#because i needed more gacha games to play i guess

[whimsicalskything]

got that sun/moon relationship dynamic preference

[seventh-district]

i’m not like other girls, my “Rest” stats are a heart rate of 110bpm and a HRV of 14 fucking milliseconds. :)

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

So, naturally we had to, now the game is actually out, bingo the CENSORED outfit in Stellar Blade. Credit to HarryNinetyFour for showing all seventy-four outfits, and Kotaku for this article where they propose that Eve is at her sexiest when she's got more on.

Okay... maybe not that but...

Seriously, if you're playing to fap - this game has you covered. But it also has a few really interesting, covering outfits that seem to reflect fantasies of fashion and comfort.

The only thing that's really not present is any sort of actual military like BDUs or combat jumpsuits. That's kinda weird, even Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain let you put BDUs on Quiet.

And that bit is weird is, based on what I've seen people who've been playing the game saying - there is really a story about her being a soldier and fighting for a cause there. But you'd never know that based on the ongoing outrage.

The outrage is weird and sad

So as you can probably guess, the continuing riot of "censorship" here is pretty absurd. It's got to the point where they even bullied the Stellar Blade's X/Twitter account to un-repost the Kotaku article that praises the game.

But here's the thing, in all the years I've had to deal with brodudes doing this kind of nonsense in various online platforms etc, I have never seen one that is happy.

YouTuber Moon Channel did a two part (1, 2) series on a different drama in South Korea involving a Gacha game that dared not to be pointlessly horny, but here's the general take away.

English speaking brodudes in this situation are imagining that Stellar Blade is some sort of iconic work coming from the anti-woke wonderland where everyone is happy. The reality is:

South Korea has a deeply hierarchical society which essentially tells young people they are to obey and not to speak up

The economy and nepotism is such that unless you are born into a rich family, your employment prospects are downright depressing

Many young men in South Korea develop a lot of resentment toward women primarily because they are told that in order to enter a (heterosexual) relationship they will need to demonstrate they have the ability to be a great provider, and then are denied those opportunities by the economy and nepotism

On top of all this, the government takes a "we know whats best for you" approach to the extent that not only is porn banned but you will be expected to supply your identity information if you want to look up basic sexual educational materials

They would find it to be an absolute nightmare realm.

The reality is that in the "woke" world that brodudes fear, we'd probably see a lot more eroticism in art, including games, and it'd be of the more focused, sincere variety rather than that directed by creepy marketing guy.

All we really need to do is accept each other as people, appreciate each other's humanity and boundaries. Then we can both enjoy a sexy paradise, but also unite and deal with the assholes who keep oppressing us economically and socially.

Wouldn't that be nice?

-wincenworks

[gachaclubideas]

Part 2 of this is here!

@glitchychara (Glitchychara)

@matrixxdx (Gabrielle)

@jamesjexxisdeadlmao (Pelios)

@9mysterybook6 (Mystery)

@prometheus2007 (Promni)

@livesonya16 (Sonya)

@alinorianddrago (Ali)

@rhmis-user-2020 (Rhmis)

@rookie-choco (Rookie)

@ayelen0o0o (Ayelen)

@2laffy2 (Laffy)

@violetthediamondsblog (Violet)

(I'm going to use a spinning wheel for this, so it will be all random)

Gacha Tumblrs in The Purge

random person: The Purge now begin.

Glitchychara: Oh my goodness I've been waiting for this! *Gasp* I have to figure out where my enemies are right now because I think I should pay them a visit. Wait! I have a whole hit list, Let get started!

Ayelen: This Purge is making me hungry. I just really want a bag of Doritos.

random person: I'm about to get the last bag.

Ayelen: Nu uh! No you not! *killing the person*

random person: AHHHH

Ayelen: There we go. Whoo, tried to take my Doritos.

Sonya: So I stole this luxury car and now I'm driving 200 miles speed in the road. I think I hit like 5 people but who care! You only live once.

Laffy: *Gasp* Someone set my school on fire!? I wonder who did it? I mean it definitely wasn't me hehe. I would never commit arson

Rookie: Guess who just broke into a bank and just about to steal 2.7 billion dollars? Ah It's me!

Mystery: *dancing* Yas let's party!

***

Gacha Tumblrs in The Hunger Game

Rookie: I was fighting Ayelen for a Pop-Tart. I said I said “Give me the Pop-Tart.” and she just stabbed me like.

Ayelen: I am so lost. *Gasp* Some berries. *Eating the berries*……I think that was poisonous.

Gabrielle: Look that those pretty butterflies. Wait, they're bees! I'm allergic to bees!!

Violet: Hey Mr Game Maker, are you filming this?

Game Maker: Yeah.

Violet: Okay because I want to save this for later for when I have my reality TV show. Okay so basically Rhims came up to me and she was like- argh!? Promni why would you shoot me? I was having my Kardashian moment.

Laffy: Rhims please don't stab me. I was just trying to take a peaceful walk okay. *got stabbed* Rhims…��

Mystery: *Gasp* Is that a snake? Aw come here, you remind me of myself. Huh!? Did you just bite me!? You're venomous!!

Pelios: Y'all I just made this amazing fire, it definitely won't let anyone know I'm here. Hey Glitchychara, how did you find me?

Glitchychara: I saw the fire.

Pelios: Oh. Argh!! *got stabbed* Glitchychara why did you stab me?

Glitchychara: *hear the bear roar* Was that a bear!? Oh my goodness, RUN!

Rhims: Okay only three more to go. Sonya, Ali and- guh! Promni, did you just hit me with your axe?!

Promni: Sonya why did push me into the lake? You know I can't swim.

Game Maker: New rules, there can be two victors.

Sonya: Ali did you hear that? That means we both won! *Got stabbed* Did you just slice me with your sword!?

Ali: This is a solo, not a duel. So where's my money? Do I get paid or something?

***

Gacha Tumblrs in A Haunted House

Violet: You told we were going to Taylor Swift concert. But this look like Taylor Swift?

Violet's friend: I had to trick you coming

Violet: Well you don't have to trick me leaving, because I am out.

???: OooOoOoo

Violet: Is that a ghost!? No, you know what I'm just stick with y'all.

Pelios's creator: Where have you been? I've been looking for you everywhere.

Pelios: I was just playing this teddy bear that I found.

Pelios's creator: Wait did you touch it?

Pelios: Yeah why?

Pelios's creator: You could be possessed!!

Pelios: I could be possessed!? What- *being possessed*

Rhims: Y'all I think I can see the ghost of Prince Philip in the corner over there.

random person: I am not a ghost. This place used to be a nursing home when they left me when they moved.

Rhims: My goodness

random person: Look at that ghost.

