#alt outfit cutscene

[animatedjen]

The days after Fallen Order, Pt 4

#forgot I also recorded this cutscene with the modded outfit #more media in that five year timeskip please #thank you fic writers for your service #jedi survivor #jedi fallen order #cal kestis #merrin #nightsister merrin #alt outfit cutscene

[momo-shut-the-fuck-up]

So someone on the shining nikki subreddit made a post about this game called Life Makeover that s in early access, and i downloaded it and fucked around with it for like, and hour- and man i still got stuff to do in it. Ahead you have a bunch of rambling about it, maybe it d interest you too.

Tldr, its a super polished and pretty game with a story that seems to be getting interesting but i cant say for sure yet, pretty and diverse clothes, shit ton of customisation, and it sems generous so far.

Anyway it s very pretty, customisation is fucking insane, if i understand things right we re gettin a shit ton of free high rarity suits just for doin stuff in the game? Though i am a bit confused of if we re gettin em for Free or for doin stuff akin to the diamond arena.

Here s an outfit i made, but it s got a bunch of styles. Luckily its not just modern clothing, it s got the high fashion/alt stuff too. And it s real well made.

I wasn t exactly playin w takin screenshots in mind so i don t have many.

Ima make a list of stuff about it:

• seems to be generous with its currency? I got 3k diamonds rn and one 10 pull is like 1180 or somethin.

• it has pavilions like nikki does, but i don t think most of its events are gacha based? Idk the thing just started so we waitin. The rate for the coin pavilion is kinda bad, but for the other ones is as good as nikkis.

• you can dye. Everything. It s not Free to dye, u gotta pay w this dyeing currency, but u get a bunch of it. And there s many options too.

• the story is... funky. Seems boring at the beginning but uh, spoilers ig? I ll put it under the cut if ur interested

• many skin options 🙏

• as i said, customisation. U can change the face shape, makeup, body, kinda everythin about your girl at the beginning of the game. ("Body" u know the usual thin- slightly larger but still thin body slider in games? Yeah.) My girl looks kinda like a baby cuz i made her like that, u can choos ebetween "girl" and "female" i think they called it? And it s just, one is more mature lookin than the other. U can change the height too.

• every character besides yourself is fully voice acted in english and chinese.

• every character also has live 2d models for the story portions of the game. Very well made stuff.

• there are cards, like reflections. Sr and ssr cards are live 2d animated.

• some "investigation" segments actually have small 3d environments u explore instead of 2d backgrounds.

• some of the 2d backgrounds have animated elements which is pretty cool.

• there s a housing feature. You buy yourself a house and you can customise it to your heart s content. AND you walk around in it with your character. I didn t fuck around in it too long cuz i wantes to get back to the story, but it seems really in depth and well made? Kinda insane tbh.

• has a guild feature like nikki s.

• actually, if u play shining nikki, u gonna acclimate to life makeover real quick. Guilds, main story, clothes crafting, what looks to be a diamond arena thing for styling competitions.

• your character is shown in cutscenes and 2d art sometimes, which means that canonically, you are 1. White 2. Have black hair (also are a girl). Your name is what you picked tho.

• the world we are in seems to be super high tech. "Makes a 3d model of the item u took a pic of so you can investigate it without touching it" type of high tech. "Extremely advanced AI" type. U know what i mean.

• oh also u got some background already there, n the lighting changes based on what u pick. I kinda prefer nikki's "choose ur own lighting" system tho.

Now spoilers under the cut.

Bro she just fuckin-

Girl got knocked the fuck out

She didn t actually die, she just got attacked, which is the second attack so far. (I really hope one of em dies at some point tbhhh)

The story goes, you re on a private island with your sisters' rich idol friends, who are a really really popular idol group which is why they got all this money, and this. Guy? Who is also ur sisters friend, Idk he s v boring fancy rich dude typa vibe idc much. Ur here as a graduation gift whatever.

The idols are gettin "haters"-

(They keep callin em that its so fuckin funny. They shoulda said trolls it d be even better)

- that are on their private island? And they re doin more than Hatin, i think they legit tryin to kill these girls. Locked one of em in a freezer, knocked another one over the head and stuffed her in a teddy bear, u saw what happened to annie, that shit.

So yeah it s gettin interestin 👀 i m on ch 3 i think, so i ll see where it goes from here.

#ima stick with it! its pretty and i love the clothes #and the story has potential to go somewhere interesting #it also seems to have such high production value #the quality of everything is insane #it feels like these devs tried to one up nikki in every category 😶 lmfaoo

[deltoravivisection]

There are only two more human characters who need full walk/run cycles. The rest of them will only get walk cycles and then be animated as needed for certain cutscenes. Prin also needs a run cycle but I think I'm gonna try to get through all the humanoid art before I work on the creatures. Of course I still need to do a bunch of variants with alt outfits for the main party but I can just animate over what I already have. I think Steven is also gonna need some alternate standing sprites for the final arc. The one I have for him is way too casual lol.

[sir-adamus]

Does Arrowfell still have those alt outfit blueprints like people spotted in the early gameplay footage? Haven't seen anyone mention that

it does not, i have to imagine this was a change made in the year it spent in development after RTX 2021 (because the early visuals we got were also sprite based and not using character models)

it's like how the announcement trailer indicated the dialogue would be fully voiced but in game it's only in cutscenes

#RWBY #RWBY Arrowfell

[isayoldbean]

thank you, that was helpful! knowing that the rpg part of ffxiv gets more emphasis and that it's relatively singleplayer-friendly is definitely a relief (the only other mmo I've really gotten into is swtor, which is basically just a bioware rpg in a shared online world if you ignore all the optional multiplayer/pvp stuff)

I do have a couple of follow-up questions, if you don't mind!

1) does having the complete vs. starter edition change anything about the start of the game? I had a bad experience previously with eso where I got a bundle with the first expansion during a sale, not realizing that would permanently lock off the option to start with the base game story and force me into starting with the expansion for some godforsaken reason, which pretty much killed dead my desire to actually get into that game lmao

2) how alt-friendly is it? I may have a bit of a problem with always coming up with ideas for new characters in rpgs

3) what's the female armor situation vis a vis boobplate and the like? know in advance that this WILL make or break my chances of playing the game

i don't mind at all, ask away!

no, there's no difference. the storyline of ff14 is well-beloved and critically acclaimed and they would like for everyone to experience it, so you have to go out of your way to miss any parts of it. there's options for people who want to, such as the story skips they sell in the online store, or manually skipping every cutscene, but it's something you would have to actively choose to do.

2. it's extremely alt friendly! most people i talk to in game have alt disease. the basic plan only allows 8 different characters per data center, but the standard plan allows 40. you are formally invited to go ham in character creation. (most people who don't have alt disease have fantasia disease, which is an item that allows you to completely remake your character if you want to. so either people have tons of alts, or they have one character that they constantly fantasia into their numerous alts. but they do all have alts)

3. the female armor situation is a little mixed. none of it is boobplate amounts of bad, to my knowledge, but there is a frequent complaint about things like 'gear that appears as pants on male characters magically turns into a skirt and thighhighs on a female character'. it's not so ubiquitous that it can't be avoided, especially with the glamour system that lets your gear take on the look of other clothing, but it is there and it's extremely annoying to encounter. that being said, this is something that has improved significantly since the earlier days, and the devs have actually commented on trying to do better. also in the past there were a lot of outfits that were genderlocked, but every patch they release updates to unlock some of them. i think there's very few genderlocked outfits remaining, actually. so i'll let you decide how you feel about that. if you're on the fence, i will also remind you that critically acclaimed mmorpg final fantasy xiv has an expanded free trial and that you can play through the entirety of a realm reborn and the award-winning heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime

hope this answered all of your questions, and once again feel free to let me know if there's anything else i can answer for you!

