#dont judge me I have found good things and not branched out a lot lol. Only recently I downloaded some new not-special ND skins for variety

[toadifylackoffantasy]

Some slight spoilers of a certain someone, their husband (and their daughter) on honeymoon (Gabi wouldn't let them know the end of it if they travelled without her AGAIN), they're in the tropics and got a tan...euhm...Freckle (and they also got one shade of porcelain darker! Lol. I am a vampire myself I can say that)

For face freckles, I currently have these ancient ones by ladyfrontbum in my game (were featured on daddy freckle), as well as the every so slightly less ancient big collections by vasilla (and part 2 ), which show up under skindetails itself but aren't recolorable (they weren't dark enough for Daddy Freckle) there are likely more out there but these I currently use on my sims :)

It also works well as an extra enhancement/layer for already-freckled skins, such as Kurasoberina sunkissed freckled fruit and freckled fruit redux (unavailable so reuploads by yours truly)

[alotsgonnachange]

Mystic Messenger Saeran’s AE Thoughts (.......And Prayers..) #Spoilerz

Hello, I just finished Saeran’s after ending and I have a lot of things to say and I am going to write it down while I'm still all keyed up about it.

First of all… Please DO NOT ask me how much money I spent to finish this as fast as I did…. I’m grown but my bank account is certainly going to have a good ole fashioned CHUCKLE at this….. It’s been a long quarantine I deserve a lil happiness as a treat methinks!

I have been playing this absolutely insane game since I think 2016? When I first started playing the deep routes had JUST come out I think? And I was just finishing up high school and am now a college grad...lmao

I’ve played all routes at least once except Jaehee but i’ve seen walkthroughs of her route (I’ve heard it makes you hate Jumin and he’s my favorite so um. hehe). V’s and Saeran’s routes I found to be so emotionally intense and just….a lot and I've been waiting a long ass god damn time for this after ending okay…. I would theorize and make up an ending in my head but i’m no writer so it was hard to figure out lol. I’m a Jumin stan mostly but I love everybody and yeah I should probably play that jumin dlc too but I need like a DAY to recover from Saeran’s AE. Enough about me HERE are my thoughts on it overall

Major Saeran AE Spoilers under da cut!

Can we please discuss V showing up to the C+R conference room with basically chloroform and made everybody Pass Out like??? I was alone in my room at like midnight just SCREAMING at my phone???? And the creepy ass CG ???? It’s like that gif of sarah paulson from ahs being like “I put arsenic in the wine….and the pasta”

Anyway I screamed at V a lot during this process!!

Loved RFA being sweet and kind to saeran (before V fucking drugged them…)

This is such common V behavior “I have to do it all myself...there’s no other way..” GIRL SHUT UPPP You do this every route....

SO many CG’s and I enjoy them a lot

Saeran’s sprite looks a little TOO crisp compared to everyone else but maybe its a glitch??? V next to him is in 480p while saeran is like 1080p

Hearing both Saeran and Saeyoung missing the other brother the whole time??? PAIN. All my homies know is PAIN

BOSS and his V for Vendetta ass guy fawkes mask??? I literally yelled “this game is TERRIBLE!!” several times at my phone

Their dad is so>??????? When he was sitting on the couch with saeyoung in that one CG while simultaneously telling him to kill himself?????????? Maybe chairman han is actually the best dad in this game somehow

When V and Rika were like we’re back together teehee teehee okay pack it up bonnie and clyde ..

When chairman han calls u and says hes jealous of u and saeran…..HUH????? I’m calling HR

When they go to the apartment and see boss and vanderwood and poor saeyoung is sitting there seeing his brother for the first time in years i wanted to D word sooooo bad like PAIN...PAIN….

Can we HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT JUMIN HAN BEING THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE GAME AND HE LOST EVERYTHING IN THIS AE……. he just took the blame and moved on jumin what the hell….. I love him so much r we serious? He watched his 2 closest friends betray him in the worst way and found out abt how Rika abused Saeyoung and Saeran???? I felt just AWFUL. Terrible ...Terrible….

Rika’s change in demeanor from Saeran's actual route is certainly a Choice. I find her much more bearable this time around and unfortunately i think I was too nice to her and ended up with a bad end LMFAO

I was happy to see Saeran stand up for himself and become stronger and confident. You go king!