Ali: That right here is not a ghost. That is just someone who need a haircut. Hey little ghost girl.

random person: She does not want to talk you.

Ali: No she just shy. Look, I have a coupon to this great hair salon. I can get you hooked up and everything.

little ghost girl: What?

Ali: See she interested.

The ghost: Hey so I'm the ghost of this house. And if y'all don't get out in next 10 minutes, I will personally possess each one of you.

Gabrielle: No I do not want to be possessed! Today is not the day, we gotta go!

Ayelen: If the ghost wants to fight, then we could just fight. I mean I fight the ghost.

Mystery: Come on, we just have to start the car.

random person: The car won't start.

Mystery: Really? Okay I just call the Uber.

random person: We don't have cellphone service.

Mystery: Oh my goodness, well I guess we walking home.

Laffy: Y'all that haunted house was nothing. If one of y'all want to see something haunted, then let just go to the bathroom at Walmart.

[scarletardor]

i was inspired by many creators talking about this but here are some of my formal criticisms of l&ds because no matter how much i love this game and find it near-perfect, there are still flaws!

zayne's english voice lines. while it didn't bother me on the level that it did most in the past, i do think infold could do a great service of rerecording the interaction lines. they finally found the right footing for his tone and how to capture his character with the later affinity content and the recent events / main story chapter. please! i beg! (i'm already aware the localization isn't top tier but i feel this is a somewhat doable fix, though tedious.)

the timing of banners. in this economy? insane. also i'm gonna be real, i'm unemployed right now (it was an unfortunate circumstance) and my means of finding a proper job is honestly difficult with my full load of classes. it's hard being a f2p player especially when the rewards for grinding isn't as hefty as i'd like it to be. i think it's decent for what it is right now, but it could be better. also... they need to space this shit out. LMAO. i've played my fair share of gacha and otome games, yes, but with how fast-paced the updates for this game is, infold could at least offer some more in-game benefits or rewards. (ex. giving out free 10 pulls... if you're going to do a quad banner, i wouldn't mind 40 free pulls as i could just grind the rest during the duration of that event.)

increasing rewards for daily tasks/challenges/etc. because what am i gonna do with 30-50 gens per card upgrade, and so on and so forth. i also would like a new update to the abyssal chaos deductions. maybe upgrade the rewards cap since so many of us (i assume) have already maxed it out. unfortunately as a girlie who fucking loves hack and slash games, abyssal chaos is my favorite game mode and it doesn't stress me out. (a bitch is STRUGGLING with her protocore levels right now.)

infold's stance on lgbtq+ fan content. i already wrote a post here somewhat related to this. while i'm talking fans specifically, infold's stance is what i feel significantly influences the homophobic behavior. yes, we know it's an otome game. yes, we know what otome means. but i just call it what it is and i think the love interests are not confined to strict heterosexuality and the norms of it.

the characterization and treatment of the LIs. i'll be honest one of the huge turn offs for me for rafayel is the way the mc's responses are programmed towards him. while i don't mind banter in the way that it's done for zayne/sylus, i don't like how snarky it is on the player's end for rafayel. also, i know i'm a pervert on the main but i do think infold could chill a bit on the hypersexualization in certain instances (sylus). because there's no way you're gonna give me 50% and then not fulfill the rest. this is the worst kind of foreplay.

i've seen a few instances of people from cn explaining that there's setbacks due to cultural norms, etc. that would prevent something like a card with fully explicit sex being made. that's why there's only sexually implicit content. (if anyone could provide context on this or confirm, do add!) ((yes, i've seen the car sex card from mqlc... need that with zayne actually.))

every day i'm thankful for the misty invasions event, but i still have hope for more. i guess what i'm trying to say is that infold is already on a good run with making this game as to appeal to a more mature audience, yet... THERE COULD BE MORE. idk.

[rottenbrainstuff]

A whole lotta thoughts here! We've been spoiled with so many big updates! And I'm going to be blunt about some stuff that is going to make everyone mad, so. Cue the angry anon hate maybe I guess.

I started playing this game in the fall and you know... I've been having a lot of fun, actually. I like the stories, I like the events, I like the characters, I like the marketing. It feels exciting to be involved. I have my one friend who recommended the game to me and we talk about it together and it's been fun. Compared to other otome games I've played, this is amazing, like, my gosh. They took the standard, overdone, cookiecutter character tropes and really expanded on it in a way that surprises me, even for the characters that are not my personal favs.

So......... because I'm enjoying the game so much, and I'm able to recognize where it stands compared to other otome games and other gacha games, it's irritating to me to see the fans start this entitled and absolute nonsense complaining about Sylus needing more content. Friendos, he was added six months after everyone else. Since I have started playing, it has been a balanced and equal release of content between everyone. Infold never told you (I mean, if they did, I missed it) that they were going to retroactively release extra content for him so that he would catch up volume-wise with the other characters. That doesn't even make any SENSE to me. Yes, it means he has less cards in the pool and statistically you have a lower chance of pulling his stuff. Yes, I wish they would hurry up and add more anecdotes and deepspace trial levels and whatnot. But I actually saw with my own two eyes people want to file a CONSUMER FRAUD COMPLAINT? Fraud??? What exactly was the promise Infold made that they are failing to keep? Having a rarer character that is harder to level up does not constitute fraud. You know what? Even if he was a special character that was never included in the group banners ever and only got special content released like once every two months and you always had to pay cash money for it, that would not be fraud. It would suck but it would still not be fraud. Sorry to be blunt, but you are entitled and insane. This is absolutely deplorable fan behaviour. I really do hope this is just a small pocket of vocal fans, because if Infold starts getting harassed en masse they will just pull the fucking game. Why would they not?

I totally understand not liking the way gacha games work, I totally understand not having the money to spend on gacha games, I totally understand wishing you could enjoy an experience that other fans get but you don't, I totally understand being frustrated because your favourite character is the one with the least content, I totally understand disliking it enough to refuse giving the game any money or to stop playing it entirely, but this entitled "I need to speak to the manager" Karen bullshit is absolutely embarassing. This is no different to me than toxic gamerbros complaining about things in their FPSs. Knock it off.

This makes me so annoyed that I'm also going to bluntly tell you something I've only said vaguely before: the english audio is AI. It's AI. This is apparently a very controversial thing to say, because when I went googling to try and find definitive answers, I saw everyone who brings this up get shouted down. I don't care if you don't like it, it's the truth.

You guys seem to think that AI all sounds like Siri or something, and you would be able to easily recognize that it's AI. You hear video clips that other fans have made using free-to-use AI apps that sound very obvious, and it doesn't occur to you that the big devs have access to much better professional-quality resources. You haven't heard, I guess, that even big North American devs are starting to replace humans with AI, and the AI is getting very sophisticated, truly next-level. (I recently watched a video talking about Activision and Call of Duty, for example.)

