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blu3m4rz · 3 years

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Game of the Week

I want to start a new series of posts, game(s) of the week/month/year. Since I’m broke as all hell I don’t really have the money to buy new I rarely play new releases so I just feel like this is a good opportunity to bring attention to under appreciated shit. I’ll cover one game every week, 2-4 games every month and all games that had a profound impact on me every year (or just shit I loved, I don’t think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe fits the “profound impact” category).

Game of the Week December 21st-27th 2020: The World Ends With You (DS)

Although I’m not 100% finished TWEWY (i’m literally on the final boss but godamn final form megumi is a pain in the ass) this is definitely one of my favourite games of all time. I adore the combat style even if I’m nowhere near coordinated enough to control Neku and his partner at the same time. It’s just really fun, no battle feels cheap, even the one when I suddenly had to use microphone controlled pins works because it only happens once (as far as I know) and it’s just a fun thing as long as you’re remembering to save regularly. Also I’m garbage at Tin Pin but as someone who never got Bay Blades as a kid because I’m a girl but always wanted Bay Blades, god it’s cool. Also, unrelated but, this game looks REALLY nice for a DS game from 2007. A lot of the special fights are really fun too, I really loved how Yashiro and Karyia could do a fusion they’re possibly my favourite characters so that just, YES. As someone who is typically extremely asocial Neku’s arc really speaks to me, same with the things Mr. Hanekoma told Neku.

Spoilers Under the cut (for TWEWY and Danganronpa)

This game just really spoke to me, I haven’t been as upset as I was when Rhyme died over a video game in a while. I loved how even though Beat is a fucking idiot he isn’t treated as a joke. Being smart and having direction aren’t the only things that make someone valuable or good and I think we all need to remind ourselves of that. It’s very easy to get invested in all the characters, even minor ones like Sota and Nao (the two players during week two who were a couple) and Mina and Ai (the two girls who had an argument about Ai’s crush on Makoto) I got really attached to. Every time someone gets erased it hurts, when 777 got erased I felt it, when Sota and Nao got erased I felt it. Some games just really can’t say the same even about their major characters. For example, Danganronpa is one of my favourite games but the only deaths that really evoked as much emotion in me as when Rhyme died and when I thought Joshua died were Sakura, Mahiru, Chiaki, Monomi, Kaede, Tenko, Kaito and Gonta, sure it’s a larger number but that’s a lot more misses than hits compared to TWEWY.

I played this game in my quest for LGBT rep that isn’t shit but it turned out to be so much more than that and honestly I’m disappointed I didn’t get into this game sooner.

For gameplay I’d give this game 7/10. It would probably be a six if the gameplay didn’t play into the themes so strongly because god it’s a pain in the ass when I can’t coordinate both screens for shit so I leave Shiki/Joshua/Beat to autoplay and they fucking die, like no I don’t want the game to be easy or anything and maybe I’m just an idiot but I don’t think humans are supposed to be that good at multitasking. I love the pins and clothing idea and when I do manage to make the dual character thing work it is so much fun (I finally got the hang of Neku and Joshua right on the last day of week 2 and I will never not be mad about that and fight with Konishi was a ton of fun) this is more of a fault to the hardware too but I’m not the biggest fan of combat based around the touch screen even though I think TWEWY did an amazing job.

I’d give the story a 9/10, it’s really fuckin good but you should really experience it for yourself, it’s hard to explain in words.

#the world ends with you #twewy #game of the week #nintendo #nintendo ds #square enix

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radramblog · 3 years

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Game of the Year 2020...?

Ive scrolled the list of games that came out this year to see what my GOTY ended up being, but turns out the only game I played in 2020 that released that year was, uh…….

Fucking good game but like I’m not gonna hand it GOTY by default (That goes to Hades, based solely impressions from other people). Actually, I’m not handing out any awards, really. So I guess I’m just gonna go over a bunch of the other games I did play last year, regardless of whether or not they came out then.

