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mell0bee · 3 years

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exu ep 5/series so far thoughts because i feel like i haven’t fully processed it and also It’s About To Go Down

this is very long and i am very adhd so i will put it under a cut

the wildmom asking the party to prove themselves is way up there for me in exu scenes (i think like second fav #1 being The ted and opal argument). i loved how aabria plays her as sort of fluid/shifting personality wise based on who she’s talking to like!! it makes a lot of sense

also HOW AABRIA PLAYS THE SPIDER QUEEN??? HELLO??? SHES SO FASCINATING I LOVE IT i love all-powerful deities who do things because they’re bored or maybe she’s lying idk??

and w dariax we get the dynamic of all powerful deity trying to use a mortal to get what they want vs one mortal with a negative intelligence score perplexing the deity. amazing

overall just watching aabria dm like it’s rlly made me think abt how i play the game like!! she rlly prioritizes fun and cool stories rewarding the players for rp and crazy ideas and if something stops being fun she just!! moves on!!! and it’s still cohesive and smooth! not to mention the cinematics!! all her npcs being hilarious!!! the way she encourages more quiet players! it’s very cool

the way she uses saving throws to give information/vibe checks is fascinating esp in this campaign where there’s a bunch of deities at play and yknow a whole missing week but also every time she says it as a player of dnd where saving throws are reacting to something bad i have a pavlovian response to go OH GOD OH NO agfbjfjf

i feel like we got insight into lots of these characters today

the opal+ted/fy’ra rai+fy’ra kai parallels may kill me oh man it’s so good

and also IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN FY’RA RAI ma’am thank you for having a brain cell MORAL COMPASS MOM FRIEND DO NO HARM TAKE NO BS!! like thank u wildmom she is exactly what these idiots needed

i love aimee sm being new to dnd and just coming up with the most buckwild solutions to problems stretching the limits of the game it’s amazing

and i still stan opal and ted so much i love siblings sm and like their relationship is so fascinating like 'are you okay?' 'are you?’ then i am too' BYE

also completely unrelated but i hate naming characters so i made a character who would have a backstory reason not to have a last name but aimee rlly said no opal just doesn’t have one it’s fine ❤️ it’s so funny to me agdhd

also love it when ppl call her opal nolastname or something similar because i do the exact same thing w my character!! same running gag!!

dariax hit a little close to home as a neurodivergent person with his being so used to being a screw up and being willing to accept that there’s a problem he caused and needs to fix without even recognizing what the problem is oh man

dorian??? like dude has major trust issues who hurt u and the ALIGNMENT SHIFT i love neutral characters sm. so interesting. ppl smarter than me could write a whole essay probably but just aghhh

2 bros chilling on a bedroll back to back because they’re not gay (their relationship is also fascinating tho like dariax #1 dorian fanboy and dorian trying to reciprocate and also going on a corruption arc together… feLLAS IS IT GAY-)

orym sir i need to know. do you have a husband. is he dead. is he named riegel. also thank u for being the moral compass we stan. i feel like orym more than ever is Just A Dude like how fjord was yknow i love it

and then just fearne head empty chaotic neutral fey queen just flirting with opal and being the biggest sweetheart and the funniest excrew member and she rlly said no i will not have a corruption arc no thanks ❤️ i like how i am right now ❤️i love her

MYR’ATTA GIRL WYD???

#bee watches exu #exu spoilers #cr spoilers #i haven’t been liveblogging as much bc i’m livetexting?? to kiki #so all my dumb jokes usually go thru the kiki filter #but i wanted to put this here #everyone is just. so interesting #it’s different but good different #i feel like i wanna binge watch it all once it’s over but idk if i will have time #this is why i cant make meta posts like this is just how i think in brain mush #brain spill?? idk the word #too many thoughts not enough space who needs cohesion anyway #critical role #the crown keepers

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kyu-bri · 4 years

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Magia Rapport pt 2

@magiarapport

August 24th prompt: What was your favorite event, and why? Is it because of gameplay or the story?

