#I still haven't played the second and third game of the remake but I kinda want to now since those are the ones where he appears

[cheese-anon-real]

New Year's Cheese

2023 has been one wild ride of a year for me Writer content in the latter half of this, below the cut!! do be warned! So. In 2023 I went from Cheese the Anon Asker to Cheese-Anon-Real. I’ve formed what I like to consider my little family, with the Sparda Boys and my fellow anons! Gods below I am so grateful for all of you, you made the last like, 3-4 months of the year so much better. Got sent to Space Jail twice, broke out twice with help Found Kaz again!!! Already touched on the family, but just Met Dante, Nero, and Vergil, absolutely love them to bits(Please be alive over there, Vergil, and not split in 2. Urizen’s cool and all but good god I wanted to shadow your devil hunting so bad when I got free) and Griffon I miss you come back you dumbass ball of feathers where’d you GO- Azuree may not be an anon but gods below, do I love them!! They’re such a sweetie like wth Joker, Fresa, Queen and her daughter Kaylee, and Candy have won my hearts, as my funny little family. You’re all being adopted by me now, face your future hell with me. UwU or smth idfk Am I an UwU-ass bitch or an OwO-ass bitch? Partner says it depends lolol. On what? Who knows. I love them so much too, they’re my world. I’ve had a lot of fun meeting you all, and I hope to hell and back that we keep up these silly little interactions over the next year. I know it hasn’t been perfect, but here’s to a good ‘24 for us all! Thank you for literally existing. I hope the other anons join the official family soon. Happy New Year, @pizzalover8969, @thebestsonofsparda, @thebluerose, @the-thunder-chicken, @azureedoodles, @anonjoker, @bizcochodefresa, @anonymousqueenofrandom, @princessanonofrandom, @therealcandyanon, and finally, @reece-piece-puff

sorry if the @'s is a bad move or I like, piss some of you off with it ;;

Love, Cheese(Roseanna)

P.S. I promise I'll get on writing my lore soon, I just haven't had much time :')

Reminder; Writer Content is Below The Cut. Beware!!!

2023 was even wilder for me than it was for Cheese lmfao.

I finally got into DMC this year, after being drawn in by Gura and the OST in summer of ‘21. On a family vacation, at that! Finally played 5, beat it, beat it again as Vergil. Played 3, beat it with some help from my partner. Started a Vergil run of 3, and started 1, never finished either, because life kinda got crazy Started playing C.O.D??? Somehow?? Never thought I’d play a C.O.D. game but here I am and I like the campaign for the MW2 remake, I suck ass at it but that’s a me problem lmao Got into therapy, finally, actually working on my problems now and really happy about it Went through several Vtuber avatar designs, finally settled on one I like and I’m almost done with it!!! Just gotta struggle through the hair, hand toggles, and the face! Wow!! Went through endless self-discovery, thought I might be trans(I am in fact not trans, I am Fluid! As far as I know. Still working on that. And other things, but one step at a time!! FINALLY reunited with my two best friends. In person. In another state. One of em, I've known since we were 11 and they moved away when we were 13. I had never hung out with them outside of school, and they introduced me to my other best friend, who came up to my state to meet me in late spring of ‘21, hadn’t seen them since. That friend actually paid for the trip themself, because I went through a god-awful breakdown for a solid 2 weeks and tried to. Isolate myself from everyone I love. But thankfully they talked me out of it and got me back into the group, got me going again when I was at probably my second lowest point since I was a preteen. Got oddly close with another friend while I was there, met the majority of my friend group, and now that friend I got close with is EASILY my third best friend! Not third-best, they are also a best friend and I love them so much?? We hyperfixate on like, all the same things. Dragged them into loving Ghost(band) and they’re dragging me into Scott Pilgrim! Woohoo, here we go! Left my friend group like a month ago because one of them is uh. Not. the best? But only sometimes. They don’t have bad intentions and they’re not outright toxic I don’t think, but I uh. Got kinda sick of their sense of humor. Not always funny, kinda mean to a certain other member. Not always though. But like we can work on it when I go back its fiiiiiiine! Learned communication to a degree, holy shit I hate talking about my problems, oh my god please I don’t need help I’m just a burden anyway(I’m working on it, don’t come at me with support I’ll get there with my family and friends eventually. Not attention-seeking here, I’m building my support group as I go.) Had 13 house emergencies!!!! Will list them! Woo! 1 - water heater leak 2 - gas leak 3 - roof leak again(we had a roof leak in ‘22) 4 - house flood 2 electric boogaloo(house flooded like a week after my partner moved in, in ‘22, before I arrived) 5 - flood 3 6 - roof leak 3 7 - roof leak 4 8 - heater died 9 - bathroom door handle fell off the door for literally no reason 10 - house flood 4 11 - roof leak 5 12 - house flood 5 House Flood 5 caused us to get renovations in the organized housing, and after that, they just straight up moved us to a new house. We had 8 fffffffucking days to get the hell out of our house and into the new one. Like, they actually put the time constraint on us. So funny of them! AND THEN THE NEW ONE DIDN’T HAVE SHUT-OFF VALVES FOR EITHER OF THE HOSE SPIGOTS AND WE HAD TO GET THAT HANDLED BUT THEY DIDN’T HANDLE IT. HELP. BROTHER WE ARE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE RULES. WHY ARE YOU FORBIDDING US. so. 13 - no shut off-valves(technically an ‘emergency’ bc the pipes could freeze and then burst) Got summoned for Jury Duty in my parents’ state! IN THE TIME WHERE WE WEREN’T CERTAIN WHEN THE CONTRACTORS WERE COMING. OR IF WE WOULD BE IN THE SAME HOUSE NEXT WEEK. JESUS CHRIST. But, did also get to go on another family vacation. We got to watch the Perseids! I saw a possum there. Literally loved that so much.

