#gacha complaining

[littlestardescendants]

Why the hell is Lucifer on the Gacha if we ain't got nothing for his big dicked ass??

I'm waiting!! Don't add him just to tease with his healers

( Also funny how we get info dumps after info dumps about Leviathan but Lucifer gets nothing. It's like the reverse in Obey Me xD )

[den-ai-d]

So uhh...turns out: I REALLY liked this Om Nom design 😃

[skoetiepoetie]

Tbh i do think that we should be a bit more grateful towards PrettyBusy

I've been playing otome/romance games for a few years now and as far as I can remember, PrettyBusy is one of the few companies that actually seem to listen very well to their fanbase (at least for whb, I haven't played their other games)

People saying that tears of Solomon are too hard to get? They add it to the login bonus, complaints about specific bugs? They are (working on) fixing it

We also need to remember that whb is still a very new game, and with new games usually comes bugs, especially with the many different features whb has

Imo they've been very active in listening to the community & trying their best to fix the game, and I'm very happy that they are, because not all companies do that

[fishyizm]

atoz chalky...........

[chibigaia-art]

Gacha game (derogatory)...... Is the Gacha aspect particularly bad?

it's gacha, it's bad by default

granted, not the worse gacha game I've seen, but still!

[superchat]

kind of annoying tho how ppl make up a guy to hate for afuckin. mobile gacha game

ppl get soooo mad at the idea of "meta players" in arknights, a singleplayer game lmao like who are you competing against??

youll never see someone who religiouslly uses mylnar make a post abt how stupid other ppl are who dont use him, but you always get these fuckinnnn High n Mighty gacha gamers who go "unlike you meta slaves with your boring roster and even more boring personality, *i* like this mid operator!" like go jerk off before you post and see if you feel any different abt Meta Players In A Gacha Game or something idk

[keithsandwich]

GUYS, HE CAME HOME 🥹😭

I'm screaming I'm crying I AAAAAA

He's so sweet I can't

[zeeph-containment-zone]

pjsk girlies really out here saying "Sega doesn't know how to tune vocaloids they sound like shit in project sekai" meanwhile every vocaloid song in the game is either an unedited but shortened version of a song that exists outside the game or a commissioned song from an actual producer edit: ty to the people who clarified this was about the human covers and not the actual songs. I've seen the same type of people legitimately complain that "there's too much miku in project sekai" so ngl I kinda assumed they were whining about the actual vocaloids again / thinking that because the commissioned song sounds different it's bad (example: how sasakure.uk's tuning is a little more robotic than others to fit the style)

[saturnpages69]

hey do you think we could petition the programmers and overall people who design Twisted Wonderland to make Yuu more prominent in the game?

we just did the Glorious Masquerade thing in eng twst, an event legit about magic vs no magic, and Yuu hardly had a part to play. I love this game man, it kills me inside we do so much nothing when at the literal beginning Yuu's called a beast tamer and mega important

[colourful-void]

I’m real excited for the sv epilogue event too, but I can’t help but think about how it would’ve been different if everything was just pushed back and had more room to breathe? If instead of an epilogue event we just got the two parts in a slower time frame with better development?

I just hate the idea they’ll keep fragmenting a story like this and tacking on new pieces instead of pacing things in a reasonable timeframe. It both weakens the story, and makes me really worried for the staff working on the games. The crunch must be absurd, for there to be an epilogue for Jan 11, when Indigo Disk released just a week ago today?

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

⭐ Luka Clemence - I Love You ⭐

[live-emotion]

Hey, that's not Tokiya

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

if we're gonna commit to the dazai sobfest could we actually cover something interesting. he like. got stabbed and died in dead apple is nobody concerned about that ever. he still broke his legs in that elevator and he was still bleeding from fuckin Somewhere. people keep pulling up his crime list and dark era and nobody is ever like hmm underage drinking hey dazai that's not really something you shouldve been doing probably. its always mori made you live in a shipping container?!?!?! (never implied) but never you were living with Toxic Waste???? how the hell did you shower. did you move out of that thing???

[nekobami]

There you go with your little criminal

He's squishy

AND FULLY ARTICULATED!!!!!!

[hesperidia]

😑

[wretchedbirdthing]

I don’t want to hate on Lost Word for any reason, that’s not what this is about; I don’t actually care all that much about the game. I just want to put out my own thoughts on their “version” of Aka or what I'll refer to as Shikigami Aya (cause they're wholly two different entities).

(I’ll probably put this under a thingy if it gets too long) (it got too long)

Now, I want to preface this by stating that I am very biased. Very very very and obviously biased towards Aka over Shikigami Aya. So keep that in mind! This is also just my opinion. I believe that despite this, my points still stand.