It’s hard to choose so I’m gonna just, gush a bit.

As you can probably tell I’m very biased toward the OG girls, I started Magia Record primarily because PMMM had become my new obsession and I wanted some sort of constant flow of content out of decade old anime lmao.

But another thing I think I hooked onto was Inu Curry’s writing. They really know Madoka Magica and aren’t afraid to really play with them- something the writers for a spin-off gacha game (as with most spin-off stories honestly) can be scared to do. Inu Curry made references, revealed secrets and built upon the story we already know- which lets be honest is what we always truly want from a spin-off series. Magia Record proper does this well by putting more magical girls into the world and letting us see things work out better for them than for the original cast, but what I really appreciated with this story was getting to see that old original cast get to get in on that, and these events managed to do that without watering them down any.

Under the cut is me going on for 3000 words about why I love these three events I’m so sorry. TL;DR at the very end-

I’ll go in release order,

A La Carte Valentine was one of the first if not THE first event I got in on. I was eager to bc 1 Gay Magical Girl Shit Guaranteed. And ofc 2 OG Cast participation.

I want to preface by saying I actually loved all the girls’ stories in this. I was very much still in a state of getting used to Iroha’s gang let alone trying to care about the secondary girls. I knew Tsukasa had this angsty Twins Separated At Birth Deal and liked seeing her home life (also I immediantly stanned Take. Regular well-meaning dude who has no idea whats going on just trying his best and hating his boss). I knew nothing about Ami except Cowgirl Meguca and getting the bulk of her personality in one short even I think really kept me from being absolutely sick of her, she’s just a cute silly teenage girl who could be in literally anything and I was able to just endearingly giggle at that. Hinano managed to do the heterosexual unrequited crush cliché without me groaning or missing any of her regular personality. Also was there a Ren part? I don’t remember because everything Ren does feels like a Soft Yuri Valentines Special. Also I love Momoko. Ok moving on to what I Really wanna talk about.

Madoka is genuinely my Least Cared About of the Holy Sextet. I don’t think she’s bad or even boring- Madoka has a depth to her character, like, really deep- but that’s not something ever really touched upon by the fandom. Even when people like her and make her the Heroine she’s Supposed to be, it’s usually in the context of “Girl who feels nothing but kindness and happy thoughts would cut off her right hand to feed to a hungry dog. Isn’t she so Good????”. And honestly, while I understand the point it was going to make, I wasn’t crazy about her sacrifice in the end of the series. (Team Homura “Rebellion Is Good Actually” ftw) All because I think that I’m an Adult Woman watching this like “You are 14yrs old and need to be home playing Sims and not sacrificing yourself for the greater good you stupid silly little baby girl”

So my point is here near all fan content I encounter tends to emphasize whats sort of my least favorite facet of Madoka. I don’t think she made the ‘wrong’ decision in the context she and the story were given, but it’s still a sad thing to show a depressed(!!!) insecure girl resolving to give away her very existence so that every other girl on earth has a chance to just Dream. Oh and they still usually die young. But that’s ok because then she takes them and lets them sleep peacefully forever in her Heaven Basement (Yes I am bitter stan Homura I would yank this savior complex infant girl out the sky too)

MY POINT BEING (The servers closing let me BLEED OUT ALL MY FEELINGS) This event did not do that!!! It made Madoka…….. EVERYTHING SHE SHOULD BE??? ALWAYS??? Showed her HOW WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW HER??? (Read: Happy and Alive and Confident at no foreboding or sacrifice of anyone else!!!!)

She is Sassy and Surrounded By Friends and Really Funny??? And we get this Ridiculous Oh My God On Crack metaphor about her being this all-powerful apocalypse bringing being which is representing her love for the universe through her Witch form of Wanting Everyone To Be Happy And Safe With Her??? And she still risks herself to save everyone as is her Thing to do but we get to have her do it without erasing her existence as a human being at the end and if that is not some GOOD SHIT????

