Social Zelda Social - Still the queen of Smash...and maybe queen of low tier for a decade, too. Shall we make it two?

[Eddie The Pacifist]

Oh yeah, some people play Smash here.

 

[Lil Puddin]

Youtube has given me another Christmas present. BEHOLD. A SWEET BABBY BOI:

The best things in life really are free. Such as Youtube videos, friends' streaming accounts, and pirated photo editing programs.

Lil Puddin , I know you said you said that FEH doesn't interest you much anymore, but did you see Oliver's new tome? They know he's a meme, so they gave him a meme tome and it works magnificently as meme-y as it is. If anything, it has the best tome animation in the game.

Yeah, it was almost enough beauty to make me return. But the game is never really going to change in terms of how we can interact with other players. So it's just same ol' same ol'. Gimme some silly matching games vs other players. Or dumb Cooking Mama/WarioW minigames.

Currently giving PSO2 a try and the XenobladeX vibes are intense, aesthetically speaking. THERE'S JUSS SOMETHIN' BOUT DIS PLANET

Oh yeah, some people play Smash here.

SmUsh players are just pretending to play SmUsh, tho. Zelda is too OP that she ruins the game for everyone else.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

Merry Christmas Zelda Social! How are you today?

 

[Lil Puddin]

Merry Christmas Zelda Social! How are you today?

Currently at a relatives. Being stalked by a festive yet demonic babby gorl. She's nasty-slobbering all over my new purple Adidas pants every chance she gets aaaaaa.

Pic taken moments before disaster and also not posting a pic of her near my pants because my pants are Only Fans content.

Spoiler: spooky babby, do not view alone

Hope you gorls are having a good day today, the day of Jesus's Critika1's/Charlie's birthday.

 

[stixie]

I just want to express my gratitude to all the people who play Sonic online. The smash community loves you so very much.

 

[Ffamran]

Glad to see that most of my FF friends have the same feeling that I did. We have 14 other mainline games, could we acknowledge one of them instead of focusing more on 7 pls. Or Bravely, I think I've made it obvious that a Bravely character is one of my most wanted additions (even though I'm not expecting to see it). Although Sephi is still very cool and I'm glad to see him, it's just a personal preference.

A Chocobo would be cool too. They're fluffy and stuff.

Ooo yeah I've been looking into getting this game recently. I've played through every Metroid game (excluding the original 2 because I just played their remakes, but w.e. that's still basically every game), but I haven't played a single Metroidvania outside of the Metroid series. Should probably change that.
Also I think I remember hearing that they added a randomizer mode? That alone is an instant sell for me.

Ritual of the Night is still on sale until January 4 or something at least on GoG and Steam. Not sure about consoles, but probably. Curse of the Moon 1 and 2, the 2D, pixel Bloodstained games are on sale as well if you want something closer to the older Castlevanias. There is a randomizer mode and a classic mode, so playing it like one of the older Castlevania games, is planned for a future update. Might be January. "Chaos Mode"? Wonder what that is: https://playbloodstained.com/nov2020roadmap/.

Dust: An Elysian Tail, Guacamelee! 1 and 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Shadow Complex I have heard good things about. Ori has a sequel as well, Ori and the Will of the Wisps that was released early this year. I think Momodora and Minoria are Metroidvanias. If anything, they have great music. Shantae I think might count as a Metroidvania. The later ones at least, so Half-Genie Hero and the Seven Sirens.

I may have linked the "Pardoner's Dance" from Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm-8LKGVGiY.

Speaking of good music, I'm falling further into vtuber hell. Hey, let's listen to this one vtuber and then it all goes downhill...

Spoiler: Please save me

It started with let's listen to Shiranui Flare's cover of Yorushika's "That's Why I Gave Up on Music": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBj7JZiyR-s.

The original "That's Why I Gave Up on Music" by Yorushika: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTZ-y85Erus. I really want to hear a full cover of this by Towa. There is a short, karaoke one that she sung some time ago.

That lead to Sukoya Kana where one listen to her cover of Sayuri's "Furaregai Girl" was enough for me to love her singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdM11hdAZy0.

The original "Furaregai Girl" by Sayuri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9sjpPBUWc.

I'm putting this one out here since it gives me weird reggae vibes. Shirayuki Tomoe's cover of Mika Nakashima's "Resistance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV86FvQvNyo.

The original version of Mika Nakashima's "Resistance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPpYYoL8soU. The dude that shows up in the music video reminds me of someone, but I have no idea who and from where.

Shirayuki Tomoe's cover of Dixie Flatline's "Just Be Friends": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkHwKcCt14M.

The original version of Dixie Flatline's "Just Be Friends" which used Megurine Luka's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_ZDyhi7Eg. Don't think there's an official YouTube video of it. It's poppy in a way that I'm reminded of Final Fantasy XIII's soundtrack.

Both Shirayuki Tomoe and Melissa Kinrenka covered Hiiragi Kirai's "Mobius". Shirayuki Tomoe's cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvaN7SbZIqg.

Melissa's cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YDbhEURZA.

The original version of Hiiragi Kirai's "Mobius" which used flower's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hunqo6DgjD8.

Levi Elipha's cover of King Gnu's "白日" (romaji: Hakujitsu) is freaking good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBlC6uxdHU.

Then I listened to the original and that was awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ony539T074w.

Because I like Towa, her cover of Hiiragi Kirai's "Bocca della Verita": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64kI2BWRd2g. Towa's powerful voice gives off a different feel from Melissa Kinrenka's raspier, raw voice.

Outside of vtuber music, I caught up with City Girl's music and I really like "Pray ft. Tiffi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcnTTK868o.

 

[Lil Puddin]

Aaaaaaaay, PSO2 is legit good, gorls. It's a more action-oriented MMO version of Xenoblade X. If you played any Xenoblades, you know of the basic systems, quests, friendship levels, and etc. That's all here too. Various classes that you can swap between for free. Cool cosmetics and decent character customization. Neat hub world that doesn't feel boring. A casino for funsies/to get useful items; uses coins you get from the casino and not real money. Lastly it's from 2012, so the minimum settings can run on a potato. If you can play OW at minimum settings at 30FPS, you can probably play this game with 60FPS.

Like. No wonder why this game is still alive and on all 3 main gaming consoles despite being from 2012. It's actually fun to play and has a different world than other MMOs (sci-fi vs oooooo medieval times but also we go to Atlantis but also we go to Disney World but also we go to Neo-Tokyo but also we go to a New Jersey Super Walmart). I guess being developed by SEGA helps too, better than being developed by some rando company that has 3 or more semi similar F2P/P2W games on the market.

Currently I have:

Handsome Ginger Mage-Supporty Man.

Manly Latino Gunner-Explosives Man.

Robo Waifu Pointy-Whippy Woman.

All 3 have one thing in common. They suck and I also suck but that's not going to stop me. :^)

BTW if you want to play, PM me. I'll send you my friend code. By entering it, you get free actually-good stuff and so do I for every 10 levels up to 50. I'm on Thorns/Ship 3.

I just want to express my gratitude to all the people who play Sonic online. The smash community loves you so very much.

At least he's not Br4wl's Bayonetta. You know. This lady:

 

[Cress!]

Ritual of the Night is still on sale until January 4 or something at least on GoG and Steam. Not sure about consoles, but probably. Curse of the Moon 1 and 2, the 2D, pixel Bloodstained games are on sale as well if you want something closer to the older Castlevanias. There is a randomizer mode and a classic mode, so playing it like one of the older Castlevania games, is planned for a future update. Might be January. "Chaos Mode"? Wonder what that is: https://playbloodstained.com/nov2020roadmap/.

I did end up snagging Bloodstained for Christmas and ooooooooo it's really good. Right now I'm right before the final boss, but I'm running around and doing anything I might've missed. A good portion of what I like is finding all of these fun optional things by myself without the game guiding me to them, or by looking it up online.

Spoiler: Sorta spoilers? I'll keep it in one just in case

In the library, there's a vampire that you can borrow books from. However, there's an opening underneath his chair that you can access from the room below him. I vaguely remember a setup like that from lucahjin's SotN playthrough? Either way I wanted to mess with the chair in some way. Near the end of the game after getting a certain ability, I came back now that I could reach the chair. I hit it, and a rare achievement pops up. It wasn't difficult and you could easily look it up, but it feels a lot better to figure it out yourself and have the game say "good on you for figuring that out!" And I've had several moments like that. I didn't look up anything until near the end here (mainly to find some of the hidden rooms), but being able to run around and find these little details all on my own, good stuff.

Another moment came from finding out that Miriam can pose if you hold the control stick up, and I think I discovered this at the perfect time. I'm still laughing about it; the overdramatic background, the way it's somewhat in sync with the music, I love it.

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Also you can customize Miriam's appearance (hair style and color, eye color, outfit color) and since she has the same VA as Celica, I decided to make her Celica. Kicking demons for Mother Mila!

And I have not tried the randomizer mode yet, but I'm curious how that will work since this game doesn't exactly have key items to collect? I guess I'll find out eventually
My 1 single complaint with the game is how it can crash every now and then. Thankfully I've only had it happen to me twice, and both times only happened a few seconds after I saved so no big deal. But it is a problem that could be really annoying if it's been a while since you last saved, and it definitely seems like that's happened to a few too many people. Surprised it hasn't been fixed yet, with how much support this game has gotten and is still getting.

Dust: An Elysian Tail, Guacamelee! 1 and 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Shadow Complex I have heard good things about. Ori has a sequel as well, Ori and the Will of the Wisps that was released early this year. I think Momodora and Minoria are Metroidvanias. If anything, they have great music. Shantae I think might count as a Metroidvania. The later ones at least, so Half-Genie Hero and the Seven Sirens.

I also picked up the first Ori game! Although the disc was broken despite being brand new, so I sent it back. The replacement should be here in a few days. I should be finished with my first Bloodstained run by then, so it'll time up perfectly!

 

[Lil Puddin]

Happy New Years to all gorls who are in January 1st. December 31st heauxes can cleanse themselves of 2020 early by watching this holy video.

As for moi, i plan on getting drunk and waking up in 2021 like every other emotionally stable adult or child.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

I'll be attempting to pull an all-nighter tonight, just to celebrate the new year. I don't know if 2021 will be better than this year, but I sure hope it will.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

I think we've got a good shot of making it a better year, whether it'll be a good one is more debatable.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

Okay, my all-nighter was a complete failure.

But yeah, it'll probably be at least somewhat better than 2020. We'll just have to wait and see how much.

 

[Lil Puddin]

Lying about your feelings or how we feel for our friends is so 2020. Remember to keep it real with your gorls and yourself in 2020.

Example of what not to do vs what to do:

btw the 2021 Trophy for SmashBoards is BAN•WORTHY tier. It's 2021, not 2020 won. aaaaaaaaaaaay

Okay, my all-nighter was a complete failure.

But yeah, it'll probably be at least somewhat better than 2020. We'll just have to wait and see how much.

I pulled an all-nighter because people are usually extra heauxes in the city. There have fireworks, pot banging, etc going on for a good 30 minutes after the clock strikes 12:00. Going to bed early is a way to not start off the new year right here lmao.

