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descentintosiblingcon · 1 year

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Chapter 1: Prologue

(Underage cheesecake as a spread...yup, we're in for it.)

To start with, there are these players/things known as [.hackers] and hackers, being a mythical concept, are believed by Shugo, our dual sword wielding co-protagonists, to be a legend. But his sister Rena, our heavy swordswoman other co-protagonist, has to explain that they are a legendary team of great warriors. Shugo, having an actual goddamn legend confirmed before his ears, couldn't care less. Then again, it's not so much confirmed as it is "his sister said they're totes for real, yo" and even she said she's never seen them in person. His sister calls him out for hating because he ain't and Shugo helpfully reveals that the two are twins. Anyway, that's the set-up, those are the ones we're stuck with, let's move on.

Oh, the two are being stalked by a White Hair and a White Mage. The White Mage somehow thinks the two casually discussing rumors means that they have valuable information and the White Hair basically says, "I heard a rumor that monsters are coming back!". They'll group up in the future. You don't say...

Now Shugo is in the Ink Place. He is facing a girl with long white hair who goes by Aura and...oh, they wake up in the real world and take off their headsets. Shugo and Rena I mean, not Shugo and Aura. Yeah, for those new to the franchise, .hack is a VR RPG game so you can only access the world with VR. This series predates Sword Art Online so get all the related jokes out of your system before the otakus descend upon you.

(Character page says White Hair's name is Balmung and White Mage's name is Mireille so that's what I'll be calling them from now on.)

Apparently, fucking noob Shugo has never played a game before secondary school. Kind of jumping into the deep end with trying an immersive VR RPG but hey, it's your life man. Rena introduces him to .hack and, while understandably wary, Shugo bites the bullet and puts on the damn helmet.

Once inside, Shugo gasps at the graphics...and experiences one of the world's most awkward boners over his sister's avatar. He has to outright holler at her to change her damn outfit before he winds up on a site owned by MindGeek but Rena insists on keeping it, thinking it's cute (Cute apparently meaning "jailbait" in her province). Turns out Shugo and Rena have been assigned the avatars of two of the members of the last team of [.hackers], Kite and Black Rose.

Shugo and Rena are approached by two cute girls (Shugo proceeds to jizz from the sheer concept of a woman approaching him without needing a photo for the cops to identify him by) due to the rarity of their type of characters. Soon, the twins are swarmed by others when they find out they're [.hackers]' types, forcing the two to escape.

Next, they're at the interdimensional portal, the Murky Door. Players are teleported to different areas based on their level. Going through, they encounter one of the most terrifying beasts known to man...

Human-faced Dog is gonna human face you down, bitch.

Yes, to the surprise of none, the Human-faced Dog fucks Shugo's shit up. He attacked him without equipping and got deservedly wrecked for it. He also has to use a healing potion after encountering the first enemy. Way to win our hearts, Shugo. Rena has to roast his ass for him to learn anything, calling him out on not reading the manual (Devil's Advocate: she kinda sprung the game on him), not talking to villagers, doesn't buy healing items, doesn't save his progress, rushes to bash the boss without leveling up and goes online to give the game a 2/10 for being "too hard" (the extra point was for the tits.).

Shugo proves her point by shouting RPGs suck because he has to actually prepare and remember stuff. Tantruming off, he whines that he has to team up with his sister who is already glued to him at the hip in real life already. Rena manages to lure him back with the Wounded Gazelle act, softly saying she just wanted to have an adventure with her bro (Devil Advocate: as a younger sibling in the past, I can sympathize with being shunned by other siblings for having more esoteric hobbies.). Shugo stumbles back, apologizes and asks how to equip his stuff. Turns out he needs to know how to equip some feet because a new enemy shows up.

Demon Glaymore. Level 40.

Shugo is more impressed than scared but Rena has to tell her noob brother that a fucking boss just showed up out of nowhere and they need to book it like John Wick 3. Shugo is understandably confused because they're supposed to be in a training ground for novices. The Demon Glaymore expresses their sympathy for the twin's unfair predicament by trying to stomp them into paste, forcing them to flee. The Glaymore catches up however and, with a fatal blow heading for Rena's direction, Shugo pushes her out of the way, dying in her place as is expected of every twin.