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition

A mate got me this for my birthday in December 2019, and unlike the other games I got then (Kirby Star Allies which I burned through that month and Octopath which I still haven’t played) I spent a fair few hours playing it last year. This was before the sequel was announced, and also a little bit after the fact- figured I should try and finish one before playing the other. Unfortunately, I have yet to purchase Age of Calamity nor finish Definitive Edition, because the former is expensive and the latter is expansive. Holy shit there’s so much fucking content in this game. I don’t think I ever will finish it to be honest, though despite the repetitiveness it never really felt boring to me. It’s the only Warriors/Musou game I’ve played, and I’d be interested in trying others based on the experience.

(I’m not playing Fire Emblem Warriors though fuck that)

Pokemon Sword and Shield DLC: The Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra

Sword and Shield felt somewhat lacking on release, and while the DLCs released this year did much to try and fix this its still a bit shit that it required an extra paycheck out of you to get the full game- outside of outsourced mobile games like Go and Shuffle, or services such as Bank or Home, Pokemon has never actually had DLC/microtransactions, so this was a little disappointing. I’d argue that it absolutely wasn’t worth it when Isle was released, as fun as the content was it was again, lacking. Crown Tundra I would argue exceeded my (admittedly low) expectations, however- the new and returning mons are cool and welcome (I despised Calyrex’s design on first reveal but their behaviour in story redeemed it more than enough), and the Max Lair Adventure offered a surprisingly replayable romp that has been great to just try and grind out with friends. I can’t say I’d recommend the DLC pack though- only if because you’ve probably made up your mind already as to whether or not you’re getting it, or this doesn’t apply to you at all. I could also put basically every main series Pokemon game on here, seeing as I’m pretty sure I nuzlocked every region at some point during the year, but I don’t want to make this *that* long.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate Expansion Pass

Smash is still Smash. I don’t find myself playing it much on my own, and even in Perth get-togethers weren’t super common last year. As neat as the DLC characters released this year are for the franchise as a whole, none of them convinced me to play significantly more than usual, and I can’t wrap my head around half of them, so.

Also, I’m still salty about Byleth, and I actually really liked Three Houses, it was my first FE game. Why the fuck wasn’t it Claude????

Rivals of Aether

On the other hand, in the last few months I’ve found myself grinding match after match of Rivals with one of my best mates and the game is a fucking blast, holy shit. I still haven’t bought it for myself, but its basically 100% of the reason I have played 0 smash for the last few months since we’re too busy mashing Orcane vs Ranno over and over and not really getting tired of it. It requires a specific type of person to get into it, but if you’re in that group then its just an excellent game.

VA-11 Hall-A

I first played VA-11 Hall-A (Vallhalla, since typing that is a pain) by pirating it and playing it on my laptop in the dead of night.

It quickly became one of my favourite games of all time.

When the Switch port dropped, I felt obliged to actually pay for it this time around, since the developers had more than earned my money. And then I replayed it again, playing it on my switch in the dead of night (At least this time I had the excuse of being a nightshift worker). With the sequel unfortunately delayed into 2021, it might be time to run it back once more or drag more of my mates into Glitch City since I already forcibly exposed a few of em to it.

The post-credits title screen is still my phone background.

Fallout: New Vegas

I don’t really have much to say about FNV that hasn’t been said already, especially considering HBomberguy’s recently released video, but it is also on my top 5 list and I only got around to playing Lonesome Road and Dead Money this year. Also went out of my way to 100% achievement complete the game on Steam, which I believe is the first time I’ve done that for a game.

Zero Escape Series (Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors, Virtue’s Last Reward, Zero Time Dilemma)

The Danganronpa series’ less colourful sibling, Zero Escape was a series I finally got around to finishing after having borrowed a friend’s copy of VLR back in high school and playing it wrong due to not deleting his save file (oops,). I think VLR remains my favourite, and I really hope the series continues at some point (unlikely as it seems now) considering how ZTD missed the mark pretty hard. The first 2 games are still excellent mystery games and a lot of fun, though you do need somewhat of a tolerance for words.

A Hat in Time

Oh god this game is so fucking cute. Also, just an excellent platformer. Is the DLC still on sale? I should buy that.

Fallout 4

Its just not New Vegas. It just isn’t. I really tried with this game, I really did. The gunplay is great, modding and building shit is fun, but its just not the same.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

A couple years ago I bought a SNES Mini, but until 2020 I didn’t really have a convenient way of playing it seeing as my monitor didn’t have an HDMI port. But now I do have one with one, so I got to start playing this classic! And then stopped because of uni. Should finish that, probably.

