#the characters are aging even when their sprites aren't but like.

[sankazu]

Found this thing again so. Please look at the ages an 8 year old gave the A3 boys. Told him the range was 14-31 (going by Y2) with two listed as "?"

Things to note:

SAKUYA??? CHIKAGE???????

Muku is 16, not 10, at least

He went past the age range anyway for Guy?? I gave him points bc he put a question mark ig

Not fooled by Azuma. He can tell you're older

I'm confused by Azami's age too, man

[getvalentined]

I love when folks ask me Fandom Old questions and I get to be like "Yeah, uh, that's from my old online RP group, no it's not canon at all, yes we just made it up, no we did not claim it was canon but the mid to late aughts were a strange time."

It's honestly a shock to realize how often this has happened. I mentioned earlier that Reno's fanon surname came from this same group, but that's not even the half of it. I once made a bunch of screenshot manips based on the most ridiculous ships anyone could think of—someone slapped a random line of text onto one of them and to this day it's used as a "cringe FF7 fandom" meme. I saw it on the twits a bit back and almost fell out of my goddamn chair.

If you've ever heard Scarlet referred to with the surname "West," read about Tseng fighting with metal fans, seen Elena's older sister being called Anna instead of Emma, come across Vincent portrayed as having a PhD in spite of being a Turk, or caught references somewhere to Grimoire experimenting on Vincent as a child, that started with this group. That was us.

One of the funniest examples of this, for me specifically, is that we don't actually know which arm Veld is missing? The fandom generally goes with his left because that's how I drew him in the first picture of the guy ever posted on devart way back in 2005, but it may very well be his right. I've seen people offer "proof" that it's his right based on a scene in the opening cutscene, but you can't tell there either, and with BC's graphics there's literally no way to tell on his sprite.

Hell, this year we found out everyone's assumed timeline of the Kalm fire is wrong, and that's our fault too because we made some assumptions about Felicia's age for an LJ RP that were entirely wrong. She's around Zack's age, not Sephiroth's! She's old enough to run with a terrorist group in BC, but she was a child when Kalm burned, and that happened in 1997—we know this because NPCs in Rebirth literally refer to the fire in Kalm having happened "just ten years ago." Veld has only had his prosthetic for three years when BC starts. (This also implies that, contrary to popular belief, Veld may actually be younger than Vincent. Vincent may have been the senior partner, and that's why he was sent to Nibelheim alone while Veld was left at headquarters.)

We were really wrong on this! But we were working with what we had. There's no canon evidence for the vast majority of these things (the most notable exclusion here is Vincent being educated) but we weren't claiming there was. We were filling gaps, and canon was so sparse that we had a lot of gaps to fill. So if it turns out that Veld lost his right arm, then I'll just have to start drawing him that way—because losing his left was never canon.

Tragically, there's nothing any of us can do to make people stop assuming these things are canon at this point; there aren't a lot of us still in the fandom, and it's not like any of us have those old chatlogs anymore. People from this RP group have DIED since those days. It's been over 20 years since most of us met, and around 15 since most of us were in a public fannish space together.

"Prove it," people say, and I literally can't. Do you know how many computers I've been through since then? 75% of the platforms we used no longer exist. This all started on a BBCode forum! There is no proof!

But...there's no evidence any of these things are canon, either, so maybe think about that? The Kalm fire, Tseng's weapon of choice, Veld's arm, character surnames—none of these are retcons because there was no lore there to retcon. We made it up for our specific purposes, and it escaped containment in an era when there was really no way to do online contact tracing.

It's just one of the weirdest feelings in the world to see younger folk arguing about A or B point in canon, about X or Y retcon—referencing something my friends and I thought up at like 10 o'clock at night on a now-defunct IM client in August of 2005, because we needed something to refer back to for a specific scene in an RP and the source material had nothing to offer.

Absolutely fucking bonkers.

[schneiderenjoyer]

do you have more pics to back up your "sotheby is tall" theory?

There's a few, actually! And one of them is from Jessica's teaser trailer with their Nightmare at Greenlake skins where she stands between X and Eagle.

This is funny because Eagle is the same age as Sotheby. So their height difference (take note that Sotheby's costume has her wear lace doll shoes that her usual heels) is really drastic.

There's also this part of Ezra's teaser where we can see a comparison between the two (Ezra is a year older) and she's crouched down far more than she has to just to meet eye level with him even while standing. We can chalk that up to her heels.

Because curiously enough you can see a slight difference between her height with her I2 outfit where she wears only socks. It's an interesting detail and I honestly give props to people in charge of the battle sprites for being so careful. But it's not perfect.

A fun distinction is while the promotional art has Sotheby a full head taller than Eagle, their battle sprites are different to scale. So there's still some inaccuracies in the battle sprites itself, but the sprites can be only so small before it's just not viable for visibility.

My point to prove that is Matilda and Kanjira. Because we have a better height comparison of just how tall Matilda is compared to Kanjira in the mor pankh event.

Kanjira is small. Like, really small (which make sense for her ethnicity at estimated age 16 if you compare her height with Kaalaa Baunaa, who is estimated to be 27) So the likelihood of Sotheby being taller than her is possible when Matilda (who is estimated to be 14 and of European descent) can outnumber her height. And yet...

The battle sprites are so funny to me at times.

There's also this art piece with Baby Blue (estimated to be 17) which is also a good height comparison since Baby Blue's rather tall (ignore the fact she can grow and shrink things including herself for a moment)

Their heights are roughly the same difference in their battle sprites (if you overlook Baby Blue's floating)

So, in conclusion, while the battle sprites aren't the most accurate way to measure height difference between characters, there's far more effort to make it distinct enough to tell who's taller or smaller between others. It's better than whatever UTTU's metric of measurements is, that's for sure.

And the official arts honestly has far better height and proportion accuracy between characters than in-game, so I firmly believe those to be far more reliable than anything the game itself has offered so far. (The biggest case of that is Schneider who looks far more mature and proportionate in official art than her live 2D in-game sprite, but still kept she rather small stature. Especially with the new anniversary art having her side by side with Sonetto and you can literally tell that Sonetto's taller)

And with the way most of those official arts has drawn Sotheby so far, she's often depicted to be tall and lanky! We love our awkwardly tall child.

[samsammysamson]

y'know how it is, babey! ask blogs are fun!

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[luvtonique]

I feel like my artist career might be nearly over.

Now mind you, not because I'm burnt out, or because of some kind of controversy, but entirely because I don't know how much longer I can keep trying to push forward with it.

I don't hate my art, I don't even dislike it. It's my passion, and I want my entire life to be a life or creating art and telling stories.

I love sharing what I create with the world and I love having support from my fanbase.

But as of right now, I just can't get anyone noticing anything I do.

I've been working on a video game for almost a full year now, have gameplay footage I've shown, sprite animations, story I've shown off, characters I've been drawing and describing and giving backstories, and I get like 20 notes tops on anything I post.

I do streams for an average of 5 viewers every Monday and Wednesday and Friday. 5 viewers.

I have had a fundraiser to get me out of California because I can't afford to live here, I'm disabled, and I have a 75yo mother and an autistic brother I'm trying to get out of here too, and I barely scraped together $3000 of donations over the last year.

I pour my heart and soul into music that I've been writing and I'm met with backlash or people flat out ignoring the songs I post because people say my lyrics I write aren't worthy of notice or a paycheck. Soundcloud outright denied my ability to monetize my music. Completely. I am no longer able to request monetization.

The state of California has spent the last 15 years denying my attempts to get SSI, state disability, any kind of social security for my rheumatoid arthritis, and I even got told by a disability lawyer that they had to decline my case because I don't take medication for my disability. When I told them I don't have medical insurance because I don't qualify for MediCAL, they said that isn't their problem.

I watch other artists with 170,000 followers on Twitter bashing me and saying I don't deserve my fanbase for reasons they're just making up, and when I try to defend myself they just bash me harder and block me while I'm over on Twitter with like 300 followers and not getting noticed by anyone.

I reach out to my friends to get retweets, reblogs, etc. and I get nothing. No help, no love, after literal years of me promoting them and doing multistreams with them and collabs with them to help them get noticed.

