#honestly i really liked it overall

[zaddyazula]

took long enough

#honestly i really liked it overall #it had its moments like having to grind levels for 12 hours and turn based combat but the story was great all in all #masato was really hitting a maximum of 6 damage in that final fight huh 😭😭😭😭😭 #the tendo and kiryu fights were harder than the fucking final boss of the game 😭 #i very nearly cried but that stupid music they put on ruined the moment #in the end my time on it was 39 hours 28 minutes which is mad #that’s 9 more hours than 5 which was the one i’d previously spent the most time on #it’s 2:22am at the moment i finished about 10 minutes ago now #I think i would play it again but it would just be a bit annoying #gonna continue with gaiden tomorrow/later today as it’s 2am #rgg #yakuza #zad plays #zad plays yakuza #zad plays yakuza lad #yakuza 7 #yakuza lad #zad talks

[ruporas]

studies from the finale

#nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #trigun #trigun stampede #honestly the grand highlight. #anyway i think i ... drained all my thoughts of ep12 on saturday. i was like... all day drawing stuff for that episode and then circling #those thoughts but mainly #im just excited for season 2. im so so excited for s2. AND IM EXCITED FOR.. all of the steady appearance of trimax stuff again #like when they recited quote to quote of vash and knives conversation when they were on their way up to space #the i'll keep running and after 150 years this is what you have to say godddddd #GODDDDDD i felt so much in that moment. GODDDDDDD #IM REALLY EXCITED... because i dont know what to necessarily expect from s2 too. there is a LOT of setup that happened in s1 and it #will fundamentally change how we view the characters and their relationships to one another i think? especially the main trio and #and and and and MILLLLYYYYYYYY GAHHHHHHHH IM SO EXCITED FOR HER!!! MILLY!!!!!! we all knew she was coming back. it was only natural. #i really hope they keep as Much as they can from the original design. ESPECIALLY HER PERSONALITY. god. do not take away her personality. and #do not take away her bigness i will CRY. but overall im happy the og 4 are going to be back and theyll be closer than before bc of all they #experienced together.... and ahhhh everything with knives... vash and his eriks arc.... #im rambling again but there's obviously a lot of hype there...eughh eughehu i love trigun so much i love love love love trigun #ruporas art

[moeblob]

Sorry I forgot Hanneman suggested Byleth undress after they show up with a different hair color. And I miss Hanneman. And also while swapping between Houses and Hopes and seeing Hanneman pop up to help in a Hopes paralogue is just devastating since he doesn't ever actually join you at all and I am denied my old man rights.

So I had to draw this. Thank you for understanding.

#fe three houses #byleth #hanneman von essar #i like that Byleth just kinda stares at him and he realizes WHAT HE SAID and the implications and is like #step back uh forget that I said that #like man so zoned in on research he blurts that out and has to backtrack mentally to AH socially bad to say that my bad #if i need to tag this as anything lemme know even though it is a conversation in game basically (minus the marriage) #also if you have never married hanneman i genuinely enjoyed his s support and was VERY surprised and hes just #honestly one of my favorites overall in 3h ?? and im still bummed i cant play as him in thropes like thats just mean #also i think if byleth was like oh well if its awkward to see someone undress randomly #then marriage would solve the awkwardness this is truly the best deduction #which is really funny that i can see it happening with both leths despite my hc of them #with fyleth as bi and myleth as ace i think both would just be like AH cool we can avoid awkwardness by marriage #and hanneman just wants to go lie down in a ditch because he said something like that #and and byleth doesnt even know about religion while working at church school they dont know about school regulations #that wasnt really on their mind to check ok just saying you could tell byleth no to something #and then they just go oh school policies i understand unfortunately #and the person is like no we just meant its frowned upon to do archery practice in the tea garden its not technically illegal just dont??

