What would your life in Mirage Noir look like?
Screenshot your result and post it below!
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izzy's playlists!

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What would your life in Mirage Noir look like?
Screenshot your result and post it below!
Kind of concerned with some of these.
Keyframes MC Profile Templates
It's as the title says, we've got templates for y'all!
The team is having a blast looking through the tag and finding all of the lovely fanart you guys have been making of our cast and your MCs, sooo we wanted to help the community out and make some templates reminiscent of the ones on our itch page!
You're welcome to use them as you like, of course, and please feel free to add on and decorate it to your hearts desire. Tis only a small thank you for all the love you've given back to us with the update release <3
So have fun and we're excited to see more of your MCs!
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You can also download it from this drive in case the images aren't being nice ^^,
the fate of jake mckenzie hurts me so much. so so much. the guy lost everything twice over. his best friend, his honor, his reputation to the world, and then was slowly coaxed into hoping and believing in the future, managed to rescue his friend against all odds and fall in love and get married - only to have mike and the love of his life ripped away from him again only a day after the damn wedding. jake's is the only good future from the glimmers that is fully impossible in the vanuu ending because mike is dead and so are the rest of the arachnids so there's no one left alive to back up jake's story about lundgren or provide any other proof. the only way for him to not lose everything is for nearly the entire fuckin world to die and the fabric of time to be an utter disaster. he ends up a dishonorably discharged wanted fugitive with no one in any other ending.
will you be playing new gen?
I don't know. I've made an account in case I decide to (With a new Candy name-- so I won't be using my original candy's name at all), but right now it's probably unlikely.
Part of it is just not wanting to deal with all the video policy intricacies, but in general I have a lot more negative feelings with the game than positive so it's hard to feel much enthusiasm.
I would say the things that have me most interested are:
Room Customization - I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, but I also expect it to be super microtransaction-y.
The Goose is cute.
Old character cameos. As many issues as I have, the whole reason I've stuck around is because I have an attachment to the characters due to HSL. Knowing some of those characters will be showing up is always interesting to me because I still like learning about them despite a bunch of other issues.
If I do play, it will be very casually. I don't expect to keep up with it at all.
Normally I'd ask for MCL stuff to be asked on my MCL tumblr, but that's permanently closed at this point, but I suppose any other questions can be asked here: @sakurina-mcl-archive
about that baxter art, do you know what scene/moment it is where you can tell him you volunteer? i gotta make sure i get it in my next playthrough
yup! you can tell him you voluteer in Sightseeing after picking the option "what are you studying in college?". make sure to pick that you voluteer at ORCA at the start of step 3 of course, otherwise this option will not appear at all.
i'm not sure if any choices you make after asking about college matter in getting this option (probably not), but once you get there it should look like this:
have fun playing! :D
Part of why I ended up going this way when I did my big replay recently is because the lines are so good. The full context, for anyone wondering, is Baxter had apparently never met anyone who volunteered because they actually care and it's important to them-- his parents generally did it for the prestige/legacy/to look good so learning that someone is doing it and ACTUALLY feels fulfilled doing so leaves quite the effect.
But there's also a bonus line later in Step 4 if you ask about Baxter now volunteering:
This is one of those moments where I kind of wish we could go through multiple lines because I rarely end up picking this one (the "would you plan your own wedding" conversation is too good), but it's really cute.
BAXTER CUSTOM PLUSHIES!!!
I ordered Step3 and Step4 Baxter from @cocopines (Twitter ~ Carrd) a while ago and they're finally in my hands!!! 💖💕💖💕😭
Super happy about how they turned out, like you have NO IDEA!!!!
I love to just keep petting and smushing them sdfghjkl
And come on, JUST LOOK AT HOW THEY TURNED OUT
Please consider commissioning her for your custom doll plushies!! She has other reviews and examples listed on her Carrd as well. From the experience, I do think she's super sweet and a joy to converse with so please don't be afraid to reach out and ask her anything about the plush comms 💖
10000/100 would fully recommend ✨✨✨✨✨
Bonus (I got them clothes wwww)
a more violent bonus below (I promise you I love Baxter so much. No dolls were harmed in the making of the video-)
In which I talk about Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Talking about Our Life: Beginnings & Always
On May 19th, the final DLC (and main content update– there is one last Patreon moment coming in August) for the first Our Life game, Our Life: Beginnings & Always, released essentially finishing up the game. As much as I enjoy Visual Novels, as I enjoy reading in general, I have always been more in the mystery genre for them. That doesn’t mean I’ve never played romance ones, and if you’ve seen my…
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Oh to live in the world of Our Life B&A and have two moms that are insanely supportive and caring and a great big sister and cousin and two childhood best friends (and by extension their families) that adore me and also have two ride or die friends and also get to date Baxter Ward for one summer, get my heart broken because he has commitment issues, only to reunite five years later by accident because he’s the wedding planner for my friend’s brother’s wedding and despite how hard he tries to distance himself, he can’t forget our time together and he eventually admits his feelings and decides to commit this time around and we ballroom dance whenever we feel like it~
Oh! I've been meaning to post this: My Step 3 + Baxter DLC Playthrough
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Hang
Serendipity Talks
Sightseeing
Reflections Late Shift
Drinks
Errands Boating
Planning
Drive Charity
Mountain
Happiness
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I wanted to share, just in case anyone else is interested in using it. For added reference: MC wasn't employed (for more B-man time during Late Shift) and my Cove had a warm personality, they also both volunteered.