Also got SUUUUPER into Ghost(band) in the last like 3 weeks and I'm head over heels for 99% of their songs that I've listened to?? Hell yeah.

It’s been an intense year of ups and downs, but I’m really determined to turn my life around for the better, now. I’m gonna put my all into actually improving my health, both physical and mental/emotional. I didn’t want that to be like, a new year resolution, it just kinda lined up with the new year.

#cheese #Happy New Year #Spardanon Family #I love you all so much #thank you for everything these last few months #here's to our continued adventures! #very anxious about actually hitting the post button on this one #don't know why i'm so scared to #either way happy new year i love you all a lot #really hoping no one gets annoyed by being @'d :')

[ddruxyart]

Hi I just wanted to let u know that I haven't stopped thinking about ur femc comic since I saw it. The colors are so good and the quote tears me apart it's sosososo good

Yo... the COMPLIMENT of this, unparalleld. IN TEARS is what I am. I know I'm only replying now, but I've been thinking about your ask the last few days and I'm still riding that high, so thank you fdfdf

more under the cut bc it turns out I always have way more to say than I think haha

That quote has been a sleeper agent inside my brain for sooo long and as I was on my 6th or smth try of beating P3 (I kept playing past the halfway point and then falling off bc of adhd), it came across my dash again and I connected the fucken dots dfdfdf. I think it was also kinda around the time when the remake leaks started to go around and I had several, uncheritable thought & onions on that. Another artwork idea that i had for when I finished the game was a still life called "Treasure" and it would've depicted all of the items you get when you complete a social link. But I'm not strong eough for that haha Obvs a very applicable quote to a lot of media but oughghgh it fits Hamuko SOO well. Narratively ofc but also in the way atlus treats her lmao. < I've never got through PQ2 myself but thinking about her in that game makes me SO sad jfc wdym you got dropped here all on your own, none of your friends remember youand also you're playing the second fiddle to some short emo guy??? < I'm going insane

uh sry about that, coming back to the topic at hand: I think I did the sketch in August of last year? and then started the rendering process in September. I had that comic pretty much finished then. EXCEPT for the third panel, which changed quite drastically. It was a lot closer to the in-game color palette of that scene before and.. it looked okay... < I'm lying, it looked sooo boring, where are my shrimp colors?? No atmosphere at all So i dropped it "for a hot sec" i.e.: whoops it's suddenly february (I wanted to have it queued for p3r's release, uh oh better fucken crunch it.) Rushing in at the last sec to finish it definitely had some pros and cons haha.

I think it turned out pretty well in the end despite it all and knowing me I probs wouldn't have picked it up again if not for that self imposed deadline lmao;;; I'm becoming a bit irked by my typestting on the second panel..

I might go back and fix it if it bother me too much.

#okay I'm cutting myself OFF I talked way too much already #I hope it's okay I'm just replying to it in the open! I can delete it if not #also GOD please someone talk to me about persona <I'm not in the throes of a hyperfix rn but- #I'm in a desperate need of more persona enjoyer friends #not art #druxy cant stfu

[dreamlegend]

It took me this long to notice but man, they made Moneybags pretty hot in the Reignited trilogy

#that's the second fancy bear I have a crush on #I still haven't played the second and third game of the remake but I kinda want to now since those are the ones where he appears #DL talks crap

[retphienix]

AND HERE IS WHERE MY SNARK HIT ME.