Today/Tonight I'm mostly staying in bed, drinking gin, and eating junk. So, y'know, the typical American diet. This way I can go to bed whenever since I'm so heavily poisoned. Then I'll get up at 9AM and start off the new year with a normal-ish sleep schedule! December always ruins my sleep schedule so I go from Healthy Boi to a Nastee Boi who wakes up at 1PM and has an unhealthy diet throughout the day because of it. Hopefully that's not your issue too, sis. Everyday of being a Nastee Boi lowers your Kewl Kween score by 1%. Which also lowers your total life expectancy, by, like, probably 6.9 minutes or something. I'm pretty sure I learned that from Dr. Wendy Williams.

 

[Ffamran]

Aaaaaaaay, PSO2 is legit good, gorls.

Speaking of Phantasy Star, have you played Phantasy Star Universe? I rented that game once or maybe twice. It was fun, but I didn't get that far into the story and barely touched online which, well, PS2 online.

Holy crap, I do not remember the opening song. Did I skip the opening? This is so... 2000s anime or something. It's probably nostalgia, but I do like and miss the aesthetics and sounds of 2000s, 90s, and I guess 80s anime, games, and whatever. Anyway, the opening to Phantasy Star Universe, "Save This World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoZEx27LPA.

As for another MMO or F2P game, did you see the announcement for Dungeon & Fighter Duel? Arc System Works is co-developing of course since they are the only fighting game developer who does and know how to do a very close to anime aesthetic using 3D models for fighting games. Dungeon Fighter Online getting a fighting game. That's neat.

I did end up snagging Bloodstained for Christmas and ooooooooo it's really good.

Nice. That's great that you're having fun with it. I remembered after my previous post of another Metroidvania. Well, it's considered one: Iconoclasts. That game has a fantastic soundtrack that is on YouTube by the developer who is also the composer of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9BYVfRzMw.

I only saw gameplay of it when Proton Jon streamed it and from what little of the music I heard, I really like that about the game. I think he or a co-commentator said that later on in the game, it does get heavy since the game does discuss societal expectations and norms as part of its story. Gameplay-wise, it's a 2D, pixel art platformer that is also considered a Metroidvania.

And I have not tried the randomizer mode yet, but I'm curious how that will work since this game doesn't exactly have key items to collect? I guess I'll find out eventually

Maybe you already got to it, but I figure it would be like Metroid where the powers or upgrades you get are the key items or things you need to progress. For example, the Morph Ball is essential to getting to a lot different places, but since you get it so early on in the Metroid games, you don't think it's that important until you play a randomizer and realize it after running around and not having it.

And more vtuber music. I hope you all are getting bored of this hell!

Spoiler: Time to fall

Let's start with something related to, but is not vtuber music. Omaru Polka used Jay Dee's "Babasciba" as her background music in a few of her streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmVtMqxqZY. It's pretty chill and groovy. No idea what the lyrics are, though.

This one I forgot or didn't notice. Shirayuki Tomoe's voice or something reminded me of Angel Beats! and she actually did cover a song from Angel Beats! which was uploaded a week ago. "Alchemy" from Angel Beats!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtk2M_6XMa0.

I still need to watch Angel Beats! and finish Clannad. I may have heard "Alchemy" before, but I don't remember it as much or recognize it as well as "My Soul, Your Beats!" or "My Most Precious Treasure (Ichiban no Takaramono)".

This one I forgot to share earlier and it was Levi Elipha's first original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMi1VE7ahI. It's good. A lot of the songs she has covered are the cool rock ones you'd think would fit in as an anime or JRPG opening. They're just cool. Her original song having that same feel makes sense or it's the kind of music she likes and wants to compose. Also, her speaking voice is like Towa's. Completely unexpected, but then she sings and it's like, "Woah."

Following Levi, I got hooked on listening to King Gnu's "Hakujitsu", so in addition to replaying the original and Levi's cover several times, I looked for other covers. This one stood out and it's Harano Oni's cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hOzA424-Y. Definitely bias to her voice. Some of the parts with her singing makes me think of the songs in Nier.

A cover by Saki Ashizawa showed up on the suggestions bar and funny enough, I listened a bit to another cover of hers just to leave it on my history. It was an "Oh, it's her!" moment. This is her cover of Remioromen's "Konayuki": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwzGrE6WZNM.

The original version of Remioromen's "Konoyuki": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8fmOG1uWA. Remioromen is a Japanese rock band formed in 2000 and "Konoyuki" is around 15 years old.

The initial encounter was her cover of UVERworld's "Hakanakumo Towano Kanashi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UEaoFAVMxs.

The original version of UVERworld's "Hakanakumo Towano Kanashi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztenJFXqBw.

I recognize UVERworld since I listened to their "Gekidou" which was used as the fourth opening for D.Grayman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EBCFQzAQo. Damn, the anime aired from 2006 to 2008 and the fourth opening started being used in 2007. It's been that long. Where did I even hear this song since I didn't watch the anime?

Anyway, I don't remember exactly how I found Saki Ashizawa. I do remember seeing a few ads of vtubers. Maybe that's how? Regardless, having taken a closer look at her avatar's design, her hair reminds me of Echizen Murasaki from Tokyo 7th Sisters. It's almost the same; blonde hair with purple or magenta dyed undersides. I think Tokyo 7th Sisters is a gacha idol game. Somehow stumbled on art of Echizen and the probably impossible hairstyle of having the underside of her hair dyed is super cool. One of the reasons why I like Constance von Nuvelle other than Kirsten Day's amazing performance as her.

If you want something poppy and high, here's Furen E. Lustario's cover of Orangestar's "Daybreak Frontline": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsIfRx0W7Lc.

The original version of Orangestar's "Daybreak Frontline" which used IA's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emrt46SRyYs.

Outside of vtuber hell, "カミイロアワセ (romaji: Kami-iro Awase)" by binaria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVzB53BK9Xc. This definitely gives me Hamauzu Masashi vibes. I don't remember how I stumbled upon it, but apparently it is the opening for the Danganronpa 3 anime. Like Ace Attorney, I heard really good things about the Danganronpa games.

 

[Lil Puddin]

PSO has "Live" Concerts that give you a buff if you make your character dance along. So. Like. Why isn't this game mandatory??? I can't tell if all the stuff in this game is actually normal for an MMO and all the other MMOs I ever played were garbo. Or if PSO just has so much crap going on because it's so old and developed by SEGA/a real gaming company?

Spoiler: you can be a serious mage boi and still do a weeb-y dance

Also we can make our own art with their clunky system, but can't upload images directly. So those 2 images those people displayed? They had to painstakingly blend together shapes and colors to make it happen. I'm sure they traced it, but still, that's Zelda-Tier dedication for the memes. As you can see, the 2nd picture features a man who is obviously just Zelda in a genderbent disguise.


In other news, Kween Gwen is at it again:

btw no gorl yew didn'T needTa reintroduce yaself. The whole universe knows of your bomb*** songs. Even the one we wish we could forget.

You know... BANANAS

Speaking of Phantasy Star, have you played Phantasy Star Universe? I rented that game once or maybe twice. It was fun, but I didn't get that far into the story and barely touched online which, well, PS2 online.

I never touched a single PSO game. Maybe that's why I was overwhelmed by the way they handle advancement, Mag building, etc.

I just started playing it because it looked like Xenoblade's universe or Star Ocean. Really, any sci-fi type of game that's NOT straight up Star Trek/Star Wars nonsense lmao.

As for another MMO or F2P game, did you see the announcement for Dungeon & Fighter Duel? Arc System Works is co-developing of course since they are the only fighting game developer who does and know how to do a very close to anime aesthetic using 3D models for fighting games. Dungeon Fighter Online getting a fighting game. That's neat.

I'm glad DFO is getting a spin-off sister game. Neople are such gems and they really put so much love into their game. It's a love letter to classic beat-em-up arcade games and it gets packed with more love every year it continues to exist. So now it finally went full circle and found its way into a classic 2D fighter? Yeeeeboi.

The characters are all hella dope and all have their own unique gimmick. So it's not very hard to translate them to a 2D fighting field. They also have plenty of canon art/concept art to go off of, so the design aspect is totally done. I'm not sure if they can get the spirit of DFO into a straight up fighting game though. It's still in MMO-format and there's sooooo many bosses that the players would consider iconic.

 

[Cress!]

Maybe you already got to it, but I figure it would be like Metroid where the powers or upgrades you get are the key items or things you need to progress. For example, the Morph Ball is essential to getting to a lot different places, but since you get it so early on in the Metroid games, you don't think it's that important until you play a randomizer and realize it after running around and not having it.

Coming back to this way too late, but that's the problem, the game doesn't really have items you collect to progress. The only 2 required items that I can think of are the Aegis Plate and a weapon you get using the Aegis Plate, but randomizing the locations of 2 items across the hundreds of different locations for other optional items sounds ehhhhhhhhhhh........ Most of your abilities come from shards, but I'm not entirely sure how randomizing those would work? idk it's complicated. I'll get to it eventually though.

HOWEVER, yesterday I started my second file, this time playing as Bloodless. The gorl is very fun, she's like Peach except instead of throwing turnips she throws blood. Would recommend. Also when getting hit, she says "stop it" in an annoyed voice instead of grunting in pain and, mood. Glad she's as done with random enemies slowing her down as I am (or maybe she's telling me to stop being bad and making her get hit which tbh is also valid).
The point I'm trying to get to is that all of her progression is tied to various altars scattered around the map. The altars will either contain abilities (either to make combat easier, or required ones to reach new places), or they can contain simple stat boosts. THIS is the kind of system that works perfectly with a randomizer mode, and I hope that the randomizer mode works with a Bloodless file. I'm enjoying it a bunch since it already feels a bit like the locations of items are randomized. Some major bosses give you literally nothing, while some very important upgrades are sitting in the middle of nowhere. Beating up the 2 giant dragons gave me blood steal, why do they have an ability like that? idk but I'll take it!

Now completely changing the topic, during my 3 week break from Bloodstained I started Atelier Ryza. It's just a cute and cozy game and I like it c: It definitely isn't difficult, but it doesn't need to be. I've sorta been looking at the series since Sophie and Plachta were in Warriors All-Stars, but this was probably the best place to start. It reminds me a LOT of Fantasy Life on the 3DS. Ryza picked the alchemist life class and decided to main that. You still have hints of the other classes as well (like woodcutter, angler, and miner to collect those alchemy materials), but the main focus is alchemy of course. And as someone who mained alchemist in Fantasy Life, I can definitely respect it I probably will play Ryza 2 eventually (and maybe Sophie as well to learn more about her?), but not anytime soon since Bravely is coming up soon and that's the bigger priority.
Also Empel is a fashion icon and I wanna be able to dress like that

 

[Lorde]

Rip the social is so dead :sadcretkpop:


Another semester just started up, so that’s always fun. ACNH got another barebones update, but at least this one finally gave us the mermaid fence. Teasing Mario furniture is interesting, but it might just be the fortune cookie stuff from NL so idk. Not sure if any of you still care about FEH, but here’s my final ballot for CYL5:

Spoiler

Hopefully Marianne will banish that nasty heaux F!Byleth from 2nd place because I need a brave alt for my favorite gorl instead of emotionless, searchlight-eyed trash waifu.