The CG of Yoosung laying in Zen’s lap is everything to me…

HOWEVER YUP I sure did get a bad ending and I was so mad fdsafdskfdhsf ! (I would be happy to clarify how I got the good one the second time.) MAKE SURE To SAVE EARLY in days 2 and 3 bc the branches on day 4 is where the bad end will show up. For me it was the first day 4 chat and then a story mode titled “SAVIOR”.... If you see that RUN FOR THE HILLS!!

I was so mad! But I had saved in day 2 and replayed and MANAGED to get good end

I’m obsessed with everyone calling V and Rika “that psychotic couple” like…..its true its true…

No those two are so toxic… V’s route was torture watching them go on and on about the sun like yo can yall just call each other babe like normal people.

I respect straight people but not V and RIka that shit was just wrong… Straight marriage was a mistake

Oh lord i also FULLY Forgot Rika killed the twins’ mother…. Yeah that scene was um Certainly a lot but it needed to happen eventually

Like it’s good they know but damn that storyline is just so bleak

I think it was satisfying TO A DEGREE….To see Rika understand where she was wrong, why she was wrong, fess up and even APOLOGIZE! I was very surprised.

Saeran and Saeyoung are Certainly twins with the amount that those two self sacrifice in every route MY GOD…..

The scene with Jumin talking to his father and the other scene of him praying oh my god I cannot tell you how happy I was to see him begin to understand and address his own feelings in a route that was not his own. My main problem with Jumin’s route has always been the trapping MC in his penthouse aspect.. This way Jumin understands love and emotions without being overly possessive !!! YAY also loved seeing him be on good terms with his dad who was surprisingly profound

That last Story mode was Really a Lot…. and Strange things occurred which I will get into in just a minute

Jumin becoming a politician is so funny but ngl … i see it.

Yoosung going to france to study pastries ok king I see u! (it made more sense to me than the vet thing anyway)

Lastly Zen FURRY ERA

MY BEEF With the AE

I was happy with how they handled it for the most part. I think Cheritz heard our feedback about V’s after ending and was like okay….let’s try something different

HOWEVER

Saeran…. Sweet kind saeran… IS SO AFFECTIONATE HAHA….

He must have said I love you like 300 times…..very mushy gushy flowery language...and maybe that’s just his personality but for me it was like eating cake with buttercream cake. It means well, but god damn is it sugary and going to cause a stomach ache later.

He was just… SO MUCH! SO forward and ON all the time in his affections. I honestly felt kind of smothered and by day 3 and 4 I was sooooo over all the compliments… King you’ve come a very long way, but ur still putting MC on a pedestal and probably need to see a therapist.

Nextly….Rika and V….. Naw that knock out gas really ...that hurt lol. Coming from “I would do anything to protect RFA” V? Idk like…. EYE felt betrayed reading that. It was just hurtful. I can’t even imagine how the members would have felt as they were passing out. It was just so cruel. I suppose I understand why but like?? Just TERRIBLE

Them being in cahoots with the agency and the prime minister..HUH??? Also too much

V just felt so irresponsible like I do understand that he ended up in a weird web of secrets that’s hard to untangle but he’s so fucking stubborn he’s SO stubborn it makes me insane. Like sir… It seems like in other routes he wanted to try to protect Rika and the RFA.. But in this AE it seems more to me that he was like yeah i’m protecting Rika and That’s It… so fucking hurtful to me. Both of y’all apologize ESPECIALLY to the twins and Jumin..

The forgiveness thing…… Okay so I think some people will not like that Saeran decided to “forgive” the people who hurt him (Rika, V, Saejoong, his mother). I would point out that I actually think this was approached somewhat well. He says at one point that he doesn’t think they’re good or bad, just people. I think he sounded mature and like this was the way for him personally to accomplish his healing process. Would I have loved for Saeran to flip V and Rika off and kick Saejoong off a cliff? Yea I really would. But like…. If that’s what HE needs to do to heal then who am I to judge?

HOWEVER…. Everything Eye just said goes out the window when the scenes at the end with Saejoong come up… I was PERPLEXED. Like why did he HUG his deranged father who just kicked the shit out of him??? Also all the chat options that MC has with him r like blah blah you’re like this because no one loves you were so corny to me LMFAOOOO?

