#but that's a *lot* of game to replay to find that out

[turtleplushi]

I need to stop drawing them my god

[cleolinda]

SILENT HILL 2 UPDATE: I have restarted on New Game+ to do the full commentary, and… honestly I just played the first couple of hours “unofficially” yesterday to time how long it takes to get to Woodside Apartments so I’d know what I’m covering in the first installment. Do not ever doubt my love for this game, y’all, because I’d already played that part like 4-5 times just to learn how to gamer. I’m sure people very reasonably thought I might not even be able to finish SH2—not that you doubted me as a person, but it IS a lot to bite off for a first-timer. But I was like, y’all, I have watched streamers play this all the way through like 10-12 times. I know exactly what I’m getting into, I know exactly how long it takes for normal people who aren’t me, and if I’m not sick of it already, then I’m not giving up now.

I’m actually kind of excited to replay it as someone who can… uh, play? Like I’m no longer fighting for my life 24/7 against unfortunately-placed doors. James and I just went around exploring every square foot of Eastern South Vale looking for things to talk about. Just livin’. And I’m glad we did, because I immediately fucked up and locked myself out of the second Glimpse of the Past, and I missed picking up two notes and a Strange Photo. So I can make sure I get those when I do the full recording.

NG+ also means I can show y’all where all the newly-appearing extra items for endings 4-6 are, like the UFO-summoning amulet (there is a UFO-summoning amulet).

I will say, I SWEAR monsters resurrect constantly on NG+, it CANNOT just be me. I killed 393 monsters before and I got seven left to find, motherfuckers. Come get it.

What I really came here to say, though, is that… I’m having some weird, complex set of emotions about taking this character through a thirty-hour journey of confronting himself and taking accountability for his wrongs and then… putting him all the way back at the beginning and making him endure everything all over again. I subscribe to time loop theory in the game anyway, so it’s just… really something. I’m the one looping time. It’s my fault. That, and the eleven times I got him killed by Pyramid Head.

[cokoakeostuff]

Your new comic prompted me to start replaying the tutorial of totk and sndisjsjsksns like I thought it was incredible when I first saw it, but now refreshing with game knowledge makes it so much better.

Link freshly waking up in a mysterious ruin again: torn between feeling like 'not this again', 'at least I have memories this time' and ' Zelda! Is Zelda ok?! What happened to Zelda!' (This was a lot more peaceful when I couldn't remember why I was fighting, and I know I need to pace myself because I'm injured but: ZELDA)

Finding people on the island and one is being really weird about the master sword. Sndjdksksksjsksksbsi, If only he had some bananas to offer, then everyone could be confused.

I cant wait to see how this plays out, from getting the purah pad, to Raru, to the shrines and the battery, and just seeing how multiple people working together in the tutorial changes things.

I am so incredibly excited about this, thank you for making and sharing it!

omg yes you got it, wild for real though he was gonna have to fight some random yiga members because no one ever recognizes him, just his haters ���� and then he thought sky was talking about zelda at first (he is only thinking about her atm) so that aggressive “what happened to her?” really confused him. I also had to replay the tutorial (well I haven’t finished yet because I’ve been busy) but I already have so many ideas I wish I could make them faster GRAAH.

Working on this project brings me lots of joy really, and even more seeing other people enjoying it with me, thats so cool.

And no, thank youuu for your support, it means a lot to me, and if you want to request some doodle o silly idea you can, take it as a way to say thank u for ur dono!

[interact-if]

There's a game I played a while ago that freaked me out (in a positive way) that I would love to find and replay again.

If I remember correctly, the MC has amnesia after some freak accident (?) and is living with their lover in what i think is the middle of the woods. The lover is very kind and caring but there are small pieces of evidence that hint towards the truth being a lot more sinister. I don't think the MC remembers them either but just trusts that they knew each other before (not sure though). LI always convinces MC to stay inside, especially since they have episodes of some kind quite often. Pretty sure there were no other characters involved.

Please help!

Crowd-sourcing for answers!

(I’m so sorry if these posts are a bit much, I might try to put everything in each month into a big archive after that month passes, to clean things up for the blog).

[gamebunny-advance]

Weird Pikmin 4 Thing/Speculation

I don't really count this as a spoiler, so read at your own risk, but it looks like certain castaways have different hair/suit colors on different playthroughs. Of immediate memory, Molly, Alpin and his brother, Grace, and Chewy all had different hair colors in my game from other LPs I saw.

I'm not quite sure what's causing it though. At first, I suspected that maybe it changes depending on your suit color, but literally every person I've watched play this game has used a different suit color, so I can't confirm that theory.

(Light spoilers ahead)

My alternate theory depends on whether all the castaways that can have random colors are also all leaflings. It could be that leaflings are cured in a set-order, but their colors are dependent on the order you rescue them in. For example, if you don't do the first dandori challenge in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, which is hosted by a pink leafling, will Dash, seemingly always the first leafling cured, still have pink hair?