 

[Lil Puddin]

So in PSO2 it's Valentine's Day celebration and there are player-created fashion designs that have been released. Unsurprisingly, some of the female fashion is devastatingly lewd. Surprisingly, the male fashion got one lewd piece which is a skin tight suit complete with blatant bulge. So it's nice to see gender equality is almost a thing among PSO2 Phashion and also players really love working that M-Rating as hard as possible. Meanwhile my Magic Boi and Robo Boi are just trying to look cute/fancy/cool and not be total himbos. Here's the fan designs PSO2 picked if you want to see them.

Speaking of SEGA things, apparently Sonic is among the GameChar TTS programs. It's OK but technology is about to go too far.

Lastly, pls support cute and good professionally done cartoon projects kthnx:

Spoiler

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Your taste is perfe- Wait a minute.

You didn't vote for Gate Keeper once.
And you only voted for Mitama once.
Oh wait, I just noticed Jesse has a very subtle :3 smile.

So I guess showing Jesse offsets your sins.

 

[Lorde]

Your taste is perfe- Wait a minute.

You didn't vote for Gate Keeper once.
And you only voted for Mitama once.
Oh wait, I just noticed Jesse has a very subtle :3 smile.

So I guess showing Jesse offsets your sins.

I like to vote for 7 different characters instead of dedicating my ballot to only one or two, so that’s why Marianne’s the only one I voted for more than once (since she actually has a shot at winning); that last vote was originally for Laurent. Mitama is my #1 favorite gorl so I will not tolerate any slander against my support for ha. I’m fine with GK doing well and I want him to beat Chrom, but I’m not wasting my vote on someone who doesn’t even have any actual character traits or development.

Jesse is beautiful and doesn’t deserve to be as irrelevant as he is. I just want him to be on the next SoV banner pls IS I will cherish him. Miriel has to be on the next Awakening banner, right?

 

[Lil Puddin]

So I finally decided to play the storymode of PSO2 since there's achievements and cash shop rewards for doing so... The voice acting gets better. It's impressive now that I see it's about 4 hours of voiced content. Then there's 5 more chapters after this, to boot. The story was fairly predictable, but managed to punch me right in the heart at the end anyway with Haddred.

Most characters get voiced parts and essentially have Byleth-type Support Convos with us. So unfortunately I got attached to all the generic personalities. I was lowkey hoping the voice acting would stay just as bad so I can skip through the cutscenes. But nooooooooo. SEGA just had to go direct the voice actors appropriately and stuff. So rude.

Speaking of rude, Helluva Boss's 3rd episode is out. "When Blitzo's ex girlfriend steals his parking spot things sure do happen." Ah yes. Just like a Slice of Life anime.

I like to vote for 7 different characters instead of dedicating my ballot to only one or two, so that’s why Marianne’s the only one I voted for more than once (since she actually has a shot at winning); that last vote was originally for Laurent. Mitama is my #1 favorite gorl so I will not tolerate any slander against my support for ha. I’m fine with GK doing well and I want him to beat Chrom, but I’m not wasting my vote on someone who doesn’t even have any actual character traits or development.

tbf I didn't login or vote at all anyway. If I did, I would've gone with the Gate Keeper meme since he is kinda adorable. If a person we barely care about like Jeorge gets in, the guy we talk to 14+ times and has voiced lines deserves to get a canon appearance/non-generic. Just make him the hunkiest looking dude around for extra $$$.

 

[Lorde]

tbf I didn't login or vote at all anyway. If I did, I would've gone with the Gate Keeper meme since he is kinda adorable. If a person we barely care about like Jeorge gets in, the guy we talk to 14+ times and has voiced lines deserves to get a canon appearance/non-generic. Just make him the hunkiest looking dude around for extra $$$.

Tbh I was a lil salty when I wrote that original post, but I like GK a lot more than Chrom and Marth so his massive 1st place finish is cool in my book. Plus my gorl Marianne got first place, which means she’ll get a prf skill just like the legend GK will. I’ve seen the elitist part of the FE fanbase is angry about the CYL results, but this is best case scenario imo. CYLs just being lord spam is literally the most boring scenario and idk why people want alts for these characters that will get them regardless of winning/doing well. I promised myself that I’d save up and +10 Marianne if she got Top 2, so now ig I gotta follow through. I already know I’m gonna wanna pull for GK too tbh.


Not gonna comment on everything, but this was the best FEH channel we’ve had in a while. Legendary skill refines + kit updates are very welcome, even if it’s just another way to try to sell these otherwise undesirable legendaries. The My Summoner feature seems interesting, though only being usable as a unit in new Mjölnir’s is kinda lame. Ik u don’t play anymore so u can really just ignore this tbh.

 

[Lil Puddin]

Tbh I was a lil salty when I wrote that original post, but I like GK a lot more than Chrom and Marth so his massive 1st place finish is cool in my book. Plus my gorl Marianne got first place, which means she’ll get a prf skill just like the legend GK will. I’ve seen the elitist part of the FE fanbase is angry about the CYL results, but this is best case scenario imo. CYLs just being lord spam is literally the most boring scenario and idk why people want alts for these characters that will get them regardless of winning/doing well. I promised myself that I’d save up and +10 Marianne if she got Top 2, so now ig I gotta follow through. I already know I’m gonna wanna pull for GK too tbh.


Not gonna comment on everything, but this was the best FEH channel we’ve had in a while. Legendary skill refines + kit updates are very welcome, even if it’s just another way to try to sell these otherwise undesirable legendaries. The My Summoner feature seems interesting, though only being usable as a unit in new Mjölnir’s is kinda lame. Ik u don’t play anymore so u can really just ignore this tbh.

I don't care about FEH itself, but the FE universe is still top tier for me. I still have the FEH Reddit for artwork and new character releases/their official artwork/voicelines. Getting to see updates is neat too, because numbers and balance changes are fun!!! Kind of.

I am very happy that Marianne won. She deserves all the love because:
1) Her hair style and outfit are neat, she's a very classy and modest kween.
2) Blue is great when it's not Falchion-User-Blue.
3) She literally kills herself or is murdered due to her crest so omfg pls give her a hug/save her.
4) Magic ladies are always neat, especially when they aren't magical girls (take a seat, Annette/Nino/etc).
5) Her Special Ability is probably gonna be pretty cool.
6) She's basically Snow White and Elsa rolled into one depressed Disney Princess.
7) Her Xbox doesn't have Uno so she has more hard drive space for actually-good game options.

As for G.K. winning, it's hilarious. It brought me a tiny bit of unexplainable joy.

I wish I could stay with FEH, but the sudden departure into Steampunk-Fantasy-Medieval was just too much for me. I didn't sign up for that lmao. Steampunk is my absolute least favorite aesthetic. Then there's the weekly things which are mostly tedious and PvP based. So it's an easy Triple-NO from me at this point, sis.

 

[Buddhahobo]

ATTENTION GORLS:

Hades is an amazing game and has consumed my life.

Hypnos no bulli, kthnxbye.

Not gonna comment on everything, but this was the best FEH channel we’ve had in a while. Legendary skill refines + kit updates are very welcome, even if it’s just another way to try to sell these otherwise undesirable legendaries. The My Summoner feature seems interesting, though only being usable as a unit in new Mjölnir’s is kinda lame. Ik u don’t play anymore so u can really just ignore this tbh.

My 5* free summon was....a +HP Zane.

After the last one got me Summer Leo, I really shouldn't be surprised anymore.

The Legendary skill refines are surprising but...probably welcome? Like, Fjorm has been in the game for a long time and I'm happy that they're buffing her signature skill (Ice Mirror) instead of her weapon. At the same time though, ATK/DEF Unity is such a premium skill that might actually be more significant than as fodder than as a +1 to your free five star Fjorm by completing Chapter 1 of Book II. One thing they didn't add that I was hoping for were Duel Effects like the "newer" Legendary heroes have. If Fjorm had a "Treat character's base BST as 185" like Legendary Corrin has? She'd been on every water Arena team.

I'm hoping the Legendary skill refines end up closer to being OP than merely complimentary. L!Grima and L!Lyn especially need so much work to be good in the current game landscape given how underwhelming they were when they came out.

CYLs just being lord spam is literally the most boring scenario and idk why people want alts for these characters that will get them regardless of winning/doing well.

I voted for Eirika. As I have with every vote for every CYL since the 30 day long first one.

That she's since made it into the game doesn't really change that I want a CYL version of her. Her first alt came out right in the middle of CYL2 or something so votes for her plummeted and she would have been a shoe-in otherwise.

Now it's partly I want to see how many more weapons she can blatantly steal from her friends and family. My reckoning her CYL will likely be her swiping her brother's lance while he's out on a date with their boyfriend.

The tbh I don't really care that much cause the one thing I could want out of anything else already occurred; Bow Hinoka got a ****ing awesome refine.

Now if only I managed to get her +8 to +10 during the refine banner instead of getting something like...9 pity breakers?

In other gacha news:

Persona 5 event is going on in Dragalia Lost.

Persona 5 still isn't on the switch.

Why, tho?

 

[Ffamran]

I never touched a single PSO game. Maybe that's why I was overwhelmed by the way they handle advancement, Mag building, etc.

I only played Phantasy Star Universe, so I can't say much for the other ones. I do remember watching a bit of a playthrough of Universe later on and realizing either I did not pay attention or didn't know about some things. Was it skills or weapons that you had to use in order to get stronger? I only bought new weapons as stronger ones were available and ended up struggling, especially at a certain point in this mountain, canyon, mines place. Except for the twin daggers, weapons were like okay, but I didn't really use skills or whatever. The joys of not understanding RPGs back in the day.

Really, any sci-fi type of game that's NOT straight up Star Trek/Star Wars nonsense lmao.

But they're space dramas! Really, though, I'm okay with Star Wars and never watched Star Trek. Regarding Star Wars, I heard The Mandalorian was really good and the animates series of The Clone Wars has always been great. I only watched some of the 2003 series which was Star Wars in the style of Samurai Jack and only saw snippets of the 2008 series.

What we really need is a Duck Dodgers game.

Coming back to this way too late, but that's the problem, the game doesn't really have items you collect to progress. The only 2 required items that I can think of are the Aegis Plate and a weapon you get using the Aegis Plate, but randomizing the locations of 2 items across the hundreds of different locations for other optional items sounds ehhhhhhhhhhh........ Most of your abilities come from shards, but I'm not entirely sure how randomizing those would work? idk it's complicated. I'll get to it eventually though.

I get that. I guess you could say that Bloodstained is a soft randomizer game? That is, there aren't a lot of required items, skills, or whatever. Something like Ocarina of Time would be a hard randomizer where you need items to progress much less go to certain areas.

Atelier Ryza I'd like to try one day too. Maybe the other Atelier games and Rune Factory as well.

Music involves more vtuber music. Kind of? It's mostly Harano Oni's covers and she's more a virtual artist than YouTuber. Actually, what even is a YouTuber? What counts and what doesn't?

Spoiler: More vtuber music!

The first two are just fun to listen. Harano Oni's cover of "Killer Ball" by Gesu no Kiwami Otome is definitely a song that would make you want to dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJqYWCN1Xs.

The original "Killer Ball" by Gesu no Kiwami Otome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wooi39K0pXg&t=0s. I love how the keyboardist moves in the music video. There's this goofiness to her. The original has a softer, subtler feel with the singer's voice. Kind of reminds me of the lead singer of Phoenix. Harano Oni's voice on the other hand gives it a more poppy, party-time feel.