#asks #Anonymous #Final Fantasy XIV #ff14

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Anything you hope to see in a potential update from Genshin Impact?

Hmm new alt outfits would be nice maybe! Also perhaps some more opportunities for Traveler to speak maybe. Or while we‘re at it, an alt outfit for the siblings! There’s literally a clothing shop in Inazuma. That offered Traveler to make clothes for them. And a quest that did give them an actual accessory! If not Traveler, then at least Paimon! Cmon! Best guide deserves it! We‘re being robbed here smh my head!

I‘m big on the exploration aspect in this game so that would be cool, but Sumeru is packed as it is + that‘d most likely only happen with Fontaine dropping so it’s fine lol

Would be cool if they finally added a way to replay quests without the rewards though. A lot of stuff is hidden in ingame cutscenes or from investigate dialogue, so even if you look it up you won’t find it unless you check a wiki and get lucky.

#another anon ask

[onefey]

zelda and link just casually being fashion icons, no big deal

#the legend of zelda #age of calamity #princess zelda #link #zelink #? i guess #i was so thrilled to see that zelda shows up in her alt outfits for some cutscenes #not all of them but yknow

[dededaio]

We all know Kirby representation is a little lacking in Smash, so how would you personally go about doing a full rework of Dedede in Smash? His design, moveset, your choices for stages and music (og and remixed).

i will be real, i played smash grand total of 30 minutes in my life overall so i don't think i'm the best person to answer this question

i'm aware of poor rep in smash only cuz entire fanbase complains about it tbh

that said, if i had to change anything about his rep in smash, i would change stuff that is related to how he's presented. less emphasis on comedic animations, he's not a comic relief character, he's one of the protagonists of the series and deserves to be treated with respect.

take sakurai away from voicing him, his voice in smash is preposterous, give him actual VA to have him say lines like meta knight and kirby or at the very least bring kumazaki to do the grunts.

add alts that reference shit from actual kirby games (shadow dedede, dark matter possession, forgotten land outfit, just to name a few)

i would include roar of dedede in the next smash too. idk what you can really remix related to dedede considering they already did a few remixes of his theme already. like, he has few other tracks associated with him but they are way too obscure (like his leitmotif from kirby 64 cutscenes that been remixes in drum dash deluxe)

moveset.... again idk much about smash so im not sure what is missing compared to stuff he has in games. i am happy that they finally acknowledged masked dedede in ultimate at least.

in terms of stages, how COME we still don't have proper castle dedede stage?????????? like this is sO OBVIOUS there's literally a fighting arena in there, it's PERFECT? if there is such stage and i'm not aware forgive me for my ignorance, again, i played smash in grand total of 30 minutes in my entire life

#kirby #king dedede #super smash bros #klu's asks

[duckapus]

Raz in Smash

Movement Options/Special Features

Two Jumps

Wall Jump

Levitation Balloon(works the same way as Peach and Daisy’s umbrellas)

Hand of Galochio(instead of swimming, when Raz touches water deep enough to swim in it acts like lava up to two times, then the third time a hand grabs him and drags him to a watery grave. resets if he gets back on land)

Basic Attacks

Jab: 3-hit jab based on his basic attack combo in canon

Dash: does a quick somersault, then lunges forward feet first a short distance, somersaulting again after he lands to get back on his feet fast

Forward Tilt: single hit version of the jab

Up Tilt: quick uppercut with psychic energy extendin the hitbox

Down Tilt: leg sweep

Neutral Air: a few midair somersaults, very short range but decent damage and knockback

Forward Air: f-tilt in midair

Back Air: spins and swipes his hand behind him, delivering a strong telekinetic backhand. turns Raz around

Up Air: bicycle kick

Down Air: drops a replica of a Regret weight made of psychic energy, disappears after a second or if it hits anything(or anyone)

Side Smash: Pyrokinesis. forms a small dome just in front of Raz. If it finishes charging, whoever’s inside gets launched and set on fire

Up Smash: concentrates, then makes a massive telekinetic fist that does an uppercut. the longer the charge, the bigger and stronger the fist

Down Smash: makes two open telekinetic hands on either side of Raz, which then move outwards, pushing everyone away. the longer the charge the farther they go

Grabs

Uses the Telekinesis Hand. squeezes to pummel

Forward Throw: standard telekinesis throw from his games, actually pretty powerful

Back Throw: drags them across the ground in a sweeping motion before letting go

Up throw: lays on his back and juggles them with his feet for a bit before kicking them up up and away

Down Throw: drops them and chucks a Confusion grenade in their face, making them dizzy

Special Attacks

Neutral Special: PSI-Blast-fire bursts of psychic energy straight forward a fair distance. semi-spamable

Side Special: Levitation Ball-get up on the ball and roll around faster than you can run. has a single jump. does very little damage or knockback. mostly meant for mobility

Up Special: Mental Connection-pick a direction and move a set distance. can be used up to three times if you get the rhythm right, but after the third you go into freefall. does no damage but you’re invulnerable while moving

Down Special: Time Bubble-functionally identical to Witch Time

Final Smash

Basic Braining: Raz puts his Psycho-Portal on his forehead and pulls in the astral projections of everyone a certain distance in front of him. They then get attacked by most of the named Psychonauts Characters(the Whispering Rock campers, the Aquato Family, the Interns, Agents Sasha, Milla, Oleander, Hollis, and Truman, The Psychic 6, Dr. Loboto, and Linda the Lungfish) before finally getting stomped by Raz’s giant Goggolor form, kicking them out of his brain and doing a ton of damage and knockback.

Entrance/Taunts/Victory

Enters through a big version of the Psycho-Portal, which disappears after.

Up Taunt: That weird duck dance he copied from Bobby

Side Taunt: Any one of his idle animations

Down Taunt: Uses Clairvoyance to turn into how the nearest fighter sees him. If he uses it on another Raz he turns into Archetype Raz.

Victory 1: Recreation of the New Merit Badge Cutscene

Victory 2: Jumps and flips and cartwheels his way into a one-handed handstand

Victory 3: Kisses a brain and puts it in his backpack

Alts

Psychonauts 2 Outfit(default)

P2 Outfit with Psy-King’s Sensorium oversaturation

Psychonauts 1 Outfit

P1 Outfit with Black Velvetopia colors

Suit Raz

Suit Raz with white suit(to reference Hollis and The Milkman)

Underwear Raz

Underwear Raz with red jumpsuit, sickly blue-green skin, and silver helmet(to reference Dogen Boole)

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #razputin aquato #super smash bros #moveset speculation #yes the clairvoyance taunt would be a ton of work #yes I have already thought of what a bunch of them would be

[cerastes]

Same anon asking about lore. You’re right I should have been way more clear on what I was talking about and I’m sorry for that.

