Bloop

Yo! I'm 29 and from Australia. The general hope for this page is for me to post thoughts and feelings on things such as games, anime and manga/LN's. Possibly also anime figures! I don't exactly want to call what i do reviews because, well. That sounds too official. It's really just going to be the opinions of some random loser online, No real weight behind them! This all being assuming i post anything here at all, and not get lazy and not use this! We. Shall. See! Also as a note, my writing style may be odd to you. I'm not a professional by any definition.

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I'm no Heroine, Thoughts!

So I've been reading basically every Villainess manhwa i can see that doesn't just look like outright smut! (Unless... It's yuri smut...) So the most recent on i read was this! I'm No Heroine!

So this is your classic "I was transported to the world of a book as the heroine or villainess" manhwa! Our MC this time is Aerinda. yes, weird name right? I never knew how to say it in my head so i just called her Linda. Anyway! Linda is one of my favourite Villainess MC's in any manhwa. This is also a regression one. She keeps hitting bad ends due to one of the male leads for the heroine alwayus killing her because he's a jerk. The crown prince! her fiance! Killing her! Repeatedly!

anyway my favourite thing is that she holds absolutely nothing back about how much she absolutely despises him, the entire way through. I love seeing her absolutely tear him apart with words at every opportunity. And he's basically just like "How can you dislike me? Sure i cheat on you at every opportunity, but... I'm so hot? Why do you want to leave me?!" Moron.

To me, the selling points on this one are the MC herself. She's awesome. Plus (For most of the series) the friendship between the main cast is great. It feels genuine, and nice. This does change eventually and becomes annoying, BUT, the other selling point is the relationship between the MC, and the original female lead/heroine of the story she entered.

HOWEVER! This does lead me to a major gripe i have with this series. The MC and the Heroine have so much love and chemistry with each other. There are SO MANY moments where this series should have made a turn to become yuri. These girls are GAY AS HECK! And I know it's not just my yuri goggles saying these. The comments of most chapters were about how gay these ladies were.

BUT. They just throw a boy into the mix and press the romance button. The male lead isn't even that bad. he just shouldn't have been the romantic interest. Plus he does have a few of the normal manhwa male lead personality problems. Possessiveness, jealousy, and kind of a brat. He's far from the worst male lead, but I dislike him a little extra for taking the yuri away from me.

Anyway! In conclusion, this is a really fun series. it does have an awkward plot point around the middle of the story through to nearly right at the end, but I would still say overall good!

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The Red Knight Seeks No Reward, Thoughts!

So I've really been on a manhwa kick recently. Mostly villainess ones, but pretty much any fantasy with a female lead, I will read! I do generally prefer yuri still, but the yuri market in Korean seems to be even drier than in Japan. (Though i have read some and will do posts of them in the future!!) So i decided to read this one!

Your MC is Judith! She's a genius swordswoman who is obsessed with the muns. Which ends up having her join a shady knights order in the pursuit of money. Which leads eventually do her own death at the hands of the captain of that knight's order (No spoilers, this happens in chapter 1). She ends up regressing to 5 years prior and decides to live a better life. That's the summary right there!

It's a cool story with good art (aside from CG horses and monsters), and has a lot of payoff towards the end. To me, the weakest part of the story is the romance. It feels a little forced, and i found myself glossing over it a bit. The male lead was fine. Like he isn't a bad dude. It just felt unnecessary for there to be romance in this one. Also, spoilers here! There's a chapter where they have their first kiss, and they boink that same chapter. Felt super weird to me! People in the comments seemed all about it, but it though it was rushed and forced! Also her saying "Every part of my belongs to you" I feel like was supposed to be romantic, but it felt pretty gross to me. I kind of hated that! Spoilers over!

Overall i had a good time with this! I read through it after work across like, three days. It was only around 120 chapters, which is pretty short for Manhwa!

Would recommend. And hey! If you enjoy straight romance unlike me, you might enjoy it even more!

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A Story about Doing XX to Girl's From Different Species, thoughts.

