#dislyte cellblock chaos

[mutedwoodlands]

And then they kissed. And tried to murder each other. The end /j

[glow-205]

POV you learn that the judicial system is fucked

[dislyteshack]

4k words

FOUR THOUSAND WORDS

Here's another sneak peek

I really hope I wrote toland okay because I know people love him so much

[xxmothangelxx]

So I finished Cellblock Chaos

It was... meh, I feel like it should have been longer based on what they were attempting to do with the story, we barely had enough time to connect with any of the characters or give a damn about their story lol. I found Amber annoying but she isn't nearly as bad as people make her out to be, Jin Qiu is just... there, he's a less interesting Javid IMO and Toland is pretty cool, I like him. Though his design is going to take some getting used to haha.

So yeah, not the best event to start my dislyte comeback lol, I hope the next one is better. None of the new legendaries interest me enough to motivate me to read through the events I missed tbh, and I just want more Twilight Order content for the next event! So yeah those are my thoughts ^^

[just-1-scorpio]

I will read the new event story tomorrow. I heard a few things about it.

I want to see with my own two eyes, if this it's a Cellblock Chaos 2.0 electric boogaloo or worse.

[esper-lit]

Surely this will not come back to bite her in the ass

[mutedwoodlands]

This inside joke is evolving. I am so sorry if you haven't seen the original

[dislyteshack]

Here are the sneak peeks I was talking about

[mutedwoodlands]

Lil Homie, I’m just stating hypotheticals, this is in no way a threat! But she would mop the floor with you. You’d literally eat shit. She’s an officer that canonically gives one hell of a kick and can defend herself. I can assure you, you are not punting her, dawg💀🙏🏽

“Never thought I would want to punt a Dislyte character more than Q” my booty cheeks bro, she’s punting YOU 😭😭😭

[dislyteshack]

I'm actually making progress on it so does anyone want to sneak a peek?

[xxmothangelxx]

So I finally finished Inescapable Fate and I have MANY thoughts (spoiler warning)

First of all, that was a pretty good comback event! I really liked it, unlike Cellblock Chaos it actually utilized it's three chapters well and told a compelling, well paced story! It didn't feel rushed, and I ended up falling in love with practically every character.

I want to start with Yalina, her mother was justified in every argument and her father is an absolute bum; seriously, not throwing away your trash/cleaning up after yourself, forgetting your daughter's ALLERGY? I've become sensitive to weaponized incompetence over the years, so for dislyte to accurately portray that in a story was wonderful. Yalina's neverending fight for normalcy was so hard to sit through, even though she's objectively cruel, my God did it hurt to see all of her potential happy endings crumble around her. All she wanted was a happy family, all she wanted was to be loved, yet she wasn't destined for it.

Feng Xun is one of my favorite characters to come out in a whole, he actually reminds me a lot of Yun Chuan personality wise, just slightly more lackadaisical. Him juxtaposing Yalina in terms of how they approach and utilize their esper abilities was such a fascinating way to go about it – I hope the two of them interact more in the future.

Li Ling sort of stole the show for me, he was just so lovable and his straight-man role in the story led to many funny moments, he was literally the audience watching these weird, mystical, reality bending espers act up and not understanding a single second of it XD

Not only that, but the music went hard too! TLDR: I really liked this! It was a refreshing, wonderful comeback and I truly feel like the dislyte writers finally got their sauce back

[just-1-scorpio]

Cellblock Chaos is a mess

Spoler warning!

This story is a mess. I already had a love-hate realetionship with this game. But this story made it harder to overlook the flaws of the game. This far the stories were actually good, or at the weary least likeble. Sorry if I will sound overthinking, or stupid, and for the grammer mistakes English is not my first launvige.

One of the many problems of this story is that it's too short for the story, and for the themes. The leinght of this event story, is just not enough for what they try to achieve, both with the themes, character "development", and such they try to achieve. Yes, we can say that lately the event stories are shorter, but they still meneged to work in a way. But here giving it more stage would have helped the story, and the writing, because as if now it feels as if they just rushed everything.

