#also. im playing more for the story than the game anyway

[mageofcolors]

debating if i wanna just. spoil myself fkr the rest of the dlc bc i cant get myself to actually play much

#mage post #mage text #game hard and i dont have the energy to struggle #also. im playing more for the story than the game anyway #maybe i should watch a playthrough? #does anyone have any playthroughs to recommend

[krazieka2]

I've played the Fire Emblem Husbando Dating Simulator Games

#what is it about flawed media that makes fanart so compelling #awakening was a much stronger game than fates but i wanted to draw Corrin more than Robin #sometimes... things that are better written... are harder to draw funny doodles for rip #carrying over my posts from twitter choo chooooo #this one was posted to twitter so long ago im so sorry #anyway favorite protag: Shez #she's so stupid and explicitly so #If I were to rank the games... hm.... #Houses for character writing but Engage for gameplay #Fates for map design #Awakening has the strongest core story I think #and Hopes has Shez #so there are no clear winners #i know there's going to be ppl asking where the other femc's are #answer: i cannot play as Kris in the west so i dont know her she's a stranger #secret confession i have no idea why anyone would use the friendship seals in fates i dont get them #also i still think Alear asking OG Army Breeder Sigurd how he feels about eugenics is funny thank u #fe3h #fe awakening #fe fates #few3h #byleth #corrin #shez #alear #there is no way robin has her own tag

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

#like yes he is tragic. every character in the series is tragic but i think hes easily the least tragic of the winners #(except maybe cleo. i have my own thoughts about how cleos victory plays into her core themes and why its not as joyous or triumphant as #cleo the players and the fandom at large make it seem that i will have to make a real post about at some point) #grian dies Laughing. he smiles and calls it a dual victory before the final fight. his last words are “its been amazing.” #to me Grians arc is about how he came in with this sense of mirth. had it ripled away by the reality when his joke gets Scar killed. #and then rediscovers it as he learns that the horror of their circumstances doesn't need to keep him from delight #plus also ive never seen a man more delighted to explode three of his friends #ill also bring up that Martyns lore has Grian involved in the games explicitly to COMBAT the angst #that Grians inherent silliness and joy makes the players less hopeless as they meet their endings #and theres obviously parts of martyns lore i can take or leave but this is one area where Eyes and Ears lines up very well with what actions #the characters take and so im happy to bring it up #unlike other parts such as “limlife pearl and cleo retained more trauma between seasons than any player has before” #which i do directly refute as it doesn't seem to line up with the way the characters act and the story plays out #thats for another post though #my point here is 3l grian was having the time of his life and i think there are some fanon interpretationd that disregard that #which theyre free to do im definitely someone who has ignored canon plenty of times in the past (glances at worm) #but i think this is the sort of thing that makes the canon more interesting and compelling #anyway. um. rambled longer than i meant to there #grian #trafficblr #3rd life #3rd life smp #3lsmp

[skrunksthatwunk]

finished dante's campaign of dmc2!! it was bad!!! <3 and i can't tell if it's anticlimactic or a surprising show of mercy that it only took around 4 hours

#and a notable amount of that was me bumblefucking around so #look i need to reiterate that i am not a hater for the most part. that's not who i am. However--- #i'm kind of surprised that it managed to have even less of a plot than dmc1 bc that's a low bar. neither game prioritized the story and i'm #honestly fine with that y'know? so long as the game's fun it doesn't matter that much to me #which is not a problem for dmc1!! the aesthetic the monster designs the general game feel is all there. dmc1 rules #dmc2 actually has some pretty good monster designs imo. like there's things to like about dmc2 it's just all the stuff that takes some extr #time to notice. as opposed to the blaring unavoidably shitty gameplay that you notice far faster and more often #anyway im about to go play lucia's campaign i guess. so. look forward to me complaining more probably #also the way i HOWLED when lucia started repeating trish's lines... YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE THE Devils Never Cry SCENE TWICE GUYS #IT'S REALLY OBVIOIUS #dmc #dmc2 #sigh. also i got blue eye stared by dante at least once and i thought that was funny. he kinda looks like a bald eagle head-on #like he's pretty but. screee