So I'm going to be basically going through my read history at random from here. And fair warning, I basically read anything with the yuri or villainess tag, even if it was trash! Which brings us to this series.

This is a trashy yuri comedy about a normal human sexually harasses every girl at her school, and just generally says lewd things in a deadpan manner. I have basically nothing to say about this one but it was pretty funny, and an amusing way to spend like 2 hours. It's a complete series and only 4 volumes long, so even a slow reader could knock this out in a single evening.

If you like even just crumbs of yuri, and don't mind questionable content and want some giggles, go ahead and read it!

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Pathfinder, Thoughts!

So i have been reading stacks of Manhwa and Manga recently, and I thought it could be a good idea to do mini posts about them! I figure the best place to start is the one I just finished reading! So Pathfinder is about a 25 year old South Korean woman called Garam, who can't get a full time job and is feeling pressured by family. All of this becomes immediately irrelevant because she quickly becomes isekai'd and is now a "Pathfinder" Basically she has a compass on her hand that points towards 'paths' that she has to collect, which have point values, and she can spend those points on skills or upgrades. She can also travel back and forth between this new world and her 'home dimension', which is just earth, but time has stopped, and all the people are gone. She can also go and basically endlessly pillage this time stopped world for supplies when needed.

One of the other things she can spend points on is to.... 'Re-activate' her home dimension, which would resume it's time, and bring the people back. Which I imagine would have been the main goal of this series, if it wasn't cancelled after a single season. Which sucks! Sure it's no masterpiece, but I have definitely read far worse that got way more chapters.

I would have liked to have read this to completion. The idea was fun, and I wanted to see what else would have happened. I also appreciated that this series had no romance. The two male companions she had were more like guardian dads instead of love interests. Honestly i got the vibe they were gay. Anyway! Decent concept that got cut short. It's hard to recommend it since it got axed and even if you enjoy it, you'll be disappointed because it ends prematurely. But i still enjoyed it.

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Maybe returning! Possibly.

Might return to do some miniposts on various mamhwa and manga i have been reading.

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The Executioner and her way of Life (Anime) thoughts!

So! I recently watched the anime for The Executioner and Her Way of Life. Now, as I have already done a post on the novel series, I'll keep this one short and just focus on what I did and didn't like about this adaptation. First off! Art style. They did a good job of matching the LN art style. I did like this. However.... The animation was kind of lazy at times, and especially in the latter half of the series, I noticed stacks of lazy animation, and a lot of reused animation. I was also a bit let down that we went CG for parts of Pandæmonium. Was still happy to see her animated, and it is far from the worst CG I have seen in anime, but still... A let down. However! If I think of Pandæmonium's love of B-movies, cheesy CG kind of fits the vibe? Yes. I can tell myself that to feel better... Also I feel like a lot of stuff was pretty toned down for the anime to maybe not have such a high age restriction on it. Especially Pandæmonium/Original Sin conjuring in general.

Now something I definitely did like was how they handled conjuring in the anime. In my post about the LN, I mentioned this was one of my least favourite parts of the series, at it ends up being just a bunch of random jargon/word salad that I pretty much just entirely skip past each time it pops up from like volume 3 onwards. The anime made it totally silent, fast, and just like magic circles with some quick text. I liked this! I was worried we were going to get crazy long winded spoken casting which would be kind of cringey! They handled this well and I liked it. Now the anime only covers the Orwell and the Pandæmonium introduction arcs (I don't know if there are official arc names but anyone who has read the series should know what this means!), and while I would like to see future arcs with Sahara and the Mechanised society, or Maya, in animated form, It's pretty obvious this wont ever get more seasons, and is very much one of those anime that is just an advertisement for the novels. Which I am used to! And that's fine. But I can still be disappointed. Anyway just a short post on that. Decent anime adaptation with some flaws for a decent LN series with some flaws. Fairly enjoyable!

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Volcano Princess, Thoughts!

