Devin

your friendly and not so friendly neighbourhood cupids

rushed and lazily made "valentine's day card" with just an official grovyle png from pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky/darkness/time pasted on the left. to the right is the text "let's get erased from reality together"

almost forgot about valentine's day lol. uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh. grovyle pmd would say this

A very happy birthday and Valentine's Day to the lovely Miss Flonne! 🥳🎉

Shopkeeper NPC says, "Welcome!? It may be an emergency, but I'll still take your money!"

society............

my dog my dog my dog my dog my dog rabbit my dog rabbit my rabbit my dog

a Lopmon shows up next to Date and says, "I'm Lopmon. Nice to meet you!"

Date says, "Lopmon is your client. It's a missing person... I mean, 'missing Digimon' case."

Date on the couch, Lopmon hanging onto her arm

THEY'RE GIVING ME THE DOG RABBIT ONE OF THE BEST ONES YES

dialogue response choices to the cop woman Date: 1) You have a case for the Kuremi Detective Agency? 2) Are you planning to arrest a depressed kid? number 2 is highlighted

very funny dialogue choice, also always nice to have something to let the cops know that i don't respect them lolllll

Yuuko says, "Fei... Thank you... for considering me your friend."

Fei says, "Of course you're my friend! We'll always be friends! Always!"

Nokia says, "Oh really? 'Friends'? Is that good enough? Don't you really want more than that?"

YURI IS MAYBE REAL????????????????????????????????????

maybe the cruelest boss in the game so far, ouch lmao

Nokia says, "O-kay then... I don't get it, but I get it! It's like I don't got it, but I got it!"

me every day man

screenshot is dark because I took it right as it was about to transition into a "dialogue" scene thing. anyway whatever. Protag wakes up on a crosswalk in Shibuya's scramble crossing

haha wait twewy moment (badly timed screenshot)

in the center of the screen is a static image of meat on the bone. nokia's two digimon dogs, labeled in the textbox as "Starving Beast (Digimon)," only say one thing here: a single exclamation point

cool jpeg

Nokia says: "Huh? You're looking for a present for a girl? Do you have any more information than that?"

"Hmm... a girl's present... ...but Ami, why are you asking me about this?"

"...OMG!!! You LIKE someone, don't you!?"

"But... you already have me... Wait, is that why...?"

:) cool

Kyoko says, "Sorry, but I stopped thinking like a girl a long time ago, and you're too worldly, so that leaves us with a bit of a problem." what does she mean by worldly in this context, and why does that make the fem protag unqualified to figure out what girls like as presents, i'm confused lmao

"In this situation, I'd say you should ask your feminine friends."

i mostly just picked fem protag bc i'd heard before that the protag is treated as male either way, so I get to see gay hints rather than straight hints, but man it gets goofy in situations like this. you are looking this protag in the eyes and telling her she has no idea what girls like, ok lmao

Yuugo says: "Okay, I'll get straight to the point. I... want you to put an end to Nokia's activities with the Rebels."

"Do you understand? Her existence is nothing but an annoyance to me."

MAN NOBODY HERE EVER GIVES NOKIA THE RESPECT SHE DESERVES BRO LMAO

Three similar dialogue options from the protagonist: 1) "Arata, you're friends with some weird people." 2) "Arata, you're just posing as a cool loner." 3) "Arata, you are such a nerd." (i picked number 3 because it felt the least potentially judgmental, though it's not like it even really affects anything anyway lmao)

TONE INDICATOR POSITIVE. TONE INDICATOR AFFECTIONATE. TONE INDICATOR THIS MAKES YOU COOLER TO ME

Arata says about his manga interest: "Huh? You want to know what 'Bakuen Delete' is? It's a long story, but a good one."

The protag's dialogue 3 responses are: 1) "Okay." 2) "I think I'm good." and 3) "No way!" and obviously I picked "okay." all he did was like manga and be a nerd, why do they hate him....

