#mmo is a silly rpg game

[galpalaven]

The thing is, I’ve had complaints about shallow companion interactions before for other games that I genuinely enjoy.

FFXIV up until around Shadowbringers did not have anyone ever checking on my character even briefly outside of one or two of the Scions. It effected how I perceived my relationship with them. The difference there is that 1) it’s an MMO and they can only add so much variation and 2) it was eventually addressed and I did finally feel an emotional connection to them.

Veilguard is not the only game I’ve ever been critical of. It’s just the most egregious one right now, especially when they tried to sell me the narrative that it’s the ‘most romantic DA game ever.’ They lied to me and I deserve to criticize it when I spent $90 for what was essentially just some uncooked pizza dough with the toppings on the side while they shrug at me and “just cook it yourself / headcanon it.”

I don’t put my criticism in the main Veilguard tag because I know it can bum people out. If you don’t want to see it, block the “veilguard critical” and “Bioware critical” tags — but stop telling me I have no reason to be angry and I’m just “making shit up to be mad about.” I know how making a game works because I went to school for writing and I know that they just did not do a good job writing this thing, and the decisions they made about where to cut content are silly and ridiculous. To remove dialogue wheels and roleplaying opportunities in favor of like a fkn gladiator arena is stupid.

They made an action game and sold it as a narrative RPG. It’s dishonest and I’m allowed to be annoyed by it.

[otakween]

Digital Monster X-evolution

If those janky Digimon World cutscenes were a whole movie, it'd be this. To be fair, I think outdated CGI has a lot more charm than a lot of the higher quality but soulless stuff they put out nowadays. Plot-wise it was nothing special, we've seen this plot a zillion times by now. They just injected it with some new gimmicks. I did find the main character charming enough. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing another attempt at an all-CGI movie as long as that didn't become the new default (slippery slope lol).

Notes:

Although the plot of this film was really simple they managed to add some convoluted lore anyways...because Digimon. Just when I was thinking "that was confusing" I saw that this wiki has a 900 page long (not really lol) explanation/play-by-play. Maybe I'll read it when it's not my bed time: https://wikimon.net/Digital_Monster_X-evolution

Of course they had to open the movie with Leomon dying (really?) Why is that a thing? I've never felt emotional seeing any Leomon die tbh lol

I think Dorumon and his digivolutions have really strong designs. His rookie form kinda looks like a furry version of Monodramon. I've been playing Digimon RPG (the MMO) and just by chance ended up with him as my partner (I actually thought I was getting Impmon lol). Fate!

Not a lot of levity here, the script took itself very seriously and the characters spent most of the film just being existential and talking about the meaning of life. Kinda heavy for a silly little monster battle film.

Legit got a little emotional when Dorumon was being bullied, but it's really easy to feel sad for a furry little creature

The CGI actually held up better than I thought it would for the most part, the mecha digimon especially looked awesome. The only "AH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!" moment was Andromon -shudder-

(Of course, Andromon is ugly in any form, but this is definitely his worst).

Weird seeing Omegamon vs. WarGreymon. I was also surprised to see Magnamon in the Royal Knights. He just seems more beast-like to me than the other knights.

Tokomon was one of those "is it cute or is it annoying?" baby characters. I'm leaning more towards cute, but there were moments where I was like "alright, that's enough of him" loi

Dorugamon kinda reminded me of Toothless. I wanna pet his big nose :3c

They just couldn't resist, they had to call something in this franchise "Yggradsil" didn't they

(They also used other Norse names, the same ones used in Ah! My Goddess).

The funky X-forms of digimon were fun, very angular. It reminds me of the newer Pokemon games how they keep adding new gimmicky forms. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of these. I guess in a way, this is a more realistic "evolution" since it has to do with the digimon reacting to their environment by developing antibodies.

I saw people complaining that Frontier only had two Royal Knights, well I guess they made up for it a bit here. Are they always gonna be working for the villain side? I wanna see a series where they're the heroes!

It was neat seeing Silphymon again. I get excited when 02 characters show up cuz it's kind of the underdog season in my mind.

The villain digimon (aside from the royal knights) weren't very well explained they just kinda showed up, caused havoc, then went away. The only reason why I have a name for any of them is cuz I read the wiki. I guess it would be hard to naturally fit in all the names...