So! Volcano Princess. basically, i was doing a discovery queue on steam and this got suggested. And it just looked to cute and i had to try playing it. So i guess I'll get into what this game is. Volcano Princess is a game where you basically guide your daughter into becoming whatever kind of person you want her to be. Be that an evil overlord, or the gayest princess who gets with every lady in town. however i thought of it as less guiding the daughter, and more of you ARE them. because i didn't like that the player character was a dad. Would be cool if it could have been a mum, but whatever. Thinking of the daughter as your character works well anyway because the father has basically no impact on gameplay and you really do just play as the daughter. Anyway! What you do in this game isssss; Make your gay princess stronger, smarter, more creative, and more in touch with her emotions. These are the different ways you can boost your stats and attend better courses at school. Which can also affect other things you can do such as horse racing, theatre performances, and combat. You have limited turns do everything you need to do, as when you graduate, it's the end of the game. However with even a little planning, it's pretty dang easy to get the ending you want. I called the game complete when i had married every lady available, or gay%. Which took me 33.1 hours! There's really not a whole lot to this game, but it's pretty charming, even if the English localisation is FULL of spelling and grammar mistakes. Which honestly, i don't care about, but i know that'll bother people when they're spending money on something.

Something that did bother me is that i found an exploit to basically get unlimited money and therefore energy, through taking advantage of sale days and resale prices. What i did not notice is buying lots from the blacksmith makes him like you a lot, and i got stuck into a romance ending i didn't want because he was like 800 romance points ahead of anyone else. Which is stupid! But hey. I shouldn't be exploiting, I know. Anyway yeah. Pretty simple game. Pretty charming storylines, lots of nice ladies to be gay with. Oh and i guess there's boys too if you want to do that. For some reason. Pretty cute artwork too. Made me want to go for as many career endings as possible to see all the different illustrations they do of your player character. This is probably one of my roughest posts but eh! i just wanted to say i had fun with this game and recommend it.

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Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists ~ateliers of the New World ~ Thoughts!

So! I just finished my 100% playthrough of Nelke! literally less than 5 minutes before i started typing out this post! So let's get started. So Nelke (I am not typing that full title out every time!!!) is a town building style JRPG following an original set of characters led by Nelke, an alchemist obsessed Noble lady out to look for a magic tree and prove herself to her father back home who sets all these time sensitive tasks for her that she must complete, or come back home. This style of time sensitive tasks will be very familiar to people who have played the older Atelier games, however the overall gameplay is otherwise very different. As Nelke, unlike every other Atelier protagonist, has 0 alchemy proficiency. She instead relies on other alchemists to get things done. Which brings us to the main pull this game had for me.

For some mysterious reason, and these alchemists from other worlds are teleporting to this seemingly random location!! So you'll see familiar characters from all atelier games up until Atelier Lydie & Suelle (Which is my favourite), including side characters, such as my favourite Corneria from the Mysterious games! I basically 90% bought and played this game just to have another game that has Sophie, Firis, Lydie and Suelle in it. Didn't really care for most other character simply because i don't know them, but that's on me, not this game. So i won't fault it for that. Basically the more Atelier games you've played, the more little enjoyable character interaction moments you'll find fun.

Okay now let's get into the actual gameplay shall we? So there are 10 main aspects to this game you need to keep track of. Town building, Synthesis, Sales, Production, Dispatch, Requests, Tasks, Visits, Research, and Investigation. Town building. The main part of this game. You need to build facilities for your alchemists to synthesise, your merchants to do sales, your workers to produce materials, and you can't just place at random either. It's good to have districts, as different things you can build have bonuses to specific things, and even specific types of sales. Plus everything needs to meet a road, so efficient usage of space is needed to actually place all the buildings you need. Synthesis. This one is straightforward. You have your alchemists synthesise things you need to sell, things you need for research, or things you need to construct better facilities. Makes sense that in an Atelier spin-off game that Alchemists are your most important and useful people. Alchemists can also perform any role, but only alchemists can do synthesis. Sales. Also pretty straightforward. You sell the things your alchemists make. There's also several categories of items. General, Grocery, Weapon, Boutique and Drug (Sounds weird and illicit. Guess it's an american translation. If it was translated her, it would be called a pharmacy) Now this can be a little annoying to manage, and certain building can only sell certain things, and if you don't have fairly balanced sales, you can lose support in the town. Production. So for this one, you build things like Flower patches, veggie gardens, orchards and ranches, all to produce materials every turn. Definitely don't ignore this one. If you just forget about it, you'll suddenly find yourself using, say, way too much vegetable oil for what you're trying to make, and your whole production>synthesis>sales line will quickly break down.