[designernishiki]

status update on my mission to 100% and platinum yakuza 0: completion list is at 99.2% and would’ve been finished today if not for pool (carom/combo shots- i made enough money from it though) and batting. my most significant peaks today were probably beating both so and jo amon on the first try miraculously and at one point i got like 34 points in expert koikoi

#if anyone has any advice on pool or batting feel free to tell me because boy am I struggling #and I’m so……so close #oh forgot to mention it but I also did all the climax battles I can for the time being- so a little over half of them maybe? #cant do the rest til I go through the finale and all that #frothing at the fucking mouth . I am so. CLOSE #y0 #rambling #I think I actually like koikoi a little better than oichi kabu ngl. but maybe im just saying that cause I got lucky with koikoi #I do think I’m genuinely okay at it cause like I started to memorize the high point cards and the main hands (especially the high point #but still doable ones like moon viewing and boar/deer/butterfly) and yea worked towards those with my Choices #but still I wouldn’t say I’m Great at it either #not as confident with it as I am with mahjong #but no shit. I played mahjong for like three days straight where as koikoi I maybe spent two or three hours total on #eh actually maybe more like 1-2 hours. took me way less time than oichi kabu #anyway. very very close to 100% completion but still got a bit to go til I can platinum the game since I gotta #go back and do the main story again on legend mode and all that #the finale won’t take long considering I’m crazy maxed out in stats and weapons and all that but going through on legend mode + the rest #of the climax battles will probably be a bit more intensive #really honestly impressed with myself on the Amon fights. like. a month ago I would absolutely assume I’d have to have my friend do those #fights for me cause they’re fucking insane and both have 14 health bars or something like that. but I’ve grown. I’ve learned. i best them #MYSELF. and on HARD at that. very glad I did a ton of shit at the coliseum cause that helped train up for the Amons a Lot. #ok time to shut up and sleep

[waluigisgaybf]

Im literally so fucking antsy and impatient to finish and beat BG3 also just so that I can do a hard fresh reinstall of the game so that I can FINALLY fucking kiss Astarion and Halsin again and with the new animations 😭😭😭

cause I also have a few customization/texture mods the game for some reason wont run without them activated now, and at least one of them broke my shit even more than the normal bug that occurred from the kiss animations and I get literally NO animation- it just closes out the conversation after I ask for a kiss 😔

#and because now I know my character more I feel like I can better do a play Im happiest with and also fucking blast through it on easy mode #Im want to do an evil Durge run FOR FUCKING SURE at some point with my boy #but Im planning on replaying once more with the exact same character and for the most part main game plan- after I beat it this first time #AND THEN MY ASS IS GOING TO MAKE SO MANY FUCKING CUSTOM TAVS FOR DIFFERENT RUNS AND SO I CAN ROMANCE EVERYONE AT LEAST ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Ive played SO MUCH FUCKING DRAGON AGE #like all 3 games so so so many fucking times over and over #with the same character mostly- #and then at least one run with a different character to do a different romance and maybe story #AND HAVE DONE ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ROMANCE IN DRAGON AGE #(aside from Cullen cause I FUCKING HATE HIM and then- #SOMEHOW HAVENT EVER ROMAMCED BULL YET BECAUSE LAST TIME I WAS PLAYING I COULDNT #FUCKING FIGURE OUT WHAT KIND OF INQUISITIOR I WANTED TO MAKE FOR HIM 😭😭😭😭😭 #BUT ANYWAYS I GOT OFF TRACK- #IVE DONE ALL OF THAT AND REPLAYED THEM ALL SO MANY FUCKING TIMES #THAT IM SO FUCKING CONFIDENT I WILL AND I AM GOING TO #BE ABLE TO COMMIT THAT HARD TO BG3 #GIVEN IT TAKES WAY FUCKING LONGER TO BEAT BG3 THAN ANY OF THE DA GAMES- #BUT STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #bg3 #personal #? kind of?? #I think Im just going to tag anything thats not specifically about a plot or character (or art) thing I’ll just tag it as personal I guess 🤷 #IM TRYING TO START TAGGING THINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER #CAUSE IDK #I HALF ASS TF OUT OF THE ACTUAL CONTENT TAGS #BUT IM TRYING MAN #bg3 bugs #bg3 patch bugs

