#the swordcraft story one

[kenchann]

What is your pfp?

a drawing i did of loki/reki from summon night 2 (*´▽｀*)

[daisukoth]

i keep seeing people say this about swordcraft story. which isnt true at all. The girl MC is very much the intended choice for the protagonist, they even make her the protagonist in the novel of the game. There ARE line differences in the game, and im pretty sure one of the character's arc even has a different ending depending on which gender you choose

[telltalebatman]

@sunlian replied to your post “ooo! 3, 4 and 16 for frankie from intimate asks?...”:

plsssss i adore them

​they are very normal about each other while being fake married on a maggia espionage mission

[ponett]

underrated RPGs in your opinion? (Besides SLARPG)

Is Lufia 2 underrated? I feel like SNES RPG nerds love it but it isn't exactly a household name. What else, uh... I haven't played it much but Jade Cocoon 2 is neat. I like the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story games on GBA. Eternal Sonata deserves to be remembered solely because "a fantasy JRPG set entirely in the dreams of a dying Frederic Chopin" is one hell of a premise. Also more furries need to play Solatorobo. Hell, I need to play Solatorobo, I've owned a physical copy since launch but never got that far in it.

[loopingpyre]

'Everyone' posts about Summon Night Swordcraft Story's lesbians, having no idea that the story is actually pretty good.

The main story is a tournament arc, with the main character wanting to win so they can join ranks with the 'craftlords', a respected blacksmith (with political power? don't worry about it), after their disappeared father, one of the last craftlords vanished. All of the competitors have their own summon creature to help them smith cool. Your summon creature is your father's, and you should also just sort of reset until you get Sugar.

You dive into a labyrinth below the city to search for materials to make weapons with, and fight the monsters, summon creatures (just like your partner), in a 2d action game system.

The town itself however is in crisis. The water levels are rising, and the labyrinth is really just lower levels of the city that have been flooded because everything is built on top.

This is part of another little story arc, where the history of the city and labyrinth tie into some political shenanigans, between the main kids fighting and make friends in a tournament.

[tiangouaway]

Initial Thoughts on the WB Leaders

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond just released the leader profiles!! Let's take a look at them and their crafts!

1) Portalcraft - Dreizehn

Portal's been bumped up from last to first, now having it's own poster girl! Meaning thirteen in German, Dreizehn seems to be a serious girl with a lot of power. I wonder if her world will be similar to Aiolon, especially with the "machine-dominated" aspect. But she herself is called a machine... perhaps her story will be about her identity of machine vs human, if she's human at all.

For her design, aside from the mismatched legs, and how her breast/chest-piece looks awkward, almost as if it was glued on... I like it! I especially love the cape and the guns!

2) Forestcraft - Lovesign

First off, awesome name. He seems to be a lazy, probably cocky spoiled prince who doesn't care about his duties. I'm interested in the dynamic with his older brother - I can picture the arguments already! I expect him to have a character arc of learning responsibility, along with being a fan favorite. He seems like kind of a jerk, but in the way that you would hate working with him on a group project, but would have fun talking to or going to a party with.

I'm in love with the colors, and definitely did not expect this for Forest (guess that's what 8 years of Arisa will do to you). Plus, his weapon is cool as hell! My only concern is that the vague Egyptian theme will lead to orientalism in his world... but I'm going to remain positive!

3) Swordcraft - Marie Malisse

Sword's first leader has been upgraded from knight to noblewoman! While the "drops of rain" simile could just be for flair, that, her "Soleil" rank, and even the flowers makes me believe she'll have a sun or weather theme. And going back to Erika comparisons, the talk about sinners reminds me of Erika's loyalty to her kingdom for atonement - is this Marie's reason as well? Though, I assume it'll be justice for her kingdom and family name.

Surprised at how we already have two dual wielders, but I'm certainly not complaining. I don't really think she looks like a noblewoman, but whatever. I'm more focused on how she looks like Dionne, one of my favorite Sword leaders. Win for me!

