#tagging it because similar vibes

[krakenjoy]

I'm 6 hours into the Pale Beyond on Steam and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a survival management game where you balance resources and maintaining loyalty. It's got the Terror vibes, since the Franklin Expedition and the Endurance expeditions were direct inspirations. There's a character who I think looks like Cornelius Hickey who's background probably isn't the cleanest, and the doctor has Goodsir vibes. Someone says 'this place wants us dead'. The characters and narrative are intriguing. Also you get to pet dogs (I have a bad feeling about this).

It's difficult to not reset the game every time you mess up, and the game would prefer you not do that, since you have to restart the entire week. It's not just because of a more beneficial choice, but I also don't want to upset the characters.

Speaking of the characters, I did not expect to get attached this much. Even though you mostly interact with the specialists, the majority of them are given enough characterization to make them stand out. It should be quite easy getting a good/neutral response once you have a grasp on their personalities, generally just respect them and don't pry too much. Just do what they want you to do or find a neutral point.

Moving onto resource management. The most common resource you'll get is food, but besides eating, you also have to burn them for warmth. It's not hard to keep the crew happy so far, so you could alternate between half rations and half heat each week and be fine, which is what I should've done. If people get sick, there are ways to immediately heal them, or if you don't want to waste resources, send them to the doctor and they'll be fine next week. But it's still a hard choice if you like the characters as much as I do.

There are some bugs, like resource cards turning black when I click them even though I can add more and a few letters extending far beyond my screen (might not be wide screen optimized yet). I also experienced a loading problem besides the game screen popping out. It's not a huge issue (or I'm just used to Fallout New Vegas), and devs are fixing them.

Even if you're not a Terror fan, give it a go if you like narrative-driven strategy games with an interesting cast and brilliant art style.

SPOILERS up to Act 2, maybe beyond!

I have a tendency to spoil endings for myself. I didn't watch any youtube videos, but I did go on the steam forums and read some reviews. But first:

I thought Templeton was definitely going to stab me in the back somehow (judging from one reviewer), but up till now he's just being pragmatic and giving sound advice, if not a little suspicious. It's not hard to get on his good side. And wow, the plant metaphor really suits him! Please don't stab me in the back.

Grimley, on the other hand... it's ok if you don't completely trust me, but you don't have to sing about it to everyone, especially if we're going to be stuck together for a long time. Seriously, everyone is loyal to me but him. What the hell do I have to do to make him at least tolerate me? Cool song though.

I knew Hammond was going to fight someone sooner or later. Great work ethic borderlining on obsessive, but if I tell him to take a break he'll be pissed. Hopefully with Timmy helping, he'll worry less. Nice sense of humour.

Kurt is fine, surprisingly not that arrogant for a celeb. He's definitely insecure about his age and use of a cane hindering his ability to help, but he's still knowledgeable.

Junior is more sociable and receptive, but I'm still suspicious of him, considering his closeness to Captain Hunt and his brother.

Kasha is nice and super helpful for morale. It's great that she warms up to the crew, especially Arthur and Kurt.

Speaking of warming up (heh), Arthur's relatable with his social anxiety and need to be reassured. He does start bonding with the others. Besides that, there's Cordell with her love of singing and theatre and dogs.

The character development is amazing. The most heartbreaking part for now is when all the characters say they might not make it back and tell you to look after their family/tell their family etc.

Other memorable characters include science couple, science gun guy, Thomas Blanky vibes, the gymnast, and Timmy and his da. Also Grips who told me was in the military (because I picked colonial).

Leave the ship a week after announced, before dinner.

Get the medical supplies for the expanded bed space, one set of digging tools, and the guns to get more food and defend against the seal asap. Use the shotgun if you don't wanna die!

Don't hesitate because you want to please both characters.

Theory:

The expedition is funded by the canned peach company. (Huh. Tins.) Templeton and most of the science staff are botanists. Why would you need botanists in the cold?

