#First impression

[virgil-630]

How do I live with myself now

I am seeping through the ground

Shame pulls and I sink like a stone

I am nowhere, I am home

I decided this year to get my shit together and start dumping all my lore posts on the internet, so below are some rambling notes on Gabriel's childhood and his friendship with Laura

I have a couple more texts in my stash, which I will try to edit and post in the near future

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So, Gabriel is 16 and it is the moment when he, together with his brother and mother, have to move from their hometown because of the aggravation of the situation on the border, near which they live at that time, and the divorce of his parents very "timely", actually partly provoked by the situation in the world

And they move to the other side of the border, to the north, because their mother's relatives live there.

The father of the family stays in the south and for obvious reasons the connection with him is cut off for a long time for the brothers. They will re-establish contact much later during the freezing of the conflict, but it will be mostly relevant for Michael than for Gabriel

I haven't written about this anywhere before, but a small note on how to understand the protagonist's homeland

All characters in the so-called north, the setting of the main events of the story, have Hungarian and sometimes German names. Gabriel and his brother have double names and, as you can see, quite an English surname. This is because, despite their mother's roots, she never planned to return to her homeland before the divorce with her husband, and her relationships with the family were always strained.

As I have already written religion played for her much more importance than the past life, which she sincerely hated, so she named the children in honor of the archangels, the father in turn chose the usual names for the area where they lived

All this led to the fact that when the brothers moved, they did not even know the local language, because no one taught them. Because of this, Gabriel still has an accent, but also due to the fact that he doesn't see much of it, and that he doesn't care to correct this issue.

Laura, Gabe's childhood friend. They met when they were both 12. Before the incident.

It's important to know that they were both odd kids, unspokenly excluded from the community. The Gabe's family's roots and religiosity, foreign to the South, also weighed in on the issue, as did Laura's transgender identity. Even though in the world of impressions it was treated much easier, but the girl's bad character scared away those few who wanted to socialize with her.

In this they are really similar. The only difference is that Laura perfectly solves the problems created by her sharp temperament and in principle likes to stay away from society, while Gab loves to create and increase these problems exponentially with her stubbornness. And this cocktail is perfectly combined with an incredible attraction to society and people, especially in his childhood years.

But in spite of this seemingly strange state of affairs the friendship was strong and a certain romantic element even began to flare up in it, but around that time everything went to the same place and the incident, the long recovery after it, and then the world situation together with the family situation became a strong obstacle to any development of these feelings.

[fieriframes]

[You only have one chance to make a first impression.]

[sisislair]

First thoughts on wisdom saga:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

Felt my heart drop when the suitors came in at the end of legendary and he called them the monsters. Fuuuuuck.

Also, no they fucking didn't!!! They did not just call Penelope a tramp!

Really fun seeing Athena chime in and help during Little Wolf!

The fucking song recap at the beginning of love in paradise slaps, and God Calypso's vocals. Lovesick and immensely threatening at the same time. *Mwah* im not your man lol.

Was not expecting the fucking GUT PUNCH of Odysseus almost commiting suicide, Calypso trying to drag him back, all the while the survivors guilt is literally eating this man alive. Shit.

Honestly think love in paradise ended up being my favorite song from this saga.

God games was epic as fuck. Honestly loved the arguments used on everyone, really tells you how petty everyone's reasons are. Luke Holt fucking killing it with Zeus as usual.

[susanoois]

I'm too late but I didn't want to miss this year's Hashimada Week. I love them so much! Day 1 First impression, Madara fell in love!

[pattokarts]

Finally got around to editing the video of trying out the first ProArte brush set I won from Jacksons Art Supplies last month 🥰✨ I'm impressed by how fine of a point the round brush has & am curious to see how it'll hold up over time. The flat brush started shedding a couple hairs a few minutes into painting which 😐 I guess is fine as long as it won't shed anymore 👀🙃 All in all, these are really nice brushes (very pretty as well!) but they probably won't become my new absolute favorites 😬

[hybridreviews]

G-Quacks! G-QUAX? G-QUX? I don't know.