Edit:

It seems I'm partially correct, but I still need to do more testing.

First correction is that Dash is not always the first leafling rescued, and besides that I confused him with a different castaway, and he wasn't even pink in my main game. In my game he was purple, but in my test file he was blue. Furthermore, other leaflings that I rescued in the test file always shared their hair color with the leafling cured, so there's at least some correlation there.

Second, Corgwin and Jin, two other leaflings and hosts of the Dandori Challenge/Battle practice, were purple and pink respectively in both save files. I'll need to test if they still appear if I don't rescue any pink or purple leaflings. Similarly, will it be impossible to save Bernard if you don't get any purple leaflings, or will his hair change color too?

Edit 2:

Corgwin and Jin can be any color, as I found an LP where their Jin was blue.

I did a test of rescuing and curing every possible leafling except a single purple leafling to see if the game would give me Bernard, but it seems like you do need at least 1 purple leafling for him to be rescued and unlock Hero's Hideaway.

So I'm gonna put a stamp on it: Every single leafling castaway has the possibility of being different colors and are rescued in a set order, except Bernard, who must be revived from a purple leafling. I haven't yet determined if the order you rescue the leaflings in as any effect on what color they'll be, or if the castaways have a preferred color and will be revived from those color leaflings if they're available.

Edit 3:

Okay, here's my latest observation about this.

Typically, all castaways will wear suits that match their hair color. For example, the purple haired Schnauz also wears a purple suit. This is true unless the player's suit color would have matched the castaway. For example, the green haired Dalmo will wear a red suit if the player character's suit is green. This changes even if the player changes their suit color through Puddle mid-game. It appears that whenever there is a suit color conflict, then the suit will default to red.

There are a handful of exceptions to this rule, notably characters with red hair will not wear red suits unless forced to if the player's suit color matches their default.

For example, the red heads Vonda, Kaia, and Osa by default wear pink, purple, and orange suits respectively, even if the player's suit is not red. This was likely done to set them apart from Olimar/the Red Leafling, whose suit has red accents and/or were chosen around the idea that the "canon" Rescue Corps color is red, and thus can't be shared with any castaway. However, these exceptions will still follow the first rule if their default color is being used by the player. For example, Vonda will wear red if the player wears pink.

With that in mind, it's probably safe to say that in most cases, the leafling castaways' "canon" hair color would be the same color as their suit, as this is always consistent.

I've still yet to test if the castaways will use up their "canon" color leaflings if they're available, although I believe this may be false as I recall that someone had once rescued Chowder and Alpin together, whose suits are blue and pink respectively, but interestingly their hair colors were swapped as pink and blue.

Edit 4:

I can now confirm that leaflings will not use their "canon" color, even if that color leafling is available.

I rescued almost all leaflings in the first 3 areas. By the time I started curing leaflings, I had a single green leafling and several pink and purple ones, but Dash, who has a green suit, still got rescued as a purple leafling. Unfortunately, I can't remember if said purple leafling is the first one I rescued on this file (though I'm positive that it was the leafling taken by Olimar in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, so there's a high likelihood that it was), so I still can't determine if the order you rescue leaflings in changes the castaways' hair color, or if their default colors just don't match their suits the same way the regular castaways' do.

Edit 5:

Alright, I think I can more or less confirm that leafling castaway hair colors correspond to the order you rescue them in except the early game where if a purple leafling is available before you rescue Bernard, then the game will use them all up until Bernard is rescued, after which all other castaway colors should be in rescue order.

[puppppppppy]

oooh wait so the plot hole of “why doesnt a spirit medium just channel the victims spirit” is literally bc the DL-6 spirit channeling cant be repeated huh

[killjoy-prince]

This has been my experience with my replay so far

[galaxygermdraws]

I don't usually post sona related art, but I just beat the SMRPG remake and it made me just. start crying. Like i was just sobbing my way through the end of the game, and my hope for the future of Mario RPGs has never been brighter. So it made me just. Feel a lot of emotions and I didn't really know how else to capture them.

I'm very happy I got to live during a time when this wonderful game got a remake that will be more readily available for people to play. And I am so happy this game was just as good as I have been told it was. Definitely looking forward to replaying it again.

Uh. Yea. Jus kind of a personal piece I 'spose. Bonus little doodle I drew the day before the remake dropped under the cut

[vorakh]

pentiment is very beautiful but it may often give you the feeling you already read that story before because let's be honest probably you have

[kakusu-shipping]

The hardest part of Pokemon Self Inserting is Team Building.

[claitea]

i'm normal now. lying also

[elegyofthemoon]

listen i also think 2b is hot but also i am very very tired of walking into the tags every now and then only to see sexy art of her this is not what im here for im here for the existential crisis

[limielle]

idk i feel like so much discourse could be easily minimized if people learned to say "i think" instead of "it is"

[teiasviago]

you could even say that greek mythology is my achilles heel

[ruairy]

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[loregoddess]

back on my nonsense (I'm replaying Three Hopes)