#nikki asks

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Hello hello I wanted to make sure tumblr didn’t eat the ask I sent in because it’s been doing that to me lately

Fear not, beloved. I got you. We're kicking out at 12.30 tomorrow and I'm gunning straight for my PC to polish off this bad boy and a few other prompts.

[itsthefb-bi]

what’s your thoughts on the upcoming carmen sandiego game?

i'm excited!! i don't know if i'll buy it, but i'll defo be watching people play it! it's so fun we're getting new content this far out from the show ending :)

[devil-in-hiding]

hi plz tell me your favorite tropes

my top 5 are found family, best friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, pretend to real relationship and arranged marriages (ahem honourable mention for sex pollen)

[kissandships]

https://www.tumblr.com/hydesjackiespuddinpop/721138771989610496/misc-ask-meme

📱Nikki

What social media do they use most?

Probably Instagram. I can see her promoting products she likes- without it necessarily being a brand deal, sharing recipes, school stuff… and because Sam (her actor) sings, I can see her singing too

She’d also use tumblr for book reviews and stuff. Fashion inspo

[owly-lumi]

I had this drawing in mind for months lol. Roddy and boombox Soundwave 💫🌟✨

Extra without alt mode :')

Btw thanks @sketchy-mf for the musical help🤌🏻

🔹Btw I'm reopening the commissions if there were people interested!.

unfortunately I couldn't dedicate much time to Tumblr, but if there are questions just send me a dm!

[momo-shut-the-fuck-up]

[stellacaerulea]

The Nikkiverse in a nutshell

[gingeredmink]

Since .flow week is coming up [and i'm not a self hating unstable mess for once] here's work from 2022

[reality-detective]

Let's circle back 🤔

[bocchidaily2024]

I made a bocchi :)

⬆️ bocchi nikki

Delightful! I love her!!

[daisynik7]

GLASSES ARE EXTREMELY SEXY, I REPEAT, GLASSES ARE EXTREMELY SEXY

exhibit A (the most obvious):

exhibit B:

exhibit C:

exhibit D:

thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[itz-pandora]

listen

i’m just saying

Chuck and Nikki working on the tornado together would be rlly cute(prob more like Chuck teaching Nikki how to fix smthn but still)

(you’ve cursed me to continue to think about Chuck I need SOMETHING wholesome I beg of you-)/no pressure

I did NOT want to draw a plane

In the first pic, Chuck is saying something about how it wasn't smart to wear a jacket when working while it's hot outside, and Nikki has a water bottle. second, they're chilling on top the plane

[kissandships]

How would you write Nikki’s arc in s2?

Ooh, this is a good question!

I’d have her either break up with Nate, or lay down the law. Like knowing how to spell your girlfriend’s name is bare fvcking minimum, y’know what I’m saying? And he obviously doesn’t trust her, since he was suspicious of her tutoring sessions. So he either has to grow some balls to be with her, or or she realizes he’s holding her back and breaks up with him.

Do I want it to be messy? Yes, I like my angst. Do I think it needs to be? No. I think it can be emotional but, um… less messy.

That being said, I want her to have more screen time! What does she want to be? Is she interested in medicine or business, like the show has shown? I personally would love to see her as a psychiatrist or the president and/or ceo of a company

[meo-eiru]

Hey, wanted to say the Friend Codes for Infinity Nikki are single-use and expire in three days. So, you may have to generate a new code for each friend.

It may be best for you to be the one to receive the friend codes.

Ah lol I only shared with a few friends with a few days in between so I thought it worked like sharing your uid in other games.

Receiving codes from everyone might be a bit of a pain since I don't know how many there would be but for the post let's just say it was me showing my pretty profile lol

thanks for letting me know

[starphenie]

well that’s one way to meet your in-laws

[blueskittlesart]

pleeease give a review for infinity nikki ive been thinking about downloading it but i dont know if i have the space and if its worth it to clear some up for it !!!

as someone who spent HOURS on flash-based dollmakers as a kid, i absolutely love it. the gameplay hits somewhere between dressup game and open-world RPG, in that there's a large botw-like open map to explore, but the express purpose of exploring it is to unlock new clothes for your character. The exploration itself feels very calm and cozy most of the time, with the emphasis being on small collection tasks like fishing, bug-catching, and foraging. again, all of this is specifically to craft new outfits for nikki which you can both coordinate with no limitations to wear in the open world and use in scored styling contests with npcs, some of which reward you with game currency and some of which help you progress the story quests. the only place where i feel the gameplay truly suffers is in combat. you have one attack, and it's a ranged shooter, but there's no aim-assist whatsoever, and the mobile joystick isn't NEARLY sensitive enough to justify this. aiming in combat is one of the most difficult parts of the game, and nikki can only take 5 hits before she dies and has to respawn, making combat decently frustrating. However, there are very few places where combat is strictly necessary in-game, and both of the boss battles i've done so far had hitboxes large enough that it wasn't an issue; it's really in the open world against hordes of smaller enemies that the lack of targeting becomes really frustrating. other than that, though, the controls are fairly well-designed and intuitive, especially if you've played similar games before.