[apencilandpen]

this is how we're supposed to be

#just my two cents #my stuff #my post #digital scrapbook #my art #digital sketchbook #the untamed #the untamed fan art #wei wuxian #lan zhan #mdzs #mdzs fanart #im honestly really pleased with this #its not perfect and i worry i might have gotten too Caught Up in some of the details and strayed a little far from the sketchy vibe #but thats okay bc i really really like it #there are some things im not sold on still but overall its very sweet and almost exactly how i saw it in my head #which is always super super nice #ANYWAY i have a playlist for them now and im fine about it #song referenced is fortress by bears den

[biblically-accurate-dca]

vanweek day 2 - knife

does anyone else remember the knife game or have i finally gotten too old

#my art #vanweek2024 #vanessa fnaf #vanessa sb #eyestrain #eye strain #<- 90% of my art will have these tags SORRY! #i tried to give the impression that she's being controlled to do this? like w/ the green hands and the eyes and face? #so i hope that came across lmao #also: the poofy sleeves. im using My vanny design which has similar details but a different silhouette bc it's not skin tight #which is what makes more sense to me. so her outfit is essentially made up of other pieces of clothes + patches of cloth for Style #my girl does NOT know how to sew she is NOT making an entire form fitting fur suit #plus it adds a little bit of mystery as to how she really looks when you can't see her entire fucking body through the suit lol #overall tho i didn't change much honestly. besides all the stuff i complained abt i do like her design w/ all the stitching + the mask

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Surely this poll has been done before but feelings change so...

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads polls #kind of in a funk tonight :0 also procrastinating things... #But yeah uh I was thinking the other day that I think Morgan is my fave of the S1 spouses now? #Still Cassandra overall... But man honestly I really like all the spouses we need more of them fr

[wyldhunt]

HADES II ↳ Melinoë — Μηλινοη, "Dark-Minded"

#supergiant hades #hades supergiant #hades 2 #hades game #supergiant games #melinoë #melinoe #mygifs #gamingedit #gamingdaily #there is really like Zero information on melinoe aside from that one orphic hymn she's in #so i really REALLY recommend yall go read that its really good and really short #but yeah trying to decide what to include that she has dominion over was hard #OVERALL her main deal is bringing nightmares and madness but she's also seen as kindly by her worshippers #and since she was born on one of the 5 underworld rivers she has a really strong affiliation with the underworld itself #basically in her actual greek canon she's the daughter of zeus who slept with persephone in the dual-form of plouton #(basically him and hades were merged as one being) #so she's often depicted with half her body being black an half her body being white as a show of her dual chthonic and heavenly nature #and i think that's what's up with her skeletal limb which i REALLY love if that's the case #BUT YEAH not much on melinoe honestly ! she's pretty much often thought of as a different title for hecate #or even the erinyes at times #so im really stoked to see what supergiant is gonna do with all the wiggle room they have to play with due to her lack of lore #im still pretty torn on whether or not i should have included the potential ''goddess of the moon'' for one of her domains #cos shes not like. Explicitly a moon goddess (granted neither is hecate but at least there's more backing that up for hecate) #but supergiant is obviously heavily leaning into moon motifs on her design but idk if thats because of melinoe herself #or because shes a student of hecate who HAS actual correlations to the moon/darkness #melinoe and hecate are so easy to conflate cos theres a lot of overlap for what they actually Do #all i know 100% is that melinoe brings madness and nightmares and has an entourage of spirits who wander the world with her

[rotisseries]

tired of people who want pjo movie references in the disney+ show. "logan lerman should've been-" i don’t care. "poker face in the casino-" actually i hope ms. gaga keeps her entire discography miles away from it. i don't care move on

#peace and love🫶 #this isn't even to say I didn't like those parts of the movies or that I can't see the appeal in having references in the show #I'm just tired of HEARING about it oh my god #the pjo movies are getting all of the loving looking back they could need #just in the fact that people's opinions of them are clearly shifting #like people look back on them more fondly now they were VERY bad adaptations but fun movies overall with some good scenes #I think the shift in public opinion is also due to the d+ show btw I think the fact we have a good adaptation now #means people no longer feel the need to spend energy publicly and viscerally disavowing the movies anymore #but we still don't really need references to it!! especially when it's shit you're so clearly not getting I'm sorry #they're not putting logan lerman anywhere in there you know this look inside yourself #and they're DEFINITELY not putting poker face in the lotus hotel scene COME ON NOW THAT WOULD JUST BE STUPID #the lotus hotel scene is already going to undeniably get compared to the pjo movie version #and they. kind of have a lot to beat. the lotus hotel scene was so much fun #there's already going to be a bunch of “which was better?” discourse about it #using poker face would honestly probably not help. also then it's not gonna be a fun scene in it's own right #it's gonna be a fun and good scene to people just cause it references some bad movies #anyway I hope they pick a different song I saw some people say hotel room- #pjo #pjo tv #pjo disney+