I've even been blocked by multiple friends of mine when I asked if they wanted to partner up for projects. Really! Blocked! Outright blocked because people want so badly to get away from me!

I am literally starving. I'm currently eating stale sourdough bread that my mom made 2 weeks ago because it's all we have in the house.

I'm sitting here suffering constantly and when I ask people if they wanna like do a collab or do an art trade they always tell me they don't have time, and then the next day I see them post 6-7 art trades they did with another artist.

I make fan-art or fan-music for my artist friends and they just completely ignore it.

I am planning to rework my Patreon into a game dev Patreon to help support my solo development on Melodi, and I guarantee with certainty it won't breach $300 a month.

I have spent my entire life from age 11 to age 35 just working hard to make a living off of my art and all I have earned is a reputation as "a shithead" who never gets given the opportunity to question or debate or be interviewed by the people who call me a shithead.

I'm on the verge of fizzling out.

I'm barely surviving.

And when my game comes out, some day, it may very well be the last thing you ever see from me. I may just leave the internet. I may give up and go find another life to live.

Because even though this is my dream, even though this is all I've ever wanted to do with my life, even though I'm talented and my few fans I still have love everything I make and constantly tell me that my creations are gorgeous, I just plain can't keep doing this forever. I cannot, and will not, continue to suffer alone and obscure.

Case in point: This post is gonna get 2-6 comments from the same people who comment on all my emotional posts saying "I wish I could help but I can't so here's a virtual hug," 16-25 likes and 2 reblogs. And then I'll delete the post.

[badendinggamer]

Ye so after I made lore around echo and corvus I kinda have started a whole story au ish around them and I have decided to probably start drawing all the other sprunki fan kids. I have a total of 16 (4 in each category) ...well technically 13 since 3 of them are the ogs just now older (i think you can take some guess there) but yeah should probably get to introducing them as well as some redesigned sprites

TW: blood and violence obviously, although I don't have sprites for all there horror modes I will still be describing there deaths so keep that in mind

Another disclaimer, all of the fankids here aren't my ships entirely, I just wanted to create some sprunki kids and wanted to base each on some pairing which would fot the lore so just because I made fankids of them, doesnt mean I ship it (aside from the darkcult kids)

I also want to say due to my sprunki lore, echo, corvus, and Ron are the only sprunki kids who are actually biologically related to there parents (at the moment at least)

And because of how sprunkis raise kids, it's common to have half siblings. Echo and corvus are considered more so taboo because of this-

There are a total of 16 tho right now we will go over half of them first staring with

RONNY

(Oren x Pinki child)

Category- beats(idk yet)

Age: 20

Ron is pretty much that one sassy diva, and despite how he looks, he is straight (the other will poke fun at him for that) tho he's pretty much the one you go for gossip. Despite his attitude he isn't mean and genuinely tries his best even if his attitude doesn't help.

In horror mode, he is unfortunately choked to death using a rope around his neck by ...well the next character on this list

ACE

(Oren x Raddy Child)

Ye so like from this point on the rest dont have horror mode sprites yet ...mainly due to the fact I just didn't how to design them and I was also getting tired so let's just pretend for now-

Category- beats- probably bongo drums or something

Age: 18

Ace is pretty chill believe it or not, but he also isn't aware of his own strengths so he has a habit of unintentionally hurting people. He's also gamer (of course) and NOT THE KIND OF PERSON YOU WANT TO BE COMPETITIVE WITH IN VIDEO GAMES. AT ALL. He doesn't really get along with Ron due to them having veey different vibes but he is friends with Leo and is dating Polly. As well as having some....ties with the darkcult kids

In horror mode he is the one to kill Ron in self defense, which intrigues echo so he spares him. He is still igured with a bunch of burnt scars though

LEO

(Tunner x Simon Child)

Category- Melody- idk probably another whistle

Age: 18

Leo is honestly way too optimistic for his own good. He is pretty smart but he often let's his own morals get the best of him. That said he tends to prejudice people especially based on things he's heard and all though he wants the best for everyone he tends to just follow along like a sheep, especially with Jane. She is kind of the reason he fears the darkcult kids

In horror mode he is accidently attacked and killed by corvus with an axe as Corvus mistook him for a threat (and was also blind at the time)

Gotta hate it when you accident kill your cru- OOPS

POLLY

(Simon x Durple child)

Category- melody-saxophone

Age: 19

Polly is honestly that one 2010's kid, combined with the threater kid aspects. She does art in her spare time ....but she is more often that one fanfic writter and definitely binged the twilight movies. Like I said she is dating Ace and often steals from Ron's stuff cause Ace let's him, which pisses Ron off

In horror mode she becomes abnormal.....idk what else to say i don't have the design at the moment tho I can confirm she doesn't kill anyone ....at least none of the main cast members-

JANE

(Jevin x Tunner child)

Category- melody- idk yet

Age: 21

Divorce child

I could just leave it at that but I think this gives some context to why she hates the darkcult kids

Jevin basically left her to start a new family with the guy who fucked everyone life years ago mind you. So she has some recent agaisnt jevin but takes it out on echo amd corvus, doesn't help jev probably tried to take her back after echo died which you know isn't a good look (she is also definitely Octavia coded) Tho aside from this she has a lot of trust issues but is very over protective of the people she cares about like Leo and Ron

In horror mode she is the last to be killed by another character who we will meet later, she is hit over head with a bat (with nails mind you) and dies slowly, and in that time echo comes over to make sure he kills her mentally one last time .....through a fucking song you cant take this guy seriously

To be fair she was being an ass to them and corvus just for existing-

PICKLE

(OWAKCX x brud child)

Category- Effects- idk giant bell sound

Age: 18

I'm gonna be honest, I just wanted to design this guy cause I think it would be funny if the 2 idiots mixed. He's probably everything you'd expect, he hangs out with Ace a lot and is probably the only one who probably actually hangs out with the darkcult kids but he's the weird dumb kid so no one cares that much.

In horror he is some how one of the few to survive without any injuries, mainly case he FUCKING ASLEEP while echo was doing his chaos god I love him- anyways he wasn't killed after cause ......Echo forgor (he really is Black's kid)

Pickle is my fav is you couldn't tell

Anyways ill do part to of the others who are left soon

[askaceattorney]

Dear Kevin James,

Chief Mod Edgeworth:

I could see that in a fan comic, though there already are mangas of Ace Attorney that aren't canon. I suppose it wouldn't be impossible. I would read it regardless of if it were a fan comic or an official manga.

Co-Mod: I'm a lot more familiar with anime than manga, so I don't know how good or bad that would look (though I guess that would mostly depend on the skill and talent of the writer), but I'm open to the idea. That being said, it reminds me a little too much of a certain despairful video game/anime series, so to answer your second question...probably not.

Mod Zieks: I love the idea. Love it so much. Tbh I'm more of an anime person than manga, but if it was manga exclusively, I'd be all over that.

Dear Minnesotamermaid71,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: You can try doing it on another device or web browser. Otherwise, I don't know what the issue is. You should be able to click on it and it will take you to the Youtube link.

Dear Robottiye,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I don't know. I doubt there's going to be much difference outside of maybe higher graphics and stuff.

Mod Zieks: Yes, I do have some plans to use it! (For evil.)

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: The recent ones seem like they're asked because they're funny? Otherwise I have no idea.

Mod Zieks: It's the internet, where people can be as anonymous as they want. It's to be expected (unfortunately.)

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Askrikkaiandhyotei,

Chief Mod Edgeworth:

I know. This was made two years ago and the answers were pointed out in the comments right here.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Eway4,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: This also shows the possibility that Franziska has an older brother too. She may have an older sister and brother. Manfred von Karma is... what? 65 according to Ace Attorney wiki? He'd have been 48 when Franziska was born, which already leaves over two decades and a half for Manfred von Karma to have two, three, even five other kids. That would depend on when he was married, but I think you get the point and no I don't think he has five other kids.

Personally, I think it could go either way. I have created OC's as part of the von Karma family that includes Franziska, an older brother and an older sister. Both have kids and while one owns a dog named Phoenix, it is shared by the two siblings since he considers it a family pet.