The name "Alphamon" was kind of an eyeroll. They're running out of epic names lol. (Also, it just makes me think of alpha bros nowadays). The design is nice tho, it's got the black w/ gold highlights thing that I liked in Frontier.

Lots of badass cape shots in this (see my final screenshot above)

At the end of the movie the digital world was destroyed and then restored (Frontier much?) It wasn't really clear what that meant for the digimon. Did they all just resurrect via digiegg? Were they recreated exactly as they were before the world's destruction? -shrug-

Pretty sad that this movie never got any love in the states. I wonder if there's a fandub out there somewhere.

Apparently Digimon World 4 is related to this movie so I'll be playing that next!

[renesassing]

I've only played swtor so far (yeah I know 😔) but your blog is giving me EVEN MORE motivation to get a disc drive and kotor. I've got a copy of kotor 2 but I dunno if I should play the first one first or what

imma be real my only beef with swtor is its handling of kotor content. besides that i've heard a lot of good things about it and the ocs that have come out of it are really fucking good. i think outside of kotor stuff it's a perfectly fine mmo. i just don't play it because i basically lost my taste for mmos by the time it came out— i was a BIG world of warcraft kid, but towards the end of the 00's i really lost interest in the format of mmos, and swtor first came out in 2011. like you say 'star wars mmo' to me and i think star wars: galaxies. legit im just mad about the kotor stuff i think the game is fine. (i'm sure actual players like you have their own grievances with it)

as for playing kotor... imo you should really play the first game. they're two different games with two different protagonists, and i think in terms of depth and quality of story kotor 2 is waaaay better than the first game, but i also think the story of kotor 2 is less effective without playing k1 first. k1 is a bit intentionally silly at times and sometimes the writing is frankly godawful (carth onasi if you roll a female character is. eugh.) but it's quite fun if you like clunky 00's rpgs. k2 is a complicated narrative experience and i think one of the most important pieces of star wars 'canon.' but you lose some of that complexity imo if you don't go through kotor first.

[krisiverse]

what's Crosscode? dunno what that is but i'm interested

SO. the quick synopsis is that it's an indie game where you play as a girl named lea that's playing in an mmo! she's lost her memory and the story revolves around her trying to recover it and figure out who she is!

in practice tho it's SO much more than that and it's a rly heartfelt story about friendship and identity, there's a BUNCH of twists that hit really hard in all the best ways

also seeing as you're a fellow undertale fan: the characters are fantastic and the humor is great, and it's also a really good deconstruction of the rpg genre (though while undertale focuses on classic rpgs, crosscode is moreso about multiplayer games!)

here is my favorite crosscode video which i must show to Everyone: (no spoilers, just going through the tutorial with new game plus features active! it is incredibly silly)

[motheatenscarf]

I've been working my way to getting all classes leveled up for Talia because... I'm insane and love to set impossible goals for myself. I haven't been talking about too many of them bcs I have nothing to say about most of them, but since I've played through 9 now

Here is a quick summation of my thoughts, ranked from least to strongest reactions I've had;

Paladin: This is boring. I'm bored. I don't care about any of these people or their dumb problems, let me kill class enemy lalafell.

Astrologian: I don't care about these people or their problems, I already know from MSQ and better job stories that Ishgard sucks. These outfits DO rule tho.

Dancer: Huh, that dance to cure people of the morbs turned out surprisingly relevant... too bad it didn't matter! Oh well. Who are these people? What are their problems? Nevermind, I don't care. Dancing scenes are pretty at least.

Red Mage: These outfits rule. But wow, I don't care about these people. I actually weirdly hate this amnesia girl? Not for GOOD reasons, just for like. Trope reasons. Not her fault, but still, I hate when she's here.

Samurai: I don't care until suddenly for 2 minutes at level 60 it stops just being fun Samurai movie homages and tropes and gets REAL with Musosai trying to suicide by WoL. A momentarily beautiful moment that reincorporates and recontextualizes a silly moment from earlier in the story, describing atonement through having to LIVE and make amends, arguing that remorse is what separates good from evil, and wow! This was great! I legit loved- oh, they immediately ruined it with the Stormblood quest to uphold the status quo of a corrupt regime and made Musosai's student morally in the right thus making his death and guilt meaningless.... well, I hate this! Least favorite class story now.

Reaper: I love a mean old battleaxe so Drusilla is rad as fuck and this is some fun lore on Emet and Garlemald in general. I choose to care about this because I headcanon that my own WoL is from Garlemald and this is relevant.

