It's actually insane that I asked someone if they made an art piece with AI, and when I ask if there's a time-lapse or proof they didn't, the post and my comments are deleted.
Then it's reposted with the edit of the random moles being removed.
Hm.
Look, if you use AI then bond over it with other AI people. The fact you feel you have to hide the use of it tells me you KNOW you're doing something wrong, even if you can't pin what.
You're lying. That's why it feels wrong. Because it is.
Don't deceive other people who don't pick up the clues. I'm more than happy to apologise if I'm wrong, but every action so far has made me believe otherwise
I don't usually do this but I'm so sick of AI being snuck into art spaces under the disguise of genuine art.
since im filling a form for my 12th grade yearbook quote, imma make the quote something from the series. stay tuned in like 5 months when the book's out or something idk :P
MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR TANGLE TOWER AND GLASS ONION BELOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED/WATCHED THEM GO DO THAT NOW.
Watched Glass Onion last night and my evil opinion is that Benoit Blanc would have solved Tangle Tower in half the time it took Grimoire and Sally. Likewise, Sally and Grimoire would've solved Glass Onion twice as fast as Blanc did.
Let me explain;
For Benoit Blanc:
First thing's first, he immediately clocks Fifi as completely innocent and makes her his partner in the investigation ala Marta Cabrera. He's really gentle with her regarding Freya's diary, even giving her the option of not opening it for him at all.
He completely skips Poppy's suspicion in its entirety, I highly doubt he'd suspect her as well if he already knows Fifi is innocent.
The ones he suspects most are Pointer, Hawkshaw, and Penny, especially Penny. He would see how she acts regarding Poppy and immediately know something is up with her.
Blanc would end up getting Felix's suspicion first, which would immediately lead into Flora's. After Flora he'd feel even weirder about Penny— she's the only other bird enjoyer on the island.
Getting Penny's suspicion only intensifies it, as it really does feel like something put there to purposefully mislead him. Same with the painted "knife", he would only entertain that possibility in order to play stupid at someone.
He would also realize close to immediately that Penny's testimony doesn't line up with Pointer's. After getting her suspicion he practically knows she did it but is still piecing together how.
He would find the study without needing to go to the Lowest Level. He and Fifi would see everything in there. They would find the crossbow base. They would find the Hawkshaw notes. They would find the inkdip feather in the furnace. Everything they suspected would be confirmed.
They would still get into the Lab and the Lowest Level, specifically because that's what Freya would have wanted. That's when they find the bolt of the crossbow.
Honestly, I would kill to see someone who's really good with writing Blanc write this because the idea of Fifi confronting Penny and getting to scream at her for Freya is so fucking good it makes me want to start chewing my limbs off like a rat in a glue trap
As for Grimoire and Sally:
Neither of them would fall for the Disruptors' pseudo intellectualism. Sally knows when people are simply just stupid and greedy so she would clock it immediately, and Grimoire would not be that far behind her.
Grimoire and Sally are really good at fucking with people and playing stupid, so when they need to buy time for Helen that's exactly what they do to Miles (Grimoire makes a personal effort to piss him off at any conceivable moment and feels good about doing so whenever he succeeds).
They would also quickly deduce that the envelope would be in the Glass Onion rather than in anyone else's rooms, because Miles is the kind of person who wouldn't have it any other way. Not sure whether Sally or Helen would get it first but the note is taken in half the time it is in the movie. It's already in their possession by the time the dinner happens.
They would solve the murder mystery bit really fast too, the only difference being that they would note their surroundings and solve it immediately after Miles gets "shot". At least one of them would clock the fact that Duke died of anaphylactic shock rather than a more traditional poison, possibly even as he was dying.
When everything comes together Grimoire and Sally both are livid. Grim has a perpetual snarl to his voice as he puts together everything in front of everyone cause fuck his usual way of doing things, he wants Miles to know that he knows and he wants that motherfucker to squirm. Sally is ice cold and practically spitting daggers at everyone in the room save for Helen, trying to get them to feel at least something for someone other than themselves. They'd both be trembling with rage whenever everyone else starts covering for Miles.
