turbles

henwy

finding that "bellybutton" is one of my least favorite types of incisions

through Gecqua's eyes

still on 1 just now. rpgs take forever lol

ALSO henry's voice acting is top notch I literally love every line delivery no matter how mundane, he just sounds so good

the janky combat amd horse riding reinforce this feeling too

so many times in this game I have not felt like I'm embodying henry as the player, but rather I am just some being exerting whatever force I can against henry's conscience to get him to do what I want. and this glitch was me not being able to control him lol honestly a positive & fun experience

I feel like nonnneee of the assumptions I flippantly made about how the game works were proven true, and it is... weirldy refreshing?? jank born of unique vision and ambition??

big budget type games seem to have collectively settled on a shared toolbox of game design solutions that focus on efficiently absorbing the player into the systems. stealth sections work like this. inventory works like that. level ups work like this. etc.

I actually don't prefer RPGs with blank protags for me to author entirely, I like learning about already authored characters. but I feel like henry hits a sweet spot where he has a clear personality of his own but is flexible enough that he'd be able to justify nearly any of my choices

a glitch happened where henry was trapped in "enemy is searching for u" combat state so I couldn't save the game or make him sleep or talk to anyone. I interpreted this as a night long panic attack that he only snapped out of when I (he) accidentally sicced his dog on a random passerby

gacha design philosophy naturally streamlines systems until the game practically plays itself via menus. and then in kcd sometimes I want to read a book but the sun shines on the page and makes it harder to see so I have to physically move henry into the shade to read.

coming off of genshin into this is so jarring it's kind of amazing.

ok I'm finally getting deeper into kingdom come deliverance than just wandering around and picking flowers

he looks great in your style!

aw no worries. I know theres more advanced stuff like curved rulers and perspective rulers too... I gotta go on a deep dive someday

I really ought to learn how the rulers work 😭

my poor cat smells medicinal all the time now

I use the panel tools just to make sure the gutters are consistent and then I lower the transparency and trace them for the actual panel borders so they have a handmade look jkgjds. same with speech balloons. the generated mask stuff is too clunky & doesn't save me enough time to bother learning it

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

this is a very smart thread, covering A LOT of ground

yes I would still love him if he was a snail

snayce talis (snail jayce talis)

snayce talis

kind of enchanted how gecqua looks EXACTLY like one of those bug eyed post-beanie baby toys that I only ever saw on a rack next to the checkout line at various stores

Pokemon Winds and Waves announced for Switch 2, coming 2027

................... a pokemon game with water that looks good.............

Draw a picture.
Ok you don't like it. Why? What about it don't you like? Do you not understand it? Do you like the way someone else did it better?
Study what it actually looks like. Study the way it's done you do like.
Draw another picture and repeat forever in the torment nexus.
This is drawing.

rebuild of eva was overall underwhelming for the same reason to me though lol. eva mattered to me so much that it altered the course of my life, so I don't say this without respect. 🤷‍♂️

ok I saw it. considering I feel like the only person in the world who was underwhelmed by nier automata, BECAUSE it didn't seem to give me anything that I hadn't already gotten from evangelion, yoko taro on script for a new evangelion thing strikes me as funny