Nothing but love for Dr Jules

Bi/him/he/waiting for the update I love The Arcana and a certain melodramatic doctor has a special place in my heart

[juliandevorak-md]

Wonder when we'll get book 7 for Muriel...

[juliandevorak-md]

Future of the arcana app

I have to be honest I don't see the app being able to continue now the main three romances are done. I love Muriel as a LI, but I can't imagine seeing Portia a anything but a little sister figure and Lucio - canon Lucio and is a sadistic child (not my type). That's just my opinion but I haven't seen any of those three be popular enough to carry the app.

Lucio is the most popular of those three but 90% of people who like him only like fanon Lucio, proven by the fact that Everytime he shows up in the story these fans post things like Lucio deserved better or that he's OOC, so I'm not sure they want a romance with canon Lucio.

And he is the most popular one of the three, and even he has a very small fanbase compared to Julian - the fav of the main three.

I think the devs will either bring back the main three, cut the budget of the game (judging by the book xxi cgs they already fired one artist), or the routes will just never be finished.

[purple-vines]

Having played the latest update, I’m fairly certain the writers didn’t plan out the story. I think they planned a basic plot, and planned out the books up to and including Book VIII and after that they’ve been planning it as they go.

I’m not saying the writing is bad, just that it feels like they didn’t plan it, and then realized they didn’t have enough story to fill 21 books… and that’s why the last updates have felt so stretched out (and they don’t really flow either).

They revealed Lucio and never really did anything with that upset for the next three books, because they realised the end was creeping up on them.

And it’s a shame because the first 8 books really felt like it was building to something, and it just feels like the promise is a bit unfulfilled. Even if the climax is great, it will still be a story where not a lot happens.

tbc, I still enjoy the game, but I just feel the plotting, in terms of the story and the romances, was much tighter in the first 8 books and has kind of run away from them after those books.

[juliandevorak-md]

Seriously though wtf is up with Julian's final two CGs!? Both the upright and reverse endings have CGs that aren't awful BUT their quality is so much lower than the others... Did they fire the artist who need normally does them? This app is expensive and popular enough to just keep consistent quality.

I know I'm being a complaining brat but it's the middle of the night here I just finished Julian's route, and even though I got the good ending it was just so disappointing I had to get it off my chest.

[softrealism]

Thoughts on the upright end of the main routes in The Arcana?

Not good!

The ending was really…unsatisfying in all routes. The fight with the devil, the “climax” the whole story has been leading to, was nothing short of disappointing and with a time skip of several months immediately after we get no real climax or closure with the characters on a personal level either.

It all feels very rushed and superficial.

And I say this as someone who was invested in the game and characters since the kickstarter (so several years by now) and anticipated and loved the story dearly so far.

This ending doesn’t do the setting, plot, characters or anything else justice.

I’m a very emotional person. I can’t even count how many times I cried from happiness or sadness or adoration while reading new updates for this game. But this ending had me feeling nothing and that is really hard to do.

I congratulate anyone who is able to actually enjoy this ending because I really can’t and I feel disappointed by the conclusion to this otherwise great story.

[juliandevorak-md]

Finally read the final books of Julian's route and I'm just so disappointed. The writing really went downhill. And what was up with the upright endings final CG? The quality seemed to have taken quite a hit. ALL of Julian's CGs are top quality, but this one just looked kind of hastily put together, and I think painted by a different artist. Bleh.

Don't get me wrong, still love the game and would buy it again for PC, I just feel like the last books, starting from around book 11 or 12 went downhill when it comes to quality and to have that last CG look so meh compared to the EXCELLENT CGs that came before is just a bad way to end the route.

Frankly I think they'd have been better off just planning it all out a bit more. The first 10 books felt properly paced, but after that the pacing became a real mess with some books turning into filler and others being so cramped with events nothing got the time it needed.

Though honestly even with better pacing the ending would still have been meh to me.

Just imo of course and if you loved it I'm happy to hear it!

[zp-art]

Demons

Included a close-up because tumblr isn’t kind to landscape photos. :P

This work in my shop.

[zanephiri]

Baby Asra

The second I read Muriel’s tale and saw tiny Asra, I knew I had to make him. He is so cute. His design is just perfect!

I actually made Asra before Julian, but one of the cats managed to get to Asra and swipe him off the closet, breaking his fingers. I really wanted to finish Asr before showing him off, but that looks to be a loong way off. I don’t have the clay left over to fix it, so for now he’s sporting some doll arms lol

Still better than poor Nadia with just a face and no hair.

I made him from scratch, in the same way I made Julian, the exception being that Asra’s body is just wires and fabric.

If anyone was wondering, Asra isn’t the same scale Julian is, but here’s a size comparison anyway:

[juliandevorak-md]

Playing red dead redemption 2, got to the keiran quest to catch the legendary fish, but I didn't have any special bait with me (you can't catch it with normal bait), so I just shot it with my revolver lol

Didn't expect it to work but it did...

[purple-vines]

Zach McGowan looks more like Geralt even out of that role.

And don’t start with the ‘it’s based on the BOOKS because that Geralt was even less of a pretty boy than the game version.

[purple-vines]

Someone on Twitter suggested Zach McGowan as Geralt and now I just want that. He’d be perfect! His looks, the way he moves, the way he looks strong but not like an underwear model (well a gruff one maybe lol) and his voice! Just like in the books, a not so pleasant raspy voice. He’d be perfect!

[juliandevorak-md]

[juliandevorak-md]

Julian's Book XVII

🦊

🌊🥞

🎐

🐕

[juliandevorak-md]

On another note, I also don't think the first time with Asra should have been locked away behind a paid choice. It is a dating someone at its core and things like that, milestones in the romance like that shouldn't be behind paywalls. 🤷‍♂️

[juliandevorak-md]

Is it just me or did some of Julian's dialogue in this update kind of sound unjulian?

[juliandevorak-md]

I'm going to be honest, I really didn't mind the slow pace of the story but now... with only 5 books left I am getting a little annoyed. These last three books - at the very least the last 2 - could easily have been grouped together into one book.

And another thing, I feel the past books (even with the coin scenes taken into consideration) felt very light on romance?

I don't get why they rushed past important things (like Julian's eye reveal, MCs death reveal) only to go thiiis slow now? When almost nothing is happening?

I can't help but feel like they thought 'we need to have an update e v e r y month and to keep up with that schedule there was less time for writing and art.

Might also be why we're barely getting CGs... At this rate we're only getting one more CG for every LI.

[juwulian-devorak]

I’ll just leave this here

[juliandevorak-md]

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for introducing me to The Arcana! My friend sent me your Lucio post (we both thought it was overwatch lol!) and well, curiosity lead me to downloading the game. I'm still just starting, but it has been extremely fun! Thanks for the great times ♥

Haha, well something good came from my midnight rant then ;)

Hope you’ll enjoy the whole game and if you want more content, I’m also a mod at @thearcanagameconfessions where we have fun with the game! (Though maybe not look now as it has spoilers for most books I just realised!)