The AI in this game is very good. I did not actually notice it myself until I had played for a couple hours. And I think the only reason I started to suspect it at all in the first place is that the company that I work for has all these training modules that I take, that include sample characters speaking with AI voices, and after a couple years of this, I am really used to how it sounds. (and even then, it took me two hours of playtime to catch on!) It's hard to tell with just a casual listen, it honestly is, but there are some tells.

First of all, after you listen for a while, you notice an odd consistency. Surprised lines are always said with the same rise in pitch. Whispered lines are always said with the same drop in pitch. It's the same every time. There's an odd clarity to the words as well. English naturally has a lot of slurring inbetween words, but AI always sounds like it's being pronounced by a VA enunciating carefully like they're reading the evening news. That is a red flag.

But, you say, maybe the VAs were just given this direction, or maybe they're just such good VAs that their delivery is so consistent and the words are so clear.

Well, second of all: AI will make mistakes sometimes and emphasize the wrong word in a sentence. I have noticed this happening in the game, it sticks out like a waving red flag. It's been so long since I played the english audio that I can't think of an example actually straight from the game, but this is made up just so I can explain what I mean: let's take the sentence, "I hate wasting my time on busy work." Busy work is a phrase that specifically means tasks that keep you busy but are pointless, tasks that were assigned to you just to give you something to do. It is pronounced with an emphasis on BUSY and the "work" is dropped in pitch. (or, sometimes "busy" and "work" have equal emphasis) A human being saying that sentence would most probably put the emphasis on these syllables: "I HATE wasting my TIME on BUSY work." An AI might not understand that "busy work" is not just the words "busy" and "work", but a specific figure of speech, and might pronounce it like this: I HATE wasting my TIME on busy WORK." (and I think I did hear the phrase busy work in the game actually, which was why I chose it for this example) Any time you hear a weird sylable emphasis that doesn't make logical sense, that is a red flag.

But, you say, maybe these are just an honest mistake by the VAs that wasn't caught by chinese devs, or maybe once again maybe it was weird direction.

OK look. Then let's talk about the most important thing of all: an uncredited actor means it's AI. Period. Period. You guys are driving me insane talking about maybe the VAs want to remain anonymous, maybe they're embarassed doing a romance game, maybe Infold doesn't want to release their info because of political issues they had in the past with english VAs:

No! That's not how acting works. That's not how actor unions work. That's not how credits work. That's not how any of this works.

Actors do not get embarassed doing roles like this. I know you guys titter with every single update, but you do realize there's steamier stuff aired on regular tv, right? This game is not embarassing. Actors want to be credited for their roles so that they can have a resume of projects. Union rules REQUIRE them to get a credit. Do you know how many rules there are about even a simple thing like movie credits, and where and when and how large a font an actor's name can appear in the credits? A company like Infold can not just choose to not credit their actors. An actor does not want to not receive a credit for work they did. One uncredited main actor would be weird enough, but when they will not release the info for a single main character: that is a huge, enormous, and unignorable red flag. This rule is very important: No human credit, no human actor. Period. And you need to learn this rule, because like I said, even large NA companies like Activision are adding AI to their games now and are not apologetic about it.

I'm sorry if that upsets you to hear, but it is driving me absolutely batty to see you guys talk about these mysterious english VAs and you hope they're getting paid well and you don't understand why Infold won't release their info and you say things like "haha it's probably because they're all 50 year old men" as if that somehow makes it this embarassing secret that cannot ever be revealed (the japanese VA for Sylus is 51 and no one gives a shit) sigh. Look. Enjoy the english audio if that's what you like. I get some people prefer english, I get some people prefer no subtitles, I get that it makes it so you can listen to the audios with your eyes closed, like, I don't actually care if you want to stick to the english. But be honest about it, and don't repeat this nonsense about mysterious anonymous VAs that are all too embarassed to be credited. (my god, the japanese Zayne VA has hentai credits, you guys.)

I dunno. Maybe it's because back in the day I used to be a part of actor circles, I guess I find it a bit insulting to see everyone making up these weird excuses that don't make any sense with how the industry actually works. I've seen people asking about AI get shouted down that they're being offensive to the mysterious anon VAs: Well, you guys are being offensive to actual, real, professional actors by suggesting that a professional would be too embarassed for a credit, or suggesting that Infold has somehow gone around union rules and you're ok with that. I'm sorry, but this has to stop.

Well. There we go. If there's anyone left still reading who hasn't gone away clutching their pearls to send me a nasty message, I will say some nice things now: all these end of year updates have been really fun, and now we have Caleb's big trailer. There's been some fans who seem to be surprised he is positioned as an antagonist, or even just surprised in general that it was Caleb and not someone else... ??? Whatevs. Some people are comparing Caleb to Zayne, but to me the only thing they have in common is the fact they were both childhood friends of the MC. To me he's more comparable to Sylus. Sylus was introduced like he was going to be the bad guy love interest who acts way too familiar with the MC and is always pushing her boundaries, a standard otome game trope that I don't like very much, but surprisingly that's not what he ended up being at all - it seems like Caleb might get that role in the end. I'm kind of interested to see what they do with him (cyborg parts is a fun start) but the truth is I kind of only have enough money to invest in things for one character and I don't know if he can win me away, lol. I do love me a good evil dude in a sexy uniform though. We'll see.

Hey wait.... important PSA... I know you are all excited (???) about a period tracker........... look... if you think that's cute and want to see the content that comes with that... can you at the very very least not enter in your actual period dates? I dunno, it's hardwired into my brain to NOT use ANY app-based period tracking. You do not want anyone having that data. No playing around, guys. If you want the content, enter in fake dates. DO NOT enter in your actual accurate info. Stay safe.

Perhaps an unpopular opinion: 3.0 update is cute but I prefered the 2D mini games to the 3D stuff and I find the chibi characters a bit weird and unappealing. However, what I DO like is that two nights ago the game said hey we notice you have some duplicate files, can we run a clean up? And it did, and somehow freed up 6 goddamned gigs on my phone. Very happy about that.

I recently got a brand new phone, and now my old phone is a dedicated Love and Deepspace device, so I'm not so stressed anymore about it getting literally too large for me to play anymore. Super enjoying my fake digital boyfriend. This is just a silly otome game, but I continue to be legit impressed by the quality of it, the amount of content they put into it, and the way the characters are much more interesting and in-depth than other otome games I've played. I'm sorry to be cranky about some things today, but some of you really are behaving quite badly and this online echochamber amplifies the nonsense, and I don't like to see that.