I did find this interesting. I suppose it shouldn't be any surprise that the grandchild didn't originally have a gender. Now, I'm curious what the original translation of the credit card pin number comment was.

Dear Charicla,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Ace Attorney mostly, but I also have Tetris, Project Makeover, Wordscape, Gardenscape, Lilly's Garden, Happy Match Cafe, Solitaire, Island Hoppers, Love Paradise, Winked and Traffic Escape.

Basically, puzzle games, classics, makeover and a dating sim.

(Referenced Letter)

Dear Dawsongfg,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: Spiders? You're talking to someone who used to pick up Daddy Longlegs from the corner of the basement window and drop them in a well.

Co-Mod: I answered that letter, so it doesn't scare me a whole lot, but...that was still a jerk move. 😒

Mod Zieks: Love spiders. They go great with sprite, and maybe crickets as well.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: It kinda is? I don't know what you're referring to or if it's to any letters. If so, you need to link the letters you're talking about or I'm going to be so confused.

I will say that we only know their ages in each game, being it is revealed in their profile. Outside of that or any official canon B-Days that are revealed in the game or something such as Rayfa's birthday, we can only speculate when it may be. If anyone wants to wish a character a Happy Birthday during any random day, they may and we will recognize it as such.

Dear Anonymous,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: We do insert headcanons as a way to fill in the blank so to speak, since some questions to the characters are not explained or answered in the game. As such, we will use headcanons that will add but not change canon.

As for the previous letters, those were from former mods that no longer work here. Just like Kristoph being a part of the Gavinners was a headcanon to add but not break canon, so was theirs. The game never showed Kristoph claiming he wasn't fond of the genre or only tolerated Klavier's music. That was likely based off of Apollo's and Ema's feelings for Klavier's music of not being fond. Mine of Kristoph being a part of the Gavinners was mostly to answer a question if he was, but I also think it makes sense being that Klavier looks up to his brother and I find it would be something interesting for Kristoph.

Dear A Concerned Asker,

Chief Mod Edgeworth: I don't? Hell, I've answered asks to Klavier and Jake hinting that they swing both ways and I've had Edgeworth once come out as Asexual. Not to mention we recognize Aura Blackquill x Metis Cykes as a canon one-sided ship. Whether Metis returned the feelings is up for interpretation. Outside of that, the only "straight" ships that are canon we recognize is Godot x Mia and maybe Phoenix x Iris. We do not count Apollo's date with Maya, because that was a one time Valentines Day shtick and the other ships we do not count as canon, straight or not. You might get a character or two finding someone attractive (you might be lucky enough to have Klavier admit to finding Apollo attractive) or having one character asking another on a date that is convincing enough, but that's it.

If you're talking about past letters from four or five years ago, maybe more, that’s likely from Co-Mod and maybe Modot. Can’t say. I know Modot did say he hated certain slash ships because of the fandom at the time and Co-Mod felt awkward in answering yaoi/yuri letters, so he avoided them altogether. However, I will gladly answer slash/yaoi/yuri letters and I recognize when LGBTQ+ is canon. I do ship Wrightworth, AsoRyuu and BaroAso, so I do endorse yaoi.

That being said, I do understand where Co-Mod and Modot are coming from. It isn’t that they believe all characters are straight, but that it wouldn’t be IC for say Phoenix to fall in love with Edgeworth when he had been into Iris from the start. From Modot’s perspective, Phoenix and Maya made better sense before DD and SOJ came about. The AA trilogy did seem to have NaruMayo as the canon endgame in mind and Modot seems like a canon shipper. I was a canon shipper for the longest time back when I was in High School full of gay and bisexual students, so I can tell you that preferring straight over gay ships has nothing to do with it.

As for Co-Mod, he had never met someone that was gay outside of his uncle, so it was more that he didn’t know or was inexperienced with how to answer slash letters. It’s changed since I became mod and especially after taking over as the head mod. He's even started answering some slash letters recently.

I know you’re not trying to accuse anyone of anything, but it does feel a little accusatory. Not only are there multiple mods, as you’ve stated, but there have been changing of the Heads over the years. Modot was the first, then Modthorne, Co-Mod and now me. That’s why you need to look at which mod is answering letters. If it’s “The Mod,” he’s no longer here and doesn’t apply to the current mods. If it’s Co-Mod, he’s retired and no longer runs the place. As far as I can recall, many of us do endorse certain noncanon ships, most of them yaoi, and we recognize if characters are canonly gay or at least into the same sex.

Co-Mod: Yeah, I'd say that about sums it up. I was raised to believe that men are made for women and women are made for men (and while my mind could be changed, I haven't seen much evidence disproving that idea), but even if that weren't the case, I hadn't seen very many same-sex relationships, real or fictional, so I wouldn't have been able to portray them accurately, which is why I avoided them. Call it whatever you want, but I was just playing it safe. In any case, we now have several Mods who are more willing to address the topic, so it looks like we've found what appears to be a workable solution.

-The Mods

[cyandreamz]

YEAH YEAH YEAH 2, 16, 17, 18

and 20 ! i like asking 20 (asks aren't open on your ace attorney sideblog btw)

(Oops maybe side blogs can't accept asks? Oh well I'll just have to answer them on my main blog instead of my ace attorney side blog then :P)

2: a headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like!

Before playing aa4 and aa5 I wasn't sure about hcing Apollo as a trans male and Athena as a woman and austic. But once I finished both characters intro games I've come to adopt these hc's myself as I can see both of them socially transitioning as kids. Plus Athena having super sensitive ears and struggling more with that as a kid is very relatable as that's an austic trait I have (unfortunately it doesn't allow me to hear peoples emotions and just means I can't cope with vaccum cleaners and hand dryers (TT O TT)) so her backstory definitely led me to hc her as austic lol.

16: a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

I think the visual choices for sure. From both Miles and Franziska mimicking Menfred in both design and sprite animations (with Miles doing it more as a rookie and Franziska doing it even more than Rookie Miles), to small details like Phoenix having slightly shorter hair in aa3's flashback case (which I don't think enough people notice and often draw "Feenie" with same hair length, probably because it's that length in every other design, including child design), Ema's adult outfit having references to highschool uniform even in SOJ but doesn't straight up look like a highschool uniform thank goodness, Klavier looking more like his brother at 24 than at 17, and the list can go on and on and on!

17: the thing in canon that everyone loves and that you also love

I think I've seen enough people talk about how much they love this for it to count as an answer :3. The diversity of relationships. I'm all for romantic and/or sexual ships (I am a mulishipper lol) but, I do appreciate that in canon we have so many positive and friendly relationships between siblings, co-workers and friends with no hint of needing to "take things further" because they don't need to! Even with huge age gaps, characters can and will get along as friends! Which in society is seen as strange (at least it's seemed that way to me growing up. I remember in primary school I once got in trouble for having a friend that was "too young" & was told I was weird as a teen for getting along with adults??? So strange).

An example of a fun interaction between characters imo is in case 5-3 is when Athena is talking to Phoenix early on the case (I think before the body was found, can't quite remember sorry) because he clearly see's her as both his young employee, but also as a friend, and Athena both looks up to him, and is also able to joke/jabs about him, like saying she thinks he probably looked scary in college XD

18: a fandom tag that you track

I don't follow tags, I've looked at a few tags and honestly don't enjoy using Tumblr like that. Much prefer to look at the for you and following tabs instead of going there the popular posts in a tag :P

20: your very first fandom!

So even though I've casually observed fandom spaces since I was 12 I never engaged in fandom spaces until my late teens. It's hard to pin point which was my first fandom since my early fandom experiences consisted of jointing a bunch of Facebook groups (which wasn't really fun as only one group didn't have consistent drama and infighting) but I think it's a tie between the Gorillaz fandom (as in the band, been a long time since I've listened to them lol) and The Sims fandom (which I'm still kinda apart of, Sim fans are definitely more chill on Tumblr, but I mostly stick with Sims 2 side of fandom).

thank you for sending this ask ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧ it was a lot of fun answering all the questions

Fandom asks post can be found here!

