#aima rambles

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"wow, i suddenly miss my ocs" -guy completely capable of drawing/writing them

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experiencing a unique feeling where i've been in the back to the future fandom passively on tumblr for 10+ years, and now suddenly there's a whole resurgence of young blood with new AUs and crazy skilled artist kids, and i'm like JESUS, where did you guys come from

getting old sneaks up on ya lol

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Live A Live is $20 on Steam til March 19th 2026

EDIT: Sale got extended to March 26th 2026 cuz of the Spring Sale lmaooo

and there's a demo so you can try it first! :]

it's easy to throw around words like "peak" and "changed my life" etc etc, but it's in the same ball park as Outer Wilds and Ghost Trick, where you kinda can't talk about why because of the ending

for a broad selling point though, i will say; the game excels in storytelling through gameplay mechanics rather than outright exposition. it's a good game to sit down alone with and analyze the details. also, the voice acting is honestly S tier (coming from a guy very picky about voice acting)

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someday i wanna hijack a PA system at like a grocery store or a costco and play End Times from Outer Wilds on the speakers, and see how many people have a kneejerk reaction to it

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i kinda wanna try and foster more of a community for the Live A Live fandom here on tumblr (there used to be a phenomenal community on twitter, but it got broken up in october of 2024 when you could no longer opt out of your posted images being used to train their gen ai data sets)

so i'm considering making a side blog where i just. reblog any any all (within reason) LAL art/writing/fanworks (not sure if nsfw content will be allowed, and if it is, it would have to be tagged as such)

both to encore people and share works, and to archive said works. and it would be open for DMs and submissions so people could point me in the direction of LAL art to reblog

the downside of this is i would probably also have to reblog my own stuff, and i would feel like i'd have to pick what to reblog cuz i don't wanna bug people by shoving my stuff in people's faces lol

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the sundown kid

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close enough, welcome back oboromaru live a live

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by the way, my two favorite games of the last decade are on sale rn, so i am going to be annoying about them again:

Live A Live is $20 until Dec 2 2025

(~35 hours, anthology of 8 mini rpg stories that all meet up at the end. octopath is the spiritual successor to this game. there's so much variety that even if one chapter doesn't click with you, another one surely will.)

Ghost Trick is $10 until Dec 1 2025

(~12 hours if you know the puzzles, closer for ~17-20 hours if you don't. Rube Goldberg Machine The Game, but with a banger late 2000s cartoon/mystery vn attached)

the endings of both of these games changed my brain chemistry, and are genuinely impressive feats of storytelling in terms of foreshadowing and set up. please give them a chance if you're looking for some character-rich storytelling! and if you can, go into them as blind as possible!!