#they were super pop for emo iirc

[lesenbyan]

Man why has falling in reverse been stuck in my head for like. Months.

[mariska-sims]

Bubblegum Legacy Family: Day 1 Adventures!

played my legacy challenge file for a while yesterday and made a lot of progress in my Gen 1 starter sim’s life so far; here are a few highlights!

so, to start things out, i of course moved my starter sim, Bobbi Bubblegum, onto the biggest empty lot in my chosen neighborhood and set her money to 1,800 (the amount that the legacy challenge site rules state to start out with IIRC), leaving me with just enough to buy the absolute survival essentials:

(i put some extra walls on the sides of the bathroom area because i remember having issues in the past with sims on legacy starter lots not wanting to use the toilet or shower because other sims walking by could see them LOL)

this left Bobbi with a few simoleons to make herself a few dishes of salad that i stored in the fridge as leftovers so that she could have some backup food if hunger became an urgent issue in a no simoleons situation.

Bobbi is very into the cottage life aesthetic, so i got her a job as a gardener (haven’t gotten to do the first day of it in-game yet ‘cause it was the weekend) and put a couple of plots down for her to practice planting to improve her gardening skill a bit

there was also this random geode rock that kept spawning like two times on the edge of her lot so i had her dig that up lol, she found two little My Sims figures that i thought were very cute ‘cause i loved those games as a kid + i placed them next to her small makeshift library next to her cot bed

since it was the weekend and she didn’t have work to do, i figured it’d be a good idea to get a head start trying to build up some friendships & possibly a relationship for her! she visited a few cafes and parks and did a lot of socializing, and ended up making two pretty good friends within a few in-game hours

this townie was her first friend, and i think her style is adorable, so i tried to see if they might be a good fit as a couple, but the townie sim was a part of a Cool Scary Emo Club and Bobbi kept getting pop-ups saying she was like, nervous about her reputation going down because of their interactions or something along those lines haha. they were already friends so i didn’t want to sabotage that or anything, but i figured this sim probably wasn’t the best match for Bobbi, and i want her to be as happy as possible and hopefully live a great, long life, so we moved on to making some other friends around town!

that’s when she met Zoe Patel, another pre-made EA townie, at the park. they got along super well and became fast friends! Zoe’s interests and general attitude seemed to click a lot better with Bobbi’s, so i decided she would be the new relationship goal sim. and luckily it all worked out quickly!

they totally hit it off and i was quick to have Bobbi propose and secure The Generation 1 Spouse LOL. as Zoe had quite a few overlapping interests with Bobbi, i thought it would be nice to set her on a similar job path, so i signed her up to be an environmental conservationist! she’ll be starting her first day on Tuesday, the same day as Bobbi’s first work day. Bobbi’s life goal is to have a nice farm for both plants & animals (i just got gifted the Cottage Life expansion by my bestie irl so i was very excited to immediately jump into that pack’s gameplay cuz i am very much a cottagecore person too haha), and Zoe’s is to be a friend of the world, so i think as long as i’m able to do a decent enough job juggling their social lives, work lives, and eventual family relationships and challenges, i’m crossing my fingers that they’ll both get to see their aspirations through before the end of the first generation gameplay and household send-off to the next eventual heir!

i also gave Zoe a CAS makeover because i’m not the biggest fan of the base EA townies’ styles/makeup/etc etc and i tend to use a lot of CAS CC in my households; i’ll make a separate post eventually with more pics, but here’s how she looks now!

i give townies makeovers very often in my games, and when i do, i don’t like changing any of their actual genetics like skin, eye color, face shape, etc, i just like using their EA appearance as sort of a template to add fun looks onto! i swapped her base eyes out for CC eyes in the same color (sort of an amber brown shade), added a faceblend to add some more depth to her face a bit, and gave her new outfits & hairstyles that were similar to her pre-existing style. added the pink ombre to her hair in a few outfits where it worked with the hair just for a fun splash of color since i love non-natural hair dye colors irl and for sims :-)

i’m excited to make more progress for this growing family! i already love Zoe so much and i think she’s a perfect fit for the Bubblegum household <3

here are a couple other pics i took while playing last night too

this is a selfie Bobbi took of her and Zoe that i put up on the wall cus i think its cute and in my sims 3 legacy house i almost always had at least one family portrait/art piece of the main adults in each generation, i just think it’s a sweet way to carry on their individual stories/memories as the challenge goes on!

this was when i was trying to get a good pic of the gals interacting and this funky mailman walked by and it cracked up.....love that guy

[riku7se]

2.8 Impressions (spoilers below cut)

Right so I’m trying to keep my main twitter as spoiler-free as possible but I just wanted to write abt what I liked/what I thought bc I’m going stircrazy not having anyone to talk to about this (HURRY UP GLOBAL LAUNCH!!) so I have come to Tumblr.