[davekat-sucks]

Im a different anon but also on the whole pedo thing. I was the same age as the kids when HS came out. The online cultures they reference were big in my own circles (I was chronically online back then). I knew a million Solluxes and Gamzees, and the type of juggalo he's referencing was way more prevalent back then than it is now. They very much remind me of people my own age more than they do modern aged tweens because essentially they are, they were modeled partially after my own peers back when we were that age and all being horrible trolls online. They would all be pushing 30 now. I do not see them as being chronically 13 because they aren't. Homestuck did not just come out.

By end of the webcomic, they would be in their 20s. It is just that Epilogues, because it has no images to be displayed, nobody knew how much the characters changed physically. Andrew Hussie and the writers assumed that those who were old fans that read the comic, would already know that the kids are adults now. Part of the appeal of Homestuck was the webcomic format. Lines of text in Pesterlogs is one thing, but it never got as far as being the whole thing without a panel to be displayed to give readers an idea of what is going on. Homestuck 2 when it was still under Andrew Hussie and WhatPumkin, used the same kid-like assets in order to save time, make it easier to recognize which character is what, not trusting the audiences that they are smarter and wiser to know that the characters had aged up, and laziness in art. Beyond Canon once picked up by James Roach and HICU, would rectify this and have an update that is just dedicated to making the older character sprites. But the damage had been done that it was too little too late that people will always see them as 13 years old because the overworld sprite they had seen many times, reflects this. Their ages are also more vague on Epilogues and 2/Beyond Canon when they start bringing in the Omega Kids. So would most of the cast already be in their 30s? The adult ages for the Beta/Alpha Kids is never given despite that Yiffany, Vrissy, Tavros, and Harry is said to currently be 15 once 2/Beyond Canon starts. Even then, the stuff mentioned above, would have readers forget the Beta/Alpha Kids are older.

[sakura-otome]

Alright, since Utakata no Uchronia is finally being released and I'm gonna be picking up my reservation at Stella Worth tomorrow, let's go through the main and also side characters and talk about which ones I would totally smash

For those of you who don't know Broccoli, the company that produced Jack Jeanne, has come out with a new otome game as of 4/11.

The writing team is basically the exact same team as the one that worked on Piofiore, including the artist RiRi

I'm genuinely so hype for this game. I never ever ever reserve the special edition for a game, but I'm confident this will be a masterpiece like Piofiore. The character designs are all great, the voice actors are top notch A-listers, and they even used live 2D to animate all the sprites! Which has never been done in an otome game before.

This game also has a free trial, which let's you play through the common route, so I definitely encourage anyone who's interested and able to read Japanese to go ahead and play it.

Anyways, let's get to the main cast!

Okay first and foremost, our lovely protagonist ~ ❤️❤️

Her default name is Hinagiku, which is so darn cute!

I don't play games if I don't like the MC's design, but she passes with flying colors. I love white hair, her outfit is fantastic, and I don't find her personality grating. She's actually quite fun!

1000% SMASH

Next is Yashiro

VA: Kobayashi Chiaki

He's clearly the main hero. Putting aside plot stuff and other predictions, his big thing is being quite mysterious. Though he's very friendly, due to his amnesia at the story, we know basically nothing about him. From what I could glean from the info on the site and character PVs, I'm definitely sensing self hatred and angst, and also he's much bolder than I would have expected!

SMASH

Next is Tobari

VA: Okamoto Nobuhiko

So far, he's the one I'm most looking forward to. He's the face of the red light district, and is very dependable despite his age. I really adore the deep kindness that seems to underly his tough exterior, and the voice samples give me the picture of a someone who won't reach out to the MC because of his role, and what it would do to her if he were to take that chance. It doesn't matter if she wants it, it would lead to her unhappiness —

Listen I could go on. But to summarize.

Here's the thing about me. I'm always craving a specific kind of angst. I love when one party rejects the other, not because the feelings aren't mutual, but because they have to choose to live by their principles in some way. And I feel that Tobari is the most likely to scratch this itch.

1 MILLION PERCENT SMASH

Next up is Awayuki

VA: Saito Soma

He is basically the MC's personal butler/guardian. They've been by each other's sides since they were children, and he was one of the few that remained after the fire that destroyed her home and killed her parents when she was 8.

I certainly don't dislike this dynamic, but it's not necessarily my biggest thing. The notes said that the theme for his route was "attachment" or "obsession", from the both if them, which is intriguing to me because MC doesn't seem intense to me in that way, but we'll have to see!

SMASH

Next is Yori

VA: Eguchi Takuya

He's an officer in the militia Kurozuru, and is outright stated in his bio to have quite the nasty personality.

Tbh he pisses me off too much for me to make a fair assessment of him. He's perfectly physically attractive but I cant get past the urge to strangle him Homer Simpson style.

I'm looking forward to his route only insofar as I hope he gets put in his goddamn place.

PASS

Next up, Tsuyukusa

VA: Matsuoka Yoshitsugu

He's a skilled craftsman and a childhood friend to the MC.

He has the biggest, fattest, most obvious crush on the MC right out the gate, and it's honestly the cutest thing ever.

I'm honestly shocked this girl hasn't noticed, he barely hides it. Bitch is cute but hella dense.i honestly feel bad for him at this point.

He's really giving me cat energy. Real meow meow catboy energy if you will. Anyway

SMASH

Moving onto side characters! Woo!

Tsuwabuki

VA: Azakami Yōhei

So apparently he's Yori's older brother who also works in Kurozuru. From what I've seen of this guy, he's genuinely one of the nicest people ever, and I cannot believe he is related to Tori in any capacity. A mystery how he turned out so well-adjusted while Yori is an unapologetic dickhead. Would love to see a side story with him.

SMASH

This is Aijiro

VA: Toya Kikunosuke

Works for Yori. Hates his boss but is one of the few actually capable of working with him. Personally, not my type, design or personality wise.

PASS

Next up, Karatachi

VA: Fukuyama Jun

The head of Kurozuro. Is known to be quite eccentric and difficult to work with.

Listen, out of everyone in this game, he's the one I would personally jump in an alley. OBSESSED.

SMASH SMASH SMASH SMA–

Moving on, Shioji

VA: Yoshimura Kazuhiro

He's Tobari's right hand man, and also sort of "older brother". He's friendly and charming but I'm not particularly struck by him or his design.

PASS

[yanderefairyangel]

I don't know if this is okay but what designs did you hate in heroes. To me I agree with lachesis as to me she looks like an actual child. She isn't in her source material. I don't have any complaints on dancer lachesis. She looks smug and young but not a child kinda young more young adult. I dislike base lysithea as she looks too young like an actual child. The worst for me is Loyd as he looks like a drug addict.

It's fine anon ! Don't worry, the real problem with Heroes is that it's a different game from the other. I mean aside from the fact it has SO many character.

That is to say that not only the design differs greately between character but also the artstyle since IS hire diffrent artist to draw different heroes even sometimes from the same game. Hating a design and an artstyle are different tho.

A design is the outfit for the character and how it is designed. A charac design is the basic appeareance of the character such as skin color, hair color, eye color, basic stuff. And those things remains more or less consitent even when a different artist with a different artstyle draw this character.

For example, anon, your complain seems to actually rely more on you disliking the artstyle choosen for those Heroes rather then their design since the differences between them and their OG design is small. It's possible to like a design but dislike an artstyle and from what you say, it seems to be more the case.

In the case of Lachesis here are her sprite.

When you compare her first OG art to her Heroes sprite her outfit aren't that different, however the artstyle does maker her appear youger due to it being a moe artstyle. Moe artstyle like Mika Pikazo's for example, those artist are good at drawing young characters however all character seems younger then their age. For example; Lucky Star anime uses that style, and the character despite being 17, look like they are nine !! It's more evident when you compare the different art she has gotten, with her Resplendant looking like she is 12 whereas her ball alt look closer to her age, 15-16. It seems more like it's an evolution since Miwabe Sakura drew both her base buil and ball build, but they couldn't look more different !!

Lysthea's main artist for the base build also has that style, hence why comparing to Chinatsu Kurahana this Lysithea looks like she is.. ten.