Ninja: This is boring and kinda sucks, but Karasu is here and I love him. An eccentric theatrical weirdo here to test the hero and cause problems for drama? Yes, I DO love trickster figures, thank you. Oh wait, he's not a villain, just a decent dude trying to get out of a bad situation and being cagey to cover his own ass and help you so you can get him out of this jam? Rad. But why can he control bats as his Children of the Night if he's not evil? ... Don't worry about it! I don't know if he's a GOOD character, but my god is he a FUN character. That's all I care about. Look at how much I love Zenos; I DON'T need depth to have a good time. That said;

Dark Knight: I am WEEPING inconsolably over Fray and Myste, chortling over Moogles and Sid, and Rielle is but one of my many, MANY adopted kids from this game. It is perfect. I could talk about Dark Knight for hours, I lost an entire day of progressing through story just having to be insane about the reveal that Emet Selch was a Dark Knight, perhaps the FIRST Dark Knight, because OF COURSE HE WAS. Dark Knights are about LOVE and grief manifesting tangibly, and oh my god, everything ties in together as a coherent whole. I'm not normal about Dark Knight. I'll never be normal about Dark Knight. It invades my brain and gives words to the Things I'm Trying To Say about characters and what I want out of stories. Finding out that the woman who wrote Dark Knight took over as lead writer got me through the worst of how much I HATED base Stormblood and thank god it did because it meant I stuck with this game long enough to play Shadowbringers and Endwalker and didn't consider Heavensward just a fluke. Dark Knight saved this game for me. Dark Knight is incredible. Dark Knight has more to say about storytelling, motivation, and a player's role in and relationship to a story than anything I've ever seen from a SINGLE PLAYER RPG, let alone an mmo. Dark Knight is fucking transcendent.

Fishing: This is the dumbest story so far and I fucking love it. I love traveling the world with this lunatic who took up work as an ASSASSIN to fund her fishing hobby. She has her priorities in order, she is the most correct about the point of this game and I love her.

[varlaisvea]

Happy 10th birthday to my main, Quest Completer! The Vestige, the Hero of Coldharbour, Savior of Tamriel and Nirn, The Soulless, Moon-Hallowed, High King's Arrow, Eye of the Queen, Ahkatuz, Champion of dozens of dignitaries, deities, and political factions, and of course, Grand Master Crafter! Here she is with the senche-tiger she got for being old.

All of my characters have silly names like this, but unlike Quest Completer, the rest of them all have lore-appropriate 'real' names in my mind. The rest of them are people with fleshed-out backstories and reasons why they became Heroes. But QC is just The Vestige, the one without a soul (or a personality to speak of) and no memory of the past. The Vestige asks a ton of dumbass questions, such as "what does a queen do, exactly?", and in my mind this is because, while saving all of existence is a mundane occurrence to them, they are forever figuring out how to exist in a totally unfamiliar world while also being among the most powerful people in its history.

Because of that, and because the Vestige's dialogue contains very little emotion or humor, in my mind QC is basically No Fun and allows herself little ostentation. Even her whimsy, she takes deadly seriously, like she always has a great costume for themed dungeon runs, but she's lowkey competitive about having the best fit. She's a dual-wielding stamina-based Aedric Spear Templar DPS—about as basic as it gets, but she doesn't care about that; it's a very effective way to do a lot of violence, you have to admit. Despite her litany of accomplishments, she enjoys simple pleasures, like moving furniture around 1 centimeter at a time, learning crafting recipes, and running around fields looking for things to harvest. This woman and Bastian Hallix are bffs for a reason.

I overhauled her look for the occasion. Here she is new armor goofin:

And after 10 years I finally convinced her to get all dolled up for something other than a dungeon.

ESO was my first MMO; I liked Skyrim (my first open-world RPG) so much that I bought a computer just to play ESO when it came out. QC was the first character I made, when I had no idea what a 'build' was. She is maxed out in every crafting skill and weapon skill line, and every morph of all of her Class skills. QC made it to Veteran Rank 16 before the Champion system was introduced. She is only just now doing the Craglorn quests because she reached the end of Cadwell's Silver and Cadwell's Gold (both required to advance) over a year before One Tamriel, and I didn't know anyone else playing ESO, so I couldn't access group content. QC is old enough to remember when it was a bizarre occurrence to see another player outside of a city (or at all at night, in the Pacific timezone). She's also old enough to remember picking up literally every single quest she came upon because there just weren't that many quests to do. She truly is the Quest Completer.

