#mystic messenger playthrough

[mystmesstolemysoul]

Lol talking to Yoosung in this route feels like a two-person Zen fanclub lmao

[awbublie]

ONE OF US

ONE OF US!!!

yoosung enjoys reading shoujo!!!

im junping to conclusions as he was talk ab novels BUT CLOSE ENOUGH

[vieapuff]

First 4 days of another story got me fucked up I hope nothing else happens !

[sunbloomdew]

i've been watching a 2h long video essay about mystic messenger as a,,,, "break" from writing (i am so distracted rn) and that got me thinking about my first experiences with games that have romance in them

i find it pretty funny that i picked sam and yoosung when i was playing stardew and mysme for the first time, and then NEVER played their routes again

[asideofkimchi]

Hey... Do you know the song sung by the voice actor from the pilot Hazbin Hotel? Called Thank you and goodnight. Weirdly this song reminds me of Mystic Messenger, despite being a new fan and having been into this game until this year 2024 I already felt a connection, seeing old posts about this game from an old fan somehow makes me tear up. Despite I'm a fan of 2024, I somehow feel nostalgic about this game despite never actually experience it before

i haven’t seen hazbin hotel, except for when I watched the pilot some years ago, so I had to go look up the lyrics:

“Well, it's been a wild ride And we've enjoyed every insane minute of it We don't know what the future holds But we're grateful for every moment we got to spend with you […]

It's been a blast, been a slice Been a hell of a ride We've had some laughs, had some fights Even some of us cried But all good things must come to an end And I guess this is our time So, so long, farewell, and we'll see you on the other side”

I like the beginning of this song. Mystic Messenger was a roller coaster of a game for me. I did not think it would make such a mark, I was actually reluctant to play it at first! And I certainly didn’t expect the first playthrough to fundamentally change my life! (Love you Yoosung 💚) and I think the sentiment of these first two verses feels like it could be said from the MM crew- rfa and mint eye combined (and Vanderwood too. Still waiting on my crack Vanderwood route.)

the game is turning 8 this year. Fans have come and gone. I can only hope most of the fans can look back fondly at this silly absurd game, at least enjoyed it while they played. It’s wild to think there are newer fans too, like you! Wow! The game is somewhat a product of its time, and it can be frustrating, but I hope you enjoy it. I hope this is an experience you can look back on fondly.

[seonkun]

I'll always be here my boi YooSung😭

Why I didn't figured this gem earlier?

[fourth-wall-rebuilder]

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[uchiha-7thsingularity]

Mystic Messenger

Used to play mystic messenger. Till I lost my progress and wasted my time.

I did admire zen and jumin for their work effort. And jumin lovely cat. I tried to romance jumin but then got yoo sung.

Don't get me wrong I did feel compassion for his character and tried to comfort him as a friend. Then he obsessed MC as a replacement for RIKA (didn't like her) and everything went downhill.

Did like Jae hee and zen moments which were awkward and wholesome.

V was barely there. :/

Ray (saeran) needed therapy and to get away from rika.

707 became a loyal boy.

And I might go more into my personal experience with this game. But this mainly a shitpost.

only person I felt comfortable texting.

[mystmesstolemysoul]

Okay babes, I've decided to throw caution to the wind and do another mystmess playthrough. I have finals this week. Idk if my sleep schedule can handle it, but fuck it, we ball

[awbublie]

this is the most realistic part ab mysme

ong how did they get so on the nose

i can imagine mcs face being like

ollllo

after that

SHE JUST LIKE ME FRFR😭😭😭😭😰😰

[krys-does-art-stuff]

Amongst all the YGO that was going on, something else was lurking just below the surface, something that would change the course of ship.

Yep, we're starting to the see the beginnings of my love for otome.

This boy right here, his name is Red. He's from one of Cheritz's second otome game 'Nameless: The One Thing You Must Recall.' Yeah, the before Mystic Messenger era. I had watched their first game via youtube playthroughs, so I thought I was ready to start playing an otome on my own.

Nameless... it... it tore me apart, especially the locked routes. Keeping in mind I hadn't gotten to experience Hakuouki as of yet.