[autisticandroids]

#spn #honestly this overall scene before this part where mary and ketch are beating the everloving SHIT out of each other is like. a great scene #really believably fucking each other up like a pair of forty year old human beings who feel pain. mary's hair flying all over like #a dandelion. but also. the ending. this was all i could think of

[gibbearish]

i will say tho as someone with memory issues we can like. talk abt this situation without calling that part into question. if i write something and can't remember/find the source, i Tell people that, i don't act like i came up with it myself. and as he says himself, there is plenty he could have been doing to mitigate those issues, and he didn't. and we can question if he's telling the truth about specific parts without questioning if he actually Has Memory Issues or epilepsy or head trauma, he can have those things and still use it as a convenient excuse to explain away active choices. similar to the suicide attempt i don't feel like this is the kind of thing it's the public's place to stick our noses in when we can criticize him just fine without it

#james somerton #and honestly this is less from a place of 'you shouldnt because its ableist overall' although that is part of it #its mostly coming from 'memory issues are so fucking hard to have because no matter how hard you try people will always #doubt your honesty because of things you forget‚ and that Really Fucking Sucks if you really are telling the truth' #like when you were a kid did you ever get in trouble for something your sibling did and then get in more trouble for 'lying'? #or 'making excuses' when ur like !!!! theyre not excuses its just an explanation #and like. to be clear. that shit was almost 100% excuses. like i said he can have these things for real and Also use it as an excuse #and he was still lying about Many Things #but idk on the off chance that part was true i dont want to be part of turning that around on someone else no matter how much they suck #origibberish

[viridiave]

Spoiler-heavy thoughts about Crick and how the Game Mechanics treat Temenos’s story

So. yeah if you press ‘Keep Reading’ I should probably let you guys know that these thoughts are just a tiny bit unhinged. And again - spoiler alert! You’ve been warned!!

GAME MECHANICS AND UI

- Gonna preface THIS section by asserting that yes, not EVERY mechanic needs to be taken apart under a microscope and re-contextualized into the greater lore of the game. Not EVERYTHING has to mean something to everybody. Some of my classes in game design disagree though and honestly for the genre that Octopath Traveler is, that being a story-heavy role-playing game where the narrative is half the game, I'd say that integrating lore into the mechanics and vice-versa wouldn't hurt - in fact it ENHANCES the experience. The second game does this pretty handily through the EX Skills (the first of the skills being Divine Blessings, and the second being earned at the end of the story.) and the Latent Powers.

Okay the Latent Powers? Honestly that part's mostly for Hikari. Shadow's Hold/Light's Radiance is STILL one of the best examples of Gameplay and Story Integration that this game has

No I swear I don't have a bias for 'other selves'/'deep parts of yourself made manifest' what are you talking about -

I swear I can write an entire separate post JUST about the EX Skills. Mostly for Osvald, Castti, and mOTHERFUCKING TEMENOS AGAIN

aND THIS IS WHY I GO FUCKING BONKERS WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE DEMO VERSION OF THE GAME LIKE WHAT THE FU-

- Literally the fucking emblem for Temenos's story is a staff and a sword over the Sacred Flame like - they REALLY want you to know how important Crick is to this tale

- tHE FACT THAT CRICK IS THE ONE WHO HAS COVER. NOT EVEN HIKARI OR THE WARRIOR CLASS. IT'S CRICK - DOES THIS COUNT AS FORESHADOWING???

I'll like - write here what I should have written in the bath - and that's me being like 'oh it's because he's recklessly protective. OH SHIT IT'S BECAUSE HE'S RECKLESSLY PROTECTIVE'

I fully acknowledge that it doesn't have to be that deep. MAYBE I'm pulling stuff out of my ass. But allow me to go bonkers over Crick and his for-some-reason-worryingly-appropriate moveset

Man I wonder how bonkers I'd go over Malaya if she was allowed to throw hands. I want her to complement Castti's moveset so bad

- Also the fact that both of their kits complement each other. Crick's bulkier build was made specifically with supporting Temenos in mind.

