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[njori]

Here's my first Rook, Faust de Riva!

[volivolition]

dude the TOP song you posted (truce) fucking kills me and the way you described the animatic is??? so good???? I'd bawl actually /pos

I need to know if there's any other TOP songs you relate to the furies/any DE character really, or any slower songs even if they aren't by TOP

OH AGREED ABSOLUTELY!! TRUCE MY BELOVED... and THANK YOU!! we are imagining animatics and crying together! /pos :'] <3

ooh!! well, i havent listened to a lot of TOP in a while, so i don't have many recommendations there unfortunately :'] but for other slow, soft songs, let's see... i'll put them under a cut with all my explanations, but ☀️ "See The Day" by The Altogether (Volition song!), 🍃 "Rounds" by The Oh Hellos (Shivers song!), 🦋 "Would You Be So Kind" by dodie (general skills song, Suggestion primarily!) are the best contenders!

Pretty sure you've seen it already, but from a different ask, i recommend "Almost (Sweet Music)" by Hozier! (and "Like Real People Do" if you want to cry and yearn with me, though my DE ideas for it are very loose hkjhg) these are slow ones i like hkjhg <3

"Goodbye" by The Altogether is a Harry and Dora song :0

"Soldier, Poet, King" by The Oh Hellos is one i specifically relate to Volition (my beloved protector/motivator/crownhead blorbo! [picks him up and wiggles him!!!]), but i would make one of those animation memes for it with every skill slotted into a "soldier" "poet" or "king" position.

☀️ "See the Day" is both another The Altogether song and another Volition song! a real "the worst is over. we made it through. we're going to survive this. it might not get easier yet, but we'll come out the other side and we'll be alive" song. it makes me cry hkjgh

🍃 "Rounds" by The Oh Hellos is a soft Shivers song, though the lyrics don't start until halfway in. ough my god listening to it makes my heart ache (/pos) <3 La Revacholiere singing to Harry in the wind. "Will you start when I end? Yeah, I'm long in the wind..."

"Northern Star" by Dom Fera, a song Harry would sing for karaoke and dedicate to Kim, and then they'd waltz a little clumsily on the dim, starlit sidewalk on their way home for the evening... <3

🦋 "Would You Be So Kind?" by dodie BUT SPECIFICALLY THIS VERSION, because i love everyone's crowded but earnest vibes. this one is led by Suggestion ("oooh you wanna fall in love with us so bad right? right???") and makes me grin, you GOTTA imagine all of the skills squished together in the front of Harry's brain all trying different tactics to get Kim to fall in love with them, (rhetoric: "I HAVE A QUESTION..." ency: "let's write a story! be in my book!") at 2:35, after all the skills singing together loudly, it's just Harry himself singing to Kim, with all the skills slowly backing him up. the ending is all of them fucking ECSTATIC celebrating when harry finally kisses kim hkjhg jesus this'd be so cute hold on i have to go plan this out i have so many thoughts hkjdh

"Seven" by Sleeping at Last would be a sweet Reaction Speed song (ironic that im adding react speed to a list of soft, slow songs though hkjgh) "I'm ready for whatever comes next!" <3 Reaction Speed is a fast, restless little fella who can't sit still for long, always loves moving, acting, doing. he's like the personification of a verb hkjhg <3 i would also accept an interpretation for echem <3

"Cosmos" by Jawbreaker Reunion is a song that The Furies recently suggested to me as a jean song and it's so right for that, very soft and i like it very much :'] (you should also ask The Furies if you want to, it's much more musically inclined than me, i feel hkjhg <3)

awuahg thank you for asking and for reading!! i appreciate it!! <33

oh and here's links to all of the songs in the tags: Come Together Now, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, Nine, RPG Animation Meme (<- homestuck lmao)

[catmask]

genuine question – and i hope it doesn't come as weird – but how do get into...pokemon? </3

pokemon universe feels so big and there are so many games and i really like their designs – both for pokemons and trainers – making ocs in this setting would be so cool but i have no idea how to. begin!

could you give some advice?

ps leaving compliments for your comic and art in general!! i really like how your pieces are so colorful! gives the vibes of some small but cozy and fun town in a videogame..

no worries!! it seriously depends on what you are interested in - gamewise, region wise, and story wise.

heres what i can say. if you like typical top-down style pixel art rpg games where you solve tile puzzles and build a little team of monsters, any of the games before x and y is a good choice. platinum is a great introduction to the series because it doesn't baby you but is still decently difficult, heartgold/soulsilver are the 'coziest' games imo but may spoil you because of how much content there is, black/white and black/white 2 are the most story-driven of the games and bw2 is probably the longest play of all the games. emerald is also great, but its genuinely a hard game even as someone whos been a fan of the series for years. i would say to start with hgss because they're my favorites, but they're so good it might raise the bar too high for all the other games pixel-art games.

if you prefer 3D graphics, but still like the 'run around catching guys and solving tile puzzles', i think sun and moon are the best of the 3D games! the story is engaging and a little more modernized so that there are actual cut scenes, i think the pokemon available are cute and the region is really pretty. i thikn after that, x and y is pretty cute! the story is less strong in comparison to sun/moon. importantly; every game in the 3D era has a new type that was not present in the pixel art era - the fairy type, so if you want to learn the MODERN type chart and balances, the 3D games are where you'd need to start.