Who cares what I think anyways, I am ridiculously outside of the target age range here.

[sout999]

adhd talk

the third truly unsung project alongside my film and dissertation was the weird amount of targeted effort i had to put into Completing Anything Big As A Neurodivergent Person Whose Brain Is A Crazy Off The Rails Train Staffed and Patronised Entirely By Multiple Exact Copies Of The Squirrel From Ice Age

which is a description like 99/100 people reading this can relate to, but i think a sentiment i see less often and therefore feel kind of stupid and stubborn and lonesome about is "adhd is innate but is also exasperated by hectic lifestyle/modern instant gratification machines so if i fix my habits around those i can cure myself forever". which is silly and wrong but also i feel abit disconnected from adhd social media culture and cant cope just relating to it (which is all it seems to be sometimes) but learning to harness or tame it to do the things that are really important to me

i felt really cringe tbh having to look up youtube videos of HARVARD STUDENT REVEALS PRO STUDY TRICK and then narrowing it down to specifically adhd-focused study videos and keeping a planner and setting aside specific time to study studying and practising anti-academic meltdown journaling techniques and reading fucking atomic habits but i really didn't want to contribute to my abhorrent academic record following me all through undergrad. in fact i wish i had done this sooner but i was not self aware enough to consider the fact

probably the best change i made was severely cutting down or being mindful of social media time, i don't backread my tl anymore and have more moments of awareness when i find myself dumbly scrolling and realize i dont want to be doing this, and then wondering what i actually Do want to be doing. i keep a book nearby to read, and have also swapped a lot of social media time to sketching-off-pinterest time. reading about the psychology behind social media apps is also super interesting, although i always feel like a paranoid wacko conspiracy theorist talking about it. stuff like how negativity and judgemental behaviour is good for engagement (and therefore ad revenue), and how if all posts on your tl were interesting you wouldn't be as addicted to social media as you are, therefore microblogging employs a slot machine/gacha system where you "roll" for posts by logging on and hope to get a good one. it's a little full on but the more i think of it as a revolting and evil machine the more incentive i have to do something else with my time ^q^

a harder thing to do was, in the late stages of the project, the real crunch time month, avoid everything that could become a huge hyperfixation, and then eventually even minor distractions or fixations. because i know if i got super obsessed with something i'd just be up posting about it or drawing fanart. i had to bar myself from persona 3 remake and elden ring dlc and all these other shiny new releases, and the mobile games i was playing... i look forward to catching up on them now. i took up reading books a lot more because unfortunately thats just not as exciting. in the last month of film work i stopped listening to music on my computer so i wouldnt get drawing or animation ideas to distract me from film work. as of writing this i havent listened to music in like 40 days guys 😱 at the same time i am the kind of person who needs background noise to work, so i have:

watched novum's four hour hereditary video essay three times

watched novum's seven hour midsomar video essay three times

watched that one five hour bojack horseman retrospective twice

listened to audiobooks of the Britney Spears biography, Jennette McCurdy biography, three Playboy Bunny biographies (i was on some sort of lady bopgraphy kick i guess), and a few fiction books

rewatched all of bojack horseman

started on House MD and got a few seasons in before i finished the project, amazingly the perfect show to look away from bc of all the medical stuff, how many lumbar punctures do you need to show like seriously

honorable mention to the learned skill of communication and being honest and picking your battles and killing your darlings which is a larger part of managing mental illness than i cared to admit but one of the hardest ones because it involved confronting things and making big painful drastic changes and then having to tell the faculty about them. sometimes i'd be stuck on a piece of animation work for weeks/months, then go back and change the underlying idea to one i'm actually passionate about, and do the animation work in one day using newly found magical hyperfocus passion power. it's crazy! but being able to be confident about taking those steps rather than keeping on with what you're "supposed" to do went a long way.

i very much look forward to listening to a music and playing some video games properly now and being pulverized like a small victorian child from the sheer amount of fun i'm having. i'd say it was all worth it and a fun experiment in channeling the magical humours of passion and boredom and i hope it will help me with future projects too. i Am super burnt out though x__ x thanks for reading and for all your support up until now!

[windcarvedlyre]

never played genshin but i like a lot of the designs. you mentioned learning mandarin once I think, is genshin a good game to play for those learning the language? As I plan to learn mandarin some day :>

Summoning @vv-ispy because he could answer better than me! My mandarin's still really basic because I haven't worked on it in ages... so I use the mandarin audio but the most I can do rn is recognise a bunch of individual words and simple phrases. I'm guessing it's still helping but y'know. There's also a japanese dub btw!

While I'm talking about it, broader opinion on whether genshin's worth getting into: if you like theorising and/or engaging with fanworks you'll have a lot of fun with it. The actual writing isn't a masterpiece- I feel like it shows that it's a gacha, even if it's really good for one- but there is so much foreshadowing and worldbuilding you can pick apart from both quest dialogue and a huge amount of text scattered around the game. And the writing gets better with each region outside of the third one sucking imo. I find the open world exploration mechanics really satisfying as well, especially if you can pull some characters that enhance it. The OST is incredible too. The gameplay after you've finished the story content is just grinding for stats and the premium currency but there are regular events with minor plots or more casual interactions with characters.

On the other hand it's faced a lot of criticism for colourism in its character designs and mashing cultures from 3 separate continents together in the latest region- even whitewashing a character based off a Yoruba deity who's black in all other depictions lmfao- while giving both europe and east asia 2 separate regions (edit: 3 for europe when the Russia region releases). Fortunately you really don't need to spend any money on this game.

[collecting-dustbunnies]

No need to apologize for bringing back my reply/rant on OM's writing, I agree with everything you said. Actually, I dislike the writing even more with Nightbringer. It suffered with the exact same issue. The first season was great and then they throw away everything including the romance in favor of ??? Especially since Otomes/Joseimukes are actually getting spicier instead of becoming more 'family friendly'.

I actually have a deeper dive into what went wrong sitting in my drafts but no time to finish it.

Yeahh Nightbringer was a disaster. I'll never not be salty about that game baiting me into thinking Diavolo/Barbatos/Solomon would get more focus in the story before devolving into... whatever ended up happening in the original game (I'd argue that NB treated the non-brother characters even worse than OG, but that's a controversial opinion). It introduced so many interesting plot points, but no character seemed to take the stakes of the story seriously. Those who did care got promptly sent off-screen to do whatever because then our story would just end immediately, and we can't have that right? If your own characters don't care about the stakes of the narrative, then why should I?

MC's Mary-Sueness was also up to the extremes in this game. There's literally a segment in the game where they throw their goal, fail monumentally, and still get rewarded for it because the other character is a simp. I'm never going to take any MC shilling seriously after that happened.