Ok next:

NGL Sayaka’s (fav character, inarguable best girl, can u not tell) parts in MagiReco til like the last arc have always left me a bit disappointed. She was the only late comer of the OG girls from what I understand and it kind of gives her the air of what a lot of the second(/thirdary?) girls suffer from. You can tell the writers can’t even figure out a trope to apply her to to make her easy and two dimensional to write about so they just don’t know what to do. They definitely try to make up for it (especially in the anime which Praise Be but that’s probably Inu Currys doing) but she’s still lacking like, any of the depth of her personality. Which, I guess I could anticipate. Because most of the fandom tends to as well. (again)

Gonna stop complaining and get on with- That didn’t feel as much the case in her Valentine event. Sure it was still the same formula of “The Issue Is Kyosuke” but that didn’t play out as grueling as her personal story did with “Nine Episodes Of “The Issue Is Kyosuke””

There was one big glaring heart-aching detail of “Mami isn’t really there because SHES IN A FUCKING CULT RIGHT NOW” which kind of jarred the event out of the ho-hum silly valentines sidestory these events usually keep up.

Sayaka has this crisis about Doing Anything Meaningful With Kyosuke which we all know what That’s calling back to, but in this environment we get to have Kyoko come right up and be in a position with her to earnestly and affectionately Push Her To Do It. The lonely little tsundere bitch girl pushes her Not Friend to Give The Bastard The Gotdamn Chocolate Already and for a moment you can only think about What If’s and If Only’s. Sayaka’s is still the weakest of the threes stories in this event but it worked harder to show us different sides of the characters then 6 chapters of Another Story managed to do.

And then there’s fucking Homura.

I will be, eternally grateful for Kuro. As a character that becomes metaphorical for the 2D ways we initially viewed the feathers and just NPCs in games in general, and also like, giving Homura a friend she actually cares about that isn’t the tangled dark web of Bullshit she’s gotten tied up with Madoka in. Please ask me about all my AU’s where Kuro is Homuras first girlfriend.

Seeing Moemura in Magia Record has always been a bit surreal, we never really understand just what stage of Trauma this Homura is in because Multiverses Are Hell, but this event gives us a good chunk of a Homura who still has hope and faith both in the world and Madoka. Theres this wonder to her that while still bogged down by terrible experiences still has the energy to be Trying. And she sees a girl who used to be like her- which when you think about it is probably what Madoka saw in her- and she wants to help. Because Madoka helped her. And Madoka is the best thing in the universe and maybe Homura can be just a little bit closer to that.

Kuro is too far gone though, as is the reality frequently in this series, things don’t work out just because of circumstance. Kuro was a bullied, insecure little girl who realistically shouldn’t have had to become a rampaging monster because of it. We’re reminded of this being the reality of the Madoka universe. Homura, is reminded of this reality. Homura loses this one chance to bring hope into the world like Madoka brought hope into hers.

And then her story ties into the ending of Madoka’s. Madoka saves her life yet again, even as Homura continues to feel miserable and empty. But at least Madoka is with her. The girls then share a quiet, intimate Valentines together. And you sort of understand how Homura fell so far into the darkness that the only thing she was able to still care about and fight for was Madoka’s safety.

That shit slaps. It slaps you right in the heart and causes fucking bruising but then u want it to do it again because you’re masochistic and Meguca Is Suffering.

Anyway I hope Kuroe slaps our hearts more in season2

MOVING ON!!!!

~Nagisa’s Wish~

Ok, I don’t remember what got me so simp over Nagisa, I think it was the heart-aching irony that Mami adopts the witch that fucking ate her. But that is my baby now and I’d die for her. Fandom Charlotte whose pink and silly and loves her mom and is Mami’s cancer-riddled girlfriend is cool and all but she isn’t a tiny Halloweeny baby whose fucking bitter angry and manically obsessed with cheese due to PTSD.

I had saw a summary of Nagisa’s Wish reposted just to quickly explain Nagisa’s backstory, and as such immediately had to search out if that crazy ride was true- so I actually watched this whole event probably before I downloaded the game. It was surreal on its own but replaying it when it came to NA didn’t lessen it any- I got to process more of what I was witnessing and as result stanned Yu pretty hard.