4) Runecraft - Kaori Yuihara

They really love giving us ranks and classes to get us excited, don't they? She seems to be a thrill seeker looking for a fight, and I'm curious about her personality. Despite the fire theme, she seems to be laid back. Makes me all the more interested in her, and her world! An archmage in a metropolis sounds like a fun modern/futuristic fantasy setting.

Once again, in love the colors, especially her gradient fire hair! The runes on her body and her ghost hand are super cool, especially the whip-like thing around it she's "holding" with her other hand. My favorite design so far!

5) Dragoncraft - Galan

I'll be real... I was very sad when I first saw him. I get that they're doing some "subversions" of the crafts, but even then, I just found him underwhelming. But I think that's the point - making you believe he's just a humble doctor. I think he'll be the more level headed and knowledgeable one of the group, but not in the wise old man way. More like just an old guy who's seen a lot and knows a lot.

I... don't really know how to feel about his design. I like the subversion, but I don't really like the colors, namely the orange streaks in his hair and the green earing. But I'll never turn down a Chinese themed design! Makes me excited for his world and plenty of Asian dragon cards.

6) Abysscraft - Diawl

Before I start talking about it, I gotta talk about Abysscraft. I haven't seen any WB gameplay footage, so I'm really curious about how it'll work in game. It makes sense to combine Shadow and Blood, being the most similar in aesthetic. I assume Abyss will have some mechanic around damage to the player or your cards.

But now, onto it's leader! Very interested in it, mainly it's characterization. It literally being an "it" with no VA makes me wonder how it'll interact with the other leaders, assuming WB's story has a plot where they all meet up. Regardless, I like how it's a beast of legend, making me believe it'll have a story about being summoned, or the classic "oh no the ghost story was real!!" plot.

As for design... I don't care. Generic monster with a strangely skinny waist.

7) Havencraft - Esperanza

Hm... I don't really have much to say about her, to be honest. Characters shrouded in mystery aren't really my thing, but I am interested in the detachment, since that reminds me of Eris, and her attachment lead her to summoning Nexus. I guess this is another subversion type.

But I really like her design! Speaking of Eris and attachment, I guess they couldn't give up the yellow and purple palette. Her staff and veil thing are cool, and, of course, the gas mask!! Need I say more?

Closing Thoughts

While I do think some elements are lackluster, and I'm curious about how the leaders will impact their classes overall aesthetics, I'm nothing but excited for Worlds Beyond!! I've been a fan of Shadowverse nearly since it's release, and I can't wait to see where Worlds Beyond takes us.

[dirtreally]

playing through every fuckinggg vvideo game with gay bitches in it to try and salvage the last 2 weeks of my break. effortpost incoming

potionomics:

kind of insane how high effort the presentation is. the past ten years have been leading up to a kind of cultural dominance of Matte 3D (spiderverse, borderlands, arcane, and every work trying to cop the vibe of any of these three things) so even though this is literally the thing that Matte 3D was supposed to be a break from it still feels refreshing to see an incredibly high effort well-arted-out Shiny 3D thing that splits the difference between "looks like anime" and "looks like a western thingy tryna be anime" really well. of course with shit like The Super Dope And Viral Digital Circus becoming skibidi level popular i can only assume that we're gonna get ten years of Shiny 3D coming up and the ouroboros devours its own tail but right now it still feels fresh in the moment

that being said mannnnnnnnnnn fuck all the stupid ass characters in this game. the writing in this game has the unenviable task of like. trying to sound Whoalsome (cuz it has to market itself that way) while being not as annoying as like when cartoons and games and shit do le quirky dialogue (cuz if you do that now people yell at you on twitter) and for the most part it succeeds but it kind of doesnt matter when every single fuckinggggggg social link conversation is about like your adventurer friend telling you how they feel imposter syndrome about being in a fantasy rpg guild before asking you Okay But Really Though How Can I Contribute To Woke Capitalism While Prompting Reform As A Budding Small Business Owner In Dragontown❓ Awful. you can be gay and have one of several epic girlfriends in this but even after all that they only talk about how they are choosing to work with small clients with their marketing firm (not a joke) fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc kkkkkk. they dont even show up when you win the fucking potionomics tournament so who cares.