It's funny too because I personally found the MC really unlikable in NB. At best, the MC is a traumatised person who's a bit stupid and with a martyr complex. At worst they're actively harmful to themselves, will sacrifice anything and anybody for god knows what reason and incredibly manipulative to boot (this last one is not necessarily a bad thing considering they live in the Devildom. But then the MC has options to call out Solomon for being a manipulative dickhead. Um, hypocrite much?). Why the dateables love them when I can barely stand playing as them, I have no clue.

I have a theory that someone at Solmare wanted OM to capture the joseimuke crowd, with how they randomly changed the second game to be a rhythm game and how the story got scrubbed of romance and how the devilgrams past the first 6 months in NB suddenly became...bad...and became way more family friendly. We all already see how that went -.- Without a good story to hook the people who like the setting, and by taking out the barest crumbs of fanservice that the romance enjoyers ran with, then what else does the game have left? I guess all the merch and concerts and shit?

The market for husbando gachas is more competitive than it was in 2019/2020. If the team is unable to identify who their target audience is and what they want from the game, then we get this confused mess of a game that managed to disappoint literally everyone involved.

[hydropotato]

The big 200!

200 days of Warframe! That's genuinely wild to me. I guess since I do have autism, I could call it my hyperfixation. But really, it's just a great game. So chock-full of things to do, lots of replayable content.

I really think this game deserves recognition. I've not played it all these years, only really heard it now and then. As somebody who has played a huge variety of games, Warframe has really been an eye-opener. It's not perfect, but I don't think any of us can confidently say any game this massive is perfect.

A certain FPS changed their business model drastically to demand money from their players to get cosmetics, with free content being far more limited. A certain gacha game kept me farming for items to improve my characters, with so many stages of RNG and no way to guarantee good stats. Warframe doesn't make those glaring mistakes. Want cosmetics? There's lots to obtain for free, and the premium currency is obtainable via trading with other players for stuff they might want. Want a good build? Stat bonuses come from mods; each is individually configurable, and mods are obtained from doing missions which grants loads of other resources. I absolutely love the fact that you can play the game for the sake of playing, and you get rewarded, as compared to playing and playing just to get a reward.

Also,

I made a second account! Yep, I like this game that much. I gave my 2nd account Xaku Prime just to get things started, but moving forward I'm hoping to have it be a sort of loot/defence complement. Think a Nekros with Desecrate, while my main runs Hydroid or Khora. Not botting, no macros, just having two games open at my desk. And I'd keep this in closed lobbies so that others don't have to deal with me taking turns between the two accounts.

but also, having game knowledge really helps. I managed to complete the Endurance trial with Xaku using Fast Deflection, Vigilante Vigor, and Arcane Aegis.This trial requires you to stand in the centre of a ring of lasers beaming at you. If you survive, you get this special Exilus mod that increases max energy and parkour velocity. Real handy. Basically, my shield gating and shield regenerating was consistent and rapid enough to negate the laser damage. Did not actually think it would work that well.

Back to my main:

Made a silly little Kitgun. You see, it's named after Eleanor because her kit inflicts Radiation procs as well... and uhm, nothing else... definitelynotthefreakytentaclesandthefactthatifshehadagockitwouldprobablybetentacular,NotToBeAHomestuckOrAnythingbutyouknow..

anywhosers. It's a genuinely strong gun as well! Super fun. Its damage ramp-up doesn't really require kills too heavily which makes it comfortable to play with.

Anyways, to celebrate 200 days of Warframe, DE released the Rhino Heirloom skin! No, they didn't. Well they did release it, but they didn't know it was my day 200. Maybe.

The first one was because,, yeah I mean it's my default when I don't know what colour scheme to use. I'm trans, I might as well use it. It's also a cute colour scheme anyways.

The second one was a little more up my alley. Sleek, and the Citrine Noble Animation makes him look kinda sassy. Honestly, his Heirloom skin has so many bells and whistles that it's hard to add attachments to it, which isn't that bad since it's rather complete on its own. Also, I really like purple and black.

Also, I need to get screenshots of Belly of the Beast's mission. Or footage. Cos I absolutely adore the interactions between Ordis and Parvos Granum. My favourite has got to be Parvos asking Ordis is he longs to join the Operator in the bloodbath and slaughter going on through the mission. Ordis replies that Parvos has been in the void for a very long time, and to seek medical attention. Basically "take your meds, Grandpa". Love that.

I think I'll conclude this post for now. I've played Warframe for 100 days, and then 200 days. I wouldn't be surprised if day 300 arrived before I myself had realised that many days had passed. It really is a great game to pass time. It doesn't demand that you stay in the house, it simply leaves some aromatic kibble at the door for you to snack on (assuming, within this metaphor, that you are a stray cat or dog). I'm definitely playing this game more.

P.S. Thinking of being casual... They really need to rework Wukong. Make his playstyle less hasty. People are playing him to minimise playing the game. That feels like a waste to me.

[acupofteaintheafternoon]

Hello, happy Friday ✨ I have a question about your blog (it's ok if you don't feel comfortable answering, all good 😊): What inspired you to create a writing blog?

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ASKED THIS THANK YOU

So basically, I started writing as a joke to my friends, I took like one joke and made a whole lore for it + adding random characters to make others laugh because that was my passion. I took on writing seriously after an incident in which the two people I cherished the most abandoned me and then I decided to make this blog to let myself heal and to make others happy. I don't want to go too much in detail as to why. Basically they blocked me everywhere and I can't even apologize or get them back.

Honestly? I don't even know. I wanted my random headcannons of how would my favourite character act with you be read and liked by others. Of course I accept criticism on the things I write because not everything that I do is perfect.

Back on to the subject. I've seen a lot of Ao3, Wattpad and Tumblr headcannons/oneshots/x readers/whatever and they inspired me and actually helped me to make my writing skills better. I wanted to make this blog to share my headcannons and writing skills to the world (even if no one reads these lmao) and see if my skills are capable enough.

I'm sorry if I haven't been writing much and the stuff I wrote was either stiff or just straight up garbage, I have literally no motivation to do anything except bedrotting and maybe playing gacha games or checking out my figurines and scrolling through them to make me feel more broke lmao. I will get back to writing, I promise but for now I need more ideas from people. I am not leaving writing anytime soon

And yes, I am still going through hard times and I have to heal myself from all the bad shit that happened in January but don't worry about it. This blog is the reason as to why I am feeling better and that's why I will be doing everything to keep it alive. Even if it is posting random stuff.