What I meant was that I was asking for where exactly you got the lore (Story cutscenes, events, character interaction, etc.). And the lore I was referring to was that the ocean talks to the Abyssal Hunters and that they all are artistic in someway (that Specter paints and Andreana sculpts). I have looked all over and I couldn’t find anything. Sorry again for being unclear the first time.

Right-o:

General Lore -> Skadi, Specter and Blue Poison’s Files, Skadi’s voice lines, EX cutscenes from the Grani event, EX cutscenes from the Schwarz event.

The Ocean Talks To Aegirians that have left home, not just Abyssal Hunters, important distinction to make -> New Main Story cutscene from the rerun of the Schwarz event.

The Abyssal Hunters All Have An Artistic Hobby -> Their respective Files and Tokens, and additionally, in the case of Skadi and Specter, the former’s base skill and the latter’s alt outfit.

Skadi is adamant about teaching you her song. Her base skill is also “Elegy”, an elegy being a serious, solemn poem, usually involving reflection regarding death (unrelated, but this Token also confirms Doctor doesn’t speak Aegir).

Specter presents you with completely cursed, possibly madness-inducing paintings as a sign of affection. Her alt skin also has her carry an instrument case, possibly a guitar or a cello, and has a subwoofer on the background. Her Elite 2 file also shows that she had a folksong from the depths among her belongings, suggesting she also likes to sing.

Andreana made her own “rifle” (actually a masterpiece crossbow that looks like a rifle and can somehow shoot her ink), and her Token as well as her files show her to be a huge gun aficionada, as she was captivated by the guns the Laterano use, but couldn’t use one herself because (just like the other Abyssal Hunters) her Arts Compatibility is flawed.

#arknights #abyssal hunters #specter #skadi #andreana

[animatedjen]

Confronting Dagan | Jedi Survivor

#bode was not in TI2 for *reasons* but I still liked this shot #remind me to get it again with the canon outfit #star wars jedi survivor #jedi survivor #cal kestis #bode akuna #alt angle cutscene

[i-guess-i-like-sonic-now]

open world sonic games ideas so far

(i’m not working on a game i just had some thoughts)

- BIG WORLD. like SUPER SUPER big. like breath of the wild, or like.. idk an mmo or something.

- ICONIC LOCATIONS (soleanna, empire city, angel island, all that). unfortunately you will start in green hill but thats a tutorial area and its real quick so its fine.

- LOOPTY LOOP TERRAIN WITH MULTIPLE LEVELS and caves.....

- BOOST GAMEPLAY for the main world with a turbo boost option for getting around between the big locations.

- ADVENTURE GAMEPLAY for small segments. “levels” like maybe caves or bosses!

- SHADOW RACES! shadow joins the main story for a little bit and you race him in one of the main missions (you can fail it without having to do it all over but you CAN redo it later on if you want). beating shadow in every race unlocks him as a playable character (story will not change, cutscenes will still show sonic, basically just an alt skin)

- UPGRADES!! high jump out of boost, forces-broken air boost, stomp speed for main world... bound jump hight, spindash speed, instashield for “adventure” stages... and of course the 06 gems(which instead of replacing the entire shoe will instead appear in an empty hole in every one of sonic’s shoes)

- CHARACTER OUTFITS! of course, they will not affect any stats or abilities, but you can put on soap shoes and the riders glasses n stuff :O

- SIDE MISSIONS!!! important sidequests that give lore will be given by established characters (silver, knuckles, elise, that gun commander guy from shadow unless he’s a villain here), and fun bonus missions from random npc’s! and the type of mission will be influenced by location! for example, soleanna’s missions will be ridiculous and of course sonic man will be one of them.

- POST GAME CONTENT!!! i hate it when loading a game’s save file places you before the final boss while the world is on fire and everyone is scared. maybe you wanna chill and see your comrades as npcs.

- NEW GAME + !!!!!! every upgrade you bought during your main game as well as every costume and, of course, shadow. beating this ng+ will unlock metal sonic as a character for the next ng+.

- SUPER SONIC!!!!!! you are able to activate him at 50 rings in “adventure” stages and cannot deactivate him unless you run out. you can activate him with 100 rings in the main world but you CAN deactivate him because otherwise he’ll eat up all your rings. you’ll probably have a bank as a failsafe. chaos emeralds will be involved in the plot BUT ng+ has super sonic unlocked at the start.

Upgrades i have thought of so far (xbox controller buttons):

- OVERALL: Move (Left Joystick) Camera (Right Joystick) Center Camera Behind Sonic (Right Joystick Button) Jump , Homing Attack (A) Spin Kick , Slide (B) Light Dash , Activate Super Sonic (Y)

- MAIN WORLD: Boost , Air Boost , Fly (Super Sonic) (X) Stomp , Stop Flying (Super Sonic) (B) Quick Step (LB/RB) Drift (LT/RT) Toggle Turbo Boost (Left Joystick Button)

- ADVENTURE LEVELS: Spindash , Drop Dash (X) Bound Attack (B) Shield Ability , Instashield , Light Speed Attack (Super Sonic) (LB/RB/LT/RT)

- GEMS: Switch Gems (D-PAD L/R) Bring Up Gem Menu (D-PAD UP) Use Gem Ability (D-PAD DOWN) GREEN - Tornado Kick (ABILITY) RED - Slow Down Time Around Sonic (TOGGLE ON/OFF) WHITE - Charged Homing Smash (HOLD + RELEASE) PURPLE - Double Jump (REPLACE AIR DASH)

#long post #sonic the hedgehog #look this would need a big budget and lots of work but come on #it would be pretty cool

[zirkkun]

I can't sleep so I'm gonna ramble for a minute here about. uh. 2020 i guess lol everyone else is so might as well jump on the bandwagon.

Be aware this is really really fucking long so it's a commitment to read it lmao sorry i just cannot sleep and i guess i had more on my mind about this year than i thought. I also did not proofread this at all. I just started writing and didn't look back lol

This year was... Weird for me. It started out with me feeling my best in January, comfortable and positive as I did my nth playthrough of DBH with friends and finally having enough alts of my boy Alfonse in FEH to have a team of Just him to fight with. (Priorities, right?) February hit, and things were still going good. I met Ray Chase and had him sign a print I did of Roy and Alfonse in some casual outfits for a scrapped au I wrote years ago. (And I gave him one 😊). Hell, like, covid was just coming around when me and my friends went to the con that weekend and a breakout of it hit the city just south of where the con was like a week before, but I was genuinely so excited for it that like I was like "Yeah, if i die, i die. Whatever happens happens." God, at this point, the Alfonse gc I was in was still alive and I still didn't talk to anyone in the group outside of that gc. Lowkey miss it tbh. But oh well. Things move on.