[aria0fgold]

I thiiink I processed a bit of my thoughts bout OFF but like, my mind was blown so there isn't much in it. One thing bout it though is that I really love the music in this game, like I be jamming to the battle music it sound so cool and catchy and it's actually stuck in my head. I also love the puzzles in the game, it's not too hard and it's also so nice to do! (I say that but I brute forced at least 2 puzzles. The puzzles right before Zone 1 and Zone 2's bosses... Trial and error even though the key to the puzzle was Right in the area but lazy in I don't wanna go back to look).

Also I love how, even if the game doesn't seem like much, it was hella enjoyable for me, must be cuz of the music. Like, I'd walk around so much finding a bunch of stuff and then battles happen with some banger music and it honestly felt like I just played that game for like a hour even though it was way more than that. Like, I really really enjoyed it.

For the story of the game... I have no idea what story is supposed to be there. But throughout it, whenever the Batter purifies a zone I start doubting if it's the right thing cuz everything looks so... lifeless... Like yeah sure, the spectres are also pretty bad and killing the poor Elsens, also doesn't help how Dedan makes the poor guys so stressed too but I was thinking if there was at least another way than just purifying everything but I'm stuck with the Batter. By the end the Judge saying that I'm the puppeteer but honestly I felt like more of the puppet for some reason.

I'm stuck with the Batter my guy, I won't proceed at all unless I do things that aligns with the Batter's mission. And in either endings, it's all bad in a way that, what's done is done. Choosing the Judge doesn't reverse anything, the world is completely lifeless and "purified," so in the end it's better to just keep being with the Batter and finish what we started. Which is pretty cool cuz I kept wondering Why was the game called OFF and then seeing the Batter ending and I'm like: OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH (it was the first thing that blew my mind).

Like, I feel like this game's story got A Lot of stuff for me to know (Time to read through what everyone's theories are. I'm not really good with those so I always enjoy reading everyone else's). Like, the thing that I kiiinda get is that there's a lonely child who doesn't like his dad and prefers his mom but the mom doesn't even visit him much. He made 3 friends which he turned into guardians of the zones, and a mom regarded as the Queen. And then there's Batter which I feel like was based off of Boxxer in that comic that the kid was given to by his dad. And like, gestures vaguely, yeah, it's neat :D (my train of thought broke I don't remember what I was going with that).

#ariaplays #ariaplays: OFF #wai do i still use those tags for the final thoughts posts or no????? welp im using em in this post now #like this game is hella good its like reaaaally good but i cant say How good cuz im speechless #like i actually really like how the characters know theres a player #but at the same time it feels like that part is crucial in knowing the full story #also zacharie constantly breaking the fourth wall. like thanks dude. glad to be reminded that im playing a video game #but also thats crazy to be reminded im playing a video game through a video game character #also so funny how i went to the wiki and saw mention of a character called Sugar but i never got to meet her #which im kinda glad cuz ion wanna make zacharie sad cuz the batter killed her. im no completionist thank goodness #also like thats another thing. the batter decides when and where i can flee from a fight. which is fair. a common mechanic but #really makes it seem like hes more in control of everything than i am despite literally controlling his body #oh and the designs in this game are sooo horrifying yet soo cool #the most distressed ive been is during the bird boss fight cuz can you PLEASE let go of valerie's body alrdy hes dead #yet hes still hanging onto the birds head please shake his body off and let him rest #seeing and hearing the judge meowing loudly in the rooftop after that boss fight for his brother like maaaaannnn... pain... #anyway id like to say that i literally get attached to anything easily and i very much so like the add-on alpha. its my buddy now. #its been with me since the start of the journey. my favourite add-on...