Harano Oni's cover of by "Shin Takarajima (EN: New Treasure Island)" sakanaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbUaUKKK2r4. When I originally listened to it, I thought she was saying "baby, baby, baby..." during the chorus, but she was actually saying "teinei, teinei, teinei..."

The original "Shin Takarajima" by sakanaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlZCmETvsY&t=0s. The music video gives me I guess 70s or 80s vibes. Not sure since I'm not that well-informed with music history. There's this awkward groove to it, especially with the bearded guy without a jacket on the far left's dancing. The way he positions his arms reminds me of Luigi's and Mario's running animation in some of the Mario games. On the flip-side, the lady in the sunglasses on the far right looks cool. And I just remembered what the dance reminds me of: the way the people dance in the Hyrule Castle Town branch of Malo Mart.

Saki Ashizawa's cover of "Shoujo Rei" by mikitoP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1_HIVBQvpw. The tropical feel of the song is nice.

The original version of "Shoujo Rei" by mikitoP which used Hatsune Miku's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3N-HvU0MA&t=0s.

Apparently, I had listened to Nui Sociere's cover of the song, but didn't remember that it was the same song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2WXcM5_FY.

Hakase Fuyuki's cover of "Ultramarine" by Yoasobi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-UJbyLqioM. The chorus of the song is what drew me to the song.

The original version of "Ultramarine" by Yoasobi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4nEEZwckuU. I was a bit caught off guard by how similar Hakase Fuyuki's singing was to Ikura's.

This one I'm leaving outside the spoilers since it's more than just random vtuber music. "Hated by Life Itself" by Kanzaki which originally used Hatsune Miku's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYm60Mjm0k.

Both Harano Oni and Saki Ashizawa among others covered this song, but the funny thing was I didn't know they covered the same song. I did listen to Saki Ashizawa's first and then Harano Oni's, but I didn't pay attention to the title or the song really. Just listening to something nice. Part of that is because Saki Ashizawa has the English title whereas Harano Oni does not, so I didn't realize they were the same song from that. The other part was I just wanted something "soft" in the background as I binge read "Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru (EN: The boy who cried wolf tells a lie today also)" a few weeks ago and I had Harano Oni's cover on loop. The best part was how the song did actually fit the manga.

The best thing about covers is how different interpretations can be given by how the singer delivers them. Why I had Harano Oni's cover of "Hated by Life Itself" on loop was it sounded desperately sad. In particular, the ending lyrics are haunting with how Harano Oni sounds like she is on the verge of breaking down and overall, her singing gives the song a feel of grasping for life. The softness and clarity of her voice works really well with the resigned sadness for this song. Saki Ashizawa's rougher voice creates a more cynical feel and that works wonderfully as well. I haven't listened to Mafumafu's cover yet as of this writing, but I read that his represents an angry version and that seems fascinating. As you can guess from the title of the song "Hated by Life Itself", it's not a fun song. It's depressing as a song that talks about from what I understood of the translated lyrics, suicide, nihilism, how lives are fleeting, and the painfulness of life. At the same time, it also talks about how contradictory it is all by living despite being hated by life itself. With that, people covering and giving their own take work well to convey how someone would respond such feelings from Harano Oni's gasping despair to Saki Ashizawa's exhausted resignation and to Mafumafu's possible rage against the heavens.

How does this relate to "Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru"? The story starts off with the usual guy, Itsuki Keitarou, who has a menacing look to his face, so people think he's a thug, scary, evil, mean, and so on. Itsuki has from what is shown at the start, few friends, with most people he interacts with being terrified when they see his face. That comes to a breaking point when he confesses to a girl who he thought, idealized, was not afraid of him and not like the others. When she rejects him and shows an unmistakable look of fear upon another encounter, Itsuki concludes to himself that she is the same as everyone else and runs off, skipping the rest of school, and crying as he resents the lot he was given in life. Following is a weird setup to get him to be cross-dressed by his sister and having been given a new face and a new perspective in the world, Itsuki comes to realize things he could not see before and also decide to shoulder a heavy burden.

The connection to "Hated by Life Itself" happened after I finished the manga and looked up the song I had on loop the entire time. When I looked at the lyrics, it made me think about the beginning of the story and who Itsuki must have felt as he ran. I got that feeling of "Hated by Life Itself" with how Itsuki was upset yet again that people immediately judge him based on his looks rarely if ever giving him a chance to show that's he's just another human being and not some unpleasant person to be feared and avoided. It's a great read. I recommend it and wish that there was an official translation to support the author.

Harano Oni's cover of Hated by Life Itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyqZvmHhOHU.

Saki Ashizawa's cover of "Hated by Life Itself": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1-VzDbDbM.

As for FEH, I missed two days of voting, but that doesn't matter since I only vote for irrelevant characters... Ismaire and Orochi when? Can Cherche and Sonya have alts? At least Constance and the rest of the Ashen Wolves will eventually get in soon since they're Three Houses characters.

CYL Ike being the next unit to get a resplendent is hilarious when the recent Valentine's Banner introduced Lif & Thrasir who seem designed to make life difficult for units like CYL Ike and all the CYL4 units except Lysithea since she doesn't do anything with healing or damage reduction by default. That said, CYL Ike being the next resplendent makes it tempting. If it's him then Clair, then I'm probably going to cave in. Please, Clair and Cherche or Sonya as the next two resplendents units after CYL Ike. It's probably going to be CYL Lyn or CYL Roy instead.

Friday is going to be fun. The Valentine's banner is eh for me while the 4th Anniversary Hero Fest banner has three units that I want: Shamir merges because it's kind of hard to inherit two or more of her skills onto someone, Shinon totally not human archer Falco a.k.a. an asshat where at least one copy would be nice to give Shamir Deadeye & Time's Pulse, and Sothis to stock up on Wrath and Time's Pulse. Also, Ephraim & Lyon I guess. Here's hoping for the last three Meisterhardt merges along with CYL Celica, CYL Hector, CYL Ike, Saber, Sonya, or whoever I want that are part of the special 4* rate thingie.

Also, spring Narcian was my free 5* seasonal unit... I wanted a colorless or green pick, but there were none of them. Should have picked a red orb, especially since ballroom Sigurd & Deirdre are red.

Spoiler: The 724th to 742nd Summons

Legendary Lilina banner.

Spoiler: The 724th's stats

3* Mordecai: +Atk, -Spd.
4* Oboro #1: +HP, -Spd.
4* M!Robin #1: +Spd, -Atk.
4* Soleil #1: +Atk, -Res.
4* Tethys #1: +Atk, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 725th's stats

4* Cecilia: +Res, -Atk.
3* Knoll: +Atk, -Res.
4* Lena: +Spd, -Def.
4* Saizo #1: +Res, -Def.
4* Serra: +Res, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 726th's stats

5* Brammimond: +HP, -Def.
3* L'Arachel #1: +HP, -Res.
3* Lissa: +Def-Spd.
4* Roy +Atk, -HP.
3* Shanna: +HP, -Res.

Spoiler: The 727th's stats

3* Bartre #1: +Def, -Atk.
5* Duma: +Atk, -Spd. I need more power!
4* Hana: +Spd, -Def.
4* Kagero: +Atk, -Def.
3* Sheena #1: +Spd, -HP.

New Year's banner.

Spoiler: The 728th's stats

3* Clair #1: +Def, -Res.
4* Gunter #1: +Spd, -Def.
5* brainwashed Julia: +Def, -Res.
5* New Year's Lethe: +Atk, -Spd. Could have shown up earlier. A year earlier since Freya exists.
4* Lukas: +Atk, -Def.

Shared Purpose banner. Picked Sara as the guaranteed 5* summon.

Spoiler: The 729th's stats

3* Arthur: +Res, -Def.
4* Brady #1: +Res, -HP.
4* Cherche #1: +Atk, -HP.
4* Effie: +Atk, -Def.
4* Tharja: +HP, -Atk.

Spoiler: The 730th's stats

3* Barst: +Atk, -Def.
4* Est #1: +Atk, -HP.
5* Ronan: +Def, -HP. This dude is so weird in Thracia 776.
4* Saizo #2: +Atk, -Spd.
3* Soleil #2: +HP, -Res.

Spoiler: The 731st's stats

4* Fae: +Def, -Spd.
3* Gunter #2: +Spd, -Def.
4* Oscar #1: +Spd, -Def.
4* Rebecca #1: +Res, -Spd.
4* Sothe #1: +Res, -Def.

Spoiler: The 732nd's stats

4* Clair: +Atk, -HP.
3* Oboro #2: +Atk, -Def.
4* Odin: +Atk, -Spd.
4* Oscar #2: +Res, -Def.
3* Subaki: +Res, -Def.

Spoiler: The 733rd's stats

4* Maria #1: +HP, -Res.
4* Miranda: +Res, -HP. She gives me "Mrgrgr" vibes.
3* Raigh: +Res, -HP.
4* M!Robin #2: +Spd, -Def.
4* Rebecca #2: +HP, -Res.

Spoiler: The 734th's stats

4* Brady: +Atk, -Res.
4* Nanna: +Res, -Def.
4* Rebecca #3: +Atk, -Spd.
4* Roderick: +Spd, -Res.
3* Tailtiu #1: +HP, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 735th's stats

4* Athena: +Res, -HP.
4* Bartre #2: +Res, -HP.
4* Niles: +HP, -Res.
3* Palla: +Spd, -Atk.
3* M!Robin #3: +HP, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 736th's stats

4* Bantu #1: +HP, -Def.
4* Boey: +Atk, -Spd.
3* Cherche #2: +Res, -HP.
4* Eirika: +HP, -Res.
3* Ferdinand: +Def, -Res.

Spoiler: The 737th's stats

4* Bantu #2: +Atk, -HP.
4* Emmeryn: +HP, -Spd.
4* Laslow: +Res, -Def.
4* Ogma #1: +HP, -Res.
4* Tethys #2: +Spd, -HP.

Dark Desert Rituals banner.

Spoiler: The 738th's stats

4* Gordin: +Def, -Res.
3* Hawkeye: +Def, -Res.
4* Plegian Raphael: +Spd, -Res.
4* M!Robin #4: +Def, -Res
4* Virion: +Atk, -HP.

Dark Burdens rerun.

Spoiler: The 739th's stats

3* Est #2: +HP, -Res.
4* Lachesis: +Atk, -Def.
3* Sheena #2: +Res, -HP.
4* Sothe #2: +Atk, -Spd.
4* Tailtiu #2: +Spd, -Def.

New Year's banner second summon.

Spoiler: The 740th's stats

4* Donnel: +HP, -Atk.
3* Frederick: +Def, -Atk.
3* L'Arachel #2: +Atk, -Res.
4* Ogma #2: +Atk, -Res.
3* Sully: +Def, -HP.

Serios's banner.

Spoiler: The 741st's stats

3* Ares: +Def, -Atk.
4* Maria #2: +Res, -HP.
4* Merlinus: +Def, -Res.
4* Setsuna: +Res, -Spd.
3* Silvia: +HP, -Atk.

Spoiler: The 742nd's stats

5* legendary Alm: +Atk, -HP. Really good, but +Spd would be better.
5* legendary Dimitri: +Res, -HP. That HP superflaw when he relies on damage reduction. That said, nice to have another lance infantry and fast, busted one.
4* Draug: +Atk, -HP.
5* Eir: +Res, -Def. Finally, another copy of Eir since forever. Excluding the story Eir, she's up to two copies now tying with Freyja... Meanwhile, defense mythics of four for Duma and three for Sothis. Legendary/mythic banners suck.
4* Natasha: +Atk, -Spd. First time she has showed up.