I guess to explain my Emotions here, saving Yu for later- calls for me to just, describe who Nagisa is as a human being and my headcanons surrounding it all with what this event gave us. Whether you consider it canon or not it’s one version of events that we were given and that I am all for accepting.

Nagisa’s Mom was a celebrity, she could have been an actress though I also like the idea of her being an Idol. She met Nagisa’s Dad oh-so romantically and got knocked up- they very well could have been married but it doesn’t seem clear enough. He seems to have left too suddenly for legal matters like that. Nagisa is approximately 11, and while she seems to remember her Father, she doesn’t in the sense of having had a relationship with him or any feelings. Her Mother has to “explain” why he left, so Nagisa was probably still young even if not a baby. What I’m getting at here is the timeline for when Nagisa’s Mom Got Like That. Nagisa can remember her from before she was, and then says that she got sick after her Dad left. So what I’m wondering is did Daddy Momoe ruin this young rich girls life, give her syphilis and then leave her with a baby she was unfit to care for in poverty? I know half of this is running on anime logic but Holy Shit all the possible ways reasons and ideas for why things could’ve gotten This Bad.

Is it ridiculously dark and edgy that the original story we were given was “Girl wishes her dying mother could have her favorite cake but then realizes OOPSIE-DAISY I could have wished for her to Not Die instead!!!!” got turned into “11yr old hates her abusive mother so much she wants to make her suffer in the most symbolic way she can and then goes mental when she isn’t able to do it”??? Yes. But if I had the mental capacity to I have to admit I was in a position to be just as bitter at that age too. I can’t call it unrealistic. I may infact be projecting hard with how much I support and enjoy this backstory.

Anyway Nagisa was in such a state of trauma and distress at a horrifically young age when she died that it broke her mental faculties so severely that even when she came back as a literal Angel of God she had blocked it out so deeply and thoroughly she seemingly regressed to an even younger capacity and hyperfixated on the trait that she has before used to try to bond with her Mother who she had died hating.

And that also slaps u right in the heart.

A N D T H E N !

~Beachside Bonds~

Just the simple structure of this story was so enjoyable and nicely done. We finally get to see the OG girls in a context we wouldn’t be able to in literally any other scenario. They’re going on a summer vacation together and Homura is sentimentally journaling every single second of it. Is this mayhaps because she’s never gotten to be this happy and blissful with these girls she loves so much??? Of course this is are you not paying attention what the fuck. Homura is so optimistic and healed and hopeful she’s acting like what she might actually be doing as a normal teenage girl. (A heartrending contrast to the end of her Valentines Special)

We get nothing short of pure fluffy Slice Of Life shenanigans on the beach which even includes a bunch of the Kamihama girls that the OG crew knows! And they talk about it! And introduce eachother! And their friends commentate on it! Ren gets to see Kyoko Not Being A Bitch and then Sayaka teases her about having made friends and oh my god my heart is turning into cottoncandy as we speak Mom holy FUCK

Sayaka’s existence fucking matters in this story! It’s her families Hotel they’re staying at and she has relationships and memories with the creepy twins that live there and she talks like a fucking person??? And gives opinions??? That aren’t just copypasted “Justice is Good and Bad things are BAD!!!!”

Mami is fresh out of her fucking Cult Drama and she’s still trying to be cool Senpai but then she DECKS Homura in the face and gets scared by the ghost stories and then turns into pudding and waxes nostalgia at Kyoko out of nowhere IT’S ALMOST LIKE SHE’S A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL????????

G H O S T S ? ? ? ?

Y U ! ? ! ? ! ? !

(IS G A Y ! ! ! !)

This whole fucking backstory and truly horrifying Romeo and Juliet on Acid love and death story between Yu and her girlfriend and like if I wasn’t fascinated enough by Yu just being the creepy organ harvester before but apparently thats what she became after she literally made some sort of wish that erased all of her memories besides the nickname her sweetheart used for her and coincidentally also added to her the task of killing all Bad People?????

