#ive thought about what their pokemon teams would be...addicted

[wishing-stones]

Omg your choices on a team based on the bad boys are perfect! I completely forgot about Darkrai, even with the pokedex in hand. Although my knowledge on Pokémon isn't really... updated. I stopped accompanying the franchise when Alola was announced, I kind of lost the hype there and seeing Scarlet/Violet now makes me wonder just how long it'll take for me to learn all the new mechanics and changes (the whole Gigantamax thing completely eludes me). My knowledge is more centered towards Kanto, Hoenn, Unova and Kalos at best, although I do grasp a few concepts from Unova thanks to a Pokémon Emerald hack rom.

Back at the boys, I thought about Dream and Nightmare's relationship as Pokémon. Since they're opposite aspects, I thought of something like Yveltal/Xerneas or Lunala/Solgaleo. What's your thought on this?

I've kept up, but my neat party trick of "name the Pokemon based on its cry" has kind of fallen off after gen v. I can do it with some of the newer ones, and a lot more with gen vi than gen v, but when they updated the cries in gen vi to sound more... organic? It kinda messed with that ability. LOL. The mechanics and gimmicks in each game... are okay, but I wish they'd standardize it and let old mechanics come back with the new ones. Gigantimax/Terra raids would massively benefit from each other AND mega evolutions. Ugh. Whole separate rant alongside the newer generations not having a complete pokedex. Rom hacks are always morally correct, and Citra is a great emulator if you feel like venturing into those games. (I'll always recommend the Ultra versions of sun/moon to the previous versions because the story is much better and the gameplay is more cohesive.) Still, S/V is a lot of fun, the open world is a wonderful feature, and I'm having an absolute ball playing the DLC. I also loved Sw/Sh a lot and easily put in over 400 hours on Shield. Then again, I am an absolutely unrepentant wonder/surprise trade addict.

As for Dream and Nightmare, Darkrai conveniently has a foil in the form of Cresselia! She is said to be able to dispel nightmares, and holding one of her feathers induces good dreams. Her relationship with Darkrai is also... hot and cold. Sometimes she's cooperative with it, other times she's there to chase it off. It really depends on which pair it is since there's several. While she has the moon motif (as opposed to Darkrai's new moon/black moon motif) it still fits very well. She has a lot of healing and support moves and is seen as a benevolent being in opposition to Darkrai a lot. In the games (Gen IV) you even have to get Cresselia's help to dispel Darkrai plaguing a kid with nightmares.

Solgaleo and Lunala are also great choices for them with the sun/moon motif. Yveltal and Xerneas, to a lesser degree, as they don't really do the domains of life and death as much. One could make an argument for Zekrom and Reshiram, even-- with Dream pursuing his ideals, and Nightmare stubbornly sticking to (his) truth. (And also giving them the opposing colors, with Zekrom being black and Reshiram being white, to subvert expectations. Love that.)

[plutodile]

if its cool to ask how is the ikuko cinematic universe doing !! i showed them to my little sister one time and she told me she really liked inuko :]

omg hehe :) i dont remember what the last thing i posted about them was but im still drawing them pretty regularly (i just dont really post personal art all that often) and i think about them a lot. constantly in my brain. i post art/doodles of them fairly regularly on toyhouse though https://toyhou.se/waninoko/characters/folder:1720149 (ignoring gawa she is not a part of the Main Group shes just a character in the same universe)

my current objective is to finalize tsubomis magical girl design because it kinda sucks. its an ok design but it simply does not really suit her personality/backstory all that well. she's like a mami older figure type character but she was like a mean brooding asshole in elementary school and mako used to look up to her a lot 👁️ so i wanna kinda convey That and her current self in her design but it is very hard. have this old doodle of her elementary school design (+ mako)

the rest of the main girls are pretty much finalized at this point here is one of their funny design sheets as of recent (this was a part of a larger image with other ocs which is why it is cropped weirdly)

ALSO!! my friend soap made a 3d model of miss inuko but she hasnt posted it on tumblr grrr grrr check it out on her twitter though plus sketchfab its so cool. i am glad your sister likes inuko hehe wtf :) love sharing stuff about them

[asleepinawell]

Noticed you've been posting pokemon recently, what do you think?

somehow i'd never played a pokemon game until a few weeks ago when i got sword and shield. like not even pokemon go. so i went into it pretty much blind. i really enjoyed it though it felt like there's a ton of stuff you're kind of just expected to know? like after decades of pokemon games they're just like oh yeah everyone knows how this works. but yeah swsh was fun and then i got bdsp after that.

bdsp reminded me a lot of the games i grew up playing (not shocking since it's a remake of an older title) in that there's a zillion little things to do and secrets and side games and they're not always obvious or easy to find and you're just expected to wander around and try things. most mainstream games coming out now tend to hand hold a lot in terms of putting you on the right path and showing you how to do all the things. and i don't think either approach is necessarily good or bad? i like the accessibility in the more guided approach, especially for games where i'm not planning to commit huge amounts of time to them, but i also like wandering around being like i have no clue what's going on so i will just try all the things. so i enjoyed that about bdsp and overall it felt like a much better game than swsh

aaaaand none of that was really about pokemon specifically so, more specifically, i like the combat system and that it's a lot more involved than i originally realized (i looked up pokemon breeding because i just wanted to know...where to go to do it?? and all the pages were like here is an in-depth guide to breeding for the best IV and I was like this is too much information!!! just tell me where to go!!!). soundtracks were great. i got attached to a bunch of the pokemon, especially stunky/skuntank who is my spoiled favorite by a long shot. and i liked a lot of the little fun things you could do that weren't central to the game, like having a pokemon walk with you and doing the show competitions. if i'm going to have cute little monster buddies then i want to have fun with them.

and i had some more specific thoughts on bdsp but i'll put it a read more line in case those are considered spoilers

the elite four fights were all really good. i felt like they were a great level of challenging for me when i fought them. i got through all of them on my first go but it was rough and some of my team got KOed a bunch and i ran out of revives and was down to 4 pokemon by the last fight. and then there was the champion. lol. i've come to the conclusion that getting demolished by cynthia is some rite of passage for pokemon and boy did she wipe the floor with me. that was the first time i'd actually had all my pokemon KOed in a fight. several times! i went and sulked about it for a day. possibly sacrilegious to say but i kind of wish they hadn't had a huge difficulty spike for the very last boss (mostly since you can't do the post-champion fight stuff until you beat her and that's a ton of content!). i think my frustration was that i didn’t understand what the game expected me to do to beat her outside of grinding levels which felt like a boring solution and also odd because the elite four had absolutely felt like i was the correct level to have a tough but beatable fight against. but also i'm past her now so whatever (I 100% cheesed that fight and have no regrets).

and the grand underground was great! i spent like half a day down there because i got addicted to the mining minigame. i wish there was more to do down there overall but it was cool and once i unlocked national dex there was also just a much wider variety of pokemon running around down there

the one thing i do think swsh did better than bdsp was pokemon variety. i swear i must have fought like eighty bazaillion geodudes in bdsp, not only in the wild but also some trainers would just have 3-4 of them.

also while the gigantamax system in swsh was kind of superfluous i liked the idea of the max raids and think they could have been cool if they'd been implemented a little differently

oh and i liked how much you could customize your character in swsh. like look at this kid. you will never be even half as cool as this kid. this is exactly how i would have wanted to dress at age 13

but i think i liked the style of bdsp better overall. it was very cute and that fit well

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

You say the story of Rescue Team frustrates you? How come?

