#playing NG now

[pacing-er]

Death Mark 2 was definitely inferior to the first game but there were a lot of things to like about it too! Some great moments between Yashiki and Mashita, and it was fun getting to see animated versions of the characters walk around (The canon Yashita height difference is so cute 🥰)

It definitely had a very different writing style than the first game, especially when it came to how the lines of the characters were translated. The characters cussed a lot more (especially Yashiki which surprised me) whereas they didn't really swear at all in the first game. It wasn't necessarily bad but it stuck out to me. Overall I enjoyed the characterization since it made for moments like the one above.

I have some complaints about the repetitiveness and how they made it so you can't save the "marked" students. It being set in a school made it so you explored the same setting over and over again with the exception being the forest and bus route. However, I did enjoy the student characters they introduced and found their personalities entertaining. Again though I would have preferred if they gave us an option to save them. Coming from the first game where saving everyone gave you some very satisfying bonus content it made me feel like I was doing something wrong when everyone died lol. The trade off was Yashiki angst which I enjoyed I guess

(MAJOR SPOILERS AND TW BELOW)

I really enjoyed the ending of the game! The backstory of The Departed was satisfyingly gruesome and I really love the role reversal of Yashiki being subjected to the same fate in the bad ending of the game. Overall it was super stylish and I found the conclusion of The Departed story in the good ending very cathartic. Especially the bit where he speculates that The Departed was able to experience the normal life that they always wished for while inhabiting the bodies of those girls. In general I found The Departed to be a very compelling and sympathetic antagonist. Unfortunately the other minor antagonists were overall pretty boring.

[catacosmo]

I love Clive

[leoppipi]

Art summary for 2024! I was struggling with art block in December but I managed to do at least one a month! Super happy weith myself. Still avoiding drawing backgrounds but trying to move away from plain coloured bgs as well...

Anyway, onto another year of art and improvement!!!

[loumauve]

a little more disorganised exploring

[sieglinde-freud]

HES SOOOOOOOOOO CUTEEEEE 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[300iqprower]

well i have now officially beaten every soulsborne game and i have platinumed half of them

and frankly speaking…..Dark Souls 2 is the best Dark Souls game and the second best game after Bloodborne.

[reliquiaen]

Okay, a few years back I made this graphic to explain the Great Cycle. Now that I've mulled over DD2 for a few days, I'm updating it. Some of the same assumptions as before remain: The Dragonforged fought the dragon, his weapon broke, he tried punching it (lmao), but he did survive without killing the dragon, possibly there was a second Bargain offered in the face of his determination. So you don't have to kill your dragon to survive it. Also still assuming that different classes become different types of drakes because I just like that detail, even though we see nothing to confirm it in DD2 (except maybe for the wyrms in the post-game, I hope that's what those are, just a bit redesigned).

But this time, I'm making some NEW assumptions: A Great Dragon can be manifested directly by the Seneschal's will (I'm guessing this is why our DD2 dragon doesn't have a name, I suspect this dragon was created after Rothais defeated his - he didn't become a dragon OR Seneschal so it had to come from somewhere). The challenge a Seneschal poses to the Arisen can be anything; Savan gave us the opening of the Everfall and unleashed a ton of powerful monsters upon the world; but Pathfinder gave us what the world would look like without a Seneschal to oversee things. My assumption is that the Colossal Dragon that appears out of that final red pillar of light IS the Pathfinder (possibly using his will to force order back upon the world) and when we kill it, our Arisen becomes Seneschal (because Pathfinder says he won't be there to see the new world that's forming). So the challenge can be anything, not just the Everfall. I'm curious what happens to our pawn after that fight, though. And it's a much better Seneschal fight than the one against Savan, sorry Savan.

I'm also assuming that (given we see the Pathfinder rewind time and rewrite the world) the Seneschal can simply will the world into a state of being that suits them. This includes wiping memories of events. Though I like to imagine that our Arisen-turned-Seneschal didn't wipe memories of themselves or of the apocalypse-world. There was an entire plotline going through this game with Rothais and Phaesus where mortals are trying to get rid of the Seneschal and so it makes sense that they need to remember what would happen without the Seneschal's presence.

Anyway, thanks. I'll probably have more thoughts later, but this is the part that gets me most. I like to know how things work so I wanted to sort the Cycle out.

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[arisenreborn]

Okay for my end-y bits!

idk my bff sigurd? imagining him actually having unrequited feelsies for Reverie is actually really cute and ow though :'')

These results remain nonetheless hilarious though because these were just people whose quests I did most recently. BUT I think Trysha is really cute on account of my HC that her and Rann have an adorable familial bond studying magic together. 🥹

@vestaloflight, @soloavengers, @wokestone - Sev is baby, my early game buddy. 🥺 Did let out an actual sob when I saw Winnie. 😭 Beckett saved my ass in endgame so many times 😌

All right... time to go again.

[undefeatablesin]

I have been enjoying Dark Souls lately in the wait for SotE so please enjoy these pictures of my Unkindled in DS3 😂

[mistress-light]

Finally got them ;A;

[marshmurmurs]

i bestow upon primrose the ability to be a zenkichi hater during strikers

[a-sketchy]

hamuko i love you. minako i love you. kotone i love you. the one and only persona protagonist fuck all those other guys tbh the only wildcard that matters i would forsake the universe for you girl

[pastellmochi]

non paralive moots im begging yuo listen to my wife singing

[onewingedangels]

I'm confident enough to say that tr chronicles became another favorite tr game of mine

[monsterpotion]

doing a little new new game playthru of ac6 for friends to watch. there's a playlist!