#Endgame exists for what

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

reading about kh3 gameplay mechanics on the khwiki (cuz i didnt do shit fuck with 99% of them when i played it) and like

the shotlock for oblivion is called ‘dawn eclipse’ in japanese, while oathkeepers is ‘sunset bright’

and i realized

kairi is associated with sunsets, which in kh (and in real life) are symbolic of endings

while riku is associated with dawn/sunrises, which are symbolic of new beginnings

also, dawn eclipse? like the dawn being eclipsed by something?

and sunset meaning the loss of (day)light, while sunrise means the return?

#kingdom hearts #soriku #destiny islands trio #kh3 #kh3 spoilers #re:mind spoilers #riku is the light #kh meta #ali's kh meta #gif #ali's gifs #ali's kh gifs #long post #image heavy post #i actually only realized the night on bald mountain + riku parallel while typing this up n i dont think ive ever seen anyone else mention it #anyway the kairi and pooh parallels continue to absolutely blow my fucking mind #like what else would they be there for except to say sora and kairi NOT endgame???? #its not an accident. the writers devs artists etc CREATED those scenes. they werent just birthed into existence by nothing #popular

[samarecharm]

geniunely not trying to put words in ur mouth im geniunely asking: what do you actually like about persona 5? from all ur rants im just wondering why you didnt drop the game bc it seems (again, im not trying to put words in ur mouth) that it simply not for you? i geniunely have not felt any of the issues you bring up outside of the writing ones and i cannot tell if i'm just easily pleased and not good at discerning what a good game is or we simply have dif things we enjoy in a video game. i hate getting tone across text but im asking out of geniune curiosity im not trying to attack your opinion (;-;)

Nah, i dont feel like ur attacking me, and I hope u dont feel the same when u see my complaints! Lmao. In my defense, I am replaying the game for the first time after completing my first file back in 2020, so alot of the faults i kinda shrugged off in my first playthrough are now glaringly in my face now that I no longer have the confusion and interest in learning the main story to keep me occupied. The game is clunky all the way through, and at some times, even frustratingly so.

But despite that, i do like this game. Alot! Its probably one of my top games ever if im being honest!

This ended up way longer than I intended, so im putting it under a readmore to keep the post short on dashboards

If i had to describe what I liked about the game in the simplest way imaginable…I think I would say, I like how the game makes me feel :) I like the music. I like the vibe. I like the immersion from city to city, and I like the premise! I like the characters and I like the connections you make with these characters! As im replaying this game, i am most excited to see Akira and his comments about the world :) i like hearing everyones voices, I like their little interactions in Mementos, and I like seeing them fight!

P5 is the first game I played in the series; its the game that introduced me to SMT in the first place! And it (smt) is a series that my longtime best friend LOVES and never thought hed be able to share with me! It is a game i keep very near to my heart; it has influenced me in ways i did not think would happen in the short couple of years since i first finished it. It genuinely keeps me awake some nights thinking about the world this game has created, and I think that is a testament to the impact its had, be it good or bad.

The joke about wishing theyd make a persona game that was Good is that despite all of its numerous flaws, the games manage to snatch your attention and pull you in anyway. Imagine if they made a game that had all of those things that i mentioned I loved, but done Right and executed Properly?? Where I got to have a story that made sense and didnt need to be spoonfed to me (in like an HOUR of dialogue and scenes; an HOUR!), and characters that talked and bonded beyond the tiny snippets of interaction theyre allowed to have in mementos? Combat that let me use PERSONAS i liked instead of BUILDS that stop me from getting instakilled throughout the entirety of the endgame, and a Persona building mechanic that didnt feel like I was shooting in the dark looking for possible fusions that end up not even being useful in the endgame.

Ive mentioned it before, but I complain so much bc I have seen what a good p5 game looks like, and its Strikers almost to a T. Combat is still your typical warriors-esque style combat, but it is at least different from the turn based strategy of the main game. Characters talk to each other freely, they hang out and comfort each other in a way that feels more connected that the base game. Strikers implements the ability to see ALL possible fusions with ALL registered personas, not just the ones in your Stock, so you can fuse easily without having yo consult a guide. The story feels like it makes SENSE with antagonists that feel morally grey and sympathetic. Genuinely, alot of the complaints for p5 I had were almost immediately rectified in this game.