Rant ahead. Rant ahead about a game I unironically love, but I spend far too much time overthinking the plot of, hence my grievances.

Maybe I just held it to unfair standards on account of playing it for the first time after Explorers of Sky. Which is easily the greatest pokemon game ever made, accept no substitutes. Nah, Rescue Team DX is addicting, the music is incredible as always in these games, and the gameplay has been massively overhauled and made far superior to the original, which while fun, was pretty buggy. And the game does have some pretty cool characters, too. Like...whatever I may yell to the heavens about Albus Dumbledore from HP, make no mistake that he’s an exceptional and three-dimensional character. Same goes for Snape. And that applies to this game as well. 

The main reason this game’s story irritates me comes down to Gengar and Alakazam. Again, they’re very well written characters...but I hate them. I despise both of them. I don’t know what it is, but Alakazam rubbed me the wrong way right from the start. Him and his whole team are so self-important, so arrogant. They condescend the MC and act like they’re the ruling body of the town square. Alakazam goes around telling people that he knows everything. That’s a god complex if you ask me. At several points, the characters make decisions based on the assumption that he is stronger than the MC, which you as a player never get to challenge. (Think of Leon from Sword/Shield, but a million times worse.) The Partner character is so in awe of them, so enamored by them. Yet behind MC’s back, Alakazam knows (or suspects) them to be the human of legend and doesn’t tell them “for their sake.” Which gives me strong Nozomi (SMT IV: Apocalypse) vibes, since later on he ignores all responsibility for having been "complicit" with the MC's secret. 

The Fugitive Arc doesn't make any damn sense. First of all, Xatu claims that the disasters, all of the trouble, are being caused by the Human from the Ninetales Legend. Ninetales later debunks this. When I first played this game, I legitimately thought Xatu would wind up being some kind of secret villain, that he had lied, and that the Fugitive Arc was all started by him. This doesn't wind up being true, and we never get an answer for why he thought the Human of Legend was responsible for the state of affairs, nor did anyone question his being wrong or acknowledge his role in all this. But the one who really started everything was Gengar. He doesn't really annoy me until the Post-Game (I'll get to that) but everyone else's reactions to Gengar's story bother me. He is a known liar, a known trouble-maker who no one likes. It's well known that he has a vendetta against the MC. He has no proof whatsoever of his allegations. And everyone just buys it, despite MC now having a great reputation, because...I guess MC didn't actively deny it? Which the player was given no agency in? And it doesn't stop the accusation from being ridiculous? 

Enter Alakazam. Apparently, everyone held a town meeting that must have taken all of ten seconds, to decide what to do about MC. They held this meeting without MC or the Partner present, because having them there would make too much sense I guess. Team A.C.T. prepares to...I guess kill MC? As well as the Partner, even though they're completely innocent. Before Alakazam hesitates and decides to give the MC a day to run away. Hold on, if he is so convinced that MC has to die to save the world, how do he justify letting them go? I guess the same way he justifies how he "knew" MC was the human of legend this whole time and said nothing about it? He bids MC to run, and throughout the entire Fugitive Arc, his team is the looming threat. Which was quite frustrating for me, already a Diamond Rank and probably higher leveled than Team A.C.T, because I would have been happy to settle things with Alakazam right then and there. It is beyond frustrating that the story denies me this chance. Not to mention, half of the town shows up to say goodbye when MC and the Partner take off. Like...okay, at least half of the town believes in MC. How in the hell is this even happening? Why do we have to flee when so many characters are on our side? When there's no proof? Why is Alakazam's word just considered law? If he “knows everything” how come he doesn’t know that Gengar is human as well, if he could sense MC’s humanity? 

You don't know how badly I wish there was a fight with Team A.C.T. when all was said and done. And the game could have done it, too! Just have it take place at the top of the Mt. Freeze, before Ninetales shows up. They have a skirmish that takes place in a cutscene, but even in the remake - there's no boss battle. Why not? It's not like this dungeon has a boss battle otherwise. Wouldn't it have been a fitting conclusion to this arc? Maybe I'm biased, maybe I just think it would have been cathartic to kick Alakazam's ass, to make him put his money where his mouth is...because again, the arrogance. He demands Ninetales tell him what happened, and that "depending on your answer, I may be forced to eliminate MC" Ah, slow your roll there, buddy. Ninetales already broke up the fight and made it clear that it's not going to happen. You're a guest in their domain. On top of that, Team A.C.T. basically forbids you from going to Magma Cavern to challenge Groudon. As if you haven't just proven yourself capable of braving dangerous dungeons. As if, after they chased you halfway around the world and were proven completely wrong, they have any right to talk down to you or tell you what to do. Again, I so, so wish we could have fought them and taught them a lesson. 

In general, this is a consistent thing with the other characters, following the Fugitive Arc. Everyone focuses on how happy MC and the Partner must be to have their names cleared, (Again, the Partner was accused of nothing. Like, literally nothing.) and no one stops to address that everyone in the Town Square should be falling to their knees and begging our forgiveness for what they put us through. Several of them tried to kill us. Upon returning to the Town Square, Gengar acts like MC is turning them-self in because they don't have any proof, even though he never had any proof to begin with, and it's only after MC is "cleared" by Team A.C.T. that everyone remembers that Gengar is untrustworthy. Reading the words "under the watchful eye of Alakazam" has always made me extremely salty. I don't have much to say about the Mankey brothers but they irritated me as well. Maybe I was just out of patience after the Fugitive Arc but I found myself wondering why we appeased them at all. Initially, we give them the chestnuts because they attack us if we don't. No matter how many times we beat them, they keep attacking if they're told no. I realize it's a staple in Pokemon games to have false yes/no choices, but those are especially noticeable in the games that focus on story. And sometimes the excuses are just pathetic. Meanwhile, the other pokemon continue to treat you as rookies, as kids. You are once again "forbidden" by...um, the other townsfolk, from going on the Rescue Mission until you talk them into it. It's like...guys. You put us through hell. We could have died a dozen times over, because you bought into the mob mentality for no good reason. How does everything just go back to normal after that? 

