My parents-in-law are watching the first Captain America movie, and I’m watching the German scientist spying scrawny scrappy Steve Rogers trying to scam his way into the army, and saying “I want that one” like a tumblerina picking out a blorbo. Like "Yes, that is pathetic, sopping-wet beast that I want to put into situations."
A couple weeks back or so, I was playing a lot of Splatoon and thinking a lot of Danganronpa so I jokingly mused about an Inkling in a Killing Game. Wouldn’t that be silly? They’d be inking everything, probably with pink ink
Anyway, then the Side Order DLC came out
Wherein there’s a VR world therapy program that takes the form of a relaxing environment for amnesiacs but gets taken over by a rogue AI. Someone gets turned into a robot, which gives them a lot of new, useful functions.
I never would have guessed Splatoon would have it’s own Neo World Program arc.
There are some major differences
Instead of replacing traumatic memories with good ones, the Memverse is meant to help amnesiac octopuses reclaim their memories.
Instead of being designed by the ultimate therapist, programmer, and neurologist, it was made by a pop star in her free time, with the help of some old work friends.
Instead of a big cast of quirky characters there’s four characters stuck in an elevator. Two lesbians, their live-in protagonist, and the world’s coolest girl who is also intensely self-aware about being a third wheel.
Since we’re talking Splatoon, instead of a summer island trip, the relaxing environment is a battle tower.
And instead of Secret Junko, the AI is an enormous but baby octopus.
If someone told me that both Utsukushii Kare and Secret Crush On You would teach us the same lesson of not idolizing the person you love and to treat them like human beings, I don't think I would have believed them.