[moonsidesong]

fair ways into magical turnabout. hate nahyuta a lot more than i remembered

#i remembered him being boring but god hes just ANNOYING i miss blackquill #also idk it drives me slightly insane that everyone we've met from khura'in is a monk in some way #like does this place really just not have anything else going for it culturally at all besides its religion #it makes the entire place seem awfully flat #bri talks #idk maybe once we start getting into the Rebellion territory of the story more itll flesh out a little #but like. should not take this long for us to see people that have livelihoods outside worship imo #should be mentioned that i havent finished this game in its entirety #ive been spoiled on a large sum of it and i dont Care if any more of it gets spoiled but i quit a few years ago in the middle of chapter 3 #partially because i was insanely bored of it lol #so like! i dont know! maybe the actual mysteries of the later cases will intrigue me. #but right now it feels like bestie and i are being forced to make our own fun out of it #like inventing cliff terran. who is clay's identical brother who isnt aware clay is dead and is also strange but nice and is everywhere #<- also a twist villain????? the cliff lore is intense you guys wouldnt get it #anyway if youre reading these tags. hi! hope youre having a good day slash night #if you saw something in this game that im not . good for you! youre having more fun than i am LOL #and if you're thinking about getting into ace attorney as an outsider...... go for it!!!! the trilogy is still great!!!!!! #not everyone likes aa4 but its personally my favorite!!!! just maybe wait a while after trilogy it can be a bit jarring if you play them-- #--in succession #thats all goodnight Lol

[jesskasb]

rewatching the witcher episode six and catching a lot of things i didnt the first time and look at me in the eyes.

this is crazy to me like he just straight up directly tells geralt "let's run away together" and he says this is an attempt to work out what pleases him? and of course right before this scene geralt almost dies so it's like jaskier is revaluating what he wants and values and determines that his ideal future is living in the coast with geralt. but like obviously this is not possible because jaskier may be a free man able to do what he wants considering he is more of a side character but geralt has a world changing destiny to fulfill with ciri and a romantic fate with yen. even without that i dont think theres any universe where they could end up together seriously like "geralt has two hands" sure but i dont think he wants jaskier's (i dont remember what happens in season 2 but as far as i know i am right) and honestly in comparison to yen i get it. she is everything

i also cant believe he wrote this about her like jesus he needs to stop being a hater and find a new guy to fall for cause girl he doesnt want you and thats that. get over it no need to blame yen for it "im weak my love and i am wanting" jesus fucking christ get it together

#sorry for posting about witcher netflix show at 1am. im unwell currently #im going to read the books and play the games so i can understand dandelion better #cause im a little confused on his. role??? in the story??m #not plotwise like i knw #hes the catalyst for major events as geralt says. ci #oh my god i keep hitting enter instead of backspace ANYWAY law of surprise. djinn. dragon. but like ermm idk idk i feel like im missing #context or details about his connections to not only the world and other characfers but also specifically geralt #im sure a game and a book can be more thorough than a netflix show that has wrap up so many story beats in 8 eps #the witcher lb #<- not gonna make many posts at all i just wanna revisit what im saying here

[gothamcityneedsme]

btw officially done with arkham.  wah-hoo

#shitpost #i still might post about it. again. need to go through screenshots #and also it lingers. by god does jason fucking linger #but also just the whole series is phenomonial and fascinating #theres a lot of angles to approach it both in gameplay and in just general analysis #i finished on the robin dlc. how the camera pans down to the blackened side of the coin makes me sad #BUT AT THE SAME TIME #two-face doing a whole 'you cant do this alone' speech at tim. fucker. but like!! tim has barbara! right in his ear! #and anyways he strikes out and defeats two-face!!! he's fucking got it! #barbara is right. that tim will be better than batman. they BOTH will be. tim and barbara are step one of the next protectors of gotham #and they will SURPASS as far is IM FUCKING CONCERNED. #so. anyways. tldr a good place for me to end #next time i feel like playing arkham in however long that is. i will get to replay origins fo the first time (as ive only played it once) #PLUS. maybe i'll actually play blackgate #or maybe ill play blackgate on its own sometime #as i am curious how its relevant and what it has in it #even tho i also know that like. it leans MORE on the metroidvania. which like. ew. lol #and it also has a simpler story as far as i know #which makes sense for a mobile game #ok im done now sorry #i say im done but im probably going to keep talking about arkham even though im not playing it #because im terrible at these sorts of things (aka. shutting up)