Wait no, he's in the Ink Place from earlier. Aura shows up and glides over him, ending the chapter with telling him that he is the chosen one, the hacker...

You don't say...

THOUGHTS:

Not gonna lie, not as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, they charge right out of the gate with the incest subtext but I can actually believe these two are siblings rather than blood related roommates. I'm not actually suffering yet and Shugo makes a great punching bag without actually losing too much sympathy. Will this manga get actively worst or will I be forced to find a manga less hard to find? Only time will tell.

#.hack #.hack//legend of the twilight #review #if this has more than three volumes #we might have to just skip to the anime #i know this is not in high demand but #damn

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kinetic-elaboration · 4 years

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January 27: Thoughts on The 100 2x09, Remember Me

...For some reason I was really angry at the beginning of this? Also there’s a lot of Lxa bashing. Sorry. And some Clarke criticism but in the latter case, I mean it well.

Also this is really long whoops.

So...I miss when killing off main characters was a big deal and people actually reacted to it.

I truly cannot take Lxa seriously I’m sorry. I don’t find her... intimidating at all.

I’ve already complained repeatedly about her complete bad faith deal making at every turn so I won’t go into it again but nevertheless, here she is, again, moving the goal posts of the negotiation. ‘I’ll withdraw my army if you cure the Reapers. No, if you give up your friend. No, if you give me his body.’ Clarke should have double crossed her immediately.

Also I know that I ultimately did think it was reasonable for Finn to face Grounder justice (except insofar as that justice was itself morally untenable--that is, the Torture Porn) but now that he’s dead, I think there’s no real moral argument to be made that the Grounders deserve his body. I understand their traditions, which in fact I found quite moving when I first watched this ep, but surely his people have, or could make up, some traditions for his burial also. He is still their friend. This seems like little more than an excuse to be cruel. And Clarke’s so fucking broken she just goes with it. It’s truly awful. I mean she’s doing the only thing she can do I guess but it’s laughable that she sounds as if she has any sort of upper hand, you’re getting played bitch.

(Yeah I know, Lxa is being ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘revolutionary’ by even semi-accepting capital punishment without torture and taking his body is a way of appeasing her harder line advisers but like cry me a river--she’s either the all powerful commander or she’s fucking not.)

“We want the same things.” Lol if you wanted the same things you would have stuck to the original deal. No I’m not over this at all I guess.

I also still can’t get over how Clarke has literally never earned true leadership in the eyes of her own people and yet she continues to be randomly viewed as a leader by the Grounders and thus retains pretty much full de facto control over her own people’s power structure.

Also Kane shut the fuck up. I completely forgot about this but they really did put him through an off-screen 180 where all of a sudden Lxa is a God to him and can literally do nothing wrong and to this day we have never been given an explanation how that came to be. Guess it’s easier to tell not show huh?!?

ALSO I get we’re suppose to see a sort of racism-corollary to lines like “I don’t think they know what peace is” like obviously this rubs one the wrong way automatically. But Abby’s not really wrong. And despite what Kane thinks, Lxa has given, again, NO indication at all that she is interested in peace. She has given a lot of indications that she wants to do whatever she can to wring as much from the Sky People as she can without giving anything in return and hey we’re only halfway through the season and she’s already psychologically broken Clarke (also the only person she acknowledges as the leader even though she is not, cannot emphasize this enough, the leader of anything... and thus the only person L really has to break) and sunk-cost-fallacy-ed her into submission. Now that Finn is dead Clarke would cut off her own tit to make Lxa happy because anything else is “letting him die in vain.”

...Why am I so angry lol?

I understand the positions of both Clarke and Raven in this scene, which is fucking brutal, but I sympathize more with Raven. Clarke’s basically just a messenger, but what the Grounders are demanding is (I know I already said it) cruel, and cruel to Raven above all. And Clarke is almost all business. I think that’s what she needs to be for herself but it’s not helpful to the situation.