QC and I learned how the fuck video games work together. Here's to another 10 years!

[leothil]

ayo :) same anon as before. more blorbo asks: 27 & 28

HI THANK YOU MWAH!

27. Blorbo has a favorite video game. What is it?

OKAY LISTEN! Gamer boy Eddie is the best thing that has ever happened to me!! I see the show having him play fighting games and I respect their decision to make that his foray into gaming, but I want to see Eddie expand into RPGs because I think he could really enjoy something like Assassin's Creed. I'd also give a lot of money to see him play an MMO and get to watch him create a character and run around in the starting area doing quests. 🥹 He'd probably stay away from first-person shooters, but him and Chris could have a lot of fun playing the Lego games together (Lego Pirates of the Caribbean is a goddamn masterpiece). Pokémon would probably be more up Buck's alley (watch him and Chris debate team compositions), but Stardew Valley and similar base-building games with a dash of adventure (Banished! Age of Empires in its own way! Maybe Cities Skylines!) could definitely keep Eddie glued to the computer.

28. Top ten things that you love about your blorbo

Oh gosh! He's silly, he cares so deeply for people, he has a bitchy streak, he's willing to put in the work and grow as a person, he would do anything for his kid, he's supportive, he loves his family, he's sarcastic and teasing, he is SO pretty, and he can dance (sorry Ryan but you are Wrong here and I will ignore you).

Send me blorbo asks!

[kristinawkelly]

I got to ARC read this fun novella! By @jazpate_writes Like watching a DM run a quick two-player adventure, or zoning in to an instance of EverQuest 2 solo. It was nostalgic like wrapping myself in a dungeon blanket.

This litrpg is told in second person narrative which really adds to the atmosphere of feeling like you’re at a Ttrpg table or at your computer questing in an mmo. The story takes place in one location that’s described in a way so that you can feel the cobwebs dangling from the ceiling.

The orc is very much an orc with lots of breaking the fourth wall humor. As someone who always bashes the crates in the room, I identify with Karen Krushbone. Cozy moments, silly but you love them anyway characters, sapphic romance, and a boss battle twist. Recommended for ttrpg, mmorpg, and rpg video game fans!

[maximuswolf]

Modern RPG games are not fun at all. Just grumbling.

Modern RPG games are not fun at all. Just grumbling. The plots about drama and overcoming villains are terribly banal, "The Hero (Insert: race, class, name) save the world!" that's why I get terribly bored in such games. And the worst thing is that often the authors do not even try to write a good plot. Also games not have permanent reactions to race and class, except for cosmetic moments, like that an NPC will mention it one day, and you'll be very lucky if there's a reaction to the race in a thematic quest, but the rest of the plot will always ignore it. Even if this world have racism, even if you are a rare race, everyone pretends that you are an ordinary human, who are always and everywhere the majority. As I understand, this happens because gaming world doesn't change, and companies copy successful formulas for quick money, and gamers accept each new version of Forgotten Realms as a new game. But I see that it's always the same adventure, where only the name of the world changes, and all these games can literally be in the same universe. As a child it was new and interesting, new different worlds, new stories, bright characters, a world that I wanted to be a part of. But now it's all just routine for me, all this the same old thing, worlds don't bring the joy of new discoveries, and I don't want to waste time on things. If in my youth I had a lot of time, now I don't have time nor the interest to study the many different differences in reactions to race, class, and style of play. But I still want to know, because I believe that there might be something new and interesting, and then FOMO appears, which is very annoying. But when I get something new, like it was in the plot of some RPGs and MMOs I played, I immediately and completely lose interest in these games, even though I loved them recently. So now I try to avoid those games because I want to play games to have fun and joy, and not suffering and worrying.The only game that worked for me is long dead. It was Wildstar. I still think about it with smile. I came to it very late, when the game was dying, but I really liked the style, the funny story, the silly characters. It was not serious, and it did not break the immersion at all, because the whole game was in a ridiculous style. So it was fun to fool around with. All races and classes were completely different from each other, and the story was simple but interesting, and I didn't have to worry that missing something. I would like more games that take you back to a carefree time, where you can spend as much time as you have. But now everyone is moving towards more naturalism and realism, while replacing verisimilitude with epicness. But what's the point if it's all the same anyway.I think that I'm the only one who feels this way, because I never find understanding for my opinion, and people perceive every new game as something completely new, something they've never seen. And I don't understand it at all. Submitted July 30, 2024 at 02:30PM by Popular-Hornet-6294 https://ift.tt/QnCljU4 via /r/gaming