half the steam reviews are bitching about the day limit thing which is fucking insane to me. the game is extremely generous with your time and the day limit at least sets your ass on fire a little bit which is the only uncomplicated positive emotion thsi game gave me. you might fuck up the first 10-day cycle once or twice but if you can clear that you can do the whole game. i maxed out all the social links and ccleared everything and It Was Fine. also there's a really scary egyptian stereotype character.

summon night swordcraft story:

i played this shit because i saw hazel talk about it being surprisingly gay ina video then i play it and if you do the personality quiz at the start of the game good your summonable creature is just straight up a woman who wants to fuck you. so then i watch the hazel video again and she didnt even get or mention that character. crazy.

anyway the summonable woman thing is kind of fucking epic especially with how played straight it is b ut also really funny to think about. every single other character summons like a cute stage 1 digimon type creature to help them out in battle and the creatures all fuck off when they're not fighting but your thing is a human woman with her tits out who just walks around with you all the time who wants you to fuck her (ESPECIALLY IF YOURE A WOMAN!!!!!!) all the time. i want to imagine that all the other ccharacters are like either incredibly mad or uncomfortable about this but just choose not to say anything about it.

i played this shit on a gba emulator on my phone while chilling on my bed and straight up if i got a steam deck and could play video games on my bed or while lying down it would bef ucking over for me. i would never get up. i think at this point its kind of essential for me that video games require the suck ass task of sitting on an ikea chair to be able to be played. either way its incredibly mechanically and textually light so its kind of perefect to be played while dicking around On Da Phone. the story is extremely standard jrpg but it is a little sweet that for the protagonist, becoming stronger is directly conflated with becoming kinder to other people and learning more about her world. again not the craziest thing in the world but its sweet

apparently da sequel is also gay but i kind of cannot be bothered to wwant to play it because the protag isn't as sauced up as this fucking girl. complete perfect harmony of artstyle and character design and the gba making all the art crunchy

ITS FUCKING PRATTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i usually do the thing of naming every rpg protag with my name whenever i play these things b ut this bitch has so much personality just thru her portrait and vibes alone that i stuck w the default name. idk i am extremely charmed by her shapes

crymachina

this shit looks soooo fucking good what the fuckkkkkk. i posted before about how it looks like the renders they used to have on the boxes of graphics cards but it really is Like That. most of it is still filtered through the lens of extremely NIS-america/JAST japanese enthusiast B-game jank but still. the prerendered cutscenes in this are straight up my favourite part of the game they are straight up gorgeous. god tier anime girl 3d artism

the aesthetic and story are both kind of insane hi-concept sci-fi bullshit to the point where i kind of have to salute it no matter what just for swinging that hard and high. extremely weird pacing and it feels like it got truncated at some point and a bunch of the stuff that was meant to be in the game got put inside some of the stupid ass nier-weapon-story-type things this game has. for the record i hate when any video game does thiis cuz eevery single weapon story is like. okay i spent 10 minutes looking for it but there's a meme with a nier weapon story screen and its like

Weapon story 1:

Girl:I am having heart surgery

Boy: I know... I love you

Weapon story 2:

After surgery when the girl woke up, with only her father next to her

Weapon Story 3:

Girl: Where is he???

Weapon story 4:

Father: who do you think gave you the heart?????

it's completely fucking insane to me that people will make fun of fallout skeletons and skyrim journals and shit like that as if this isn't on the exact same level

anyway its pretty good and like. blatantly about being a gay bitch on e very thematic level its kind of crazy. really fun game to think about. i don't like one of the artistic decisions made regarding one of the late-game twists but whatever. The way you unlock the final ending is one of the most fun ways to do it ive ever seen and i was incredibly pleased when i figured it out. the gameplay in every other aspect is extremely perfunctory but the way you unlock the final ending is kidn of just incredibly pog-worthy in a way that you can't really feel if you just watch a video or read a description of it, especially if you figure it out yourself.

