#ring a ding antonblast

[nicoleisnttcool]

ring-a-ding cuz i like this fella

[nartblartmallcop]

i love making gijinka designs 💗 but i got so into my usual groove while drawing that i completely forgot skin colours do Not work like that in antonblast... not to worry i made them some wacky palettes too

[retr0scum]

Antonblast: The Devil's Workshop (aka Steampunk AU)

[anjellion-drawthings]

A compilation of my recent Antonblast drawings!! I love this game so far! :D

Alt text for original image captions/descriptions, haha.

[churchofsatansass]

So, inspired by someone on Reddit doing the same thing, I made a tierlist of Antonblast characters based on who I think is the sexiest.

... Yes, they did put Satan in his own tier, too. So what? They were right to do that!

[beelzetwin]

_Spoilers btw |_

I implore everyone to play Antonblast immediately

[merwynpersonalhub]

(Warning for disturbing imagery under readmore!)

[royalcreampuff24]

I’ve seen a few people do tier lists based on how hot the Antonblast characters are, so here’s mine!

Yes, the tiers are ordered.

[thebluekittylol]

probably gonna post all my antonblast gijinka gals on here

i might draw moonits as a gijinka gal too, hmmm....

[ashlynniis-bracketeers]

E.G.OBLAST 4 {Antonblast/PMoon} (Lantern RAD - Gold Rush JG - Roseate Desire JG)

Moar E.G.OBLAST upon ye, this time featuring one character with both a LobCorp/Ruina and Limbus E.G.O 83. Ring-A-Ding and Jewel Ghoul x2.

I'll be putting my reasonings/design notes under a cut, because there's Lotsa Text™.

I hope you like it!

First up: Ring-A-Ding, with Lantern (Meat Lantern, E.G.O name shared with Faelantern).

I gave R-A-D Meat Lantern due to their shared association with hunger/Gluttony (R-A-D's official sin: "Gluttony can apply to much more than the size of a meal"), deception (ML's lure, R-A-D looking like a bell but splitting open into an angelic abomination), and dangerous plants (ML's lure looks like a flower with a glowing bulb, while the non-boss level most associated with R-A-D is The Mysterious Glasshouse, which is filled with carnivorous plants. Don't even get me STARTED on the "Irritating Plant Room"...). Paradise Lost could also fit with the shared theme of "transforming to reveal an angelic abomination", but Meat Lantern just generally fit better.

Meat Lantern doesn't have a "Ruina-style/Limbus super-move-style" E.G.O, and Ring-A-Ding is a fucking bell, so I basically had free reign lmao. Gave it a little fur boa 83. The Corrosion is meant to resemble Ring-A-Ding's third phase with an inverted pose to resemble ML's breaching form, no wings, breaching ML's teeth (with the gums colored after third-phase R-A-D's weird membrane), eyes in a place like a "hinge", and less arms that are inside its mouth. I've been corru-brained lately, so I ended up basing the Corrosion's eyes off of corru signature eyes like Tozik's jahsdkahds the colors already match

The text reads:

Awakening - Flicker, flicker... Feel free to behold my light all you like.

Corrosion - I see you right there. Come closer! Don't you see it? Isn't it beautiful? Aren't I beautiful?

Next up: Jewel Ghoul with Gold Rush (King of Greed).

Chose Gold Rush for JG's LobCorp/Ruina E.G.O because... I mean, c'mon. His Sin may be Lust, but the KoG's association with gold and opulence just pairs too well with a living gemstone.

The cape/gauntlet/Corrosion body texture was not manually drawn. Fuck that. That was me just using various textured brushes with black and red, and then copy-pasting them with various transformations applied lmao.

The idea of keeping the KoG's prison window on the body of the Corrosion and having JG's phase-two heart visible in it was inspired by a commenter on Reddit. They also mentioned making it resemble a fish, but I only saw that comment after I was nearly done... but I wanted to retain the JG's lack of limbs, replacing his hands with little mini-corrosions, so it ended up resembling a fish/eel anyway lmao.

The text reads:

Awakening: Shiny~! I'm downright gleamin'! Givin me everythin' I could ever want... all 'cept for you.

Corrosion: C'mere. I know exactly how you can make me the happiest little jewel in the whole wide world...

Lastly: Jewel Ghoul again, this time with Roseate Desire (Pink Shoes).

I picked it as his Limbus E.G.O primarily for one reason: Lust-affinity. JG's official Sin is listed as Lust ("Lust is a distraction most dangerous"). He's lust in the "horrendous sleazebag" sense, hedonistic and lecherous (what with the gem strippers in the background of his fight), and the Pink Shoes seem to have a theme of being controlled by one's desires as opposed to being the one properly controlling them. Fits...

...but then I had to figure out how to incorporate the shoes into the design, considering JG's complete lack of legs lmao. For his Awakening: Hat decoration + one dangling from his waist by a ribbon. For his Corrosion: The shoes dangle from an unseen area above him, ribbons replacing his little wispy blue tail(s, including his hands) and body. Wanted to play up more body horror for it. His Corrosion is literally empty inside, not properly filled by his mindless hedonism 83

The text reads:

Awakening: C'mere, doll! Let's dance! Gimme everythin' you've got!

Corrosion: Click, clack... clip, clop... Y'know ya can't ever escape me.