My guy's Sacred Sword reduces the enemy's elemental defense. Wonder if that implies that the Sanctum Knights normally work with magic and/or magicians

aGAIN HE HAS FUCKING COVER which is PERFECT because early-game Temenos can and will faint if a monster blinks at him too hard

Then there's his OTHER skill Godsblade's Shield which RAISES his physical defense to SO HE CAN COVER FOR TEMENOS BETTER LIKE. AT SOME POINT I SHOULD JUST ASK WHY THEY TRIED SO HARD FOR HIM SPECIFICALLY

And I mean. It makes SENSE but I don't think any of the other helper characters really had this level of chemistry in their mechanics as these two do

Emerald and Gus both have healing moves for better survivability considering how squishy Osvald and Agnea are

And it makes sense, Temenos already has access to a healing move because he's a cleric

The thing that separates Crick from them is that neither Emerald nor Gus really have moves to further support their leads on the level that Crick does. Emerald is fast and he breaks well and Gus is clearly meant to be the DPS of Agnea's Chapter 1, but again - Crick has moves tailor-made for Temenos to go off and do his thing

You lose Pirro and Scaracci/ Rai Mei and Ritsu after the intro and none of them really complement the Throné and Hikari and vice versa as much as Crick and Temenos do with each other

The difference with them too is that they have established relationships with their lead characters prior to the story, sometimes even encountered as antagonistic forces

Pirro, Rai Mei, and Ritsu are all bosses that were once considered close comrades of Throné and Hikari

Scaracci displays mutinous traits throughout Throne's Chapter 1

Emerald subverts this by acting mutinous - which, his conflict with Osvald amounted more to a sacrifice of goodwill

He knows Osvald and how he acts even prior to the beginning of Chapter 1, so he's in this category of having an established relationship

Gus averts this completely by just being a genuinely supportive part of Agnea's life

Mechanically, you never have anything to do with these characters again past Chapter 1 - save for Rai Mei and Ritsu being bosses. Hikari's companions also play an integral narrative role in his final chapter, with Ritsu being encountered as a boss again for the final time

Crick is a subversion of all of them in that he doesn't have any direct relationship with Temenos prior to Chapter 1, and though we never use him as a helper character ever again he consistently shows up as an integral part of Temenos's story up until his death in Chapter 3: Stormhail

Weirdly Crick is also the only one out of all of them where the use of Path Actions is required more than once - Osvald has to Scrutinize Emerald at one point

AND GODDAMNIT OF COURSE THE FIRST AND LAST TANGIBLE INTERACTION WE HAVE WITH CRICK IS TO FUCKING GUIDE HIM I'M SO MAD ABOUT THIS BOOKEND IT'S SO MEAN AKSJKAS

And this in itself makes complete sense given that he has larger roles to play outside of Chapter 1 - just not in the same vein as Ritsu or Rai Mei, but the fact is that Temenos's story is VERY good at establishing and building up chemistry between its characters

bUT FOR MECHANICS WE NEVER HAVE TO USE AGAIN AFTER CHAPTER 1?? THEY WENT SO HARD AND I WANT TO KNOW WHY

- It's not as big of a deal as it looks but I also find it funny just how much fun the devs seemed to have with Crick's introduction and entry into the party - using the Path Action to fucking TROLL with him.

- ON THAT NOTE, LET ME FREAK OUT OVER GUIDE AS A PATH ACTION A LITTLE MORE

I saw a post on Reddit earlier about the 'summoning townspeople' Path Actions and it kind of shook my world a little, so I'll just put my response to it here

For a guy who makes it a point to tell people not to follow anything blindly it's INCREDIBLY hilarious to me that Temenos's Path Action is getting people to follow him blindly.

MECHANICALLY, it's because he's the designated cleric. Temenos has Guide, because Ophilia has Guide. But thematically it's interesting to think about just how antithetical it is to his central creed of doubting, and how this specifically applies to Crick.

I did go back and check and yeah - Crick's one of three individual people I was able to find over the course of the stories that has a required Path Action used on them more than once.

