#seems like a neat game tho and there's like an emulation out there I think? or smth

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Have you ever played/made art of Kurohyou? :0

never played but I know vaguely about it. that said, haven't really made art on my own time for it but I got comm'd once to draw some line art of the main dude 👀

[aether-friskets]

Coming back to this now, I'd like to present my revised version of this personal ranking:

1. Silent Hill 3

While I think 2 is like, a masterpiece in a lot of ways and really awesome, 3 will always be special to me and it feels wrong to put it any lower.

2. Silent Hill 2

See my previous note. It's the first one I played just honestly is a really great game, and a great intro to the series.

3. Silent Hill 4

OK HEAR ME OUT— originally I was gonna put 1 higher, but there was a lot of stuff this game I did that I thought was cool (like the apartment safe room that also isn't so safe later on), and I just generally thought it was pretty cool.

4. Silent Hill

This one set the basis for the entire series, I love the way it looks, and it's generally pretty neat. However, they definitely refined stuff after this one, and I felt the difference at times. That being said, it's still really awesome!!

5. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Ok admittedly I haven't finished this one yet. It softlocked because it kept crashing at the same cutscene, so I'm thinking of trying to emulate the Wii version instead of PSP (I wanna get a legit Wii copy but it's hard to find, let alone not insanely expensive lol). HoweveR, I think the reimagining of this alternate Silent Hill 1 is a cool concept, and the psych sections are pretty cool (AND they have effects on the world? That's pretty cool idk what else to say). I don't think it's better than the original, and I'm glad it's a different continuity rather than some kinda retcon, but I just think it's neat :)

6. Silent Hill: Origins/Zero

I found that this one had some issues from a story standpoint, and I think it could've benefited from either focusing more solely on Travis, or on the prequel element. That being said, I had fun playing it still! It felt like it was trying to do something interesting with the weapons and the mirror mechanics, which I thought were pretty fun... Tho in some ways took away from the horror, but I liked it enough to not mind while playing.

7. Silent Hill: Homecoming

I... Tried to give this one a fair chance. I really wanted to be like "yeah this ain't too bad". But like. I had a lot of technical stuff like the game crashing and the map literally not working. I'd change keybinds for the controls and they'd change back. It had a stronger combat focus, but the combat was usually annoying and frustrating. The story just... Didn't really compel me enough to stick with it. I haven't even finished it yet because I keep putting it off and not really wanting to finish it at this point.

As for ones not listed here (like Downpour), I either haven't played them yet, or I've played such a small amount that it didn't seem worth including. So uh... Yeah. These are just my personal feelings, if you like any of the lower ranked ones or dislike any of the higher ranked ones for me, that's fine!

not to ramble about things while I'm supposed to be working on stuff

but I actually really liked SH Origins!! I mean it wasn't perfect for sure, but I thought it was fun and the mirror mechanic was neat.

I'm not sure what the general consensus on the game is, but I liked it.

I've yet to play Shattered Memories or Downpour so I can't say anything about those ones, and I haven't finished Homecoming because technical difficulties keep being frustrating so I end up putting it off to play other things :/

I also had technical difficulties with SH4 but that was because my antivirus was convinced a config file it needed to work was unsafe even though it was like 10 KB and didn't cause any issues the entire time it was on my computer—

If I were go off the top of my head, I'd rate my personal enjoyment of the games thus far as something like:

1. Silent Hill 3

2. Silent Hill 2 (including Born From a Wish)

3. Silent Hill 1

4. Silent Hill Origins & 4 (they're basically tied for me)

5. Silent Hill Homecoming (not finished yet)

???. Shattered Memories & Downpour (if I ever play them this order could be shuffled around a bit)

I didn't count Book of Memories or the arcade game because I haven't played them and they're more like spin-off than main games, but I might try Book of Memories one day just to see what it's like

Anyway I need to stop procrastinating now

[astro-break]

Thoughts on the 8th ep of Hypmic Rhyme Anima. Spoilers beware

Ep.1 | Ep.2 | Ep.3 | Ep.4 & 5 | Ep. 6 | Ep. 7

Love that every time its a MTC centric episode im so busy that i can’t watch it the day it airs

