#to the sequel being the most dogshit game ive played

[wildtornado-o]

Feeling angry abt aini and cant sleep heres a rant lol, want to get my thoughts out

Still not over how unecessary aini was. The first game ended in such a lovely way for all (well most, sorry Pewter) of the characters, and while i do have some issues with it (The lack of Mizuki's importance in the true route) I do understand why some of the things weren't done. However, aini kind of trampled over a lot of the worldbuilding from the first game and destroyed so many of the themes as well. It ruined character development and comepletely threw out important relationships and destroyed the ones that did matter. It added things that dont make sense when you look at the first game, everything with Mizuki, everything with Boss, a lot of stuff with ryuki, bibis whole existence, Kizunas whole existence, Amames age retcon and then proceeding to put her into a creepy relationship, making Gen and Lien exist and acting like theyve been Date's chums for a while when he really WOULDNT be friends with them when comparing them to the likes of Ota, who he didnt like very much until he got his arc played out. A lot of the lore with the psync machine was also just weird. I know it wasn't ever confirmed in the first game that Date was the only one with an AI-Ball but with how he and Aiba were treated and the fact that people can psync without them the thought that other people might have them never occurred to me because it doesnt really um. Make sense isnt the right term here but, it doesnt "make sense" that they would just rip out employees eyes and replace them (even if abis is morally questionable) Cloning and gene experiments for imortality also comes out of nowhere because they wanted to make THAT plot twist and then the FRAYER STUFF? I HATE The frayer stuff omgg it makes me so mad i want to rip someone to shreds, and the tokiko stuff too like. I dunno I very much dislike when media takes the "meta" route and says the whole thing is a game, it breaks the immersion of the world completely for me. I also hated the timeline jumps. And the whole spoiler toggle, why make a sequel if youre going to have that its just pointless and harms the game. ANYWAYS This whole post to say I do not want a third game, it would very likely connect to the other 2 which would suck because it would be building off a shitty sequel. And even if it WASNT connected to the other games i would kind of be even less interested because like. Idk. Aitsf is a very character driven story in the first game at least, everything is tied to Date and characters and development, it would really suck for a third game to just, switch the cast (that was already butchered mind you) So truly, i do not want a third game I can only see myself hating it. HOWEVER. A datomi dlc......

[hsd-industries]

some stuff I’ve been into recently that I think is cool:

- a practical guide to evil: web serial about being a fantasy villain. kind of like worm i guess maybe. i havent finished reading it yet so for all i know it falls off hard in like the last chapter so uh dont blame me if thats your experience

- project moon’s games (lobotomy corporation, library of ruina, limbus company): a series of games all tied together by a shared storyline and also every now and then they reuse game mechanics. also there’s a lot of references to classical literature stuff. they made ishmael mobydick an anime girl and she beats up ahab who is also an anime girl. the first game in the series is lobotomy corporation, which is a sort of management sim thingy where you run a facility containing Definitely Not Scps. honestly out of all the games it feels more… idk i want to say niche but that’s not the right word i think. library of ruina is the direct sequel to lobotomy corporation and also just straight up spoils a big plot reveal but i played it first because… reasons?? idk personally i feel like that was probably not as bad of a choice as it sounds like but that’s just my experience idk. it’s a turn based card game where you people get invited to a library and then you beat them up and they turn into books. as this progresses you learn more about the fucked up city this takes place in and also theres trigger events from worm (it’s not actually, but the underlying principles are similar enough and god only knows i won’t get the opportunity to make that joke again). limbus company is thd most recent game and is also still ongoing because like every few months they add a new chapter. it’s a gacha game that somehow manages to be neither dogshit nor totally pay to win, which is nice. i guess making the entire plot of library of ruina a reference to a 16th century epic poem (orlando furioso) wasnt enough literary references for them so they made the entire limbus main cast based on characters from various works of classical literature. this includes: gregor samsa (the metamorphosis), ishmael (moby dick) but for some reason she’s an anime girl, and faust (faust) who is also an anime girl for some reason. actually a lot of male characters get turned into women now that i think of it. like library of ruina, the gameplay is turn based. they got rid of the cards though. all three games are on steam

- kamen rider: a kids tv show franchise about transforming superheroes. uses a lot of practical effects (the heroes transformations and 90% of the monsters are just guys in rubber suits), has some shitty cgi occasionally, and some props are obviously plastic toys but honestly I find that kind of charming and cool in its own way. kind of like jojos in that every season is it’s own unique thing with its own characters. i have legitimately no clue how one would “legally” watch this outside of japan, so uhhh. just pirate it lol. apparently you can watch some of the newer seasons on a website called tokuzilla but i have literally never used that so idk how good it is. also there’s 2 google docs with all the episodes of the earlier seasons, which is what I have been using. there’s a link to the google docs on reddit, just google showa/heisei viewer

also it’s not a recommendation but when I was writing this I realized ive gotten so used to recommending worm to people that i keep having to remind myself NOT to do that here because you already read it

I NEED to find some other media to become obsessed with. wildbow is so 2023