Her artist, Yuichiro Enkyo seems to draw young character that way even though she is around the same age as Soleil and Selkie for whom they provided art as well, and they don't look that young.

As for Lloyd

His design isn't that different, however his artist drew him thinner, his cloack his lighter and the reason why he gives you those vibes as to comes from the coloring and the rendering. His artist Pikomaro didn't use that kind of palette on character like Wrys or Bridal Charloote tho, despite it being the same artist.

That's for it. I agree with you on the artstyle looking weird compared to the OG art, but the design are relatively the same. The artstyle was probably not best appropriate for them. I am fine with Llyod, but I agree that Raquesis and Lysithea looks too young.

When it comes to speak of Heroes though, I choose to speak of OG character because speaking of design, if I choose one specific heroes, this means it's their usual outfit I don't like and therfore it's more on the I dislike said unit outfit in their OG game category.

I can give you an example of a design I like but artstyle I dislike and one design I hate despite liking the artstyle.

For example, Respendlant Lucina's design. I like her outfit. But the artstyle is weird ? She looks like a toodler. Why did IS ask a moe artist to draw her when she is in her 19 in the main game ? Also, I am not a fan of the coloring in general.

And

An example of design I would hate are Loki and Seidr. Because their outfit makes 0 sense.

How does this makes sense ? The palette looks pretty but the composition of the outfit is weird ??? How is there any harmony in the composition because ... her pants reminds me of Olivia's and I didn't like her pants in her default outfit because of how ridiculous it looked. Even though Yoshiku has a pretty cute artstyle.

So those are the first one to come to mind. Thanks for asking me and for sharing your opinion anon and sorry if it took a bit long to answer.

By the way, you can check out here to compare between the different artist for Heroes :List of artists - Fire Emblem Heroes Wiki (fandom.com)

[saltedsolenoid]

A silly little timeline of Rosine Strom's designs, starting from when I first began working on Together in Hell (November 2020) to now!

So, as a generalization- she's stayed about the same age throughout all this, originally being ~13 and aging up to be 15 as of the latest version of the story. Rosie was, surprisingly, an antagonist in the first draft, though she's actually changed her position around a lot and is now the protagonist of the story! Good for her.

Images (and much more explanation) below the cut- additional warning for my poor art skills as of 2 years ago.

So, let's start at the beginning. The very first sketch I did of Rosine Strom, before her name was even Rosine Strom. She had a name change somewhere in the first 6 months of development. I don't remember what her name was originally.

The first two pictures were drawn/colored in either December 2020 or January 2021. She was always going to have a sort of green/purple color pallet, and I see now that she's always had a necklace of sorts. I don't remember what exactly I was going for in this design- something unassuming? At the very least? She was originally way more nature-based than computer-based, so that's one of the major things driving this design.

The third picture, in the full on dress is her more polished design, drawn in late January 2021. Back in the early stages of development, her main Thing as a character was that she had two sort of alter-egos, one acting as a normal teenager (first two drawings) and one being more?? evil??? I guess? She was a character of complete dualities, being described as "childish but also really mature, loving but also slightly cruel, nice but has a lot of pent-up anger." Okay. Cool.

From here on out in her design, I mostly just started making changes to her everyday "normal" clothing. Character-wise, I started making her more normal and not, like, evil. Because that sucked as a character point, considering she was like 14. These two drawings come from different points in the development of the story, but from when her character was roughly the same. Her friendship with the other kids was still a key part of the story, but there really aren't many other similarities. She was overly bubbly and worked in??? tech stuff???? for the plot?????? It's not very overtly laid out.

Don't worry, though, she still had an evil-esque alter ego!! This time, she wasn't necessarily evil on purpose, but more because she was forced into a role overseeing a death game. It's about time that I bring up the fact that Together in Hell was originally a YTTD AU. Sorry. In this, she took on the role of a floormaster, somewhat. These are the best references I could find for her """floormaster outfit"", but I can't find a date for either of them. I'm still surprisingly proud of the piece on the right.

From here on out, we reach a sort of "interlude" in her designs. These pieces were made from when Together in Hell was actually coming into existence, and the YTTD AU it started with was fading out of existence. Around this point in time-- Summer of 2022-- I started to change some aspects to her character. She still heavily values her friends, but finds herself more occupied with a deal she made with a skeptical-seeming company which deals heavily in death. The leftmost picture has more similarities to the first draft of the story, while I like to refer to the rightmost picture as "a remnant from the forgotten second draft." It's called that because I forgot the plot but i like the sprite. These are where some pretty big physical changes also happened for her character; I stepped away from making her skinny and she got afro-textured hair. A few months before making these versions of her character, I had finally sorted out her family tree, and realized that curly hair- which her mother has- is a dominant gene. It took me six months to realize this and the fact that I'd have to redraw so many assets at this point actually made me quit development for a solid few months.

After that break, I restarted and started developing Together in Hell and her character as they sort of stand today.

For her current design, I gave her twists, which developed from braids in her first drawing in this state (leftmost). Later on, she gained green highlights, as green was her Character Color and I wanted to allude to that in her design. She still has a necklace- although now the necklace is a hard drive she carries around with an AI she made in it (that'll be plot relevant), and her outfit changed drastically, with a full-body reference in the center. She does like to change up her hair (see rightmost image) into a style which somewhat resembles her late first and second draft hairstyle, but these styles are more commonly found in flashbacks due to the short span of time the game takes place in. She greatly values her friends, but at the current, finds herself in the middle of a horror that she's going to have to face.

and that's about all :)

[malleficarian]

𝐎𝐇 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐑, 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐖𝐊𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

GENERAL

full name:  malina maldonado saleh .

nicknames:  mal .

age: fifty - two .

gender:  cis  female .

species:  dark fae

orientation:  pansexual , panromantic .

date of birth: unknown .

place of birth:  the moors .

residence:  evermore .

occupation:  angel investor @ wonderland .

RELATIONSHIPS

parents:  lucien ( father , fae ) , marica ( mother , fae ) .

sibilings:  n/a .

significant other(s):  n/a .

PHYSIQUE

faceclaim:  s.alma h.ayek .

eye color: brown , turns green when she does magic .

hair color:  dark brown .

height: 5′6″

ABILITIES

shapeshifting :  coming soon

spellcasting :  coming soon fr

character inspo:  maleficent  ( sleeping beauty ) ,  carmilla of styria  ( castlevania ) ,  lady lazarus  by sylvia plath ,  vanessa ives  ( penny dreadful ) , ptolomaea by ethel cain , the shadow archetype ( jungian psychology )

                                             𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘, 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐒. 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘.

HEADCANONS

malina is extremely hard to impress, and i don't mean it in the sense that she does it on purpose; she just is. in her quest to become the strongest she could be, the most powerful, she has devoted herself to learning so much about so many things that nothing truly surprises her these days, and rarely captures her interest. what this means is that, while she's capable of holding deep conversations, she rarely wants to. she has sort of isolated herself in this cocoon.

she's forever struggling with acknowledging her status as faefolk. she doesn't feel like one, well aware of how the public seems to perceive her kind and how she couldn't be farther from the norm, despite there being multiple types of faefolk. she'll use a plethora of word to describe her self: sprite, spellcaster, magician, dark priestess, mIsTrEsS Of eViL, but not fae. never fae.

along with her intimidating, foreboding exterior, she is also one of the most put-together people you'll ever meet. very elegant, perfect posture, honestly a sight to behold. she's a firm believer that in order to be powerful, one must look the part. the majority of her wardrobe consists of black, with the occasional touch of green or dark purple. she absolutely despises all other colors.

i'm gonna be real with you guys, diablo is her son. she'll never ever admit it and refuses to even think of him as such, but it's true. that's her boy. i think malina actually saw a lot of her younger self in him from the get - go, which is why he stands out from the rest of the minions and is more of a second in command to her. she definitely appreciates his loyalty, albeit in her own way.

she is a terrible communicator, especially when it comes to feelings / emotions. she'd much rather not acknowledge them and simply remove herself from the environment that's causing her to feel any type of way, good or bad. very much the type to have one single facial expression most of the time.

on the note of always wanting to know more , to be the most powerful , she's also quite an avid reader . seeing as most things are of little interest to her , it isn't unusual to catch malina reading as a way to pass the time .

hates holidays and most celebrations , including her own birthday . to her , it's one big reminder of how alone she is , considering she never really had anyone to spend those special dates with . her mother was always busy either putting malina's father first or out there looking for him , so holidays just aren't a thing for her . she feels as though she doesn't have much to celebrate ... yet . just wait until she takes over the world !