THATTTTTTTTTTT BEING SAIDDDDDDDDDDDDD i think the ending is just Fine. I think i have a built in brain immunity or something to like. specifically sci fi video games cuz i saw this had the same thing as nier automata where a lot of people were going on about Auuuuuuu Fuckkkk I Cried At The Endddd So Crazyyyy but when i hit the final end i was just like Hruh That's It??? and spent like 10 minutes making sure if that was the final final for realsies ending. idunno man.

but also overall i still really liked this game and i still think it is extremely bold for what it does so if youve read this far and have 60-ish dollars to throw around you should absolutely buy it at its stupid ass japanesegameonsteam price cuz i wanna see more crap in the Cry_____ vein (crymachina was made after crystar which like. shares loose Vibe Associations but as far as i can tell is otherwise completely unrelated) and just more games that make as many crazy ass aesthetic decisions as this one. either way im definitely gonna keep an eye on what furyu puts out after this

ok thats it. im gonna try mary skelter 2 now hopefully i dont die

[characteroulette]

This has been sitting in my drafts and I want it out.

Video game music recc list part 1 (because too many good games too many good osts)

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Summon Night Swordcraft Story --

Sword & Water Capital

Let's Make It!

Dark Cloud (the whole ost actually but these ones in particular) --

Main Theme

The Ceremony

Owl Forest

Queens

A Sinking Ship

Duel

Departure

Ocean and Moon

The Corridor of Time

Dark Cloud 2 / Dark Chronicle --

Carnival Night

Moonlight Tango

Palm Brinks

Veniccio

Gundor Volcano Grotto

Gundorada Workshop

Spiral of Dreams

Professor Layton series --

Layton's Theme

Puzzle Battle (Unwound / Lost Future)

The Unwound / Lost Future

The Spectre's Flute Theme

Rumble! (Last Spectre)

Puzzles 6 ~ Deduction (Last Spectre)

Town of Mist ~ Misthallery Night (Last Spectre)

Night in the Woods --

Astral Train

Astral Coal Town

Die Anywhere Else

Weird Autumn

Pumpkin Head Guy

Astral Fish

Rainy Day

Space Dragon

Just take the whole Lufia: The Legend Returns ost. Good Game Boy beep boops.

Actually take the whole Secret of Mana ost as well. Absolutely stacked ost.

(As a note, all of these games have great full osts, I just picked out a few of my faves where I could!)

[midnightclover]

what's summon night swordcraft story? :o

love how everyone wants to learn more about swordcraft story once they learn its hella gay. i mean. same. thats why i played it

summon night: swordcraft story is an rpg (not turnbased) series for the gba and a spinoff of summon night. though i know jack shit about summon night lol.

swordcraft story (1) is about being a Craftknight, basically a blacksmith that fights with weapons they've forged. you compete in a tournament to become a Craftlord (basically an extra cool Craftknight) and explore labyrinths and fight monsters for materials.

you also get a summon creature to act as your Guardian Beast, basically theyll help you with forging and do magic stuff in battle! and one of them just so happens to be super gay if you pick the female protag. like its so blatent. she literally kisses the protag. the protag does a bit of no homo stuff but its still very gay, and she warms up to her. she (the protag) even just randomly calls some other girls pretty.

the story, characters, and writing are all pretty good too! though i dont want to say too much about them for like spoilers. especially dont want to spoil the jokes, theyre fantastic.

the combat's pretty fun too! kinda like kh chain of memories if you removed the card shit? also you can equip 3 different weapons in combat to switch between at will, so you can have something to take down whatever enemy's in your way, as well as calling in your guardian beast for spells n shit. btw there are only like 5 main weapon types, but theyre so different and the individual weapons can be kinda different so its still pretty nice. you can even make some fancy enchanted weapons

uhh so yeah. games pretty damn good! its got a couple flaws but it was so fun i couldnt stop playing it (and was thinking about replaying it the whole time. its that damn good)

[aokozaki]

The protagonist of Summon Knight: Swordcraft Story has a different default name depending on if you pick the male or female protagonist, and because they also keep a lot of the romantic subtext between the protagonist and several female characters, Pratty ends up coming across as a very poorly closeted lesbian.