[broodsys]

once human is such a fascinating premise, has great visuals, good voice acting, the works....

but it's a fucking mmo 😭 i'm not an mmo person at the best of times but this game in particular seems like being an mmo is just so wrong? they could've leaned a lot heavier into the atmospheric horror if u were able to explore slowly and alone and actually be fearful/cautious of every figure instead of just being like oh some other player omg what's going in in this chat that i can't turn off ugh oh ig i will follow everyone to talk to this person. rly messes with immersion and it goes from an appealing horror to smth that feels almost, idk, silly? absurd in a bad way?

so my oh-so-official review is: would've been an amazing rpg, makes a shitty mmo. but the tutorial is rly fun and is imo where it shines the brightest, so that's the part i'd recommend ppl try on the free weekend

[octahedral-chaos]

Also silly thingy but anyone knows any Animal RPG MMOs that have detailed customisation? Like Feral Heart back in the days?

I am genuinely itching for games like that now-

[nerafris]

I probably won’t talk to your friend, but thank you, I appreciate the gesture :)

Now that I know that you don’t like to be annoyed at any games, I don’t thing we can play together, no, because I’m super annoying and knowing you don’t like being teased makes it even worse because I’m going to ignore this piece of information and simply annoy you even more to the point you will feel the need to block me (which I’m not proud to admit it but I know myself and I like to test people (even though my intention aren’t malicious, they purely based on me being a silly and l LOVE to annoy people I like))

But which game are you talking about? (secretly wanting you to invite me because now I have the urge to annoy you even more)

You should definitely get a cat, girl. A cat is fluffy, great company, fluffy, they puurr at you, fluffy, they have no boundaries you’ll wake up at me middle of the night having your cat sleeping on your face and even though you could die, it’s cute yk if I’m going to die, better be dying this way; have I mentioned that they are fluffy? And if you have that fear of responsibility towards another living being then starting with a cat can be a good thing

Is green tea your beverage of choice? You should give me your recipe because the green tea I know tastes so, SO bad

Okay then, the offer stands tho. Ok maybe 'teasing' isn't really the right word, more like trolling and griefing, like purposefully messing with someone else just for 'fun', i guess the best example i have is from WoW where priests can grip another player to themselves, so a 'friendly' player can just grip someone to their death. People find this endlessly hilarious and i just don't get it and it just annoys me. Same reason i'm *terrible* fun at competitive tabletop games and will only ever agree to a completely coop style game. Legit if u force me to play sth like monopoly not a single person is gonna have fun at that table guaranteed. Yes, i'm a sore loser, don't judge me >_< All a consequence of taking games wayyyyy too seriously for literally no reason, wish i could just *not*. I don't really have a specific game i'm playing right now, since, like i mentioned, on a reading obsession cycle rn ^^ Usually if it's multiplayer it's some kind of MMO (WoW most recently) so idk if u'd even be interested in that. I'd love to play a coop rpg like BG3 with someone, but legit trust me i'm impossible to do that with (tried with my best friend and even he couldn't do it). Think the only games i'm not a complete stick in the mud about are coop puzzle/puzzle platformers (recently played Unravel Two with a friend at work and it was hella fun). I knowwwww they're so fluffy i want one so badddd. I just really really don't think i could provide a good enough home and care for one right now. Legit my anxiety and dysphoria basically rule my life it's quite frustrating (yes i know that's my fault for letting them, i'm tryina work on it (it's not going well)). No recipe, just a random store bought pack. Yeah green tea on it's own is pretty bland (tho idm it really), but some flavor really goes a long way, like i said jasmine is my pick, tho i liked lemongrass too. So it's either that or earl grey for me. Or lemon and ginger that's good too.

[alleecatblues]

Fishing is overdone and usually super passive and boring. The only games I can think of where fishing is fun is RDR2 and Stardew Valley, and even then they start to get repetitive after a while.

Treasure hunting can be fun, but a lot of games make the mistake of only giving you money. Fallout 4 did it well; giving you permanent bonuses for finding things and giving you unique objects that you could either sell for cash or display in your bases.