The clothes themselves are the star of the show, of course. I've yet to see a single clothing item in the game that I don't want. there's a good mix of fancy intricate outfit pieces and basics to obtain early-on, and without even touching the gacha you can coordinate some really cute outfits via in-universe boutiques and quests that reward you with clothes. Even the very obviously themed ability outfit sets that you craft early on almost always have a few pieces that are easy to mix and match with, so there's a TON of styling potential even for free players! As for the gacha, it's actually one of the more generous games i've played in terms of rewards and pity systems. My one complaint so far is that the 5-star gacha outfits especially seem to be very accessory-heavy, meaning it's possible to pull shoes, multiple necklaces, gloves, socks, and hairpieces before ever pulling the dress they're very obviously designed around. there is a pity mechanic to prevent this, but it requires you to pull a few too many times before your guarantee imo.

The story is ridiculous in a good way. It kind of reads like a 2000s-era barbie movie to me right now, in the best way possible. there's an amazingly predictable sexy villain, cute little flying creatures that follow you around, and every conflict is, of course, solved via clothes in one way or another. My absolute favorite thing about the writing, though, is how blatantly earnest it all is. at no point does the game poke fun at its own wacky concept or even attempt to make some self-aware joke about it to the player--it plays everything completely straight, and in this aspect it almost feels MORE self-aware. it knows that the kind of person who wants to play a dressup rpg is also the kind of person who does not, under any circumstances whatsoever, want to be questioned or made fun of for their love of fashion or their engagement with that game. It very much feels like the devs know that they're working with primarily girls and young women and a subject matter that those girls and young women are often looked down upon or made fun of for seriously engaging with, and so it promises to engage EXTRA-seriously to make up for that. (side note: there's one point in a story quest where, when asked to make a wish, nikki wishes that all girls never get cramps again. that was when i knew this was a game that knew its audience.) If I wanted to nitpick, i might say that every quest so far has sort of felt like an increasingly ridiculous trading sequence--you learn what you need to do very early on, but you'll always spend several hours of gameplay encountering obstacles and doing other smaller tasks to circumvent those obstacles so you can reach your original goal. this might annoy me more if the game was trying to market itself as a serious RPG, but it seems very self-aware to me, and despite how i'm describing it none of the quests ive played have actually FELT tedious. I think the fact that it's such a wild concept to begin with gives the writers a bit of leeway in how they handle the story quests, and because I as the player am aware i'm playing a dressup game I don't really expect quests to immediately get to the point and let me fight something. I will say that there are certain things that aren't super intuitive especially if you aren't a seasoned gacha rpg player, particularly the features relating to advancing your skills and the styling points of your clothing. though the game does technically explain what you need to do, it doesn't explain the RELEVANCE of the feature, just that it exists, so I had to lose multiple styling contests before I realized i could upgrade my clothing to get higher scores.

The final thing I'll talk about is performance. I'm playing the game on my iphone 13, and the performance is.... not great, i'm ngl. Off the bat, if you play the game on a mobile device, you're going to be getting a HEAVILY scaled-down version of the terrain graphics. all of those screenshots you see online of beautiful terrain full of flowers and particle effects are from ps5s or custom pcs. truthfully, the mobile app looks like a game from 2012 and it will still turn your phone into an incinerator. I've also encountered multiple graphics bugs, some during pivotal scenes, and I get consistent lags when playing for longer than a few hours, likely due to the strain on my phone's hardware. it's also an INSANE battery drain, so i only play when my phone is plugged in. All that being said, the game has been out for less than a week, so visual bugs are inevitable, and the developers have stated that mobile optimization is a priority, so hopefully we'll at the very least no longer have to overheat our devices to play it soon. Also worth noting, from what I've seen the rendering of the CLOTHING doesn't suffer AT ALL on mobile devices. presumably they sacrificed terrain rendering to allow for such beautiful texturing on the clothing itself, which, given that the clothing is the main focus of the game, I can't fault them for. Basically, if you're going to try to run an unreal engine game on your iphone, be aware that it will run like an unreal engine game on an iphone. and prepare yourself to have to let your device cool down every few hours.

tldr: i love the game so far. i'm really excited to keep playing and see where the story goes, and I think they should make more games for girls <3