Let's just say that I learned the hard way that Cheritz loves them some real bittersweet endings. There are no truly happy endings in Cheritz games. None.

And this boy... this dense, beautiful, sweet, caring boy...

He's the reason I can't use my real name in games anymore, thus why I usually use the name Aria whenever the option to change the MC's name comes up. This boy broke my heart so bad that I can't even use my own name in games anymore.

He wasn't my first otome love when I started playing (hi Jieun of Dandelion!), but he's probably one of the first ones to make a big impact (keeping in mind that Souji and Hakuouki was on the horizon to break my heart some more).

May 2015

[eleiyaumei]

Romance VS Plot in Mystic Messenger

After playing both Zen's and Seven's route, I feel confident enough to say:

Cheritz should never have tried plotting.

Not because the plot in both routes is bad but rather that both plot and romance suffer from Cheritz' inability to balance the two within a route's time frame.

Like, the plot is happening in the background for most of the route while romance and character development are in the foreground but then on ca. Day 8-10 or when love interest and MC accept their feelings for each other the plot is the main focus while the romance is in the background. In the end, both romance and plot end up feeling rushed and lacking substance IMO.

What bothered me the most about the romance getting left behind is:

The build-up of romantic feelings between love interest and MC felt so well-made and natural but after they accept their feelings for each other, they automatically get together and their relationship stays static until the ending and is supposed to be "the one true love".

I incredibly missed the transition into a relationship, the beginning phase of a relationship, just any interpersonal development between the two after they accept each other's feelings.

And scenes of them being in love. (Or are these in the outgoing calls which I didn't do since I did a playthrough without ever using HGs?)

Ultimately, the romance worked better than the plot so I think Cheritz should have made the routes consist of just character interactions&development and romance.

Unrelated but:

Cheritz are cowards* for not dealing with Seven's queerness in his route!

(But at least we have hints that he actually enjoys crossdressing and might have a crush on Zen [since Zen mentioned the Twitter "bot" making comments so accurate that they sound like someone with a crush on him]...)

(*hyperbolic phrase I intend to mean: "I'm upset at Cheritz")

[mandiemegatron]

My coworker’s wife is trying to get me into Love & Deepspace and then I’ve been seeing you have some stuff and I’m like….. so tempted…..

Idk if I have time for a time suck right now tho 😂😭

Oommmggggg my kazie I am telling you, it is *so* worth it 😭😭😭😭 you can fuckin play PLUSHIE ARCADE GAMES WITH THEM 😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND KITTY CARDS LIKE WHAT ??

Stop no I'm so serious this is such a precious game dude, like as a Mystic Messenger fan I was a lil skeptical but I've been playing like... a month and a bit ??? And it's absolutely awesome, I really do enjoy it, I definitely recommend it 💖💖💖💖.

And it's really not much of a time suck I find !! You just log in at the end of the day, collect all your shot, play a few games, fight a few monsters, and then you can exit it !! There is a few storylines, two of them are shorter and waiting for new chapters but the main one is longer, I'm only on chapter 7 of the main and it only takes abt 30 mins max, plus fights n shit ! It's not like Mystic Messenger where you had fuckin 3 am chats n shit 😂😂😂 like the amount of sleep I lost playing that game for so long 😭😭😭

So yeah thats just my 7 cents (inflation, sorry) but it's up to you, you can always watch playthroughs and still enjoy the experience too if that's something that's a bit easier for you !! It's all about enjoying the time spent, right ? 💖💖🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 LOVE YOU thank you for this 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[agorejessstone]

How Hira Changed My Life - DRAMA

At just 29 years old, I was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer.

Sort of the cherry on top of a sundae made Sjogren's.

As the eldest daughter of a lower middle class American family, I was responsible for more than just my education growing up.

While I was an avid writer, reader, dancer, artist, and vocalist, I was never given the same opportunities as my siblings. When they were being totted off to this practice or that recital, I was forced to focus on my homework, and whichever sibling was not old enough to attend.

That's not to say I didn't get to play a sport or join a club here and there, but overall, I was heading down a path of self destruction.

A people pleaser, avidly ignoring all the issues I'd acquired along the way, in pursuit of other's happiness.

There is nothing quite like a near-death experience to make you reevaluate your life.