[kitkat-artcorner]

Hey, srry ab not posting for like, 2 months n a half lol

But I made a new video 4 y'all 2 see! Since my schedule is more open now I'll b able 2 draw more often again!

[antonblast-confessions]

I'm really looking forward to the official release of the soundtrack. I'm obsessed with the Ring-A-Ding theme 💥💥💥

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[retr0scum]

fine

[tapakpidor]

Meh

[orangepterodactyl]

oh yeah i got cracked on ring a ding like three times last night but the first two didn't count bc i was using "restart from last checkpoint"

normally using it is fine so long as you only use it on a boss' first phase, it just saves me from having to watch the boss' intro cutscene every time i restart. i guess because ring a ding doesn't start with a cutscene, but with you actively hitting him to begin the boss fight, it didn't count?

idk my guess is, after that initial first hit the game treats it as if you're in a new phase, even though the ring a ding fight really only "begins" after it. because the game sees you're in a new phase, it counts hits across restarts unless you restart completely using "restart stage"

[vividviolence]

Alright after having played the entire campaign & indulged in a bit of the postgame, here's my current rankings for every stage & boss in antonblast! via this tierlist right here

My thoughts on each individual stage will be under the cut, ordered from favorites to least favorites :]

The Levels...

I feel like Pinball Mire and Mad Mall are overall fine levels dragged down by a single really annoying gimmick or two. This is to say that the pinball is the single worst transformation in the game and I found the time limits & trash goblins to be a fuckin' chore.

Bomb Candy Mines and Cinnamon Springs really only have the crime of not being as interesting as later stages. They're largely good & fun to go back to, but I'd easily pick something like Mysterious Glasshouse due to their environments not being as cool to me.

Devilled Gardens is a really fun stage thematically but having to sit through Moonits' dialouge every single time I replay the stage kinda kills a lot of its replay value, & while I think the timer mech is a really really fucking cool setpiece it's pretty boring mechanically.

Boiler City is a really solid introduction to the game! Not much more to say, outside of the bombastic chase sequence at the end it doesn't really seek to blow your balls off too hard- which is good imo. it makes a strong first impression & does what it seeks to do well.

Same can largely be said about Crimson Factory, but it gets to be slightly higher up because it has damn good music and my favorite paul location in the game.

Outside of the grindrail sections The Mysterious Glasshouse is an overall solid stage. It maybe goes on for a bit too long, but each mechanic it introduces is used well enough that I'll give it a pass :]

Slowroast Sewer has some of my favorite mechanics out of any stage. The water, the sewer shark, the rat enemy, all of these are fun to play around & master.

I dunno if I'm in the minority but I fuckin' love replaying Hell Manor. I LOVE when games bring back every previous mechanic and force you to use em in new ways, and Hell Manor exceeds at that with flying colors!

Big Bath. Probably the single most unique stage in the entire game, still insane to me that they had the balls to just actually send you to non-euclidean poolrooms hell. I also love that while it's clear the stage isn't trying too hard to take itself seriously, it also isn't too much of an explicit parody either. The weird fucked up geometry is played pretty straight, and really the only comedic elements are The Duck(s) and the fakeout at the end.

And finally, for my favorite Antonblast level, Concrete Jungle!!!! I love Concrete Jungle so fucking much. The music, the enemies, the gimmicks, the stage concept, all of these come together to make the most solid gameplay experience in the entire game for me. It's the absolute platonic ideal of what an Antonblast stage should be imo...

Shit I still have to talk about the bosses.

Okay fuck I spent so much time talking about each individual stage that I'm just gonna shoot each boss rq. h

Brawlbuster does a fine job as an introductory boss, but outside of that he really doesn't have much going for him. Hey, at least his animations & design are cool! I respect him but do not feel much for him.

Probably unpopular opinion but outside of the third phase I found Ring a Ding boring. Didn't really dig his first phase track & I think the fact that he's literally just a massive bell with eyes is kinda lame for what's meant to be the penultimate boss of the game. Third phase was sick as hell though I'll give him that!

I like maulbuster :] unfortunately the way her fight changes your ui was really really confusing and I had to spend several attempts just figuring out how I was supposed to damage her. there was a short period where I legitimately thought I had to attack the bullets instead of dodge them! It was confusing! Once you get a handle on things the fight's fun & pretty easy though

I don't have much to say about smallbuster other then she's cute & her fight is fun :]

I love Freako Dragon. Big pachinko ball dragon... honestly high contendor for my favorite design in the whole game. Really his fight would be higher if it was just easier to control anton during the second phase, that's like the one thing I don't like about it.

Tallbuster is my favorite of the bossbusters. I should probably swap him and freako but I think he deserves to be in the top 3 :] anyways his weakness is very clearly conveyed, his attacks aren't too too hard to dodge, and really he just lacks any glaring flaws imo. He's like THE antonblast boss to me.

I'm not fucking talking about every phase of satan but it's a really damn good ending to the game. first phase busts your balls appropriately well & the following phases are all compoundingly intense, but not really in an overbearing way. it's good boss yes yes

Jewel Ghoul fucking rules. 10/10 design, 10/10 theme, 10/10 attack patterns, he's very deserving of the placement of best antonblast boss to me.

Anyways wow that's all. I don't have a way to end this. I'm tired. lol