[bahamutgames]

AFTERTHOUGHTS - ROUNDUP ROUND 12

April 2024

Hello again!

It's been a HECTIC year so far. I've been very busy and frankly, just burnt out. Even with playing video games. So I really wasn't playing much of anything during that huge move I had to do. BUT, last month, I got a new phone and it's SO much better at playing games than my old one was. So I've been giving mobile gaming a shot, and I think it's been really helping to slowly get me back into gaming again.

So! To finally get back into the groove of doing my little afterthoughts stuff, here's some mobile (and some not mobile) games I played last month!

And as always, these aren't reviews, just my thoughts, please play everything I talk about if it interests you.

Super R-Type (July 13, 1991) - SNES

Another day, another FANTASTIC shmup with a new gimmick I've never seen before. I know I constantly say it, but this is the genre that keeps on giving for me. Every time I think I've seen everything you can do with it, I play a new one that does something brand new with it. AND THEY'RE USUALLY OLD GAMES! They had this shit figured out ages ago.

SO, Super R-Type's main gimmick is your little mobile drone sidekick. It's a ball that shoots out additional bullets for you, as you'd expect. But you as the player can actually fully control its movement, shooting it out as a big blast, leaving it stationary on the map, or having it trail around you as it tries to follow you when you call it back. Even the direction it links up with you matters, as you can link it to your back and have bullets fire from behind you, which is very helpful! It's REALLY neat and basically makes it feel like you're controlling a puppet fighter! There's also your standard red, green, and blue bullets with upgrades. But these special bullets were particularly interesting to me because they REALLY interact with the level in a way I feel like I hadn't seen. Like red, which shoots fire pillars that snake across the top and bottom of the map. Or, the best one, blue, which shoots lasers that bounce off walls!

The sprites, music, game feel, designs, and everything in this game totally rule! In fact, it rules a little too much! This game is constantly being crushed under its own weight and was lagging like CRAZY! Combined with some pretty brutal amounts of enemies and narrow passages to fly through, having your speed change so much at random can make the game pretty difficult. I imagine, if the lag was there on the SNES, this game was a bit of a nightmare to play. Obviously way easier with rewind though. But other than that, cool game!

Molecano (December 8, 2023) - Mobile

Another wonderful game from the creator of Dadish! I wanted to try this game when it launched SO BADLY but my old phone just wasn't compatible with it. BUT MY NEW ONE IS! So I went OFF, unlocking every character and making it to level 400 before deciding to take a break lol. I think that's far enough to share my thoughts.

This game is SO cute! You play as a mole in a volcano and have to pick up food on the lava by building bridges by spelling words using 6 letters. The 6 letters always spell at least 1 word, which you can watch an ad to reveal, but of course you'll need to use many words of different lengths to beat each stage.

This game is a ton of fun! I actually really enjoyed trying to figure out all the anagrams and making them connect to each other properly. The graphics are cute and the music is so jazzy and nice. It's a really simple word game but I think the inclusion of scrabble-like mechanics and having to actually place the words down with purpose make it really interesting.

I do have some issues with it though. Mostly the fact that no level can be replayed, which is fine. But I'd LOVE to have some sort of catalogue for every word I've used, or my best/biggest words, my most impressive plays, most coins, ect ect. It feels like it's missing that to really make what I'm doing kinda matter? And also that some of the later levels get REALLY brutal. Requiring you to do the level exactly as intended to beat. Which kinda sucks. But outside of that, most of my complaints are nitpicks like the bosses just being the same as the levels or characters being too expensive (you can't spend real money on them though so it's okay)

Crazy Taxi (2013) - Mobile

HEY HEY!! I'm actually a HUGE Crazy Taxi fan. I play my 360 copy of it a lot, play it every year at various cons on the original cabinet. And, when I found out it had a phone port I could run, I of course gave that a shot too!

This phone port works SURPRISINGLY well, I was not expecting to go so smoothly. But even with touch screen controls it feels fairly good to play and runs nicely. Still has good music and even nice graphics. It feels like a pretty uncompromised port of the game, which is awesome! And even though it has ads, you just watch one really quick ad before each run. So they're really unintrusive which is awesome and really shocking for a phone game lol.

I also beat Crazy Box for the first time (I'm not sure what other ports have this I haven't really explored the menus for this game much it seems) and had a pretty good time with it although some missions were pretty brutal. But it helped me learn a lot of how to play this game better which is fun! Not really too much to say here, Crazy Taxi rules and this phone port is fun! That final mission (and the one before it where you have to find a bunch of guys) was TOUGH as fuck though

Handshakes (2022) - Mobile

Ah this one was so cute! After playing a couple things from the playstore, I thought it'd be fun to see what indie stuff I could find on itch for phones... There surprisingly isn't much that isn't nsfw (which believe me, I tried a lot of those too lol) but this one is absolutely a winner!

Handshakes is a really short puzzle game where you have 2 guys on either end of a puzzle room, and they can extend their hands REAAAAAALLY far. And you have to use this to push blocks and solve puzzles to get both hands to meet in the middle for a handshake. It's simple but SO much fun and really had me stumped a couple times! It can get really complex too as later levels require you to cut off your hands (they grow right back) and use the severed limb to hold down switches, it's neat! Cute and goofy visuals, calming music too, this one is a winner for sure! I'll be very excited awaiting the sequel!

Sex Advice Succubus (2023) - Mobile

One of those earlier mentioned NSFW games. Well... this one is probably sfw cause there's no nsfw visuals, it's all in the text. This is a cute little game where you play as a succubus who gives a sex advice service online. You coach 2 monsters (a ghost and an incubus) through their sexual problems and concerns. It's a simple visual novel but it's VERY cute! Having around 10 endings which is impressive for a game with only 2 short routes, a selection of calm and relaxing music to listen to, and even a comfort mechanic that determines the endings you get.

My only REAL complaint is that it might be too easy, like it's surprisingly difficult to get the bad endings and make clients really uncomfortable. Which is, maybe for a best? I guess I just feel like I wanted some more consequences, but I think I'm game-ifying it in my brain too much lol.

This game is VERY cute and I actually think a lot of people would really enjoy it! So I wanted to be sure to give it a shout out! Check it out if cute sex positive monster girl visual novels sound fun to you!

TOMATO CLINIC (April 13, 2020) - Mobile

Another VN! There's a lot of them available for phones I'm seeing. Not usually my cup of tea (I want something with a bit more action and hitting monsters) but I certainly don't mind a bit of reading. Some culture for you.

Tomato Clinic is a cute visual novel where you play as a human getting a tour of a blood clinic made to supply vampires with food! It's pretty cute with very charming visuals, premise, music, and a cute little lore for how vampires work and function in its world. You also get to play fun educational vampire related activities! Isn't that lovely?

I don't really have much more to say on this one, but it's cute and free and a good time if you're looking for something vampire related! I recommend it, it's a great thing to spend some time with.

WarioWare: Twisted! (October 14, 2004) - GBA

LET'S GOOOOOO!! I've wanted to play this game for AGES! But it's so unreasonably expensive. And for the longest time I couldn't find a GBA emulator that didn't require payment for gyro control. But don't worry, the new and improved Green has a bigger brain and can get anything I so require. SO! WarioWare Twisted! THIS GAME RULES!! Genuinely, this might be one of my new favorite entries in the series!

In addition to your general WarioWare compliments, great characters, fun cutscenes, addictive and frantic gameplay, surprisingly good music, this game has some really specific stuff it does really well! Mainly, the actual gyro gameplay. I don't know if it's just the emulator (which I don't think it is, I'll explain why in the next game) but this game feels GOOD! Like, REALLY good, the gyro just works PERFECTLY! So the minigames are incredibly fun and goofy and throwing my phone everywhere to try and figure out what to do for each game was a blast. I think I liked this and how it controlled even better than Gold's gyro minigames. Though, again, this could just be a compliment to the phone emulator I used.