I don't mind Gengar at first. He's a villain, and a well-written one. He's got a clear personality and there's hidden depth in there as well. He's one of my favorite characters in the game, easily. And all of the stuff he does in the main story? Stealing the mail, manipulating Caterpie, and the stuff during the Fugitive Arc? That weird psychedelic sequence where he's dragging MC down to hell at the end? (Or whatever that was?) All fine by me. He's a villain. He's doing bad things. But sweet Arceus is Gengar annoying in the Post-Game. I wonder if this must be how Merula Snyde Antis feel, over in the HPHM Fandom. Because the MC has absolutely no motivation or reason to help him out. He just demands that they act as his bodyguard, offers nothing in return, and won't leave you alone until you say yes. Buddy, my team has like thirty pokemon at this point and they're all hanging out in the Friend Areas a few feet away. You think you can intimidate me? The only reason I'm helping is to progress the storyline. And throughout this entire storyline, you have to help Gengar even though he hasn't earned it. 

He does not deserve forgiveness, or a reconciliation with Gardevoir. What if I don't want to help him because I don't think Gardevoir would want to see him? What if I think that it would do her no good to see him? He's unrepentant and awful, the story does the bare minimum to suggest that he's changed. Now I will admit one thing: I love the moment that Ninetales first appears, sees Gengar, and simply goes "...What do you want." Like. Like that was the moment that I put it together, before he went on to tell the rest of the story. I love simple moments that make the big reveal crystal clear without needing to directly tell or show the audience. I've always dug that. But everything that happens after that is frustrating. Gengar demands the curse be lifted, despite having no justification to offer Ninetales. He threatens to attack them, but then clarifies that MC will be the one doing the fighting. Excuse me? Why would I ever do that? MC just found out the truth about Gengar, what he did to Gardevoir, and then how he pinned it all on them during the fugitive arc. Gengar, why would I attack Ninetales after this, instead of attacking you? Tell me I don't initiate battle against you right now? Thankfully MC doesn't have to actually fight Ninetales, but they are still forced to testify at Gengar's "trial" and it's a forgone conclusion because no matter what answers you give, it's treated as MC acknowledging his growth and he is forgiven at the end. 

Oh, I’ve just thought of something else. MC isn’t given a reason for why they have to leave the Pokemon world, or why they were able to return. Explorers gave a reason. Gates to Infinity and Super Mystery Dungeon made a whole post-game story out of their reasons. Here? We get nothing. MC’s “role” has finished and so they have to return to the human world. Never mind what they want. Not until after the dramatic moment where they have to leave has passed, anyway. That voice at the end who suggests that we may be able to see our partner again just by “wishing.” Who the hell was that? What did they mean? Look, by Pokemon standards, the Rescue Team story is quite substantial. By Pokemon Mystery Dungeon standards? It’s...probably the weakest story. I mean, to be fair, Super Mystery Dungeon had the endless schoolhouse arc that added up to nothing in the second act. But hell, that was still fun. And I suppose the Fugitive Arc and Gengar’s “redemption” were fun too. Just frustrating as well. 

[zerochanges]

2020 Favorite Video Games

I don’t know if I am an outlier or if this is the same for everyone else but I really did not play a lot of games this year. 2020 was a very harsh year for all of us, especially for me for some personal reasons. So to get to the chase, I am just gonna say it left me not doing much in what little free time I did have, and I didn’t play much either. Usually I try to keep my lists for ‘favorite of the year’ to only titles released that year but since I played so little this year, screw it. I am gonna include any game I played this year regardless of release date.

Collection of SaGa

By far a flawed rerelease. It’s bare bones: there are no advance features you would usually expect out of these kinds of emulated rereleases like save states, fast forward, or rewind, and there was no real effort made to touch up almost 30 year old localizations that had to meet Nintendo of America’s then harsh standards. This really is just 3 roms slapped into a nice looking interface with an option to increase the game speed (which by the way you better use, the characters walk very slow in these old games). 

I am bit harsh here, but only because I thought the Romancing SaGa remasters and the upcoming SaGa Frontier remaster all looked like they got a great budget and a lot of love while this is just another Collection of Mana situation (moreso specifically talking about Seiken Densetsu 1/Final Fantasy Adventure/Adventures of Mana part of that collection). I would have loved to see Square Enix do a bit more for these older games. Or at least include the remakes. Seiken Densetsu 1 had two great remakes, both unused in Collection of Mana, and all three of these original SaGa titles have remakes that have never seen the light of day outside of Japan. How great would it have been to get the Wonderswan remake of SaGa 1, as well as the Nintendo DS remakes of Saga 2 and SaGa 3? 

But my gripes aside, these games are still fun as they ever were. Replaying SaGa 1 specifically during the holiday season really helped calm me down and made me feel at ease. It’s easy to forget but even in their Gameboy roots there are a lot of funky and weird experimental choices being made in these games. They aren’t your run-of-the-mil dragon quest (or considering the gameboy, maybe pokemon would be more apt) clones. 

Raging Loop

Perhaps my favorite game of the year, Raging Loop is one of the best visual novels I have ever played hands down. The level of creativity and splitting story paths that went into it is simply mind blowing. The basic premise is both a wonderful throwback to the old days of Chunsoft sound novels while still modern and somewhat reminiscent of both Higurashi and Danganronpa. Essentially you play as Haruaki, a poor slub that got lost in the mountains with no clue where to go until you stumble upon an old rural village with a strange history and even stranger superstitions. Before you know it there has been a murder and the Feast is now afoot.

The less said about Raging Loop the better, although I do want to say a lot about it one day if I ever can write a proper review of it. This is a gripping game that will take hold of you once you get into it though and never let go. I actually 100%-ed this and I very rarely do that. I got every ending, every bonus hidden ending, played the entire game twice to hear all the hidden details it purposely hides on your first play through, played all the bonus epilogue chapters, unlocked all the hidden voice actor interviews, collected all the art work, etc, etc. I was just obsessed with this game, it’s that damn good! And the main character is maybe the best troll in all of video games, god bless Haruaki. 

Root Double

From Takumi Nakazawa, long time contributor to Kotaro Uchikoshi’s work comes a game any fan of Zero Escape or Uchikoshi in general will probably enjoy. Root Double, like its name suggests is a visual novel with two different routes, hence Root Double. The first route stars Watase Kasasagi, the leader of an elite rescue team in the midst of their greatest crisis yet that could lead to nuclear devastation as they try to evacuate a nuclear research facility that has gone awry. 

The other route stars Natsuhiko Tenkawa, an everyday high schooler whose peaceful life is thrown into turmoil when he stumbles upon a terrorist plot to destroy the nuclear facility in the city and his attempts to stop them. Together the two separate plots weave into one and creates a really crazy ride. Part Chernobyl, part science fiction, any fan of the genre will easily enjoy it. And hey it’s kind of relevant to include on this list too since it just got a Switch port this year (I played it on steam though).  

Snack World

I was shocked upon starting Snack World as it is instantly incredibly charming, witty, and downright hilarious at times yet I heard almost zero people talk about it. EVER. This game is Dragon Quest levels of quirky though, and the localization is incredible. The game has such an oddball sense of humor that works really well with its presentation right down to the anime opening video that sings about the most bizarre things. Instead of the usual pump up song about the cool adventure ahead we get stuff like wanting to go out to a restaurant and eat pork chops. 