I like how the beginning of the episode kinda mirrors the events in MTC’s story in ARB

hey hypmic you wanna try making it Less obvious who the culprit is? like damn you’re just giving away secrets like its candy. First Ramuda, the Ruikawa and now these two assholes. Might wanna keep your cards close before you spoil the ending of the anime oh wait they already did that nvm :p

Samatoki please have some sense of self preservation and ask what its about before accepting something. but I guess it also speaks to how trusting he is of those he lets close to him which also explains a bit more as to why he hates Ichirou’s guts

Love that Jyuto is actually choking the information out of someone and Samatoki is actually gathering intelligence and creating boards out of it. Most people expect the opposite from their characters and it such a great dynamic

I find it hilarious that Rio uses older computers but that brings up the question of “How far into the future really is hypmic?” bc those computers look to be from early 2000′s which would be A N C I E N T and completely unusable for hacking come a time when WWIII happens

Iris on a bike has no rights looking as hot as she does. The vehicle CGI is really nice too and so is her character model on top of the bike. Loving how Iris completely owns the two cops

The MTC love here is jsut. through the roof i can die happy now that i’ve seen Samatoki aggressively caring for his teammates animated and voiced. like, please. just. help. I can.t/ MTC care so much for each other I would hug them all and tell them good work, you can finally go rest now uughghghgh MTC guys. MTC

But mannn Iris is so cool, approaching MTC without any fear

I find it hilarious that Saburo would pose as a game dev from dubai which yknow doesn’t make any sense if you think about it. but whatever it just makes me laugh at how easy it is to fake a lot about yourself because yeah! it is easy! 

The whole conversation about cops and good cops seems a bit off considering ACAB but considering Japan who has largely swept both BLM and ACAB under the rug it isn’t surprising. That isn’t to say that Japan doesn’t care, its just that these movements aren’t on the spotlight so topics like these don’t carry as much weight

lol yeah he should have expected to be stabbed from the front lol

SRKHFSKJD Rio please stop living in the water, i can’t believe he did that lol

Love the SamaJyuto subtext in the translation lol

Jyuto’s sequence is kinda cute in a way ahaha

The kurosawa-esque b&w screens are a nice touch to the song as well as the MC Name drops and hypnosis speaker drops. Idk about Rio’s 2DIE4 reference though since it doesn’t really rhyme nor does it add much to the rap itself

The song itself is pretty nice but it isn’t a bop like Fallin’ was. It has a different more gritty feel to it that i don’t hate but isn’t my style

Of course Iruma pulls this situation into his favor, its so typical of him.

Rio didn’t speak much here and took a general backseat to everything. I wonder if it was because during the time of recording this episode, Rio’s VA, Kamio Shinichiro, went down with The Virus (you know the one) so he couldn’t record much. Who knows but best boy. just let me hear best boy’s voice please

Ramuda’s phone vibrate actively annoys me oh my god it makes my skin crawl

If Ramuda’s sleeping on the couch then that really does confirm that Ramuda lives in his studio. Not surprising considering everything we know about Ramuda but at the same time, please get like a futon or smth sleeping on a couch will only hurt your back

Ramuda just busting in is fun

but im not sure how to feel about two divisions shoved into one. like this is basically telling us who is the important divisions, Ikebukuro and Shinjuku. Obviously BB are the protagonists of the series what with the staff coming out to even say that Ichirou is the hero, and if you know what happens then you know why Shinjuku is also highlighted which. also gives away the ending of the anime. again. I’m just glad that the team decided to stick with the irl results bc if they didn’t, they’d have a lot of angry fans

Back to my main point tho, this just. pisses me off. I love FP and MTC and to see them sidelined like this doesn’t feel fair. they deserve full eps to themselves bc if I’m being honest, these two teams have some of the best inter team dynamics out of the current cast. I understand that budget issues and episode constraints exist but this is just kinda frustrating that my main division has been tossed aside and the team that gets the most overall development gets thrown away too

Im not surprised that they cheated because gambling anime is about who can outcheat the other and the mind games played. thats the thrill of gambling series is the psychological factors in it