And an another problem stems from this. The character writing, and story writing. First the characters, and they interaction. Amber is likably through out the event, but they did a poorer job with Toland, and Jin Qiu. Yes, they have they moment, but those don't save the event. And an another thing is. I'm the only one who thinks that what Jin Qiu said about Amber feels rushed? If the event was longer, and the two had more screan time together, then it would have been better. It just feels rushed.

If they given more time, and more screan time between her, Jin Qiu, and Toland, then the ending had been better. Let's imagine Amber and Jin Qiu arguing like they did in the event, and Jin Qiu tells Amber what happand in the past (the guy he shoot), and with this unintentionaly opening up to Amber, and it's eather the two talking it out in an emotional screan, or Jin Qiu sends Amber out of his office. Eather way Amber, and the players would have more conection to him, so when Toland lies about him, it would have more of an emotional impact, along side with his monolog about her in the fight between him and Toland, and the ending. Similar with Toland in my openion. Imagine Toland not just using Amber's idias, but also getting things out of her, and using those too to manupilet her. It would't make her look this dumb.

If it was up to me, there would also be an another character, who was chought along side with Toland, who helped him in that particler crime, and is also a repited criminal, but instead of manipuleting Amber, he is actually touched and moved by her tryind to help him, and is ready to tell the everything, but can't because of Toland. And in the end his testemony doas not mean anything because nobady believes him, and Jin Qiu's own testemony. And before Amber realise, he asks Jin Qiu in they shared cell, that why didn't he told Amber what happand in the final comfortetion, and Jin Qiu answering that it's better this way, because then Amber might become similar to him, and lementing his unethical methods.

Is this sounds clishe? Yes. But is it better then we actually got? Posably.

This event is a whole mess.

[xxmothangelxx]

Shady Rambles Dislyte Part 6: A Written Movie Sequal

So, I made this post yesterday, and after I was able to make a reddit post that I feel better summarized my point! It may be a tad pretentious in its writing and I do apologize for that, but still, I hope you enjoy!

As a lover of writing and Dislyte, I've always been unnecessarily invested in the story. Funnily enough, unlike most people the story and characters are really my main reason for not giving up on the game – in spite of all the less than favorable updates – so although many argue the story is sub-par, I quite enjoy it. This love of characters and story has made it so I try to keep up with most events. I'll be honest, I stopped playing the game after Valeria's event (and I have yet to read through the ones that I've missed) but I have since completed Cellblock Chaos so I'm making my way back into the game!

Needless context aside, I wanted to discuss the concept of grey morality and why it always bothered me when it was mentioned in reference to the Shadow Decree, it took me a while to figure out why but I feel that I can now put it into words. It is because the Shadow Decree are objectively an irredeemable terrorist organization that have committed human rights violations so extreme, that in a more realistic world Hyde would have been sentenced to death by firing squad upon arrest.

The issue with grey morality and the concept of an anti-hero is a lot of consumers and fans have the false mindset that if a villain has a 'point' then the villain is any less evil. Now, the issue with that therein lies with the fact that morality is less based on thought and more based on action, it doesn't matter if you have a "moral" way of thinking if your actions don't reflect that. This issue can be seen within the Shadow Decree in abundance, many of the characters have seemingly understandable reasons for being members, but their actions within the group contradict their so-called moral standpoint.

For example, many argue that the reason Hyde isn't a villain is because his research is all for the "greater good", he is an ends justify the means sort of person. However, you then have to take into account that Hyde actively partakes in and encourages human trafficking and non-consensual human experimentation. Does it really matter if it is "for the greater good" if you are actively allowing hundreds of innocents to die for experiments that lead to nothing at all?

I am brought back to two events in particular: Brewster and Yun Chuan's. In both events, it is revealed that the Shadow Decree's crimes run deeper than just bothering the Union and stealing their members.