Anyway here are my faves in Mount Weather. It’s almost hard to watch these scenes because I want to, like, memorize them. Partially for the C/M story and partially just because. Today’s adventure is getting to a radio to send a message to the Ark-wide channel, which is a term for a thing that exists. Also I forgot how snarky everyone / Miller was to Maya. Which, I get. But--are they not thinking about how her own people have experimented on her? Like she is expendable to them, this is just a known fact at this time. So yes, there is a real risk to her, Nathan.

“Oh, is that all?” / “No--there’s more.” Monty’s so one-track he didn’t even hear the sarcasm. I love him.

“Their army has been getting their ass kicked by Mount Weather forever.” Bellamy speaking the truth. Do they need the alliance, or do they just need the Grounders to back the fuck off from attacking them? (Spoiler: they do not need the alliance.)

Ah Bellarke, always quick to reassure each other. Blindly, even.

“Since I don’t take orders from you, I’m going to need a better reason” is one of my favorite lines, and underrated. Finally someone reminding Clarke she’s not actually in charge of everyone and everything all the time. (I realize this sounds like I dislike Clarke. I don’t. I just find certain traits of hers frustrating. But this just makes her a good character.) Also you can see that, rather like her moment with Raven, she falls back on being business like and direct and issuing orders to avoid talking about feelings or breaking apart.

The United States War Room survives the apocalypse.

I’m sorry but it’s ridiculous to think that Lxa invented the concept of an alliance lol.

I guess Clarke needs to go all in on the alliance because of Finn, but... I also think this is part of who she is. Her sense of practicality outweighs any human desire to hold a grudge, and I think she assumes a level of practicality in others too, automatically, such that she underestimates wariness in others. Like Bellamy and Gustus and everyone is right to be uncertain about this literally hours-old alliance--not even an official alliance, since L’s latest demand hasn’t technically been met!--and Clarke’s like ‘yeah I’ll sleep next to people who would have killed me six hours ago np!’ because now that she’s in, she’s in. She’s neither angry nor afraid.

Linctavia like “Google Earth, always taking pictures.”

Is Lincoln wearing Ark clothes?

I know Raven is made to look kind of wan and sunken and sad but yet this scene where she’s being disarmed is honestly like peak hotness for me and I don’t know why. I like my women sullen and covered in knives?

Interesting how allegedly only the warriors knew English and yet Lxa’s big announcement re: get in line with me or die is made in English. Just going to point out yet again what a big mistake that throwaway S1 line is.

What a sad life to lead, where random declarations followed by “or death” have to form the entirety of your belief system “Don’t be upset that your wife and child are dead...or I’ll beat you to a pulp.” I truly don’t understand how we were ever supposed to get in line with this society as sympathetic or interesting. So much so that they get a whole prequel I guess???

I’d rather have a Mount Weather prequel except not really, don’t ruin it for me.

I love Miller’s canonical insane superhuman strength. This is a trait often overlooked in fics.

The usual comment on Mount Weather scenes: I love all of it.

The thing is that if everyone were on board with the funeral ceremony, it is touching. Murderer and murdered together, and the people who’ve been hurt, on both sides, saying goodbye as a group. It’s just that Clarke’s people were coerced into this--they weren’t convinced it would be a fitting ceremony, just told ‘well this is how it is and if you don’t like it, we could perhaps... KILL YOU?”

Is this a new revelation that Mount Weather crashed the Exodus ship (still a really satisfying belated explanation imo)? Or did we know that because, unlike Monty et al, we knew about the jamming signals already? Can’t remember.

You can see how L came to believe what she believes but nevertheless this is bad advice lol. “Don’t care about other people.” Okay, I’ll just stop doing that then.

Mmmm, a feast in a subway station. Delicious. Fucking full pig head as the centerpiece. Very DC.

Kane (handing over pure space moonshine probably): Just don’t drink too much of it. Clarke (five minutes later): Guzzles whole bottle at once. #partygriff is officially canon.

Waiting until tomorrow to start the war? Procrastinators. Clarke didn’t kill Finn for this.

I love Certified Dramatic Ho Bellamy knocking the cup out of Clarke’s hand even though she had made no move whatsoever to drink it.

