Mazyrian

crisis averted, break out the booze

nooooooooooo the labyrinth of touhou tri latest update has nerfed the dungeon design because players were too negative about this.

i've moved the game out of the steam client. it's unfortunate that i won't be receiving performance updates, but ugh i can't recommend the game now.

Labyrinth of Touhou Tri screenshot showing the "Thank you for playing" screen

Labyrinth of Touhou Tri screenshot showing my final time of 60 hours on the save screen

Finished Labyrinth of Touhou Tri on Lunatic. A masterpiece of JRPG design and imo the best Touhou fangame ever. The dynamic combat system and highly varied bosses it allows for are the highlights, but the dungeon crawling and farming are addictive in their own right.

afterwards my plan is to get to the tsukihime remake, and then face the final boss: get back to fgo
I had played up to lb2 (though didn't actually read that one), and had a pretty strong account (for a non whale at least) at that point, so it shouldn't be too hard, right? right?

also had started mahoutsukai no yoru, but there's something peculiar there where I find all the individual parts good (I mean presentation is as gorgeous as everyone says), but as a whole I don't feel anything
though I do feel that I'm just getting to the main meat of the thing

watching the fate strange fake anime made something I didn't thought would be possible: want to read type moon stuff again
so I bought all the released volumes of fsf and started reading them

may also start the strange fake novels, I have really liked what is out of the anime so far
or even get back to fgo (shudders)

recent talk of fsn in discord put in the mood to get back to type moon actually so started mahoutsukai no yoru
I had bought it close to release I think but it was so long that the voiced version came out before I could get around to it

now started dqv but already got bored lol
though starting it gave me enough motivation to hack my ds
i had bough all dq games for ios but playing on the phone kind of sucks

probably not a hot take but I liked it, I think I was just in a mood for an 王道 jrpg with a somewhat open world
beat also the secret boss, and though the 6th chapter is cute and all I honestly think it finishing in the 5th would be more interesting

finished dragon quest iv, that I had started like a trillion years ago but was always getting bored a bit in
but this time managed to get to the 5th chapter when it got interesting

Reading 少女因習倶楽部 and it is a trip.
The chapters read backwards so it's a bit confusing, and that is already on top of a fever dream.

even if much more simplistic than the novels
In any case I liked it enough that I may check the manga at some point

#anime Watched the Chuuzenji sensei anime, I liked it. In some ways it does feel like a babby's Kyougoku novel, but I think it does a decent job of having folklore lectures and incidents that seem like something supernatural but are actually just convoluted (in a good sense) mundane stuff,

finished the #pokemon za dlc (the main story). ultimately my opinion has not changed; I do commend the game for daring to completely change the main game loop and to be difficult, but I don't like the new game loop at all

yay new txq fiction thing
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I feel conflicted because I don't want to shit too much on a pokemon game that dares to be difficult, but I feel that the difficulty here is in all the wrong places, and in any case my brief experience so far has been mostly miserable

I hate the time limits in the areas, I hate the fuckton of grinding you need to do to progress that has barely no reward, I hate how the real time system makes the trainer double battles way too hectic, and while I can understand the time limited mega battles I cannot say that I'm a fan

I have now made some progress with the #pokemon ZA DLC (maybe about half of it), and now I can confidently say that I absolutely hate this

Legend of Door ~Gale Wings~ by Patchy Illusion Team Everyone's a stranger in the beginning.

patchy-illusion-team.itch.io/legend-of-door
nice, English translation of tobiden
(shilling own review here: 7nightstranslations.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/t... )

オカワリいただけただろうか？
from U-temo I like the designs but not so much their previous works, but this one is neat

1×1/2-イチトニブンノイチ
would be perfect if the remake came out faster

僕らのアイは気持ち悪い
after the very wholesome kaketa tsuki to donuts and onna tomodachi to kekkon shitemita, a series where everyone is fucked up

上伊那ぼたん、酔へる姿は百合の花
actually had started reading it when it came out but dropped it; but recent talk of it made me give it another chance and liked it a lot now

明日ちゃんのセーラー服
i feel like this is cheating because I read it all up to day only very recently

かいじゅう色の島
has a setting somewhat reminiscent of watatabe though the story itself is completely different. point against is that it comes out very slowly

あくまであまい私の彼女
yatosaki haru is one of my favorite authors, and this manga is very cute

ひとりみです
decided to try it because of morishima akiko, pretty good series with seniors

私を喰べたい、ひとでなし
this probably needs not much presentation at the moment

now that the year is (somewhat close to) ending, decided to make a list of my current top 10 of ongoing yuri manga (not really in order) #manga #yuri

拝啓、在りし日に咲く花たちへ
this is one actually my top, cute MC and a high school story that already got multiple twists in less than 2 volumes

I wanted to try mega beedril since some time ago
sableye is one that I got pretty early thinking on replacing it with anything else but ended up being pretty handy with the barriers and will o'wisp
now I started the DLC, but so far I find the main gameplay a bit too hectic for my taste

but I really liked ZA
going around the city is pretty fun, and while I still don't find the real time combat system as good as the original one it is still pretty fun in its own way
final party was sableye, beedril, tyranitar, slowbro, trevenant and emboar

a couple of weeks back I finished #pokemon ZA
I was actually of two minds for Arceus: some of the things you can do are really satisfying, but as much as not I was raging at the game, and was not a huge fan of the modified combat system

it pretty ruthlessly cuts a lot of side content making for a much more focused experience (though at the cost of a lot of characterization). it maintains some of the fundamental problems of the plot but at least I didn't hate my time with it.