Freebie New Year's Hrid (+HP, -Def) from the Book 2 New Years rerun banner.

 

[Lil Puddin]

ATTENTION GORLS:

Hades is an amazing game and has consumed my life.

Hypnos no bulli, kthnxbye.

The only thing I know about Hades is that everyone is hot. Which I guess makes sense because Gods/Celestials/Etc are supposed to be the hottest of the hot.. Despite early IRL depictions showing them as eldritch abominations with sick abs or bountiful bosoms. So they'd still be hot. But mostly to furries.

Persona 5 event is going on in Dragalia Lost.

Persona 5 still isn't on the switch.

Why, tho?

I found out Persona 5 stuff is in PSO2. I think anything on Steam is fair game for PSO2 from the looks of it, which is an absolute delight. Either way, I am far too poor to afford any of it because it's too popular. I just want Persona 5 music playing in my pretty house. I want that himbo trench coat and mask. Pls donate kthnx.

I would play Persona 5 if it were on Switch. I heard almost nothing of the story or gameplay so it wouldn't even be spoiled. It'd be my first Persona game too. :^(

I only played Phantasy Star Universe, so I can't say much for the other ones. I do remember watching a bit of a playthrough of Universe later on and realizing either I did not pay attention or didn't know about some things. Was it skills or weapons that you had to use in order to get stronger? I only bought new weapons as stronger ones were available and ended up struggling, especially at a certain point in this mountain, canyon, mines place. Except for the twin daggers, weapons were like okay, but I didn't really use skills or whatever. The joys of not understanding RPGs back in the day.

Apparently the only thing to transfer over from PSO1 to PSO2 were the class weapons and descriptions. That just means I didn't miss out on anything and everyone new to PSO2 is just as confused as I am about crafting/orders/auxillaries/etc.

!YAY!

Atelier Ryza I'd like to try one day too. Maybe the other Atelier games and Rune Factory as well.

Gust Games take themselves less seriously than standard JRPGs, so I guess they're more like Anime RPGs? I gotta say they were all fun games to run through a few times. They didn't overstay their welcome each run through. Lower budget games, as seen by their graphics. Which is offset by decent soundtracks, decent voice acting, crafting systems, and character portraits. played 1 and 2 of each Gust Game below and Atelier Iris III. I played Atelier Annie and it was dreadfully boring. I don't know if newer Gust Games are as enjoyable though.

Ar Tonelico - a sick AF sci-fi but nature-ish universe with singing magic gorls called Reyvateils and ofc their existence is suffering. Part dating sim to get stronger magic and dig up backstory of the gorls, part adventure to save the entire floating colony multiple times. To offset the innuendoes and silliness, they make sure to throw in as many atrocities against Reyvateils as possible.

Side neat thing: There's a song language called Hymmnos, similar to FE's Heron-Squigly-Japanese except it's a made-up language that scrambles Japanese/English/etc to make words. The songs are beautifully grandiose and even give Mega Budget Final Fantasy a run for their money... Well, except when an inexperienced Reyveteil is pressured into singing a peaceful song mid-battle. The lyrics are stupidly simple, but they're disguised as complex works of art by using the Hymmnos language and operatic performances. I still think it's the nuttiest and smartest game-music thing even after a decade of new soundtracks/music types.

Atelier Iris - a more standard JRPG adventure. You usually play an alchemist and run around with your companions. More focused on the story than it is interpersonal character relationships... Sans the usual pairings. The groups still interact but you can't alter the ending too much.

Mana Khemia - again, played 1 and 2. This is more slice of life and academy based version of Atelier Iris. Goal based for school, adventure happens alongside school. Focuses more on interpersonal relationships with you controlling the main character. Endings are based on if you befriended someone and/or if you weren't a jerk. 1 is decent but 2 is fantastic.

NotGust!Rune Factory - it was OK. Just another Harvest Moon but you have monsters to slap around. Has some issues where it's possible to get trapped for an entire season depending on the game. The polish is clearly lacking in the earlier games. You might be better off with Stardew Valley. They contain similar elements, right down to nabbing one of the townsfolk to smooch-up. Except Stardew's town actually shifts over-time if you get socially involved with the townfolk.

As for FEH, I missed two days of voting, but that doesn't matter since I only vote for irrelevant characters... Ismaire and Orochi when? Can Cherche and Sonya have alts? At least Constance and the rest of the Ashen Wolves will eventually get in soon since they're Three Houses characters.

It still baffles me that we haven't even got 50% of the Fire Emblem roster after the game has been out for 4+ years now. That's just another reason why I quit. Like. Damn heaux. Release all the characters first. Then sprinkle Alts that powercreep old versions... Y'know, like a responsible and good money-grubbing Gacha would! Geeeeeez

 

[Lorde]

I wish I could stay with FEH, but the sudden departure into Steampunk-Fantasy-Medieval was just too much for me. I didn't sign up for that lmao. Steampunk is my absolute least favorite aesthetic. Then there's the weekly things which are mostly tedious and PvP based. So it's an easy Triple-NO from me at this point, sis.

Honestly I don't care at all about the PvP modes and just do the absolute bare minimum to get rewards. There are too many stupidly powerful units that require specific counters for me to actually invest in Arena/whatever else. I don't hate AR, and it's fun to see my units get huge stats with the mythic buffs, but the annoying defense teams you face when you start climbing are an instant nope for me. At this point, I just like to play with my favorite units and hope IS will add my other faves soon. I don't totally hate the steampunk aesthetic, but it's definitely my least favorite so far. However I know a lot of people hated last book's setting while I really liked it, so I'm probably in the minority. Reddit seems to really like the new OCs, even tho idc about them really.

Speaking of which, my current saving goal is for Triandra. I got her up to +4 on her debut banner, and I’m hoping to be able to reach 1000 orbs by the time the LHB drops in 3 weeks (currently just over 800 orbs). If I can hit 1000, that’d put me at the 50% percentile for getting the 6 merges I need. Tbh I’ve never saved up this many orbs before, but I’m getting so close to my goal that I won’t let my resolve waver now. Tho it is a little lame that this month’s LBH won’t drop on my birthday like it has for the past couple years.

My 5* free summon was....a +HP Zane.

After the last one got me Summer Leo, I really shouldn't be surprised anymore.

The Legendary skill refines are surprising but...probably welcome? Like, Fjorm has been in the game for a long time and I'm happy that they're buffing her signature skill (Ice Mirror) instead of her weapon. At the same time though, ATK/DEF Unity is such a premium skill that might actually be more significant than as fodder than as a +1 to your free five star Fjorm by completing Chapter 1 of Book II. One thing they didn't add that I was hoping for were Duel Effects like the "newer" Legendary heroes have. If Fjorm had a "Treat character's base BST as 185" like Legendary Corrin has? She'd been on every water Arena team.

I'm hoping the Legendary skill refines end up closer to being OP than merely complimentary. L!Grima and L!Lyn especially need so much work to be good in the current game landscape given how underwhelming they were when they came out.

My free 5* was a +HP -def Spring Fir. I don't like the bunny outfits nor do I really care about Fir, but her prf is pretty busted so I'll use her in AA or w/e. I wanted to choose colorless, but my circle was 3 green and 2 blues. ofc Xane was the "dud," but pulling him would've saved me orbs from when he's rerun on an eventual Double Special Heroes banner. Infantry Hexblade isn't the worst fodder either if you really don't want to use him. +HP is his best boon too. It's so lame they still won't even let us choose which color we want to pull on these random banners, though, or even (gasp!) being able to directly choose which unit we want.

Last year my free 5* seasonals were a -atk Soirée Ishtar and another Summer F!Corrin that I merged into the one I already had. Tbh I've never pulled a Summer Leo, so I do want him at least to fill his catalog entry.

No Duel Effect doesn't really surprise me because ofc they want you to pull for the new legendaries, instead of these old ones that have been on tons of 8% banners and are now banished to their own 6% banners, meaning players are more likely to have and/or get them at high merges. Though I agree it would’ve been nice if they gave them like a 180 BST duel effect since it’d still be worse than modern legends/duos.


Also I wanted to clarify what I meant about voting for lords in CYL: ofc it’s totally valid to vote for someone like Eirika if you like her as a character, but what really annoys me is when people would claim that characters like Marth or Eirika “deserve” to win. No character is more deserving than any other, and that logic actually made me kinda angry. CYL is literally just a popularity contest.

it still baffles me that we haven't even got 50% of the Fire Emblem roster after the game has been out for 4+ years now. That's just another reason why I quit. Like. Damn heaux. Release all the characters first. Then sprinkle Alts that powercreep old versions... Y'know, like a responsible and good money-grubbing Gacha would! Geeeeeez

Yeah, this is a big problem I have too. I’ve been waiting 4 years for certain characters to be added, and it’s painfully obvious that someone like Percy who only got 70 votes in CYL5 isn’t going to be included in FEH anytime soon. However I’m not a fan of a lot of the popular lords and characters, so ig IS doesn’t really care that much about catering to people like me.



New Savior skills are v dumb, and also cost 300 SP because lol. Got a 4* V!Alfonse (+atk -def) from that banner’s tickets, and my first Shamir (+spd -atk) from the Hero Fest. Also got my first 4* special or w/e it’s called on the hero fest when I got a 4* that “turned into” a random Linde while trying for the boyfriend duo.

 

[Cress!]

Persona 5 event is going on in Dragalia Lost.

Persona 5 still isn't on the switch.

Why, tho?

tbf it's a P5S collab which is on the Switch. It counts.
the banner treated me horridly but i got everyone and i guess that's the important part. ann please be nicer.

Legend Kai Yan happened! Co-op is a mess! But I got through solo after a few hours of trying and I found a comp that works really easily for me. I guess the persona banner is trying to make up for the fact that I got Gala Chelle quickly because she's really good. Also she's a princess with a gatling gun. And she has an OHOHO laugh. Perfect character design, how could that not be broken?

Spoiler: Look at how happy the gorl is!

So now Curran has a nice axe with purple swirls around it that I can use as a status symbol to brag to people! Working on getting the materials for Heinwald and Lathna's weapons as well, so the whole family can show off.

 

[Ffamran]

Gust Games take themselves less seriously than standard JRPGs, so I guess they're more like Anime RPGs? I gotta say they were all fun games to run through a few times. They didn't overstay their welcome each run through. Lower budget games, as seen by their graphics. Which is offset by decent soundtracks, decent voice acting, crafting systems, and character portraits. played 1 and 2 of each Gust Game below and Atelier Iris III. I played Atelier Annie and it was dreadfully boring. I don't know if newer Gust Games are as enjoyable though.

Lighthearted games are nice every now and again. We don't need super serious, brown and grey games all the damn time. On the other end, really depressing, messed up games are fun too. The morbid curiosity of wanting to see more and more of how a world fell that bad or why everything is so damn terrible is what drives games like Bloodborne, Demon's/Dark Souls, Drakengard, and Nier. Anyway, that sounds like a good series to kick back and relax with.