Captain Hunt said something like 'if I don't take this then others will'. Then he got drunk and left. It's definitely related to the expedition.

On the forums and in the achievements, I saw something about a 'tree' and 'fruit'.

The Viscount went to look for the Tree five years ago and vanished. The peach company hears about this and wants to find the tree and make money off the fruits, or the fruits are magical somehow and they want to exploit it. They organize the expedition in the name of finding the Viscount and send Templeton and the scientists to study the Tree. Hunt hears this somewhere, doesn't agree. He takes the job, deliberately choosing the path so we would get stuck in the ice, ignoring Kurt's advice. He sets off with some trusted crew members and leaves to find the Tree so we don't get to it. The rescue ship is to bring the harvested fruits back.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[soundwavemain]

My favorite action sequences from ROTTMNT

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[neon-catarina]

couldn't a reason Mind and Heart hate each other be because of whole's love interest (sung in Haiku and Hidden In The Sand), like how Whole really liked them, but he thought that they would never love him, so basically his Heart wanted to ask them out and pursue a relationship, but his Mind refused thinking they would never love him. And its mostly because of that Whole split into three in the first place, so they both blame each other for it, and that's why they hate each other?

[leondaltons]

Meet ROTTEN GRACE [Playlist] | @infamous-if

Mia Lennox [x] | Rowan Hart | Iris de Luca | Devyn Powell | August Pierce | Orion Quinn

Only Mia belongs to me, the rest of the characters belong to @infamous-if​

Credits: x | x | x

[atlxolotl]

Alucarda (1977) dir. Juan López Moctezuma

[bericas]

I don’t know anything. But you feel something, don’t you?

[polarisbear]

i don’t know if i’m the first to come up with this idea but i needed to get this au out of my head

[image id 1: a drawing of all four members of nightcord at 25. they’re all dressed in their casual outfits except for mafuyu who has shorter hair, a dress shirt, and slacks. they’re drawn in a style reminiscent of bocchi the rock!

image id 2: a drawing of all four members of nightcord at 25. they’re all drawings of expressions from the bust up. they’re all in their casual outfits except for mafuyu who has shorter hair and a dress shirt. the drawings are mimicking bocchi the rock!’s art style. there are chibi’s drawn next to them in the style of bocchi the rock!’s endings.]

[yewphoric]

kidnapping an old man from Apocrypha and having just a swell time with it

[maleendumbblog]

I feel like I'm the only one who didn't have any 'Bloodborne vibes' while playing Lies of P, for me Lies of P has its own unique atmosphere I've never experienced in any other games. I don't know, maybe it's because I didn't play Bloodborne a lot (I speedran the last part of the game 💀) or something like that 🤷

Please tell me I'm not the only one who think that 🫠

And this is just MY thoughts so don't get mad please 😭

[fyodorkitkat]

Going into 2024 with a respect for what I've lost but hope for roads ahead 🙏💜

[mrnnki-img]

teenage mutant ninja... rats?

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[cocolacola]

mark ur calendars today was the day i forgave maiev shadowsong

[transingthoseformers]

[arklay]

DANI HAINES x CLAIRE REDFIELD / template.

[petrichorblue94]

Minor Netflix’ 1899 spoilers: At first I thought Aneurin Barnard was some kind of an eldritch being trapped in human form and I was like - you know what? I don’t care. I still ship him with Maura. If Tia Dalma and Davy Jones could make it work for a time, so could these two.

Only for it to turn out he was actually her loving husband trying to make her remember their life together and their dying, possibly dead son????

This was so good, my second ship that happened on a literal ship for the year.

And both the main characters were driven women who could not stop in their quest for the truth and the male love interests were dark (wavy) haired morally gray men with green eyes who were dripping wet when they meet for the first time.

And the writers weakly also tried to make us ship the main character with a hot widower but failed and nothing happened in both cases?

Look at the way my boy was running to save his wife

I was prepared to love his as an eldritch being, now I love him as a shady scientist with bad ethics who just wants to save his wife and son.