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Chapter 438: Chinese New Year Special Translator: https://twitter.com/maomaozaii Editor: https://twitter.com/Lum_Cheng

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Love that the car at the back is like 'WTF is wrong with these losers? I'm gonna overtake!' Then it see the baby swans and it like, 'Oh! My bad.' And pulls in again.

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I find swan parenting so interesting and relatable. Although they’re closely related to ducks, their strategies are entirely different. A mother duck is usually typified by being “careless” with her babies, meaning that she just goes wherever without consideration for them, and they struggle to keep up; ducks don’t really comprehend what terrain or situations are inaccessible for ducklings, so you’ll often see a mother duck carelessly using stairs, or flying off a building or cliff, while her babies literally die trying to follow. Ducks aren’t noted for their situational awareness, but this is really shocking to watch in the case of Mama Duck. She doesn’t usually check behind her, can’t manage them through complex situations, and gives no impression of even having any idea of how many babies she has (that’s why it’s a good thing she often has 14 in babies a clutch, and can pull off 2 clutches a year; in the wild, most of these are expected to die, as a sort of background protein link in the food web.) (On a farmyard, you might give them to a broody hen to raise, as they’ll have a more attentive parent that way.)

Swans, by contrast, take two parents about a year to raise about seven babies, and they RAISE them. They’re very attentive and conscious of their children’s safety. Even in this short video you can see that one parent is leading the children while the other keeps an eye on the card, using body language to communicate with partner and cars. The straight fixed glare at the car not only gives the swan a better look, but is also the polite first indication that the swan wants space (blowing past this signal is one reason why human/swan interactions quickly become antagonistic.) they’re walking very slowly and deliberately, which (unintentionally) forces the cars to treat them like pedestrians, but is an unusually slow pace aimed at making it very easy for the very young babies to follow properly.

I don’t know. I just like swans. I like their confidence in the human world, and their firm belief that everyone can follow the Swan Rules and behave properly if they try. I like that they relate to us and therefore have expectations that we’ll follow Swan Rules. They cross at the crosswalk because that’s what is Done and they expect everyone to respect how things are Done. In every post about swans on social media there will always be several comments about how swans are violent and it will always be down to: “they expect us to know how things are Done, and get mad when we don’t.”

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Chapter 432: Send off/Escape Translator: https://twitter.com/maomaozaii | Editor: https://twitter.com/Lum_Cheng

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TONIGHT

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TONIGHT

Tonight!!!

TONIGHT!

TONIGHT!

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON

New Illustrations from Igusa Matsuyama and Minako Iwasaki for Silent Hope!

Posted on the official Japanese PR accounts for Bokumono and Rune Factory, two special illustrations have been released to celebrate the Japanese release of Silent Hope. Igusa Matsuyama's illustration features Pete and Claire as Silent Hope's Archer and Rogue, while Minako Iwasaki's illustration features Frey and Lest as the Farmer and Wanderer respectively.

You can see the official posts below, followed by the artwork themselves for folks who'd rather not go to Twitter to get it.

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A Little Tour of Silent Hope's Day One Edition!

While checking my porch to see if a turtle friend had visited me today, I found something else instead! The Day One Edition of Silent Hope! Or is it the day -4 edition right now? The game doesn't come out until October 3rd, after all! Well, in any case, let's take a look!

The outside of the packaging features a beautiful illustration of the Wanderer gazing into The Abyss, while the game itself's box art features the whole cast taking the plunge to battle the monsters in the depths. Inside the case, alongside the game cartridge, is also a booklet with 25 pages detailing the prologue of Silent Hope's story paired with illustrations. The thrill of flipping through the included pamphlet before beginning your game lives on!

If you wanna know more about what we thought of the game itself, please check out our review!

Also included is a soundtrack featuring an incredible 33 tracks of dungeon-delving music composed by Takahiro Nakaguchi, Satoshi Asano, and Yuki Nakashima. The music of Silent Hope manages to be catchy and doesn't overstay its welcome even 20 floors into a level, so perhaps they can also serve as the perfect beat to relax and/or study to.

Finally, we have the art book. 104 pages of concept artwork, characters, their expressions, weapons, monsters, full-page illustrations, turnarounds, stills and production stuff for the opening animation... This thing's pretty packed! Wish all art books that come with special editions were this good.

Oh, and yes, here's the friend I was checking on. They're not really related to anything for Silent Hope or Bokumono/RF or anything, I just think they're neat.

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Ranch Story's Silent Hope Review

Who's up for some dungeon crawling? Silent Hope releases in just a few days, and with it taking place in the world of Rune Factory we were happy to give it a look. So, how well does this dedicated action RPG stand up to similar games in the genre?

The world of Silent Hope is a colorful and gorgeous one. Cute characters adventure through a hazardous world with the ambient glow of lava caverns, the memories of a snow-covered kingdom, and moody dust-strewn stone halls with fitting music for every new area.

Functionally, the PC and Nintendo Switch versions play more or less the same. Both are smooth, with no slow-down or significant loss of visual appeal. However, there were a few times where it felt like I suffered from some input delay on the Switch version, occasionally causing me to use a skill while facing the wrong direction. Though this could also be possibly chalked up to using a fairly worn wireless controller or any other number of factors, it seemed worth mentioning when I didn't really have similar issues on PC. Maybe try the demo of each platform to compare if that's the kind of thing that worries you.