I'm not sure how far it goes, but some of the Atelier games having time limits makes it seem stressful. Granted, Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, and Majora's Mask among other games have time limits, but yeah. The idea of RPGs based on crafting is neat, though. With Ryza, it got a lot of attention or infamy because of, well, Ryza. Fanservice goes a long way. It reminds me of Nier: Automata and 2B. The characters caught the attention of thirsty people and the games turned out really well.

NotGust!Rune Factory - it was OK. Just another Harvest Moon but you have monsters to slap around. Has some issues where it's possible to get trapped for an entire season depending on the game. The polish is clearly lacking in the earlier games. You might be better off with Stardew Valley. They contain similar elements, right down to nabbing one of the townsfolk to smooch-up. Except Stardew's town actually shifts over-time if you get socially involved with the townfolk.

Rune Factory game up because I remember reading something about how weird the game can be. I do have and played Stardew Valley. It's been a few years since I last played it and there are so many updates. Part of me doesn't want to play because I want to try the new things, but don't want to start all over again... Why are farming games so stressful?

Just remembered Ever Oasis for some reason.

For other game stuff, KoF XV is looking good. Seeing the graphics development of KoF XIV, Samurai Shodown (2019) where it seems like they found what they wanted, and KoF XV is both interesting and awesome. The first trailer with Shun'ei was bad with how it was edited and showcased gameplay, but Meitenkun, Benimaru, and recently Iori are much better.

With music, city girl released "Wii Date (feat. tiffi, highvyn, siopaolo)" and it is such a cute song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnjNRC2Jdvo. The references are nice unless you don't like some PK kid and it gives me an Animal Crossing vibe. I wonder if there will be a Wii U Date or Switch Date in the future?

This song was on the suggestion bar: "或世界消失 (romaji: Aru Sekai Shou****su, EN: A World Disappeared)" by Hiiragi Magnetite which uses Hatsune Miku's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXJBoqbC78. This definitely hits the spot when you're in an electronica mood.

It still baffles me that we haven't even got 50% of the Fire Emblem roster after the game has been out for 4+ years now. That's just another reason why I quit. Like. Damn heaux. Release all the characters first. Then sprinkle Alts that powercreep old versions... Y'know, like a responsible and good money-grubbing Gacha would! Geeeeeez

Yeah, this is a big problem I have too. I’ve been waiting 4 years for certain characters to be added, and it’s painfully obvious that someone like Percy who only got 70 votes in CYL5 isn’t going to be included in FEH anytime soon. However I’m not a fan of a lot of the popular lords and characters, so ig IS doesn’t really care that much about catering to people like me.

To be fair, there are a lot of characters in Fire Emblem, but even then, some other games handle it better. Was it the Tale series? I think so where I read that despite there being many characters in the series, its gacha game not only introduced them well, but also incorporated them well into the story.

For FEH, the biggest thing against it is the amount of seasonal banners. There are stretches in time where it's back-to-back seasonal banners, for example, December and January with winter and New Year's, and it's annoying for those are waiting for the story banners. Seasonal banners usually being alts doesn't help either and not a lot of people want a character to be stuck in alt hell like Charlotte still hasn't been introduced as her regular self.

On the flip-side, I feel like legendary banners at this point should introduce two units. They are alt banners as well and there are plenty of units to choose from and with various even weak reasons unlike mythic banners. For instance, Ares and Sigurd, or the Byleths together if not Claude with either F! or M!Byleth, or a crossover legendary banner with M!Corrin hopefully as a healer since we don't have a legendary healer yet and Volke given Volke's infamy which would be interesting as a surprise legendary.

It's different for everyone, but I got lucky with the characters I liked. A lot of them were in the game from the start, plenty of Awakening characters and Blazing Blade too, or were added throughout the game's life like Joshua, Mae, Marisa, Python, Saber, and Sonya. Echidna is the most surprising one for me since I felt like she wouldn't have gotten in until much later or ever and yet she was introduced and as a demote. Other times, I just grew to like characters I never knew about or didn't like as much when I played the game they were from; Arvis, Lyon, Saias, and Seliph in particular whose voice actors gave wonderful performances. Miranda's definitely growing on me as well for her voice acting.

Constance, Gregor, Hapi, Leonie, Manuela, Orochi, Reina, and Scarlet are probably the most popular characters left that I want in FEH. Heather, Isadora, Ismaire, and Stefan are pretty much irrelevant. Not sure about how popular Gilliam, Neimi, Saleh, Tanith and Vika are and I don't really count Severa even though she is different enough from her older Selena self and it would be nice if she were an axe pegasus knight despite that not being a thing in Awakening.

Anyway, I'm at a point where I want to be surprised, to see characters I know little from, and that makes seasonal and alt banners so tiresome.

No Duel Effect doesn't really surprise me because ofc they want you to pull for the new legendaries, instead of these old ones that have been on tons of 8% banners and are now banished to their own 6% banners, meaning players are more likely to have and/or get them at high merges. Though I agree it would’ve been nice if they gave them like a 180 BST duel effect since it’d still be worse than modern legends/duos.

The weird thing about the 4* special rate thing is that they didn't do this to the older legendary heroes and seasonal units. We have enough of seasonal units for certain seasons they could do that or straight up even demote all of the old ones and have them be 4* seasonal units you can summon on any seasonal banner as odd as it would be to summon summer units in the winter and Halloween units in spring, but whatever.

New Savior skills are v dumb, and also cost 300 SP because lol. Got a 4* V!Alfonse (+atk -def) from that banner’s tickets, and my first Shamir (+spd -atk) from the Hero Fest. Also got my first 4* special or w/e it’s called on the hero fest when I got a 4* that “turned into” a random Linde while trying for the boyfriend duo.

Savior skills are stupid to play with. For better or for worse, they're locked to armors and guess which unit is an armor unit who has warp and movement shenanigans? CYL Edelgard.

Have fun with Shamir where +Spd, -Atk basically makes her neutral Shinon. Sort of. She hits hard and fast. Really useful for legendary Dimitri who I think I beat his abyssal map with her on the team. Don't really remember... Main thing is that she is one of the few Firesweep archers and ranged units in general. Eleonora is the other one and she's great too except for the whole speed creep thing since that's how she activates her Mirage Longbow's Firesweep effect.

Something I forgot to talk about in my previous post was how stupid it is that Meisterhardt was part of the recent weapon update. Even worse is that he's part of the special 4* pool too with Luke. Back then, you could argue that a random Luke would be fine for as a Brave sword cavalry counterpick when needed and that had he demoted, he would be all right. Except now, they're both in the same "demote" pool and there's nothing substantial Luke has over Meisterhardt. So, Meisterhardt was an instant refine for me. Why not and the remaining merges could show up more easily. And continuing with Reinhardt is how hilarious it is that they introduced Valentine's Veronica who is basically a demote Fluorspar Selena in terms of worse offenses and default skill set. None of this matters because Reinhardt is at worst, on par with how destructive he is compared to Fluorspar Selena, Valentine's Veronica, or any blue cavalry mage.

For summons, I really wanted at least one copy of Shamir and Shinon... That costed a lot orbs. Also, my first special 4* unit was Hinoka. She's not actually a myth! She exists and she's pretty meh. It's fun to get those units, but the launch ones especially have not aged well. Looking at you, Leo.

Spoiler: The 743rd to 763rd Summons

Valentine's banner. Burned the tickets for red hoping for Valentine's Lif & Thrasir. Valentine's Henriette (+HP, -Atk) and Leo (neutral) showed up instead. At least I have the second red mage armor in the game.

Spoiler: The 743rd's stats

4* Draug: +Def, -Atk.
5* regular Hinoka: +Spd, -Atk. Of course she's my first special 4* unit. The one and only Hinoka proves she exists.
3* Ross #1: +Spd, -Res.
4* Serra #1: +HP, -Spd.
4* Sophia #1: +Atk, -HP.

4th Anniversary Hero Fest banner.

Spoiler: The 744th's stats

4* Kaze: -Spd, -Atk.
3* Lukas: +Spd, -Res.
3* Mercedes: +Spd, -Def.
4* Roderick: +Atk, -HP.
3* Silvia: +Res, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 745th's stats

3* Jakob #1: +Atk, -Spd.
4* Lachesis: +Res, -Atk.
3* Odin: +Atk, -Def.
4* Oscar: +HP, -Atk.
4* Seteth #1: +Atk, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 746th's stats

4* Effie: +Res, -Def.
4* Florina #1: +Atk, -Def.
3* Peri #1: +Spd, -Def.
3* Selena #1: +Spd, -Res.
4* Selena #2: neutral.

Spoiler: The 747th's stats

4* Athena #1: +HP, -Spd.
4* Cherche: +Def, -Atk.
4* Marth: +HP, -Def.
4* Python: +Spd, -Def.
5* Shinon #1: +Atk, -HP.

Spoiler: The 748th's stats

4* Athena #2: +HP, -Spd.
4* F!Corrin #1: +Spd, -Res.
4* M!Corrin: +Res, -Spd.
4* Nowi: +Def, -Spd.
4* Peri #2: +Spd, -Res.

Spoiler: The 749th's stats

4* Athena #3: +Spd, -Res.
3* Cecilia: +Spd, -Atk.
5* Ced: +Spd, -Atk. You are totally not Shamir.
4* Laslow: +HP, -Spd.
3* Nino #1: +Res, -HP.

Spoiler: The 750th's stats

4* Felicia #1: +Res, -Spd.
4* Fir #1: +Atk, -HP.
3* Jakob #2: +Atk, -Res.
5* CYL Lucina: +HP, -Atk.
3* Sakura: +Res, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 751st's stats

4* Brady: +Spd, -Def.
3* Libra: +Atk, -Res.
3* Lon'qu: +Atk, -Def.
4* Olivia: +Atk, -Res.
3* Saizo: +Res, -Atk.

Spoiler: The 752nd's stats

4* Cordelia: +Atk, -Res.
4* Felicia #2: +Res, -Spd.
4* Gordin #1: +Atk, -Res.
4* Merric: +HP, -Res.
4* Shigure: +HP, -Atk.

Spoiler: The 753rd's stats

3* F!Corrin #2: +HP, -Res.
4* Echidna #1: +Res, -HP.
4* Jakob #3: +HP, -Atk.
4* Ross #2: +Spd, -HP.
4* Sophia #2: +Res, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 754th's stats

4* Eliwood: +HP, -Def.
4* Mordecai: +Res, -Spd.
4* Seteth #2: +Atk, -Def.
3* Seteth #3: +Res, -Spd.
3* Sothe: +HP, -Def.

Spoiler: The 755th's stats

5* Delthea: +Spd, -Def. Cool, I can have 0 Def if I give her L&D3 as her A passive and seal.
4* Felicia #3: +HP, -Def.
4* Jeorge: +Atk, -Spd.
5* Shinon #2: +Def, -Atk.
4* Subaki: +Res, -Def.

Spoiler: The 756th's stats

4* Boey: +Def, -HP.
5* Ephraim & Lyon #1: +Atk, -HP.
4* Frederick: +HP, -Atk.
4* Gordin #2: +Def, -HP.
4* Legault: +Spd, -Akt.

Spoiler: The 757th's stats

4* Camilla: +Res, -Spd.
4* Emmeryn: +Def, -Atk.
4* Knoll: +HP, -Res.
3* Stahl: +Def, -HP.
4* Virion: +Res, -HP.