So: I liked 0.2/BC a lot.  I rly enjoyed the gameplay in 0.2, and loved being able to choose different situation commands in the chance I had activated more than one. The larger spells (ie, Thundagun/Firagun/Blizzagun) were so fucking great.  The scenery was also super beautiful, and I really don’t have any misgivings about the models anymore, I feel like they did a great job.  I’ve seen some people complain about certain story aspects/answers/reveals, but tbh I’m pretty satisfied (more below the cut.)

EVEN BEGINNER WAS KIND OF A BIT DIFFICULT FOR ME TBH LIKE unless you actively speedrun or do crit lv1 run for fun or something pls make your first play on Beginner lmao.

For BC, I’ve been attached to KHx’s story since it launched way back in 2013, so I was ALL OVER hearing more about the foretellers.  And while there are still some odd scene transitions, I am overall super SUPER pleased with it.  It’s worth noting, though, that the initial scene for BC is actually a snapshot replay of THE ENTIRE BROWSER STORY UP UNTIL THE VERY END, so there are spoilers for that.

I’m in the middle of going through 3D rn, and I had to fuckin....slow down the camera bc it was Too Fast For Me.  Otherwise, it’s very interesting to see how they adapted things like Reality Shifts and Link Portals to only use one screen (look at this. Look At This)

Okay, now for more concrete stuff, in largely worded bullet points, pretty much entirely about 0.2 and BC.

0.2

Hearing that Yen Sid forbade Mickey from talking about Aqua because he figured Sora and Riku would drop everything to go after her actually REALLY satisfied me as an explanation, especially after seeing Riku get his panties in a knot after figuring out she had saved him way back in KH1--he was SO READY to go after her.

On a related note, Mickey told Aqua about Sora and RIku helping him when they found the ruined Destiny Islands.  Which puts BbS’s secret ending in a new light, I suppose--kinda like she was glad to hear that whatever Mickey had planned had succeeded.  That she still remembered their names when Mickey asked who she had met on the island warmed my heart a lil.

WHAT IN THE SHIT WAS KKD DOING BEHIND THE DOOR IN THE SECRET PLACE?? iirc Mickey said something about how, seeing as Sora acquired the Keyblade here, then the Keyblade of the Realm of Darkness should be in DI while it, too, is in the RoD...which only brings up questions. 1) Does every Keyblade have a dark counterpart?, or 2) Is Sora’s keyblade actually more special than, say, Aqua’s or Riku’s or Kairi’s?  They do resemble the parts of the x-blade, after all.

The scene with Terra is The Real Terra, but it’s only his heart.  I don’t think he can actually see anything around him so much as feel it??  He can’t see Ven, either, so even Terra proposed that these are illusions that Aqua is conjuring, especially since she is seeing Terra as she once knew him, rather than who he is now.  Speaking of, Xehanort was super using him to get Aqua to reveal where Ven was hiding...I wonder if it was through the armor? This scene also connects to the concert-only sketch with Namine and Terra...hoo boy, though, Terra. It was Terra.  His RAGE AWAKENED chains showed up and I screamed nbd.

THE MUSIC!!! Enchanted Dominion and Dwarf Woodlands had rearrangements of their world theme with the general Dark World theme, and Aqua’s new 0.2 theme (vs Mirror Aqua) sounds like something out of a survival horror game good god. Here’s a playlist.

My only real gameplay complaint was that it sometimes felt like magic took a while to be cast, or that the button presses were unresponsive. I guess it’s kinda like...if you button smash, you can’t interrupt the commands you’ve put in already to case magic??? You gotta let it go through.  Otherwise it controlled really well, and I actually can’t think of a time the camera got in my way.

The game doesn’t tell you that you have to actively jump over the Darkside’s blasts when you’re Flowmotion-ing down the vine, but I actually liked that, you don’t always need a notice for things like that.

They totally remodeled some key scenes (Mickey appearing at the DtD, Aqua walking up to the Dark Margin) and I Got Emo.