finally, if you're not a fan of the 'catch pokemon run around region' type games, pokemon has a LOT of really awesome spin off games. my favorites are as follows...

pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky. its the strongest story the pokemon company has ever written, and im a big fan of the mystery dungeon style gameplay.

pokemon ranger (any ranger game!) the story and graphics are cute, and it focuses on rescuing/rehabilitating pokemon more than capturing them. really lovely expansion of the pokemon universe.

pokemon go, because its free! so if you dont want to download a rom, or sink money into a new franchise, its an easy way to get into it.

pokemon snap - this was actually my very first pokemon game i ever played! (never owned it though heha) but there was just a remake for the switch, if you've got a switch that is. the game focuses on photographing pokemon in their natural habitat, and its really quite cute. slow paced and fun if you're not sure about battling yet.

finally... if you weren't looking to get into games at all, pokemon art + fan creations are personally my favorite things in the entire fandom! artists and writers and fangame devs are the people who hold this fandom up, engaging with their creations is a great and typically free way to involve yourself... im sorry this is so long, i hope this helps!! and ppl are free to add on to this hehe

[arsenbals]

!COULD CONTAIN SPOILERS!

So. Erm, we all probably know what I'm gonna talk about here. I actually spoilered this for myself, fvck Twitter.

It actually happened, they ended up like I always wanted. THEY ENDED UP TOGETHER. OH HENRY AND HANS ENDED UP TOGETHER IM SO HAPPY.

But let's me just talk about something, warhorse had written a 3 million words long script that is just basically a slow burn, smut, gay fanfiction. Like you get the point, but oh wow. I actually had expected that Henry will be able to romance Hans, but the thing i wanna talk about is Twitter. The hell is wrong with you, hating a game studio and telling people to not buy the game because it's "Woke LGBTQ+ propaganda"? It actually is not? There's this thing, it's an RPG the choices can be different EVERY time. So why be pissed when you can literally treat Hans like dogshit. You can just say fuck you and don't do anything like having sex with him? Like, I don't see the problem here.

Go fuck yourself Twitter or X or whatever, fuckin trump supporters, homophobic sexistic men.

Anyways just gotta wait until March when i get my new console. Gonna play it after, can't wait.

Thanks warhorse for this masterpiece, again fuck those homophobic ass people.

Arsenbals, out.

[sluturu]

love and deepspace: what is it and is it worth getting? i keep seeing people post about it and I'm a little curious

part of me wants to tell you to run, but the other parts of me want you to experience the joy so ill give you a little pros and cons list — THIS IS REALLY LONG, but detailed and i included pics!

love and deepspace, on the most basic level, is a chinese sci-fi romance game where you date very handsome male characters and go on “adventures” with them. you can play the game in english, mandarin, simplified chinese or japanese— i currently play in english but im thinking about switching to the jp dub bc it sounds reallllyyyy good!

there are 5 love interests: zayne (doctor and my husband), xavier (monster hunter just like the mc), rafayel (artist and secret other thing that i wont spoil), sylus (leader of onychinus my fucking man 😭) and caleb (ummm, childhood friend and ill leave it at that)

here’s a fairly accurate description i got from twt the other day. in order from left to right we have: xavier, rafayel, caleb, sylus & zayne… it seems yandere-ish…. and it lowkey is, but it doesn’t feel like that when playing the game LOL

the game has got some really pretty graphics, interactive storytelling, and even some action/fighting/combat parts so it’s not just 100% romance. you can text, call, and go on dates with the characters, so it’s kinda like a mix of a dating sim and an rpg. (practically an otome game if you’re into that.) ALSO there’s a SHIT load of angst and lore so if you love a good fanfic, you might fw the game!! but there are a lot of thing that make up for the angst. 🙂‍↕️

the game’s biggest aspects are the story and the dating cards. there are 3 star cards (basically useless), 4 stars (which i loveeee bc you’ll get cute interactions and to unlock story moments) and 5 stars (the best). 5-star cards in l&ds are the rarest and best ones you can get. they have the prettiest artwork, the best stats for battles, and exclusive interactions with the love interests. since it’s a gacha game, you have to be lucky (or spend in-game currency) to pull them. basically, they’re what everyone wants because they give the most special moments in the game. here’s what they look like!

(5 star card from most recent banner, general 4 star card, and 3 star card)

PROS:

- the guys are sexy and bangable /srs

- it makes me and a lot of other people really happy… like not to be cringe but talking to them genuinely makes my day better

- ITS GENERALLY FUN! you can fight wanderers (what the monsters are called), play cards or the claw machine, take pics of ur mc and love interest, or just listen to them talk!

- it’s a GORGEOUS game. the developers worked really hard and you can tell

- great stories, like nobel peace prize winning, gut wrenching stories (zayne)

- the 5 star cards and the banners are always so fucking good. especially this last one!!