[dramaswithasideofkimchi]

Podcast #280: The Haunted Palace First Impression

This week we are discussing the latest romantasy drama The Haunted Palace. Join The Fangirls as they discuss creepy ghosts, sexy possessed hotties, and kickbutt shaman hijinks. Continue reading Podcast #280: The Haunted Palace First Impression

[cinemageddonreviews]

After so many years, I decided to FINALLY get back into my old anime punching bag, Naruto and see if it’s really as bad as I remember it or if I was just a dumb kid. I’ll be watching it episode by episode and tweeting out my opinion of every single episode. Lets see what happens!

[seltzer-tastes-pretty-good]

Some first impressions on the new FNF Update

-Might be just because I haven't played the base game in a while but the missed notes feel like they take way more damage than before. It took me a couple tries to get past the new weekend, even on easy

-Speaking of, absolutely love the cutscenes in this one, really bring me back to the early days of Newgrounds

-It's weird to think I spent so much time as a kid looking at stuff on Newgrounds, yet I never actually played any of the Pico's School games, might need to change that at some point

-Music slaps

-Also won't spoil anything here, but I'm super curious on where this story is gonna go

[virgil-630]

Hi, i'm Paul (Virgil_630/Verg)🎆

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illustraitor and 2d artist who enjoy sci-fi and horror fiction

Most of my artwork is original characters or video games fanart. My main fandoms are Remedyvers, Crit roll and various immersiv sim games

My art #my art tag

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I'm happy to welcome everyone👋

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[nikki-item-challenge]

Item: First Impression

"A touch of pink makes winter feel warmer, offering the world a delightful first impression."

[brewerssupplies]

Ooh how about First Impression as a D&D spell?

First Impression

Divination cantrip

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

You strike a target within reach leaving a lasting impression on their psyche. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 psychic damage.

The damage increases by 1d8 if you go before the target in the initiative order and by an additional 1d8 if you are first in the initiative order.

[rev-feaw]

First Impression of Reverse: 1999 from a Long Time Gacha Games Player

Hello! Today I'll tell you my first impression about a new gacha game that just release it's global version not too long ago, "Reverse:1999". I preregistered this game and mind you, I actually had zero intention to add more gacha games into my sleeves especially the turn-based ones, but the art... The ART man!! It caught my attention soo let's dig in!

Before we start I'd like the readers (you) to know that I've been playing gacha games daily for a considered long time, since 2017 and still going on today. Although not a lot of them so here are some that I've played for over 3 months (pretty much understand the overall system):

Fate/Grand Order, Arknights, Genshin Impact, Honkai/Star Rail

Bold are my main daily games. And then here are some that I've tried, well at least I know their UI & prologue lol:

SAO MD (discontinued), Food Fantasy, Granblue Fantasy, Punishing/Gray Raven, Tower of Fantasy

I might bring up some titles to compare and most likely from between the "over 3 months" ones. Then, let's start!

What's the big deal of "gacha game" and why I play them?

I like to draw and gacha games have one of the best community for art clout. No this is serious, and one of my top reason of why I'm playing this borderline gambling type of game.

Gacha games are living from their banner rotation. The second ones are new characters and story reveal that updated regularly... Don't you think these are real good timings for posting?? They also got those art gods that somehow helped the promotion and attract the peasants (me included) to get to know the story and make fanarts too. I'm not kidding. This is why I've been here since I started digital art. Lol.

But every actions need consequences. Gacha games are very high maintenance to stay relevant, from the player's side. You missing one update, you'll feel like an old man. This is the most FOMO (fear of missing out) type of game. The main sacrifice is TIME. So many things need to tend in one game, and if you play multiple it means you have to spare some hours in a day. If you can't, get ready to lose something. Why I don't say money? Because I'm pretty much f2p, I never really spent my money for gacha. But time, time bro. Time also money! This is also why I write this post.

The Premise of Reverse: 1999

The early story kind of reminds me to Persona 3 where there are some special times (Dark Hours in P3) where an ordinary human can't survive and there are some special creatures than survived.

In R:1999 the special time is called "storm" which will turn back time further from your original time. For example, MC is from 1999 but she's sent to 1920s thanks to the storm. So they made a foundation or something to get back to the original time. Well in a sense this is kinda similar to FGO (Fate/Grand Order)'s Chaldea, maybe that's why I'm so driven to try this game lol. The name of those "special creatures" are arcanists.

