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Puzzle thank you for this food I love Emma so much she’s such a goober

Yakuza 0: My introduction to the Yakuza series which I have found to be such a charming world and story throughout its original run as an action RPG. I’ve created many AUs with its word in mind.

Citizen Sleeper: A much more recent pick, its themes really stuck with me and made me reevaluate my life after I played it.

Fossil Fighters: My second childhood love behind Pokemon, I played the hell out of the first two games. Fossil Fighters 1 is peak, made me love dinosaurs and alien women.

Danganronpa: If I never watched a playthrough of the fan translation years and years ago I would have not met any of my friends or experienced even half of what the last 10 years have brought me. I may have mixed feelings about the series nowadays, but I will forever have a special place for DR1.

game I ever bought a physical copy of the soundtrack for.

Awakening: My favorite game, period. I’ve 100% completed it, I adore it to death. The characters and world mean so much to me.

Zero Time Dilema: My first Uchikoshi game. Dude’s crazy. I loved it even with no context for what’s happening.

the mystery genre as a whole, which has largely lead me to the path I’ve gone on. AAI2 I think is the peak of the series, I still need to play the official translation.

Va11 HallA: I’m a big fan of visual novels on the whole, but every character interaction in this feels special. It’s the first-

I didn’t put reasons in the alt text so I’ll put them here in a separate comment:

Colosseum: Representing my favorite series of games with my favorite entry in it. I would not be the person I am without Pokemon, I literally learned to read because of it.

Investigations 2: Ace Attorney got me into-

Here’s 9 games to define me!

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I've been so offline lately, what is this "you draw for yourself? lol, hope you enjoy not getting seen" thing??

You can draw for yourself and also resonate with many others (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

When I draw true to myself, I get plenty of support from the people who matter!! Have fun!!!

I just want to play pokopia......

I agree and you should say it

Final note, Arnav Barnum, you are the funniest man on the planet. Your route was a slog to play through but it simultaneously was the funniest, so good on you.

It’s a huge shame to say after how I still feel the first game is an absolute masterpiece, but I do not recommend picking up this game, at least not for the price it is.

If it goes on sale for like $10 bucks or something then sure, but as it is, it just isn’t worth it.

You don’t have to make the story chronological, but making it a streamlined experience so you could have guaranteed how you wanted us to experience it instead of trying to account for all potential possibilities of play order would have strengthened this story a lot.

Just at the very least whether jumping from multiple POV’s or sticking to a singular one, just do not let us the player dictate when plot elements are revealed. They would shave so much recapping time that way, and also trust us to read the files ourselves.

Were it up to me, I wouldn’t let us see Sato’s POV at all, have her thoughts and actions seem all the more mysterious and then she can reveal them as time went on. Truthfully, I wouldn’t even want to have Yuza’s POV, but that might be hard to accomplish with spirit Yuza being our player stand in.

Having to use the “I pretended not to know anything” card on at least four separate occasions just as an excuse to hide things from the player in their internal monologue is a terrible excuse in my opinion. If you’re that worried about it, just DON’T have us play as those characters!

Admittedly I did think interacting with Sobae on the title screen was actually a very fun idea, that part was a cool interaction.

Ultimately, I feel like this game suffered by the fact the player can control when they do things. This was written like a linear narrative, so let it be one!

In this game, that was never the case, everything was resolved by picking a different scenario outcome within the scene itself, so at no point did you ever feel obligated to think in that way. Also we only needed to do that was so Sato would put the scale in the box, WHICH SHE KNEW TO DO ALREADY.

In the first game you had to do meta things relatively early on in order to get through the normal portion of the story, like with the foot-washing ghost where you have to turn off your audio. That made it so when you had to do things like that again in the true ending, you expected it.

This is on top of the bullshit you need to do to unlock the true ending, specifically checking the load menu. The hint the Storyteller gives you still doesn’t indicate that, and at no point previously in the game did you have to do any meta puzzle solving and thus feel primed to do it again.

But then all of a sudden you’re revealed that they fell in love and chose to want to spend the next 800 years together after knowing each other for A MONTH?

What an insane decision, not helped by the game actively tries to justify the age difference by saying Sato just acts like she’s 17 still.

The only hint before then that Yuza and Sato are even potentially involved is the fact that Yuza wants to find a mermaid in two days which we learn is when she’s going to die. However, there’s no point in which it is implied to be because they’re in love and you instead just assume they’re friends.

Everything from this point on will be spoilers, so don’t read on if you plan to play it yourself!

The fact that they shove an entire romance subplot in as the main motivation for Yuza’s route that they reveal only at the very end of the normal ending is a horrible decision in my opinion.

I’ve gone and gotten the true ending. After thinking on it, my stance remains the same, this game needed to be presented in a different way.

I honestly liked the normal ending far more than I did the true ending, just because of how they refused to present key elements for the ending earlier.

I’m doing the true ending tomorrow so I’ll save any posts about the plot itself for their own separate post and tag spoilers properly. However, I don’t think there’s anything that could be shown that would have me change my mind about how everything else has been presented thus far.

Tl;dr: Trying to recreate the gameplay established in the first game is actively working against the plot because it would be better served as a linear narrative from one POV.

They could have made it work with it, but the order it was presented would have had to been heavily reconstructed.

Been playing The Mermaid’s Curse, and I have some mixed feelings about it. I like the overall narrative on display, but my complaints can be lumped together in one statement:

This game would be much better if it wasn’t a Paranormasight.

I explained why with no spoilers in the screenshots below.

a drawing of my artsona thing wearing a black bunnysuit, looking very tired with dark bags under her eyes and resting her hand on her face

am just a tired bunny

Happy Pokemon Day!!!!!! 🤓👍