(photobooth, kitty cards, and a 4 star card)

CONS:

- will make you hate irl men probably

- STORAGE OMFG 😭 the app is HUGE

- it’s really hard to get the things you want if you’re playing for free which is why im lowkey telling you to run…

- the gacha system for cards will make u want to die

- really hard to binge once you finish all the stories and story updates are really effing slow (not complaining but…)

- upgrading cards takes a lot of resources and you have to grind A LOT to progress in the game that includes raising affinity levels for love interests (raising affinity unlocks new texts, calls, video calls from your LI)

- also the game hasnt done re-runs of any old cards, so if you start playing now, you wont have access to any of the cards from previous events which i effing HATE. bc i started playing 3 months after the game first dropped and i missed 3 banners 💔

- it’s hard to get all love interests if you’re playing for free 🥲 pick your top two and wish for the best

(affinity levels, missing banners, cards i wasnt able to get but really wanted. 💔)

OKAY IK THAT WAS A LOT, BUT PLS LMK IF THERES ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT. I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME SM. i hope this helps you!!!

[awellboiledicicle]

So the polycule talked me into playing Corruption of Champions under the me-bait of calling it research.

It's actually very fun, the problem is i keep having the rpg worry of "oh no i just spent 5 days looking for wood and nails, what if i miss Plot Events?" and then remembering those really only depend on me popping up with specific stat levels.

So far I have an ant wife with 25 children [and counting] building a subterranean network down the way, a monk named Jojo helping me stave off corruption while watching me try very hard to not drop shit on myself while building a house. Because he's not helping. Which, fair, he's in his anime meditation of angst. I have 6 kids with this goblin lady that keeps showing up at random. And a litter of mouse babies with a mouse girl that was like "listen i need to repopulate my village/rebuild my people and you're not a rape happy corruption beast. Help?" and i was like "ok sure" and then we became friends and i think she likes me after i helped deliver the babies. I keep trying to visit her and check on the kiddos but a ghost in the ruins is super into me and keeps intercepting me. C'mon ma'am they're all gonna think i'm skipping child support. I'm also in a relationship with a chronically ill lizard guy that's teaching me magic. A wolf lady on the guard of the only safe town i've found so far that's got severe loneliness issues that she drowns in alcohol [we talked about it, and i told her she doesn't have to change things if she doesn't want to, but being aware of why she leans on drink is important]. A catgirl i'm slowly trying to train into being a guard so she can have literally any life that isn't "i live in an alley behind the pawn shop and live off stolen milk". She's sweet but also slow going on the authority learning because she's seen the other side and yeah. I wish her story was more "and you can come adventure with me c:" instead of "listen, the only skills you got are be a cop because all that takes is hitting things".

Also i found a gargoyle that was abused by her former master and has trauma around sex. I take my time to reassure her and learn about her and help her clean up the cathedral she's in.

Also there's a bunny dancer that's zero'd in on me but since i keep forgetting to go to the bar i've seen her 1 whole time. Also there's a cupcake seller that i'm 90% sure is supposed to just be nymph pinkie pie.

All this is very fun but also i'm sitting here wondering how the reality warping that lets you travel around easily effects the environment. And how the time dilation wrapped into the pregnancy kink would effect the ecology. Because if a goblin takes like 3 days max to have two kids, and i can fuck more than one at a time, that means there should be hella goblins. The game mentions, however, there are factors that curb the population but doesn't say what. Am deeply curious. Also deeply curious what importing the ant wife from the desert is going to do to the forest, but that's more long term.

Also there's like. dungeons? to clear and explore? but i keep being very sure i'm gonna die if i go in there so every time i see one in like. the desert the sphynx is like "you gonna go in?" "maybe next time" "you wanna fuck?" "nah im looking for nails"

I also keep trying to fight the antlion monsters. Which just leads into it cooing that we're not so different because my character isn't 100% Big Man Of Fuck Mountain Masc, before knocking me up with eggs. Which is fine, but i can only assume my pants are a fucking lost cause at this point.

I also befriended the giant turtle lady in the lake.

A narrative running trend i'm noticing is a wild amount of loneliness and isolation brought on by how others react to peoples bodies. The violence of the actual demon invasion is one thing, but the knock on effects of how its changed the biology and culture of the remaining survivors is very interesting. I'm also noticing a heavy amount of "so the environment is also fucked up" in terms of literal and figurative pollution.

But what deeply keeps hooking me is that like... the premise begins with "If you, Chosen Yearly Sacrifice, do not enter this portal and Die Fighting, bad things will happen to the rest of us." Not demons, not monsters, not some incursion of horrible energy... just like. People getting sick. Crops failing. Bad weather. Which sure, could be related, but it's a much more mundane and expected-- grounded, i suppose-- occurrence. Meanwhile people on the other side of the portal are just like "listen, if its not trying to fuck me or kill me on sight, maybe i can talk with it bc goddamn" bc that's the every day for them. Its not even particularly shocking a danger to them anymore. Bad, certainly horrible, but very much a "yes this could happen" in the same way running out of water in the desert is an assumed danger. A matter of time sort of thing.

I know the creator most definitely did not intend someone to sit there and ponder, while doing fifty explore rounds for nails, the sociological impact of this whole thing. But i'm me and the game only manages to make me horny a few times every couple hours so i gotta ponder something.

Also my character's name is Fifi. He's very canine in appearance while also managing a v long beard and shaggy hair because i keep forgetting the barber exists. I forget many things exist. It's a problem.

