Recieved my Rune Factory Guardians Of Azuma on Friday and I'm having tons of fun, but as usual, I have ✨opinions✨
PROS ; The general aesthetic is so pleasing, the characters are absolutely brilliant and stunning (even the ones I thought would be boring), I'm obsessed with town building so it feels like the game was made for me specifically, the voice actors are hilarious (j michael tatum, my love), I'm very appreciative of the simplified farming and crafting.
CONS ; my GOD the controls are slippery! I'm so tired of games where the character climbs up onto tables and chairs without my intending to! The FMCs clothing designs aren't bad but I'm wearing her default swimsuit because her normal outfit is so overwhelming and has too many pieces in the way.
I'm not sure how controversial this one is going to be, spoilers under the cut;
I absolutely DESPISE how we're railroaded into having a prior relationship with the opposite gender character. The fact that he still exists at all when I picked the female player character for a reason is already a resounding "eh, whatever," from me, but I just got to the third Astral Shrine, and I'm so baffled by this storyline choice? I get that they intend for you to play as Kaguya as her own character, but I still feel so uncomfortable, especially since I just confessed feelings for Kurama.
Anyway, that's really my only major gripe with GoA, otherwise I'm actually so excited be playing something so relevant to my interests!
For a bit I’ve been feeling bad that mainly my fics all consist of Spinaraki and Dabihawks and I just felt like I was writing it too much. Then, as I was scrolling through the tags of it today on Tumblr I just went, “fuck it. these are the things I ship, I ain’t writing too much of it. If someone has a problem with it then they can shove off.”
So yeah don’t feel bad about all of your fics revolving around the same ships
I've completed Mass Effect and moved on to Mass Effect 2, romancing Liara in the original and Garrus in the second, but I have got to say...
I can't be the only person bitterly disappointed that we can't romance Mordin Solus, right?
Like, I was already aware of this because I watched my sister play a little bit of ME2 when it came out originally, but playing it myself really drives home how much I would absolutely love to have that man.
I get that they probably felt the need to have a few species incompatible with humans to make the setting feel organic, but why did the salarians have to be one of them?! At least I can fuck the turian, but I look at them both and wonder how they decided which species was compatible and which wasn't?
Anyway, I'm at the point where I have to do loyalty missions, can't wait to find out what's wrong with all my fucked up little people <3
I finished reading the Dungeon Meshi manga on Friday night and I hadn't posted about it yet because I had to gather my thoughts.
I loved it a lot, most of the characters were absolutely fabulous, even if I'm never going to remember all of their names.
I especially loved Laios and Marcille and definitely ship them together.
I'm going to try to convince my mom and sister to watch the anime, but I don't know if my sister while watch something unfinished.
And, as usual, I hate, despise, absolutely loathe a character, but that's going under a cut.
It's Kabru. As an autistic person, his dishonesty and not being upfront about his thoughts and feelings makes him so, so irritating, and he never seems to fix it.
My cool mom is an awesome gamer but for the last 20 years it's actually been really hard to play anything that isn't 2D graphics (3D gives her extreme nausea), she's a huge farming game fan from back in the Harvest Moon for GameCube days, we're both Stardew Valley nerds and we've also tried many other FarmSims in the search for something that can be played Co-Op.
But i convinced her to give Palia a try, turned the camera and aim sensitivity all the way down, and she's really enjoying it! She can't use the chat because she's on a PS5, and the keyboard still confuses me, a mainly Switch player, but she also gets nicer graphics and faster load times, so I'm okay with letting her use it.
My mom is undecided who she's romancing though, while I'm currently dating Jel and Jina and I'm probably going to try at least Hassian as well. Maybe Reth too? I'm so curious what their romantic dialogue is like!
If anyone sees a Dazzle Oceanstep and a Trixie Sandstone, that's my mom and I! I'll try to post a picture later.
I'm on my 3rd day of Fantasy Life i, and as usual, I have ✨opinions ✨
PROS ; Goddamn near everything!! It's like they took all the cumulative years of game development and picked all the really cool shit to put in one game. I know some people will probably gripe about the similarities to ACNH, but this is Level 5's thing from back in the early 2000s, and they are back to prove they are the kings of worldbuilding games!
CONS ; No big bounty boxes that follow behind you is kind of sad, not a fan of my character not being gendered, the shut down of Level 5's American offices means even the North American release has to use the PAL version of character names and terminology (Flutter instead of Butterfly, Cherry Instead of Poppy, etc.)
Overall I'm having a very grand time and I intend to enjoy this for as long as possible. I have over 300 hours in the original and I'm so excited to see how much I can get out of the second one!
My mom and I finished the Series Of Unfortunate Events on Netflix last night.
I read all 13 books a long time ago, but besides the movie (she doesn't remember), this experience was entirely new for her.
Okay, not entirely; we watched all the way to the end of The Grim Grotto a few years back, but something stopped us from finishing the series.
So a few weeks ago, we started from the beginning again, and watched all the way through to the end this time.
Stream of consciousness 🎇opinions🎇, incoming, in no particular order.
I am just as devastated as when I read them all those years ago, my mom and I both started crying at the end of Penultimate Peril and didn't stop even after The End.
I can definitely feel where the series influenced my personality as a child, especially since I discovered them when a teacher played us the Reptile Room audio book.
I think the last three major deaths were the first major heartbreaking moments of my childhood, every time I think about literary deaths I think about Dewey, Kit, and Olaf first, above any other heartbreaking literary deaths I've been through.
My mom's favorite characters are the Henchperson Of Indeterminate Gender and Carmelita Spats, the full spectrum of comedy styles.
I have no excuses for the fact that Count Olaf was my favorite character, even as a kid, and the casting of NPH didn't help as an adult. In fact, I blame this series for my taste in (fictional) skinny, mean men.
The whole cast did an incredible job, I have too many favorites to list here, but especially Usman Ally for making me fall for Fernald, and Kitana Turnbull for being wildly out of her mind in a delightful way (especially on the submarine!)
I'll interview my mom for her opinion later, but every few minutes she asks me another good question, I wish there was more for us to enjoy, but she wants to watch the movie again, too, so there's always that.
It's been over 2 weeks since I started Palia, and as usual, I have ✨opinions✨
PROS: Perfect Dazzle game! Bright orange hair, pink eyes (sadly no heterochromia but the pink eyes are satisfactory,) and romance choices who are cool and interesting individuals?!
I love that there's a a oddly deep home building and decorating system, and I love fulfilling other players requested items.
CONS: I had to play on the Switch because my laptop technically isn't built for gaming and I've already maxed out the memory. The Switch version plays very slowly and makes certain things more difficult than they should be. This is mostly my fault and isn't a judgment on the developers though, I'm sure they're trying their best!
Possibly controversial opinion under the cut.
I feel like the odd one out here, but I absolutely despise people who use "gamertag" style names in a game like this, it's so immersion breaking, how do people live like that?
It's like, back when Pokemon XY came out and the people popping up on my screen had edgy Xx's and numbers in their character names, so either 1) they knew ahead of time the online features would work that way and named their mostly single player experience character like a gamertag, or 2) they always name their character like a gamertag, even in entirely single player experiences.
I swear I try not to judge people, but this is just too much for my autistic ass! I believe people should be free to do what they want, within limits, so it's not like I'm campaigning to remove gamertag people, I just want to understand why?!