“When you plunged your knife into the heart of the boy you loved, did you not wish that it was mine.” Lxa, also a certified Dramatic Ho.

Clarke kinda deserved to be punched in the face given that it wouldn’t actually make sense for Raven to try to poison Lxa--and make Finn’s death mean nothing? And put them all in danger in enemy territory? Nonsense. Nevertheless it’s hard not to feel bad for her when she follows this accusation up with a psychotic break.

Hmmm, do I think Abby turning in Jake was the same as Clarke killing Finn? Not really. She didn’t directly kill Jake, that was Jaha, and Jaha is who Clarke should really be mad at. That said, I don’t think she was really saving anyone in the direct way Clarke was. So, apples and oranges. Crazy awkward moment to bring it up, though lol. “Oh Clarke, you’ll feel better eventually--remember that time I killed your Dad? I got over that! Wait--does talking about your dead father upset you? That’s a surprise!” Nevertheless I appreciate major actions having consequences as that’s a semi-rarity on this show.

Monty Green: hero.

“Lxa needs this alliance as much as we do.” - True, if she intends to get her people out of MW. “She’s shown herself to be flexible.” - Not true. She’s given the bare minimum of concessions. Kane, please crawl back out of her colon for like 5 seconds, get some air.

Interesting that Raven and Bellamy are chilling near each other. I wonder what they were discussing. Tbh Bellamy’s feelings on everything in this episode are rather opaque. Other than understanding why Clarke mercy-killed Finn and being skeptical of the alliance.

“Kill one person and destroy the alliance” is literally only merciful because the default in this society is “kill everyone all the time for any reason.” Like, I guess??? That’s mercy by comparison?? But forgive me if I am not moved to admiration.

“This time justice will be done” says the woman who used the barest sliver of evidence to decide that a random person was guilty so she could have a public execution. A public execution to replace the other public execution, in fact, not to avenge a death because Gustus isn’t dead. (Yet.)

Kane’s really okay with letting Raven be tortured to death, huh? Gah he’s fucking annoying.

Bellarke: Crime Solving Duo. That’s some satisfying teamwork. Clarke figures out how the scheme worked. Bellamy figures out who’s behind the scheme. With all the evidence put together, the motive becomes clear. (Honesty, they should have been suspicious that the poison not only didn’t kill Gustus, it barely harmed him lol.)

Check out all the Department of Homeland Security stuff on Monty’s computer. This is perhaps Dante’s log in? There’s a set of “personal” files too. And a set of President’s Office files, which one would assume not everyone would have.

Anyway, I have a Thing for tense sequences of hackers...hacking.

When I first watched this season I was often so tense my whole body hurt and it’s mostly because of MW scenes like this one where Monty is caught. Like aaaaah it still gets me. He almost makes it... and then almost makes it again, with his silly little salute... (Never forget that he is A Dork.)

On the one hand, Raven being tortured and then seeing Gustus tortured to death allows her to see why Clarke killing Finn was an act of mercy, to forgive her, and to move on, so the narrative can continue with them as allies and nominal friends. And it works, basically. But I also think there’s something to the theory that they were never the same, that the wound never really healed.

I’m sorry but Octavia’s face when Clarke’s like “Yeah B, you’re expendable, go get yourself killed, have a map!!” is hilarious. Like, he’s just said that Gustus doing anything for Lxa made sense, and Octavia responded with “Look at the thanks he got” which seems to me like She Knows and then 5 seconds later Bellamy is basically thrown away by the person we all know he’d do anything for... I mean the face is fair. Also this is Bellamy’s idea and it’s a good idea and so he was right before and Clarke is also right now, but it’s still so... annoying.... like “okay, I’m done caring about you lol bye.”

And Raven’s just totally confused. It’s been a damn long day I guess.

Why are they all such fucking hotties? It’s hard to pay attention to “the plot.”

So the ashes Abby tries to give to Clarke are the same ashes, perhaps, that Jasper scatters in S3? This vial looks smaller. Why did she not immediately give them to Raven? That would seem to be the obvious thing to do.

