i do not "predict". i do not "run calcs", i do not "mindgame", i do not know "speed tiers" i click TRICK ROOM. and if it doesnt work, I DON'T WIN

On the other, if you aren't. I feel like it's a bit unfortunate/sad? You avoid said mixed bag entirely. But it means you miss out on the actually okay people who you end up attracting with your work. Is the frustration worth it? Dunno either. Everyone and their tolerance threshold is different.

Hit character limit a few times during this because it's hard to convey properly but. I'm not sure what the fix is. On one end, if you're in tune and want to associate with the community of the thing you create because you might find people who are similar to you, you get the entire mixed bag.

Which leads to...alienation usually when talking about, or working with their own work. Either through idolization or just, that same aggressiveness? Or the first issue coming out in the form of faux compassion or care about a situation. It isn't that they care, it's "when can you get back to work."

It just leads to the next issue I've seen an uptick in. Treating them as if they're to be owned by their community or fandom. The amount of invoked "death of the author" or just, becoming overly familiar or aggressive toward them feels, more common? Maybe because they're more accessible now.

I know it isn't a new thing but, the uptick of people treating creatives as less than human need to stop. What I mean is, creatives now are treated not as people, but rather as just the source of the content / media they want to consume. They only exist for that.
That mentality and mindset sucks.

It was good too so ya pretty much

No wife. Lower energy, guess I gbf today or something?

Here we go I guess.

I love brainrot and I use my scripting for evil like.

Ya this is how I end up finding out things were announced for real months to years later or it just. Dropping in my face and I'm like WHEN.

VERY MUCH SO.

I straight up avoid the EVERYTHING March 31st - April 2nd for a reason.
Wife does too that's why we just vanish.

This got RTed and I got really excited. Then I saw the date it was posted and air date and my hate of that day is once again revived full force.
Can you blame me for being gullible? No. Not at all.

Play now

Atelier games teach us the fundamentals of "cozy yuri":

- Brewing potions in a large cauldron with time limitations
- Turning your bestie into a living doll so you can write incantations onto her body
- Having gay sex with your friends

Yep! I am a very big proponent of "I am making my own spaces on this site and they aren't for others they're for me and I don't care what people think nor do I have to justify anything to them."

My enjoyment of bluesky has been not engaging in anything Bluesky talks about and instead forcing what I wanna talk about only + art.

Yapping done. Legends of Mana next game.

The game is held together so strong otherwise that I do not weigh plot devices or situations that moved it forward against it.
For as long as this review is you'd think oh wow Alma spent like. Eons 100+ on this game right? Nope only around 55 hours. Again. Game respects time on replays.

Had me calling people serial fumblers / walked with the conclusion they just let an easily avoidable situation happen. Not only that, yes. some moments happen that will, and did have me like "how did this happen in front of your face."

But the magical part is. I can bypass those moments.

I got nothing to complain about.
To which, I can anticipate "What you can't complain about the times the characters / nations in the game acted dumb and didn't prevent the tragedies that befell them?" I can riff about them. Cause mind you, being told directly "I forsaw this" and nothing prevented it

I have been forced multiple times to respect mechanics on lategame fights when doing them for real, lest I look over and me or a teammate is just on the ground eating dirt.
All of this to say? As a complete package, and my first delving into the Mana series? Amazing takeaway.

I'm so sad I can't even hint or spoil one of them because it's so ridiculous that I find it cute.
Can these fights be difficult? Oh yes. Let me say, when not overleveling OR deciding to use the proper difficulty for your progression? These fights can and will just murder you for not dodging.

Tales of Vesperia comes to mind. It feels like that for me. NG+ and continuing to engage with the world is worth my time for me.

Boss fights? The first half of the game has pretty general beasties you'd expect to fight in a jrpg but the second half? All of the bosses you face have nice designs.

Not even because I dislike Duran. I was going through the routes and factions primarily. If I do a fourth run, which I likely will. Then I will.
To be able to play a game once and enjoy it is nice, but to be able to play a game 3+ times and ENJOY it still? Only a few games managed that for me.

When a game has me straight up able to vent about a character even MONTHS after having experienced it. I think the game succeeded in making me feel something. It gave a memorable experience. Now take that, and apply it to at least 5 of them.
The ONLY character I haven't experienced is Duran.

I cared for not only my own main characters, but the people who I partied with's stories. To the level of needing to experience them in some way shape or form just because I was curious. Hell, some stuck with me because without spoiling anything I can say Kevin got it rough and I hate his dad so bad

Never once did I feel like I was being railroaded or forced to do some fetch quest or something that felt like a chore. The story moves from point to point relatively consistently. The writing knows the time to joke around, and when it gets heavy, you start feeling it - or at least I did.

both at base level, and on the self induced CBT difficulty.
WRITING.
It's a JRPG. If you're looking for some, novel story that avoids tropes you're going to find fault here. If you don't mind a "you're the chosen one now" story? Then the story got you covered. There is humor, emotion, and good pace