THIS *IS* GOOD, BUT LISTEN TO ME YOU JERKS.

YOU ALL WENT ON ABOUT THIS BEING THE GAME WHERE KIRYU DIES *SO LOUDLY* THAT I HEARD AND BELIEVED IT WITHOUT EVER LOOKING FOR SPOILERS!

AND.

YOU'RE.

RIGHT.

YOU JERKS!

This is the funniest god dang thing in terms of the meta of this series- in every dang game Kiryu dies and then they take it back, in EVERY ONE!

And then this *IS* the one where he 'dies' for real, but not! BUT IT IS!

BUT IT'S NOT!

YOU GUYS ARE TERRIBLE lol

Now as far as narrative threads here I do wanna say a little:

1) I do like this overall. It's a sacrifice, it allows him to 'die' for the series, it's bittersweet, all that.

Overall I give it a passing grade.

I do have ONE qualm with it.

2) It's just Kiryu running away again.

He keeps doing this. This game in particular makes it a point that his running away convinced Haruka to at the start, then he keeps saying he ran away too often and is done doing that, he tells people he's Yakuza despite trying to run (owning up to it), he does all these things to confront head on and stop running- then he just runs.

All that talk of running and his avoidance being what caused hurt- even his letter to Daigo is about how he ran from the responsibility and needed to apologize for it-

And then, yet again, he have Kiryu take on the martyr's cloak, take that sad sacrifice, and RUN AWAY AGAIN- KIRYU YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN!

It's being painted as a sad positive, it IS a sad positive, it DOES work, but it's taking the entire thing you said was your failure in life and DOING IT AGAIN!

Someone smack him upside the head.

Funny rant aside, this scene with Kiryu and Haruto's footsteps lining up made me tear up.

What a damned phenomenal series.

At this point I haven't touched Judgment or Lost Judgment, and I haven't touched the samurai era japanese exclusive stuff or the zombie spinoffs.

Just felt like framing some context.

As a whole, this main series is just fucking great man.

So many amazing morals and themes being explored, so many incredible gameplay hooks, just damned good.

For fun my meaningless ranking (again, for fun).

Yakuza 5 is number 1, I just can't stress enough how much it clicked for me. It's more fun to fight in than 6, it's characters are insanely well done, and the story is sick.

The Yakuza "K" trilogy is second, that's right I'm putting 3 games in 1 spot and including Zero with K1 and K2. But hear me out, all three are insanely good, and their positions in my list juggle too much, so here.

K1 introduced me to the series and I adore how it plays a ton. K2 hits as well. Zero is the flashiest in the series and I give a lot of credit for that- between the 3 you get such a damned good look at the series, I just like em a lot. And being later entries means their combat is NUTS.

Swapping styles in these games for instance far outweighs Y6 having a stable solo style, even if it's the way it is for thematic purposes.

Third is Y6 because I gotta be real, it concludes the story so well it has to be right after the golden 3 that display the game's core.

Y3 after that because it's solid. People might dislike hanging around the orphanage but I find it charming.

Y4 is doody poo poo. (It's "fine". I'm not still salty that the story is dumb and exists to shit on every character you could remotely like for whatever reason.)

Fun game. Love the series :)

I really didn't do too much in this one compared to 5, but I did what felt right to do. I really wanted to go completionist in 5, but in 6 I didn't find myself too hooked tbh? I liked the bar stuff for sure, but I think the combat being simplified is what wears me down.

The remake trilogy have a ton of work on that weakness, four and five have multiple characters with unique moves, so really the only game that shares this weakness is 3 and I gave 3 a pass because it's such an early entry and I was willing to give it a lot of credit despite me coming off the remake trilogy to play it.

That kinda did drag down my patience toward completionist challenges, which is a shame.

Ah well.

Amazing game.

(3/3)

#Yakuza #Yakuza 6 #Yakuza 6: The Song of Life #Ryū ga Gotoku #Ryu ga Gotoku #RetPlays #Opinions change in retrospect but this is accurate to my first play #Y6 isn't much of a conclusion compared to what it should have been #and it really does take steps backward and embraces being mean-spirited to high degrees when it comes to xenophobia and misogyny #but that's what my take lies at with after reviewing what I experienced with some insight from more critical sources #and that's just disappointing at the end of the day because Yakuza deserved better y'know