I also don’t want to talk about the characters themselves, mostly because I’m not fully comfortable in evaluating that (I don’t know if Yukari would wait for someone’s permission before doing something though I’m leaning towards “no” but I’m not comfortable with making a definite answer).

I also haven’t read the event yet cause I’d like to finish all the CDs first just in case the characterization sucks and I don’t want a bad impression of Merry and Renko. So I’ll just be going over the themes from the youtube trailer and the screenshots so graciously posted by neoaya. (I’ll read the story later once I’m done with the CDs.)

Let’s start with the “permission slip” that Yukari obtained from the Tenma. The concept by itself as a plot device is underwhelming to say the least. Having permission given by another character removes Aya’s agency in the process thus making the stakes lower and the story as a whole all the less satisfying. It could’ve been Hatate or any other tengu because it wasn’t their decision, it was the Tenma’s. 

It shifts the characterization towards one of circumstance, rather than being directed by the characters themselves. This isn’t because of Aya’s failings or her character faults or anything she did, it’s because the Tenma said so. But what of Aya? What are her thoughts on it? I don’t know about anyone else, but the Tenma’s reasons and justifications are far less interesting to me than Aya’s reasons and justifications, maybe because we barely know anything about the Tenma. 

It’s not fair to say that it’s bad writing but it’s just unsatisfying and unfulfilling, and just kind of lame. 

Disregarding what I don’t know about shikigami, it’s safe to assume that “becoming a shikigami” is a much greater deal than what’s presented in her profile on the account of what a shikigami is (to put it extremely simply, a shikigami is a spirit shoved into a youkai to make said youkai into a living computer). Aya is stated to be curious about what it’d be like to be a shikigami and that she could always “expose the truth” “if things went awry.” I won’t harp on it too much, but it seems like shikigami aren’t things that shouldn’t be taken so lightly. 

Aya as a shikigami brings such burning questions to my mind. Why would she do such a thing? What made her trust the least trustworthy (probably) youkai in Gensokyo? Did she know what she was getting into before she was turned into a shikigami? Did she know that she’d essentially be a servant to Yukari? Someone who you’d definitely not want to be a servant of? Does she even know what a shikigami is? What could have transpired for a typical youkai to give up their entire life to serve as Yukari’s servant? What do her friends think? What about the other tengu? (I acknowledge that these last two questions could be answered by the event and probably are but the others still stand.)

All these questions and more don’t matter because it wasn’t her decision. She had no control over how she ended up. All the tension and conflict that could arise vanishes. 

And that’s just such a shame.

Before I move on, I just wanted to focus on the “permission slip” given to Yukari by the Tenma. I’m giving it the silly name of a “permission slip” because that’s what it is; a document signed by the Tenma that explicitly states that Yukari has permission to turn Aya into a shikigami. I gave it that name because it’s also infantilizing to the characters involved. Having Yukari not only ask someone for permission but getting a signed note stating that she has permission, as if she’s a child asking their parents if they could go on a field trip, feels so childish, as if she doesn’t have any agency herself. Having Yukari act so cocky towards Aya about having permission and having Aya’s first thought be if Yukari forged the signature and not something that reinforces her position as an independent person reinforces this almost childish nature of the characters.

It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

(I said I didn’t want to harp on this but I did anyway, sorry! I will admit that I don’t know much about the tengu and their system of governance but I do know that Aya isn’t too fond of it. I also could be wrong about all of this if it’s discussed in the event.)

Moving onto the next point, that being Aya’s relation with Zenki, the oni that “possesses” her. It seems that Aya isn’t normally “possessed” by Zenki and Zenki only really makes their appearance when Aya uses her “phantasm-level power.”

My feelings and arguments are less concrete and more subjective than the previous point.

I don’t know, as a narrative device, it just seems kind of lame. She’s just normal Aya when she’s not using her powers? Sure she has to listen to Yukari’s rules and everything to keep the powers but still. Aya herself says that she’d “become pathetically weak” if she breaks Yukari’s rules, but her profile states that she’d just go back to having her normal power. I’d probably trust her profile over Aya herself because that's probably what Yukari told her. 

It seems almost “too easy” for Aya to just remain Aya. 

It has potential at least. There’s the irony being so power hungry that you’d do all these (potentially) terrible things to keep it yet you could go back to being normal at any time if only you abandoned that power.

Though it seems like Aya has had some alterations to her personality. She states that she “feels a bit like Ran” occasionally. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and not harp on this point too much.

I feel like Shikigami Aya has missed potential at a narrative level due to how her transformation into a shikigami is set up. It makes her backstory and character underwhelming due to her lack of agency and control.

But at the end of the day, it’s a fun, goofy character written for a fun, goofy game for fun, so it doesn’t really matter all that much (I say as I finish writing all of this).