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

9 people you’d like to get to know better

i was tagged by @gwilin-stay-winnin, yippee ty :]]

3 ships: ok time to air my very specific kinda whack taste

the beast / enoch (over the garden wall) mainly because of the fic blutrunst which... im actually surprised ive never mentioned before

bertie / jeeves (pg wodehouse canon) gaygaygay

jenkins/literally anybody. ive spent way too much time today rotating him in my brains. he needs someone with higher emotional intelligence who will also aid and abet. me and mjrdm both have OCs for this purpose SNDBSN

First ship: it was shesh/theo from a super obscure novel called king of rpgs, before i cleared this blog it was a blog for that novel actually :p i think it catalyzed my favorite dynamic which is mildly-dissatisfied and self-loathing character and person who really REALLY likes them

Last song: pictures of you - oingo boingo

Last film: Treasure Planet, i had never seen it before (FATAL ERROR)

Currently reading: oh god so many things. the crucible cos i love the puritans. a collection of hawthorne's short stories cos i love the puritans. im TRYING to read one of the jeeves anthologies in french but its very slow going.... im also partway through a historical fiction about lady godiva, i need to sit my silly ass down and finish one book i am a notorious book half-finisher 😭

Currently craving: this is probably supposed to be a food but man recently i really really want to go to a Ghost concert lmfsbdsj

if you want to do this too @mjrdm @poor-ciceros-voring-again @siorafede @divinenanny (and anyone who sees, im sleepy and probably forgetting things lol) id be curious :]

[ahoneesan]

kebs game update - oct '24

jottin down where im at with the handful of games i consider myself, rightly or not, to be playin rn.

final fantasy 3 (ds) - very fun and well put together game! love the look, love the sound, love the weird double history of it (classic ff game obv, but also part of the prehistory of a strain of classic console rpg revivalism that eventually results in bravely default) but man i am not in the mood to grind rn. there can be something soothing about the structure of go to dungeon, make it a floor or two down, get nearly wiped by one too hard miniboss, teleport out, run back to town to heal and restock, repeat, but now is not the time for that. for me. also the job change waiting period or whatever can huff my shit.

death stranding - just picked this up, toolin around in ch2 but tryin not to get too hung up on stuff bc i know the game can sprawl if you let it. not a terrible game and not a terrible idea (walking simulator with Mechanics) but a little too esoteric for me at the moment. one of the things thats great about metal gear is its grounded in real world adjacent stakes (terrorists take over a nuke facility and you have to stop them) and fun characters (too obvious to list). DS so far has neither. im hopeful that ill get more invested as i go along but for now its a real "well huh how about this thing" feeling from me.

ffxiv - im actually taking a break from goin hard in this after the expac, just in time for me to miss the HEY A NEW PATCH IS COMING OUT festivities theyre throwing rn lol. was fun to grind for a while and im sure ill pick it up again outside of the obvious patch releases, but for now ill let my girl rest. and like, turn an island into an extractive robo capitalist utopia or whatever they fuck this shit is.

ffvii remake - good ass game but due to it being a collective play w me and the girls progress has been slow goin, which has dulled my enthusiasm for it. still obviously a great game, id like to finish the main story before monhun comes out but i did also just pick up DS soooooo we'll see!

system shock (remake) - I DO WANNA PLAY MORE OF THIS but the return stream needs to be splashy. by some definition of splashy. maybe in the next few weekends here i can spin it up again, along with more regular tomboy tuesday streams. lots of things i could tie into this, actually. here's hopin!

umineko - with ep8cast out its time to mosey on with the wrap up pods. unfortunately the GT squad is out of commission until one of us has a home to live in again, so it may be a bit before we can get to it. i'm hopeful to have one lower effort (but still very fun!) thing out before the end of the year.

thats everything as far as i can remember! not very interested in goin back to majora, would like to grab the new zeldy in time for holiday travel, and basically im in a sort of gaming stasis until monhun comes out next year and i vanish inside of there for a month or two. other games that are on my sort of immediate backlog: ffxvi, tomb raider 2010s trilogy, the rest of the ff's as i get to em, that new layton when (if) it comes out, maybe a dread replay, and i should pick up dmc again sometime. thanks for tuning in to this irregular check in.

[bingobongobonko]

4 hour sleep gang but sooo worth it.. lancer rpg. blinks wildly. im. 3-session long bossfight, fucking INSANE. hardest fucking fight we've ever dealt with, surrounded by webs of bombs and mines, and the Fool is a literal stand user and she fucking summoned it to kick our asses. actual hell on earth.