And here we see Clarke, under L’s direct influence, becoming Increasingly Insufferable. I love her but this is obviously supposed to be her descent into the abyss: she treats her friends like little expendable minions, she turns her back on Finn’s memory, and then she ends the episode by dramatically walking into a dark room in slow motion to creepy chamber music. I mean this is the hero’s fall guys!! That’s what it always was!!!

If only they’d handled Bellamy’s hero’s fall in 3A, and Clarke’s rise again in 3B, as well.

That ending is a straight up horror movie thanks that’s why this is my favorite season.

#the year 2020 #2020: fandom thoughts #2020: the 100 s2

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the-fiction-witch · 5 years

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Londoner P2

REAL LIFE: COUPLE: TBS X READER RATING: CUTE

The outskirts the regects of london we called it, where daylight is a rarity and police are never seen unless there coming in for the girls. As soon as I got to my little house I parked the bike and just pulled it inside leaning it up against my work bench.

My house is little but I love it, Build it myself my little kitchen against the wall to the right with my work bench on the back wall with all my computers and tools, to the left was my little bathroom and the little stairs to the uper level with my bed and a skylight. I got some tools and began wripping this bike apart for parts, I clicked the radio on listening to the reports from the tower as I worked for a good long while my hands getting tired and my face oil covered. I heard a noise outside so turned off my radio cleaning off my hands with a cloth I heard another noise again so I grabbed my gun opening the door letting the light from inside flooding the door way outside “Someone there?” I ask into the dark

I saw a pair of feet sneakers, new ones, red with black laces “whoever you are, your lost. Turn around London is about twenty mile back the way you came” I tell them

“Uhh No, I'm not lost” he answered it was that boy from earlier that Thomas guy he stepped forward so I could see him in the light from my door he rubbed the back of his neck looking scared

“what do you want?” I ask supried to see a london boy this far out

“You took my bike” he says “Can I have it back?” he asks

“why? You seem like a rich kid can't you just go get another one?” I ask

“I could” he nods “but... Please it's my bike I would really like it back” He says

“Anyone follow you?” I ask stepping out my door

“No, I don't think so” he says checking behind him

“Alright” I sigh “Come in” I nod putting my gun down and letting him in shutting my door behind him “Jacket off!” I order

“why?” he asked

“want your fucking bike or not?” I ask and he nods taking his jacket off putting it on the chair by my desk and shruged his clothes hung to him tightly “Undo your shirt” I tell him

“what!” he asked grabbing his shirt tightly

“Want your bike?” I ask waving the keys at him and he sighed taking a slow breath before undoing all the little buttons on his shirt letting it hang open exposing his pale skinny body, I went close to him making him look confused as I checked his back and his arms “No track, alright” I sigh giving him the keys “I've been fixing it up, taking the trackers out and such like” I explain

“Ohh, thanks I guess” he shruged doing his shirt back up and rolling up his sleaves to his elbows as I sat back at the bike he sat behind me looking at what I had done “what are you, some kinda mechanic lady?” he asked me a little puzzled

“Kinda” I sigh as I work

“what was your name again?” he asked rubbing his neck again

“Y/N” I smile

“Y/N what?” he asked fiddling with one of my tools, I wripped it out his hand and put it with my other tools

“Y/N Damma” I answer

“Damma?... Y/N damma, Y/N damma where have I heard that before” he says more to himself “Y/N Damma...” He says before he stook a sharp breath “Your- Your one of those” he began

“Yes, now please shut up” I sigh getting on with my work

“Your a britania federation rebal” he said very shocked slowly backing away from me till he hit my wall

“Relax, the stories aren't true london boy” I sigh

“You- You lot Kill london children” he stuttered

“That's what they say now? Fucking hell” I laugh

“You- You posion people” He stuttered sounding very scared

“How imaginative” I laugh

“You- ahhh! You made me take my clothes off! Are you going to rape me and throw me over a overpass?” he asks slightly crying

“Ohh come on!” I complain getting up “That's what londoner's think of us! When the hell has anyone every been raped and thrown over an overpass?” I ask