Yu made a wish to be able to get rid of All Bad People preserving the innocent version of herself who grew up with this girl and it was right after a failed double suicide attempt on fucking Doomed Lovers Cliff fucking Lifetime Will You Ever.

It then pairs with Homura whose PTSD gets to shine through a bit in being unable to believe any bad sort of Madoka which how could you try to force her to at this point while Also pairing Homura with Ren in the “Gay Love Saved Our Lives: Traumatized vers & Vanilla vers”

I don’t remember if there was a symbolic finale and tbh I have forgotten a lot of the details with Yu and her girlfriend Whatsherface because that shit was just so shocking and bizarre to read and much too painful to reread in a timely fashion just.

That shit hurted but it was full of so much love and hope both doomed and stolen but still was wrapped up in the comforting concept that This Is The Universe Where Homura Gets To Be Okay This Time.

She’s still scarred beyond comprehension and this ghost drama accentuated it all but at the end of the day this is still the Safe Universe where all of them are alive and the Holy Quintet are friends and they’re all going to be okay (Godoka & Aniplex willing) and so many of us love Madoka Magica because it shows girls fighting through the same pain we’ve been through and keeping their hope alive and here we get to see them actually find peace in a clunkily written fanservicey spin-off mobile gacha game and hey, that made me happy while I got to experience it. Thanks for the ideas and memories and tragic backstories and funny thirdary characters MagiReco I’m gonna take em all and Run.

Akjsladbfalkjfsbslk If you read this all without getting a migraine or blocking me ily thanks for listening!!!!!!

TL;DR

Me likey A La Carte Valentine bc it’s silly and gay and I simp Kuro

Me likey Nagisa’s Wish bc sawft baby is good and so are Tragic Edgy Backstories

Me likey Beachside Bonds bc Gay Ghosts and Our Girls Finally Get To Be Happy Peaceful(ish) Teenage Girls and that’s all I want for them ;w;

Reeses In Pieces ya’ll

1Ten 2More 3Words 4To 5Hit 6(3000 7Words 8Woo 9Boy 10Howdy

#magia rapport #magia record #pmmm

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sophie-actualgeekqueen · 6 years

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DnD time : Gnomes for a start

Okay so I've made a lot of Dungeons and Dragons characters (most of them bards) but I started playing a gnome called Tom Backer as I was absolutely obsessed with the 4th doctor. He had very little personality and I was also doing the game so the game kinda sucked plus I barely knew how to play but that sparked my curiosity with bards. Now halflings were ok but gnomes were like tiny elves without all that fancy bullshit.I created several gnome characters for the purpose for backup in case my character in a game my brother ran died or as NPC’s in the weekly game I run and I love them to pieces. They include

Lorilyn Silentall - an adorkable conjuration wizard raised in a tower with only books as friends.Lori was secluded at birth by a series of wizards who selected several children to expertly trained in the arcane arch.While she could talk to the other students they seclude her due to her natural gnomish aptitude for magic. She has incredibly pale skin and wears avery tall but well fitting purple wizard hat with a star on the top and matching starry cloak with standard travelling clothes and blue crystalline rod that she wields like a staff. She has a Jackalope familiar named Jezebel who craves attention and likes resting on top of or inside Lori’s Very large hat

Nyxadria “DoubleLock” Orburn -A rough yet fumbling cleric of the luck goddess Tymora. a street rat all her days with only her half-sister Kithri(Halforc) who she met after relating to their father, an infamous bard, Nyx tried to be a thief but lacked the coordination and was unlucky on jobs .Then one day when she fell out of a window trying to steal an Elven noble’s jeweled necklace(long story)she fell into a decrepit temple of Tymora who spoke to her and marked her with a tattoo of a coin that switches between heads-tails. She wears a sleeveless vest with a bright blue bandanna with the mark of Tymora and simple clothes(magically disguised armor with her hair in a long ponytail. she wields a longsword but her clumsiness was fixed through the divine nature of her powers she wields numerous and has a lot of them hidden from her body( said to be 11 maybe more).She is fairly blunt and while holds the wisdom and intelligence to know better of her actions she usually doesn't think her words through before speaking them.