The self aware/fourth wall breaking humor is just enough to be really funny, but doesn't overstay its welcome and always makes it work right in the context of the dialogue. And finally, just everything; with the menus, the name of side quests and missions, and the character dialogue -- are all just so witty and full of quirky humor. This is one hell of a charming and funny game and addictive to boot.

Trials of Mana

Trials of Mana has gone from one of those legendary unlocalized games, to one of the first major breakthroughs in fan translation, to finally getting an official English release complete with a fully 3D remake. In a lot of ways from a western perspective this game has had an incredible journey. As for this remake itself, I really found myself having tons of fun with it. I loved the graphics, and the voice acting while a bit on the cheaper side almost kind of adds to the charm since both the graphics and acting really give it an old PS2 vibe. I know that is probably just more me being weird but yeah, I had to say it. 

I really hope Square Enix sticks to this style of remake more often, instead of just doing Final Fantasy VII Remakes that break the bank and involve extensive tweaking to both plot and game play. I’ll take smaller budget projects that play more like the original game any day personally. I wouldn’t mind if they also deliver a brand new Mana game all together in this engine either. 

Utawarerumono Trilogy

This year saw the release of the first entry in the series, Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen--and thus finally after three years since the sequels Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth came out in 2017 the trilogy is now complete in English. I ended up binging through Prelude to the Fallen very fast shortly after it came out and immediately jumped on to the sequels. Perhaps the best part of 2020 was that I finally played all three of these fantastic games, and did so back-to-back-to-back. Playing the first Utawarerumono was an experience I will never forget, it was like visiting old friends again that I haven’t seen in ages, by and large thanks to the fact that I saw the anime adaption of the game when I was much younger, nearly a decade ago. Back then I would have never of dreamed that I would get to play the actual game and get the real experience. 

And it only got better from here, as all three games are such wonderful experiences from start to finish. The stories are all so deep, and by the time you get to the third entry, Mask of Truth, it’s crazy to see how they all connected over so many years and weaved together into a plot much bigger than they ever were. What carries it beyond all that though has to be the fun and addicting strategy role playing game aspect, which while a bit on the easy side, is still so much fun and helps make the game feel better paced since you get to play the conquests your characters go on and not just read about all the battles they fight. Beyond that the games are packed full of awesome characters, and I know I’ll never forget the amazing leads in all of them. Hakuowlo, Haku, and Oshtor will all go down as some of the greats to me. 

Ys: Memories of Celceta

Ys: Memories of Celceta is a full 3D remake of Ys IV, a rather infamous game in Falcom’s Ys series. Not to get bogged down too much into the history of Falcom but by this point they were facing a lot of hardship and had to outsource this entry to other developers, and thus passed it on to two particular developers they had a business relationship with, creating two unique versions of Ys IV. Tonkin House who had worked on Super Famicom port of Ys III with Falcom ended up creating their own YS IV entry, Mask of the Sun for the very same system, where Hudson soft who had produced the much beloved Ys Books I & II remakes for the Turbografix (PC Engine) CD add-on created their own Ys IV entry Dawn of Ys for that console. Both games followed guidelines and ideas outlined from Falcom themselves but both radically diverged from each other and turned into completely different games. 

Falcom finally putting an end to this debate on which version of Ys IV you should play have gone and created their own definitive Ys IV in 2012 for the Playstation Vita. I played the 2020 remastered version of this remake on my PS4. I even bought this on the Vita when it first came out but I am horrible and only horde games, never play them. So it was a lot of fun to finally play this. 

Memories of Celceta is probably one of the best starting points for anyone looking to get into Ys, especially if you only want to stay with the 3D titles as out of all the 3D entries this explains the most about the world and series protagonist Adol Christian. Beyond that it’s just another fantastic entry in a wonderful series that has a few good twists hidden behind it, especially for long time fans of the series. 

Random Video Game Console Stuff

Xbox Has Blue Dragon: I actually got an Xbox One this year for free from my brother. Because of that I started to play Blue Dragon again and there’s a lot I would love to say about this game. I don’t know if I am fully committed to replaying it all the way through however but I find myself putting in a couple hours every few days and enjoying myself again. Does anyone else remember Blue Dragon? I feel like it really missed its audience and had it come out nowadays and probably for the Switch it would have really resonated with the Dragon Quest fandom a lot more instead of being thrown out to die on Xbox and constantly compared to Final Fantasy VII and the like which it had nothing at all similar with. 

The Turbografx 16 Mini: This was probably one of the best mini consoles that have come out and I feel like thanks to the whole 2020 pandemic thing it was largely forgotten about. That’s a shame, it has a wonderful variety of great games, especially if you count the Japanese ones (god I wish I could play the Japanese version of Snatcher included), and a wonderful interface with fantastic music. One of these days I would really like to be able to play around with the console more seriously than I have already. 

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon Never Existed: So Nintendo localized the first ever Fire Emblem game on Nintendo Switch which is awesome to see them touching Famicom games again--I haven’t seen Nintendo of America rerelease old Famicom titles since Mysterious Murasame Castle on the 3DS, but their trailer hilariously made it seem like this is the first time ever they released Fire Emblem when in fact they had already localized the remake Shadow Dragon on the Nintendo DS nearly 10 or 11 years ago. I and many other fans I talked to all found this really hilarious, probably solely because of how much they kept repeating the fact that this is the first time you will ever be able to experience Marth’s story.

All that aside though I have to say the collector edition for this newly localized Famicom game is probably the most gorgeous retro reproduction I have seen in a long time, and I really spent many many hours just staring at the all clear glass mock cartridge. I have found myself really obsessing over retro reproductions during 2020, and obtained quite a few this year. I really hope this trend continues to go on in 2021 as recreating classic console packaging and cartridges is a lot of fun. 

[beyond-inertia]

moba+pokemon nerds, lend me your ears

The rest of you, probably wont be too interested, but stick with me if you want,  just, this is gonna be long.

I know, I know, that I am unlikely to be the first to have considered this possibility, I know this because as a prolific Showdown player (prolific =/= good) and also as an intermittently devoted League player (months at a time, then months away, addiction a funny thing) - I know the games have a large overlapping demographic. Anyway, I’ve often considered how strong a pokemon moba would be. 