Spoiler: The 758th's stats

4* Catria #1: +Res, -Spd.
4* Ferdinand: +Spd, -Def.
4* Fir #2: +Atk, -Def.
3* Serra #2: +HP, -Def.
4* Valbar: +Res, -Atk.

Spoiler: The 759th's stats

3* Abel: +Def, -Atk.
3* Catria #2: +Atk, -Spd.
3* Clair: +Spd, -Atk.
3* Setsuna: +Spd, -Def.
4* adult Tiki: +Atk, -Def.

Spoiler: The 760th's stats

4* M!Corrin #2: +HP, -Spd.
4* Florina #2: +Spd, -Res.
3* Gordin #3: +Res, -Atk.
4* Nino: +Def, -HP.
3* Soleil: +Def, -Res.

Spoiler: The 761st's stats

5* Azura: +Atk, -Spd.
3* Echidna #2: +Def, -Spd.
5* Ephraim & Lyon #2: +Atk, -Res.
3* L'Arachel: +Atk, -HP.
4* Ross #3: +Spd, -Res.

Spoiler: The 762nd's stats

4* Echidna #3: +Spd, -Res.
3* Mae: +HP, -Spd.
5* Minerva: +Atk, -Def.
4* Reyson: +HP, -Atk.
4* Sophia #3: +Atk, -Res.

Spoiler: The 763rd's stats

4* Mustafa: +Def, -Spd.
5* Shamir: +Spd, -Def. That took a lot of orbs. I just wanted one copy and she actually showed up and with a fantastic asset and flaw.
4* Peri #3: +Atk, -Res.
3* Reinhardt: +Spd, -Atk.
4* Serra #3: +Res, -Spd.

 

[The Fliff]

Hello gorls ~

I'm not sure if any of you who are active now were around before, but this is Gay Ginger / Ginger Gaymer. (I had to make a new account because the email I used with my last one doesn't exist anymore so I couldn't recover my password lmao). Anyway, thought I would check in and see how everyone is doing. Today is the first time I've played Smash in at least 2 years...

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

Hello gorls ~

I'm not sure if any of you who are active now were around before, but this is Gay Ginger / Ginger Gaymer. (I had to make a new account because the email I used with my last one doesn't exist anymore so I couldn't recover my password lmao). Anyway, thought I would check in and see how everyone is doing. Today is the first time I've played Smash in at least 2 years...

Hi! It's been a while haha. I haven't played Smash in a longgggg time. I'm doing okay myself, how are you keeping?

 

[EODM07]

It has been a while since I last posted here. So that's a big oof on my part.

Guess I can catch everyone up with what's been going on. First off, I've been watching Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's now. Not the 4Kids dub, the original version. And I have to say, I REALLY like it.

Sherry LeBlanc is my favourite character so far along with Crow and Jack. I like Aki a lot too, but I wish she didn't get a reduced role in the anime after the Dark Signer Arc. As someone who grew up watching most of Duel Monsters and GX and their unfortunate 4Kids dubs, watching 5D's how it was intended to be watch feels so refreshing and interesting. Currently my favourite Arcs so far in 5D's have been the Dark Signer Arc and the Crash Town Arc. But some of the filler episodes have been great, such as ones focusing on Jack and Crow which did flesh them out more and how they make you like especially Crow so much in the anime. (Doesn't stop me from hating Blackwings in Duel Links though. :V) The OST for 5D's is such a fantastic thing to listen to as well. Especially Yusei's Themes and Jack's as well. They're nice bangers, in fact I would put them on when I'm playing Duel Links since the 5D's OST in Duel Links is way better than the other Duel Worlds in DL, don't @ me.

Also, when is Konami going to add Sherry LeBlanc into Duel Links!? Please do it Konami, she's a good waifu.

Spoiler

Also, I might be posting some Custom Cards here again. So whooptie-doo.

I've also given Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright a go. It was enjoyable, the puzzles were neat and I liked the premise and what happens at the end of the game, it's .

Oh, and I've been labbing stuff in BBTAG once again and occasionally been playing BBCF and UNICLR, specifically Celica/Adachi team stuff, haven't worked on my Susanoo/Gordeau team in a while so I will need to work on that. Also seeing what Guilty Gear Strive has in store looks amazing, I just hope we get to see Robo-Ky in the game. It's been too long since he's been playable.

Almost forgot to post some Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart stuff as well. I've managed to make a set of sprites for that game based on Celica A. Mercury from Blazblue, however because of how lazy I am, I cannot be bothered to get Audacity or the program needed to put her into the game. So go me. :V

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~

 

[The Fliff]

Hi! It's been a while haha. I haven't played Smash in a longgggg time. I'm doing okay myself, how are you keeping?

I'm doing alright, all things considered. I work in a school, so I'm just trying to ride out this horrible school year lol.

 

[Lil Puddin]

Did someone say they want another possibly cringe-AU? No? Oops...

Friend showed me this. So... What happens when a naturally cringy show such as Miraculous Ladybug and The Office combine? idk! But it's certainly not as embarrassing to watch as the canon Miraculous Ladybug, nor did it feel as cringy as The Office - kinda. I do appreciate the writing, art, and voice work that went into this. I also appreciate how they used the original version of Cat Noir (Felix), who makes more sense as a character than Adrian. There's 3 parts and more on the way so that's neat. Where's the Magic Gorl Superhero action tho???
btw Cress! yro'ue getting a bit rewd with those long AF posts you leave on Youtube.

Hello gorls ~

I'm not sure if any of you who are active now were around before, but this is Gay Ginger / Ginger Gaymer. (I had to make a new account because the email I used with my last one doesn't exist anymore so I couldn't recover my password lmao). Anyway, thought I would check in and see how everyone is doing. Today is the first time I've played Smash in at least 2 years...

Welcome back, kween. I think most of us rarely play SmUsh at this point lol. Online is the only thing that makes the game worth playing after completing all the in game content. Except Online is doodie and costs money. And Covid19 says no IRL playing allowed.

Anyway! Why did you pick a totally different name? Or go for a cute spinoff, such as Gingy Gaymer? Though, I suppose having Ginger in the name means you'd be obligated to have a ginger boi/gorl in your avatar. Or reddish. Or w/e.

Spoiler: such as this

Spoiler: or this

 

[The Fliff]

Welcome back, kween.

Thanks, gorl <3

Anyway! Why did you pick a totally different name?

I've been using The Fliff as my tag on Xbox and Switch for a couple years now. It was spawned from a weird inside joke with a few friends, and I've just run with it ever since.

I think most of us rarely play SmUsh at this point lol. Online is the only thing that makes the game worth playing after completing all the in game content. Except Online is doodie and costs money. And Covid19 says no IRL playing allowed.

This is unfortunate, but I can hardly blame anyone since I stopped playing until recently. Online play, especially Quickplay, is really frustrating, but it is a welcome distraction from covid right now, haha. I wish the boards here weren't such a ghost town. I miss the Sm4sh days back in 2014/2015 when this place was lively and jamming...

 

[EODM07]

So. Nintendo Direct overall thoughts everyone?

Guess I can start off with mine.

Spoiler: Nintendo Direct Lineup

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I WANTED PYRA AND MYTHRA IN SMASH, AND NOW IT'S HAPPENED! AAAAAAAAAAAA! This might get me back to playing Smash, and I'm so happy right now!
Fall Guys: Ehhhh. I'll pass on it, but I'm sure many are happy with it coming to Switch.
Outer Wilds: Seems neat. I'll probably not play it.
Famicom Detective Club: This is actually pretty cool. I remember the Trophy in Melee describing one of the main characters in Famicom Detective Club, so this is pretty cool. I dunno if I'll pick it up, but again, pretty damn cool.
Samurai Warriors 5: I legit thought this was going to be Sengoku Basara until the characters appeared. Heh.
Legend of Mana: Cool to see a PS1 Action RPG get the HD treatment. Seems like Square is going through their entire back catalog of games they released back on the PS1 and SNES and giving them all re-releases. I'm down with this.
Monster Hunter Rise: Still gonna get it. Not gonna stop me. I'm still gonna buy it.
Mario Golf: Super Rush: This looks like it'll be some silly fun. I've never played the Mario Golf games, only Tennis on the 3DS and the demo of Aces on the Switch. Speed Golf looks hilarious on how you can probably disrupt others from playing.

Spoiler: Quick Fire Round 1

Tales from the Borderlands: Eh. Not too interested in this. Pass.
CAPCOM Arcade Stadium: Pretty cool that you can get over 30 of their Arcade Classics on the Switch. But I dunno if I'll be fully invested in it.
Stubbs the Zombie: Uhhhh, what?

No More Heroes III: Yes. Oh god, yes! Give it to me! I need this.
Neon White: I feel like this game will be one hell of a Speedrunner's Game. It just oozes it tbh.
DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power: Huh. Pass.
Plants vs. Zombies: Never been interested in this title at all, so I'll be skipping on it. Plus, it's Electronic Arts, what do you expect from them? :V
Miitopia: Heh heh heh. This little niche title is coming back, that is pretty cute but also pretty funny.
Animal Crossing New Horizons: I feel bad for stopping with this, I stopped playing around the Summer, so again, not pleased with that at all. But hey, the Mario Items look great.
Project Triangle Strategy: This title is giving me Final Fantasy Tactics vibes, and I'm not complaining. I've only played FF12 Tactics, and I thought it was fine.
Star Wars HUNTERS: ...No thanks.
Knockout City: ...No thanks.
World's End Club: Dangaronpa Fans will be enjoying this. I've only played Zero Escape, but I've enjoyed my time with it. I dunno if I'll get this or not.
HADES: Now this is a kickass game, I still need to play this.
Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection: Nice that they put in the beloved duology of the series. Wait... There's three? Nononono, there's only two I think. Sigma 1 and 2. There's no 3. Kappa.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: Nice it's getting an Expansion Pass, still need to play that game even though I own it physically.

Spoiler: Quick Fire Round 2

Bravely Default 2: I could not get into the Demo of this game, so I'm skipping on this one. I'm happy that others will be looking forward to this, but as someone who likes JRPGs, this is not my cup of tea. I think it must be the art style.
Ghosts n' Goblins Resurrection: This does look neat, it makes me wonder what other CAPCOM classics we'll see return... Hopefully Breath of Fire.
SaGa Frontier Remastered: I have never played this before, so I might end up giving it a shot, it looks cool.
Apex Legends: The only thing I remember about this is some members of Nijisanji and Hololive playing this. That's it.

Skyward Sword HD: I never did get far in the Wii original, but I'm glad it's coming to Switch, and with controller support and not only motion controls. Shame there's no BotW2 info, but alas, we can wait.
Splatoon 3: ...What. I legit thought this was another update for Splatoon 2, but a 3rd one!? God damn, good on Nintendo for keeping the train rolling for Splatoon. The atmosphere looks nice and I do like the new surrounding. Looks like Tokyo Tower has gone under.

Overall, the first announcement won it for me, I'm very satisfied with what they showed off. There were some titles I do not care about, and some I am looking forward to. Hoping they live up to the hype.

4 s out of 5.

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~

 

[The Fliff]

So. Nintendo Direct overall thoughts everyone?

It seemed like a good direct, even though there isn't a ton of things that I'm interested in personally. It's more that as I get older, I have less time to play, and less interest in, video games than I used to more so than the quality of the content they showed.