When I did this playthrough, I actually really loved how the order had made things feel, it was pretty organic to me, and I'll definitely be using it again when I do my next runthrough and refine the experience.
I think, for Baxter's DLC, it's best to have Planning and Mountain as your last two events because it makes the introduction and references in Step 4 wonderfully emotional in the reading but, that's ultimately up to you! What I will add, as an off note, is that I know at least one episode in the middle somewhere probably could be switched around, but I can't honestly recall which one it is lmao - I'll have to mention it later when I find it, I guess.
I actually ended up doing a similar thing on Planning and Mountains being best towards the end)-- my final order, after a lot of debating and talking with a friend, ended up being:
Hang
Talks
Sightseeing
Errands
Drive
Drinks
Charity (volunteers)
Reflection
Mountain
Late Shift (unemployed)
Serendipity
Boating
Happiness
Planning
I'm not entirely sure why, but I really like Planning as the last one-- the bittersweetness of wanting him to be included so much when it's getting close to when he planned to just cut everyone off. (Plus, it has to be last for the only non-dating kiss you can do)
I also liked the idea that Drive happens around the same time that Baxter is off meeting people as well.
I will say going through so much of the dialogue (and working on silly rewrite things) has definitely made me both wish there were times we could pick multiple dialogue, but also find it interesting how some of the dialogue goes with Cove on indifferent. I didn't play with him like that (I prefer him on at least fond if not going his route-- he's too great of a character), but especially going on the Baxter route, I kind of wish there were some of those indifferent moments which, even with their close friendship, my MC wouldn't have really done outside of having a crush on him.
One example is with Boating where I prefer the dialogue for why Baxter doesn't keep you company when Liz ends up staying with you (only possible with indifferent for Cove) versus when Cove does.
It also still kind of blows my mind that nobody offered the rich guy an invitation to the charity event especially if you're dating him but anyway
I get there's only so many changes that can be done (and with the DLC, Cove will always have more moments-- they couldn't really adjust all of them), but there were definitely a few times where it felt weird or sometimes like the game still really wanted to pair my MC and Cove together. Though, I guess it's not usually expected for you to play all the moments that are designated for Cove.
When you do the Derek moments, but your relationship is set to fond.
Love Confessions in the Baxter DLC
Because i am very unwell, thank you. Part 1/3
After over 70 hours of playing the Baxter DLC – and despairing over that one monochrome guy, you know who – I wanted to take a moment to talk about all the possible love confessions in Baxter's version of Step 4. I find them all lovely and each of them made me squeal and smile like crazy, and i just gotta express my appreciation for them somewhere.
In Step 4 there are three love confessions. Two of them can be initiated by the MC, and the third one will be proclaimed by Baxter, if the MC doesn’t confess first. I tried all of them a couple of times, and they are all very cute (although my personal favourite is the confession the morning after the wedding)!
Before we begin i want to warn y’all that i wasn’t sure about the approach i wanted to take when talking about these moments, and as a result this post might not be a "put together careful game analysis" thingy. It's mostly just my ramblings and feelings that hopefully are a-okay to read haha. Without further delay, let’s begin!
Spoilers for specific moments in Baxter's version of Step 4!
All of the confessions take place after the wedding ceremony, so if you hadn't gotten there and don't wanna spoil those great moments for yourself i don't recommend reading further. I will go quite in depth about each option.
Haven't used this blog for ages, but I just needed to say I did not expect Baxter's DLC to hit me as much as it did. I'm debating writing something more on my site about everything with the game so I'll likely keep this short, but I feel like it's going to sit with me for a long time.
Despite the angst, I think it was less than I was expecting for better or worse. I think there were a lot of moments that moved quickly which considering how long it was already was maybe for the best, but it's been a long time since I've been inspired to write and want to expand upon events in a game to the point of where I actually have started writing multiple things (which I'll likely just keep to myself, but).