TLDR/I’ll lead with the actual pitch. I want to directly control my pokemon for once, in real time chaotic fights, rather than structured turn based one vs ones. (shush pokken fans, not now. Some time, once it’s polished, not now) I want to see medichams leaping in with high jump kick (gap closer, damage, still take damage if you miss still ofc) fake out (perhaps usable before damage is taken in a fight?) then whilst the foe is stunned/flinched using elemental punches as udyr style modifiers to his basic attacks. I want to see Dragonites dragon dancing for a temporary boost, then charging into team fights with three big outrage ticks, helped by supports who keep back the confusion, whilst the other team frantically try and burn or paralyse it to keep it at bay. I want to see support heavy rain teams trying to set up a kingdra to sweep, against a traditional moba split of late ranged carries hidden behind tanks and a healer. I want Gengars trying to out-mind-game Hypnos in mid, I want Eevee players providing flexibility by bringing whatever the team needs in the mid game. I want top lane Slakings laning against slowbros, one has big bursts of damage punctuated by truant, vs slack off healing and steady damage outputs. Nidokings brawling with Snorlax’s,  Raichu’s trying to outsnipe Greninjas... Klefki+litwick lanes fighting bulbasaur+Beldum, in the race to get chand/metagross huge. GOD I WANT IT.  Instead of dragon/baron/(roshan), legendary spawns which grant different buffs! Legendaries that FEEL LEGENDARY! I’m gonna get specific, this is where the post gets (much more,) long and boring! 

First things first, both concepts are already built around the concept of levelling systems. And both inherently balance their levelling systems, for instance, riven OP at level 2, bugs evolve early and then (mostly) fall off in usefulness, dragons evolve late but become monstrous late game.

Secondly, each game, traditionally, features each (shall we say combatant), using four attacks, a mixture of damaging attacks and supportive moves, physical or special attack/magic damage.

Hell, thirdly, they even use the same basic roles, if we treat sweepers as adcs or hypermages, walls are tanks, tanks are bruisers, (loosely speaking), and supports are supports! The parallels are already there!  So with that in mind, picture if you will. You start as a level 5 pokemon of your choice, from whatever pool the game has access to. You could level in blocks of 5, up to 100 (so 20 distinct levels, maybe)

 As you level up, more attacks become available to you, and rather than just levelling up your attacks, a la league/dota, you select attacks from a level based pool, as they become available.  I’d also be excited to see signature moves of some form, or not, either way. EG if you’re starting as charmander you could, by the time you’re a level 100 charizard, just have four ranged fire attacks, each with slightly different effects/damage/aoe/side-effects/cooldowns/costs/(bp?? not sure about that) etc. Or, alternatively, you could run Flamethrower, a rumble esque consistent damage over time, flare blitz as a gap closer, fly as a long range teleport to get back to lane, or maybe as a Pantheon style ult, and roost, a Master Yi style meditate. (sorry dota players, cant provide your equivalents as I lack the knowledge) Say you have sunny day support and water type enemies: now you can trade something there for Solarbeam (watch out for rain dancers!)

Crucially, as the game progresses, you could redefine your skillsets and role, as per the needs of the game as it unfolds - this would, largely, replace itemisation in the traditional sense, and instead of having four unique attacks, you have access to unique combinations of stats+moves, much like in pokemon as it stands now. 

Typing effectiveness obviously needs to be contained a little, but if you dialed back from 2x damage to like, 1.2x damage? 1.4x? Maybe it could scale up gradually into late game? That way you’d have to pick pokemon to deal with the enemy’s typings. A Venusaur gets picked, and your team has no answer yet? You’re meant to be a carry? Maybe pick like, pidgeot or Alakazam, but be aware of your own lane aswell as team comp! Items are still big in pokemon, I feel you could run items as an answer to league’s summoner spells, loading in with one hold item and one activated item, be it consistent healing from leftovers, defenses from an assault vest, or.... ok I dont know how choice items would work, but a life orb? Definitely! Even shell bells on adc’s would basically make for life steal, what’s not to love! Then for actives, potions, x-attack and the like. Then with each level up, you choose where to invest your stats (in place of IVs and EVs) to optimise your role in the team.

This would feel much more like the anime, just more pokemon out at a time. Attacks existing in space, dodgable, timing based, rather than pokemon waiting their turns and taking hits because it’s polite to do so.. Fights where you avoid the bads you cant yourself handle, trusting your team to keep them occupied whilst you do YOUR job, be it protecting a carry or taking one out, disrupting the enemy or boosting your allies.

Lastly, for those league players who live for edge, think about a whole team built around spooky misdirection. Gengars, ZOROARKS, Hypnos... And then some tanks I guess idk it’s just a thought get off my back ;)

Sometimes I want things that dont exist and my whole everything aches with the sadness of it. World, CATCH UP WITH ME.

[crystalsoul16]

RFA + Minor Trio: Video Games

So I got bored, and being the Mystic Messenger obsessed game addict that I am, my mind wandered to wondering what sorts of video games the RFA would play, like types or genres and some examples (aside from LOLOL in Yoosung’s case of course lol), which led to making this headcanon post. Of course, these are all just my personal headcanons, and I would love to hear what thoughts you guys have for this subject! Sharing headcanons is fun~!! Sorry this got kinda long tho lol I guess I got carried away ^^;;;

Note: If you’re on the mobile app and only see Yoosung’s section, copy and paste the post’s URL into your mobile web browser. That should fix it~

💚YOOSUNG💚

Well we all know that he’s addicted to LOLOL, and probably plays or has tried other MMOs. As perfect as those are for him, I’m looking at other types of games for this. Otherwise it’s too easy lol

Plays RPGs and adventure games the most

When he can make a custom character, his preferred classes are knight or warrior classes, but he’s also open to playing as mages

Definitely the kind of player that picks up every. Single. Side quest. Because he wants to help everyone

Need a certain number of rarely dropped items? No problem!

Want to deliver an item to someone who’s not even a two minute walk away? He’s on it!

Got a super difficult optional boss that you want dead that can–and will–display the Game Over screen multiple times, and you’re offering a class-specific item he can’t use as a reward? Sign him the fuck up!

Unless they want something he doesn’t agree with… -gives Skyrim’s Blades the side-eye-

No matter how hard he tries, he just can’t bring himself to play the “asshole/aggressive character” style

“Sure, this assassin was hired by that one traitor who wants us dead, my party is totally against letting him live since he might try to kill us again, and we have absolutely no reason to trust him aside from his seemingly honest answers which he could have just fabricated to save himself, so logic seems to point at killing him to be safe…………buuuuuuuuuut he could be a helpful party member and then no one has to die!”

Also, he loves games that encourage interaction with other players!

“People think that you don’t get any friends if you play games… but you get tons!” TRUTH!!!

So yeah, games with interaction are great!

Honestly MMORPGs are fucking perfect for him and and that’s why he’s addicted to LOLOL! lol seriously dude game with me plz

Really likes Pokemon for the sense of community with trades and battles and such

Totally attempted to make a competitive team at some point

Whenever new games are announced, he and Seven figure out who gets what version so they can trade version exclusives and such

Can never beat Seven in a battle tho… The one rival battle he can never win T^T

Also this guy is a Kirby fan fight me on this

♥ZEN♥

Not a lot of time for gaming with his schedule, but he doesn’t mind using them to wind down or as a distraction when he has the time or feels really stressed out (and if working out doesn’t help first)

He’s a fan of the more cinematic or story driven games, like Shadow of the Colossus, Heavy Rain, and The Last of Us

Knowing this, Yoosung recommended some Telltale games to him

Zen got hooked. The Wolf Among Us is probably his favorite

Plus their episodic releases really work with his schedule, with each episode lasting about 2 hours, give or take. So if he starts on a fully released one, he can do one episode a day until he’s done

Sometimes he and Yoosung will talk about how their stories went or what choices they made

“Wait, you knew what ‘Glass him’ meant???”