Dispatch. You can send your people to areas you have cleared in battle investigation, and gather materials each turn. this one is also super important for the same reason as production. You can dispatch at most 5 people to each area. Requests. These are mostly optional requests you get each turn that ask for things to be done within a specified time limit. Like.... "Product 20x of Y item in 4 turns" And you'll get a money reward, or sometimes you'll get a population boost from it. ALWAYS do those ones, as you will hit a point in the game where if you don't have at least 50,000 population, you just lose, and have to start over. Which happened to me. Keep on top of requests! Tasks. These are your main directions for the game. Time limited tasks that if you fail, it's instant game over. Visit. You can visit and chat to all your town members, which consist entirely of characters from the mainline Atelier game. There's a limited number of these you can do each day. Research. This is how you unlock more land to develop, required items for advanced synthesis, and even resolve random time limited disasters. Make sure you're checking the materials you need for things, as past a certain turn number, research locks. Investigation. This is how you unlock new areas for dispatch, or level up characters. It's super super basic turn based combat that is so easy that as long as you don't neglect levelling up, you can win every battle on auto.

So overall i thought this game was.... fine. If it wasn't for the fact that i was playing alongside my favourite characters from the Mysterious games, I probably would have given up, and if it wasn't so short, I probably would not have gone for the 100%. Speaking of. If you go for the 100%, it was super grindy. I beat the game in about..... 30 hours? and then the next 8.4 hours were grinding out the like, 10 achievements I had left.

I think if you're a fan of the Atelier games, and you like town building games, you'll probably have fun here. And that's my thoughts! Thanks if you read this far.

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The Executioner and Her Way of Life LN thoughts!

So I ordered this book series (6 books released and translated at time of posting) basically on a whim because it looked like a somewhat serious fantasy story with yuri. But it turned out to not be too bad an idea to act on that whim! I'm going to try not get too spoilery when I do my summary, but that is a little unavoidable, so I apologise in advance! That said, I am going to go into stuff of a spoilery nature at the end. And hopefully I remember everything well, as I only finished this series 2 weeks ago. To to sum up, The Executioner and Her Way of Life is about our protagonist, Menou! The world is your typical Isekai fantasy world with it's own (Kind of weird honestly) power system. Except unlike most isekai, our protagonist is a native resident of this world. She's an Executioner! (Duh..), who's main job is to hunt taboo entities, which largely consists of otherworlers! Yup! this world has a whole profession dedicated to taking out this OP isekai protagonists before they get to cause any trouble in this world. Which has happened on numerous occasions, being disasters leaving large portions of the world uninhabitable. When an otherworlder reaches this point they are called a "Human Error". Which honestly i think is a pretty cool term. Obviously, things are not quite as simple as "all otherworlders are bad guys, and our protagonist is a hero." She herself is constantly calling herself a villain. Not to mention that executioners are trained and employed by this world's leading religious church group, The Faust. That NEVER means good things in a fantasy setting.