[the-kipsabian]

its not a lake

its an ocean

#im not crying youre crying #this game man... god that ending gets me every time #i also have now more questions about certain things than i did yesterday when i started this and what i remembered #we'll see how much the dlc explains... and then how much the sequel eventually does. but i have questions #and theories but we all know im insane like that so its fine lol #just. this game is so crafted after my own heart im baffled. its like they made a game specifically for me ough #anyways. its dlc time. as ive never actually finished one of these when i played the first time i got too frustrated and never finished it #just.. alan wake man. god what a game. what a good fucking story ough #night is an absolute mess on main #also to add for those who dont know where my queue tag comes from ✌️

[imorphemi]

ok so i didnt really go out of my way to learn about age of calamity but no one told me that its freaking hilarious???

#rambles #i know its very heartwrenching as well #however referring to kohga as top banana is hilarious #also link really said im not above eating rocks #what a lad i love him so much #anyways im watching through all the cutscenes in aoc now since im not plannin on playing it #hack and slash games arent quite my jam but i still want the story babey #i was watching quinbobin play aoc #and his vids are purely entertainment so he skips cutscenes sometimes #which is alright #so i will watch them myself #the one that really drove me to watch them tho was the scene #where the lil egg guy was scolding link #like thats just adorable #and i want to see more of it #also??? #link is such a madlad facing off four blights at once??? #and theyre more op than botw????? #public announcement i love link so much

[silverselfshippingchaos]

m.axi thoughts. they don't stop, huh?

#okay but theyve never stopped- ive liked this guy since i was a very small ash aksjaksj #he's just so... 😳 yeah #he's so handsome and funny and cute.. and he's so strong! he's a little dumb but i love that about him too! #i've been thinking about them in the 5th game a lot #so much older now and theyve sorta sorted through everything. ash has her guy back. theyre both pretty messed up from #(gestures to the previous games) but theyre together #also you know how his aging slowed down bcs of the cursed sword? yeah ash doesnt have that shit going on #she very much looks like a woman in her 40s- the kids (l.exia x.iba and n.atsu) are all :O when she mumbles that hes actually older #i especially love thinking about them at night. their cuddles are so soft. ash has a scar on her back from a.staroth #and sometimes he just gets lost in the past seeing that scar #he thinks about everything he lost. and ash just holds him #oh but mostly theyre just the cool aunt and uncle in 5- love that for them. they had more than enough angst in the 4th game LMAO #oh okay alright real quick. story time. okay so i have a m.axi keychain on my bag (i'm gonna add my k.ilik and x.ianghua one too!) #(gotta complete the trio! s.c4 may have separated them but im better than that! muahaha!) #and this guy stops me and is like 'o shit is that maxi?' 'oh haha yeah! hes my favorite 🥰' #and the guy just looks at me for a second. then looks all disappointed. 'oh.. oh youre a m.axi main..' #yes??? so sorry if hes annoying to play against- hes so fun! anyways @that random stranger #not only do i play him #i smooch him too 🤭 #(i didnt say that part out loud) #anyways where was i #right. m.axi. what a guy am i right? #oh and dont even get me started on his voice- #we're down bad this afternoon! #i love him so much akdjqksj he really is the funky pirate guy of my dreams #ash rambles 💚 #okay yeah this one was actually a ramble LMAO

[mejomonster]