“I – I I don't know” he stuttered

“Arseholes” I sigh “Were rebals not the bloody boogie man, it's stupid londoners tell the kids horror stories” I sigh

“So... you don't do that?” he asked

“No” I laugh as I got back to work

“You're not as horrible as the stories” He smiled moving back to sit next to me

“Cheers” I laugh “what do they say then? What do londoners tell there little boy and girls about the BF?” I ask

“That people who live in the outlands are mutated from the great waste” he explained “and only get worse the more they inbreed with each other” he explained

“Okay now that is fucking rude” I sigh “I have been out here my whole life, never seen anyone even mildly mutated genetic or otherwise. Ohh except that one guy he had seven toes. That was strange” I explain

“Really?” He laughs and I nod

“I wont be done for a little while, want something to eat?” I offer

“Uhh no thanks” he answered looking worried

“Relax, I'm not trying to poisen you” I laugh getting two sugar pops and offering one to him “look still sealed” I laugh and he happily took it giving it a try

“Ummmm! What is this?” he asks

“A sugar pop” I laugh opening my own and starting to suck on it as I work

“It's Amazing” he smirked “what is sugar?” he asked

“You don't know what sugar is?” I ask “Ohh right, sugar gt outlawed in london” I laugh “you properbly shouldn't have this” I tell him trying to take it away but he moved away keeping it close to him “Alright fine” I laugh working on the bike “what else do they say in london?” I ask

“That BF men brake into houses and steal babies” he explained

“No, we do not do that” I laugh

“That BF men take young girls for uses” he explained

“Well, we do not do that either” I smile

“My mum always said outlanders girls where horrible, that they where the most ugly women in the whole world” he laughed and I glared at him “But... you don't seem it. Your very beautiful actully Y/N” He smiles at me “what do you guys to... when you come to london?” he asks

“Wreck buildings, cause horrible havok in order to make our point” I tell him

“What about when your out here?” He asks

“Live” I answer “what do you do?” I ask him “In london?”

“Ohh I work at London print, I'm an editor” he sighs “Thats all, nothing important” He shruged

“Really?” I ask him quickly

“Yeah, Why?” he asked licking the sugar pop

“How do you feel about the BF? Without the horror stories?” I ask

“I- I guess I never really thought about it to be honest” he answered rubbing the back of his neck “I mean you guys can't be all bad. But there- sorry you're always on the news not doing the best of things for londoners” he says

“Great” I sigh “That's the problem with londoners you only think about how this shit effect you, your all selfish you couldn't give to shades of shit what happens to the rest of us out here!” I yell “You all just think what you're told to think by your percious master player” I sigh

“Hold on Hold on!” he says putting his hand on my arm “I never said I didn't agree with you, I don't on a lot of things but... I don't agree with london on everything either” He says and I pushed his arm away

“like what?” I ask

“The whole..scanning you in and out of everywhere I always feel like someones following me” he answered seeming nervous and scared to say it almost checking over his shoulder

“Thomas” I laugh making him look back to me “Your safe, your outside of london you can say what you like” I laugh

“I don't like how we get forced into marriage, when I get married I wanna mary her for love not because we have like six weeke left before they patner us up” He sighed “maybe I don't wanna get married yet and setal down, maybe I wanna find a nice girl rather then get one thrown at me who's about as excited to marry me as I am to marry her, and the fact I have to be married I have two more birthdays before I am forced to, and Maybe I don't want a kid!” He yelled before I grabbed his hands

“Whoa... okay I get it Thomas” I laugh “You have a lot of repressed anger don't you” I laugh

“well where not allowed to complain about this stuff in london, so I never have before” he shruged

“aww, thats cute, come on say one of the big nine” I giggle

“The- really! I couldn't!” he says nervously

“your outside of london Thomas knowone will arrest you” I smile he looked nervous but a little excited

“You promise you wont tell on me?” he asked

“Thomas I'm a BF rebel you can say them all you like” I laugh and he giggled

“B- B- Bugger!” he yelled before covering his mouth

“There you go” I laugh “You can say all of them if you want” I laugh

“all of them?” he asks and I nod he took a deap breath before yelling quiet loudly “fuck! Shit! Bloody hell! Arse! Dam! Tit! Wank! freanking! Bugger!” he yelled before giggling like a little kid