THE EFFECTS IN THIS GAME ARE SO NICE you kick up sand clouds when u run on/near DI.....so amaze....fuck this game is beautiful.

There are some light platforming elements back, too! And some really interesting puzzles! Like, one of the challenges in the Castle Town is to get to the highest point there, while Dwarf Woodlands has a puzzle that involves you switching certain set pieces between the “real” and “mirror” worlds, and materializing them from the mirror to where you are in the correct location (using the “reflection” in the mirror) so you can get on them to get to the next area.  For that one, it looks like they can materialize literally ANYWHERE around the mirror, and I’d def do so since you can get to some hidden chests that way.

The red spiky vines in Enchanted Dominion HURT, kill them with fire (literally. don’t physically attack them you risk damage).

THE FINAL BOSS WAS RIDICULOUS, at about 75%-ish health depleted the damn thing goes into the ground, dying it black (and the sky red!!) and it pops back up like some kind of angry cyclone from hell, and the music changes...it was just all really well done and I may have actually vocalized a small “what the FUCK”.

The scenes with Sora were all so good I was grinning like an idiot the entire time...I figured that Sora falling to darkness/nearly being Norted would be KH3′s excuse for pushing him back to level 1, but I never would have expected that a Disney world (Olympus) would actually play a part in Sora getting some of his power back.

Someone translated a pre-release interview saying that we’d see Riku’s new outfit in 0.2 and after looking at the original JP I knew they were wrong....and I was right, that was not what that interview said originally lmao. I’ve already seen people mad about Nomura “lying”, but that was bc the translation was off.

0.2 DEFINITELY infringes a bit on KH3′s territory, which Nomura just said in a recent interview, but I”m glad bc LOOK AT THE BOY.

BC

THE FORETELLERS ARE ALL GOOD KIDS!!! They’re spurned on by uncertainty and fear and all of them, literally all of them, are good children.  Even Aced, who I was prepared not to like, but he just wants to do what’s right and his heart never wavered.

THEY LOVE THEIR MASTER SO MUCH I’M CRY??? A scene with Gula and Ava near the end rly got to me because Gula is just so confused about what he’s meant to do and how he’s meant to do it and he just wants MoM to come back and is willing to summon KH if it means he will.

MoM is a fucking meme lord I love this and I’m sad Nomura said he wouldn’t be showing up in KH3 because WOW is he a meme lord.

I was surprised to hear that MoM was the one that gave Ava the duty to form the Dandelions, since some of the other Foretellers were surprised about it in the game...but that’s because he told them individually, and some of them (Ava’s probably, definitely Gula’s) were meant to be kept on the down low.

Gula’s mission was about the Lost Page, about finding the traitor, who “bears the recusant’s sigil”, and I’m going to punch a MoM because I still don’t know what this means.

The whole traitor thing is wild though, because at this point it’s almost like ALL of them are traitors of some kind by the end, since they all broke apart and were willing to go after each other. But it might also be Gula himself, after going out to collect Lux to summon KH, with Ira and Aced following suit just to try and keep a balance between the unions and then Invi and Ava joining in just to postpone the inevitable.

THE DEARLY BELOVED THEME FOR BC JUST STARTED PLAYING IT’S SO GOOD?? AND SAD, FUCK.

They brought up the strength bangle and the black Chirithy (Thinks about KHx. Dies.) but “Guilt” is called “Strength Bonus” in KHUx global, good job guys.

I cannot believe Luxu is voiced by CV: Tsuda Ken.  What. What.

We still don’t know what’s in that box. In exchange, we now know the eye on “No Name” is, in fact, MoM’s future-seeing eye (and may be...his actual eYE???? DID HE ACTUALLY USE HIS EYE??? I CAN’T TELL WITH MOM HE’S A MEME LORD), which relates to why the Keyblade itself is physically passed down: MoM is using it to see everything that’s happened, which means Luxu was successful in his mission (surviving the war and finding a disciple).  But THE BOX.....MoM just says it can never be opened and when he whispers to Luxu what’s inside Luxu freaks out and asks why.  And Meme Lord Extraordinaire just replies SURPRIIISE.

WHAT WAS LUXU (PROBABLY) DOING AT THE START OF 0.2. WHY R U THERE.

I’M SURE I HAVE SO MANY MORE THOUGHTS but I had so much fun with both 0.2 and BC...I can’t wait until the global release so I can yell abt this with people...