Ramuda emulating Gentaro’s speech is cute

The mindgames are not present at all and I expected that lol

thats.... midly gay gentaro lol do you always go around pressing shit into people’s mouths while leaning in close? thats pretty gay lol i love the homoerotic subtext present in this episode. First SamaJyuto and now GenDice

no speaker summon sequence? thats slightly disappointing but whatever. the anime is really doing FP dirty by cutting a lot of corners with their episodes

I never noticed that Ramuda and Gentaro hold their mics in their left hand while Dice holds it with his right. neat detail

I love how even in a battle FP still keeps their preppy attitude

Gentaro looks so awkward to the little sway and kick thing in the song lolol

This is probably one of the songs that I like the least. Jackpost is a very Dice song and not really fitting for either Ramuda and Genaro. I think i’d like it more if it was a dice solo or dice centric but the emphasis was pretty cleanly spread so that makes it pretty hard to enjoy

Oh hell yeah FP meshing as a team is just, so cute. Though that foreshadowing with Ramuda and his candy is just. wow

Yup they kept the og brackets so I think the anime’s going to stick with the IRL results. Which means that any tension they try and build won’t work for ppl who are already familiar with the series but I hope they don’t take that fact as an excuse to slack off

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sees the team they gave opal,

anyway

(i dont have any big changes in mind for opals gym it was pretty perfect, if it was Real Life bede would not be in the running cause id smash that whole thing up, opal would NOT be able to resist my level of pink, if anything its  just a little plot changes, stuff i was already uuugh about)

(long before her mom retired, opal was a Scientist, but before that she had tried to break into acting ; despite at the time being just a young teenager she was turned away from auditions and even guilds for looking too old, defeated she gave into her mother's pressure and attended a college, she ended up being at the forefront of the verging bio-technology field)

(ability: insomnia, moves: Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Dazzling Gleam, Synchronoise)

(you obvi wont be seeing this one again! or any of them for the cup!)

(she took over the gym when her mother retired as per tradition but didnt really put much interest in it beyond the barest minimum, between the gym and her work she didnt have much room for a social life, and not to use the word interest again, but she wasnt particularly interested in settling down with a family, she had one of Those moms who are like oooh i had to give up a careeer to haaave you, despite like, having a whole entire gym, after some horrible science gone wrong tho opal was happy to retire from all that nasty business,she taught for a while and for a short time bellonlea was a bustling college town)

( i think ill have the gym challenge be in parts like a sit down before hand before the practical, i had gotten really excited about the build up thinking we were going to see a gameified bubble test ffggfd,,,,wow,,,anyway, if you get one wrong youll get shocked! one of your pkmn have a 50/50 chance of getting paralyzed, you can cheat with your rotom phone? if it was a game and not a comic there’d be a mechanic for that, if you get caught you get kicked out but opal will let you try again, cause cheating is pink but its not pink that you got caught but it IS pink that youd come back like nothing happened, like, super pink)

(ability: healer, moves: heal pulse, aromatherapy, draining kiss, toxic)

(another shiny! also,  a note, this was another design i didnt appreciate at first but now i really do, i was hoping like many others that it was going to get creepy but theres a really like mature restrain in this design, still conveying a plague doctor while also being french aura’d really a 10/10 design)

(on stage hot air is in effect! i think you should have to dress up before hand like from opals costume room? you get stat boosts when she likes your clothes pick and stat lowering when she doesnt, youre getting points based on the move like a beauty contest and not a battle so you cant just attack mash your way through)

(ability: cute charm, moves: sing, perish song, wake-up slap, disarming voice)

(once youre done with that, its gym battle time! the astroturf is like grandma carpetting but like, extra plush, theres glowing mushrooms and moss and a Strange Fragrance in the air, this is a kind of fairy terrain!)