I don't know if I could handle more angst despite my wishing things held out a bit longer before resolving considering how much I've just been constantly thinking about everything with it, let alone that I played the entire DLC over the span of an entire night and still keep testing things.
Is Baxter the canon route for Jemma? I don't know! It's hard to say. I can't even fully say if I like him or Cove better for her, but oof did I not expect it to just take over my head entirely.
What a month of writing has done.
I don't even share these.
There's also technically a whole other extra completed partial-AU thing I already finished so uh, oops.
Do you plan to play OL2? Have you already decided your mc?
Yes! I'm pretty excited for it. As much as I love the ocean, I reeeeeally love the cozy vibes of Golden Grove so part of me is almost more excited.
I haven't decided on anything in the sense of LIs or not (maybe it'll just be friendship, we shall see), but with the dynamic system, I think that may be for the best so if Flora's (my MC's) feelings change at any point, it can feel more natural? If that makes sense.
But this is Flora Sullivan:
I find it amusing that she and Tamarack seem to have very similar clothing styles so that should be fun.
I also had fun trying to make my OL1 OC in the same style for AU purposes, but they don't really have Jemma's braided bangs like I used in OL1 so this was the closest I could get (she's wearing the Sailor Dress under):
I do like that I could make her hair color closer to what I envisioned though-- I imagine it closer to how Baxter's hair color looks in step 4, but the colors were kind of lacking in OL1 so her hair is a lot darker:
Honestly also looking forward to maybe learning a bit more about Baxter too, but I've liked all the OL2 characters so far so just excited in general.
Haven't used this blog for ages, but I just needed to say I did not expect Baxter's DLC to hit me as much as it did. I'm debating writing something more on my site about everything with the game so I'll likely keep this short, but I feel like it's going to sit with me for a long time.
Despite the angst, I think it was less than I was expecting for better or worse. I think there were a lot of moments that moved quickly which considering how long it was already was maybe for the best, but it's been a long time since I've been inspired to write and want to expand upon events in a game to the point of where I actually have started writing multiple things (which I'll likely just keep to myself, but).
I don't know if I could handle more angst despite my wishing things held out a bit longer before resolving considering how much I've just been constantly thinking about everything with it, let alone that I played the entire DLC over the span of an entire night and still keep testing things.
Is Baxter the canon route for Jemma? I don't know! It's hard to say. I can't even fully say if I like him or Cove better for her, but oof did I not expect it to just take over my head entirely.
cove wedding dlc spoilers but speaking to baxter kept making me sad. i love cove i do but i’m so weak to angst and baxter is exactly that 😭
Picrew Tag game
Haven’t seen one of these going around for a while, so I’m starting one using
this
Picrew 💜
Here’s mine:
Tagging: @sankakuen @fandom-trauma @partygodlahela @adrianadmirer @altosxratus @agent-farah-hauville @remy-chevaliers and anyone else who wants to do it too :)
tysm evie ❤️_❤️ tagging anyone who wants to do it!
IM JOINING THIS CHAIN
Tagging literally ANYONE, this is so FUN you can have yourself being EATEN BY A MONSTE–
ahem.
Would have asked on your mcl tumblr but since its locked what did you think of the wedding special?
Not much? I'm disappointed that despite ending on a single route (in which I wasted AP for no reason now and had to pick choices I hated), there was still no closure for the removed LIs and it was just a free replay choice screen with no reference to how you played (which I can't be surprised considering how Castiel's and Nathaniel's route act like you've dated them since HSL but still disappointed).
I just really wanted to see some closure in the game and even if it ended saying how you'll have to imagine more and would need to get married for a longer episode, I'd have taken it.
As for the episode itself, I hope people who wanted a wedding enjoyed it. I'm disappointed they had Eric's move so fast (there's no reason they couldn't say it was a few years down the line), I'm surprised the parents/family members are silhouettes (even just editing the HSL sprites to some effect may have been nicer) unless they were shown in UL (Also I really was hoping Amber would have a new sprite considering, but oh well), the wedding venue backgrounds are nice I guess? I would say the biggest let-down (besides the lack of closure) IMO, were the amount of choices you make only for none of it to really matter as you never actually get to the reception. The ring bearer and venue (and well, dress obviously) are the only choices that really get showcased. Also Pancake should have been an option at all of them.
Rayan's and Priya's dresses were probably my favorite ones-- if I combined them.
Also as I've gotten some asks about this as well: I probably will not play 2.0 unless it somehow adds in closure in the background. I didn't enjoy the writing in UL or LL at all and am not interested in high school but more romance focused as part of why I enjoyed the original HSL was how the friendships developed so... I likely will still keep an eye out on it, but for the most part I just won't play.