I thought it might be fun to play a race of charismatic jokesters and have both of them not used to social situations but always ready to crack a joke.

The Pros and Cons

Pros: Gnomes have long crazy names and nicknames like Alston “Stumbleduck” Garrick or Ellywick “OneShoe” Nackle ,Their humour is super well known and play crazy pranks, They have advantage of saving throws against magic using mental saving throws (Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma) which is super powerful ,Forest Gnomes can speak to small animals and they know all the gossip, rock gnomes can make little trinkets like watches, lighters, and music boxes so they're always prepared for little things plus to top it off they live for up to 300 years

Cons: They might take their pranking and trickery too far and piss off the wrong person, they might not be taken seriously on account of their size which isn't great, their might put too much faith in the wrong people as well as taking dangerous risks.

I plan on making posts for all my fav races as well as any DnD shenanigans I get myself in (such as the game I run or just stuff)

#dnd #dnd character #dnd campaign #gnome dnd #gnome #rpg #character building #dnd shenanigans #dnd time #dungeons and dragons #pen and paper #backstory

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yoolee · 7 years

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Samurai Love Ballad Party

YO, FOLLOWERS. And other fans. I’m curious. Fill this out and tag me so I can read!

The following are my opinions only, I recognize that our unique experiences shape how we interpret stories, so if you’re like ‘what is yoolee talking about, that’s not a thing’ just assume our differing life paths throw a different shadow, k? K.

How long have you been playing? Aaahahaha, since it came out. I think I was playing Sleepless when the banner popped up for a ‘pre-register and get a fancy item’, and you could choose Nobu/Mitsu or Saizo/Yuki. I don’t play the other party games anymore, really.

Which routes have you played? *cough* all of them…working on Shingen’s NE now.

Which route did you play first? Saizo’s. This was an excellent life decision on my part.

Who are you playing next? Depends on who/if they release someone else, otherwise I’ll pick one of the NE’s I still need to get.

Which of the samurai is your favorite? Saizo. I know, anyone who has spent time on this blog will be so surprised. I do acknowledge he’s a little overrated – but he’s still my fav. He is my fav in every route he shows up in – Yukimura and Shingen especially.

Who comes next on the list? There is a pretty big tie for next fav, haha. Probably Yukimura. He is such a sweet mess.

Who has grown on you? Nobunaga. I was kind of ‘eh’ about his main route and early events, but his last few events I have really enjoyed. The MC in this last one (My Eternal Love) holy $%(@.

Which of the samurai is your least favorite? Mitsuhide. He has mannerisms that remind me of an ex who was a bit of a self-righteous hypocrite and I semi-project that on him as a result. Sorry, babe. He’s really the only one in my bottom tier, I have really enjoyed the stories overall.

Which route has the best MC? Kojuro’s! I actually really like this MC across the board game-wise, but I especially love her feistiness in Kojuro’s route.

Which route surprised you the most? Kenshin and Toshiie/Inuchiyo’s. I was prepared to write both of them off and they both broke my heart. Inuchiyo especially—there was a lot of depth of emotion in that route that I was not expecting. Add in the fact he did something I am deeply, profoundly Not Okay with and generally don’t enjoy in my fiction, pretty early in the route and I was prepared to just ‘get through’ the rest of his story, but every behavioral choice he makes after that is so tuned towards change and redemption that, seriously to my surprise, he ended up as one of my favs. Kojuro was a surprise too, I sort of expected his route to be a bit of a bore and IT WAS NOT.

Which route was the most disappointing? Hideyoshi. I loved him in Inuchiyo’s route so I was psyched to start his and…it was really, dull? In my opinion? I felt like every significant accomplishment in his route was achieved by his retainers. I was a little disappointed in Shingen’s too, both the ending and some of the pacing. The ‘I love you now’ seemed pretty abrupt. Then again, it kind of had to be with everything going on.