Like beyond the stuff with Sugar (one of four possible partner characters you can get) Pratty at one point tries to show off in front of her main rival character (a girl) by claiming that, pffft, yeah, of course she's kissed girls before, plenty of times.

It's transparently a lie, but girl, why are you trying to tell that lie in particular? 🤨🏳️‍🌈?

[clownkiwi]

ok you guys get one day to vote for this. which game should i play next since i finished chrono trigger

[scottapez]

ok so apparently i like hallucinated or drempt this or something but i vividly remember seeing a figure of

HER. pratty from summon night swordcraft story. i was about to give into the demons and see how much she was online BUT I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE? like even pictures of it? i think her pose was literally one of these ^poses of official art too. am i crazy or something or does anyone else recognize what im talking about

[purenguyening]

N A O L I C E + Q T

This one will definitely be long, eheh..

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

Bellow mostly applies to Touhou Project:

More character analysis based on how they appear in the games. It doesn't happen often but I think talk centered round how Touhou characters express themselves through spell cards can add a lot of depth that doesn't come through in fanworks.

More fanworks that draw from their historical inspiration (this limits to a small cast of characters but I feel like Historical Touhou is very rare...I also understand why this doesn't happen much mostly due to high barrier of entry and in general requiring more work.)

Also a huge fan and will always welcome Touhou designs that pull from the artist's nationality. It's a fun twist and I'm always impressed when they incorporate design elements from the original outfit into the clothes.

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

Sakuro and Cleru during my Summon Knight: Swordcraft Story playthrough made me laugh a lot. Sakuro is a very, very silly Craftlord. They have a very similar dynamic to Steven and Brendan's relationship from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald (though I feel like Emerlad is probably the better fit to their dynamic).

There's a few others but Giyuu/Tanjirou and Sabito/Tanjirou are on my mind because of [this fanart]

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

Alright, I had to have Youtube randomly shuffle my Summer Recap but it pulled up Fifty Fifty's Cupid and it just reminds me of Devil Survivor as a whole for the sole reason I read all eight volumes while listening to this song on loop at 1.25x speed. It's really funny of all the songs I put on loop throughout the summer, it happened to pick one I actually have some association with a fandom....

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

Major spoilers for Swordcraft Story: I really like Ureksa a lot as a character, he's portrayed in a pretty sympathetic manner and I think how he patches things up with Cleru/Pratty is really refreshing. While I don't love the suicide bait and switch, it really does feel clear to me even if he made some pretty bad decisions, I do think he's a kind person at heart. He's a very prickly person, but I think it makes sense from his design (a lot of spear specialists tend to not be very direct, which makes sense for their fighting style, the game specifically sets up spear users to fight at a range).

Now that I think about it, Matsuoka Rin (Free!), is also someone I warmed to eventually because I liked seeing him be a mentor to Aiichirou and Momotaro. I think that's part of his character design though...

As an aside, it is possible to send me this prompt multiple times since there's very few characters I actively hate and I always have something tucked away in the back of my mind. Most of the time is me wanting to comment their role in the story, but I think that can be read as me recognizing their purpose....

I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

Not tumblr, but on Twitter, I do think it's really easy to lose interest in fandom because it's very easy to fall into negative spirals. There is a general shift in fandom overall that made me feel the need to keep my interests separate with side blogs and I tend to be more active through a very closed off account on Twitter.