(ability: rattled, moves: ice fang, outrage, crunch, lick)

(this is one of my fave pkmn and i think its silly that its not fairy fighting! i could just chance it in the emulator, live my dreams,,)

(all fairy types have a less likely chance of taking status effects and have a chance of recovering from them without the aid of an item, or waiting multiple turns, all pkmn sp attk or sp def might be raised or lowered at random, theres a chance non-fairy type pkmn might not want to battle at all similar to the effects attract has so youll miss a turn (certain abilities make a pkmn immune to this probs stuff like pkmn with intimidate, pressure, ect) 

(ability: normalize, moves: sleep talk, copycat, assist, foresight)

(the fragrant air has a 30% chance of putting non-fairy type pkmn to sleep, for normal and dragon pkmn its a 50% chance! its like at the start of your turn thing, poison type attacks can do less damage, but enough poison can turn the air noxious! like in any battles, and that deals poison damage, ill figure all the air stuff out later, i think adding another way the field can be effected would be fun :> )

(using her considerable resources, she launched a luxury fashion and beauty brand using her past research to develop make ups, lotions, textiles and the like, so when she finally fully retired from academia she had a Nice nest egg to sit on while putting her focus fully on her gym)

 (call her professor poplar and she will ignore you)

(already in her 70s when the chairman was elected to the position by the league's board, she was v set in her ways and didnt adapt to dynamaxing right away, she eventually gave in tho, her gym and the city is far less razzle dazzle than you'd expect from someone like opal, in part because she refuses outside sponsorship and "makes due" with simply being a modest millionaire)

(ability: aroma veil, moves: acid armor,topsy-turvy ,me first, stored power)

( this thing is ruby swirl with love bows! i originally did love sweets but i think she’d like that pop of purple!)

(this is the one she dynamaxs of course! she’ll wait as long as she can to use it tho, youll get some ominous old lady warning, some vague lore, she’ll us g-max finale and youll end up facing her whole team again! it totes means allies on the field but that makes it waay too niche for a big finale monster attack!)

(would it just wild to change opals name? like i could use poplar but like whyd they give everyone plant names anyway?? they seem so random too, then the english names are sooo different? at the same time,, its kinda neat to have these plant names that im interperting as rustic charm, omg i think i might go with poppy,its her name in italian; that has actual ties to fairy stuff, like poppy poplar, omg and like with poplar i wanted to give her a medical background? plus the fairy stuff like! shes kinda,,weirdly medicinal themed on her own? maybe its a “joke” about her being old fddgdf)

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for the spyro meme: all of them :--)

HO BOY I’M FUCKING READY

1. Which Spyro game is your favorite? Spyro 2 - Ripto’s RageIronically I’ve never gotten my hands on the original Spyro game but the first three are super similar SO

2. Who is your favorite character from the Spyro series?:v..... Spyro.............. Hunter was a funny guy tho.

3. Which Spyro games have you played?I played the original Spyro on an emulator for 5 minutes but I don’t really count it because it worked bad so I stopped; Ripto’s Rage; The Eternal Night; Dawn of the Dragon.

4. What Spyro game did you play first?Ripto’s Rage and it’s the best out of all of them, I will fight everyone about this.

5. What “era” of Spyro is your favorite? (Insomniac, Legend of Spyro, the in between time)Insomniac will forever be my fav. LoS was okay but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the old games.

6. What is your favorite level from a Spyro game?I love the Glimmer homeworld in Ripto’s Rage, it’s not like... special because it’s literally the first level of the game but it’s super neat.

7. Which of Spyro’s many designs is your favorite?The one in Dawn of the Dragon. Probably just cause over time, they made him look older and stuff. Boy is growing up.

8. Favorite voice actor for Spyro?I just had to look this up and apparently Elijah Wood voiced Spyro in Dawn of the Dragon SO I GUESS THAT. I don’t really look up voice actors for characters often.

9. Would you consider yourself a part of the Spyro fandom?Nnnno, just because I don’t consider myself in any “fandom”? I have things I’m a fan of, that doesn’t really make me part of anything.

10. What is your opinion on the Spyro fandom as a whole?I don’t pay attention to it lol.

11. What have you contributed to the fandom?I feel called out

12. Do you read any Spyro fanfiction?I’ve stopped reading fanfiction altogether years ago since most of it is like cringy 12y/o fantasies.

13. Have you ever played a Spyro fan game? There are??????????? Fan games??????????? where

14. If you could live in one level/world from a Spyro game which would it be?Uhhhh Shady Oasis seems like a chill place?

15. Favorite boss in a Spyro game?Crush from RR, bitch was so easy to beat.

16. Do you own any Spyro merchandise?I WISH

17. What’s your favorite piece of music from the Spyro series?My answers are like 99% about Ripto’s Rage but anyway I liked the entirety of this games soundtrack it’s just so...... pleasant.