I'm also sorry if I rambled too much and this isn't the answer you've been expecting for but it's just a me thing I guess. Have a great friday and a great weekend!

i love answering questions

[gachagen]

I haven't played Genshin in like 2 months. I recently decided to just do the rest of Natlan because each year we get a new nation. All in all though, I think Natlan's the worst nation for a lot of reasons (racism aside).

Natlan suffers from all the things that make Genshin a bad game. I like Genshin obviously, but there's so many things about it that dampen my enjoyment of the game as a whole. The first being the character designs. Sometimes, Hoyoverse is uncreative with their designs, and it really shows in Natlan. I think the thing that draws people into Genshin characters to begin with is that they always have something new to teach the player visually. Whether that be about the culture the character is representing, or the occupation the character is supposed to have.

None of the Natlan characters are designed to purposefully teach you anything about themselves or the culture they're supposed to represent. Mualani is the only one who even vaguely resembles something from Polynesian culture, but it's so hampered by other aspects of her design that just looking at her you wouldn't be able to guess or learn anything at all.

I think a good example are the Sumeru designs actually, because most of the characters in Sumeru were designed with not only recognizable and pleasing color palettes, but they are wearing clothes that make you ask questions about them. Cyno's cool hat, Dehya's body armor and hair, Nilou's "horns" and dancer outfit. The only characters I could say look kind of plain in that regard are Alhaitham and Kaveh, who are kind of just dressed like normal dudes lol.

But notice how each of the characters I listed before had some aspect of them that made them stand out right away just by looking at them? None of the Natlan cast has that at all. I think when Kinich was first revealed and everybody was saying he looked too "modern" that THAT should've been a sign of things going south for the designs in general.

Kinich's design is actually the biggest problem for me, because nothing about the way he was designed fits any of the criteria to be an interesting one that makes you want to pull for him, and learn more about him. His clothes aren't representative of any specific culture, so there's nothing interesting to learn by looking at him. He doesn't seem dressed for any particular job either, so in the end he's just a character who's "cool" to look at and nothing more. Sure, he might have interesting lore, but in a gacha game like this what the character looks like is important. If your characters aren't interesting from the get go and make your playerbase want to pull on appearance alone, than you've messed up and need to revisit the design.

And in my opinion, all of the Natlan characters suffer from this very specific problem of character design not having anything going for it. Another issue I have aside from how everyone looks (and again, the racism...) are the personalities of the characters.

Because these characters already don't look appealing, Hoyo has to bank on people finding their lore cool. And well.......I find everyone's lore to be unimaginably sanitized, dull, and BORING. Compared to the past nations, Natlan tries to present itself as the nation that's the darkest in tone and the most serious, but it's not. The characters all have incredibly bleak backstories, but we never get to see that reflected in the way they behave or act in the Archon quest, which is a lot different from characters like Scaramouche or Cyno, who both act the way they do because of their traumatic backstories. Those two characters have very distinctive and unique personalities, but the Natlan crew are written as if their trauma doesn't matter in regards to their personality at all.

Part of me wonders if this is because death essentially just doesn't really matter here in Natlan, but the lighthearted tone matched with how bright, colorful, and full of joy everyone is just doesn't mesh well. It's supposed to inspire hope and awe in the player because they're seeing all these people face against a tough adversary as mere humans...but it falls flat because no one is written with enough emotional depth.

Think about how the Fontaine quest really brought the Traveler to not only learn about Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet but also the Archon, Neuvillette, Wriostheley, Navia, and Clorinde. They all had to band together in the end to fix a situation that would've ended everyone, and along the way we not only learned more about them and their past and saw how they interact with one another on a daily basis, but got to see them grow beyond that trauma and THEN at the end Fontaine becomes this happy, and joyful nation.

Natlan wants to remake the same feels from the Fontaine and Sumeru quests without doing any of the hard work to make us learn about the characters. I've noticed there's a LOT of very boring, long exposition where one character practically monologues and explains the backstory of another character, which is a lot different from past Archon quests. In Fontaine we literally get to know Navia more as not just a person, but also her past. And we didn't learn that because Clorinde spent 20 minutes just telling us all about her, no. We learned about her, by going on an adventure with her and learning more about her that way.

That's how you engage with a player in a story driven game like this. If I wanted long winded exposition, I'd read a book instead. It's gotten so bad, that at points I seriously just let the characters talk while I do other things, tab back into the game when I noticed they've stopped talking to back read, only to learn that nothing they said was of relevancy to the plot or main quest at all!

Which brings me to the third reason why Natlan is the worst nation...this archon quest SUCKS ASS to play through. I don't know how we went from Sumeru, which gave us an entire timeloop quest, to Fontaine where we are able to go through a whole courtcase, to Natlan, where there's barely any new gamplay features outside of the Phlogiston around the map. There's nothing interesting or cool about how we go through the Natlan quest, there's nothing to keep me wanting to play more like Sumeru or Fontaine, it's all just "Walk here to talk to this character, wait for them to say absolutely nothing for 5 minutes of exposition, then walk EVEN MORE to talk to another person" and repeat until they give you your primos.

I can't even enjoy the scenes with Capitano because he does the exact same things, and his motivations for being an antagonist are so weak and uninteresting compared to past Harbingers. It's like they want so badly to write a good story, but they are constantly being held back by trying to make absolutely certain there are NEVER any stakes or risk of characters actually being developed through trauma or death.

All in all, Natlan sucks in every regard except for how the map is designed. Getting around the map, the Phlogiston mechanic, and the Saurians are genuinely really cool. But that's not enough to sustain a nation.

I can only hope that Natlan is a fluke, and they don't ruin Snezhnaya. Some people are brushing off the low sales for Genshin by saying "It's a bad time for ALL gachas" (which isn't true lol Infold and Kuro are rolling in dough this week) But I think those low sales are indicative of just how bad of a nation Natlan actually is. I don't think people will look back on it and go "It wasn't THAT bad" because when they replay it, they will just be reminded of why it sucked so much compared to the rest of the nations lol.

To go from "Cool timeloop questline" and "Full on Ace Attorney style mini game" to endless fetch quests and running around the map to simply watch NPCs monologue at you will not make people nostalgic at all.

[moociaoafterdark]

I KNOW that I mostly talk about Warhammer here, but I just NEED to vent about HSR right now, or else I'll explode, because, unfortunately, I'm still somewhat interested in the game

Okay... Amphoreus...

... HSR design team... What in the actual fuck?

Because, what is this?! It's clear that Amphoreus is supposed to be based on Ancient Greece (perhaps with a mix of Ancient Rome because of course). The name of the planet, the names of some characters, the actual teaser trailer. That's all and good...

... So why the fuck the character designs don't reflect that?

All I see are generic fantasy outfits (not even sci-fi, FANTASY! Those designs would be more at home in Genshin, not HSR). The guys are wearing generic suits and pieces of cloth, the girls are wearing generic bikini and dresses.

