#song is real the end of hatsune miku by cosMo@Bousou-P

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MickeyMickey playlist

@memekeymouse i spent way too long on this

[selfspinninglies]

same thing but lftpd flavor

Also for context in this au donnie gets stuck in the prison dimension for three years, although it's only three weeks in the real world. They start forgetting things and start writing things in a notebook they have but as if they're letters to themself or others when they can (hence the name) also there's more to it but that would be spoilersss <3

[therealcallmekd]

LIST OF SCREEN CAPS PLUS SOURCE!!! :D

Giggles,, an excuse to share vocaloid songs.... yes I will take that...

ハチ MV「マトリョシカ」HACHI / MATORYOSHKA

【VOCALOID Original】Again【Gumi English】

Real THE END OF HATSUNE MIKU / cosMo@Bousou-P feat. GUMI

The Intense Voice of HATSUNE MIKU / cosMo@Bousou-P

∴flower [TRAFFIC JAM]

PinocchioP - Non-breath oblige feat. Hatsune Miku

PinocchioP - God-ish feat. Hatsune Miku

Yuma, Stardust, Asterian, Kevin / SCAPEG♾AT

Yuma / Spider on the Wall

Kikuo - I'll Forgive You Even If You Die (君が死んでも許してあげるよ)

There are SO few trio themed songs but at least there's one in there, do whatever you want with this LOL I was just having a silly time with it honestly.

Picking around some of my favorites, pretty fun!

The onstage designs for the band au have been slightly changed and actually drawn with effort

i'll do the other little versions and the offstage outfits (i could use the design i already have but 1. they aren't quite fitting for the personalities of these guys and 2. that feels lazy) done. eventually. and sonny probably

[ravenoftheskyes]

The Caligula Effect propaganda hours because people are vaguely talking about it in relation to other things.

So, what is The Caligula Effect? (I’ll refer to it as TCE sometimes under the cut!)

TCE is a game that’s similar to Persona 5 Royal’s Third Semester. Except the one creating the perfect world is… Hatsune Miku!

Ha, just kidding. She’s a Vocaloid knockoff, that’s for sure. A lovely Virtuadoll named μ. (pronounced Mu)

μ had a partner named Aria. The two Virtuadolls swam through the internet, the realm known as the Metaverse-Es. (This came out before Persona 5, I swear.)

μ and Aria saw all the grief, sadness, all the terrible things about reality that people put out onto the internet. And they thought that reality must be nothing but pain, right?

So they created Mobius. The eternal loop. Three years of high school, you repeat them over and over for the rest of your life.

And they grant all of your wishes.

It’s perfect, right? But what if you wanted to leave?

That’s where Aria and μ split.

Aria wanted people to be able to leave, but μ didn’t. She thought the real world was nothing but pain. She just wanted to wipe their memories and make Mobius even better.

So Aria was thrown from ruler status, shrunk to Chibi size, and is doomed to wander Mobius forever.

And that’s where you come in!

A few years later, your protagonist awakens to the realities of Mobius.

The Male Protagonist’s name is Ritsu Shikishima

The Female Protagonist… she doesn’t exactly have a name.

Also, there’s a female protag in this game! …Well, in the remake at least. The Caligula Effect: Overdose.

So Aria runs into ya, you’re traumadumping to a pixie-sized Vocaloid, and you gain superpowers based off trauma. If only life worked like that!

So you get two very cool guns, and you start a stellar as hell combat system. My only complaint is that it can sometimes be too easy, but I do hope they fix that in the sequel! (Coming out in October, hopefully)

Now I’m not the best at explaining combat, but basically each character has three actions per turn, and cooldown times for skills.

The game is based off chaining attacks.

For example, the Protagonist could spam their basic attack, Dual Trigger, three times.

Or, if the enemy has a shield up, they could use their Shadow Pierce to break the shield and launch the enemies. Then another team member, like Shogo, could use his Gunslinger attack to hit the enemy while they’re in the air and deal massive damage to those pesky Digiheads.

Also, the enemies in this game are called Digiheads. They’ve been brainwashed by μ’s song and are trying to kill you because you know that Mobius isn’t real and are trying to leave, and therefore you’re heretics in their eyes.

And that leads me to the main conflict of the game. You’re trying to escape Mobius with the help of Aria and the Go-Home club, and you’re up against the Ostinato Musicians.

The Go-Home club is a hell of a team, they’re not exactly friends at first but through the course of the game, you bond with them and they bond with you.

This game was in fact written by some writers who worked on Persona 1 and Persona 2, and this game has something called Character Episodes. They’re kind of like social links, except there’s no time-management aspect and you unlock more ranks as you 1. Level up their friendship level with you by having them participate in combat, and 2. Progress through the story. The Go-Home club has amazing development and there are characters you might hate at first, but then you go through their character episodes and end up loving them.

The Ostinato Musicians are fairly one-note villains at first, so why should you care about them?

The Musician Route, that’s why!

Some time after the second arc, you run into the mysterious conductor, Thorn. She tells you that you could also see another side. Play both of them. Be a Musician and a Go-Home club member. You know the people who just can’t stay, why not get to know the people that just can’t go?

And I’m telling you right now, that’s the biggest and best feature that the enhanced re-release added. You get to know the villains better than the surface. You get Character Episodes with them. You play both sides. And then at the end, you betray one side.

Fight to return home, or fight to stay. That is the question.

Mobius or Reality?

That’s your choice.

Also, the soundtrack is a goddamn banger. Popular Vocaloid composers were hired to write this soundtrack, like cosMo@Bousou-P (The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku) or Deco*27 (Ghost Rule). It just has that Vocaloid feel.

This game as a hell of a lot of love in it, and while the first game might have flopped, they’re still making a sequel! They made an anime. They made a self-cover album with all the Musicians VAs singing the songs their characters composed.

Though, quick warning, there is one canonically trans character and she faces a lot of transphobia throughout the game. There’s also a lesbian but she doesn’t face much homophobia in the game.

In summary, this game is lovely, amazing, and just all around brilliant. Please give it a chance, it has a slow as hell start, but it’s just so amazing, and it’s one of my all-time favorite games.