the golden hoe

I'm Ran? 18+ only pls about ao3 youtube

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^me, my name ran, if you must imagine how i look like please imagine len kagamine this is my one wish please please

am 20+, bigender(boy+girl), he/she/they all good pronouns, bisexual but will mostly just thirst over cute anime women

as for my blog. 18+, not nsfw-only but no minors pls

i love hololive!! i love love love micomet and autofister ty

i'm also big into touhou, love live(og and sunshine), danganronpa, genshin impact, and whatever other stuff i'm forgetting.

i'm really into ships and write fanfic a lot so you're likely to see that popping up around here. i also might draw super super rarely.

y'all free to reblog w/e

LINKS:

ranissupercool2 - rp blogs - ao3 - fic commission blog - ao3 where my fic commissions go - main yt account - vtuber yt account

TAGS:

misc posts - fics - art - maybe more tba

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oh yea

i did stygian yesterday so here's this i guess

it was ass

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on the recommendation of @izayoi-sakuya, i gave klonoa for the ps1 a shot.

what a cute little guy right here. i played for a couple hours and got to like... stage 3-1 i think? idk how far that is. but i'm enjoying the game a lot.

now, i actually do believe i've played the wii version of this game when i was much younger-- idk how much i did in it, don't remember it that well. or, really, at all. this definitely has a different vibe though, idk.

it's kind of a 2d platformer but it plays with 3d depth and turns in the stage and whatnot, which is really cool outside of some depth perception issues. a bit on the easy/forgiving side so far considering i'm awful at 2d platformers-- i've only full game-overed once thus far, though i've come close several times so i won't be surprised if i hit a real roadblock later on.

the platforming movement is made really interesting with the enemy grab+throw mechanic, and the little guy's kind of... flutter jump thing. it feels good to figure out how to get to places like it's a puzzle game almost. as someone who doesnt really like 2d platformers much (usually) that's pretty neat.

also the graphics are SUPER cute. wasn't sure how to feel about the 3d-looking 2d sprites on a 3d background but it works really nicely here. i like the music so far too, i think uhhh some music near the start and the stage 2 boss (if that's how i'd say it) theme rly stood out in particular

i'll probably keep going on this one later. i like it

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on nep's recommendation, i gave oddworld: abe's oddysee for the ps1 a shot

was going to do the pc version. but no controller support and it being stuck in fullscreen made me decide that ps1 emulation would be more straightforward.

played it for a few hours, don't feel like i made a ton of progress because it's really fucking hard

but it's pretty cool. the mechanics are interesting and i like the puzzle aspect. what i dont like is the checkpoint inconsistency... sometimes a guy would die and it would just save over that randomly, and sometimes i would get an annoying thing done and save a bunch of guys, and then i try to figure out where to go next, die, and all the stuff i did gets reset.

...its still more forgiving than i'd expect for a 90s game, but i don't have crazy patience like that. so i decided not to bother trying too hard to save all the little guys. the controls are also all over the place and easy to mix up. bit clunky.

pretty interesting though. i got a bit impatient and stopped playing but it was right after getting past a part i was stuck on for a long time, so maybe i'll pick it up again sometime if i feel like it

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anyways, recommend me some old games to play and i'll give them a shot. anything from (squints at a console generations chart bc i don't know them) third to sixth generation i guess. ds/wii/psp suggestions allowed too.

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so far got three suggestions:

klonoa(ps1)

oddworld: abe's oddysee if that's how you spell it(ps1)

and mario & luigi superstar saga(gba)

open to 2-3 more for now

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wild arms 2(ps1)

and technically it doesnt fit the criteria here but a pal recommended it to me so i'll also add

odin sphere leifthrasir(ps3)

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finished chapter 3 of tales of xillia. i think there's four chapters, so i think i'm almost at the end...? which is confusing because i feel like i haven't even gotten the chance to touch most of the side content i'd been meaning to check in on since chapter 3 started, but, i'unno.

honestly i really don't know how to feel lol

like the game is okay and again i do like the characters, but that's... like, it?

gameplay's Okay, the story's Okay, the exploration and going through field encounters is actually mind-numbingly boring to be honest, side content is... nothing worth mentioning so far.

even though i like the characters, i think the writing in the story doesn't match up with the potential that these characters have. i'm not really into jude's character just going down the route of milla basically seeming to be his whole world, his entire purpose for living, or whatever.

like, it could change my mind in the last chapter, but i've still gone through MOST of this game just a bit unimpressed and on the fence of whether i want to finish the game. it's weird.