6 years ago, I beat cancer, or at least, began my journey into remission, where I remain for the time being.

I decided that it was time to put down the dish rag, quit all but one of my three jobs, and get to know myself better. I'd carried the need to be the caretaker in to adulthood, and the effects were devastating.

I set out to write and publish my first full length novel. I'd written plenty before, but I never had the time, energy, or confidence to publish.

In July of 2021, I published my very first novel in a six part series that I am still working on today: Legend of the Sylph, but that wasn't all I wanted to do.

In 2016, I'd started a podcast, during my diagnosis, I'd been forced to focus on my health, and put that podcast on hold.

By 2018, fond memories resurfaced, and I decided it was time to try again. Heiress Anonymous was born as a faceless online artist, with a heart of gold, and a lot of stories to tell. I even included a weekly advice section, and things were going pretty well.

Until my youngest brother took his own life January 2019, 2019.

Being one of only two siblings that I was close to, and only 19, that loss shook the very core of our family, and it nearly defeated me a second time.

Struggling to keep my depression, anxiety, PTSD and bipolar under control, I did the only thing I thought I could do.

I got help.

During my inpatient therapy, I spent a lot of time reflecting on what made me happy, so that when I left that place, I could find something, anything, that made life seem less like wading through the layers of hell, slowly as an ant through tar.

I'd lost so many pieces of myself and I was tired of slapping a bandaid on a gaping wound and telling myself, and everyone else, it was just a scratch.

Dealing with everyone else's needs and desires, while neglecting my own was causing my Sjogren's to flare up more often than it should. My body wasn't cooperating, and my mind, oh that poor fella was more foggy than a black and white film.

Again, I started to do things I was passionate about.

I started with an online game after Duskwood's completion.

Each month, I'd write a new story, and a team of artists would help me develop a location map, clues, and characters for up to 30 people to play. It was the most fun I'd had in a while.

During this time, I was also playing other immersive games.

Mystic Messenger, The Seven Endgame series, and The Sign.

During my playthrough of the Seven series, I happened upon some... rather cancellable translation errors. In a moment of "Please don't cancel the only games I enjoy", I typed up an email to Reality Games, the developers, offering to scan the rest of their games for similar issues.

I was surprised when my wonderful friend Mel emailed me back, offering to let me test and correct The Healing, their upcoming title.

I accepted right away.

Then I had a thought... What if I took the team I'd been working on games with, made an actual game?

Astro Hollow was born. (Hopefully we'll be completed by 2025. It's not easy now that I have such a small team.)

During The Healings production, I asked if there were any unfilled roles. After knowing me for some time. Mel suggested Hira, and the rest is history.

Reality Games Fandom group was started on FB.

There, I met many great fans.

And some not so great fans.

One of them stood out to me. Stefi, who plays Ina.

She came to me as a fan, but we became fast friends. Similar to some of the others. She expressed her desire to become a voice actress, but was hesitant.

I spent weeks, months even, building her up, encouraging her, offering to help coach her lines, etc.

I introduced her to the group, set her up to mod the RG Fandom so she could learn the ropes and get used to fan engagement.

I even invited her to co-host a podcast.

Things seemed to be running smoothly. Until she decided that she was too busy to steam, but with the German meet and great looming, and her insistence that she go, I wholeheartedly understood.

I offered to hold her place on the podcast, until she had more time.

Tongue Tied Games and I had chatted before on reddit. Imagine my surprise at how small the world is, when I found out he played Charlie! We streamed together for the first time about a year ago, and we just clicked.

Preston and I became fast friends as well. (Cedrik - The Sign EN) His sense of humor is the stuff of legends.

I met all sorts of nice people.

Serge definately stands out to me. Such an amazing, witty guy.

I can't say enough good things about the Author's.

Daniel and Tim especially.

I'd forgotten how dark the internet can be, with all the light surrounding me.

I hadn't stopped to think about the fans, and how this could easily turn into an introverts parasocial hellscape.

For months, I tried to be the bigger person.

I ignored the whispers, the rumors, the blatant disrespect, but something happened that made me realize that if I don't stick up for myself, no one else will.

So here I am, explaining how one of the most important turning points in my life, has become the darkest time.