But please also know that the praises I sing for this game is only bc of the groundwork laid by p5 and the world it created. Thats what I like about this game, that it had such a captivating premise and cast of characters, that a DIFFERENT company was able to hit the ground running with them. P5 had alot happening in that game, but i think what it had most was potential. The effort put into this game is astronomical, and the possible connections you can outright MISS if u arent paying attention was worth the money and time to implement; even if it meant that it could be considered a waste of resources to higher ups.

Books and games and part time jobs???!! Silly little cutscenes that add nothing to the game PLOTwise, but define and flesh out the personality of your protagonist. There was alot of love put into this game, and its evident by the fact that we have NOT seen a new persona game released; they bank on existing titles bc they are unwilling to make a game like this from scratch again. They dont want to ‘waste’ resources on good voice acting and a complex, overarching story; they dont want to waste money on scenes a player may never see, on routes a player may never get to experience. Making a game that gives u even the slightest bit of freedom means more money in programming and detailing that freedom. This has been an issue for a WHILE, and its a miracle that the gaming landscape had space for a colossal title like p5!

I complain bc I want better, and I do not think that is inherently at odds with my love of this game. In b4 im told to get good; ive played on hard and tested out merciless (its NOT fun, im making godbuilds again and its boring 😞). Its not the most accessible turnbased rpg; theres no colorblind modes, and the affinity system is convoluted and overwhelming. Combo moves are hard to keep track of and it can be incredibly frustrating to see your turns being skipped or seeing characters take extreme technical damage without understanding WHY it happened. The fact that they KNEW the game was desperate for qol improvements by the time royal came out, and instead of updating the base game to have those improvements too, they just pushed the royal edition out for people to play instead. It sucks! Customers and fans deserve better than being forced to shell out money for a game they already played !

As the gaming climate gets more and more hostile and unbearable, I think it is good to look at your games critically, and understand why products come out subpar. Persona 5 is a fun game that has a nice cast and an interesting premise, but it is ultimately tied down by its refusal to build on existing building blocks regarding its combat, and it insists on having insulting and downright out of character dialogue and scenes to appease the audience its designed to be targeted to. It is easy to forget sometimes that queer ppl are infact NOT the prime target of these games, its cishet gamer bros from aged 16 to 40 who will laugh at homophobic comments, who drool over a 16 yr old girl with a 16 yr old mindset and a grown womans body, who need to be placated with constant sexual comments to deal with a convoluted story that will inevitably make zero sense until its laid out for you before the literal end of the game.

Its bad. Its good. Its so shallow and its unbelievable that they thought having the plot twist make ZERO sense until they showed CUTSCENES of YOUR character discussing Goro and his connections to the metaverse for endgame SHOCK VALUE was more important than just having your team be smart and piece it together over time. Its shit. Its literally amazing. It let you FUCK your teacher ??????????????what the FUCK. They also let me shoot a god in the face w the best looking ult persona in the world so i can ignore that shit. And ultimately that is how i got through the game. Lol.

#chattin #answered #i have mentioned it before but i did NOT romance anyone #u know why? bc i literally didnt know it existed #i maxed out ann and the game was like ‘hey. this next decision is important’ #and i was like. huh. u know what. i have not looked up a guide until now. thats scary. i dont want to lose a confidant… #and learned that. #so uh. i really DID go through the game bot realizing i could date anyone. even the adults. #anyway. this was alot. and i tried to keep out alot of my other complaints #bc i have so many. but they are like. either nitpicky things or things that are issues in lots of games too #like the models suck in this game but i can look past that. graphics are always bottom on the list of complaints #and i do like the little animations!! i like akiras little tics #and i like seeing personas do their casting animations; shiki ouji and nekomata are my faves #i distinctly remember that being a thing i wished to see more of. #bc i liked thinking of what joker would look like fighting for Real #and then i remembered him being in smash so i was like COOL. ill look at those #and then i got STRIKERS and it was exactly what I wanted #i think #the game is like. #its bad. but in ways that i wouldnt call another game bad #like back 4 blood is BAD bad. its awful. the gameplay is bad. the story was shit. and the servers shut down within a year or two of launch #risk of rain 2 is bad in the way that it continuously obscures and withholds information to the player. its tedious and frustrating #but unlike b4b i LIKE ror2 and will continue to enjoy it. #bc the gameplay loop FEELS satisfying #and ultimately thats how i feel about p5 #for all of its faults; its fun. it has a gameplay loop that is consistent and fun when u get the hang of it #im playing on hard again since merciless is just me making the right instakill builds while i pick up my team over and over again #and theres still a challenge in having the endgame weapons and armor #its satisfying! and i think its satisfying bc I was given the luck of having this be my introduction into the series #maybe i would have a better opinion on the game if i came from p4. or maybe not! who knows !