became this at some fucking point 😭 EVERYONE WAS SO FUCKING TIRED OF HERRRRRRRRR SHE WAS DOING SOME MIND GAMES SHIT WITH INVISIBLE MINES ANDIT WAS GRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOURE DONE!!!!! YOURE OVER! such a good fucking battle though, albeit.. [TREASURE] and kuruushi got really fucked up throughout, im pretty sure more than half of us structured at some point. i fended off a bit better cuz i kept a distance, since my balor's a long distance mf. i love my superheavies. but yeah it was. bad. because even after we kill her stand basically, she's still puttin up mines and shit, and we realize. Oh we have to do a systems check.. we have to see the mines. and WOW its bad. its bad. we're completely and utterly surrounded. one fucking step in any direction, and either the Fool or [TREASURE] is getting blown to BITS. so we're freaking out... eventually though, [TREASURE]'s got rapid jet system or summat like dat, and he fucking bolts the shit out of there, but he's STILL NOT SAFE!!! BECAUSE SHE KEEPS TARGETING HIM.. THOUGH now she realizes the mines aren't gonna work (except on kuru, who at this point has exploded on those mines and structured like 30437498494 times now... it was miserable), so she hops out of the mines and right into us and we're like AHA YOU ARE SO SURROUNDED. AND WE DO. for [TREASURE] unfortunately, she's permainvisible and so a GOOD portion, if not all of his hits, don't land :( shitty fuckin rolls, it happens though tbh. im able to get a shot in at her regardless of missing, cuz cyclone has reliability tag of 5, and tellius basically grabs a spear and forces it into her mech, making her immobile and slowed. and THEN, i ram right into her mech and slam it into a nearby pylon, and force her prone. we're all fucking dogpiling her - but then we realize, thats WHAT she wants, because she grabs her grenade launcher and points it at the ground beneath all of us, knocking back the party a good amount and im pretty sure someone NEARLY structured from that. i dont get pushback thankfully, but im not the one who does the killing blow either. tellius rams himself back into the fight and fucking grabs his drills and forces it right into where he thinks the cockpit is, and lo and behold, there is a gaping hole in the thing. and it just keels over. and in the rubble and the dust thrown about, she's still alive. she's crawling out her mech pit, barely alive, bleeding from her midsection. this is *new.* we. won? i guess. the party, particularly skink and tellius get their words in, i know it gets revealed where the people who fucked telly over are, so thats OUGHG. thats. not good is it....... we will see.. but. the fool looks up at yves and is like. "Well? What are you waiting for? Do it." and yves does not need to be asked twice. he crushes and mangles her body under the heel of his mech, like he's killing a bug. and he.. doesn't feel anything. it's not satisfying. at all. and god it makes me so sad. when all of it is said and done, [TREASURE] picks up the parts of whats left of her, and just. holds them gingerly. it barely looks like anything. its so fucked. ooc i feel so bad abt it.. we really could have saved her. if we wanted to. we could have. but i know yves wouldn't let that happen. he has no reason to. yk. the military comes in, and they just kinda cat_blink.gif at us cuz like. ermmm are you guys okay lol. No. Not really. and the party's tryin to ease the tension, and make jokes and shit, but yves is like. Shut the Fuck Up. Shut the Fuck Up. and getting riled up and upset, because he just. doesn't feel anything. and its not funny anymore. none of this is funny. and elias kinda pipes in from the back like... hey man maybe we should calm down. yk? and i wont lie to you, yves's first instinct was to start screaming and kicking his cockpit, but realizing it's elias saying this, its kinda like. You Know. and they have a whole scene and... oh :(. well. yeah. i. well. yeah. its bittersweet. he's able to calm yves down, and it's just. really sweet.

im like.

its fucking over man. hes not wrong. but also, like i was telling flore, yves is a ticking time bomb, and the fear far outweighs anything but at this very moment, its fine. its fine. he's not wrong. shit is changing. it has to mean something. even if its doing this forever and ever and ever and ever. and dont get me wrong, he loves elias a lot, but he CAN'T do this forever. not anything personal with elias, elias is. more than he ever thought he could have, just. vague hand moments. all of this. if he could get away from all of this with just elias, he would. he'll do this forever if thats whats gonna happen, but it's not preferred, even having elias there. thats the bitter part. you can love someone, but it doesnt change the horrors. but the love makes it easier. if anything. yeah. nothing changes, the horror is still lingering, but the love is there

[thekuraning]

LOOK, ITS A FUN GAME. While idk much about digimon games, it does make me wanna try more (or at least find out if cyber sleuth and hackers memory got prequels/follow ups)

My specific hc about oak and magnolia is basically they both really liked rowan but instead of talking like normal people they got divorced

IT IS I LOVE THEM A LOT and I can answer that question for you: yes and no.

So Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's memory are part of the Digimon Story series of Digimon games that began on the DS, of which there are four: Digimon World DS, Digimon World Dawn & Dusk, and Digimon Story Lost Evolution (called Story in JPN releases, World in US releases, im not sure about other countries, but Story was adopted worldwide with CS.) Of the four, Dawn and Dusk are MOST like CS. LE is... fine... but only available in JPN unless you emulate and grab a patch. DS is okay (and based on Savers!), but lacks variety in a lot of ways. However, none of these are set in the CS world if that's what you're looking for. Also, the gameplay is slow as balls, so if you try them out, I recommend an emulator with a turbo mode.

Other options will be Digimon World 2 & 3 (2 plays kind of lile mystery dungeon, 3 is more like CS but you can only digivolve in-battle like the anime.) DW4 is fun but it's like... its own weird beat em up rpg.

If you like raising virtual pets though, definitely give Digimon World: Next Order a try. There are a handful of Digimon World games (1, Re:, and NO) that are more like raising digimon and going on adventures. And Next Order ia really. REALLY good. (NO propaganda: you can have TWO partners and they can both BE BUNNIES! And then jogress like MAGICAL GIRLS!)