So our main characters areeee; Menou, obviously. The self proclaimed pure, proper villainous priestess. her only real stand out quality is that she is a massive unwitting yuri magnet, that basically every female character in this series thinks is beautiful and some more subtly than others are always trying to come onto her. Beyond that she's a little bland. However without going into spoilers, that's not without reason. Momo. Menou's psycho girlfriend. Uh. I mean, Menou's extremely capable and eager assistant. A young girl who is basically a berserker with 0 skill but game breaking strength. Her only interest in the entire world is Menou. Which can be entertaining but sometimes gets repetitive. Ashuna, the knight princess. Who... for a paper thin fanservice reason of a deep love for the human body in peak form, basically always dresses in clothes that really don't cover much more than undies. She's kind of cool but at least by book 6, is as fairly one dimensional as Momo, in that she mostly just likes Momo. Akari. The otherworlder with powers revolving around time. Has literally no interest in the world besides Menou, who is trying to kill her, but is unable to because any time she doesn, her time powers activate automatically and revert her to a state where she was not dead. Her main role in this story is for Menou to get attached to her, becoming unwilling to kill her, and questioning her place in the world, or you could even say... Questioning her way of life? Ha! No that was bad. There areeee more characters but most aren't in it too long. The one exception is Pandæmonium. An all powerful full chaotic evil immortal little girl. She's super freaky, but fun to read. She's the one thing that makes me disappointed that i can't watch the anime anywhere. So things i like aree..... An interesting take on the isekai genre. A sort of villain protagonist. A cool antagonist in Pandaemonium. The occasional art pages by Nilitsu were pretty cool. Half an interesting power system. Why is spoilery though. Sort of yuri vibes. But that leads me tooooo Things i didn't like. Vague yuri vibes that don't really ever go anywhere. There's just lots of girls being all hot for Menou. It's pretty out of nowhere and unsatisfying because there's not even any romance to it, and it's entirely one-sided in every case. So it's kind of yuri bait. Again, the power system. Any time someone uses a spell, there's a load of weird fantasy jargon to read that means very little, and is kind of just space filler on the page, and i started to just skip over it because it was mind-numbing to read. And the whole power system with the earthen and astral vein feels very hand-wavey to me.

So a lot of what i did actually enjoy about this is kind of spoilery, so it might seem like i have more negative to say than positive, but i swear, i did enjoy it enough to buy volume 7 when it comes out!!! It wasn't like, mind blowing or genre changing, nor did it have particularly unique characters, but it is a good time. I'd give it a solid 7/10.

Now! I'm going to try something different here so i can talk a little about what actually happens, so FROM HERE ON IN, THERE WILL ABSOLUTELY BE MAJOR SPOILERS! Just this way i can go into more details about what i do and don't like. So i found the idea of pure concepts being basically added to the world's accessible skill list whenever an otherworlder gets to Human Error status. That's the part of this series' power system. That's very interesting. However with how many different abilities are used, it kind of makes it super iffy how many otherworlders were summoned and then made to lose themselves just so the world's skill list could be increased (yes, i am simplifying this process.) But it's even worse when you consider how many otherworlders are just immediately killed off after their pure concept is deemed worthless, despite them being summoned against their will. But I mean, that's kind of the point. The Faust be super shady. Anyway, definitely an interesting concept. Another thing i really liked was Pandæmoniumin general. Her whole concept of original sin is actually written as genuinely horrifying, like her ability to sacrifice herself to summon herself. So anytime she dies, she just bursts out of the old corpse. It extreme detail. Super gross, but super interesting. I love a villain who is bad for no big grand reason. She's basically driven by the need for entertainment. I like the idea of this. Very cool.

Now some stuff i didn't like. So i said before Menou's character is kinda bland. And they keep going on about how her whole existence was bleached white and all that. Which really makes the whole reveal that she was created by Ivory become more like a "Yeah duh" kind of reveal. Like as early as volume 2 of the LN, i had suspicions that she was at very least, ivory with amnesia. Which isn't that far off the mark.

Okay! That's it for spoilery stuff. Like i was saying, not particularly genre changing, but for sure a fun read. Especially any parts with Pandæmonium. I'm not into gory stuff, but i do love me some unhinged baddies.

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I'm back!...... Maybe?

So! It has been a while! I have been wayy too busy with work for the last.... 10 months or so, to even think about trying to write some of these between work and my hobbies. However! That shall now change! I'm not going to promise and regularity like last time, But i will make posts when i have the time. I've played a lot of games and read a lot of books since last time, so I should have a bit to share!

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Well those didn't happen.