Also, this game has a lot of firsts that I had no idea came from this. Like 18-volt, I think Mona's pets?, I'm pretty sure interactive cutscenes were new to this one, and most impressively: THIS GAMEBOY ADVANCE GAME HAS A FULLY ORIGINAL LYRICAL TRACK IN IT!? I could have SWORN Mona's Pizza was from Touched! But I was blown away when I heard it in this! That's awesome!! Wario really is always pushing the GBA so much lmao. I don't really know if I have anything rude to say about this one, I genuinely had a blast with it! PUT THIS ON NSO NINTENDO!!! DON'T THOSE JOYCONS GOT GYRO IN THEM!?

Also I think Game & Wario is the only Wario Game I've never beaten now??? Unless you count Wario's Woods... But we can all agree that's a Toad game, right? Right?

Yoshi Topsy-Turvy (December 9, 2004) - GBA

*sigh*

It's time... to talk about... Yoshi Topsy-Turvy...

So since I was able to play Twisted for the first time, a nagging voice in the back of my head kept telling me "Now you have to beat Topsy-Turvy!!" And sadly, I couldn't just say no. I have a bit of a history with this game. I got it when I was a kid for my GBA, it was a bit more expensive than the other games at my local used game store if I recall correctly, but it had the gyro stuff which looked cool. So I wanted to play it!

Surprise surprise, this game sucked! And I could never beat it. But nowadays, I have a deeper appreciation for Yoshi games. I think Yoshi games are really underrated. Stuff like Story and Crafted World are REALLY good in my opinion. And with a great phone emulator, I could at least cheat my way through it right?... Surprise Surprise, this game still sucks!

Okay, let me be a little fair. It has some... okay graphics (I think going 3D drags them down hard though, just doing 2D would've been SO much better and looked nicer). And it has... music... I mean, it's not out of tune kazoos or anything. And the spirits of the island are cute, right? Look, it's a neat concept, but in my opinion it fails to deliver on those concepts in almost every way. The challenges are just boring at best and downright infuriating at worst. The story is kinda nonexistent. And the gameplay feels SO bad.

So, the reason why I don't think my emulator made Twisted better than it actually was is because, this emulator makes YTT feel IDENTICAL to my physical copy (I checked). And Twisted gives the player full 360 rotation, like, it can tell down to an angle where I'm tilting. Some microgames fully requiring you to turn the console upside down! And I can't prove it, but I think YTT fails at this because it's gyro is kind of fake. It just tells when the GBA is Left/Center/Right and then just full tilts the screen to that. So there's no nuance in how things move and tilt. Which is rough because this platformer kinda wants you to have that nuance. Then you add on having to tilt in the right direction to walk on walls or jump properly. Which is all cool ideas! But I think they just fall flat because the gyro is so basic. So the game just feels, bad. At least in my opinion.

I could never properly explain why the gyro felt so bad, but playing Twisted really showed me how good GBA Gyro COULD be! And again, maybe I'm completely off base, but this is just how I feel about YTT's control. It makes some minigames a nightmare and overall the game just doesn't feel good to play. I'm happy to finally have it beaten, but this is kinda no questions asked still the worst Yoshi game.

Regardless, I think I've played every Yoshi game now? Yoshi NES, Safari, Touch & Go... Is this the end of my Yoshi ride? What a shame, I feel like I really do get more of a kick out of this fella's games than most people do.

Tong Jyun (February 26, 2021) - Mobile

And last, but not least, one more VN! This is from the same creator as Tomato Clinic, I was actually looking for a DIFFERENT VN they had made... But it cost money and this was free so I went with it lol.

In this game, you play as a Chinese girl living with her girlfriend while her mom teaches her how to make the titular Tong Jyun over the phone. It's another VN but this one is maybe my favorite of what I played this month because of how unique and cool the set up and format it. The game is inside a fake Phone OS, and you actually receive texts and respond to them (not really you just click but it's still cute) and have a full conversation with your girlfriend and your mom. It's just a really interesting set up for a VN!

But where this game REALLY shines is the minigames! They're super simple, I don't even know if you can lose them. But again the way they're presented is SO creative and cute. Your mom says she's gonna video call you (and I was in a crowded place atm so I was like "OH FUCK) but thankfully there's no talking. Instead, your character is livestreaming herself making the food to her mom. And these are the minigames, you actually have to make the food. Again it's simple but the framing of the phone os, and the video calls, it's so genius and fun to me. I was really impressed with this one. If you only check out one VN I talked about today, I think you should check out this one. Literally my only complaint is that the music section lasts too long and I thought I broke the game lmao

[bluepoodle7]

#Illbleed #MyQuestionsAboutTheGame

I wish the creator of Illbleed was still alive.

I would ask him a ton of questions about this game like this and what promotion did Michel Waters get the invitation cards from?, what Eriko's true Id card age is?, & what was the Jp commercial?

Images not mine but links are there.

Illbleed Review for Dreamcast (2001) - Defunct Games

Nice☆Gay on X: "When you get into combat in Illbleed a heliport appears, if you press B quickly you'll escape the fight cuz Illbleed http://t.co/63FvP635XE" / X (twitter.com)

Where the IV drip was in the beta build but was removed with other characters in use.

SharkBloodRan on X: "Illbleed fact #8: in some Dreamcast Magazine scans from 2000 there are some screenshots of prerelease screenshots of specific levels more specifically Home run of death and a slightly different shot of the platforming area in revenge of queen worm #Illbleed #IllbleedSweep https://t.co/uU43bpNzNd" / X (twitter.com)

Panic Stretch 🏳️‍⚧️ on X: "continuing with illbleed. I've made it further through the first level. This game is certainly making MY heartrate go up too. XD I know where most of the traps are in this level and yet a lot of them have still gotten me. I'm a baby. XD #illbleed #Gameplay https://t.co/pZji7HoCaY" / X (twitter.com)

Some Illbleed gifs and cutscenes I found on X

Mikeke352🎮🏳️‍🌈 on X: "There's a surprisingly large amount of gifs out there for Illbleed considering it's such an old, obscure game. There aren't any really for D, Enemy zero, or D2. https://t.co/r7AUtF29yh" / X (twitter.com)

kinoposting on X: "@BruhmaneClapped ILLBLEED IS THE FUNNIEST GAME OF ALL TIME Sadly it's also janky and most people don't get passed the first level, like I doubt you will even play you gotta commit to that shit here's the full cutscene the gif is from https://t.co/Ivv3Krfd3Z" / X (twitter.com)

Diamond Feit 💎 ✨ ♥️ on X: "@Brelston toiletattack.gif #illbleed https://t.co/0pkdUmcVP0" / X (twitter.com)

Nice☆Gay on X: "Illbleed-Shower-Zombie.gif #LaqGif http://t.co/j0D1Efl74u" / X (twitter.com)

🪨 Geop! 🪨 on X: "Thinkin about Illbleed again https://t.co/3M0dJKRyR2" / X (twitter.com)

Obscure Video Games on X: "Illbleed (Sega - Dreamcast - 2001) https://t.co/988Dryaob8 https://t.co/Z5COcZb8su" / X (twitter.com)

SharkBloodRan on X: "Illbleed fact #5 Originally in the Japanese version of Illbleed there was going to be a full dub of the game in Japanese before later being subtitled with the english audio track, the only remnants of this audio is from the only September '01 build. #Illbleed #IllbleedSweep https://t.co/nmAncRBjQW" / X (twitter.com)

Rocky on X: "That part in IllBleed where the narrator flubs the reading but they keep the take in kills me. https://t.co/2CjmVahB8K" / X (twitter.com)

SurrealandCreepy on X: "One of the many traps in Illbleed. https://t.co/784Cpsmsai" / X (twitter.com)

Dracula Spelled Backwards on X: "#31SpookyFuckingGames Illbleed, a survival horror game on the Dreamcast that tracks things like adrenaline, heart rate, etc. You have to maintain it all so you don't die of fright while also avoiding traps/scares. Each stage is a different b-horror movie trope. https://t.co/d4k5O62EMn" / X (twitter.com)

Chris Jabberwocky on X: "#MDT5K is extremely happy to release our first episode of ILLBLEED - the wacky Dreamcast horror game, with special guest @EllynResident on commentary along with myself and @vanessasketch - will we finish it this time? We shall see 😆 #letsplay #retrogaming https://t.co/WMQh56Sr8N https://t.co/NEwaL1ZAxi" / X (twitter.com)

Illbleed - Stealing Hand (youtube.com)

Some cool Illbleed stickers I randomly found.