Actually I don't really understand everything yet, but at least that's the glimpse I got. Also they tried to fix the history or something whenever they're getting sent back so, basically a fancier FGO right?? I have no problem though.

Setting

The game's mainly set in the west in 20th century. I think this is the main perks of the game, because the entire design and aesthetic revolves around this so it can differ greatly from most gacha games that either have fantasy RPG setting or urban post/apocalyptic ones. Personally I really like this.

The Main Character

The MC is such a breath of fresh air!! It's a woman, and people called her "Vertin". So no, not your typical self-insert anime degenerate persona like most gacha games. Here is a very beautiful EP of her:

The Characters

The characters are pretty unique imo, you can play as inanimate object (visually) like apple and satellites. The arcanists are the playable (and summonable) characters. So expect to see various 20th century-themed designs.

Also the designs are dope!! They're unlike most gacha games' characters designs where they wore something weird that will awaken your darkest corner of brain but here they're just dressed NORMALLY LIKE A NORMAL FANCY PERSON I'm so glad. Normal doesn't mean boring, this is a compliment. Even the "fanserviced" ones are still pretty tasteful than just put random windows everywhere.

Summoning

This game has a carry-over pity on 70th roll, soft pity started like in the 60th. They use the same gacha currency on both permanent and limited banners. There's 50/50 like in Mihoyo games. You need 180 clear drops (?) to turn them into one rabbit statue (?) for a summon. I think this one is very similar with Arknights. Personally in my opinion this is very generous and reasonable, but I'm a FGO player so yeah my "generous" standard may differ greatly with a lot of people lol.

Oh you also can get guaranteed *6 from beginner's summoning banner.

(Early) Gameplay & Progression

The gameplay is like FGO with extra steps. Or FGO with fewer steps... Anyway, it's a card game. Each character has cards you can choose per turn. Once the "stars" are filled you can unleash the ultimate. Honestly? A little boring lol, but things may change once I get out early-game phase. People said this is very similar to 7 Deadly Sins game but I never get close to the IP so idk.

You can set which enemy to hit per card unlike FGO where it's done per turn. Personally I think this is neat. Although among the games I've tried I think Honkai/Star Rail still superior for turn-based system since they can control the speed and whatsoever. However this kind of "fixed" system also nice since you don't need to farm artifacts/relics to be playable.

The early stages are so easy. Well, most games have very easy early stages though, unless a certain popular furry tower defense game (*cough* Arknights *cough*).

For character progression pretty much just level up, no need for artifacts/relics like Mihoyo games so it's fast and easy.

You can set a "replay" for autofarming once you get 2 stars achievement on the node. You can also choose the "amount" of drop rate for just one battle. This is very neat!

Dailies, Weeklies, etc

R:1999 has similar progression with Arknights and Mihoyo games with this one. The daily and weekly tasks literally like Arknight's.

Tbh their dailies are quite a hassle lol, you need at least spend 5-15 minutes to clear all.

And their "battlepass", looks like Genshin's battlepass or HSR's Nameless Honor

Gotta admit between ALL the games I've played, nothing beats the simple daily of LOGIN in FGO (in exchange with disastrous gacha and tremendous farming🙏).

UI & Visual

Maybe I should've put this a little earlier lol.

The UI is AMAZING!! One of the best. Really (once again) reminds me of Arknights, since I like their UI too, and even better I think especially their retro aesthetic.

The visual is GORGEOUS. The game is presented in common gacha game storytelling method: visual novel, however they tried to incorporate like L2D animation in the STORY'S VISUAL.

The characters have different art styles, I think done by different artists like most gacha games (the only one who didn't do this are Mihoyo games, please explain). And the sprites are full body non-chibi 2d animations! This one's like FGO, although still like 10% chibified so in terms of sprite style, FGO still has the crown.

Music & other sounds

Music is BANGER!

I rate it 4.5/5. Maybe the 2nd music of gacha games that I like after Genshin. It doesn't sound like basic visual novel ost (looking at you FGO and HSR) in most part, tho since this is basically *still* visual novel, so in some part still sounds pretty stale after you heard it so many times.

The voice over is dope! They used various accents, so it's pretty interesting!

Housing/Dorm

The name of housing/dorm in R:1999 is "Wilderness", something like islands. This is once again reminds me to Arknight's "Base" but outdoor.