As for the current gen Stories, there's another Digimon Story supposedly in production right now following the CS/HM trend. I'm hoping we hear something about it at this year's DigiCon! Supposedly the plot has something to do with the Olympus 12! So.... maybe soon, a sequel! 😎

(In the meantime play Next Order 🌀ooooo u wwanna play next order so bad ooooooo 🌀)

Ahem. Im normal now.

I would like to see Magnolia and Oak forced to sit next to each other on new years eve when all the professors get together. Maybe they fistfight. Maybe they dont.

Does rowan know

[gamingdotcom]

goddamn this game!!! im not even done with my first playthrough and im already trying to figure out what i want to do with my second one.... i mean, ill share anyway. thoughts below the cut!

i feel like my first pass has been a rollercoaster of self-discovery and reflection and an... all consuming affection for a certain vampire twink. i think i have given varying levels of care to the story: i was in and out in act one while i figured out what this game was about and whether or not the story was interesting enough to listen to,¹ but i made a real effort to try and do every little thing before leaving.

in act 2, i kind of tired myself out by being so exhaustive in act 1 so i kind of sped run a lot of it (partially because i was DYING to find out what happens with astarion, partially because of the aforementioned burn out, partially because i was frustrated with the difficulty curve) so i really did not pay much attention. i refocused once dame aylin came into the picture because. hello. how could you ignore that-- but i had lost important beats and foreshadowing because of how i navigated that arc. i feel i have the most room to grow when returning to this chapter.

in act 3, im really slowing down and smelling the roses more, but trying not tire myself out the way i did in act 1. i am realizing, however, as some character arcs reach their crest, that i spent a lot of time and care with astarion and through that very singular focus have missed out on a lot of the other characters!! At this juncture i would say i am interested but not overly invested in the outcome of the overall story arc, and this may well be the result of my inconsistent focus on it.... it could also just be that i have very high standards for a compelling story. From where i stand, having not yet finished the game, i have found that the individual character arcs are the strongest point in the game by far-- i have seen most this through shadowheart and astarion, and although dame aylin's arc is not long, it is fucking powerful. perhaps i will find that the game returns what you give, and i may enjoy other parts of the story more if i give them more focus.

¹ I personally find that most RPG stories fall completely flat for me, so I was not expecting much. For the average game, I am far more interested in mechanics than story beats. Can't tell you why because I love a good book! And a good movie! And good TV!

so, given all this, my intentions for my second(!) run are:

acquire all characters asap (i went without karlach for most of act one, oops!), really try to spend time with them, and rotate through my party so I can see how the different characters interact. this may require slowing down even more than i did in my first run, but since the character arcs ive seen so far have proven to be the most compelling part of the game, i think it will be worth the trouble. i just have to be patient!

plan my character's progression out in advance so the difficulty curve does not hit as hard in act 2

stop looking at guides... altogether. this is a silent killer that i think has fucked with my experience! i have this compulsion to want to do everything perfect and control all the factors i can to give myself the best outcome and i think that has really hurt my experience in a number of ways: 1) ruins the surprise, 2) frames important story beat decisions in terms of costs and benefits rather than whether the choice is in-line with the character would say (or what I want to say), 3) reinforces this fun belief that mistakes should never be made even in fun fantasy game 4) micromanaging to this extent is just.. exhausting! It means im devoting less energy to the story than on how to optimize it to get the outcome i want. not great!

try my very best to not just hit spacebar during major plot beats. i think this will mainly mean playing in shorter bursts because i get attention fatigue if playing for longer than 1.5-2 hours.. and also eating before and drinking water while i play so i dont get hangry.

i think that's it! hopefully i will get a different but still engaging experience with the game! thanks for reading :)

[merwyn-muses]

Big old autistic ramble about how lumi would be in a mario and luigi rpg game. I played super star saga, paper jam, inside story, and is playing brothership so i do sorta know wtf im talking about!

Under readmore is a big ramble!

@nabbing-bad-habits

Ok so, this is about game play specifically. This is inspired off of what we seen on paper jam. BECAUSE 3 PEOPLE CAN WORK. THEY MADE IT WORK WITH PAPER MARIO.

Lumi would take over the Y button just like paper mario and has her hammer attack is replaced with her yo-yo since she isn't strong enough to hold a hammer like that. The yo-yo will be flung straight to one enemy at a time, you gotta keep it going by timing the attack, it will add more to the damage if you do like this!

Lumi's jump attack is a standard jump attack! She is weaker than the two bros in both departments (mario is stronger at jumping than the two and luigi is way better with hammer than the both of em) so.. whats the point?

Her gimmick is yo-yo tricks! Like how paper mario has copies, Lumi has a command block which is about yo-yo tricks! You have to get a certain number of excellent on the move prior for her to get a new yo-yo trick! Each one is harder than the last and more difficult to excellent!

For example, her first trick is swinging the yo-yo sideways where it hits everyone. It is weaker than your "hammer" move but it does get stronger with every excellent! (It will stay stronger even after battle too without it getting insanely strong dwdw)

Lumi specialty stat (the one where its even better than the bros) is speed! She quicker than the bros! Always attacking first in a battle. Why is that? Its because shes way more excitied and has way more energy so thats why. She may attack twice if you get her speed to a insane amount maybe.