As an intentional throwback to isometric hack n' slashes of old, the core of Silent Hope's overall rhythm is as you might expect: Head to the dungeon, beat the ever-living snot out of everything that moves while dancing around anything that tries to damage you, and then go back to town to play with all your loot and repeat the process with new gear. It's simple, effective, and addictive! Each visit to the dungeon will also be a little different thanks to their layouts being randomized, and your character choice will change up gameplay a fair bit as well, so be sure to experiment a bit before you decide what you'll stick with.

Each class also has a variety of skills to play with, and once you unlock an advanced class you can can assign any combination of three skills to your controller's face buttons. You can also re-assign your skill points at any time, making it easy to experiment a bit and not worry about wasting any resources while feeling out what setup works for you. Though you'll have to deal with a bit of a cooldown if you're swapping skills around in the middle of a dungeon, so maybe don't do it willy-nilly.

Though, personally, I can't help but wonder WHY you can only equip three skills. There's two shoulder buttons on the controller free, so it would be really great to be able to put the second set of skills on a separate palette you can access by holding one of the unused shoulder buttons or something. As it is, even though I could change my skills at any time, I pretty much just chose three I liked and all the skill points I accumulate after maxing them out are just forgotten about. Having access to all my abilities at once would've definitely helped vary up tactics.

Each new level of The Abyss brings with it not just a new aesthetic, but gimmicks in the form of "traps" to play with as well. Avoiding damage from traps is generally trivial, but they're great fun to play with for baiting enemies. Lava plumes, canons, and snowballs that grow bigger as they roll over terrain are all waiting for you to turn them against any monsters you encounter. It's a pleasant means of variety for each new area, and sometimes leads to some fun set-ups for mayhem.

At the end of each level, and sometimes in the middle, there's a boss battle. Unfortunately, they're mostly just very tough enemies with extra dangerous attacks to avoid. After going through dungeons utilizing gimmicks, I couldn't help but wonder why I wasn't facing a more complex foe and was instead just continuing my usual method of dancing around their attacks while constantly pelting them with my own damage until the fight's over.

If you're mostly interested in Silent Hope for its connection to other Marvelous series, you may end up a little disappointed. While the adorable Bubble Cow and Wooly are present in the game, as well as Shmoolies, there really isn't much else as far as direct references. Though occasionally you may hear lines referencing festivals and familiar scenarios like a farm suffering from storms. You can reasonably suspend your belief that this takes place in a Rune Factory world, but if you were hoping to see a lot of cute nods and mentions of Kardia, Norad, or the Empire, you're a bit out of luck.

Though most specifics won't be mentioned, there will be some major spoilers in this section.

I wasn't altogether sure what a story in a world without words would feel like, but I feel Silent Hope does a pretty admirable job at working with the concept. The princess, the only character who can speak for most of the game, makes regular commentary on your behavior at camp and reveals more about herself and the fallen kingdom as you make your way deeper into The Abyss. Though her commentary can get a little grating as you hear the same lines repeated over and over. I really didn't need to hear the same cheer song every time I visited the blacksmith. The bestiary is also full of quotes, once spoken aloud by people in the kingdom, that gave each monster you encounter their form. Though there's not a lot of direct connections to the rest of the world of Rune Factory, there's plenty for lore junkies to dig into if they're so inclined.

While the story doesn't ever go in any wildly unexpected directions, sticking rather firmly to its established premise, Silent Hope definitely deserves praise for making good on its ending. With words returning to the world, every member of your camp comes to life with things to say. Talking about themselves, what they think of each other, their work, and so on. It honestly felt like a pretty great pay-off, and that wasn't even the only new thing to experience after the credits rolled.

Silent Hope is a pretty fun hack n' slash, with a lot to play with for fans of the genre, but it does feel like it misses the mark a little and comes up short of being on the same level as any of the genre's titans. Nevertheless, it's still a solid and fun game, with a lot to punch, stab, and cast your way through. If you're uncertain, maybe give the demo a try. If you enjoy that, you're sure to find plenty worth talking about in Silent Hope.

Review code provided by XSEED.

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so you don't want to kiss him

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Lost in the book with Stitch outfits ✧

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All the Yuu so far ✧

Yuuken, Yuuka and Yuuta !

I love the diversity between them !

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he cheng has the unfazed yet annoyed expression and vibes in these panels of a man who has way too much experience dealing with calamity that he tian finds himself involved in. Just look at him

drinking his tea or coffee in his fluffy robe, mug still in his hand and stable, not a drop spilt, the only thing bothered is his face and even that is surprisingly calm and unchanged—he’s used to this in a way that brother qiu isn’t and in a way that makes me feel kinda bad for him while he was raising he tian because if this is what it was like? whew, I’m tired for you he cheng

this man is visibly over the whole ordeal and just wants all of them to go to bed so he can maybe salvage his self-care night and I want that for him

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Chapter 429: Warming Up Translator: https://twitter.com/maomaozaii | Editor: https://twitter.com/Lum_Cheng

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I JUST REALIZED..! Dragon eggs don't hatch/can't be born without love... That means it's incredibly important that the person who Malleus will marry and have children with is someone he loves with all his heart. 🥹 Omg I'm crying again... I'm crying again...