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i got a whole c6 freminet from the chronicled wish banner, when i didnt have frem at all before i started wishing this update

that's pretty bonkers, but alas he came as soon as i'm literally between cryo dpses, having pulled and built skirk recently and am planning on pulling another cryo dps in a couple updates

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whooooaaa i just realized i have two whole rows of 5* weapons... that's crazy...

kind of fucked up that nearly half of my 5* weapons are skyward weapons though

and like. vortex vanquisher.

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i discovered pokemon champions is a thing that exists now

decided to try it. realized its a gacha pvp pokemon game. having a battling-focused game makes sense but that's certainly a choice. sure, whatever, i like gacha.

but. holy SHIT.

the game is horrifically ugly. and this is all i could think of for the couple hours i spent trying it out. here's some highlights.

poor blastoise looks like he's dying

but the TRAINER...

oh my god the trainer. i did my best but she's so fucking ugly. the starting clothes are AWFUL, i hate skintight stuff like this so obviously i replaced it with baggy clothes but the options are kind of... mediocre at best. im glad at least i COULD cover her up in something... passable?

full pic here cuz ik tumblr will scale it super weirdly.

outside of the shit aesthetic choices, the game just looks bad all over... i know its probably meant for the switch 2 but god, this looks so much worse than scavio and swsh, what the hell happened here? and sure it's a phone game but masters looks fine too! seriously...

uhhhh. the tutorials sucked too. like ik youre probably expected to know pokemon battling already. but the tutorials are rly rly rly ass. just press a and it automatically moves the cursor where you need it to be so you literally arent going to take in a single bit of what the tutorial tells you.

the gameplay is... i mean its fine. you sure can battle pokemon in this game. idk if it was just the tutorial battles but... there's no dynamic camera angles like you'd get in a regular pokemon game. it's all just... very static. bare bones as all hell.

i don't really enjoy pokemon's pvp meta so idk how much i'll play it (most of my faves are... not meta pokemon, so i feel like i won't get to see most of them here) but this is just a really weird game. you'd think they'd put more effort into something like this... and normally i'm one to defend pokemon games, lol, but this is ridiculous--

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sonic is here

my beloved

(i can't test them yet because the genesis has yet to arrive. but whoa. first time i touch a genesis game in my life)

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also today i went to a real life store and picked up:

-a genesis controller to go with the genesis i'm gonna be getting in a few days from ebay. 6 buttons, not like i'm gonna use them all but hey.

-tetris for the game boy

-a repro cart of mario & luigi: superstar saga. confirmed functional with a working save file

for about 54 bucks

not amazing but not too bad either

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so ran decided to get a little silly and buy a n64 style usb controller for emulation shenanigans, for only $20

it's surprisingly decent outside of coming pre-scuffed and with absolutely nonsensical default button configurations

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played ocarina of time randomizer with this bad boy for a few hours and my hand hurts a little but it was a very interesting experience and did feel rather nostalgic, also it worked perfectly fine the whole way through so A+ for that

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at least as a sonic fan, sonic games are usually at reasonable prices, and there's so many re-releases/ports as well so collecting. MOSTLY isnt too hard.

the issue is still tho, everything's spread across so many dang consoles, what do you mean i need a genesis and a gamegear and a dreamcast and a saturn and a ps2 and a ps3 to have a full collection(of original releases, at least) with all of them being playable

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no i still cant get over the fact that they flipped the whole fucking game just to make link right handed for people who want to control the sword with their right hand when literally i am left handed. this does NOTHING FOR ME EXCEPT ANNOY ME

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why is twilight princess for the gamecube so fucking expensive btw is it that rare or are people just assholes

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ran steadily regrows her gamecube game collection and has only minor mental suffering over the yellow labels clashing with the black ones

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damn look how shit sonic adventure dx director's cut on the gamecube looks when it's gone through way too much to display on my pc