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veebs-hates-video-games · 2 years ago

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Moving on to quick notes on games I've played on Steam since June and didn't finish but left in the "maybe I'll get back to this some day" category, part 2 of 2:

A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build: Great presentation, feels good to play, but I think I've probably had enough Sokoban-derivative puzzles for one lifetime by now

Yankai's Peak: More puzzles, seems fine but didn't really grab me

The Solitaire Conspiracy: I like the idea of turning a solitaire game into some kind of spy/espionage/thriller kind of thing, but I wasn't into it enough to finish the story

One Piece Pirate Warriors 3: I was curious if any of the non-Nintendo Warriors games (not counting P5S, which I might try if I get on ok with P5R some day) would actually do it for me. This one definitely feels pretty dated, and it's not a very good PC port either. Doesn't help that I don't actually care about One Piece either

FTL: I kinda forgot to play it for several years, and now it turns out I don't really like it anyway so I wasn't really missing out

Shadowhand: Another game that mixes story and solitaire, and it's vaguely ok, but I wasn't super into either aspect of it

Dissembler: More minimalist puzzles that weren't really doing much for me

Dragon Age Inquisition: I'll probably try it again at some point if I'm bored and can get a controller to work right with it to see if that helps, but I wasn't feeling it. I've never been super invested in the Dragon Age world/story (some of the characters are great though), but also it's just super ugly? Like it's a lot more advanced than the first two games on a technical level, but the art style changes are really not pretty

King's Bounty: Dark Side: Continuing my tradition of getting bored of every King's Bounty game other than The Legend within a couple hours

Hand of Fate: I was curious about where it was going until where it went was weird/bad realtime combat, and then I learned that that's something I don't want in a card game

Devil Daggers: I am not great at this game, but I had fun learning the basic mechanics and getting better each run...but not enough fun to stick with it for more than a couple hours

Soul Calibur VI: I made a character in the character creator, then I went to start the story mode that has the tutorials in it and it wouldn't let me use that character and I had to make another one, and then it was less fun than I remember the old SC games being and I got bored and stopped

Killer Instinct: Seems ok I guess, but the feel of it wasn't clicking with me

Final Fantasy XV: So many mixed feelings. I really want to like the boy band road trip, and there are aspects of it I was genuinely enjoying, but there are just way too many things that were annoying me and added up. It's pretty decent at character interactions but absolutely terrible at exposition and conveying information about the world, and I've been spoiled by things like XC3 letting me fast travel anywhere at any time. This one could probably get its own post to include everything though

#final fantasy xv #killer instinct #soul calibur vi #devil daggers #hand of fate #king's bounty: dark side #dragon age inquisition #dissembler #shadowhand #ftl #one piece pirate warriors 3 #the solitaire conspiracy #yankai's peak #a good snowman is hard to build

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l-in-the-light · 1 month ago

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Only 2 days left... 🥰🎂🎁🎈How would Law celebrate his birthday? The crew planing a surprise party for him?

Oopsie, I'm a tiny bit late replying to this ask, I'm sorry, I was on the Luffy vs Katakuri mission :D but even if it's one day late it still counts anyway! I hope? :3

I think Law would probably not pay much attention to his own birthday. It's possible it reminds him of how he celebrated it with his parents and little sister, and maybe he wouldn't really be ready to celebrate it without them for quite some time. I bet Bepo, Penguin and Shachi had to work around that a lot, like claiming it's a "joined" birthday celebration of some kind, so they could make it easier for Law to accept it as fine again. After some time it would become a sacred tradition on Polar Tang to celebrate everyone's birthdays whenever they come by, Law's as well of course. Law would be always like "I don't need a big celebration party", but he would still accept the cakes and the gifts. Whenever someone asks him what he would want for his birthday he would just go with some easy answer like "anything is good" or "another coin for collection".

Of course, don't think Penguin and Shachi (and Bepo, he would be dragged into their antics 100%) would declare defeat that easily. Once in a while they would try to make Law's birthday more special than that and they would use all the possible resources to achieve it. Normal surprise party wouldn't work on Law, because he would expect a celebration to happen, and they can pull the "we forgot this year, captain, we're sorry" stunt only so many times before it stops working altogether. But let's say they caught a wind about Sora convention or some other Sora related big event happening somewhere. Of course they didn't miss the spark in Law's eyes when he first found out about it, but he denied and said it's for kids and he's good, and he definitely won't drag the whole crew to some silly event like that. That's the moment Penguin and Shachi decided THIS IS IT and they will make this event into next surprise party for their beloved captain. They're gonna kidnap his ass and bring him there so he can have the best day of his life!

They would conspire with the Strawhats for that, because damn, they're desperate to make it work, and they have to make sure Law has no idea about their sneaky little plan. They would dump their captain on Sunny for a week (officially Luffy was in trouble or something like that) so they scramble leaving him there, using some very thorough excuse (nothing less than that could fool Law), while in reality they will work on all the preparations. They also made sure to let the Strawhats know their meeting point and gave them the special mission they just Can't Fail No Matter What, which is to put Law to sleep somehow the night before their big meetup and Not Let Him Know About The Secret Plan. Knowing Strawhats, it would end in some disaster and Law would get a pretty good idea that something is fishy, at the very least. He would never guess it's for his birthday though, because it's not the correct month (it would be too much of a coincidence if the event happens in October, right?).

