#animoos

[atlasalice]

Teaching them the ways of the (bey)blade

[duckeorite]

UHHH HHHH

[refinedstorage]

space gal

[seiya234]

two months after this picture was taken this very good boy was up to my hip in height

[koyoba]

YELLS... this artbook is so PRETTY

[quijotesca]

Wait, Bravern's theme song is diegetic. So in-universe, who performed that song? I don't think Bravern's singing because he's in the background calling out attacks. Then again, I guess he could've modified his voice because he's a robot. Does he have a recording studio in addition to the weird 3D printer? This is gonna keep me up at night.

[grimmuli]

thought about changing my icon here but yknow what thats fine thats just me coming out of my well sometimes

[wispurring-moss]

wamt to draw. too sick & tired. wehh...

[lazerinth]

[gikairan]

Mmm so i tried to play some of that Wuthering/*/*/Waves game that came out today

Bc its a Genshin-like and hey its sort of the time of the Genshin update where not much is going on. Why not try it out?

Especially as my pathway into Genshin was "haha, lets see how bad this Chinese BOTW-like is" to "... oh no i'm actually having a LOT of fun"

And... boy i dont think i've ever played a game thats so shamelessly a rip-off of another one, and fails to carve even one iota of its own identity.....

Look, i'll admit. My play time is probably less than 3 hours. Mostly just trying to follow the main story. Until i unlocked the gacha, and tried to run around and see what the open world had to offer for a bit.

And its.... its Genshin. Its Genshin with a slightly more sci-fi skin, made by a company that isn't quite to the same standard of quality.

The combat is different, and i WILL give it the fact that its got good punch. Long term, I can see this being more interesting than Genshin's (Which i admit is a little button spammy and not very strategic anymore - especially as i ignore Spiral Abyss)

..... But its about the only system that i felt had the right level of polish? Jumping felt wrong, climbing felt wrong. I tried to do the fast climbing up a wall and the main character just went into the sprint animation. The subtitles dont scroll down when youre not in a proper "cutscene", and it doesnt seem to be scrollable, so you miss entire sentences. I dont know if you can change the dub language, since I just want to play my games in English, but if you did change your language... thats.... not great? Theres also weird pacing issues with the voice acting, where it seems like they didn't quite give the English voice lines enough time to be said, pause for breathing, and move onto the next line. It feels unnatural. Plus - some of the translation is a little odd? You get a dialogue option like "What happens when someone Overclocks" and the response from the character is "Overclocking is *thing*". Like... the option was "what happens when you do this thing?", not "what is thing (You just explained 2 seconds ago)?"

UI wise, it all felt overly familiar. Everything is in exactly. the. same. place. The pause menu is a little different, but not a huge amount. Many character systems are the same.

Overworld, the bit i explored seemed a little... empty? There wasnt really a lot i could see to do. I found a mechanic that is basically seeles..... I found a domain that had the same kind of UI going on. I found a puzzle that isnt directly ripped from Genshin.... because its the magnesis/ Ultrahand Korok block puzzles from BOTW/ TOTK....

Theres nothing i played that felt unique to this game? Maybe the echo system, which I probably havent played with enough, but i dont think that alone is enough of a draw on its own? It feels like it needs something more significant to really set it apart and let it be its Own Game.

But truly the worst sin - they gave the main character the title of "Rover". Which sure feels like "Traveller", but not. Except.... they dont put an article before "Rover". And the translators really really should have. Because Rover.... is a stereotypical dog name. "The Rover" would sound a looooooot better.

The thing is tho, i bet none of this would bother you if you never played Genshin? A game which, honestly, I do not recommend you picking up if you havent played it yet. Because youre looking at 100+ hours of cutscene just to catch up. This... might actually be a good option if you want to try that kind of game, but are daunted by the amount of content in Genshin? It needs a bit more polish but I dont think its bad. Just obviously a little lower budget, or the team isnt quite as experienced. But i cant play this game and not go ".... this isnt as good as the game that its clearly trying so hard to be???" And maybe if Genshin was a typical story-based game that just released in one go, and i'd finished it, i'd be more forgiving? Like an "oh boy, two cakes!" kind of situation? But side by side... and I can't help but compare and find this new game lacking.

[seiya234]

i would kill so many grown men for this baby

Guess who went to the mechanic and now has one (1) toof

[asianhaven4u]

Animoo 🐄 🐮

[hemo--havoc]

Hey kharmi, what eastern alternian strife animations do you watch? Any favorites?

\\ i just sortA rANdoMlY wAtch whAteVer looks cool WheN i got the tiMe reAllY. i'M not All thAt pickY About the storY usuAllY As loNg As it's full of ActioN And the fightiNg's epic. //

\\ oh but drAgoN globe x is in My top teN for sure. //

[quijotesca]

BRAVERN EPISODE 7 SPOILERS/THEORY

The show's been going in weird directions since I made this post. I was totally open to the idea that I'm just paying attention to the most random shit so whatever. I somehow had further thoughts about this anyway. Oh no.

So while some of y'all were over-analyzing the origin of Lewis's sweet mech, I was trying to figure out why they included a scene of Bravern working on a model kit.

And it turns out that it's a really big model kit. I'm pretty sure that there's a connection to be made here.

ETA: I don't think these parts are necessarily too small because this jerk could very well be building an entire mech like this, meaning that these could be internal parts. Or he could literally be working on a model of a mech he wants someone else to make. I dunno. He's clearly up so something here and I have no idea what.

[--Discussion of stuff that happens afterwards that don't want to put into its own post just yet. I'm being as vague as possible --]

ETA 2: Seriously, part of what got me about this whole thing was that I didn't really get the fixation on Smith's mech. (My weird thing with this model-building scene was equally silly, so that's OK) It admittedly doesn't make any sense that was introduced and that happened, so I was overthinking it. Perhaps Bravern's essentially engaging in self-sabotage here? (That is to say, sabotaging his former self)

[animoo-overflow]

watched the first slam dunk the other day and I cannot get that sequence of the starting five walking up out of my head.

also just for my own memory: that sequence near the end where it was quiet for a few minutes? there was a child in my theater who kept asking their dad what happened to the volume and I did my best to not bust out laughing when the questions didn't stop 😂 precious

[gikairan]

Like, i think a lot of those ppl babygirling male characters defend it as "well theres not a lot of well written female characters in media!"

and, like, im pretty sure the media landscape hasnt been like that in over 10 years?

If youre engaging in more media than, like, marvel films... youre going to find a wealth of good female characters! Its still not a perfect media landscape, but its miles better than when those talking points were first going around on this website? Like, gaming used to be absolutely awful for not writing good female characters and now most of the big mainstream games are doing a pretty good job at writing women!

And really, the problem is probably a combination of 3 things:

Straight women engaging with media purely to look to ship a character dynamic they find interesting, and theyre not really interested in shipping characters theyre not attracted to

People who havent really joined a fandom younger than 10 years old, or are just jumping from trash IP to trash IP.

And straight up (internalised) misogyny.

And, like, you gotta find better media to engage with, turn off your shipping goggles and make an effort to care about the women in something for once.