I'm not sure if Miles would burn the napkin or if Grimoire and Sally would be able to prevent that somehow. Either way, Helen would still break everything and burn the building down. Unlike Blanc who leaves before the explosion happens, Grimoire and Sally would stay because 1) they were transfixed by Helen's vengeance and 2) their near-death quota needs to be filled at some point. Lowkey I feel like both of them would live vicariously through Helen a little during the entirety of the final sequence.
Afterward
Someone I proposed this idea to was like "Makes sense that Blanc would crack Tangle Tower faster" but was stumped at the idea that Grimoire and Sally would be functionally similar in Glass Onion so I wanted to kinda show my thought process, if that makes any sense?
I'm not saying Blanc would solve Tangle Tower quicker because he's smarter than Grimoire and Sally, but because he's more in his element when there's an incredibly convoluted mystery for him to unravel.
He's not bad with people, per se, but does struggle with simply stupid individuals, always wanting to give the suspects and even the culprits the benefit of the doubt regarding their intelligence even when they're simply just Stupid. It takes him until the finale to truly realize and accept that Miles doesn't have an original, intelligent bone in his body, constantly in the belief that he wouldn't be that stupid, would he?
Yes. He would.
The suspects of Tangle Tower wrap up themselves in an ungodly amount of thread and Penny is pretty much hypercompetent, putting Benoit Blanc right in his element.
Furthermore, Grimoire and Sally are more candid in their approach of suspects compared to Blanc and that gives them the advantage in Glass Onion as they're quicker to clock certain parts of certain suspects, even when it's stupidly simple and not the result of a super satisfying mystery they've spent ages unraveling.
Look me in the eye and tell me that Sally, AKA miss "I saw the beetles in the laboratory and immediately knew that Pointer was just a stupid, materialistic asshole trying to get rich", would fall for Miles' shtick in any capacity. Look me in the eye and tell me Grimoire, contender for world's pettiest detective who scrutinizes the actions of all his suspects, would genuinely unironically be oblivious enough to not realize that he's dealing with Actual Idiots until the very end. Look me in the eye and tell me either of them would give the Disruptors the benefit of the doubt that Blanc gives them.
Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk or something idk. Just wanted to get my thoughts out regarding this cause I fucking love both Tangle Tower and Glass Onion. Anyways Sally and Helen should get drunk and make out it'd be awesome I think.
crossover idea: Benoit Blanc x Detective Grimoire & Sally
literally looking at Grimoire and Sally's shenanigans but also their seriousness at solving cases, i immediately think of Benoit Blanc from the Knives Out series. like, the cases that series has fits so well within the Detective Grimoire setting.
why i think they all 3 fit together:
- they have their funny moments, you're one of the suspects and a bit shaken about the murder but then you see them doing silly stuff like. look at my detectives dawg </3
- but the moment they lock in, they LOCK IN GOOD. the similarities that both these series have are the detectives picking up on clues and relations that make more sense on a second watch. like "oooohhhh so that why this happened" or something like that.
- even though there's no official confirmation of Grimoire and Sally's sexuality and gender from the SFB devs, Benoit Blanc is gay and has a husband. although the last time we heard about him from the directors is that he divorced? idk the directors told us "its up to your imagination." but the point is, they're 3 LGBTQ detectives yeehaw
my idea is that any of the 3 Benoit Blanc cases from the three films (Knives Out, Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man) is adapted into a case Grimoire & Sally solve, or the other way around. or maybe they collab together, idk be silly and creative with ur ideas
Cons of Detective Grimoire games having a very small fanbase:
-you want new content? You gotta make it yourself or be patient
-No merchandise, not even on Etsy (last time I checked)
-THE GAME DESERVES A BIG FAN BASE, IT'S SO GOOD!! It's such a beautiful game with an amazing art style, amazing voice actors, beautiful music, the plot, the small details, and the amount of love put into this game is PALPABLE. Everyone who worked on it deserves so much recognition and love, 100000/10 game!
Pros of the game fanbase being small:
-the voice actor of Grimoire HIMSELF liked one of my posts
timeline of the events around mortuga's death in chronological order
Obviously, major mermaid mask spoilers, I directly mention the culprit and how they do it
It all starts with Mariana Moon coming onto the submarine. She hands Magnus Mortuga the black box, after which he tells her to wait in the control room.