End game

Honestly I haven't found the endgame content for this one, if you're looking for challenges maybe games like Arknights and HSR still better choice.

Conclusion

Based on every gacha games I've played, I can say progression, UI, and summoning from Reverse:1999 is similar to Arknights, but turn-based and A LOT easier at the start. If you've played Arknights before I think understanding the system will like walk in the park.

For the story it's somewhat like FGO, of course not the same, but still both are "correcting the history and go back to our time" kind of story.

The game doesn't ask much, so I think if you're a gacha game player and barely have any time for more games, this one's still enjoyable with very minimal investment. Suitable as your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th gacha games. Especially when you're just want to vibe with the art and setting like me.

If you're new in gacha game, there's no problem with trying out this, but I think the game is made with thought that the target market are people that familiar with gacha games. Still, enjoy your time!

Tl;dr if you still want to play your main games daily while join the Reverse:1999 bandwagon, it's totally possible without sacrificing much of your time.

[itsmelloww]

Did people have any particular experiences reading drhdr for the first time ?

Mine that I can remember are the below:

I did NOT like Risu I think it was around volume 10 he started growing on me and I am a firm believer that his dumbass hairstyle at the beginning was a big reason why

I thought Ebisu would have a much bigger impact/role

Speaking of Ebisu when Risu reacted to her when Kaiman bit her head had me SCREAMING

Fucking baseball arc I skip it every time

Remember seeing the cover for volume 12 and Asu and thinking ???? Who tf??

No but him turning out to be a scrawny little twink sent me

Btw Nikaido trying to get Risu in En's mansion?? I was HYPED. Noone rid for Nikaido during those early volumes like I did

All that Devil stuff in early volumes gave me the CHILLS I thought it was the most eldritch shit ever

Devil Asu was a CUTIE I loved him

The FUNNIEST thing?? As a Chidaruma WHORE ?? HATED his guts at the beginning

[Might make this a separate post act cause it's funny]

I didn't realise who he was so I just thought he was just some Devil who was a bully and had an ego problem (I mean..) and I was riding for Asu so was like FUCK this guy

I thought it was some Devil vs Devil situation so was mad that Asu was so cautious of him, i was fully like -- Asu STAND UP‼️‼️‼️

No but genuinely he PISSED me off and I thought he looked DUMB

I think it was when I saw Asu get destroyed that I realised Chidaruma MAY be smth more -- Asu got slaughtered and I was like, oh.

The cross eyes bored me to death (I KNOW IM SORRY)

WHEN WE SAW AIKAWAS FACE ??? ARGHH I still remember SCREAMING

Kasukabes wife being a DEVIL !!!!!!!!!

KAI. KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KKKKKKKKKAAA AJAUY AAKKA KAAIIIA AAAA KAI

I LOVED En and the En family moments especially early in the series frankly i was more into thay than anything

Deadass expected Nikaidos "sister" to make a comeback

Ebisu being "pursued" by a Devil had more impact on me than anything else I admit it

I could see Holey in the late covers but for some reason I never thought much about it

En dying was something I did NOT expect and it kinda fucked me up like that scene of his chopped off head hanging is ingrained in my memory

Also En coming back was a bit too exciting for me

Volume 21 SCARRED me

No cause when Chidaruma slaughtered the devils and house drained out their blood?? GAGGED

Chidaruma telling En to piss off when En was dying is actually going to be in my wedding vows one day

Risu kept getting hotter and hotter as the series went on and I was really feeling it

Devil Nikaido started getting boring for me after a certain point ngl

You couldn't ask me what that whole head thing with Kaiman was during my first read I'd literally just shrug

Idk what House was but I fucked with it hard

Loved Store you go bird

I fully thought Devils were being slaughtered and fed to other Devils in some horror fashion (I mean..) and I can't explain it but in my head it was horrifying and I love horrific shit

Chidaruma turning into a baby worked so well for my spirit

Took me embarrassingly too long to realise sorcerers had different doors

Was (am) crushing so hard on Noi

That's all I can remember for now but I'll prob add to it

I love first impressions vs what I actually ended up thinking/feeling

[hybridreviews]

Hey, a noitanimA anime that's not associated with a creep or just a bad show.