18. Which game has the best soundtrack, in your opinion?:)

19. Which game is your least favorite? The Eternal Night was the only game I never finished, I don’t really remember why? I might’ve just gotten kinda bored at the beginning :(

20. Any characters you hate or just can’t stand?MONEYBAGS IS A PIECE OF SHIT.

21. Have you ever had a Spyro related dream?i wish?

22. Which Spyro game do you think is the most difficult?Dawn of the Dragon, by far? I replayed that game a couple of times and at some points I was just so fucking done that I used cheats to get it over with. DotD was at the point where it stopped being a charming game and started trying to be serious but the upped difficulty was... annoying.

23. Which game do you think is the easiest? Ripto’s Rage lol. I mean, if you’re a completionist, then yeah there are some annoying as shit levels but just for a casual playthrough it’s easy.

24. Do you have an unpopular opinion related to Spyro? Ok so one thing I really hated about Dawn of the Dragon is that they had to make Cynder Spyro’s love interest? It felt super forced and it made Cynder’s character really poor. Then again, I haven’t played any other games with Cynder in them so maybe if I knew her whole story I’d feel different.

25. Which one of Spyro’s breath abilities is your favorite?Classic fire is my fave. When they slap 4 different abilities at you in DotD it’s like...... why are you over-complicating things dkfhjdfhdf.

26. Do you have any Spyro related headcanons?Spyro kills Moneybags.

27. Favorite line of dialogue from any game?EEEH I don’t really remember anything outstanding but I loved how in the earlier games Spyro was super sassy.

28. Have you ever 100% completed a Spyro game?Ya boi, Ripto’s Rage.

29. Anything in a Spyro game that makes you angry?The fucking SPEEDWAY MAPSAND MONEYBAGS

30. Favorite speedway/flight?Fuck off

31. What’s your opinion on the enemy names in the first 2 Legend of Spyro games?I looked those up and the ones I found were Cynder, Dark Master and Gaul lmao? I like Cynder, Gaul is weird and Dark Master is just underwhelming considering he’s like the most powerful dragon but ok.

32. What would your perfect Spyro game look like?RIPTO’S RAGE PS4 REMASTERED SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

33. Do you ever mess around with glitches in any of the games?what glitches

34. Have you ever seen a speedrun of a Spyro game?Nah, sucks the fun out of it.

35. How often do you play Spyro games?Almost never? My ps1 is ancient and it doesn’t work too well.

36. When was the last time you played a Spyro game?Probably like a few years ago.

37. What’s your opinion on the Skylanders franchise?Skylanders Spyro is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, don’t ever bring that up to me.

38. Are the 5 gems from the first 3 Spyro games blue or purple?Blue? They have a purple-ish hint but I’ve always seen them as blue.

39. Which of the playable characters in Year of the Dragon is your favorite?(not counting Spyro)Never played it :)))))

40. Which home world is your favorite?I feel like I already said this but Glimmer.

41. Do you ever use the cheat codes in any of the games?In Dawn of the Dragon since it was stupid hard.

42. Favorite final boss?Ripto, lol. 

43. Which game do you think had the best story?Dawn of the Dragon imo. It was heavily a story game with like..... war and shit, it had a very different vibe from the old Spyro games.

44. Do you own multiple copies of any of the games?I think I have 2 copies of Ripto’s Rage, have I said I like Ripto’s Rage because holy shit do I love Ripto’s Rage.

45. Do you like the skateboarding in Spyro 3?I need to play Spyro 3 now.

46. Which one of the 4 elemental dragons from the Legend of Spyro is your favorite?Fire.

47. Have you ever played Dawn of the Dragon with someone else?Yeah boi.

48. Who do you prefer to play as in Dawn of the Dragon? Spyro or Cynder?I’d switch between them often.

49. Which Fury attack from the Legend of Spyro is your favorite?I’m too tired to look them up.

50. Which one of Hunter’s designs do you like the best?Ok listen........ Dawn of the Dragon Hunter is fucking lit o K I MEAN HELLO ?????

51. Have you ever played a Skylanders game?Fuck that

52. Do you visit any Spyro fan sites? (darkSpyro, spyroforum, etc.)lmfao what now