[yourelosingains]

why do we barely ever talk about just how much byler and jancy parallel eachother

#what is with me and parallel posts now #byler #jancy #both endgame ships too <3 #the whole ''we're friends thing'' is bonkers af #cant believe these even exist #mike wheeler #will byers #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #stranger things #stranger things 4

[asterouslyaesthetic]

In my head, Ogerpon is an RPG protagonist with:

a "fantasy-forbidding" single mother who was the hero of her own story, during which Ogerpon was adopted, and refuses to let Ogerpon on the battlefield,

older siblings who nudge her towards her dreams, even if it means disobeying their mother, and younger siblings who offer battle experience via actual battles,

an absent father she's only ever met like three times, but whose presence is felt in how her mother's treatment of her is informed by his absence, who left mostly because he got mind-controlled by the big bad, and

a nemesis who was responsible for the death of her first family and the separation of her second family, whom she ends up fighting with the power of love and family and The Cudgel

And this is what keeps Toxic Chain Kieran on the table for me

#pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon ogerpon #dipplinshipping #trainer kieran #trainer juliana #rival kieran #i was just thinking about how i wouldn't want Ogerpon on the battlefield against Kieran realistically #then it spun out of control as Ogerpon and Miraidon are bench buddies and Juliana breaks her kneecaps by using only four from her team #at least until endgame when Miraidon joins as a fifth combat-ready member #because when Juli asked Kieran what he'd wanna do if he met the ogre #his answers were all non-combat related and very wholesome #and Ogerpon is so grateful that her trainer adores her but she also wants to pull her weight #so she gets training montages from everyone #and after Miraidon starts fighting she tries to get Juli to get her to put her on the field because she feels her benched status more keenl #but in the end she has to force herself out when Juli is on the verge of quitting Kieran's battle because Miraidon is struggling to do a 1v #so she comes in with Follow Me Grassy Terrain Spiky Shield and Synthesis for a tank build #that Juliana had no part in and didn't even know existed #Ogerpon swaps out Synthesis out for Ivy Cudgel so she can bonk Pecharunt

[stylinson-spagghetti]

am i the only one who misses jaylor?

#taylor swift #swifties #the tortured poets department #joe alwyn #jaylor #like seriously #they were so cute #*sobbing* #like #why did they do that #why did they break up? #they were supposed to be endgame #how dare they break up when reputation exists??!??!? #call it what you want #EXISTS #gorgeous #FUCKING EXISTS #SWEET NOTHING #IS AN ACTUAL FUCKING SONG #AND MASTERMIND??? #AND THE FACT THAT THEY WROTE SO MANY SONGS TOGETHER #i #i cant even #im supposed to be asleep #but im not #cuz my fucking parents #and not the biological ones #and like #the fact that joe got absolutely zero shade in ttpd says something #like???

[quietwingsinthesky]

went into the notes of that poll going around about if people want more seasons of supernatural and was immediately slapped in the face with how different my priorities are in this fandom from. a lot of it. what are you talking about ‘destiel endgame’. girl the show has bigger problems to fix than that if it ever had more seasons. they taught a three year old that the best way to be loved was to continuously try to kill himself and then they made him god.