Where are the gorgeous robes? Where are the tunics? Armor? Ancient Greece is covered A LOT, it has so many interesting takes on it, surely they could've gotten inspiration from some pieces of media?

And I know, I know. HSR is a gooner bait game, I'm here for cute boys and girls here too, so, obviously, if we do a ""historically accurate"" designs, they wouldn't appeal to the core demographic of the game.

Except this argument falls apart considering that there ARE gacha games that did Ancient Greece/Ancient Rome theme, made it fanservicable and MADE IT WORK

First example is IDV, a game I have played way before HSR even came out. The theme for the release skin of the character Luchino/Professor was a Greek bathhouse (that slowly mutates you into either a fish or a reptile because cursed fossils):

Again, we are not talking about the historical accuracy, merely if the theme is obvious here or not. And, in IDV's case, it clearly is, even if you isolate the characters from the background!Luchino (middle front) is the obvious example. A piece of white cloth with gold embroidery wrapped around his hips with a cloak drapped over his shoulders, supposedly making it seem like Luchino is wearing a very slutty himation, without him actually wearing it (which is understandable, it would be such a pain in the ass to actually make a new set of animations for Luchino, had he been wearing a himation). Along with his clothes, there is also his golden laurel on his head as well as golden bands.

The other two designs: Philippe and Christina (left) and Margaretha (right) are less obvious, but they still try to follow the theme, with Margaretha wearing a light pink bathrobe and Christina also wearing laurel.

It's not perfect, but at the very least, you CAN tell that the theme was Greek bathhouse from a glance.

The second example, is a game I admit I wasn't even interested in, named Reverse:1999. Despite my disinterest, I have to note that the game's design team are cooking 24/7, the designs are immaculate!

They did a way better job than even IDV. Instead of saying anything, it's best for me to just show you the characters:

MILES better than whatever the hell HSR tried to give us. Again, not the accurate representation of Ancient Greece and what people actually wore there, but, just like with IDV you CAN TELL THE BLOODY THEME FROM FIRST GLANCE.

Now, that's just the gacha games where the characters gotta look either hot or cute in order for them to sell well. For that the designers, while trying to follow the theme, did deviate, trying to give their own spin to the costumes and accessories.

*Sigh* If only there was game, based entirely on Ancient Greece or Greek Mythology, that followed the theme perfectly, while also having extremely attractive characters...

If only... Okay, I can't keep up the act anymore. If you know anything about Hades 1 and 2, you don't need any other words to get my point. If you don't know anything about these games, just look up the pictures of the characters from them. The design team UNDERSTOOD the assignment.

Conclusion...? Uhh... I guess what I'm trying to say is that Hoyo are getting very lazy. Like EXTREMELY lazy, even by their own standards. After Fontaine the character designs have been VERY bland. There's, of course, Natlan and everything that came with it. I expected the HSR team to not repeat Genshin team's mistakes, but, I was wrong for thinking that. It seems this is more of a company wide phenomenon, instead of something happening only with one of their projects. And... It sucks. I have favorite characters in HSR (or the ones I'm really interested in) and one of them is literally based on a Greek God (Zephyrus). I guess I have to count my lucky days and cling to the fan concept I made of that character, before the devs inevitably crush all my hopes. Maybe I'll recycle said fan concept into an actual OC as a way to cope... Oh well. It's hard to let go, but, I'll manage. It's one thing loosing an interest in something all on your own, actually being extremely disappointed is on another level.

Have a good day everyone :')

[fangzluv]

So am I the only one who remembers when all of Love 365 Otome Dating Sim games were seperate and actually playable?

I remember playing all of these games daily; Rental Boyfriend, Office Lover, Sweet Scandal, Sweet Proposal, Royal Midnight Kiss, etc. all as separate standalone apps and loved them.

I’m so happy that I was able to play ALL of these before they merged all of these into one app. Scary I know. But they were really good with the way they were.

Feel bad for those who likely won’t ever get to experience them the way they were and are stuck with ads or limited tickets to read like 2-3 dialogue worth of chapters, paying for everything. It really sucks now. So expensive.

People spent so much on those standalone apps too. Imagine waking up one day and seeing it all gone.

I mean just look at these reviews.

There are TONS of them like this. I mean ALMOST ALL.

You’d expect they’d at least provide some sort of compensation/ refund for those who flushed actual money down these apps, but no, no warning or reach out, nothing. They ripped off of so many players. Oh and they don’t respond to anyone anymore nor check reviews from what I’ve noticed so I guess they just gave up.

I don’t know why they felt the need to do this, as they clearly had many players spending money on their apps (MULTIPLE apps) and I don’t think merging and following through with the use of coins in Love 365 did them any better if it were the case of making more money. Its truly sad how they fell off.

Nothing serious by me. I don’t usually see many people addressing what they did either. Likely because new players after this update have taken over so it’s all fine with them. Almost felt i was stuck in some type of matrix as if I’m the only one who remembered how it’s supposed to be lol.

It’s just slightly frustrating not having those gacha games anymore that brought so much nostalgia and fun late nights. All progress and efforts lost.

I wouldn’t recommend supporting a company like this. But oh well. What can frustrated people do except move on lol.

[fictionfixations]

edit: if anyone saw a post where i was being all depressed because i lost the post i was working on. turns out tumblr did post it but my sleep deprived brain didnt think to check my posts !??! thats my bad

i make poor decisions when its late and i really shouldnt be playing gacha games because i get more impulsive then i usually am but also outside of 'i really want halloween riddle' i and someone else were praying for each others pulls (we both wanted riddle) and were gonna stay up until it did the daily reset to immediately start pulling so here i am (if you've seen my other posts you should know that it was also like this in HSR that I pulled Jade even though I didn't have an erudition built and didnt really want her but tired me thought ..what if i pulled and then i got her and then i didnt have pulls for jiaoqiu)

