#this game has me in a vice grip

[maplepamcake]

Obsessed with this sad little bloodsucker like a toxic, devoted sister.

[leavesandbounds]

If anyone wanted to know why I dropped off the face of the planet for two days

[theoldkyokodied]

Another doodle pile for the peculiar diet duo

[geek-png]

ARCHANGEL GABRIEL : JUDGE OF HELL

- Work-In-Progress bits below the cut for those curious

[aibafiles]

i have begun to suspect that the question is not "where is zagreus" but rather "when is zagreus"

[magickkart]

POV: Neil said something sweet to Andrew

Animated this sketch of Andrew as practice.

[artbymesa]

IT WAS GONNA BE QUICK DOODLES I TOLD MYSELF

You'll have to pry this head canon from my cold, dead fingers

I recorded this with my Tav, should anyone be interested(realized after she had different armor on whoops).

[antirepurp]

yeah no im still obsessed with the way frontiers turns sonic's virtue of caring into a flaw that threatens to consume him alive. certainly the execution could be better and there are moments that would hit harder if they had been given more tlc but compared to previous games and especially the slop of 2010s it is unfathomably refreshing to see character exploration to this degree. a kid who chooses his friends before the supposed order of the universe that's due for a restart. same kid who once talked about how everything ends one day and you should live life to its fullest. a kid who tries to be so much more mature than he really is because he cares so goddamn much it hurts him more than anyone else. this is what they call fine dining

[theyloy]

Me: there's so many games I would like to play, and I have not very much time, and Baldur's Gate 3 just came out, I should finish this one game I haven't finished and then get to that

Also me:

[kimquatz]

you're gonna have to excuse me friends, i didn't think it'd happen so quickly, but i am so deep in the sauce of Yakuza rn it's kinda taking over my brain atm

if u see a sudden onslaught of rgg fanart from me just know. i am crazy. LMFAO

[prettyflyshyguy]

If anyone needs me I'll be on the floor, in a pile of emotional goop, thinking about the VA line delivery of "But I'm not human, am I? Not anymore." and what could have been if we had a little more of the alienation, disconnection and isolation of being so completely different and being spited by that despite how hard you try to still be good and be human in the Blue Karma storyline.

Like I love and adore the Blue Karma storyline but I just really really wish we got a little more of the pain built up from all the shit Cole went through in inF1 and we got a little more nuance of that pain coming out.

I get why they went for such a stark contrast of tone between the two runs because it'd be a nightmare to try and inject more subtle variety depending on karma level at any given moment (and having worked on a videogame with a strict one-go linear story I couldn't imagine trying to effectively make two different ones) but it just leaves me feeling so hungry for a little more gradual degradation. A little more grey morality takes.

What if we had an inF1 Good run that turned into a Red run of 2 slowly. Cole goes through so much, arrives in New Marais, and something begins to snap. He hit his breaking point at the end of 1/start of 2 and the cracks have formed and it's a beautiful, tragic, downward spiral of him getting worse. It starts off subtle. "I don't have time to help any random person on the street" - gradually turns into complete spite for how he's treated, fully accepting and embracing he's the Demon of Empire City.

And to elaborate - I want to see a Blue run where he snaps a little. Not so much in actions but in emotion. People either look at him like he's a monster or he's the second coming of christ but no one see's him as a person. He's a figurehead to be crucified one way or another. He's a de-facto hero of the people whenever anything goes wrong.

He no longer has any autonomy over his life.

Bouncing between people praising him and demonising him when they literally do not know him. He can't go anywhere without being recognised. No interaction is normal anymore. People are afraid of him. People smother him. He sticks to the rooftops cause no one looks up and it's the only place to find peace. He can't wander the streets for long until a group of protesters shows up chanting for his death and spitting in his face.

He is distinctly something other, everyone views him as something other (good and bad) - he's not like everyone else so therefore, he's not truly human anymore. Conduit, not human.