“Of course I did, Yoosung, that’s why I didn’t choose it! What did you think it meant?”

“I thought it meant giving him a drink, not smashing the glass in his face!!!”

“lol well now you know in case they use it again!”

“T_T”

Also, I’m sure this likely goes without saying, but this man is damn good at DDR style games or Pump it Up I guess cuz Korea but you get my point. Good luck trying to beat him lol

I mean, first off, he’s clearly got great rhythm considering his job

And second, great form of aerobic exercise! So why not?

Might try to get Yoosung into exercising more by tricking convincing him to play this with him

He’s definitely a “freestyle” sorta player, doin’ all sorts of flashy moves

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s been asked to do voice work for a game

Maybe a dating sim…

💜JUMIN💜

Okay, let’s get the obvious out of the way. This man definitely plays Neko Atsume and no force in this universe can convince me otherwise. It’s about cats and you really only play it in very short intervals through the day, which works with his schedule. It’s perfect for him. Moving on 

With his busy schedule due to running a company and whatnot, there really isn’t a lot of time for him to sit down to play video games despite owning a couple of systems apparently. It might be days or weeks between play sessions. So casual games are more his thing

Okay so, hear me out. Animal Crossing New Leaf

You’re in charge of a village and what gets built where, gotta manage your finances with paying off your house and having new structures and businesses built, sometimes schedule meetings visits with the villagers, cat villagers

NOTHING BUT CAT VILLAGERS

Questions Tom Nook’s business strategy regarding the house

“Why have the house expanded before they pay for it? A customer could easily betray your trust that way by never paying you for the final expansion. Paying ahead of time as you do with the exterior customizations would be wiser.”

“Jumin it’s just a game… ;;;;;;” 

Probably made Jaehee get a copy of the game to make some tasks easier

“Assistant Kang, you have perfect oranges in your village, yes?”

“Yes, though why are you asking me right now? Don’t you have a meeting in five minutes?”

“I’m passing the time, and Mitzy requested an orange.”

“Don’t you have regular oranges to give her?”

“Of course, but Mitzy deserves no less than a perfect orange.” plus he still needs her picture, and prefect fruit will help with that

-_-;;; “……I don’t think I can get one to you before the meeting, but I can have a full basket ready for you after you’re done.”

“That will do.”

Also, do not let this man play Minecraft

Remember, this is the guy who made fucking blueprints when he was told to draw a house when he was a little kid. He would definitely get carried away like that in Minecraft 

Like in the tutorial when they tell you to make a house? Basically just a simple box with a door? pffft, nah. That won’t do

He would probably end up building the most elaborate cube-based house you could possibly imagine and leave you wondering how the fuck he had the free time to build that

“Firstly you need a nice foyer to leave a good first impression. A standard house should have at least two bedrooms, though three would be ideal. And a living room and a kitchen are both necessary, of course. I suppose a library or office is optional, but they make a great addition. Getting enough colored wool proved to be difficult, but adding some color with carpets keeps the house from looking bland and–”

“Jumin it’s just the tutorial! You just need a one room house with a door and a bed!”

“That’s not a house, though. That’s a shed with a bed.”

-facepalm-

might use it to help plan out layouts for new buildings

💛JAEHEE💛

Man, most of these guys really don’t have time for gaming, huh?

Jaehee probably has the least amount of free time for gaming tho. Poor Baehee barely has time to sleep :c

She’s honestly really not that into games tho, so this doesn’t bother her. There are much more productive things she can do in her spare time like get some sleep jfc let the woman get enough sleep for once plz!!

Though if Zen did do a voice in a game she would play it in a heartbeat, or look up a playthrough at the very least. Nowhere near the same as seeing him actually acting up on a stage of course, but surely he can do a great performance solely with his voice!

Like Jumin, casual games that you can put down for long periods of time would suit her best

Actually ends up liking Animal Crossing more than she thought she would or wants to admit

She loves how the villagers are always happy to see her and always rooting for her, and she absolutely adores Isabelle

Probably has a Brewster plush or figure somewhere in her cafe

While I don’t think she’d actually play them, I can imagine her being REALLY good at fighting games

Just takes her a quick look through those lengthy combo lists and she’s got that shit memorized, and with a few practice rounds she can kick your ass with perfect wins before you even know what hit you

But of course, she probably wouldn’t play them, so you don’t have to worry about that :)

❤️️707❤️️

Yay, someone with some time to game!

Actually no, that’s a lie, but he procrastinates on his work a lot, so he has game time

Anything that’s humorous or gives him a chance to be a jackass would be his shit

Sometimes you just need the stupid humor of a goat flying through the air in ragdoll mode to help you get through the day, y'know?

He also enjoys puzzle games to exercise his mind, and racing games for obvious reasons he can go fast without risking his babies’ safety lol

Okay so in Yoosung’s route, he mentions playing GTO (assumed to be a knockoff of GTA), which makes sense for him because cars and high jinks, but with that in mind you know what he’d really get a kick out of?

Saints Row, especially Saints Row IV, cuz that one has hacking elements, and you get superpowers, and you gotta save people and shit. Sounds great for the Defender of Justice, no? The comedy and great music selection is a bonus, really c:

As for being a jackass… Be cautious if you invite him to play Mario Party with you.

He will purposely aim for the Chance Time spaces just to watch everyone else freak out about it, and he will aim for stealing your stars and often succeeds

He’s also really fuckin’ good at Mario Kart. Do not challenge him unless you like being hit by blue shells and other such items

Also, Battleblock Theater. Great puzzle platformer, good humor, and in co-op mode, a great chance to be an ass!! Much to Yoosung’s dismay lol

“Seven, stop throwing me into the water!! And stop blowing me up! We won’t get the time bonus at this rate!”

“lolol who cares, seeing you get mad is worth it~”

A grumpy Yoosung later got revenge by shoving 707’s character into the water

they laugh about it later lol

💙V💙

Guys, this poor man can’t see well at all. Like, he can only see a little bit out of his left eye. That kinda makes video games a challenge for him

That being said…idk he probably liked Pokemon Snap when he could see

Okay seriously this time, imagining he can see well and his life isn’t shit. He’d be a big fan of games that are about exploration and have stunning views or a unique art style

He’d probably really like Okami, Unravel, and Journey

Ori and the Blind Forest! Get it? Cuz he’s.........into artistic games and that game is really fuckin’ pretty

and he’s bli--

Also Firewatch. That game is fucking gorgeous. He would take so many screenshots in that one plus there’s a camera feature in the game lol

Also imagine him and Jumin playing Animal Crossing together and tell me that’s not the cutest shit

It’s a cute and light-hearted game, which I feel like he’d be into, he can play it on his 3DS when travelling, and it’s something he could play with his best buddy~ I’m down for this

Oh shit sudden thought

Okay hear me out! In an attempt to try to get closer to Yoosung, V asks him to teach him how to play LOLOL. Yoo might be a little hesitant at first but eventually agrees to it and holy shit it actually goes well and yay they’re bonding!