AND WHEN HE WAS IN THE ROOM LATER WITH SAERAN… i’m sorry but if that were me I would have called a nurse to deck his ass. Cool he turned himself in YOU SUCK SOOOO BAD AND I NEVER WANT YOU TO COME NEAR SAEYOUNG AND SAERAN AGAIN THANKS.

*scratches ass* I wish I got to see saeyoung and saeran finally sit down and have that first conversation after a long time and hug CG but the ending was fine I GUESS….. I dont care about ROMANCE I want those boys to be happy brothers together

Anyway that was really emotionally exhausting but I fr think I got it out of my system after literal years… And I can rest in peace knowing the choi twins are happy. THATS ALL I WANTED TO KNOW!!!!

[neomedievalist]

[Pushing aside my intense lust for kaname date to try and answer properly] okay. so. going straight from disco elysium to ai the somnium files was. NOT good for me because i think disco has straight up ruined detective rpgs for me forever. i feel like im not judging ai fairly. but i have a lot of mixed feelings about it.

first of all the good! for a visual novel its very good though i dont have the most experience with vns. the presentation is very good, music is great, and the voice acting is PHENOMENAL, holy shit. greg chun seriously KILLED it with his role, and all the other voice actors did too. a lot of those are really challenging roles considering...well considering spoilers. you know what i mean if youve played the game. absolutely phenomenal voice acting. (why does chris hackney only voice gay blond men)

i really enjoyed theorizing with the plot, and trying to figure things out. i actually ended up taking notes on some plot points that i thought were important.. ended up not really being important lol. i feel like the story is kind of all over the place and theres not much to really keep you grounded, though maybe that can be enjoyable. this is my first experience with an "uchikoshi game" as i'm told they are all like this. i am, unfortunately. bad with suspension of disbelief and i found it really hard to take this game at face value. there were so many times where i stared at my screen and went "this is stupid. what. this is so dumb" like every qte. why is every action scene a joke?? like im not just saying its a joke i mean theyre all treated as humurous moments i nearly lost my shit at the shootout on iris route like its. the tonal whiplash is. a LOT. and i guess if youre used to these types of games it would be fine but i just found it annoying.

in terms of the twists...i do think they were overall well done! i guess the main appeal is that this game is so batshit crazy you would never guess who the killer actually is lol. i sort of felt like the game was purposefulyl pulling the wool over my eyes rather than it actually being a mystery i was meant to solve though, but i was right about a lot of small things, so i have to give it credit. the game...also has an unfortunate habit of treating you like you're stupid. it's always very obvious when someone is giving you plot-important information, and the game is straight up ADDICTED TO FLASHBACKS. like if it hasnt flashed back to a corpse or a murder in 5 minutes the writers will shit themselves and cry. as if you fucking forgot. this also means it ends up flashing back to the gratuitous gore and eye trauma that the game loves so much. like seriously its not for the faint of heart its. Real bad.

the characters are fantastic. honestly i really do love it it feels like everyone has secrets and hidden depths and thats why all the somniums feel so unique...my favourite characters. well. Yeah. kaname date cringe compliation he has captured my heart but hes also a shockingly good character with a lot of hidden depths i do love him i do. also maybe this is a symptom of doing iris route first but i just. really like her. although it sounds like shes not well liked OOP

okay now to the actual Game. the somniums are very interesting and well designed, in gameplay and story terms. i am not a puzzle game person, or an escape room person, but hey blind guessing got me pretty far. i just wonder if there could have been a bit more depth to it? but hey for a visual novel having a bit of gameplay is pretty good anyway. i honestly dont have much to say about it other than that. really well designed for sure

the story branches are interesting but its very disorienting how you skip around the timeline and endings get locked...really frustrating actually. like if i cant remember whos dead or alive in what route....there become problems lol. also LOLLL at them just brushing aside date remembering shit from other timelines...

i dont know. it feels like the game is trying to be Super Deep and Serious but also is asking you not to take it seriously at the same time?? IDK LOL maybe im just a pretentious asshole. Probably true.

ANYWAY

DESPITE ALL THAT i truly do think that it is a good game and worth playing! it is an enjoyable experience and i would say for sure pick it up on sale. i mean. im cheap and dont like paying for video games use your own judgement. but yes especially if you are a visual novel fan and just like sitting down for a game to take you on a wild ride, i think it delivers a great experience.

i beat ai the somnium files