Maybe one day I'll be courageous and blog about my interests from my one main blog, but that's still an option off the table for now.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

Toyosatomimi no Miko/Soga no Tojiko the popular fandom portrayal just gets on my nerves and I find it really annoying when sometimes posts still appear because the ship name is not mentioned anywhere in the tweet. I do have a specific portrayal but I'm hesitant to say if's romantic, but i do think their dynamic is interesting, I just can't bring myself to think of it as romantic.

This might be more closer to me complaining I wish I had post block on Twitter/Tumblr Mobile.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

I think a long time ago I made a joke about how the fanon portrayal of Shinichi drinking coffee is a subtle way for him to drive away people bugging him. (Caffiene is a natural insecticide, hence the word play). Truth be told I'm not 100% sure now if that was the inspiration for this post I made...

I think maybe you can still find it in the KaiShin discord, but I felt like there's a lot of innuendo to be had knowing Toichi and Yuusaku having a back and forth with just a question mark and exclamation point. (The symbol that combines both the question mark and exclamation point is called an interrobang and it looks like this: ��)

I don't think either of them spawned too much in the fandom, but I realize my sort of humor needs like a short essay just to explain the context and this is probably why I don't really share my more cracky/insane interpretations....

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

I think the only true fandom I've completely abandoned is Harry Potter? Aside from the obvious reasons, I've learned I still do really love the concept of magic, but I would rather have it manifest itself in different ways. I love fantasy and magic, but I think I end up preferring it to be a back drop or the setting rather than the primary focus. I guess it's more closer to, I like it more as an aesthetic, but dislike it when it becomes the center focus.

Even more controversial fandoms I never can quite fully bring myself to fully abandon (the one that mainly comes to mind is Hetalia). A lot of other fandoms that are less contentious I tend to just cast aside for a while but after a few years I end up picking it back up again for one reason or another.

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

Listen, I know it's basically confirmed now that Futo killed Tojiko as of Strange Creators of Outer World, I still refuse to believe Futo actually did it. The closest thing I'll compromise on is Futo's definition of killing Tojiko is "she was not present to stop the murder." That's about it.

I'm basically a Futo apologist and I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

[epicfranb]

[for the ask gameee] 9 , 26 , 29 maybe o3o??

9 i already answered but here's proof of how boring i am

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

i don't know if there's something like that? (ﾟωﾟ；) i looked through all my drawings and the one thing is maybe my origins ranboo comics which got really popular and might've gotten misinterpreted at some point ^^;

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

mmm the only things i draw are the ones im obsessed about but i do watch and play and read other stuff! im playing summon night: swordcraft story rn and i started drawing the main character buuut i kind of don't wanna finish it ,, i just feel like the original style is waaaaay too cute and i can't give it justice ^^; i also really love hunter x hunter but i haven't drawn anything about it even once :'3

[loopingpyre]

Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 has a bunch of QoL features in the vein of an improved combat system, more interesting forging mechanics, FISHING MINIGAME but it falls flat on how it presents it's narrative thus far.

The first game revolved around a tournament arc to decide the next 'craftlord', with this featuring as a backburner plot whilst you met different rivals and another plot unrolled itself out behind the scenes. This also meant the cast always felt like they were doing something.

2's cast is far less interesting thus far, as each character just exists. Lynn could be interesting, Osin was given a fun moment in a duel, Blaine is a fun character, but they're all so minor as new members join the scene.

The most damning evidence is I played both of these games to 100% completion as a kid and I could tell you everything about the first one as I played it.

And I forgot everything sbout the sequel. Just entirely.

[eccentric-nucleus]

to take a brief break from complaining all about the stories i don't like, i will say that i did really enjoy an unknown swordcraft which is by-and-large exactly what you'd expect from a progression fantasy (mc has a secret superpower; mc constantly gets more powerful; story is mostly about mc slowly getting more powerful) but manages to make it work because the character writing is actually, like, good. all the secondary characters are distinctive and have their own thing going on. it has humor that actually lands. the choice to give all the secondary characters their own bizarre derangement was a good one.

anyway it's unfinished and abandoned and probably will never see another update. o well