4x6 Illbleed Cuties Sticker Sheet - Etsy

FallenParty on X: "Eriko Christy - Illbleed #リョナ #ryona https://t.co/GUQm243CKT" / X (twitter.com)

Dreamcast - Illbleed - Character Related Sprites - The Spriters Resource (spriters-resource.com)

Mom on X: "Illbleed VR https://t.co/zb5ZHn34KX" / X (twitter.com)

Matt Bartlett VA🎙️ on X: "Thinking of making Illbleed 2 so me and @BoondockJoker can voice act in it. Thank you for your time. https://t.co/UNXeoiARju" / X (twitter.com)

SharkBloodRan on X: "3. in the E3 2000 build of Illbleed there is footage of an early version of Home Run of death shown off, one of the most interesting things about this version is that it has a fight with Rachel (the Giant worm) from the second level. https://t.co/tXFFEVKOtx" / X (twitter.com)

Captain OptiJams on X: "Wise Illbleed tree https://t.co/VSAQewNyFP" / X (twitter.com)

Zinny | Commissions Open on X: "@j0tpla Why the tree lookin like he's from Illbleed? https://t.co/yYDyHSXlBV" / X (twitter.com)

𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 on X: "𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 (Illbleed - Dreamcast, 2001) https://t.co/oOjNU1ZbZB" / X (twitter.com)

🧿w🧿 on X: "obscurevideogames: hitchpussy: Illbleed (2001) (Sega - Dreamcast) https://t.co/g6pg0ELVJl https://t.co/R48rTBeTlP" / X (twitter.com)

💉🫀🥩 on X: "ILLBLEED STRATEGY GUIDE (2001) https://t.co/K4HnLRHjhm" / X (twitter.com)

💉🫀🥩 on X: "ILLBLEED (DREAMCAST, 2001) https://t.co/bktDz0U20K" / X (twitter.com)

twitter.com/HyperBitHero/status/1790623362357895440

Callum/🦊/Calzum on X: "@stopskeletons bonus Russian bootleg illbleed for ya too https://t.co/xuyycmqEMO" / X (twitter.com)

John Andersen on X: "Of course they were giving away a Blue Stinger jacket and poster, but no Hassy? https://t.co/PQjsbTUQKf" / X (twitter.com)

Sean-Paul on X: "@JohnAndersen21 Hell yeah https://t.co/fmVB5wc20I https://t.co/SORT34UH5t" / X (twitter.com)

SharkBloodRan on X: "Illbleed Fact #9: This is another article discussing the switch between Climax Graphics to Crazy games during Illbleed's Development which was around the time when Sega dropped from Publishing the game. #Illbleed #IllbleedSweep https://t.co/uOcSraD13B" / X

SharkBloodRan on X: "Illbleed fact #4 in early builds of Illbleed there is footage of Kevin hanging around Homerun of death and usually sporting the "Randy" name on his health which could imply that Eriko and Kevin were originally the starting characters at the start #Illbleed #illbleedSweep https://t.co/CjDttdabzf" / X

SharkBloodRan on X: "#IllbleedSWEEP https://t.co/PqvLtuoXtw" / X

SurrealandCreepy on X: "Illbleed (DC). Entering one of the final bosses "oh no man"! #videogames #retrogaming #horror https://t.co/brhJTyjKRm" / X

Red Mage Roxy on X: "Here are some choice images from Illbleed -Zodick the Hedgehog -Rachel & her father as ghosts -this game has a lot of blood -Size Is Problem https://t.co/fWHJTDZfd6" / X

Farrell the Feral 🕹️ on X: "Team SNES for me. But what my heart truly desires is this $16,000 Mega Dream. Saving my allowance, and dreaming big. Captured this while playing Illbleed the other night. So great. https://t.co/sQ16bPzIYf" / X

https://twitter.com/illbleed_txt/media

Your dad, The squid on X: "For the guys @ReloadLastSave based on a joke in their Illbleed (part 2) video. Here's logo 1/ I don't know how many I'll make. https://t.co/BJbxHtA8ls" / X

https://x.com/Tracker_TD/status/1587048202007707650

Illbleed beta workers in the backrooms.

💀𝔖𝔢𝔤𝔞 𝔅𝔞𝔰𝔰 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖓💀 on X: "More of DCM's Illbleed strats ⁽ᴰᶜᴹ⁻ˢᵉᵍᵃᴿᵉᵗʳᵒ⁾ https://t.co/itiKHTcGQq" / X

💀𝔖𝔢𝔤𝔞 𝔅𝔞𝔰𝔰 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖓💀 on X: "DCM interviews the developers of Illbleed ⁽ᴰᶜᴹ⁻ˢᵉᵍᵃᴿᵉᵗʳᵒ⁾ https://t.co/35grLB7U81" / X

💀𝔖𝔢𝔤𝔞 𝔅𝔞𝔰𝔰 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖓💀 on X: "DCM's strategy guide for Illbleed ⁽ᴰᶜᴹ⁻ˢᵉᵍᵃᴿᵉᵗʳᵒ⁾ https://t.co/RdE7SCrkOg" / X

The beta Illbleed UI with Eriko crawling on the Mr. Banballow bathroom floor.

https://x.com/Tracker_TD/status/1443001635693862913

[jayextee]

DOOM 64

This was my break from all the Quake, a DOOM that's styled like it wishes it were, um, Quake. Dangit.

Alright I'm going to do the irrelevant journalist thing and drop a life-story anecdote into a review. Just to set the tone. The year is 199-something, late nineties, and I help out a friend on occasion with his outdoor market stall selling used and secondhand games. There's no money in it for me, but the favours are often returned in the form of cheaper games or first-refusals. I get to know the regulars.

Anyway, there's this guy; Scott and his bicycle; that I talk to a lot. My pet console the SEGA Saturn died some time ago and I've become a late-adopter of the Nintendo 64 platform -- only thing is, there aren't actually all that many games that I like on the thing. I'm trying, but I can't seem to get into many of the highly-rated games on the platform. But I do manage to get into one in particular. It received an absolute mauling in the UK games press for being nothing new, too old-fashioned, not having 3D model monsters, all kinds of piss-poor justifications, but actually I found myself having a damn fine time with DOOM 64.

Scott and his bike, he's a big Nintendo 64 junkie. Absolutely loves it. Anyway, conversation gets to what we're playing at the moment and I kinda say how I've been playing DOOM 64 and it's completely underrated and probably - to my late-teen self at least - the best first-person shooter on the console.

"Ah, but" began Scott and his wheels' retort, "people in the know prefer GoldenEye..."; he'd tapped the side of his nose with his finger and everything. People in the know. This deeply-hidden knowledge about the rival first-person shooter game the UK press has been raving about and almost universally giving 5/5 or 90-something% or 9/10 scores to. The movie tie-in based on a well-known and long-running series of film featuring one of Britain's best-known literary characters from the modern age. People in the know are going to prefer the popular thing.

Fuck GoldenEye though. I disliked it back when, tolerating it on the occasion that it was the only way I'd get some multiplayer gaming done at a friend's house, and I dislike it even more now. And in 2020 my beloved sprite-based underdog got a remaster for all the current gaming platforms, so that people like myself; apparently not in the know; could enjoy this underrated underdog. And what d'ya know? A few people in the know have found out that, holy shit, now the veneer of novelty has died down on the genre as a whole, DOOM 64 is in fact really good!

But still. Fuck GoldenEye. 6/5