On the fated day they arrive at the venue where the Sora con is gonna happen and Law is dumbfounded. He noticed for a few days already that they're getting suspiciously close to the event (yes, he told his crew he's not interested, but he still remembered where the event was gonna be held and even traced down the island on the map before, ofc when he was alone). But he never expected to wake up to see his Hearts welcoming him on the island, all wearing self-made Germa and Sora cosplays, shouting a Happy Birthday to him, out of the season. Strawhats tease Law to death that he's such a fanboy and when Law sees his present (a Sora costume) he gets too embarrassed and refuses to wear it. Luffy notices that, takes it and wears it instead, even though it's too big on him, but he thinks it makes Law happy (it actually kinda does lol).

Law realizes he might as well get along with it, if only not to destroy Hearts efforts (he can tell how much work they put into it). And so they spend a whole weekend in the venue filled to the brim with celebratory stuff, Sora merchandise, Sora-themed arcade machines, Sora-themed cafes, cosplay contests (Hearts win it easily and they even manage to bring Law cosplayed on the stage too, but he refuses to later admit that it was actually him haha. Only Luffy knows, because Law needed the costume back for an hour). And there's that big screen in the venue ready for announcements, and they had a surprise big news to share, and it turns out Sora is getting an anime adaptation. Law malfunctions at that (by freezing in spot) from joy while Hearts make the loudest applaud the world has ever seen (Strawhats join in just because of the shared excitement, because they're Strawhats and that's what they do :D). Law spends the whole day being either dragged by Hearts around or dragged by Luffy to play with him on the arcades (Luffy sucks at it and insists he wants to get better and Law is stuck with him for most of the day as the result, not counting the food breaks and big announcements stuff Law refuses to skip no matter what). Law ends up skipping one of the meals just to stroll around on his own for once. He soon is found anyway and dragged along.

The day ends with special fireworks show at night, and some of the fireworks are forming the infamous 66 logo (damn Germa, Law would comment on it under his nose) and Sora's robot doing a laser attack at it (everyone's eyes would sparkle for a good hour afterwards). And while sitting there watching the show, Law would peek at everyone. At his Hearts rehearsing some cosplay skit they will do for one of tomorrow's contests (probably trying to recreate one of their favourite gags from Sora comics, and Yamato is apparently joining them for some reason), at Jean Bart who gets very excited too despite having never read any Sora comic before (he's cosplaying as Sora's robot companion and Law thinks he looks very cool), at Bepo who probably doesn't get all the details they're discussing but it makes him all very excited (he's cosplaying the Sora's seagull companion, that's why he's wearing a cap with a seagull sitting on top of his head. He even has a special string attached to it and when he pulls on it, the wings flap up and down, but he did it so many times today that it already broke). Ikkaku is of course cosplaying Poison Pink and she's selling it so well Law caught himself not recognizing her a few times already through the day.

Then he looks at the Strawhats. Chopper munches on some cotton candy he got from one of many food stalls outside (cotton candy comes in all the representative Germa's colors), Franky apparently got inspired by the fireworks show and all the cosplayers from earlier and is trying to create a Sora's robot miniature at the moment from the scraps he took from Sunny, Jimbei is just drinking one of the many cocktails (also based on Germa's color schemes and named after some of their cool attacks, damn that Germa) together with Zoro, Sanji is apparently trying his hand on preparing his very own variation of Sora-inspired recipe on quickly arranged half-borrowed equipment (bless him, he's the only one who understands Sora is cooler than Germa! Why are all the foods inspired only by Germa?! It's a Sora event!), Nami and Robin just enjoy the show, discussing something (Law has no idea they're actually talking about the gifts they got for him and will give him tomorrow, even though it's technically not his birthday). Brook falls paralyzed to the ground when Franky's laser from the tiny robot hits him, and he pretends to be a corpse (he's pretty good at it, too), only to get back up again a moment later and repeat it again and again, clearly having fun.

Meanwhile Usopp is nowhere to be found, but suddenly Sogeking is here and is trying to sell some tall tale to the Hearts that Sogeking is a long-lost friend of Sora Warrior of the Sea (that picks Law's interest for a moment, but he's sure he would have heard about that before if that was the case). And then there's Luffy who apparently tries to learn how to make one of Sora's attacks from one of the Heart Pirates. When Luffy spots Law looking at him he beams him a smile and gestures a surprise attack in his direction, which Law pretends to effortlessly dodge.

And when Law looks at all of them in this moment, he thinks he's kinda happy and that maybe, just maybe, he shouldn't avoid his birthdays anymore. Also, technically, it's not his birthday, so it's okay. He feels a bit like a kid again, celebrating with his beloved family, and even though they're not here with him, his other two families are instead. He also realizes this is probably the first time in his life when he just celebrated something for two days in a row, no attention divided by anything else, no work to be done in-between. And he finds himself really looking forward to another day of this event.