But that con was like... Stressful. I usually have fair amounts of stress at cons, being around so many people, I fear theft, unwanted contact, y'know, the standard; but my friend group was so filled with tension that it was absolutely painful. We'd been split most of the weekend, and if the two groups came together, it was hell, because it just caused unwanted arguments. I felt really bad cause I didn't want them to be upset, yknow? But i also wanted to hang out with my friends all at once. So i swapped between the groups a bit over the weekend. And blew WAY more money than I should have and lowkey it kind of fucked me over for the rest of the year cause I haven't had a job all year outside of, like, a local church job that pays at a rare max of $100 a month ;w;

I'd been struggling in school the previous semester already, about halfway through having just stopped going to classes altogether, yet still somehow managed to pass everything with B's and A's. The next semester rolled around, and I thought at first the distraction and inability to do anything was because of the con, and as it persisted after, I thought it was just post-con depression. But, as it turned out, no, it's just been my biggest relapse of depression since the end of high school, and frankly, it's only gotten worse since. I can't sleep rn because I'm between not wanting to do anything because I have a lack of emotions and motivation and not feeling deserving of sleep lol. I checked out of school on February 28th, however, I was convinced I was merely demotivated by my surroundings -- at this point, I was studying Japanese, and one of my friends at the time was a (although probably unintentionally) complete braggart about how much he was studying and how he was improving... not to mention he was textbook example of "This is an Actual Weeaboo, don't Fucking Do this." (One of many reasons i said friend at the time lol) it was just... So draining being around him, and I had to see him in class every day of the week. I barely scraped together assignments last-minute and never studied under the idea of "What does it matter if I'm not putting in my 100%?" So I checked out, with plans of transferring for the following semester.

Well, then March hit. Y'all know how March went down lmao.

I pretty much locked myself in my room at all times during March, going between Animal Crossing and BOTW (which actually racked up like 200ish hours i think according to the nintendo year in review i had lmao). I started making a bit closer online friends at this point, notably @levitumbling who decided to take me in as his channel designer for YouTube and I've been ever since! But. Of course. My first task? A Sans meme. My payment? One Switch copy of Undertale because he considered it a disgrace that I'd never played the game before.

Now, let me tell you. I was fuckin scared to play this game. I held onto it for weeks between the fear of "My friend bought me this and i should play this" and "I told myself I'd never touch this game with a 20 mile pole because of how much it's been shoved down my throat over the years." So, one day, I don't remember when, early April, I said, fuck it, I'll play it for a little bit, just enough to say "hey i played it for a bit!" and then never go back.

The only thing that stopped me from beating the whole thing in one sitting was it was the crack of dawn when I passed out, extremely tired and extremely frustrated by the fact I couldn't beat Muffet. Yes, I got that far in one sitting I intended to play for 15 minutes tops.

Now. Let me fuckin tell you. About my first playthrough of Undertale. I haven't gone into a game knowing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it like... I think ever. Usually I know what style of game it is, the genre, the main plot premise. I knew nothing other than the existence of Sans (and, as it turned out, I'd heard some of the soundtrack pieces before, notably Bonetrousle I heard this cover of it in a radio livestream a while back and never really looked it up, but was always excited when the radio looped back around to it being on; and I'd heard Dating Start! because that's Alpharad's go-to sponsorship ost lmao.) But anyway. I was completely in the dark. Do yall mind if i just go through some highlights of my favorite memories? This is supposed to be a summary of the year but I mean, I think this made a big enough impact on me to really like. Discuss it a bit.

I watched the whole opening cutscene, started a new game under my old screenname, "Yoru," since in naming the "Fallen Child," I assumed they were dead. Well, I was a little surprised to just be that child, alive, two seconds later, but whatever, I rolled with it.

I genuinely trusted Flowey right away. Like no shit. He told me run into the "friendliness pellets" and I didn't even fucking question it. And when Toriel came in? And she said to follow her? I straight up was like "Why the hell should I trust you?? That guy just tried to kill me what says you wont?" I followed only because the game made me but i was Wary the whole time. It took me a LONG time to warm up to Toriel.

Now. Let me tell you how stupid I am as well. The game says over and over right, "Don't fight. Spare. Have Mercy when names are Yellow." Well, I took this literally. I didn't understand the Act mechanic most of the time, and when something didn't work I just said, fuck it, and fought them. If their name didn't turn yellow, I just fought them. "They don't want Mercy if their name isn't yellow, right?" After a while, I'd started getting bored of fighting and would just run away, but like, I came to a point where I was like "I have a really low level, I'm really going to regret this later on if I don't grind for a while."

I don't know when I stopped but. I think I was only one or two kills away from a genocide run accidentally my first playthrough, based on how I think I was LV 3 and looking at genocide playthroughs, you're LV 3 or 4 when you fight Toriel. Like. Holy fuck. I can't imagine what I would have thought of this game if that happened lmao.

Speaking of Toriel, still didn't trust her, at all. When we got to Home, and after I did Every Single different phrase she says when you go downstairs before you talk to her reading about snails; I did not Hesitate to ask "cool uh when the fuck can I leave?" When we got to the Ruins exit I was like, ah, here it is. The betrayal from her I was expecting, where she tries to kill me. Well, nothing on the Act menu worked, right? So... I fought and killed her. I didn't really care, actually. I just kept going.

Then meeting Sans and Papyrus happened. I lost my fucking shit at this part, mostly when they were talking, because every time Sans made a pun it would zoom in on him and do a rimshot. The puns were not funny and I was definitely on Pap's side of "oh my GOD shut up." But that fucking zoom in and rimshot was just so fourth wall breaking and unexpected. Fuck, it still gets me. Anyway. Game continues. I again lose my shit at (insane spinning in random directions) "OH MY GOD! IS THAT A HUMAN?" "uh, i think that's a rock." "OH. WAIT! WHAT'S THAT IN FRONT OF THE ROCK?? (IS IT A HUMAN??)" "(yes.)" "OH MY GOD!!!" and still think these two moments in the game are Peak comedy. Oh, and let me tell you, I did not like either of these two at this point. Sans I was like, okay, hes kind of a dumbass in a funny way, but Papyrus is a dumbass in a way that just annoys me. Genuinely the archetype that misses social cues and therefore has miscommunication usually just annoys me to no end. (Mostly for the miscommunication. It's my least favorite trope and makes me unreasonably angry.) But yeah. Wasn't really a fan. But out of everyone so far? Definitely found Sans to be the most tolerable. But that's about all I thought of him lmao.

Getting to Snowdin, with the Papyrus battle, remember how I said I didn't like Papyrus? And yes, this was something I genuinely thought at one point, I genuinely hated Papyrus, imagine that. What a wild world that is. But anyway. You know how his Act menu has the "Flirt" option? I, for no reason, gunned it for the Flirt option, even though I did not want to. Then when he was like "WE'LL GO ON A DATE! LATER!!" i was like yea sure okay lmao. Again, couldn't figure out the Act menu to turn his name yellow, so I fought him, and he was one or two attacks from dying (miraculously) when he ended the battle. I spared him here cause, well, he spared me, it was only fair. Then this guy again is like "ILL BE AT MY HOUSE WHEN YOU WANT TO GO ON THAT DATE!" and i was like haha funny but still turned around to go on the date. Like why? I have no idea. I think I was more like "haha hes probably not gonna be there and its just cause i picked that option and lo and behold there was an actual fucking date. Oh my god. I have never in my life been on a video game date where one party was convinced I was infatuated with them and im here on the other side of the screen like "oh my god make this end i can't stand being around you.???" But still. The date was. Really fucking funny. I wish I could experience it for the first time again like holy shit. There are few playthroughs I did after this where I didn't go on the Pap date, even if I just spedrun through it.