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon

Shit Keara I still have your copy sorry I’ll get back to it :<

Pokemon Stadium

I also managed to get my N64 up and running, and despite being the wrong region for most of the games available in local shops, I somehow managed to get Stadium for a great price. Got to dig out my old Red cartridge and anything. Fuck me though, this game is brutal. Seriously, Gen 1 battle mechanics are tough to deal with at the best of times, having to do battle after battle with said mechanics without losing is just nuts. I still haven’t managed to get Round 2 unlocked.

God, fuck you Blaine. Goddamn fire spin Rapidash motherfucker.

Super Mario 64 Speaking of, I managed to pick up a Japanese cartridge of SM64, complete with BLJ glitches and 3 entire save files. After much effort, I managed to actually get it working, and spent most of the night of Christmas getting smashed and trying to beat Bowser in the Fire Sea. I played a lot of the DS remake as a kid, and I feel like an idiot for struggling as much I did with the original.

This is all of course a buildup to the fact that I was lying about not assigning a GOTY. Because there is only one N64 game in my small collection deserving of Game of the Year, because its deserving of Game of the Year every year since its 1999 release.

BEETLE ADVENTURE RACING MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

#ramble #video games #retro games #pokemon #for real tho beetle adventure racing is actually good #mario kart who?

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petty-revenge-stories · 5 years

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Former friend bullies and steals from me and I ruin her prom.

So, I used to be friends with this girl, let's call her BC for Bratty Cathy (not actually her name). We'd known each other for years as our families went to church together. By the time we'd gotten into middle school, she'd made friends with this group of really stuck up rich kids (both our families are not well off, this will be important later) from the track team and she just turned into a complete monster. She became rude, selfish, and super vain. Also, she started completely ignoring me and, when she did speak to me, she'd make fun of me. She'd make fun of me for everything, the way I talked, the way I dressed, just very standard girl bullying. I had some confidence issues as a kid and so to hear a former friend constantly put me down really hurt my feelings. What's worse is that she'd made me believe that I couldn't do anything about it. As she'd never gone so far as to physically hurt me, nobody would believe me. All her friends would back her up and say that I was lying and looking for attention and jealous of her, etc. The worst thing is, it actually worked. I didn't think I could tell anyone about how they were treating me and this went on until junior year of high school.

That spring, after saving up like crazy for months, I'd managed to buy myself a brand new Nintendo DS (the latest thing back then). It had taken all of my birthday and Christmas savings to be able to get it and I felt really proud of myself being able to save enough to afford it. I naturally wanted to take it to school with me, but my parents suggested that I write my name on it in permanent marker just in case it got stolen and I did so. So I'm playing with it in between classes not even a week after I got it and guess who drops by? BC shows up and just HAS to comment on how "cool" my DS is and how she's suddenly "always wanted one".

I'm freaking out inside. I know what's coming but I'm such a nervous wreck that I don't know if I can stop it. I try turning it off and putting it away before BC reaches out her hand and asks "Can I see it?" I want with all my heart to say no, because I know where she's going with this, but I rationalized that it does have my name on it and so I let her snatch it from me to "look" at it. And, of course, the bell rings for class and she rushes off....taking my DS with her. I yell after her but she shouts back, "I'll give it back after school, okay?"

If your thinking I'm an idiot...you're right. I WAS an idiot.

I looked all over for BC after school but she'd completely disappeared. I tried for three days straight to corner her and ask her for my DS back, but she'd just smirk and dodge me. When I finally managed to talk to her, she just scoffs and say that she didn't know what I was talking about, that I'd probably lost it, and acting like the whole thing never happened. When I tried to tell her how hard I'd worked to save up for it and that I needed it back, she just went back to her old sayings about how nobody would believe me, that I was stupid and ugly and jealous of her, and nobody would be on my side. I went home in tears. That DS was my baby and I'd lost it in a moment of weakness to my bully and I was convinced I'd never see it again.

But then, the moment for revenge arrived.

Three days after confronting BC, my mom came to my room and the phone was for me (it was my mom's phone since I didn't have one back then). It was BC's mom on the phone. She'd called to ask if I'd let BC borrow my DS, as she'd seen her playing with it and saw her trying to scrub my name off the cover where I'd written it. BC had told her that I'd "let her borrow" and was trying to wash the name off because I'd "asked her to".