Card and board games are usually also gambling minigames, and they’re also usually implemented in such a way that most players will almost never interact with them. Who actually knows how to play Caravan? Nobody.

I don’t know about any games where gardening isn’t a main gameplay mechanic but is any more complicated than “plant crafting material, it grows in a certain amount of time.” I think there’s room for a game to have more realistic gardening/horticulture when it isn’t the main focus.

Crafting is usually pretty boring when it’s not a main mechanic. I generally don’t interact with it in MMOs and I barely use it in RPGs. The best non-essential crafting system that I can think of is probably Fallout 4’s gun crafting because it lets you get a little silly with it.

Cooking is what I picked because when it’s done badly it’s basically just another thing you craft like everything else, but when it’s done well, it’s done really well. Guild Wars 2’s cooking made me actually enjoy an MMO crafting system. Breath of the Wild’s cooking is super fun and can give you great bonuses if you find the right recipes.

Meanwhile I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game include bug catching as a non-essential mechanic since Twilight Princess. It’s just such a niche hobby localized to very specific regions so it doesn’t really get put in anything.

by "nonessential" i mean that these are minigames or sidequests or upgrades within the base game and dont necessarily need to be completed to move forward with the story!

[astrxealis]

i am so obsessed with fandaniel tbh. epitome of guy i want to shake around in a jar and study. i want to bite him. i want to put a clown nose and cat ears on him and watch him burn down the world and fall off a cliff.

[jomnki]

hey! are you stalking me? are you for tons of oversharing from a stranger on the internet? well do i have the perfect list for you my buddy. maybe ill give you my address next ohh boy, wouldn't that be funny. i just like listing and sorting things.

☄️constant fixation

🌞love

☀️past love

🌤️obsessed on one character specifically (blorboised)

🌠nostalgic

☁️enjoys casually

🌩️made ocs for

-(tip: a lone ☀️ means a long gone interest i no longer feel much for)

-(repeats in different lists means that the interest has a comic/show adaptation that ive consumed and like a lot!)

creator based content

scp universe 🌞

aphmaus mystreet and other rp series ☀️☁️🌩️🌠

nijisanji vtubers ☀️

tma ☁️

hermitcraft ☁️

games/franchises

pokemon (mainline and sideline games) ☄️🌞🌩️🌠

omori 🌞

ace attorney series 🌞🌤️

fe3h (just the one game) 🌞🌤️

sonic (lore>games) ☀️🌤️🌩️☁️🌠

danganronpa ☀️🌤️☁️

fnaf ☀️🌤️🌩️🌠

persona 3-5 ☀️☁️

animal jam 🌞🌩️🌠

furby ☁️

minecraft ☁️🌩️

digimon ☁️

yakuza series ☁️

animal crossing ☁️

strawdew valley ☁️

cookie run kingdom ☁️

legend of zelda ☁️🌤️

deltarune ☁️

undertale ☀️🌠

moshi monsters ☀️🌤️🌠

faith ☁️

cotl ☁️

inscription ☁️

hypnospace outlaw ☁️

shows/ their respective comics

case closed 🌞🌠

(fei ren zai) 非人哉 🌞

开心超人联盟 (happy heroes) ☀️☁️🌠

take my brother away (快吧我哥带走）🌞🌠

saiki kusuo 🌞

mob psycho 100 ☁️

card captor sakura ☁️

trigun ☁️

barakamon ☁️

chainsaw man ☁️

nozaki sensai ☁️

toh ☁️

kaguya sama love is war ☁️

miraculous ladybug ☁️

recovery of an mmo junkie ☁️

tawog ☁️

spy x family ☁️

welcome to demon school iruma ☁️

peepoodo ☁️

gintama ☁️

full metal alchemist ☁️

hunter x hunter ☁️🌞

hetalia (sorry) 🌠

su ☀️🌠

fairy tail ☀️🌠

mha ☀️

ouran highschool host club 🌠

comics /novels

oh holy! 🌞

junji ito's works 🌞

lookism ☁️

youtsuba&! ☁️

heaven's official blessing 🌞

(硬核一中) ☁️

(快吧我哥带走) 🌞🌠

(头条都是他) 🌞

(非人哉) 🌞

(小心被梦魔吃掉哦) ☁️ uhm.