I already have Hades, and it's amazing. (In fact, my avatar is a character from the game lol). I definitely recommend getting it. I might check out the Hyrule Warriors DLC, although I haven't quite finished the original content yet and haven't touched it in a while.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

I miss the Sm4sh days back in 2014/2015 when this place was lively and jamming...

Hey, I know the feeling! Although I joined the Smash 4 social in 2016, being a bit late to the party, I still had a lot of fun talking here and conversing with you all (I remember having some....... questionable opinions, but I promise I'm not like that anymore at least.) I think the Zelda social declined near the end of the Smash 4 social, I don't really remember this one being all that active at any point. Honestly visiting this place sometimes feels like reanimating a dead corpse because it's just not even close to as lively as it once was. I really enjoyed 2016-2018 here for what it's worth, commenting on the directs, posting the results of the tourney majors, and of course the Shakira posting.

But yeah the spark of the old days has flickered and died it seems.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

I was mostly hoping for Kirby news, and I didn't get it. There were other announcements that were pretty cool though, like that Triangle Strategy game, the dodgeball game, and Mythra in Smash (I couldn't care less about Pyra).

 

[Cress!]

That was a really nice direct!! Would've preferred Elma as the next Xeno rep, but Pyra was always more likely. Congrats to the gorls!
SS and Miitopia remakes are great, and I can use Miitopia as another excuse to take all of your miis and force them into Zelda dresses, just like I did in the original. The main improvement I'm looking for on that game is removing the ability for miis to get sick. Or at least reducing the amount of time they stay sick. Or at least removing the ability for your main mii to get sick. Just some kind of change. Preventing you from using party members at all for a while is a really dumb concept imo, ESPECIALLY when your main mii gets sick. You can only control your own mii, so if they get sick and you can't use them, well congrats, you have to do the next few levels completely under AI control! You just sit back and watch! This sucks!!! Not sure what I'd want from SS, but adding amiibo support should hint at something new!
SAMURAI WARRIORS 5 HI! I WANT GAME NOW! Also this was another case of Nintendo showing me a great game in a Direct... only for me to turn around and buy it on a different console since there's no way this game will run well on the Switch. Thanks for the new Xbox game!

btw Cress! Cress! yro'ue getting a bit rewd with those long AF posts you leave on Youtube.

Okay fineee, I'll cut my messages down a bit. grl. It's 3 characters instead of 4. That's shorter.

I've been using The Fliff as my tag on Xbox and Switch for a couple years now. It was spawned from a weird inside joke with a few friends, and I've just run with it ever since.

Ooo wait, would you mind friending each other on Xbox? (I'm still using my PuffleKirby21 tag over there. I should change it, but the mess of referencing a Nintendo and PC series, with an avatar showcasing a PS character on an Xbox account is too chaotic to give up). And welcome back, it's nice to see you again!

World's End Club: Dangaronpa Fans will be enjoying this. I've only played Zero Escape, but I've enjoyed my time with it. I dunno if I'll get this or not.

Quick edit but WEC is nothing like DR. It's made by the same guy, but this isn't a killing game. Pretty sure the entire reason Kodaka left Spike to start his own company was to get away from writing those types of games I haven't looked into it much since spoilers are probably everywhere if I do try to look something up, but all I know is that it's different from DR and ZE.

Shame there's no BotW2 info, but alas, we can wait.

But SS is the better game. This is an upgrade.

 

[Lil Puddin]

I've been using The Fliff as my tag on Xbox and Switch for a couple years now. It was spawned from a weird inside joke with a few friends, and I've just run with it ever since.

That's how my name was chosen too. I was drinking with friends and we got on to the subject of making rap names using a prefix followed by something using the 1st letter of our names. Lil P by itself was awful but moments later Lil Puddin was born and I made a GFAQs account shortly after that using Lil Puddin. Bonus points being that a few months later a very similar thing was done in Pokemon X/Y with the NPC-friends asked for a name in the same way using Lil/Big and the 1st initial. So Lil Puddin just became my name for everything from 2013 and onward.

This is unfortunate, but I can hardly blame anyone since I stopped playing until recently. Online play, especially Quickplay, is really frustrating, but it is a welcome distraction from covid right now, haha. I wish the boards here weren't such a ghost town. I miss the Sm4sh days back in 2014/2015 when this place was lively and jamming...

tbh Covid probably has a lot of gorls working some side-hustles to make ends meet. That means there's less time for sheet-posting. We also have to be doing something to have something to talk about, but Covid says we're not allowed to do stuff... So... Oops. Dead Air.

SmUsh dying down and Internet costing money probably hurts too. SmUsh would have much more longevity if it had a story mode to it. Then memes could be made, stories could be replayed, and etc to artificially extend hype/longevity for the game. But y'know, Nintendo isn't really good with knowing why things succeed. They just happen to fall into success a lot. lmao

So. Nintendo Direct overall thoughts everyone?

Guess I can start off with mine.

Spoiler: Nintendo Direct Lineup

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I WANTED PYRA AND MYTHRA IN SMASH, AND NOW IT'S HAPPENED! AAAAAAAAAAAA! This might get me back to playing Smash, and I'm so happy right now!
Fall Guys: Ehhhh. I'll pass on it, but I'm sure many are happy with it coming to Switch.
Outer Wilds: Seems neat. I'll probably not play it.
Famicom Detective Club: This is actually pretty cool. I remember the Trophy in Melee describing one of the main characters in Famicom Detective Club, so this is pretty cool. I dunno if I'll pick it up, but again, pretty damn cool.
Samurai Warriors 5: I legit thought this was going to be Sengoku Basara until the characters appeared. Heh.
Legend of Mana: Cool to see a PS1 Action RPG get the HD treatment. Seems like Square is going through their entire back catalog of games they released back on the PS1 and SNES and giving them all re-releases. I'm down with this.
Monster Hunter Rise: Still gonna get it. Not gonna stop me. I'm still gonna buy it.
Mario Golf: Super Rush: This looks like it'll be some silly fun. I've never played the Mario Golf games, only Tennis on the 3DS and the demo of Aces on the Switch. Speed Golf looks hilarious on how you can probably disrupt others from playing.

Spoiler: Quick Fire Round 1

Tales from the Borderlands: Eh. Not too interested in this. Pass.
CAPCOM Arcade Stadium: Pretty cool that you can get over 30 of their Arcade Classics on the Switch. But I dunno if I'll be fully invested in it.
Stubbs the Zombie: Uhhhh, what?

No More Heroes III: Yes. Oh god, yes! Give it to me! I need this.
Neon White: I feel like this game will be one hell of a Speedrunner's Game. It just oozes it tbh.
DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power: Huh. Pass.
Plants vs. Zombies: Never been interested in this title at all, so I'll be skipping on it. Plus, it's Electronic Arts, what do you expect from them? :V
Miitopia: Heh heh heh. This little niche title is coming back, that is pretty cute but also pretty funny.
Animal Crossing New Horizons: I feel bad for stopping with this, I stopped playing around the Summer, so again, not pleased with that at all. But hey, the Mario Items look great.
Project Triangle Strategy: This title is giving me Final Fantasy Tactics vibes, and I'm not complaining. I've only played FF12 Tactics, and I thought it was fine.
Star Wars HUNTERS: ...No thanks.
Knockout City: ...No thanks.
World's End Club: Dangaronpa Fans will be enjoying this. I've only played Zero Escape, but I've enjoyed my time with it. I dunno if I'll get this or not.
HADES: Now this is a kickass game, I still need to play this.
Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection: Nice that they put in the beloved duology of the series. Wait... There's three? Nononono, there's only two I think. Sigma 1 and 2. There's no 3. Kappa.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: Nice it's getting an Expansion Pass, still need to play that game even though I own it physically.

Spoiler: Quick Fire Round 2

Bravely Default 2: I could not get into the Demo of this game, so I'm skipping on this one. I'm happy that others will be looking forward to this, but as someone who likes JRPGs, this is not my cup of tea. I think it must be the art style.
Ghosts n' Goblins Resurrection: This does look neat, it makes me wonder what other CAPCOM classics we'll see return... Hopefully Breath of Fire.
SaGa Frontier Remastered: I have never played this before, so I might end up giving it a shot, it looks cool.
Apex Legends: The only thing I remember about this is some members of Nijisanji and Hololive playing this. That's it.

Skyward Sword HD: I never did get far in the Wii original, but I'm glad it's coming to Switch, and with controller support and not only motion controls. Shame there's no BotW2 info, but alas, we can wait.
Splatoon 3: ...What. I legit thought this was another update for Splatoon 2, but a 3rd one!? God damn, good on Nintendo for keeping the train rolling for Splatoon. The atmosphere looks nice and I do like the new surrounding. Looks like Tokyo Tower has gone under.

Overall, the first announcement won it for me, I'm very satisfied with what they showed off. There were some titles I do not care about, and some I am looking forward to. Hoping they live up to the hype.

4 s out of 5.

Smash: Pyra/Mythra is a big win. Surprisingly good choice. The previous choices were just meh.

Fallguys: Too late, Nintendo. Ded gaem.

Hades: Kinda on time, Nintendo. Except... The game has many B A D bois and gorls. 2nawty4me

Splatoon 3: I might actually get it to play it. I played most of Pt2 of S2 and saw the Story of S1.

Everything else: kinda don't care. SkywordSHD might interest me if things change. The world was neat but I don't remember specifics from when I played.

That was a really nice direct!! Would've preferred Elma as the next Xeno rep, but Pyra was always more likely. Congrats to the gorls!

I think XCX being a WiiU exclusive really hurt Elma's chances. And in terms of gameplay, Elma would just be another Bayonetta with handheld daggers instead of combat stilettoes. So maybe it's for the best she wasn't chosen.

Speaking of XCX I hope a reboot is in the works. The game was phenomenal. With just some more polish to the landscapes and Internet-based features, it would be awesome. Maybe some more mobs. Obviously extend the level cap so cheese/robutts aren't necessary. Maybe rebalance stuff, which really just means nerf the pewpewpew evasion cheese and buff the ether canon moveset/support.

Okay fineee, I'll cut my messages down a bit. grl. It's 3 characters instead of 4. That's shorter.

SAMURAI WARRIORS 5 HI! I WANT GAME NOW! Also this was another case of Nintendo showing me a great game in a Direct... only for me to turn around and buy it on a different console since there's no way this game will run well on the Switch.

Dynasty Warrior 8 has run smoothly on the Switch when docked. I haven't noticed any lag with everything optimized for performance. I would hope SW5 would work nice enough.

How is Samurai Warriors? Is it just a slightly more anime-tized version of Dynasty Warriors? Are the movesets similar to DW8/HW1? I might grab the game. I'm almost through with everything for DW8 except the Shu weapons and story modes. Because Shu is the most boring of the branches despite green being the best color ever. Side note: I'm still mad how they keep doing Zhuge Liang so dirty by making his hitboxes small/magic kinda suck/etc. It should be illegal to make the coolest zen MoFo a trashfire.

Anyway! I hope DW9 gets a rework for the Empire or Extended editions. It would be a great game if wild mobs were increased, towns were streamlined, grappling ropes were blocked from stage-skipping (can't use on castle walls until the castle doors are breeched), and... Most of all... Character specific move sets returned. The simplification of the launches/extreme AoEs as a trigger selected move was very nice and should stay tho. In short, great concept and QoL editions, but not enough time to polish the game properly.