Lumi bros. points are basically with the three, but they cost wayyy more than the two other bros. points. And they are centered with her magic! Like one move has her making her yo-yo huge and they separate into two parts! One side luigi and one side mario. You judt gotta make sure they dont run too fast or too slow or they accidently get hurt themselves

Out of battles she can personally turn into a luma which is very small and can fit into smaller spaces. And she can glow in very dark places later on into the story

Ok story wise, like personality

Lumi is very air headed, has sorta no filter and says what comes to her mind, most times its nice stuff but there is some times where its something mean and that may have caused a boss fight or two without realizing it. Shes also curious about everything! Often asking about what is going on or whatnot. Her whole thing is..well shes not from earth! Shes a luma after all! So as time progesses in the story she becomes more kind, knows to think before she speaks, etcetx <3

[k4mukura]

I AM 21 THIS IS AN 18+ POST MDNI.

ok so idk how to use tumblr but I really want to find a longterm rp partner someone I can rp fandoms with or even ocs. Not the two mixed sorry. It’s either one or the other. This post will be all over the place bc im kinda desperate right now for an RP partner. Im into so many medias. Like demon slayer, spyxfamily, genshin, houseki no kuni, (all of) danganronpa, yttd. rpg games like hello charlotte, zeno, ib, mad father, etc etc etc. There’s more but I can’t think. Writing this in the moment.

If you’re looking for someone to rp ocs with I am the person . You might be looking for. I have so many. I don’t mind any pairings. Mostly lgbt like wlw, mlm. I have genderless / nonbinary ocs too. I’m an open book. I am super passionate about my ocs so much so I have commissioned art of so many of them. If we hit it off, chances are I’ll want to commission art of our ocs together.

I also like to connect and talk to my rp partner casually and possibly become friends. If that is not what you’re looking for then you’re not the rp partner for me. I write long, I prefer people who write about 5ish paragraphs too or I’ll be disinterested. I enjoy detail, if I get really into it o might write a lot. I use discord so I might even go past the word limit.

again this is a 18+ post so people who are adults should contact me. No one who freshly turned 18 either. Sorry. I’m aiming towards mostly 19+ at the youngest. I do enjoy nsfw, and encourage it. but with realistic plot leading up to it. I’ve been writing for over ten years. And I love writing. However I work 10 hours four days a week so some days I may not reply, but I promise I’ll get as much as I can out there within the week since I do get 3 days off every week!

I’m into various AU’s, fantasy, medieval (love this one), college aus, friends to lovers. I enjoy slow burns.

If ur interested please reach out to me thru dm I like using discord to text so please have discord thank you!

Hope this reaches somebody gejsgsjshdjjd

[protagonistheavy]

I've started Baldur's Gate 3 and having quite a good time with it. Admittedly I'm not SO wowed by it like everyone else seems to be... but it is a very rich game, and definitely scratches my RPG itch like no other RPG really has. This is one of the first RPGs where I'm thinking so much about alternate playthroughs, whereas almost any other RPG I'm one-and-done. I've had a great time exploring my options, customizing characters, and progressing through the story... at a very, very slow pace.

I'm just sort of bad at this type of game lol. Right off the bat, it really drains me to wrap my mind around the general controls. Pointing and clicking on things is just not really an instinct I have built-in. Moving around the world and exploring new terrain feels really awkward to me in that regard, I so badly wish I could just control the camera like third-person camera, point it where I want it to be pointed -- so many huge set pieces that I would love a wide view of, but I'm restricted to what the camera will show. I'm getting used to it, but I constantly have this feeling that Im missing something, and often feeling dizzy trying to get my directions figured out.

Gradually I've been getting myself to think of it less like a traditional game and more like regular D&D. And just like regular D&D, wow combat takes forever. Some of these big combats will go on forever with so many enemies each getting unique turns. It's a price to pay for having so much detail in a game and so many options to approach something like combat; I end up spending a ton of additional time planning out fights, trying to think of all my options... sort of like it's a Fire Emblem game lol.

Plots and characters are so far intriguing but I haven't been floored by anyone just yet. It's a fun band of characters though, I enjoy the different personalities and clashing interests. I do feel a bit stupid for not keeping Shadowheart in my part more often, because she's so important in so many cutscenes, and without her, some segments just look straight-up silly... I guess that's my fault for rolling a cleric lol? I'm actually a little annoyed by it, because Shadowheart is the obvious first character to sideline if you're a cleric too -- especially a trickster cleric like I rolled...

Great times though and I'm majorly looking forward to getting into even more meat of the game. I've enjoyed my participation with the plot so far, and have found some really fun means to complete tasks -- who knew so many problems could be solved by shoving people? I really love the streamlined D&D experience, it's so nice seeing D&D mechanics utilized so smoothly, and I'm not sure when again we'll see an RPG that has so much attention to detail.