(别对我表白) ☁️

(她们的故事) ☁️ girl likes girl they kiss

omniscient reader's viewpoint ☁️

fanmade creations i like

kings maker ☁️

rusty pectorior ☁️ fanfic centered on notyx and psyborg, felt like i was watching an entire show

in which sunny can't name things ☁️ textfic based post true ending omori. they're just being silly and goofy.

stuff im kind of interested in learning more about

splatoon

unrelated general hobbies and likes

🍰drawing, sculpting, animating, writing- just making stuff in general

🎾i love seeing people be unapologetically cringe. i love your sans au where he's god go you.

🥩 kidcore, horror, primary colours, horror, sunflowers, retro, soft sunshine

🐙 paleontology, anthropology, history, biology, learning about as much stuff as i can and being annoying about it

🍨thrifted items, collecting, trinkets, wonky toys with the felt and plastic, plushies of many shapes and sizes preferably not full of fur, erasers, stickers, magnets, badges, keychains

🥞sorting things out by different categories, the rough texture of a washed hung out and dried towel, rain, cold weather, the blanket ive used for ages, organising belongings, playlist of animation memes and songs i play while i run around pretending in my head that im super awesome, running around without said playlist, going through old stuff

🍄the video game grinding, hoarding and organising in games, strategy games, bullet hells, rpgs

🍮 my boy, dogs n cats n rats, reptiles, birds, t-rex, dragons, animals I love animals

🍩 burgers, small bits of shredded chicken, apples, round grapes, cold cereal with plain cereal and granola, fruit juice, red roasted beef noodles

🥑 whatever music i can imagine my funny oh cees move to

✖️ hot weather die die die, the feeling of hair tickling my face, smell of my own sweat, nose itchy sneezy makes me want to kill, oily textures, my nails against the plaster wall, the plaster wall itself, the feeling of certain pens against paper, not having something to chew on, running around when i trip on something invisible and give myself the third bruise that week, hair going karen mode, remembering names and numbers,

the blorbos (not ordered)

dimitri fire emblem. i love depressed traumatised men that can kill me.

herlock strangler

cait sith meow

kiibo drv3 is my son in law

i desire bowser carnally.

yoshi is my other son in law.

the dogs from sanrio. all of them

the dawg. you know the one.

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Summer Anime 2019 Part 2: let’s play cops & vikings

Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

❓ 💩

💩 This saves the backstory for later, but rest assured it is very much a 💩. It particularly loves RPG stats because how else could you tell that someone’s awesome.

💩💩 It’s also particularly in the Shield Hero vein, i.e. written by someone who got their lunch money stolen a couple of times too many and is now getting revenge by annoying the shit out of me with shitty self-insert fiction.

💩💩 While powering up in the darkness the dude gets white hair and GUN’s so I think it’s safe to say that this is featuring Donte from the Devil May Cry series. 

💩 There’s some bits of the ol’ THIS CHAIR suffering monologues. Which Higurashi ripped off from Tsukihime, then got ripped off by Re: Zero and now every Web Novel hack thinks it’s très deep.

💩💩 I was about to say that it’s visually whatever (i.e., mostly too dark to make out how bad it looks), but then the CG monsters appeared and OH BOY.

Cop Craft

❓ A portal to the fairy dimension opened and now we have FAIRY CRIME. A loose cannon cop with nothing to lose gets paired up with a haughty fairy princess to get to the bottom of FAIRY CRIME.

✅ If this all sounds vaguely familiar, yeah it’s the FMP guy writing a love letter to 80s buddy cop movies. It has absolutely all the clichees of that genre, but since it’s not a genre I see every day that’s okay and in fact a little bit novel again. I did not watch Bright.

✅ It’s pretty competent at it too, the leads have good chemistry and the tone is good. It’s more serious than something like Red Heat, I’d compare it more to Lethal Weapon.

♎ Directed by Shin Itagaki, who does a competent job with the first episode but is known to be involved with production disasters lately. There’s already signs of slight jank and I hope this doesn’t fall apart really quickly.

Ensemble Stars!

❓ Nondescript girl enters idol school, which happens to be full of hunky boys. Things happen and she joins a movement to seize the means of stage production.

❌ The first half of this episode is just dreadfully dull, generic and features one of the most annoying genkiboys ever on top of it. And going by the old rule that if idol shows must have a producer it has to be a memorable one, Ensemble Stars scores a big fat zero because that girl is a void.