A fan, whom I will not name, and whom I've never had a conversation with, immediately disliked me. For the past 8 months, I've tried and tried and tried to figure out who or what or why this happened. They don't seem to know themselves. But to anyone that would listen, I was "mean". I didn't "value my friendships".

I was so dead set on not disrupting the community I loved, that I didn't speak up.

Ina was one of those people who turned their back on me.

I asked them why they'd take their word over mine, after everything I'd done.

I'd vouched for them, coached them, let them sit with me while I edit, introduced them to the group, supported them, helped them learn and grow, shared with them, both professionally and privately.

I could not fathom this turn of events.

In fact, I had not even considered it as the catalyst for her quitting the podcast.

It wasn't until a very dear friend of mine, nearly took her life, because she was bullied by this very same member (I'd give you there name, but honestly, I suspect there are many many names they go by) that I'd finally had it.

See what I mean?

I'm quick to defend and protect other people, but I'll let others tear me apart before I disrupt the peace.

I reached out to my mods, and let them know what was happening. They were appalled, to say the least. One even tried to mediate, but of course that didn't work out.

There was nothing to mediate.

This was a para social nightmare.

Growing up, being sickly, I'd never found myself beautiful, but in recent years, that has changed.

Health and happiness have made me a better person, physically and mentally.

Imagine my surprise when I was edged out by women who were intimidated by me, in a group that I was part of, long before most of them.

Imagine consitently helping others, and being forced to step back for a few months, only to come back to someone new, determined to make themselves "Queen PICK ME" or some shit.

I truly still do not understand it.

I've tried countless times to figure it out, but in the end, these are people who want to keep someone to themselves.

Who flirt with a stranger online, thinking they know them, but chastise anyone else who dares to do the same.

I'd seen it.

I'd recognized it.

I choose to ignore it.

FFS - I've got someone I care about already. Who in their right mind would intentionally ruin that for someone they've never even met? Someone they don't know? That's just a silly thought to have.

It has to be jealousy....

Do you know how many times I've been told that, and chose to ignore it, because I cannot fathom what there is to be jealous of?

After I shared my story with mods, the universe answered with a call of it's own.

Message after message from others within the community, who'd been wronged by this person.

Who'd felt unwelcome in the community.

Who'd been attacked, bullied even, out of the groups.

I was shattered.

A near death, a dozen victims.

I reached out to the group owners, and cleaned up my own, but no one made a move to correct the behavior.

Is that what being an "influencer" is?

Should I be reaping the benefits without any of the responsibility?

No.

I refuse to let people suffer, because I don't want to speak up.

I was scared, truth be told, because I thought if I just ignored it, it would go away.

By time I realized that wasn't the case, so many other people had been influenced by this person's word.

This person, whom I'd never had a conversation with.

This person, who I'd promoted their "fan art".

This person, who was continually looking for excuses to hate me.

This person, who clearly knows nothing about me.

And yet, this person was going to win.

I haven't said a word in 8 months.

I've blocked and removed myself where ever I can, but this person, these people really, still haunt me.

The horde gets larger every day I stay silent.

The one who said they weren't feeling the podcast, took the name I had for the post finale of Orphans, and the people I had invited, and did their own, but I knew that was happening, and said nothing.

Until someone came to me and asked me, "Weren't you the reason that Stefi joined the cast as Ina?"

I replied yes, and the flood gates opened.

Stefi was a fan.

She came to me as Hira. Said she liked the character.

We started to chat. Became friends.

I encouraged her to email her audition to the team.

I reached out to the team and told them to give her a chance.

I coached her lines from the first few episodes.

I GOT HER THE ROLE AS INA.

She now gives credit to TT.

If you don't believe me, I have the podcasts still up on YouTube, where we talk about it in detail.

At first, I was sure that she was being manipulated.

Part of the reason that I was adamant that she join the team, was who she is as a person.

She's LGBTQ and on the spectrum. It's very important to me, especially after all of my struggles, to make sure that everyone finds something they're passionate about and doesn't let anything hold them back.

For months I thought she was being taken advantage of. Manipulated.

To discover otherwise was absolutely heartbreaking for me.