I knew my moment had arrived. Maybe because it was over the phone and not an outright confrontation, but the courage I'd been lacking for so long finally came to me. This was my chance, my one chance, not only to get my property back but to tell both her mom and my mom what was going on between BC and I. The rage, humiliation, and shed tears had all been leading up to this moment.

So I sang like a little bird.

I told her mother EVERYTHING. A dam just broke and everything just came spilling out. I told her all that BC had done to me over the years. I started crying on the phone as I recounted all the things she'd said to me, from refusing to return my DS to the countless times I'd been told nobody would believe me. When I got done, my mom looked like she was in shock and BC's mom had been completely silent for my whole confession and only said, "Thank you for letting me know" before hanging up.

The next evening there was a knock on the door. It was BC and her mom. Now, I mentioned before that BC was vain and self-absorbed right? Well, when I answered the door, BC's long, straight, perfectly cared-for hair had been reduced to a Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby pixie cut. I almost didn't recognize her, it was such a drastic haircut. With her mom glaring at her the whole time, BC handed back my DS (still in mercifully good condition other than the obvious attempts to wash of the permanent marker) and apologized to me. I could tell she'd been crying a lot.

I found out later that BC had been getting in trouble with her parents for awhile now, mostly for stealing. She'd lost her allowance privileges from overspending and taking money from her dad's wallet. It had all been an attempt to convince her awful friends that she was just a rich as they were. Apparently, stealing my DS and learning about her behavior towards me was the final straw. In an attempt to teach BC some humility, her mom had given her a choice: Be grounded from now till the end of summer and miss out on her prom or get a haircut of her mom's choosing. She'd foolishly taken the haircut and they'd gone straight to the salon. The experience had been so humiliating that she didn't even want to go to prom afterwards (and her boyfriend at the time did break up with her three days before it was meant to take place though I'm pretty sure for unrelated reasons)

It's been years now and she won't speak to or even look at me, but I'm completely fine with that. I'd stood up to my bully and helped feed her the biggest slice of humble pie I could find while I sat back and enjoyed a sweet petty revenge sundae.

(source) story by (/u/MillerLight491)

#pettyrevenge #by /u/MillerLight491 #petty revenge #revenge story #petty revenge stories #revenge stories #last10

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tessatechaitea · 7 years

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Deathstork #11

Just based on this cover, I know this Creeper is five bershillion times better than Nocenti's Creeper.

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968, you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."

Atwater readily admits that the change of behavior (a change you still see as the basic building blocks of the GOP) is due only because the language has become so unacceptable by the populace that the person saying it loses support. But like the euphemism treadmill, changing the language doesn't change the message or the asshole nature of the person using the abusive language. Those people will try to hide in plain sight but they can never actually succeed completely. They need a way to vent their hatred and anger. Which finally brings me to the word that, in today's climate, identifies the racist: thug.

If you don't know who David Duke is, bless your ignorance.

Thug is thrown around constantly these days with a wink and smile. It's the currently acceptable way of saying nigger and people using it need to be called on it. As an added bonus of winks and smiles and elbow nudges, you'll note that racist David Duke expects readers to understand that "decent Americans" means white people. This is the current narrative being seen on channels like Fox News and dining rooms across the country. To some of you, this is the most obvious thing in the world and you've probably been angrily rolling your eyes at the word for years now. But I wanted to talk it through a bit because I know, from my own family's posts on Facebook, that there are way too many people who find it way too easy to call Black Lives Matters protesters "thugs" while never seeming to use that word in any other context ever (except maybe if they're reading an old Batman comic book). Call it out when you here it. Point it out to your family. Don't let the racists get away with normalizing this word.

Dammit, DC! Maybe get a new model for your Thug Heroclix!

The Review! This issue begins like this:

Dammit, Deathstork! I don't have the energy to rant about guns now!