#i can’t honestly imagine any world where there’s destiel and its like. satisfying. in any way. #as in: your options here are a) ignore the last seasons of dean. not treating cas very well to put it bluntly. you’d just have to ignore #that and go straight to They’re Fine :) Happy Ending which is. what i am picking up that the people on that poll want. #or b) go all in and make this a horror story to the end. give them destiel and make it exactly as fucked and miserable as it would #realistically be. and then that whole side of the fandom would be mad because toxic gay people shouldn’t exist actually. too complicated. #and the thing is that neither of these are at all satisfying. the second one is better. but its still. bad. #im being serious here im not trying to beat down on this. i genuinely cannot see a way. with the last few seasons setting things up the way #they did. that destiel endgame would make anyone happy. or be good. at all. #anyway like i said there’s bigger problems. new god went through years of child abuse and believes he deserved it because he was born wrong. #look me in the eyes and try to tell me this will lead to a good outcome. jack is about to do godstiel arc 2 except he won’t explode from it. #he is about to kill so many people who are Bad. and not see why that would be wrong to do. #okay im done im done i swear

[ven0moir]

byler is so 'stranger things' coded like how tf would they not be endgame?

literally, the duffers wrote a 'look behind the curtain' show and the BARE MINIMUM of byler being endgame not happening would make the show feel ... weird. and not in a good weird, more like 'tf did we just watch' way. the overall messaging would be so ... dull. like 'yeah this was it, our big reveal was vecna and that's it you should've known we had nothing else planned for what's supposedly the most exciting season of the whole show'

also not to mention the duffers literally said in an interview 's4 is when we START showing our hand' like there's more moves they gotta make in s5 to collect that sweet sweet pay off

#like atp my byler doubt is non existent. i'd have to watch s5 til the last second without byler being endgame to finally believe its not #happening bc right now idc what david said #he just doesnt want to spoil it and ruin the surprise a la andrew garfield #like this actors probably feel bad for lying but they'd feel even worse for ruining the surprise to fans

[satanic-fruitcake]

okay i’m finally ready to talk about the archer ending because HUH. i’m sorry but what the fuck even was that. that shit made me GLAD it’s over.

i wanted to avoid saying anything cos i didn’t wanna be overly negative but fuck that i can say what i want.

these new writers, man. the One thing i liked about the new seasons written by them was that they were forcing archer to consider his mortality a bit more and then they just. did a complete 180 in Into The Cold? idk.

i get it’s supposed to be reminiscent of season 1-5 with all the cold war stuff, katya, slater, archer falling back into old habits, the Unknown Dad Thing, etc but they just. did it badly. they did it badly. and it was boring too, that’s what gets me. i checked how long was left multiple times because i was waiting for it to be over. my close-second favourite show that i’ve loved for 5 years.

it ended and i felt nothing.

#im not gonna mention lanarcher #it is what it is. i knew they wouldn’t be endgame. i’m disappointed but not surprised. #there were some good bits but they’re not even worth mentioning. barry in a dress. cyber neddly teddly cameo. #that cheryl/kreiger moment at the end because i always thought they should’ve got back together. Pam’s general existance #archer/barry/katya threesome. #but that’s it really #archer #archer fx #archer fxx #your daily dose of idiocy

[nicolibbyquotes]

“Nico, of course, offered to help them. "I know exactly what shape she takes up in the universe," he pleaded in explanation. "If anyone can recognize her, it’s me.””

-“The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake

#this line haunts me #like OH MY GOD #a banger #a forever favorite #HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHAPE SHE TAKES UP IN THE UNIVERSE #😩😩😩 #3 days till we get them back #and I probably die because lines like this exist but they might not be endgame 😭😭😭 #so not fair #but anyway I digress #THIS LINE WILL FOREVER BE ICONIC #nicolibby #libbynico #nicolibby quotes #libbynico quotes #nico x libby #libby x nico #libby rhodes #nico de varona #olivie blake #the atlas series #the atlas six #ta6

[kayvsworld]

everything i learn abt infinity war and engame makes me feel like i am actively hallucinating