So i should just not state what I'm going to do, as it clearly doesn't happen! I said i was going to Play FF4 and re-read yuri is my job for a post. I played FF4 for about an hour and disliked it. I just... Active turn based... I do not like. I will finish it later though... Eventually. So instead I started playing Skyrim again (About 30 hours in now), and decided I am currently not in the mood to read!

So from now on, i shall not give anyone any expectations! I'll just do stuff when i do it. End!

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Next stuff I am doing!

Next game shall be FF4 pixel remaster. I was going to replay Skyrim for the first time in like 10 years but quickly lost motivation. So We're doing this instead!

As for a book series, I recently got Yuri is my Job 9 in the mail, so I'll do that next. I was going to do Kuma bear since Kuma Bear 11 arrived recently, but I only re-read that a very short time ago. So instead I'll do a full re-read of Yuri is my Job. Besides, that's getting an anime soon to I think, so I'll be able to have it fresher in my mind for comparisons. End!

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Well that sucks.

Looks like the NG+ in Blue Reflection doesn't really carry anything over. So I probably won't go back for that one missing achievement.

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Blue Reflection thoughts!

Okay! So! I spent the last few days playing Blue Reflection, and finished it about 2 minutes before starting this post! Took me 23.5 hours to complete. Well almost complete. I missed exactly one achievement because I accidentally completed a chapter without doing a specific sidequest. Maybe I'll do it later in a NG+. Anyway, let's get into it. Blue reflection is... Well from what I have heard about Persona, it's a similar concept. People have strong emotions, and you have to go in and stabilise those emotions by.... Killing demons I guess! Except unlike Persona, there's no time limit, and the game isn't remotely hard. Oh and it has Magical Girls too. And ballet. For some reason. Can't say I was too big on seeing the same 10 second ballet dance like 20 times across the game, but that's a minor complaint. Anyway.

So let's get onto gameplay. Combat up first. Blue Reflection is a pretty typical turn based JRPG, but with some atypical elements. For typical it's just wait your turn and attack, X is good against Y, Y is good against Z, and Z is good against X. That kind of thing. And it's extremely easy. You only have 3 playable characters and they're with you the entire game. And once Yuzu gets a move called Grape Wave, all battles, except bosses, are pretty much over in one attack, even playing on hard. Regardless of type advantage. The atypical thing about combat in this game, is that aside from particular parts to progress thee story, and sidequests, the only point fighting monsters and combat has is to get your items for crafting. You do not earn EXP at all in this game. Which is probably why this game felt so short. I usually spend so much time grinding for fun in JRPG's, but in this game, there is absolutely no point. Especially after I found out I missed a single quest that made getting items have a point. (The crafting achievement)

So the other side of the game is school life. Well, sort of. There's absolutely none of the actual schoolwork part. It's really just making friends, going on... Dates? And dealing with bullies. Most of the playtime is here, reading all the dialogue. I say reading, because only the main story is voiced. Which is disappointing. Speaking of reading through the story, minor complaint, but there are so many typos. But yeah not too much else to say here. Except why are bullies in games so one dimensional? Also they all have the same face!! Lazy!

So next is.... Characters I guess? The characters in this game are really not complicated at all. Their entire character is all based around one or two things. Your main character, who is an ex ballet dancer, is all about ballet. Another character, who has a crush on someone, that crush is their entire personality. A character who is in the track club is all about running. Pretty basic stuff. Not much there. And I DID do all the character story achievements, so I did see all there was to see! Now the biggest disappointment about the characters was... This is a Gust game. The people who do the Atelier games. It takes place in an all girl's school. There are literally no male characters in the whole game. So why is the cast less yuri than a typical Atelier game?! It makes no sense! The only actually gay girl in the game is just there to be a bit horny and make the main character uncomfortable! I've included some examples below. And again, like all the other characters, this is almost her only character trait. Liking cute girls.

It really annoyed me that the one lesbian character they included just makes the main character uncomfortable. I actually did not really like the main character. I say how you go into peoples emotions to stabilise them, right? Well half the time you have to stabilise them because the main character is a jerk and set them off in the first place! Annoying!