He heads to the captain's cabin and at some point Godrik Gripp- who was just lurking around I guess- joins him, the broken radio picking up only on half of their conversation. Mariana hears this from the other radio in Sylvia Seafoam's old jacket's pocket and records it with her pipe dictaphone.
Mortuga and Gripp find the necklace key in the box and have their argument, which makes Mortuga decide to open the cauldron holding the mermaid's tongue.
Mortuga leaves Gripp behind with the necklace key and heads back to the control room where Mariana is, now looking both sad and angry.
During this time Gripp wedges the necklace key into the mechanism to later kill Mortuga if he tries to open the cauldron,
after which he heads to the mess hall where J.D Wirman is trying to work on his book so as to not wake up Dirk Dansom in their room.
Very little time passes before Mariana heads down to the mess hall as well on Mortuga's request. Mortuga soon follows her, telling both Wirman and Gripp to show her around the submarine and introduce her to the others, something which in hindsight might have been meant to keep them all occupied. Wirman makes an excuse and leaves (after which he falls asleep) but Gripp can't seem to make up anything and is stuck showing her around (As was probably Mortuga's intent).
He begins to take her past every room in the ship–
something to note being the captain's cabin being locked at this point, which would otherwise mean Mortuga wasn't there– but we know that it's very possibly exactly because Mortuga WAS there, moving his desk to the side and opening the latch in the floor to prepare for the bell to lower.
Something else of note is that they run into Zacharias Zephyr carrying an empty glass bottle– he's just dropped Hex off in the airlock.
Gripp takes Mariana through the rest of the submarine. they end up in the bilge and Gripp opens the grate in the ceiling.
Around this time, Mortuga has left the Captain's Cabin and heads down to the storeroom/the illusion theatre, where he witnesses Symmetry Silkmoth performing her new trick (It's vague on whether or not she had already set up or if she first went to go get him? Especially because when Mariana and Gripp walk past there on the tour the door is shut).
Mariana and Gripp hear all of this from below in the bilge through the grate, and Mariana uses her dictaphone to record it, when she runs out of tape, decides she's heard enough and heads back to the cargo hold.
She leaves Gripp behind in the bilge, who I presume stays there a while to listen and see if Mortuga will open the cauldron.
Outside the ship, Hex is swimming past the window of the storeroom and witnesses Mortuga lower the bell.
Mortuga hugs himself against the bell to reach the mechanism that unlocks the cauldron, when the necklace key swiftly slices him through the throat, and he's killed. Gripp hurries over to the control room to tilt the ship and get the eyeball key, after which said tilt then wakes up nearly every single goddamn other person on board.
This causes Sinthia to notice Symmetry was already awake and they talk about the stargazing girl because Symmetry is feeling guilty thinking she ruined Mortuga's mood earlier. Sinthia suggests Sym can always take it down later
before she goes over to the control room to check who's there, but she doesn't find anyone.
In the meantime Gripp rushes over to the bilge to collect the eyeball key,
(which Madam Tadpole hears)
unlocks the cabin, climbs down, gets the mermaid's tongue from the cauldron, removes the necklace key from the bell, climbs back up, pulls the bell up manually and puts Mortuga's floor and desk back the way it was before — all with lightning fucking speed I must assume because most of that had to be done by the time Tadpole got there sans maybe the floor and desk part.
He then either takes the ladder up to the captain's quarters and gets to the aft deck that way, or he guns it back through the parlor onto the fore deck, and then swims over to the aft deck.
I'm inclined to think it's the latter, because the ladder to the captain's quarters isn't down when we get to it (and there's no apparent way to pull it up when you're up there in game at least) plus we don't know if Gripp even knew about the switch in the painting in the first place.
That, and Symmetry mentions having found the eyeball key in the parlor– which could suggest him dropping it in his rush to get to the fore deck. Though he does mention not being a good swimmer, so it could still be the former and he lost the key later? I don't know.
