And well you better believe he's gonna add some more As onto that thing!!

He just feels a lot more..like.. overemotional in japanese? Really does feel like when youre super heckin hyped over your BIG FAVOURITE and you go all motormouth nuts! And him being like that with almost everything kinda adds a lot of personality details even before you start learning about him. Plus in japanese his name is more "reckless" or "carried away" instead of "mad", and well his sad backstory is literally about him getting so "carried away" with his research that it caused his wife to leave him and his life to fall apart. So him sounding more ditzy and easily exciteable seems to fit with the kind of personality that could get that deeply sucked into things at the cost of his own health and important relationships, as well as the sort of guy who might be a bit too emotionally immature to properly escape from such a tense web of life mistakes...

Also its just.. Its just real cute, y'all.

Seeing a scary lookin doctor and then he talks like a cute bastard = instantly a point of intrigue that makes you wonder if he might get a sympathetic backstory in some future game, and you are totally already cheering for him to do this because gosh darn it even if he's killing me he's sounding like a sweet old grandpa who'd give me candy afterwards! The whole 'underdog factor' really cant be underestimated, it feeds in really well to the tragedy of his life and how he's really more of a reluctant villain/guy who doesnt even realise he's a villain/guy who's kinda not in control of his own actions sometimes. He just seems sad even before the sadness happens! THE CUTENESS IS IMPORTANT FORESHADOWING, DAMMITTTT

so yeah anyway to Do A Maddiman you just need to act like an overenthusastic undertalented actor in a school play while also sticking a peg on your nose. Imagine they promised you candy if you can scream the loudest!!

And That Is Why We Love Him

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