When I say "rant about guns," of course I mean it as much as when I say I want to "rant about dogs." It's not really the guns or the dogs I wind up ranting about. It's the gun and dog owners who are always the huge idiots that need a verbal wedgie. Although this first page ties in a bit with my thug rant (and not in the way you think if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, you racist piece of rat excrement). Smoking bans have happened because of consequences, both monetary and electorally. The only way a politician will change their views on a subject is if they face consequences for being on the wrong side of it. Right now, a lot of politicians are on the wrong side of gun control. But thanks to gerrymandering, the ability to self-delude, and a strong NRA lobby, they can't see it and have yet to face any career consequences. Until politicians begin losing their jobs because they don't give a shit about gun violence, they will continue to do nothing about it. Hell, they'll continue to do less than nothing! Fucking idiots just blocked a measure that would prevent schizophrenics and other mentally ill people on social security from purchasing a gun. That isn't just unsafe for the public, it's unsafe for schizophrenics themselves! You don't want somebody with schizophrenia to have a gun on hand when the voices begin telling them it's time to die. The police at the scene of the shooting come up with a typical cop description of the crime. Two black men stop to rape a white woman in a broken down car at one in the morning. She shoots at them and hits a kid going by on his bike. But Jack Ryder, Creeper Extraordinaire, describes what really happened. The two black men are mechanics who stopped to help a woman in distress. Woman panics because, well, two black men! She shoots off a gun with no training and kills the kid coming up to sell her the drugs she was parked in this neighborhood to buy. That's a lot of social commentary packed into a three page scene. The bottom line is that it's rumored Deathstork is in town to murder a bunch of murderers. The Creeper just wants to get to the bottom of it before Lois Lane does. Oh, and for people who actually read this comic and my review who are thinking, "That black cop written by the black writer and drawn by the black artist just called those black men thugs!"? Of course he did. The guy's a fucking cop, fer chrissakes. Edit: Later a priest uses the term but this time, it's in quotes. Get it? According to Jack Ryder, gang members responsible for child deaths have been turning up dead. But not one of them has been shot. The Creeper thinks Deathstork (I miss the nickname Douchéstork) is sending an anti-gun message. Also an anti-smoking message because not one used butt has been found at any of the crime scenes. Also an anti-rape message because nobody has been raped. Also an anti-Batman message because somebody has been scrawling "Batman is a dick!" on the wall nearby each death. The mothers of these dead children did indeed hire Deathstork. They want the people responsible for killing their kids to pay. Jack Ryder swoops in with his trench coat and his notepad and his Pulitzer dreams and begins discussing issues of race with them. The mothers are all "Dafuq?" One white man is helping solve their problems. Another white man is all, "Is this really appropriate?" (Said in that voice that black comedians do when they're imitating a white person! You know, basically Steve Urkel.)

Okay. Maybe the Batman is a dick thing was a lie. He's writing DS.

Jack Ryder is aghast at these mothers perpetuating a cycle of violence. But the detective explains it to him logically: "Guns don't kill people. Deathstork kills people." Is there a test to find out how old you are "on the inside" by how many times the name "Deathstork" makes you giggle? I must be nine months old. Most of this is Jack Ryder working the clues and following leads and asking witnesses. It could end up being an M. Night Shyamalan shocker: The Creeper is responsible! Maybe the "DS" is actually an emoji of The Creeper's horrified face. Jack Ryder's story leads him to a different story and a different reason for Deathstork being in Chicago. It also leads him to getting shot so now he's going to have to get all Creeperfied before he dies. Then maybe he'll come clean as to what this is actually all about. It turns out Jack Ryder is actually a pretty good investigative journalist! He saw all the clues that I didn't. Like how did a bunch of mothers get enough money to hire Deathstork? Answer: they didn't! They hired a knock-off version who felt he was doing the right thing. Douchéstork manages to stop by to kill the guy impersonating him due to "brand dilution." Before leaving, Deathstork offers Jack Ryder his solution to the gun violence in Chicago, and it's pretty fucking cynical. I mean, I thought I was cynical but Priest's Deathstork easily has me beat.

See, the problem was innocent victims being gunned down and if...why am I explaining the punchline?!

The Ranking! +1! Priest tells a good fucking story. Also, I just want to point out that I wrote the rant on the word "thug" before I even knew what this issue was about. It's my super power! To discuss things appropriate to the comic book I'm about to read!

#Deathstork #Deathstroke #DC Comics #Christopher Priest #Denys Cowan #Bill Sienkiewicz #Jeromy Cox

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