I was not aware the prince of tennis fandom was still alive and thus did not think to attempt to interact with it. However, I found it and am now re immersed but have no one to talk to about it. Message me, reply idc but please talk with me 😭
i also starting playing rising beat today, but the catch is the english version died and i cant speak or read japanese. I have it tho and am (not) thriving.
today, in another post nobody cares about but me specifically, I finally finished organizing my wonderland themed tenirabi area, because if you give me the opportunity to design spaces in a game, I'm gonna take it too seriously
In the "mad tea party section", we've got Oni as the Mad Hatter, Fuji as the March Hare and Yagyuu as the Dormouse
In the "down the rabbit hole section", we've got Yukimura as the White Rabbit
In the "mushrooms that turn you tiny section", we've got Ryoma as Alice, Oishi as the Caterpillar, and Kamio and Gakuto as Tweelde Dee and Tweedle Dum (because neither the canon pair of tenipuri twins nor the non canon one are in this game)
In the "cheshire cat section", we've got Rin Hirakoba as Cheshire and Karupin as Dinah (Rin's outfit is the Cheshire Cat outfit from the Halloween event but he's not wearing the hoodie because of hair reasons, apparently)
In the "queen of hearts section", self explanatory Atobe
Bonus non Alice thing, the tree comes with a Pegasus I've named Seiya
now I've got one more Rin Hirakoba to get in this event to get the 10 Rins and I need them, so wish me luck because this game ain't giving me anything gacha-wise, so I got to put in the effort to get stuff I want
Splatoon 3: Side Order is good, but not great. I still highly recommend it, but if you care about the story, you're going to be disappointed. Quick review: spoilers ahead.
Side Order was the devs experimenting with Splatoon's gameplay loop. The campaign is a rogue-like, and it works amazingly well. Super fun, super challenging, building my deck and fighting through challenges with the stakes of resetting really scratched an itch in my brain. They did a great job with it.
Unfortunately, I feel like priority went to game design rather than story. Much of the mysterious artwork we saw in the first teaser trailer was completely unused; turns out, all of that was just concept art that never made it into the final product. Side Order failed to make me care about what was happening. I don't know why the protagonist had to be Agent 8; it could've been anyone else and the story would've worked the same.
Octo Expansion was the absolute peak of meshing story and gameplay. The campaign's hook is insanely strong; we immediately empathize with Agent 8 because we know from previous lore that octolings like her have been trapped underground for all their lives. We care about her fight to the surface because it's a fundamentally ideological fight for freedom. The plot stuff about Tartar and the Thangs is just nice set dressing; 8's fight for freedom is the real story.
There's none of that in Side Order. I don't particularly care about Marina's metaverse, even if it's tied to Octo Expansion's story. I don't know why Acht is there other than backstory stuff. It really feels like 8 is just told to do something and she does it because she's the protagonist; she has zero personal stakes or motivations in the conflict. This is a story blunder the devs did in Splatoon 3's default campaign––forgetting to give the protagonist a personal reason to fight––that I hoped would be fixed here, but alas.
What makes it worse is that the gameplay and story progression are completely out of sync. I beat the entire game on my third run in 4 hours. With each run, you get up to two keys to potentially unlock bits of story. That means you'll get about one piece of the story every two runs. There are twelve pieces of the story; I got the first and then beat the whole damn game. Now I have to go back and grind to see the remaining story when I've already beaten the final boss and resolved the conflict. I missed the entire story because I never had to reset because I blazed through the gameplay! It's just a real shame that I experienced everything without knowing... why it's happening. The final boss had me asking myself what the hell is going on because I don't know the backstory at all.
Again, I still really recommend. The devs did a great job, but Side Order remains in the shadow of Octo Expansion's incredible success. Like the default singleplayer campaign, there's just a lot of lost story potential here that, while not necessary, would have really elevated this DLC into something amazing.
Big Mama must have lost some serious standing in the yokai underworld because it’s gotten apparent that she keeps being beaten by a small group of teenagers and the occasional rat man, and when it’s not them then she’s taking L’s from her own schemes working against her.
And in the ensuing power vacuum, the Hamatos accidentally become the most feared crime family known to all the big bads of the Hidden City.
After all, they’ve publicly outplayed Big Mama multiple times, a couple of them have taken out the heads of two of the most well known criminal organizations, one took out Heinous Green, two are responsible for the destruction of Witch Town, they have ties to both the infamous Baron Draxum and Captain Piel, they won the Doom Dome death race, they’re Battle Nexus Champions, they’ve displayed insane feats of power and defeated impossibly strong enemies, most of them have been to jail, and they regularly mingle with humans.
You can just imagine the notoriety they’d accumulate from word of mouth alone.
drawing request via twitter, this is a short snippet of how i think future leo and leo's dynamic might go if they were to meet. I honestly love seeing these two interact it's probably one of my favourite things ever
(i promise my next post wont be about leo lol) (maybe)