#hi. i just spent an hour trying to understand steve's ending and i am laughing hysterically #HE WHAT. HE DID WHAT. HE WENT WHERE. WHAT #''maybe i should watch these to understand fatws/the next cap movie better'' #no false wrong faux incorrect. i was right in abstaining im allergic to time travel and i hate it thank you #very funny very very funny. why'd they do any of it. fascinating #i watched th. the. th. old cap scene old elderly cap and i do not know how to process this. real media that's real and exists #ANYWAY friendship ended with mcu avengers now avengers assemble/fatws is my best friend #jesus #kayvswords #I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND I DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION. OF IT. THE DIRECTION THEY WENT IN #also imma need to look up some stucky enjoyer opinions on this because hi. joint hatecrime movie #they killed my boy they killed that ship in a back alley. bewildering #ALSO I W. I WENT TO WATCH EXPLANATION VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE ABT IT #just confusedly typing ''captain america old endgame ending. explanation'' in my searchbar with increasing desperation #and this dude says that due to something something time travel. something something branching alternate universes #that thanos. dies in 2014 and there's a BRANCH OF THE TIMELINE #WHERE NOTHING POST CACW HAPPENED?????? #but we don't get to live there we have to live in the old steve dead tony dead nat universe. okay alright okay #anyway if i see endgame steve its on sight that mans an imposter and i dont trust him <3

[rhododaktyl]

in celebration of betty's canon fantasies about sex with veronica, let's recall this brilliant plotline from riverdale season six (literally the previous season before the current one):

betty is having relationship troubles dating union-leader-cum-jesus-christ-figure archie andrews bc he doesnt understand her twisted mind (fanatic obsession with serial killers). she contemplates an affair with her hot lesbian x files fbi colleague but decides against it, confiding in her best friend veronica who immediately becomes irrationally, flamingly jealous and threatens betty's coworker despite betty already having said she was unbothered by it. veronica then, in a very normal way, has a mental breakdown at her friends' wedding and decides, to everyone's chagrin, to get up on the tables and start singing, precipitating the slaughter of the firstborn from the book of exodus. once betty's union jesus boyfriend is brought back to life the two of them get engaged

that is the whole plot line! the world is shortly thereafter erased and an angel (who is betty's ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend) transports the town to the 1950s, but not before veronica makes out with betty's cousin, cheryl (as an aside, two of betty's and cheryl's ancestors also had a secret lesbian romance and in the modern day betty's and cheryl's siblings had an incestuous relationship which spawned two children).

thanks for recalling with me!

#genuinely what the fuck was that about #it's not the supernatural stuff it's the heavily implied beronica that they then pretended didn't exist #and the supernatural stuff #nevertheless im deluding myself into believing in beronica endgame #beronica #riverdale #riverdale spoilers #riverdale s7 spoilers

[nyxi-pixie]

"guys ur overanalysing and will get dissapointed" speak for urself if byler isnt canon in s5 i will simply continue to watch the better version of the show that byler tumblr collectively makes up in our hivemind

#literally i do not care #i dont get dissapointed #i get mad when gay people=plot device #or bad writing ruins characters #but other than that i could not give less of a shit #no writers could ever upstage byler tumblr so i simply just imagine all our ideas happening n thats good for me #we still the only people w a genuine explanation for mikes general existence that makes sense so #slay #byler #byler tumblr #our hivemind<3 #sorry some people in the tag hating fun again #let people make their crackpot theories bc they make sense to Me if u dont like it just fuckin leave😭 #what do u think the tags gonna do for the next 2 yrs? wallow in sadness at not getting endgame?? #fuck that #GO CRAZY GO DELULU BYLERS ILY<3

[finncakes]

It will honestly be so funny if everyone keeps pushing for d/orym but then at the last second Liam reveals it was never romantic feelings and pulls a fast one on everyone

that would be very funny lol, but i do think very much orym has some sort of feelings for dorian.

i have really complicated feelings abt dor/ym and i've never seen anyone view it the same as i do so i tend to keep the thoughts to myself (i think i've only talked abt it to like 2 friends and my brother) but i don't hate it. i think that's mostly due to having mutuals that draw really nice dor/ym art.

#asks #anon #there's smth going on with orym abt dorian and i am studying him like a bug #what is happening in ur head girl do you even like dorian or do you like this idealized version that represents a happier time for you? #i feel like orym is clinging to a version of himself that doesn't exist anymore through dorian its fascinating #but it could also be nothing complex like that so ! who knows #that's the extent of my thoughts i'll share cause i'll be real the crit/role fanbase scares me lol #but yea hoping for a caleb with jester situation where like. it's there. but it's not the endgame. #again. i have many thoughts abt dor/ym believe it or not. have a playlist too that's really depressing and one-sided. #but idk! i will stfu now !