Little does he know the next day he is gonna be showered with gifts from everyone. His crew gives him a complete edition of every Sora comic ever released, in hardcover, and looots of cool looking Sora and Germa figurines. There's so many of them they each have to hold a few as they all approach closer to give it to him. Bepo though apparently missed the memo and gave him a T-shirt with a Sora's portrait on it instead (with the well-known credo of his "I will punish you in the name of the moon!" written on it as well), making Penguin and Shachi laugh (they all know Law prefers to customize his own clothes so no one dares to gift him any garments). Yet, contrary to their expectations, Law wears this particular T-shirt every other day on Polar Tang from now on. Penguin and Shachi also give him a commemorative coin from the event, one they custom-made so it's the only one in the whole world (if Law got touched by that he tried to hide it very, very well under his hat).

But Strawhats also gave him some gifts, which is something he never expected to happen. Franky gave him (a self-made!) projector so Law can watch the upcoming Sora anime on big screen/wall and added the tiny Sora's robot he was making yesterday (he indeed can shoot freaking lasers!). Zoro gave Law some really cool looking alcohol he apparently won in one of the competitions. It was produced in the year when the very first Sora's strip came out (Zoro of course had no idea, he just gave it to him because it looked pricey and he was looking for a gift anyway). Sanji brings him a definitely self-made but most impressive birthday cake Law has ever seen, on top of which small figurine (made out of sugar) of Sora is stomping over defeated Germa (he refused to give Law the recipe though, damn Kuroashi-ya). Chopper gave Law Sora's gun replica, because he thought it looked cool and it reminded him of Hiluluk's modified aneasthesia gun. He said he had to use his Strong Point and Horn Point to fight other people trying to land their hands on it, because apparently they were sold in extremely limited supply.

Robin gave Law a book that they sold only at this venue, documenting all the history of Sora's publication, trivias, interviews with the author etc. Most of things Law already knew, but never had them collected in one handy (and very thick) volume, and it becomes one of his most browsed books on his shelf from now on. Usopp and Nami queued through a number of lottery tickets to win a special price for Law and proudly present him a winning ticket. They probably spent a whole day yesterday exchanging and collecting receipts from people buying merchandise and food so they could get a decent shot at that. Brook hands him an autograph from Sora's author (with a small handrawn picture of Sora!) with dedication to no one else but Law written on it. Upon being questioned how he got it, he refused to share his secret, yohohoho. Coincidentally, the next day the event reveals a special guest on the stage, who happens to be the author of the Sora comics in person.

Jimbei is a simple man so he just got the commemorative set of cups and plates they sold at the event, for Law and all of his Heart Pirates (Shachi and Penguin thanked him with tears spilling out of their eyes like waterfalls). Yamato, who shares the same passion and fanboyish spirit (to Oden, not Sora, but still), went through all the amateur artists and bought the most interesting looking dojins. He couldn't decide which are the best, so Law is now getting three huge cardboard boxes filled to the brim, Yamato was carrying two under his arms, and one on top of his head as well.

Luffy saw a 1:1 replica of Sora's figurine and decided that will be his gift to Law (it probably wasn't for sale and Luffy stole it, now it has a sloppily wrapped ribbon around it, probably not Luffy's idea but someone clumsily trying to help him make it look more like a gift). Luffy thought it's the perfect idea, because he also dreams of having his own statue on Sunny. Law keeps it and doesn't allow Nami and the others attempt to return it where it came from.

In exchange for all the love he received, Law bought them anything they wanted as well, and paid for the food party they did at the end of the day. He also found out what was the special price he got the ticket for, which turned out to be a voucher he can redeem in all the places around the world related to Sora's adventures in the comics, it comes together with a treasure map marking all the related locations.

And that's how Law's room on Polar Tang turned into a huge Sora fanboy's display. Law of course bought some merchandise for himself as well, including the official poster for the upcoming anime, coasters, notebooks and pens with Sora's pictures on it (all very practical things). He was too embarrassed to hang the poster though, so it was sitting neatly rolled up in the corner of his room, until one day Luffy visited, found it and sticked it to the wall with superglue, and of course he made it very visibly crooked to the side, because Luffy has never hanged any poster before.

When the event finished and it was time to part their ways again, Strawhats and Hearts would make a promise to repeat this the next year, because the organizators already decided they will do another Sora event like this after the success of first edition. Law secretly thinks that day seems like an eternity away in the future.

#one piece #trafalgar law #luffy #lawlu #just a tiny bit of Lawlu #heart pirates #strawhats #happy birthday Law <3 #now THIS is totally a meta fic xD #Sora warrior of the sea #I went all out here because Law deserves all the happiness okay #thank you so much for the ask #it was a blast to write :D #I had this idea for a while already but had no opportunity to share or write it in any form or detail <3 #ask #meta fanfiction

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