Malaya is one other example with Inquire, and she even one-ups him with one use of Soothe. And I'll get to HER when I get to Castti's essay - I mean infodump - because it's like. Somehow even MORE heartbreaking than this instance of Guide

While I'm here I'll also mention Roque, who also has two instances of a Path Action used on him, namely Purchase and Hire in Partitio's Chapter 5

But back to the dramatic aspect of it it's like. I really want to shake the devs because it's so mean of them to have Temenos's relationship with him begin by guiding him towards not only the cathedral but to a healthier way of thinking, and to end with Crick's fucking GHOST leading Temenos to the crucial truth that he's lost so many people to find, including Crick himself

- I won't scrutinize everything about the cleric class itself but I WILL talk about the EX Skills, because to me it's ironic just how mean they are. I'm glad that the irony isn't lost on the fanfic writers like I see you guys use these as fanfic titles - bless you all

First - Prayer for Plenty, the sequel's answer to how absolutely fucking broken Saving Grace was as a passive in the first game. Limiting it to JUST Temenos's natural moveset feels like it should be sending a message honestly - it's a way to prolong the lives of his comrades and he couldn't do that for the ones he held dear in his own story. Can't help but feel like the fact that this is the one he gets from AELFRIC'S SHRINE rubs salt in the wound - no pun intended -

Secondly is Heavenly Shine and it's like. It's a holy nuke filled with divine power that drains Temenos's magic reserves completely. He invokes Aelfric's name when he uses it to and to this day I think the reason it feels cathartic to use is because it feels like a manifestation of Temenos's wrath

Unlike Osvald's own magic kamehamehadouken nuke where he learned it out of a need to protect Elena, Temenos learns this AFTER his story - and maybe it's just my concern speaking but man I really want this to represent his sheer need to go absolutely fucking apeshit like my man is NOT in a good place after his story is done

- This is the part where I go into the tinier, 'definitely stretching this past the realm of MATTERING' details that actually have something to do with the game mechanics

Some of Temenos's class lines are reminiscent of Crick's own. We've drawn the comparison with Temenos's Sweeping Cleave line already and it's adorable

Temenos Sweeping Cleave [insert handshake emoji] Crick Sacred Slash: I'll cleave you in twain!

Reaching even further here. His lines for Lux Congerere and Sacred Effulgence also somewhat invoke Crick's declaration of 'cleaving the shadows from this world', but it's not exact and I'm just indulging

Lux Congerere: Banish the shadows from this world!

Sacred Effulgence: Aelfric, banish the shadows from this world!

I'd also be extremely remiss to NOT mention the recruitment of Ort in postgame and it physically hurts me to summon him because of the way he says 'I will avenge you, Crick!' like DUDE. Oh well at least he's grieving healthily

Sacred Slash brothers let's gooo

There's like. No way that I'll be able to fit all of this in my other thoughts about Crick that are dedicated mostly to his and Temenos's arcs so. It's like not even in a ship sense anymore even if I do think they're fruity as hell

Honestly I'm just glad to get this all out of my system EXCEPT THERE'S MORE, because Temenos's story loves to torture my brain and its themes resonate with me a bit TOO much

#octopath #octopath traveler 2 #temenos mistral #crick wellsley #vir rambles about octopath yet again #this time - FOR WAY LONGER THAN IS NECESSARY #these aren't even like half the overall thoughts i have about crick #let alone TEMENOS #i honestly don't know why it matters to me this much #it's kind of scary lmao #this is why i should talk to people more #shoutout to jae for some of the lines here because there really was no better way of putting it #temenos why are you such a STICK #ot2 spoilers

[darkmagicmirror]

This is not a response to any specific post because I've seen so many of them (and I don't remember any specific post(s), I just know I've seen this take), but like I don't really understand why there are people who think Claudia healing Soren was some kind of selfish act done because she wanted it and didn't care about what Soren wanted or whatever. Soren, throughout the entire show up to that point, prides himself on his physical capabilities. He's always on the move, he's the captain of the Crownguard (also something he's proud of), etc. Also I don't think there's anything Soren says to indicate he genuinely is okay with being unable to move.

Like there are plenty of things to maybe analyze/criticize about Claudia there, but it's really hard to get where "Claudia is just being selfish" from, in that specific situation.

I mean the only point I can maybe see toward it is that she doesn't ask Soren directly what he wants. But idk it feels kind of weird to see someone injured and be like "Hey are you okay with this?" while they're clearly upset about it. Plus Soren has been in her life since the beginning, so there's some extra understanding there that would be different than if it were anyone else. (I do think she should have given him some sort of heads up before actually doing the spell, but I don't think that equates to not caring about what he wants.)

Like idk I'm always open to hearing other opinions (if calmly/respectfully discussed), but I find it really confusing.