So then you get to Waterfall and Sans is there like "hey wanna go to grillbys" and i was like sure why not so we go there and my choices were fries & ketchup (so i did not get the legendary scene where he chugged a bottle of ketchup, but i sure did my second playthrough, and let me tell you, i was disgusted). But like. This whole experience at grillby's like, the whoopee cushion, him using a comb on his bald ass skull, him just fuckin unapologetically scratching his ass for no reason?? Bro i was like "why the fuck is this guy part of the Tumblr Sexymen™ group ??? He's so ????? Gross???????" and like i still have this question tbh lmao. But like. Okay so he asks you "what do you think of my bro?" And my genuine answer was "uncool" and he was like "hey man sarcasm isnt funny" and can i just mention how like inheritly manipulative sans actually is like fuck he does things like this where he throws your answer the other way a few times and Every time it actually swayed me the other way. Because right here I went. "Oh. Maybe Papyrus is better than I thought." Like holy fuck maybe i should be more aware if something like that can sway my opinion so easily LMAO.

Anyway waterfall i genuinely was very bored of the whole time. I spent like a genuine 20 minutes figuring out the puzzle where you have to talk to a wall and I actually didn't realize you could move the telescope around. What helped me solve it is my friend's advice before I played it. "Inspect everything. Even talk to walls. Trust me." And literally thats how I solved it. But pretty much everything in Waterfall otherwise bored me. I did think it was pretty though, and did enjoy reading the lore, but when it started talking about monster biology my one fear had been realized: oh god, oh fuck. My original species for my own series also has physical Souls and die by turning to dust because they're made entirely of magic. God fuck. My luck, it has to be something popular, so now everyone's gonna think I'm a ripoff. But, at the same time, I do think it helped me understand monster biology (and it helped me come up with the ULR biology) better, because I've put in a lot of thought to existence of a species that exists only by magic and a Soul (which, mine only actually have half a Soul, as a full Soul makes a being immortal, which was also similar to the boss monsters in a way). It definitely made a lot more sense for like, the skeletons n stuff for me, because like my characters are wholly shapeshifters but usually take human form, and while they have "organs" in the places humans would have them, they don't operate. They're just placeholders, because they just live with their Soul. So I've always thought the same with UT monsters, since the skelebros can live without organs, that means so do the rest of the monsters, even if they have animal-like appearances.

Off topic lmao. Back to UT. So, the Undyne fight was kind of the turning point for me. She was pissing me off so much during this whole game and like I was like "if theres another fucking part where I have to run away from her im going to scream." Well, once again, her name wasn't yellow, so I wasn't going to spare her... and, actively, I made the decision to kill her, because I didn't want to deal with her still chasing me later on in the game. It took me a long time to beat her, and when I did, I texted my friend (@cheshiregrinnbuttoneyes ) in excitment like "YES I FINALLY KILLED UNDYNE" and she texted back like "YOU DID WHAT?????" and i was like "i.... Killed Undyne????" she replies, "YOU DONT HAVE TO OMFG WHY" and im like "I DIDN'T HAVE TO?? THERE'S OTHER OPTIONS?????" and shes like "YES OMFG THAT'S LITERALLY THE PREMISE OF THE GAME" and im "WHAT."

So then. I get that call from Papyrus like. "HEY! YOU ME AND UNDYNE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIME!"

oh my god the guilt i felt.

alphys on undernet being like "omfg i forgot to watch undyne fight the human. ah ill ask her about it later she never loses <3"

bro. i nearly fuckin cried. i was like. Not to mention I'd gotten the crush question right for Mettaton's quiz in answering Undyne (bc i was like "plz be gay plz be gay") so it fucking cut like a knife what I'd done.

I don't remember when I let myself get passed it. But I do know that the whole story arc between Alphys and Mettaton went way over my head. Like, i know im probs the minority on this, but I adore Alphys, I have since I first met her in game, and like, when Mettaton was like "ALPHYS HAS BEEN LYING TO YOU!" i just went "...nah."

Also, I didnt like mettaton at this point, cause I thought he was being really obnoxious, and then the turn around to betray Alphys really kinda pissed me off.

But like.

Oh my god.

Remember how I said I swapped my opinion on Pap earlier bc of Sans's comment? Yeah that was a pretty fast turnaround, but it still took me a few times.

But the second i saw mettaton ex

I was like

"HIM. HE. HE'S THE ONE I LOVE."

Like, full turnaround from Undyne, I actively refused to kill him. All times I thought he was an asshole? Forgotten. Me thinking he's a selfish prick? Gone. Nada. Nothing. Pure adoration. Suddenly every flaw he had was pushed aside purely from how hot I thought he was. Also, fuckin, im really glad i played this when no one in my house was awake, because I still didn't understand the Act mechanic here, and every time you attack mettaton he has this like moan he does and im like oh my god. stop. omfg.

At the end, too, when there was the calls and everything, when he had his big turnaround, I was just so happy for him I genuinely cried. Also, I had to do his battle probably the most out of everyone's in the game (not including genocide), so when it came around to his battle during the (glitchless) speedruns i did, i was more invested in how fast I could rack up points, cause you need 10k rating points to pass, and I actually did get that before he lost his legs, but apparently he needed to lose those too before you passed lol. Unfortunate.

Anyway after Alphys talked to you and everything, i genuinely went to see if Mettaton was still there, but he wasn't :( so i just went to New Home. I was very ill prepared for the fight against Asgore and the only reason I struggled with it so much was because my only healing items were like. Something that healed like 10 or 12 hp and the snowman piece. I was LV 9 when i finished the game, so like, my HP was pretty high, but i didnt have the G to buy items, so i was pretty much fucked. Yes. I had to eat the snowman to win.

Oh speaking of terrifying shit though. Photoshop flowey? My god. I haven't been afraid of a video game boss so much since I was a little kid. It was like 3 am and i was not prepared for him to just delete my save file and then kill me on repeat, glitching and breaking everything as he pleased. Bruh i was genuinely scared. Like, not even just, "oh yikes :(" or something. Like, crying scared. Lmao im an emotional bitch by nature.

I of course had to restart from the beginning again to get the True Pacifist ending. I was very careful to never touch the Fight button literally ever. And, it actually took me a while to reset, because I hate erasing my original save files, yknow? But, well, as it turned out? While technically New Game+ by naming, resetting doesn't erase everything you did. It wasn't a new file. I was a little confused at first to be honest. Toriel saying things were familiar, remembering things I said, Papyrus and Undyne both recognizing me, like. It was unnerving.

When I got to the end, i had to look up how to get Alphys's date (since my friend told me the way to unlock TP was to go on all the dates, but Alphys's was definitely designed in mind of you turning around from New Home and going back to talk to people rather than a new reset. So after unlocking it, getting through Alphys's date (i still remember being like, verbally, "omg alphys you look so nice??" When she came out with the dress on and then had a thought to myself like... since when do i care about what people look like? since when do i compliment people? At that point, while I didn't consider myself to be a rude person, I definitely wasn't exactly all that concerned about others for anything. Sure, I cared about others' lives, but I tended to be a bit more judgemental internally, and just. Didn't really give a fuck about what people did in the most negative sense possible, unless it involved me. Yet, it rolled off my tongue like it was something id say normally to anyone. I really wonder if this is the true turning point for me this year.)