[oswednesday]

tempest you pay me in the pleasure of your friendship

s: The Medium: yes its a bloober team game, its like a game that is a 101 for polish horror tropes and has a scene that to this day im like i need everyone to experience it, it has a few moments like that but nothing comes close to this One point, a good introduction to polish horror in general and bloober team's best game, s primarily for it being a solid game, an accessible game for people new to horror from poland, along with some like whoa i need people to see it will you go see it if it has an S and S is important A-The Devil Came Through Here, also known as The Cat Lady: there are various different games here and a sequential order tho some fans will say to play them in different order, very grimgothy stylized, the protagonist killing herself is the call to adventure with her driving motivation being "to stay dead" and the most optimistic entry is like wow what if we lived in a small government owned apartment for poor people that was clean! A-Deep Sleep Trilogy: you suffer from sleep paralysis of a sorts and the only way to save yourself is to suffer more

B-The World of Horror: its a bit on the sillier side and its a little like a bit of stereotypes for things i wouldnt have used! you survive very like lovecraft meets junji ito with a very distinct polish pop art pin up advertisement vibe, you solve mysteries at the end of the world, it has a loooot of customization and mod ability its basically coc rpg but very stylish B- Darkwood- really hard to explain without saying a bunch of words its like top down area control point and click yet still basically a visual novel where its hopeless and gorey and very silly and at the same time like,,,phew! crushing! B-The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: im sure people recognizing this one, this one is a little more whimsical but in a way that is distinctly a slavic bummer, is this The game that had people coin walking sim? the observant who is familiar with these games might put together the slow pacing and small amount of like Constant gameplay, often story driven to the point of pure item management between a new bit of story, and that this is just like a regional game design style choice, so maybe people can understand why bloober games are Like that more often (doesnt excuse like, other problems in writing and game play but gfgfgfh)

Honorable Mention: Superhot: Mind Control Delete, very different a fast fast first person shootem up with super killing powers that the game makes you give up, your sacrifice everything to continue to kill and then the game use to make you sit and wait for 8 hours after it shows you how meaningless your bloodlust was but they patched that out for around 3 hours instead before even allowing you to continue, sicko hostile design the western mind couldnt handle it

Honorable Mention 2:

why'd they make the cover look like this gdgdgdgdgdhfhf

every polish horror game is like the horrors are endless there was never any hope if love exists in this world it belongs to the dead [a png of delicious food]

[button-mash]

What I played last week #5

Still getting behind on what I actually played for any sort of time, so here is my attempt to catch myself back up! Hi-Fi Rush [PC] This looked like a really cool game on the surface - a pleasant treat that was shadowdropped out of nowhere and not only seemed to be a fun game, but was a really competent PC port. The premise is great too, where it's a hack n' slash style action game akin to something like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry, but the twist is that it's also a Rhythm game, with your attacks either only coming out on certain beats, or having more power for staying tightly on beat, similar to something like Cadence of Hyrule. Unfortunately for me, this didn't really grab me like it seems to have grabbed a lot of people. Im not even really sure why - the art design is really strong and the combat itself is actually really fun and well conceived, but something just felt a bit uninteresting to me. I find the tone and humour of the game pretty excruciating, and the music itself wasn't that compelling to me. I actually thought the first boss I encountered was great, but for whatever reason I just never picked it up again after that. One of those games where I totally get why people enjoyed it, but it just wasn't for me. It's on gamepass so maybe I'll end up picking this one back up at some point, but there are just too many other things I feel like I want to play ahead of it at the moment.

The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang [Super Nintendo]

I had a quick go of this one as I'd heard it was a true 'hidden gem', and on first look I could see it had promise. The sprite-work is beautiful and the game has a lot of personality and you have a lot of interesting moves. My one immediate issue with this game was that it's text is SO unbeliveably slow. For some reason the font on all the text boxes is absolutely huge so it can only show 3-4 words at a time. It means that any conversation you have with anybody just ends up feeling tortuous. It sounds silly but even though it seems like a great action RPG I'm not fammiliar with, it was enough to put me off pretty quicky - my game crashed about 30 mins in and I couldn't bare to go through the intro conversations again that set up the story, so I just binned it off

Undisputed [PC]

Not going to write up too much on this one here, as the game is in early access and I imagine I'll be writing about this a lot more in the future. To be honest I thought this game was never actually going to come out, so I was surprised to see it enter early access this month. Despite the fact that Fight Night Champion has aged incredibly well even now, I am crying out for a modern boxing game and this seems like the best chance we have of something good. It has a lot of promise, but it's still very much an early access game - even ignoring the bare bones features, the boxing itself just needs to be refined a lot - punch power, knockdowns, judges scoring, the inability to cut off the ring, the ability to spam certain punches, punch tracking, footwork, etc, etc all needs work. I know that sounds ridiculous because that is basically every single element of boxing, but the framework is there. The boxer's individual personalities and movement have been captured phenomenally well, and what is there is a good start. The most encouraging thing is that the developers have been really active with pushing out updates already, so I have ever-growing faith that they will actually refine and support this game in the way that it needs. Currently it's at a state where I am glad I own it and feel like I haven't wasted my money, but I also don't feel inclined to play it much until they've improved some of the fundemental elements of the game. I did manage this in my first ever online game though after my opponent spent the whole fight trying to showboat even though they'd picked the most overpowered fighter in the entire game.

Satifying