With Brewster, we find out that Shadow Decree actively buys trafficking victims off what can only be described as a black market and experiments on them in an attempt to turn them into espers. These people do not consent, and are nothing more than cattle to them. Few are "successful" like Brewster, with a majority of them dying from the strain placed upon their bodies. Brewster himself was sold by his abusive father and still suffers immense trauma from his time under Kara.

Yun Chuan's hits closer to home however; as someone with many criticisms of the prison industrial complex – more specifically how inmates are treated – to hear that the Shadow Decree makes deals with prisons to experiment on inmates was incredibly chilling. It was one of the most true to life, realistic portrayals of how deep systemic corruption truly is, especially in how it mirrors the real life abuse of incarcerated people globally.

I simply do not see these as the actions of a "morally grey" group of people that only "want the best". I feel that the reason many are quick to slap the morally grey label onto the Shadow Decree is character bounties, most bounties are slice of life stories that show the characters going about their daily business, of course Ophelia and Catherine seem nicer and more likable. Though you then remember that they bombed an orphanage for virtually no reason and suddenly they seem less like good people.

Now, this isn't me saying that you cannot like them or that liking them reflect poorly on you as a person! I for one am definitely a Shadow Decree apologist haha, my top favorite espers are majority Shadow Decree, and I find them to be an interesting group of people with the potential for great storytelling. With that being said, I feel we as media consumers have a habit of becoming so attached to certain characters that we forget that their actions do indeed play a role in who they are.

To be a part of the Shadow Decree is to say that you are okay with human trafficking, human experimentation, terrorism, weapons smuggling, political corruption, prison industrial system corruption, child murder (remember the orphanage bombing that killed Stewart's lover and also a bunch of children?). The Union is certainly not free of skeletons, their rampant negligence shows this, however I cannot feel comfortable saying that they are in any way just as bad or worse than the Shadow Decree based on everything the Dislyte lore has told us.

TLDR: I believe the reason many argue that the Shadow Decree are morally grey, or that they're even a well-meaning group, is because many of the characters have sad backstories, attractive designs, and cute personalities. Though I cannot agree, because I feel that it disregards all the genuinely horrific (and mostly unnecessary) actions of the group; I don't see how people that bomb orphanages and experiment on trafficking victims can be any less than evil.

With all of that being said I would give my left kidney and run over a baby kitten if it meant that Catherine would blink in my direction.

[xxmothangelxx]

I was gonna make this a Shady Rambles Dislyte but I'm too tired to say anything of note lol

I really miss when Dislyte stories were like... peak, say what you want about the original story mode, but at least the event stories were really good! Stories like Truth Unveiled, Dusk and Dawn, Dream of Redemption, Sea of Sorrow... even the simpler ones like Desperado were really good! Emotional and well written stories that actually seemed like they had some effort and care put into them.

I guess I can't talk because I missed most of them, but I've been rereading the events I missed (specifically everything after Valeria's) and tbh aside from Hilda's story none of it is clicking for me rn :/ it all feels like it's lost some sort of spark that made me love the previous event stories so much

And based on the bs they just pulled with the retconned story mode, AND the steaming pile of mid that was Cellblock Chaos, they better come in hot with the next event story because rn I'm regretting my decision to return to this game

[just-1-scorpio]

So new Dislyte triller come out. And I don't know. Liam is fanily playable. We get new story stage. And a new character who looks cute.

I'm sorry this post will be mostly negativ, and sorry if I will sound like a pessimist, or as if I take this game too seriously.

I'm not that exaited after this triller, like I was after the past trillers. I already had a love-hate realetionship with this game. I hated how pay to win it got, or how the devs faverd payd players. But I come back for the stories and characters. But then Cellblock Chaos happand. And I think all of us know that that update made a lot of us quit the game.

I have some hope, but not that much. If the event story, and the new story stage is good well writen, and the game becomes less pay to win, then I will be more then happy.

They abendont a lot of things, or will never make surtent things. We still have no idea what bondtales are, they don't write new bounty tales for older characters. Let's hope that they will not put any new pay to win elements into the game, such as divinate (the feeling of hopeing for a legendery Esper, but you just get a divinate), and swiftspace.