#my posts #with Viren on the other hand- #forcing him to climb the storm spire and refuse to let him accept death did come off as way more selfish #and really not listening to him #but it feels like a completely different type of scenario #also honestly she probably just doesn't want to risk not being able to visually confirm he's okay while she goes up there #and well #viren's pretty eager about the idea of still living when he's /not/ halfway up the storm spire and terrified #claudia still pushed him way too much there though #but overall I think a lot of people take things in the show at face value without thinking of other meanings #(sometimes very selectively) #this turned into a rant #don't take this post too seriously lmao

[raiiny-bay]

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#tumblrtop10 #i would just like to point out. this is the 2nd year in a row where my top post has absolutely nothing to do with either of my boys #like i genuinely think that is so funny sjfhdksdjfh #i dedicate my entire blog to this scrunkly redhead & yet... lol #i honestly wasn't expecting anyone to like that harthur (harley & arthur) post but i'm glad people did!! #overall i'm not that surprised by the top 10. it's mostly monster boyz which i expect #i am a lil surprised that the valentine's day edit i did made it??? #that post pissed me the fuck off. it took me SO long to get the lighting & the pose & the camera angle right #but in the end. the lighting is quite nice. i really do like the rim lighting effect. it's just hard to pull off #lighting is my weak spot #i think my editing really improved this year though! excited to see what comes out of next year :-)

[goldensunset]

it's all been said before but something something riku is the element of change and kairi is the element of stability cuz riku wanted to leave the island above all else while kairi didn't really care she just wanted to stay with her friends above all else no matter where she was (and of course sora was kinda in between) something something the moral of the story here being that some things in life have to change while other things are meant to last and this is why both kairi and riku are both so important to the heart of this story cuz they represent that duality. we can't stay on this tiny island forever as innocent kids. but the island and what it means to us will always be there. y'know

#of course i hope riku can learn how to chill and find peace and i hope kairi will get to have her own journey of a sort #i just mean that overall what we've got is pretty good actually #i like it #the destiny trio may change in shape here and there as their lives change #but i think they'll always be together no matter what happens #that comment from nomura about how like. sometimes you have friends when you're younger and then when you get older things change #i don't think that has to mean you guys break up as friends. not at all! it just means what it means. things are different now #you're different people you interact with each other differently now but the love is still there throughout everything #it's a really really good message honestly. that quiet sort of pain is something that i feel most media never discuss ever #it's such a common feeling i wish more shows and games and stuff would include it #anyway. destiny trio beloveds #kingdom hearts #mine: kh

[skiddykid]

my and @catsincafes table at detroit zinefest :^D! It was a blast and i had so much fun meeting everyone who stopped by the table, thanks to everyone who bought something or traded with us, i hope you enjoy your zines and stickers <3

all the new zines will be up on my etsy soon, if i can finish making the listings in a timely manner. Also the cat zine almost sold out, same with nife nonbinaries so i mayyy need to print some more

#skiddy speaks #zine fest #this is my second time vending at detzinefest and my third time vending overall and its honestly so fun #its not like super lucrative or anything but the in person interaction is really heartwarming and i just love the local zine community #and chatting w other artists! #and i love to dress like a faggy mushroom as well lmao

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….

#queue tea pie #what’s the point of asking ‘hey are you uncomfortable with how much i touch you’ if you’re going to ignore my answer… #this event creeped me out when i was younger #as a side note rock (AWL) doesn’t use honorifics or even your name most of the time but romeo (DS) uses them properly #(good boy) #bokumono #harvest moon #harvest moon ds cute #hmds cute #hmds #ain #kai (ds) #localization stuff #having seen all the forget valley boys heart events in japanese…hmmmm…….. #gared (griffin’s) heart events are great… romeo’s are my favorite overall because of the Arc #i’m liking steiner more in JP (an annoying babygirl) #ash’s last heart event was great and i like his dialogue more in JP but i really didn’t like his blue heart event… #there’s certain Unfortunate Probably Unintentional Vibes that would probably be changed in a remake #i honestly play a lot more of the JP version than the english version so it’s hard for me to comment on anything i haven’t seen in english #but a lot of the time in general Tone and Feeling is ignored and thus the characters sound unnatural in EN #like compare the way Xseed handled everyone’s unique speech patterns and dialogue with the way natume did in awl…