Which region’s supporting cast is your favorite? Kai. I love them. Oshu is second, though I do love when Hideyoshi/Toshiie are supporting cast. Their interactions just amuse me. I love everyone in Kenshin's route too...this game does good on secondary characters okay.

Which friendship is your favorite? Yukimura/Saizo hands-down, no questions asked. There is just so much good balance at play there. They’re so strong in such different ways and they just need one another. I do love the Kojuro/Masamune/Shigezane trio but there’s less balance of skills/strengths there so much as there is just respect/support/confidence/family-feeling.

Which friendship is your least favorite? Mitsuhide/Nobunaga only because I know how that story ends *weeps* Mitsunari/Ieyasu is a little rough to watch too, but A+ on the starter route tension moment.

Which reusable NPC is your favorite? I love the sandy-blonde one with the spiky eyebrows (they have three spikes!). He has a face where his eyes are all scrunched up and he just looks SO DISMAYED and they always use him as the deliverer of bad news it’s funny to me. I also love the maids XD especially the fact that Umeko keeps her name across routes. She’s super pretty, too!

Which reusable NPC is your least favorite? Pretty-boy-blah-villain. Usually shows up as a potential love interest for MC only to do something bad.

Which villain is your favorite? Ieyasu because holy $(@* that baby boy is legitimately, terrifyingly crazy in routes where he’s the bad guy. I have complicated feelings about Ieyasu XD

Which villain is your least favorite? Crazypants McGee, aka Fumo. Kind of ugh on him showing up. EDIT: I forgot about Sassy from Inuchiyo's route YEAH HE WAS AWFUL.

Which event has been your favorite? The first one, Love’s First Kiss, for reasons that will be obvious if you read some of my fics XD Noble Hearts Claimed at Last was also one of my favorites, I think I bought all the epilogues and His POV’s (except Mitsuhide, again, sorry babe) and I have no regrets. Unspoken Ties was fun too, just to see our boys through their best friend’s eyes—gave me a new appreciation for Mitsuhide. I like the events that tie in other characters more closely to the main story, it feels more like a fleshed out world and I just enjoy it.

Which event were you most underwhelmed with? There have been a few that were kind of *shrug* but I can’t say I haven’t enjoyed any of them, just enjoyed them less than others.

What do you think the game could improve on? Honestly? For me, personally, as a reader, I think they’re doing pretty good. There are few cringe-y storylines (selective amnesia blaaargh) but rarely does the MC make me want to pull my hair out, and they avoid most of the tropes that annoy me or at least use them sparingly (miscommunication is my LEAST FAV and I cheeeeered in Kojuro's route when the writers--brilliantly--did not go that stupid route and they could have). I am really afraid for some of the sequels. REALLY AFRAID. Because they’re doing good – keep it up! EDIT TO ADD: it would be nice to have some Hide/Toshiie Mitsunari/Ieyasu, Kenshin/Shingen events!!

What do you like about the game? SO MUCH. We have an MC who isn’t a total, insecure wilting flower perennially defaulting to Damsel-in-Distress (sometimes, some routes, some stories, but not most of the time). We get eyes in a lot of the CGs (THANK YOU), regular pacing, events that are achievable, characters are unique and complicated and all love the MC differently, and a real sense of urgency and life in the stories. I really enjoy it. I actually just bought a book on the Sengoku era because I’m sure there are historical fallacies ALL OVER THE PLACE but I’m totally unfamiliar with Japanese history, and it’s made me curious. I also like the music.

Do you write fics/headcanons for SLBP? Yep – You can read ‘em here

Do you draw art for SLBP? RARELY AND NOT WELL, but you can see it here

Anything else you want to say? I’m glad I found this game! It’s a nice little escape sometimes, and probably the most consistently well written otome games (again, MY opinion) that I’ve played from voltage (I’ve really only played Mystic Messenger from a non-voltage perspective). It’s fun!

#slbp #samurai love ballad #samurai love ballad party #voltage #voltage inc

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