Getting to the end, with everyone cheering me on. Hoo boy. This was the start of many tears to come. Papyrus's "DO WHAT I WOULD DO! BELIEVE IN YOU!!" sticks with me the most. I wasn't surprised by Flowey's actions, but what fucking threw me for a loop was like. When Flowey was revealed as Asriel, I was genuinely jaw-drop shocked. I was like. Holy fuck. I thought he was dead. What the hell. To this day, though, i still think Hopes and Dreams hits me the hardest out of all the boss battle themes. It doesn't super bother me, bc like, difference in opinion is whatever, but like. Whenever I see Megalovania at the top of someone's ost list for Undertale I'm just... Why? Maybe it's because I'd overheard it meme'd to much before I played the game, but like, i dunno, it's not a bad song, but it's not the most emotional provoking piece for me, so it's pretty far down my list. Hopes and Dreams will still remain my #1.

I really did feel determined during this battle. I really felt a lot of emotion. I felt excited. I felt frightened. I felt ambitious. Asriel's battle is probably still the hardest for me, and yes, I'm counting genocide this time. I can't grasp his magic patterns at all, and I more so played it as a "okay, how much damage can i take? Whats his next move?" As i healed every other turn. It took me a very long time to beat him (though no 11 hours like Sans, this was more like, 2 or 3 max) and when I got to the part with the Lost Souls, most of the characters just said their "we hate you" piece and i was like "nope you're controlled" right.

But then there's Sans's "just give up. i did."

I genuinely had to stop. I set down my controller and just sat for a minute. I'd mentioned before how much I've been struggling with depression for years now, and it's at the worst it's been since high school. Maybe you'd think when I saw that, I was like "sure, maybe I should give up." But... It's really the "i did." that hit me like a rock to the stomach. While I do know a couple other people with depression, the most discussion we have with it is "haha i wanna die" kinda jokes yknow? Nothing really serious. And, well, I've always been the type to lean to fictional characters for support more than real people, since I've just been so disconnected from a lot of friends growing up and was too scared to talk about anything with my family.

So seeing someone else say "just give up. i did." hit me so fucking hard that I just started crying. I had already been in a real sappy mood cause the whole scene was so emotional as it was, even if merely the cliche of friendship will save all, y'know what? Its a good ass fuckin trope and makes me emotional lmao.

So, naturally, I was more hyperaware of Sans's implied depression from here onward. The conversations with everyone post-battle left me crying. God, so did the hug with Asriel. I was just fucking bawling.

Oh god. I didn't even mention. "Despite everything, it's still you." Another line that just hit me and I had to pause.

So admist my crying mess, I was telling my friend I'd beat Undertale again. He asks me "so... you gonna play the genocide route?" And I already had from the beginning. I always want to play every available route in a game. I see no point in paying for something and then not playing it all. I'd consider myself a completionist who doesn't ever actually finish anything lmao.

I definitely put my emotions aside for genocide. The absolute hardest kill for me was Papyrus, though. And i was absolutely fucking heartbroken when he said he still believed me as his last words. But I forced it aside. I didn't want to reset. I wanted to beat it to have it under my belt that I had. I was pretty sure the Sans battle would be here, since I hadn't heard Megalovania in the game yet, and I was aware of how hard the battle was, despite never seeing it.

Undyne's battle I'm more emotional about in retrospect than I was at the time. At the time, I didn't care, didn't like the theme much, and the dings gave me a headache. Undyne isn't exactly my favorite character (though definitely not my least favorite, that role is given to Frisk with Toriel not close behind ahdhsb im sorry), so I really wasn't concerned about it. Not to mention, I don't know why, but all of the battles I struggled with EXCEPT Undyne's I ended up liking the character more as a result. Maybe it was the dinging lmao.

Bro you shoulda seen how prepared I was for Mettaton NEO's battle to be hard as fuck. I was like sitting upright, took deep breaths before hitting fight, then when he died in one shot i just kind of "wh...what." Still very disappointed lol but I guess that's kind of the point of the genocide route.

Then came the Sans fight. As I said, I spent 11 hours on this. I genuinely didn't pay attention to what he said after a while, but I do remember the first time I read it, I was fucking terrified. Usually, sarcasm, hatred, and sass is very hard to convey through pure text, especially when it's said in the same tone as his usual talking. But the absolute harshness, the coldness, and the lack of any fucks given Sans had at that point was so plainly transparent through everything he said that it fucking scared me. Toby Fox's writing here was fantastic. I can only dream of being able to write like that. Frankly, I love his writing in general. Actually, fuck it, I love all of the artistic takes of this game. This is gonna sound weird but... The "childishness" of it just is so good. Like, there's no rules. Every socially accepted rule of art, writing, character design, speech patterns, and even basic grammar are thrown aside. He didn't just think outside of the box, there literally was no box. I call it childish only because like, children also create with no rules. They have no rules to restrict their creativity. And seeing that embraced in Undertale in every form possible just blows me away.

Anyway. The battle. It. Was hard. Thats a given. I spent about two weeks playing it on and off, and it's probably the most healthily I've treated myself in recent memory, because when it became too much for me to handle, I set it down and took a break. I would retain what I memorized and use it for the next time I picked it up. Frankly, it came to a point where every time I opened up Undertale to play, it was more just cause I wanted to see him lmao. The guy hated my existence at this point and it's not like i disacknowledged that. But it just felt like every time i opened the game... Idk. I don't know what I felt. I can tell you for sure this isn't the time when Sans started slipping into my favorite character spot over Mettaton, that didn't come until the development of Act to Flirt's first demo, which was a month or so later lmao.

I was very excited when I beat Sans.

But then, after it was over, I felt very empty.

I didn't feel good about beating genocide. I still don't. I want to play the boss battles again, cause they were really fun, despite how hard they were, but I can't bring myself to.

When I got to Chara, and everything went to black, I just wiped my save and started fresh. I think this was the first time I used the name "Willo" for anything. I just picked a random name to use, and Willo was the first thing that came to mind.

I beat neutral again many times, trying to unlock as many secrets as I could. I accidentally spent like, way too long trying to get Sans's room, because I couldn't figure out how to do it... which is when I started speedrunning the game, because I was just so used to going through it all. I timed myself once, and I got somewhere around 1:20:00 ish, which puts me at the very bottom of the NG+ Glitchless runs by like 30 minutes, but hey, it's still not too bad all things considered.

I'd started working on Act to Flirt sometime in between the speedruns. I was playing Papyrus's date again, and I had this thought of. What if Undertale... but all boss fights are instead like Papyrus's date?? I pitched the idea to my friend who was like "thats definitely been done before lol" and immediately I almost shut down the idea. But then I still had that glimmer of hope that, maybe, since I haven't made it yet, people would like my game because it was by me. Besides, quarantine was getting to me. I needed some way to spend my time. So on May 6th to May 7th, I spent the whole 24 hour period making the first proof of concept for the game, which was UI setup and Flowey's tutorial date. I hadn't made any of the art yet, so it was a black background with Flowey's undertale sprite. I originally was going to make everything more visual novel like in the sense that, so like on Papyrus's date, you could make choices like "unwrap the present" "dont unwrap the present" or "you look great" "you look terrible" and getting the ending would involve pretty much just saying the right things at the right times. But this alone was... Yknow, already done before, and part of what makes Undertale so great is that it's, despite its many outside influences, very unique in its gameplay. So I decided to make the dates more like puzzle-solving RPG's, and frankly, since doing that, I dont know if I want to go back to making other visual novels lmao.