Okay moving on from that. I did have another complaint, but this seems to apply to all recent Gust games on steam. Meaning this game, Both Ryza games, and Sophie 2. For whatever reason, despite being a pretty basic looking anime game locked at 60FPS and 1080P, it absolutely makes my GPU and CPU really hot (Well. Hot beyond what I'm usually comfortable with. I know some people absolutely abuse their computers. I personally don't like the coolant to go above like, 34. I even have more extreme custom fan settings for it.) for no reason. I've attached below what my parts were doing for one part, and what was happening on screen at the time. It makes no sense.

These GPU and coolant temperatures are higher than when I was playing God of War in 4K, 165FPS at ultra settings, during a hotter time of year. It makes absolutely no sense. While I'm on this rant, in Sophie 2, for whatever reason, when I was in the Menu, which has no animation, and might as well be a PNG, the GPU is sitting at 100% utilisation. I just don't get it. Is it just a bad version on steam?

Anyway moving on... My overall thoughts on Blue Reflection is.... It's fine? It's not a bad game, but I definitely had some expectations that were not met. It being a Gust game, the promise of yuri, and the expectation to be able to grind like most JRPG's. Was a bit let down. But hey, if you don't have these expectations, maybe you'll like it a lot! The overall story was nice, but the gameplay just got so boring and repetitive in every way. Combat, going to the same 6 places with every girl for the achievements... Just... Eek.

Anyway, that's my thoughts. I'll be doing Blue Reflection 2 at some point soonish too! End!

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Next game!

So to break up all the FF games, I think I'll play Blue Reflection next. It's a JRPG made by Gust, who do the Atelier series that I like, and I hear there's some major Yuri vibes. So i should enjoy it! Based on other Gust games... Could take a while to complete.

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FF3 Pixel remaster thoughts!

Okay so finally got around to playing and beating FF3! So let's go over it. FF3 is a return to the more classic JRPG style of Exp and levelling up that 1 had, as opposed to.... Whatever FF2 was trying. Which is nice. Love it. I can grind again! And I sure did grind. But even with me grinding so hard to the point where every boss was a joke, and none of my party members ever died once, and even getting the 100% completion, this game, like FF1, only took me 14.6 hours to complete. So we're still not at the long FF games! So plot is.... I mean. We're still nowhere exciting and engaging for plot. Warriors of light, blah blah blah, world of darkness, blah blah blah, save the world. Okay, sure. Why not. Let's do that. I'm looking forward to getting to the FF games that have actually engaging stories. It's not like I'm just skipping over the story either. It's just not engaging or memorable. It's was actually to the point where stuff was so undeveloped that at the end of the game (Spoilers? I guess?) Where you say goodbye to various characters, your player character keeps doing this one last longing turn back to see them before they leave and It's like... Huh? We met this dude for like 2 minutes, 8 hours ago. who cares? It felt awkward watching it. Like they're forcing this connection that isn't really there. Anyway, enough on that.

Gameplay! So as i said before, this game plays almost exactly the same as FF1 as far as levelling goes. Spells are based off a MP per magic level system again, which is nice. They did change some stuff however. So they added Jobs. Which would be called Classes in any other game, but whatever! So you level these jobs along with your characters. Which is pretty easy. You don't really have to think about it. Now a gameplay change i did find annoying, which I bet was introduced for exactly one reason. The airship can no longer pass over mountains. No, for that you need a very slow bigger airship, which can hop over small mountains, which I'm pretty sure this mechanic only exists because someone though it would be cool to have a maze of things you had to hop over. I didn't like it. Really this is all that changed though.

I don't really have anything else to say. I enjoyed the game a bit more than 1 and a lot more than 2, but it's still just... Fine. An inoffensive JRPG experience. I appreciate how it helped to get us to the kinds of JRPG's we have today, but yeah. A little dated. End!

[justarandomdegenerate]

What I'm up to.

So I'm currently playing through FF3, and then I'll be reading the new volumes of the Tanya LN, so that's likely what my next posts will be about! Unless I choose to re-read a short series for a post before then.