#the ruby stuff was great

[all-the-fun-of-the-cirkus]

well

i think it's entirely fair to say that empire of death is well in keeping with rtd's prior finale track record

[oingomyboingos]

NuWho Sutekh: big evil dog. made of smoke and darkness incarnate. eldritch being. will bite and mail and kill

OG sutekh: barbie hands. perfectly poised posture. very polite. please let him murder? 🥺he’ll bring some disco lights as a treat 🕺🏻🪩

[cherry-bomb-ships]

It's amazing how you can just like. Draw and then art is made and then the thing that was in your head becomes real and you can look at it in the real world and maybe even other people can look at it too. Does anyone else know about this

[crescentfool]

i've been doing a bunch of tartarus runs in reload lately, and it got me thinking about how i miss certain ways FES's clunky gameplay can characterize minato… (ramble about the great clock mechanic + leveling up party members in reload vs fes under the cut)

when i got to yabbashah block in tartarus (block 3), i remember commending the developers for adding the great clock mechanic. it's a much more convenient way to keep party members at the protagonist's level- so when you think about p3 from the perspective of trying to make it easier for people to play, the mechanic succeeds in this respect.

but now that i'm in adamah block, and that i've done lots of my once-a-month tartarus runs… i think that i got a little too dependent on it, and the way that i played through reload feels like a vastly different experience from how i played FES.

in reload, my party's levels are very lopsided. minato, yukari, akihiko, mitsuru, and fuuka are all level 90+, meanwhile junpei and aigis are at level 79, and then… poor ken and koromaru are at 71 and 64 respectively. (i never got to have a great clock for them…)

meanwhile, in FES, my party's levels were much more evenly distributed and were at least level 90. i did all of this manually for every monthly tartarus run because i enjoyed having options available for the taratarus guardians and monthly operations.

with how i perceive minato, i feel that the way i played FES feels more in-line with his character than me dawdling around waiting for the great clocks in reload.

FES's gameplay loop left me with the very strong impression that minato has to work twice as hard as everyone else in SEES does. it makes sense because, yeah, he's the leader, but something about having minato run through tartarus multiple times with different groups of people just to make sure that they are adequately prepared speaks volumes about his character, to me.

and while the tired mechanic is present in reload to some degree, most notably with allowing you to freely raise your courage stat when you visit edogawa after school… the tiredness system doesn't hit the same way that FES does, i think.

the way your party members in FES will call it quits when they return to the entrance floor at tartarus when they're tired, versus minato, in spite of all his tiredness and sickness, still pushes through tartarus because it's his responsibility…. idk!!! i miss that! i feel like this really hammers home the difference between minato and the rest of SEES, how minato doesn't really see himself as a human with needs worth respecting as long as he's useful to someone.

i don't think that tartarus being tedious (in FES especially) is not what most people would describe as fun, and i can respect people thinking it's a slog. but, regardless of how it feels to play, it doesn't change that FES's gameplay loop is a fundamental building block in how i perceive minato…

of course, i do recognize that you can just opt to NOT use the great clock in reload (and it's great when players are offered the choice to not partake in mechanics)! i definitely think that if someone really wanted to, they could manually level up party members, but i do feel that kind of playstyle isn't necessarily "incentivized" to the type of people who are into playing games for Having a Good Time. it's kind of like… "why would you do that when there's a much more convenient option available to you."

in any case! despite my woes, i do want to emphasize that i'm glad that reload has a much more smoother gameplay loop than the original P3 did, because it does make the game more accessible to people. having played both FES and reload, it feels very strongly apparent to me how the core gameplay formula of persona has really been refined in the past 18 years (to think og p3 was 2006 and reload is 2024.. time flies!). and reload has made revisiting a story that i love so dearly much, much easier because the gameplay just bops!

at the same time, due to my "i miss characterization informed by weird and dated FES gameplay quirks" woes, i still think that playing FES is worthwhile. (really, i feel this way about all iterations of p3! i think it's worthwhile to see what each version and side media has to say even if it doesn't Land™ for you.) but i also understand why people wouldn't want to play it, so i will keep writing posts about things i liked from FES's gameplay because i'm still very fond of FES (especially in respects to minato. these mechanics are so telling about him!!!) 💪

[bmpmp3]

i am so excited for the other powerfx maghni ai vocals u have no idea. obviously im excited in a nicely patient way because maghni is so small and also going through it at all times through no fault of their own but this morning i thought about ruby and smiled so serenely

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Once again baffled by how M*ffat can slay so hard on one-off episodes and suck so bad at showrunning

[madzillus]

When The Doctor said mavity let me tell you I LOST IT

[partlyironic]

finally got round to watching doctor who and my only take so far is that RTD has been trying to be Moffat. and I don't like Moffat, so. pretty gutted about it.

[merrilark]

Man, I forgot we're already almost at the DW season finale. Not gonna lie, fam, it's gonna need to do some heavy, heavy lifting to save this season for me personally. :x

[thetimelordbatgirl]

I feel like this is just a lot of us at RTD right now in wanting to know his thought process for a lot of the unexplaind shit in 73 Yards:

[blookmallow]

man i did not expect the level of ungodly trauma my fallout 4 survivor is being put through in the silly nukaworld dlc

[cherry-bomb-ships]

I desperately want more content of my ship with Mojo but my options are either make it myself (don't have time), commissions (don't have money), or begging for art (MORALLY UNETHICAL) so instead I'll keep withering away

[elithesia-autem-danguarde]

Chapters: 4/10 Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire | Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Versions Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Haruka | May/Yuuki | Brendan, Senri | Norman & Yuuki | Brendan Characters: Yuuki | Brendan, Haruka | May, Senri | Norman, Tsuwabuki Daigo | Steven Stone, Mikuri | Wallace, Nagi | Winona, Mitsuru | Wally, Odamaki-hakase | Professor Birch Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, But with elements from Emerald for the sake of future stories, Family Drama, Angst with a Happy Ending, Reconciliation, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Hey maybe sending children to prevent the end of the world isn't the best idea ever, Emotions, Familial Love, I tagged May and Brendan as a ship but they're not together yet, Background Relationships, Steven and Wallace boyfriends, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Healing, Eventual Happy Ending, Minor Injuries, Still requires hospitalization though Summary:

A partial novelization of ORAS: A once silent rift in a family rips open and threatens to tear Brendan and his father apart for good after years of unresolved tension and emotions. Norman has realizations to come to about mistakes he's made, but doesn't get a chance to act on them until the whole world is threatened with destruction. But will it be too late to make things right by then?

[grimmgrinningghouls]

roarg

[rubys-domain]

man. my lyney just dropped 70k on his skill. i think that's the highest skill pop i've ever had on record

[thepandalion]

:D