And damn V does a great job as a support mage

Of course V can’t play much due to travelling for work, but they try to schedule play times around that and make it work out. And during his travels, if V comes across a location that reminds him of some scenery seen in the game, he sends a picture of it to Yoosung and can this be a thing? I want this to be a thing because I need more Yoosung and V fluff in my life okay sorry for the ramble MOVING ON

seriously tho he probably really liked Pokemon Snap as a kid

💔SAERAN💔

Look me in the eyes and tell me this guy doesn’t rage quit

Like Michael Jones Rage Quit levels of rage quit

That first one is definitely him and Seven

Otherwise he’s pretty much silent when playing

As for games he’d like, anything that’ll let him blow off some steam, like shooters or fighting games

Need a partner for CoD Zombies? Or need someone to co-op Resident Evil with? Well, he’s not much of a multiplayer sorta guy, but if you can convince him then you’re set cuz he’d be damn good at those! 

And Multi-man Smash mode in Smash Bros is very therapeutic to him

Especially when his brother gets on his nerves

Which is often…

You can tell he’s really pissed off when he breaks out Mortal Kombat > ->;;;;;

Also, I can’t help but think that he’d be pretty good at the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games

As in “really fucking close to 100%-ing Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert mode in GH3” pretty good

Seriously his hacker hands are probably really fuckin’ fast I’m sure he could pull it off

Though when his bro sets up a “Family Game Night” and you know he would totally do that at some point or some sort of gaming get-together and sets up Rock Band, Saeran usually prefers to play the drums

holy shit drummer Saeran tho

Oh yes, thinking of gaming nights, if you thought Sev was a monster at Mario Kart, hoo boy, Saeran can be pretty ruthless himself

Except he usually saves all of his blue shells and other misery-inducing items for his bro

In a way he’d be your ally if you get stuck behind Seven

But when they need to team up, like for a 2v2 minigame in Mario Party, you are done

Those two working together make a lethal combination that you could never hope to defeat

I blame twin magic

💘VANDERWOOD💘️

So, hear me out. Card games

They probably play casual card games like Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Hearts, etc on their phone to pass time

And they come across as a decent strategist to me, considering their job

And card games tend to focus very heavily on strategy

So card-based games like Shadowverse and (don’t laugh) Yu-Gi-Oh and such are probably up their alley

They’d also be really good tactical games like Disgaea

But for the most part they just favor those simple card games like Solitaire. They have too much to do to focus on other such games

Not that Seven hasn’t tried to drag them into gaming with him!

They only agreed to it when they thought Seven would get back to work after a quick game of Mario Kart or Smash Bros or something

Would lose on purpose to make the game go faster

Sev would know though and try to force them into another round

“This time with feeling!”

（；¬＿¬) “…Alright, fine…..”

Another victory for 707

“Okay, you won again, now back to work.”

“Oh come on, one more! You looked like you were having fun that time! Sorta kinda!”

-Vanderwood pulls out taser-

;;;;;;; “Right, back to work! Understood!”

Was definitely having fun tho. Don’t tell Seven

[saturatethe-written-whitewa-blog]

Hi there! Since you seem to like pokemon, can I request headcannons for Nishinoya's, Oikawa's and Sugawara's favorite pokemon/pokemon team (whatever you're up to)? Please and thank you kind admin 😊

i kinda got carried away with the idea whoops i ended up coming up with a lot of headcanons for this while eating ice cream.

Nishinoya Yuu.

How He Discovered Pokemon :

noya was always into video games, and he knew about Pokemon, but he only got around to play it when Pokemon X & Y was released, because he thought the new 3D feature was pretty cool.

he bought Pokemon Y, because Yveltal looked badass.

he told tanaka about it and insisted that tanaka would buy Pokemon X so they could have a friendly rivalry.

after the second gym, it just became a full-blown rivalry between the two.

General Pokemon Headcanons :

noya doesn’t actually have a set favorite pokemon.

his favorite pokemon keeps changing, because nishinoya’s standard is basically : “if u look badass, i like u”

he chose Froaky as his starter, because Greninja looked badass as fuck.

noya kept soft-resetting the game because he wanted to get a shiny Froaky but he got tired after the first time because having to sit through the intro was too tedious and noya was impatient.

he named his Froaky “Naruto”.

he also has a Machamp named “Ryu”. Tanaka has a Machamp named “Noya”. 

i like to think noya was one of those players whose entire god damn team was full of legendary Pokemon.

his team would consist of a Yveltal named “Death”, Naruto the Greninja, a Rayquaza named “Crusher”, a Mewtwo, a Lucario he named “Werewolf”, and a Moltres named “Hell”.

Nishinoya used to have a Zygarde named “Bulldozer” but he traded it for Crusher the Rayquaza.

he is very proud of the names he’s come up with.

more headcanons under the cut because i did not expect these to be this long!!

Oikawa Tooru.

How He Discovered Pokemon :

one day he saw hanamaki and matsukawa playing Pokemon Go and they caught a Rattata so oikawa figured why not play the original games.

he bought Pokemon X, because that was the most recent game to be released, and because the deer on the cover looked nice.

iwaizumi did not approve because he knew that if Shittykawa got addicted to the game [ which he probably will ], Oiks is never gonna get a wink of sleep ever again because he’ll just play that game until three in the morning

much to iwaizumi’s misfortune, oikawa did get addicted to the game.

General Pokemon Headcanons :

oikawa’s favorite pokemon would be either sylveon or milotic. he just likes fairy types or any pretty-looking Pokemon.

after Valerie’s gym, he knew he had fallen in love with Fairy-type Pokemon.

oikawa spent many nights googling the prettiest pokemon, and going through lists of all the existing Pokemon, and then googling the locations of the Pokemon he wanted on his team.

unlike noya, oikawa’s too lazy to nickname his Pokemon.

he chose Fennekin as his starter, and he screamed when his Braixen evolved into Delphox because what the fucK IS THAT THING COMING OUT OF ITS EARS!?!?!?

i like to think oikawa’s that kind of player that isn’t really in a rush to defeat all the gyms and the elite four, nor does he strive to collect as many Pokemon as he can- he just likes capturing pretty Pokemon and maybe dueling random Bug Catchers every now and then.

after many, many trades he finally got a Feebas and he dedicated so much time to evolving it into a pretty Milotic.

he has a Sylveon named “Oikawa” and his Milotic’s name is “Tooru”.

he is very proud of the fact that each of his Pokemon on his main Pokemon team all have ribbons from contests that they’ve entered and won.

he has a Garbodor named “Kageyama”. Kags does not know about this.

he also has a Snubbull named “Iwaizumi” because it looked eternally angry like Iwa-chan. Iwaizumi does know about this, and Oikawa took a jump serve to the face.