✅ However, then it turns out that this is also a fighting shounen somehow, because part of idol curriculum is hitting each other with guitars. Not to mention that we then reveal that there’s a revolution brewing because the system is corrupt and rigged.

♎ So yeah, there’s some shit going on in this show and it’s quite amusing. I’m just somehow not convinced that it’s more than window dressing because the basics are so bad. 

♎ Even if it turns out to be Revue Starlight (which it won’t), that one was well made enough to beat Ikuhara at his own game. Ensemble Stars doesn’t have the money or the style.

Hakata Mentai! Pirikarako-chan

❓ A super short mascot anime where a cute girl sprays cod roe everywhere, with sensibilities straight from 1964.

❌ ...

Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasuka? / Hensuki: Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie?

❓ Highschooler is surrounded by girls, gets a pantygram from some unknown party. Turns out they’re all horny. Hijinks ensue?

❌ This is just a basic-ass ecchi harem all around. I don’t think it needs much more explanation. Except...

❌ For some reason, it seems to attempt to treat its pantsu and boob shenanigans with the intellectual aspirations of a Monogatari or Oregairu. Needless to say, that causes it to fail on both sides.

♎ Basic shit for basic bitches, but I’ve seen worse in the genre. It’s less pretentious than e,g, Monogatari but also lacks the style. Or any style, for that matter.

Kochoki - Wakaki Nobunaga

❓ Before Oda Nobunaga became a warlord and recurring anime character, he apparently was a smart teen with a propensity to not wear shirts.

♎ This is about as good as an anime about a teen Nobunaga getting up to Tom Sawyer adventures while not wearing a shirt could probably be. Which is to say, it’s not as terrible as it sounds.

✅ In particular, the character writing is decent. I can imagine that this can actually pull of drawing a throughline from these silly adventures to the Nobunaga we know and don’t want to see any more of in fiction ever.

♎ Yeah, it’s basically alright-ish but you really, really have to care about these Sengoku clowns to get anything out of it. I still don’t.

Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]

❓ It’s Danganronpa, only about a bunch of streamers, LPers and speedrunners stuck in an MMO. Because 2019.

♎ Why not a turd? Well, isekai is so rigid as a genre that something that isn’t about some dude getting hax & harem barely seems to count anymore.

♎ Still, this setup is so brazenly shameless and idiotic that I can’t help but respect the hustle.

✅ There’s some neat SHAFT-y visuals going on here, reminiscent of how Reincarnated as a Slime tried to pretend to not be the most boring thing ever.

❌ Kenjiro Tsuda is entirely wasted as the least threatening Monoalpaca ever. Please don’t give the guy comedic roles. The rest of the characters are very bland, which is not a good thing in a genre that thrives on its outsized personalities.

❌❌ I just realized I didn’t give this any double Xs, which it definitely deserves. Just look at this shit. The only upside is of course that this is SO dumb it could be the next Caligula or something.

Re Stage! Dream Days

❓ School idols. MIDDLE school idols. In the middle school idol club.

♎ This is another basically competent show that also doesn’t really feature anything to set it apart. They took a mobile game about middle school idols and animated it.

♎ Well okay, I have to admit that for a show about middle schoolers it features more yuri undertones than usual, and shows like this usually feature quite a bit of that.

♎ But yeah, apart from that... seems watchable but nothing special. Looks alright, characters are alright, everything’s just fine. But you have to be a REAL afficionado of the genre to bother.

Vinland Saga

❓ VIKINGS BRUH

✅ Not gonna lie, I was negatively predisposed towards this show because the manga is very popular with the intersection of MANIME idiots and viking-adjacent metalheads. So while this does feature some sick & gnarly viking fights right away, overall it’s more about people sitting around in Iceland being cold and miserable.

❌ So about these sick & gnarly viking fights though? Sorry to report they look very subpar, with a ton of floaty CG and not much of a point to them.

✅ Apart from that, it’s looking pretty good. Nothing really flashy, but I think Wit’s house look works pretty well here. Better than in Titans at least.

♎ That said... I don’t really find people being cold and miserable in Iceland all that compelling either. I understand that this is a huge saga that goes places, but that doesn’t get me all hyped right now. This is one of those times where I’d say this show is (probably?) good and a recommendation, but it’s not really something I feel compelled to watch because it would have to be outright brilliant to overcome my apathy towards the subject.