Look ok yakuzas really really queer but also I think it's on accident

#yakuza #lb #feel free to ignore guys an fyi my lb liveblog posts are random thoughts and shit lol #anyway on that note. yakuza qrites better women than nomura (sorry nomura hut u know once u make #someone designated love interest u fuck over their character) #however. this is certainly on accident. i think yakuza kinda writes women NOT good like. on purpose theyre kinda sexist #i imagine at some point they attempt to be less bad but they def have issues writing women #however. by miraculous accident. their women characters are still interesting and generally consistent #and a lot are lovable and interesting. which is more than most games this genre tbh #grand theft autos i played never gave me this. so like. its a low bar but yakuza does accidentallt manage to pass it #likewise like. i put up with nomura and yakuza may weaken women charactwrs in some arcs #but not as much as fucking nomura did with kairi. so i guess i also have high tolerance #literally all the hostess arcs in yakuza so far are fleshed out women slice of life stories #all more consistent and women driven than kairi got treated in kh :c #if i could tell nomura anything. it would be to write love interests as FULL CHARACTERS or stop q #writing love interest roles im begging him! he can write aqua fine! olette fine! xion fine! #but then kairi is soras other friend and instead of getting treated like axel. since she has a crush on sora #she gets used as hostage and scenes cut and training cut etc :/ nomura look in the mirror please.

[telaraneas]

reading vast error

its good but also im taking notes like a madman trying to figure out even a fraction of whats going on

#the Lore feels a lot more defined and relevant and fantasy esque than it ever was in homestuck #in homestuck it often felt like the lore of sburb was background detail that would only come up if it had to #and the characters themselves often just ignored it #which is fitting given the whole sequence-breaky vibe of it #it was never so much the story of the game that creates a universe so much as a story where some kids play a game that creates a universe #the crucial distinction is that it really does feel like playing with a bunch of friends online: #everyone only vaguely paying attention to what the hell is going on lmao #but in vast error everything feels way more meaningful and Relevant #doubt its a coincidence given our narrator voice seems very concerned with the story being coherent #and has a vested interest in The Lore Of The Game And Its Purpose #i dont exactly find it super interesting so far...or at least i find it the least interesting part of vast error so far #the whole cosmic gods thing i mean #but im along for the ride anyways #and yes i am honest to god taking notes lmao i have a whole onenote folder with several pages of like #one with every known fact abt the characters... one where i keep screenshotting all the sigils and codes.... #idk if any of this is gonna be useful to me but im having fun #since i did none of this when reading homestuck lol #also i stared for like 15 minutes straight at the aspect wheel trying to figure out what the FUCK is going on

[chisungie]

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#the fact that fox rinne card and bunny meru card exist drive me fucking crazy im ngl #the bunnymerus story was funny as fuck too 😭 unlucky girl failure rei sticks to luckiest bunnymeru #who gets all out of his element bc everywhere he goes smn really lucky happens and he doesnt know what to do #with babygirl kaoru hakaze tagging along and niki randomly showing up to claim food like. u tossed all my fav #lil scrunkles into a blender and im in love w it #ANYWAY. BUNNYMERU AND FOX RINNE. Good shit. CrazyB have more animal cards w usable fits than i expected tbh #its so cute i love them sm #BUT ANYWAY THOSE TWO. i keep getti g sidetracked Those tWO. DRIVE ME INSANE. #im p sure i use this outfit lineup for homescreen on2 accs LMAO sORRY I LIKE IT A LOT and bunnymeru bloomed so pretty im ngl #fox rinne bloomed is nice i like using it as home cg ANYWAY. wish theyd do that for kogyrei too please please please #last wolfie outfit koga had was w his cute beloved dog leon (THATS HIS NAME RIGHT?) and it was INA WHOLE RPEVIOUS GAME. #ES1 ERA. A WHOLE ERA AWAY. oh he also had halloween where he was.. A wolf.. Big bad wolf..? Or am I just assosciating w anzu.. #ANYWAY.. IG HE HAD 2... BUT HE HAS NONE THIS ERA >:( HAPPYELE.. IM BEGGING... #44597 #i dont even play regularly but like pLEAAAASEE #i used to play ur game on like 3-4 diff servers please show me some love </3