#it really is a fun game

[sophiegoose]

I love Monster Sanctuary

Been struggling for hours to 5-star some of the tougher bosses and I've finally made a breakthrough via tossing a penguin, a spider in a Halloween costume, and someone's fursona with a knife at said bosses until they die

Absolutely fantastic game, 10/10

[quibbs126]

So I started a new save file on Legends: Arceus yesterday, and honestly, it really is the better Sinnoh remake between it and BDSP

Well I mean, it technically isn’t a remake, if anything it’s more like a remix in a new time setting, but you get what I mean

[ollieofthebeholder]

i will absolutely ask you about Pirate Captain Jonathan Sims, i'm curious now :0

🤣 I'm sorry in advance, this might not be as great a story as I maybe made it sound in the tags.

So there's a game I have played for...ages: Sid Meier's Pirates! (Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title.) I had a copy of it growing up and was kind of obsessed with it, so when I found it on Steam, I snapped it up, especially since it was only $3. (<i>And</i> it's exactly the same game I played as a kid, which apparently irritated a lot of people who thought they should've got something new and shiny for it being on Steam, but I wanted to play the game exactly the way it was, plus, seriously, people, it was $3, what did you expect? Anyway.)

The story is pretty straightforward. A family that's been under the thumb of a cruel Marquis for years is finally about to get free, as soon as the fleet arrives in port, and they're celebrating - only for the Marquis to burst in and inform them that the ships have sunk, the family's fortunes are lost, and the payment is due. He takes all of the family prisoner, but the young son of the family manages to escape. That's your character.

Ten years later, you show up at an inn looking for work on a ship - you pick whether you want to be English, Spanish, Dutch, or French, but it doesn't <i>really</i> matter in the long run unless you want it to - sign your name to the manifest, and set out on a ship for the Caribbean. The captain is cruel and merciless, eventually pushes the crew too far, and they mutiny. You defeat the captain (it's all in a cut scene) and become the captain. From there on out, the game is up to you. You can attack and plunder ships, defeat pirates, flirt with the daughters of the various governors of the colonies (and eventually marry one if you get your romance scores up high enough), and trade in ports. Over it all is the Baron Raymundo, who has information about your family; you defeat him a certain number of times and get map fragments that lead you one by one to your relatives (your sister, your uncle, your aunt, and your grandfather...I think, I've only made it past the uncle once and it's been a while), and then once you've rescued each one, they tell you where to find the Marquis. Once you find him on his ship and defeat him in battle, he dives overboard and you get part of a map that, once you have all four parts, tells you where his hideout is so you can defeat him once and for all.

So...yeah, the last game I started, I named my pirate Jonathan Sims. His flagship - right now - is named The Archives, he's defeated four of the most notorious pirates in the Caribbean, and he is still trying to find the Baron Raymundo for the first time. Unsurprisingly, he's a bit of a disaster.

[verflares]

just how long is forever? // not long enough, with you

pssst. check this out on inprnt :]

[steelsartcorner]

the make-everything-hades fever has spread to lae'zel

all her boons are for sure big huge damage boosters at the expense of your magic meter

others: the dark urge (OC); minthara (bg3), karlach (bg3), shadowheart(bg3), gale (bg3), halsin (bg3), astarion (bg3), wyll (bg3), kotallo (horizon)

[geezmarty]

anyway I started playing aai

[appaeve]

twilight princess sillies

[tawnysoup]

Their POV

[chloesimaginationthings]

This could be a kart if FLAF wasn't fucking around..

[blueskittlesart]

Linktober day 19: Reward

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[tues-dayy]

Pencils Down has already become one of my favorite Game Changer episodes and it hasn't even been out for 24 hours

[im-still-watching-anime]

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

[vigna05]

Hey I hope i'm not late for the party

Here's my version of the fish man

Closeups

[steelsartcorner]

my pen has still not been confiscated so it’s halsin’s turn in the ongoing turn-everything-into-Hades fever dream

others: the dark urge (OC); minthara (bg3), karlach (bg3), shadowheart (bg3), gale (bg3), lae'zel (bg3), astarion (bg3), wyll (bg3), kotallo (horizon)

[cardo-de-comer]

more off doodles <3