After making the first demo and releasing it, I hit a creative funk. I wanted to make the next demo right away, but I forced myself to stop (since i was working 16+ hour days to finish it in exactly a week. I didn't eat much and i slept very little during this time too. Dont do this lmao). I didn't know if the game would be received, and frankly, I'd had many failed projects in the past due to lack of support. I lost a lot of support in the past due to the dropped projects I kept starting and quitting because I had such a small audience, and that made me lose a lot of interest and motivation to work on them. So I posted the first demo and waited. I was very shocked to have a YouTuber with over a million subs play it that weekend. Dantekris I think was her channel name. She speaks Russian, and I never understood a word she said, but I've still watched her let's plays because I enjoy seeing her reactions. I hate that YouTube keeps deleting my responses on her videos, probably because they're long and in English so it's marked as spam on a comments section full of purely Russian comments yknow. But it makes me feel like such an ass ;w;

Mairusu is the next large YouTuber who played it and my god I love seeing when he uploads a new update for my game because I genuinely have no idea what to expect from him. I don't know what it is but he's just so absolutely funny to me. He also seems to be the most common breaker of my game though. Stop making your own bugs!! I try to testplay to find the bugs he gets and it's like.... what did you do.... how did you skip that whole date im so confused thats not supposed to happen..... He accidentally skipped all of Muffet's date because of this too and hers is supposed to be the hardest in the game right now so I'm very upset by it;; i dont know how it happened, it never happens for me.

But like. I was definitely struggling a bit with the direction I wanted to take AtF. I wanted there to be a core message, like with Undertale and many other of my favorite things. When there's a core theme to write about, it makes things a lot easier to compose than if you have a plot with no meaning to it. It ties it all together for a common purpose. But, as I started diving more into the fandom around this time, finding not only it being still alive but still enormous and filled with passion.

Passion. Hm. That's familiar. That's the trait I gave the player character, rather than determination. While it was intended for giggles "haha dating game u have passion wink wonk," it started becoming more than that. It started becoming a manifestation of what I really felt upon finally soaking myself into the deep end of this pool I'd once been too afraid to step into. Passion. Everyone here is so driven by their passion for this game, the characters, its story. Everyone is so inspired and creative. That's it. That's what I wanted Act to Flirt to be.

A game made for those who have already dived deep into Undertale. A game made for those who have the same level if passion I've wittnessed. A game that someone might stumble upon, merely wanting any Undertale content they can find, and a dating sim leaves them grasping at straws, only to find it's a game instead deeply rooted in how much they care about this world and its people. You have a Soul of Passion, because your passion for Undertale brought you to this game. That's what the core message is. Every ending is supposed to depict different kinds of empathy, and True Passion shows you truly cared the most you could for all of these characters. Sans is so blocked from it because, well, how can he really believe it? "if we're really friends, you won't come back," right? But here you are. Again and again.

And Heartbreak. Whose heart is really the one breaking here? Taking the Hopes and Dreams of every single character you've grown to care for and crushing it beneath your feet... who is the one suffering in the end?

I just... I'm very excited. I've written that game with the player as the main character. Not Willo. Not Frisk. Not anybody else. You, the player, are the main character. I've honestly done a lot of looking around in the DDLC code to make this game as 4th wall breaking as I can (without like. Disrupting it as a game experience like ddlc is, with monika deleting things and stuff). Just enough to leave the player unsettled and confused. Like. "Me? Are you talking to me?" Yes. You. Directly to you.

I started sketching out designs and ideas for ULR around July. I genuinely loved Underlust after finding out about it, even though it was posed to me as an insult about the contents of Act to Flirt. I was both like "uh... Act to Flirt is nothing like this. Maybe in reversed roles at best but..." and also "okay but this? This shit is good. Thank you." But finding out it was discontinued and wanting more, well, that's when I decided to make ULR. I presented the idea to my friends, who were like "please stop making aus," and then continued onward. I told myself I wasn't going to work on it though until after I finished Act to Flirt... Then after the next demo came out... Then it turned out I was working on it too much and it resulted in me rushing my release of the 3rd demo of AtF because I'd been so distracted I was going to miss my release deadline of the end of August, before school. I... Still kinda regret that a lot. It's still very buggy. Though I hope I got them all for the next demo...

But speaking of school .... ha... Remember when i said i was going to transfer to another school? Well, I did, and for the first few weeks it was fine! Then I started skipping assignments I didn't want to do. Then I started panicking about my low grades. Then I started getting behind on assignments. Then I stopped going to classes. Then I lost all motivation to work on anything at all. I just locked myself in my room and did next to nothing with the occasional drawing here and there, for weeks. It came to the point where I was like "I just have to get through this semester, then I'll drop out." But if I ever wanted to go back to school, having all F's on my last report card would not bode well for my acceptance. Which lead to more stress. I didn't want to fail, but I also didn't have any motivation to work. I would do one assignment here or there, feel good about myself, then realize I was still months behind on work and suddenly oh god oh fuck finals are next week. And my solution? I just. Fuckin dropped out. Oh my god. It was such a relief to just get that weight off my shoulders that I'd been carrying for months on end, preventing me to do anything I wanted to work on.

Well. Then my car tires died. So that's a thing. But good news! Between commissions and gifts, I have enough money to get them replaced! I don't think I've ever like... Been so excited about that before.

And, well. Now I'm here, pretty much. God, I just went through my entire year summary, and it feels like it was both forever long but also not long at all. I don't get it. 2021 still feels like a far off future, despite the fact I'm now 5 hours into it. Yes, I spent 4 hours writing this. Whoops. Oh well. I couldn't sleep anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.

All in all though... Despite being locked inside, away from my friends, unable to talk to anyone about the things i was enjoying, and living in fear of getting sick at all ever with anything, 2020 definitely fuckin changed me for the better. It was a hellhole of a year and I'd never do it again or wish it upon my worst enemy, but I came out a better person... I think. I hope.

It seems cliche to bring back but fuck it. Undertale? My friend insists its core message was that anyone can be a good person if they just try, which I mean, it definitely probably was intended that way. But that never was the message I felt while playing it.

What lesson I took from it was "things aren't always as they seem."

Flowey betrays you immediately, but then you find out he's just the remnants of a boy who died years ago and is still grieving over the loss of his best friend, whomst, despite how much he cares for them, recognizes they weren't good to him and he'd been manipulated and used by them.

Toriel is a kind and caring woman, a still grieving mother over the loss of her children, who seems to have kindness to no end, but is actually filled with such hatred and depression that she regularly gets drunk, swears, and still, without resilience, hates her ex husband.