After the protag for some reason spaced out mid-explanation I guess, Arata says, "Huh? Are you even listening to me?"

after the protag spaces out a second time for no reason, Arata says, "Hey, are you even listening to me?"

WHYYY does the game not want me to support the characters' interests bro.... let me listen to people talk about what they care about!!! I want to KNOW!!!! TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR SINCERE CORNY NERD STUFF BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY AWESOME!!!!! EVERYONE BE FREE NOOOWWW!!!!!!!

NPC called Odd Man says to the protagonist (who is female here): "I know this is outta the blue, but I bet you're into beautiful women, aren't you?"

"I bet you're bored with how your day-to-day life is going. Wouldn't you love to just throw it all away and spend it with the girl of your dreams?"

LET'S GO GAY PEOPLE, DIVERSITY WIN: GAY INCLUSIVE SCAMS

Arata says, "So all we have to do is take out that Bakemon and change everything back to normal."

Later: "We took down that Bakemon, but something is still controlling the strange phenomenon, and we still don't know what."

aside from being a digimon, the word bakemon also basically means "monster" in Japanese so i get why this mistranslation exists. but still. it's genuinely baffling how many text errors like this got into the final game. did no one playtest... or even just proofread the localization for this, lmao???

Shopkeeper NPC says, "Welcome!? It may be an emergency, but I'll still take your money!"

society............

Mirei says, "You're quite popular, aren't you? Girls inviting you to Kowloon, guys inviting you to Shinjuku..."

BISEXUAL RIGHTS

Nokia says, "The day of reckoning has come for hackers who want to use Digimon for evil purposes!"

"That's why I'm planning on forming a Tamer group, to face off against those mean ol' hackers!"

"Is the 'Rebels' a good name? We could also go with the 'Digimon Helpers,' or DH for short!"

The protagonist looks taken aback (as a reaction to Nokia asserting herself as the leader of her own group when no one else would accept the role, iirc). Nokia says, "What's that look for? You don't have to be so shocked! Or dubious!"

so I guess Nokia is basically awesome. she's goofy and sincere and I think that's great. don't really get why the game keeps assuming that I'm rolling my eyes and scoffing at her for doing her thing though, i'm actually giving her a thumbs up and cheering probably most times she shows up lmao

guess I should try to start writing soon whenever i have more time, would be kinda cool if someday I too could become a basketball like that lol

listening to penny snapcube’s state of play react video for background noise, and in one of the trailers I swear I recognized the voice actor for Pit/Dark Pit. and I was like ahhh… :,) wistfully looks up at the sky. how nice it would be to hear his voice again in a nintendo direct one day too LMAO

All the “writing” I’ve done for my project has just been. endlessly following brainstorming trails in my notes doc and trying to narrow down on something until a different thing comes to mind. nothing else LOL. Maybe it could be time to see what happens when I simply Try Anything At All?? HMMMM

anyway, eh. probably just overthinking it, who cares. y’know what would probably help resolve a lot of my problems? if I were to actually started trying to WRITE any sort of story situations or character interactions and stop procrastinating until I “know” every single detail about the setting LMAO

— and my gay yuri stuff was also just gonna be a side thing, so I guess now I’m like uh-oh, what if I do the “forced relationship subplot” trope that I hate except it’s Gay now, diversity win but at what cost LOL

also im not even into “romance” stuff, I don’t “get” romance that well, etc whatever

part of what makes thinking about writing romantic relationships kinda difficult for me is that since I was a kid, I haaaated most romance subplots because to me, they always seemed forced and obligatory and shallow with the only actual relationship reasoning being “Girl + Boy = Duh” —

…yeahhhh… true… I’ve thought about talking about ideas with people, but I keep being held back by the selfish feeling of “but it was supposed to be MY thing, if I get suggestions from other people” (which I need) “then it won’t be MINE anymore 😔” but I know that’s silly LOL, I’ll do it at some point