Sugawara Koushi.

How He Discovered Pokemon :

he saw nishinoya and tanaka playing the game after one of their summer practices, and he wanted something to do to kill time, so he decided to take up Pokemon.

he bought Pokemon X because he liked the deer’s design.

suga wasn’t really one for video games, but he liked Pokemon, though unlike noya and oikawa who probably spent a lot of time playing the game, suga knew how to manage his time well, so he only played the game whenever he had free time.

suga’s glad he now has something he can bond with noya and tanaka over.

General Pokemon Headcanons :

suga’s favorite Pokemon would have to be his starter, because it’s been with him since day one and it’s the Pokemon he was most attached to.

he picked Chespin for his starter, because he found it really cute. he named it “Spike”.

after a couple of YouTube videos, some trial and error, and the occasional tip from noya or tanaka, suga had familiarized himself with things like STAB, IVs, EVs, etc.

much like in volleyball, suga knew how to bring out the best in his Pokemon team, choosing the best nature, and the best moveset for his Pokemon.

suga nicknames his Pokemon with stereotypical pet names like “Cupcake” or “Tiny” or “Prancer”.

i like to think of suga as those very passionate Pokemon players that were willing to go to the ends of the Earth to bring out the best in their Pokemon, like finding the right held item or spending several hours at a certain route just to train their Pokemon.

he’s very patient and his mind, long-used to thinking of the best strategy to win, never fails him whenever he joins competitive battles.

the first time he defeated the Elite Four, suga was so proud of his Pokemon he almost cried.

whenever he replays Pokemon X, he always chooses Chespin as his starter.

suga’s held a lifelong grudge against Aerodactyl for repeatedly knocking out his poor baby Spike. ever since adding an Altaria he named “Cotton” onto his team, Ice Beam-ing those Flying-type fuckers become all the more sweet.

[kokoruu]

tagged by @missmellifluous​ !! procrastinating getting ready for the day zzz

1. Coke or Pepsi: I hate both and if i really had to have a soda i’d prefer sprite or root beer....coke and pepsi taste the same to me

2. Disney or Dreamworks: i guess dreamworks since i just realized i only like about 3 disney movies??

3. Coffee or Tea: Tea is amazing and the best, I’ve loved every tea I’ve tried but im partial to sweet tea in a mason jar

4. Books or Movies: movies are hard for me to pay attention to lol so books

5. Windows or Mac: windows

6. DC or Marvel: i...dont know the difference

7. X-box or Playstation: ive been a sony fanboy forever, i own an xbox but i hate those gd controllers so much

8. Dragon Age or Mass Effect: i like both a lot but i like the characters in the dragon age games more, also im more into fantasy than sci-fi

9. Night Owl or Early Riser: my sleep schedule has gone to shit but i generally like staying up until 4am then sleeping until the afternoon

10. Cards or Chess: i have no idea how to play chess but i can play blackjack, so.

11. Chocolate or Vanilla: i wanna say chocolate but im very picky about it because the wrong kind dries my mouth out, so i usually stick to vanilla

12. Vans or Converse: i have both!! but i have more pairs of chucks so lets go with that one

13. Lavallan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar:

lavellan im always a slut for elves

14. Fluff or Angst: fluff pls

15. Beach or Forest: if were talking about actually enjoying being there, then beach, but i like forests like...aesthetically more

16. Dogs or Cats: i generally like cats more but every animal is good

17. Clear Skies or Rain: rain unless its raining here because rain in vegas smells like wet dog and its the worst

18. Cooking or Eating Out: i like cooking and hate spending money

19. Spicy Food or Mild: im drinking a glass of tabasco as im typing this

20. Halloween/Samhin or Solistice/Yule/Christmas: halloween is the only holiday i celebrate/care about lol

21. Little too cold or little too hot: i would rather be cold cuz i feel like its easier to heat up than cool down

22. Superpower: u know i havent thought about this much but i guess flying would be neat

23. Animation or Live Action: animation generally

24. Paragon or Renegade: paragon i cant be mean

25. Bath or Showers: showers unless its really hot or really cold and i have time to lounge in a bath

26. Team Cap or Team Ironman: uhhhhhhhhhhhhh sure

27. Fantasy or Sci-Fi: fantasy!!!

28. Fav Quotes: i dont really have any off the top of my head

29. Youtube or Netflix: usually use netflix

30. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson: i like both a lot but i think i like pj a bit more

31. When I Feel Accomplished: being productive in any way lmao

32. Star Wars or Star Trek: i dont have an opinion on either, never watched em, star wars memes are funny tho

33. Paperback Books or Hardback: hard cover but they expensiiiive

34. A world without literature or music: oh man...i guess id rather have books than music but id be super bummed

35. Who was the last person to make me laugh: i dont actually remember?

36. Sour or Sweet Candy: hate candy hate both these flavors 

37. Believe in aliens?: i just dont think its possible with our universe being as big as it is, and thats just the parts we know about, that we’re the only living beings, sentient or not

38. Dawn or Dusk: dawn

39. Piercings or Tattoos: im a baby i have neither lmao

40. Girls? Hot?: i love the way this question is worded lol the rumor come out: does girls is hot? yes.

41. Snow or Fog: me binch let the silent hill fog come kill me

42. Sleep facing the wall or room: i like to sleep with my face smashed into my pillow when possible

43. TRC of AFTG: those sure are some letters

44. Horror or Drama: horror

45. Orcarina of Time or Majora’s Mask: oh no....my childhood favs....i guess id pick mm because i feel like it has more of a sense of..identity than oot? if that makes sense lmao

46. Living in nature or city: fuck trees

47. Any addictions: im addicted to this jar of raw honey i got for 10 dollars im gonna be featured in the upcoming ep of my strange addiction where i just stare at the camera and eat spoonfuls of honey

48. Languages: english, very basic and bad japanese, currently learning spanish

49. What music do I listen too: ill listen to anything thats not some white dude singing about boobs beer and his truck and thats a fact

50. Fav mythical creature: dragonsssss

51. Safe zone:  frozen custard shop down the street, if you clip inside you’re invulnerable to all enemies

52. First fandom: uhh the first thing i ever consumed fancontent for was inuyasha 

53. Cartoons or Adult Shows: i like both but ill watch cartoons more 

54. Current music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RhOnTC5yxQ

55. Favorite starter?: bulbasaur, also my fav pokemon #001 baby

56.  What would your witch’s familiar be? im gonna be boring and say a black cat lol

im half asleep anyone who wants to do this can aha