Sinthia then goes onto the fore deck but doesn't see anyone (either because Gripp only arrives a bit later or because he was already on the aft deck and she just didn't think to look over there) and heads back to the control room.
Meanwhile, Tadpole has seen the blood in the bilgewater, opened the door to the storeroom, found Magnus dead, and is now on the warpath; so she also goes up to the fore deck where she sees Gripp on the aft deck, wearing the mermaid's tongue (and assumes he's a demon).
While that's happening Symmetry has gotten up out of bed and decided to head to the illusion theater / storeroom to take down her act, thus happening upon Mortuga's corpse, and she lets out a scream.
Gripp begins to speak through the mask, calling on the mermaid, which causes a bunch of things to happen at once: the ship's compass and Dirk's watch both go haywire,
a green glow begins to form which wakes up dr Zephyr who was taking a brief nap I guess, and both Sinthia and Symmetry see the Mermaid herself–
Synthia through the underwater imaging system,
And Symmetry through the storeroom window.
Tadpole also sees the green glow and weird ass noises shit going on and decidedly Doesn't Fuck with That, so she chucks one of the rowboat oars at Gripp, knocking the Mermaid's tongue off his head and into the ocean, interrupting the summoning.
It's so dark that I guess without the ominous green glow illuminating him she can't see Gripp slink off to... wherever he slinks off to (he probably hides out in the Captain's quarters until she's gone or he just exits that way if he still has the eyeball key at this point) so instead she dives off the side of the submarine to find whatever she just knocked off it.
Symmetry's scream attracts the attention of both Dirk and Wirman, who make their way to the storeroom just in time for Dirk to see someone (tadpole) swim down past the window.
Tadpole finds the mermaid's tongue floating in the water, and takes it back up to her room through the airlock.
While she's doing that, Sinthia (taking the haywire compass to the engine room to get it fixed) and Zephyr (going to re-collect Hex from the airlock) briefly bump into eachother in the parlor.
After they continue on their way, Madam Tadpole stops both of them seperately and tells them both to come to the storeroom (and tells Sinthia to gather the others as well).
Zephyr then collects Hex from the airlock but comes across the Mermaid's Tongue in the process, and quickly decides to take it and hide it in his room where it will be more secure.
In the engine room, Sinthia talks to Gripp (who must've had to haul absolute ass to get there before her) and asks him to fix the compass. He agrees, and they go to get and head to the storeroom with Mariana Moon, who stays behind them just long enough
To run into Zacharias Zephyr on his way to bring Hex and the Mermaid's tongue to the dream chamber.
After he concludes his task, Zephyr heads to the storeroom with the rest, and finally, every soul on the ship is gathered at the crime scene.
Tadpole demands to know who is responsible for Mortuga's Murder, but everyone stays silent. The vibes are rancid, and eventually someone mentions that Symmetry was the last person seen with Mortuga, which upsets Sinthia and her and Sym leave.
They go to look for any kind of will Mortuga might have left behind, first trying the captain's cabin, but it's locked.
Next, the girls try the control room, where Sinthia finds the Contract and the Captain's logbook. She takes them with her to her and Symmetry's room, where she presumably forges Mortuga's signature.
However, she drops one of the papers outside of Dirk and Wirman's room, where Symmetry (lagging behind somewhat) picks it up and assumed it belongs to Wirman,
So she 'returns' it to his typewriter.
Speaking of Wirman, He's the next person to leave the crime scene (Tadpole is scaring him shitless) and a while after him so do Dirk and Mariana, at around the same time.
Only Tadpole, Zephyr, and Gripp remain, and stay behind with Mortuga's body.
Hello! Have you ever wanted to see all the concept art for The Mermaid Mask but are unable to access them for whatever reason that may be (not wanting to open the game, having watched someone else play, being away from the device you play on, etc). Good news! I screenshot, compiled, and sorted all of them on a drive for your convenience!
https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZW015AG1G8#5uPaIaCyZwnY
SPOILERS for Detective Grimoire and the Mermaid Mask! Please only view the art below if you've already played the game!
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this game since. The gorgeous hand-drawn animation, incredibly unique character designs, captivating voice acting, perfect music — it's exactly what we need right now. A real work of human-made art!