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about how they updated puzzle tales recently and added characters for s4 and removed some from past seasons because they didn’t have as much significance.

And how they could’ve added Chrissy or Vickie or Freddie as minor 1 star characters this time around, but even despite the recent update, they decided to keep 3 mf characters that appeared in that one intense homophobic scene in the gym from s1.

Like I get the two bullies Troy and James, but also that random class clown Greg, also from that same scene? The one who had only like one line? You would think they’d get rid of those characters (at least Greg) and swap them for new characters or even ones with with more importance to the story over the seasons? Those characters only existed in s1 and haven’t been mentioned since. I get keeping Benny for example, because he’s mentioned in later seasons, even s4 with the basketball team partying at his abandoned diner and with Mike mentioning him in his monologue. So it’s fairly valid to keep him.

But why not swap any of those 3 with more relevant characters? Why not Angela? Or even Tammy Thompson whose had mentions in s3-4? Or Dr. Owens?? Hell even Florence from the police station has played a role consistently, at least in the earlier seasons, a lot more than those three. Basically, there are other more suitable options. Why keep them in the game at all?

Unless that scene has more significance than we think…

#flashbackgate #stranger things #mike wheeler #byler #will byers #all I’m saying is… #if Mike and Will are ending up together #it would make sense to circle back to acknowledging that scene and others from s1 #related to Will and what he experienced early on related to his queerness #and all those Easter eggs #bc a lot of times Mike was the one confronted and at the forefront in those scenes #and they have said we’re going back to s1 and coming full circle in a way #if they want to shock people and convince them that mike and Will are endgame #in a way that isn’t lazy #they have the opportunity to remind people of those scenes in a unique way #ppl can’t say it makes more sense for Mike to be homophobic than to possibly like Will back #when scenes like that exist #idk it’s just weird. #like they removed mr Clark as a character??? why?? #why did the bullies plus some one line extra get favored to stay over him?? like what?? #I know everything in the game isn’t 100% intentional #but there are certain details out there for a reason #remember that heart game from a while back too ?? 😭

[chartreuse-goose]

there’s a lot of stranger things fans who are just a little too fixated on the show’s “historical accuracy.”

these fans almost seem happy to talk bylers down, saying stuff like “byler isn’t ever going to become canon, what do you guys expect? it’s the 80s and the duffer brothers need to stay as historically accurate as possible!”

yes, historical accuracy is greatly important to consider when writing period pieces such as stranger things. without historical accuracy, this show couldn’t have become what it is. nobody, not even us delusional little bylers, said historical accuracy was unimportant.

but why are we needing the historical accuracy to be driven to this extent? what does watching hatred truly do for viewers in 2022?

i am begging you all to go watch a documentary or open a textbook if you’re that historically starved and want to see the 80s exactly as they were.

#gay people existed in the 80s too #if you’re homophobic just say that #byler #will byers #byler nation #mike and will #byler tumblr #mike wheeler i know what you are #byler is endgame #byler s5 #byeler

[dark-elf-writes]

Ik you said you don’t like Sasunaru that much, and same, but that seems to be where this is heading so:

What if Sasuke and Aizawa’s pettiness started at UA because they were both drawn to a loud blonde (Mic) and having another red eyed emo around just wouldn’t do.

Luckily for Aizawa, Mic didn’t seem right to Sasuke so he nvr rly tried to get with him. He mostly just did it to piss Aizawa off and for kicks. But when he meets Naruto…his loud blonde radar goes off immediately and without the wrongness he felt with Mic.

I mean someone can be incredibly down bad for someone else and violent about it without it being the ship but also this is hilarious.

Aizawa isn’t sure if he wants to support the possible relationship or now because they are either going to end up married in a week or both dead in half the time. Even if they don’t end up together he’s still very much like “If you two don’t kill each other or fuck I’m going to murder you both” and that’s incredibly valid of him tbh.

#the elf talks #mha #bnha #naruto #symbol of safety au #what if endgame shikasasunaru because angst #and Sasuke keeps being like ‘wow turned evil can’t be me’ and Naruto is side eyeing him so hard #or what if neither and Naruto ends up marrying Neji and Haku and jsut being the three must genderqueer dads in existence #who knows at this point what I’ll do