And fuck, man, that's gotta get to you. Sonic the hedgehog effect - you slow down too long the horrors catch up to you and you're forced to address them. Think about them. You keep running and maybe you can escape them. And yeah, he runs a lot in 2, but I want to see him stumble a little.

[normalguycore]

So um I've been playing this silly little game recently....

[et103]

Hi hello yes-

You will listen to the Wildfrost ost. :)

[neeko-system]

SIGNALIS SPOILERS AND WHATNOT~~

finished my second playthrough of signalis, was going for the artifact ending. then loaded my save and got the memory ending. such a good game aaaa

the memory ending made me cry, it was really heartwrenching when ariane said sorry i dont remember, i just crumpled. watching elster be so exhausted was a lot.

not really sure if i understand the artifact ending. i feel like either its really vague (on top of all the other vagueness) or if im missing something. it kind of feels like a burial of arianes memory? like elster dies and we see ariane thikning about her and elster dancing in the wrecked ship? i’m not sure. maybe someone could give me their interpretation of it?

i also found out that theres a difficulty setting and really wished i had set it to survival before my second playthrough. woulda been nice!!! I do have one more ending so i might play the game again but might also just watch it on youtube and play the game again some other time(gotta let it ruminate so i can go back in with different eyes), I wanna get all the achievements anyways.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

all in all i fucking love this game a lot. very rarely do i replay a game so soon after playing it for the first time. its really tragic i’ll never get to experience this game for the first time again, but, so it goes. its such a beautiful game i will be thinking about it for a longgggggggggggg time. ive been wanting to talk about it so badly for so long but none of my friends have played it yet kyaaa!!! >_<

its crazy to me that the game exists the way it does. the style, the mechanics, the story, the music, everything about it oozes so much passion and care and thought. very few games have made me want to stare at every part of it to figure out how they made it look the way it did (THE GAME IS SO STYLISTICALLY RICH LIKE HOIW DID THEY DO ALL THAT) and the game mechanics are so nice to my brain, everything is so tactile and clicky and inventory management and ammo management and horror stratgey and the flesh and rust and death and love and lesbians and robots and anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

amazing game thank you rose engine, i hope they make more stuff because i really want to see it

edit:(thinking about the first time i played compared to the second. i was considerably less scared since i had a clue of waht was going on but the fear that i felt playing the first time was special to me. i really like games with stories about ‘time loops’ because the replay-ability is baked in in a cool way. especially with how the game throws information at you, viewing things again having experienced perspective shifts from information is really cool. seeing scenes again re-contextualized makes my brain go ^-^(hots quest ding sound) but going in completely blind and being afraid of everything (i especially remember being scared of the dream beach, i had literally no clue what to expect and it was nice) it all had a different flavor than the second time which is cool because i feel like i experience that kind of emotion change *with* elster. (girlie needs a FUCKING cuddle nap)

the way the game balances reality and the surreal i think is super neat. i love surrealist dream stuff a lot and i think that a video game is a super good medium for that kind of experiential stuff that really inspires me to wanna make video games. especially because then theres also this super nerdy sci fi stuff going on about robots and space regimes and magical tech(my favorite) and planetary systems and military systems and all that good shit. i similarly wanna get nerdy about stuff like military logistics while also telling a story about gay robots and girls that keep missing each other just barely in the space time continuum. i love that the game tells you a lot but also is vague and also says fuck you (affectionate) stop looking for answers and just feel it. it explains just the right amount to not feel esoteric while keeping enough vague to leave a lot up to interpretation/figure it out by playing it again/thinking about it. it plays with themes and reality and reoccuring symbolism and all that good shit that makes stories addicting to think about.) ((also one of the endings requiring beating the game once among other things that keep between playthroughs, yummyyy. games that know they are games/stories/worlds that are aware of themselves., thats good shit right there))

[shrimpli]

The variety in this game is unparalleled tbh