Imagine how shattered I was, when someone from the German fan meet up, said she's been telling people that since the German Fan Meet and Great in AUGUST 2023.

I feel used.

I'm at a low I'm not sure I can recover from, especially because she continues to say and do things just to get at me.

I've done what I can to block and move on, and I continue to leave communities I cherish, because of these ghosts.

It's like I'm Sandy, but for real this time, and trapped in that damned Orphanage.

Will we share a similar fate?

Will I let devistation consume me?

Have I made the right decisions?

Time will tell.

I'm leaving most names out of this on purpose, but I'm setting the record straight on how Ina came to be part of the community.

I'm so sick and tired of supporting people from behind the curtain, while actively being used as a doormat.

I love working for RG.

This has nothing to do with the company itself.

Cast will be what cast will be.

I love voice acting. I love writing, so even the editing process is fulfilling, but man I still had a lot to learn about how selfish the industry is.

How competitive.

How jealous and manipulative.

Watching people argue over someone they've never met.

Someone they've never seen.

Someone they don't know.

Watching them gatekeep the communities they stay in, running off anyone who isn't an OG.

Kind of defeats the purpose of supporting that creator, when you're driving good people out.

I'm starting to wonder if the internet isn't going to be our downfall.

If we'll ever truly understand the effects of parasocial relationships.

While I love the work I do, and many of the people who follow me, I cannot condone gatekeeping, lying, manipulation, cheating, stealing, copying, and outright bullying.

Stay in your lane.

At the end of the day, you don't know me.

Very few of you do.

You don't know her, him, they, them.

You just don't.

Speaking or acting on the behalf of others, lying about the people who helped get you where you are, no matter how you feel about them, is just plain messed up.

As with everything else in my life, I've learned a lot here.

I don't love parasocial relationships.

They fascinate me, until they piss me off.

Obviously this is NOT all of what occurred here. There are plenty of screenshots, and stories, but the bottom line is that I'm being pushed around, and I'm tired of staying silent. I work too hard, and help too many people, while barely being able to lift my head up to do so.

I've had it.

If you want to join a discord community where bullying, will not be tolerated: https://discord.gg/C6Edjk3AhX

Please remember. Just because you recognize their face and you know about them through the internet, does not mean you KNOW them.

Please treat actors/streamers as human beings, but also as "entertainers".

Respect their privacy.

Do not speak on their behalf.

Do not bully their followers, even if they are extremely hands off, or they expect the community to police.

You can easily turn one of the BEST things that's ever happened to someone, into one of the worst.

The results can be deadly.

[drakefisher]

i played MM like 8 years ago and i have no idea if this was a glitch or what but when i logged in for the first time it gave me some insane amount of the in-game currency so that i was able to play through and reread anything that i had missed before. i wasn't going for anyone in specific but my first playthrough i did jaehee's route and i was sooo obsessed she is such a cutie. i haven't played in years and i have no idea who the white haired boy is but sometimes i think about playing again lol

omg thats so funny... maybe the game just liked you LOL. also you should play it again Lets start a mystic messenger tumblr revival

[brighteststar707]

Hey... Do you know the song sung by the voice actor from the pilot Hazbin Hotel? Called Thank you and goodnight. Weirdly this song reminds me of Mystic Messenger, despite being a new fan and having been into this game until this year 2024 I already felt a connection, seeing old posts about this game from an old fan somehow makes me tear up. Despite I'm a fan of 2024, I somehow feel nostalgic about this game despite never actually experience it before

Hey hey! I hadn't heard of that song before this but I looked it up and I can definitely see what you were talking about! There's this bittersweet note of happy farewells that reminds me of what it feels like to finish a playthrough (or finish every character's playthrough) where you know they're going to be living life happily but we can't follow them.

It also reminds me of some of the after endings. That note of 'it's been a wild ride' definitely fits that tone.

Beyond the game, that song definitely fits into the fandom context, with so few of us being left here. So many people loved this fandom and these characters but have since moved on. It's a very bittersweet goodbye.

That being said, it's so heartwarming to hear that in 2024 there are still new fans of the game! I hope you have lovely time over here in this little corner of Tumblr, there are still so many talented writers and artists making things so many years later.