Result is, Halloween Rook (30 pulls) Halloween Riddle (60 pulls) and then since I was already there I decided to pull until 100 where I got Halloween Silver (100 pulls) its a good haul👍 but also rip all my pull savings. but also now i have all the cards i ever wanted (riddle as a fav and silver cause when i first started and looked at everyones card art his halloween one was really pretty) so like. this is good with me 🤷

anyway the only card remaining on my like. wish list(???) i guess is like. next main story card. erRr JP SpoiLeRS but Sebek Armor of Eternal Night or something like that. cause General Lilia duos with Sebek. but honestly not that big a deal sometimes i find dorm uniform sebek's as peoples support card

but thats less a want want and more i want him to make my cards strong instead of i just want to pull them i probably wont use them but like i want them (i probably will use them in the future but i need to build my main team first 💀)

in any case i do like sebek but also idk man

like. i set a bunch of goals of stuff i really wanted to do as a twst player when first starting which was really a bunch of ideals (like it didnt really seem possible and i figured id have to settle for less?) but like

i wanted halloween riddle and silver general lilia tropical wear riddle i got all of them

also i wanted to get every riddle card cause ppl were doing it for the favorites and i really liked riddle. so i got his birthday bloom. i do NOT have his other birthday cards because ooh boy i do not have the funds for that im perfectly content with my birthday bloom, one ssr at a time please. but so im content with that, still marking it was ok since tbh i dont really expect to get them all since i usually play f2p and also even i got all of them wtf do i do with them ???? but so check anyways for birthday bloom. but also besides that i literally got him in the first ten pull TWICE so like. i feel like that should count ?? cause that was stupid crazy luck 😭

and i wanted two dorm uniform cards who duo'd off of each other so i could have like two of them in one turn and it does the satisfying double duo thing when it switches between them attacking

which i can do. because i got dorm riddle when i first started, and i got dorm azul a bit ago who im working on getting the books for. so i can do that too.

and then i also wanted to be the kind of player who had a bunch of strong cards built that i could switch between a bunch of them for battles. which i do i just need to build them.

so its like.

??? idk what to do now

i yapped a lot more than i thought i would

um.

[cabbagepatchreports]

Carlotta Story Quest: Reading notes

These are the notes I took as I was playing through the story quest so that I could better formulate my thoughts for my book report later!

My book report if you want to read it: here

Spoilers ahead so tread carefully!

Carlotta is from the “lesser branch of the family”. Capollo is the rightful heir and should manage dealings with the Black Shores, not her

Benett - family thief who stole from the vault- vault keeper - was killed by TDs outside the city

The old man was the one in Carlotta’s trailer

I love that the old man has moles (?)

LMAO CARLOTTA SLAPPING US ON THE SHOULDER

Carlotta and Rover have really good chemistry 

Is Capollo possibly the “shark” Carlotta is talking about?

THE EXPRESSIONS. CARLOTTAS FACE CHANGE WHEN ROVER ASKS FOR INFORMALITY

SAGE AND ACORN HAVE DIFFERENT FACE SHAPES THATS SO GOOD

People are allowed to leave the Montelli family - ex Duncan

I understand why the bar scene was like that but it was a little boring after getting the drink

Some order members have some classism as well as just hating sinners and atheists “mere commoners”

Carlotta always has the most poetic banger lines wtf

Scarlet Velvet’s facial animations are a bit choppy? What happened there?

Her animations for body are good. Its just her face?

Capollo is totally the twist villain - only he, Carlotta and the grandfather have highest clearance in the Montelli family

I love how much Rover is talking in this quest

I LOVE THE COMPUTER SCREEN BITS

The show dont tell in this is so good bro

Oh he totally wasnt captured omg

They really like to try and use family against Carlotta despite being family.

I like that we get to see her truly angry

The way her face changes with her emotions is really satisfying

I love the splitting up and getting to play different characters

LMAO OSMANTHUS WINE (Zhongli noises intensify)

Black cards need to be longer i cant read them fast enough

Francesco’s design is so good man

“The old give way to the new” as children run past

The order made Capollo kill Benett omg

Op nvm Capollo was gonna kill him regardless rip

What is the stormy night they keep referencing?

I like that there wasnt a dramatic reveal that Capollo was behind everything. There were hints dropped since you meet him alone, so when he admits it in the call with Carlotta it isnt shocking at all. Some of it was more heavy handed with Scarlet Velvet admitting it basically straight out, but I like that they let us come to our own conclusions before the reveal

Omg Capollo’s agent is mvp for recording everything damn

Woah the artwork

Some of these stage direction esque dialogues feel a little unnecessary. We can see the two guys notice Carlotta or how she was watching them from the doorway

I do like the sonoro sphere idea for character quests. We get to see some backstory we may not have learned outside their character profiles that wouldnt be possible unless we have stories eventually that Rover is not included in

Some may not like that it tells you the password in the quest objectives but i like it because i was not gonna go and count all the trees in the hall

Carlotta was adopted 11 years ago

Sexism in my gacha game? “And a girl at that”

WOAH CARLOTTAS MIRROR SELF IS SO PRETTY

GIVE US THE SKIN KURO PLEASE

THE MIRROR PIECES AS HAIR SHINY SPOTS IS GENIUS WTF

This whole scene with the mirror self is so good

Her little smirk

Ok the black screen wouldve been a good moment for a still drawing like the one at the end of Lorelei fight. Some of these black scenes make sense, that one was a good moment for artwork 

Interesting that the order allows gang wars to happen. I wonder how the commoners/non mafia in Ragunna feel about that

I would love for us to meet some characters not wrapped up in the Montellis. Im guessing that its a case of the families running the city well but they’re still gangs and not necessarily safe for your regular folk. Specifically I would love for us to get a resonator who is unaligned with the Montellis

Oh shoot this is a thing of them not listening to her and getting slaughtered

Ok I like that Duncan is jaded with the Montellis though. And hes not really wrong for it

Carlotta falling to her knees, Francesco revealing his mob boss persona, so good

Oh so Capollo does actually have a reason to give up the family’s ambitions. Carlotta became the weapon and he sold them out both for the reason of protecting the family from another tragedy

New hc: Carlotta has very thick hair so she has an undercut to thin it out

Lmao Rover was so scary

The spotlights part is so good

Interesting that she was called a monster for being a Resonator basically. 

Adopted because she was hungry and can turn anything into a crystal weapon with her resonance ability

And for being immune to indoctrination according to Francesco

Making Capollo kind of understandable for trying to go for safety instead of risk is a nice way to do the twist villain trope

NEW COUNTRY NAME DROPPED: SEPTIMONT

the disabling surveillance part would be a good place to use the eyes thing again, especially since Capollo is like right there

OMG USING THE MIRROR TO INFILTRATE WAS SO GOOD OMG

Ok they did the art this time they totally couldve done it that other time

Woah and the art is beautiful 

So many people must have accidentally skipped it it took so long to zoom out wtf

“Fall for me will you.” BRO KURO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING WTF

I dont really ship this but I can appreciate that they’re putting more chemistry into these relationships 

“When it rains, its easier to wash away bloodstains, Thats why acts of revenge usually happen on such days”

Carlottas arc in this is really good

LMAO HER POUT

ROVERS EXPRESSIONS LMAO

I love that we get to tease her at the end

Ha GAY

WAH THE CATSEYE SHE GIVES US IS GORGEOUS WTF