Sans is a playful character who is full of puns, a gross atmosphere, and decided to break physics just because he can. He's the embodiment of a comic relief character. But at the same time, he's suffering, struggling, in constant pain and worry. He's lazy, but quick on his feet. He's harmless but will kill without hesitation if need be. He's both caring and the least caring of them all.

Papyrus is like... a self-centered asshole in a way, when you first meet him. He prides himself and everything he does. Yet still, he's actually quite open and accepting and loves everyone. He loves talking with and being with other people, even if maybe sometimes he has a different interpretation of social interaction from the "norm."

Undyne comes off as cruel and deadly, such even being emphasized in many points. But, deep down, she's extremely caring for those who are close to her, and her only cruelty is dealt to those who have wronged her in some way.

Alphys is a sweet and nervous wreck who comes off as helpful and lacking a filter due to her tendency to ramble. She seems to be merely anxious due to likely social anxiety... But you eventually find out that she's a liar who merely wants to create a world to be a better place, and by doing so, she pretends all the bads do not exist.

Mettaton comes off as an absolute self-centered asshole. Like. There's no way around that. He seemingly has no regard for other people with only full intentions of helping himself. But, deep down, he actually cares a lot for other people, especially his family and friends, and just tends to get caught up in things while he's in the moment.

Muffet seems to be greedy with how much money she begs people to give her for the spiders, but, as it turns out, she's flat broke and drops no G when you beat or kill her. She merely needs the money to help the spiders.

Asgore, too, is built up to be this ruthless killer throughout the whole game, and when you finally meet him, he's an incredibly sweet guy who's only filled with regret, and because of his past decisions, has decided to put aside his hopes for the sake of his people.

I...

Didn't see any of these characters for who they really were right away. Why would I? Few of these archetypes are explored much in a lot of fiction lately, or at least what I've been consuming; and is more focused around how someone can change their flaws into something positive... Not how to accept someone for who they are, despite the wrongs they may have committed or the lives they lead. Everyone's different. Everyone's grown up differently. Everyone has a reason for what they do.

And it took me playing this game to realize such a simple concept that I probably should have learned years ago.

That's why I really think 2020 changed me for the better. I made a realization that I should have had many years ago, and it's made me a lot more confident in expressing myself, accepting people for what they do, and seeing the brighter side to everything. I say that, sitting here filled with nothing and void of all emotion whatsoever... But it's a conscious thought i have. My emotions are so weird... They're either on full blast or I feel nothing at all. But yet I have... Thoughts of what i should feel? It's weird. Idk. This is why I'm getting therapy LMAO

But yea. 2020? Fuck you. But also thank you. But mostly fuck you and good riddance lmao

#zircon rambles #a lot #lol #its very long im sorry #i spent way too long writing this too #also please don't reblog this

[lady-byleth]

If I was in charge of Code Vein I'd change all the girls' outfits to some degree - yes, all of them, even Mia - to not be Like That, make the alt outfits available without the shitty Trials and available outside of regular game play (meaning they'd appear at home base and in cutscenes), make outfits for the protagonist more flexible so we could combine elements from them and make them so they're not gender locked and remove the boob jiggle on Eva, Io and Coco

Literally just superficial stuff, the game would be basically perfect for me if that was changed.

Like, I adore this game, but for the love of God why are game designers like this?

#code vein

[khytal]

things i would’ve liked to see in arise

-how shionne stole the fire master core in the first place

-flashback cutscenes/stills for when the characters talk about their backstory

-skits that go off on random tangents

-more side quests with stories/quest chains to make up for the fact that like half of the 70 side quests were fetch quests that could be immediately completed if you had the materials

-more gigant zeugles on the field (the game was like “yeah watch out for these guys!!” and there’s only maybe. 4 of them that are actually on the field without needing a side quest to trigger their appearance)

-the deluxe edition outfits could’ve been obtainable through side quests. i mean i know it was for money but having them be tied to side quests instead would’ve been so much more interesting

(late game spoilers)

-they should’ve had a late game side quest where alphen gets like. a commemorative iron mask to use as a cosmetic option. he looks bald when the mask comes off and for whatever reason his hairstyle changes too and it doesn’t look good with the sincleaver armor (something about it being nice and parted while the armor itself is more. rogue-ish in appearance. and it just clashes until he gets the sovereign attire)

-alternatively just a cosmetic option that retains the mask’s hairstyle without the mask

-there was a huge missed opportunity for the party to run into the facility where shionne lived on lenegis before she escaped (house imeris? idr if she was taken from her home for the experiments). i guess the reason they never did anything like that was because the forbidden zone was about to dump a ton of backstory for alphen and they were already letting dohalim have some moments

-alt colors for the sovereign/maiden outfits

-how exactly did alphen land near the top of a volcano and end up in the canyon if the healing pods and ship’s interior never broke down after 300 years

like...SOMEONE had to have dragged him out of the healing pod for him to be found away from the starship, with no hints that he was ever aboard it, and kisara said the healing pods were still functional (and there was no indication that any of them had been damaged)

did he just stumble out of the ship in a stupor one day and forget that too??

#khytal.ks #there's just a strange absence of things to do #law's like 'yeah i watched my friends get killed in front of me and i have nightmares about it every night' and you go 'HUH' #because it's in a skit #they passively mention a lot of things in skits #you could gloss over this stuff so easily

[xyztrio721]

I just thought of a possible new Final Smash for Shulk should he get a new one in the future.

If Shulk gets his Future Connected outfit as an Alt. Costume in Ultimate, or if he gets it in the next Smash game, his Final Smash in that outfit should be Union Strike.

He must hit the opponent first before one of three events can occur:

1. Red Comet- Deals a large amount of damage to enemies, but only if they have a high percentage of damage already.

2. Yellow Chaos- Makes opponents dizzy and decreases the amount of damage they can do. This will only work if the opponent’s damage percentage is white, yellow, or orange.

3. Blue Caress- Heals Shulk’s damage percentage and temporarily gives him immunity to the effects of certain items, such as Deku Nuts, Banana Peels, Pitfalls, Ramblin’ Evil Mushrooms, etc. This will only occur if Shulk’s damage percentage is red.

Maybe there will be an option that will allow you to choose which type of Union Strike you want to use, if this idea falls through.

As a side note, the Ponspectors will obviously appear in the Final Smash, but so should Melia, Kino, and Nene. Maybe they can mimic the scenes that you can get with Shulk, Melia, Kino, and Nene if you get a Extra Chance in Future Connected (if you don’t know, getting a Extra Chance in Future Connected means that you can initiate another Union Strike right after using the first one. You can’t use the same type of Union Strike as the first one, however, and that can also apply to this Final Smash. All four main playable characters with show in the cutscene that follows).

As one final note, in Future Connected, there are quick time events during the Union Strike that will increase the strength of the Union Strike, but I don’t think this will work in Smash for two reasons.

1. QTEs would be out of place in Smash.

2. This would make Shulk extremely broken.

I don’t think Shulk will get any major changes like Cloud did when Sephiroth came out, but who knows? Everything that I just said could become real in the future.

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #should I use the tags xenoblade chronicles spoilers? #eh just to be safe #xenoblade chronicles spoilers #super smash bros #super smash bros ultimate #ssbu #remember this is just an idea that I came up with #this is not confirmed in any way shape or form