“you alright?” I laugh

“Yeah” he smiles “I- I don't think I've ever said them outloud before” he blushed “I like it here” He smiles

“I do to, part of why left really” I smile “I don agree with you the assinged marrage is kinda shit” I laugh “Hasn't been a wedding in the outlands for years” I laugh

“Really? One almost a day in london, esspecaily given the fourty second generation are all coming to marry age” He sighed

“Yeah because If they don't they'll get thrown together with someone else on the same street” I laugh

“True, what did make you leave Y/N?” He asks

“All done” I smile finishing his bike “No trackers, no limiter, you can run off the tracks, go over thirty and pop from london to the outlands with no issues” I explain

“Oh thank you so much” He smiled “I don't know how I could possibly repay you Y/N” He cheered

“Save your londoner money Thomas, no use to me here” I sigh going and laying on my bed

“Would you uhh... mind if I came back? To like visit? It gets really boring in london days I'm not working. I'd love to come and swear with you again” he blushed

“Do what you want” I shrug

“Okay, well It was nice meeting you Y/N” he smiled taking his bike out and I heard him reving it and going off back to london, so I locked my door and got ready for a cold night.

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winderer · 6 years

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I did it.

117 hours (25 of which I don’t remember playing lol) and just under two weeks later, I've beaten Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I... Can’t say much without spoiling it so I’ll just say it wasn’t quite as good as Xenoblade Chronicles 1 though like I said, all the reasons are spoilery.

Actually, no, there’s a few of things:

First, the way you get (most) blades, the gatcha system, is kinda bullshit. The game’d be better if every blade was out there somewhere to get instead of having to luck into the good ones. You just end up with a ton of unwanted blades. And even if you get a rare blade (aka “a good one”) there’s no guarantee it’s the kind of blade you want. You can sorta influence the blade you get through character’s personality(?) stats and their boosters, but it’s still random in the end. And the boosters only influence the role of the blade as far as I can tell, not the element and, importantly, not the rarity. Not that the game even tells you what the stats correspond to. So you’re kinda fucked anyway.

Second, the designs. They suck. Ass. Mostly. I like Nia and Poppi and Mórag and non-human characters (Dromarch and Tora mainly), and there’s other ok designs, but jesus christ do most just suck. And are misogynistic. Everybody’s seen the tit-bunny (Dahlia? I forget her name). I don’t hate Rex’s design anymore, not that it’s good, after seeing how it works as a partial diving suit, but holy shit, Pyra, what the hell is going on with her outfit??? And those are the main characters, just how did the OK those designs? Most of the blades don’t fair much, if any, better.

The actual systems of the game are great. I really like the combat which takes a while to get used to, and doesn’t fully unlock until a couple of chapter into the game (and they still throw a couple of gimmicks at you at the end game). Managing your special move elements for combos while trying to stay on top of your character’s auto attack cycle so you can cancel it at the right time to get the most out of your moves and then finally unleashing chain attacks to burst elemental orbs gained from the combos, which weaken your combos if you use the same elements, to extend chain attack, while also trying to do the Break->Topple->Launch->Smash move... It’s REALLY satisfying pulling it all of.

The progressions systems are pretty cool as well, with some of the progression not depending just on numbers going up but requiring you to do something specific, use items, kill specific enemies, do combat moves, or even more involved quests for some of the rare blades. There’s still plenty of number grinding to be done if you want to level up everything which is maybe slightly a shame, but also to be expected.

I also like how they’ve changed collectible item gathering, with there being gathering points that yield specific kinds of items. It’s still essentially random what you get, but it feel less like just running around hoping the game gives you what you want. You can sorta figure out the type of collectible you can get by the surroundings, where as before items would spawn in pretty large areas randomly strewn across the land.

The system you get a bit into the game that gives a use to blades that just sit in your inventory is neat and ties into the other systems in the world. Which is cool until you forget about it like I did lol. Anyhow, it gives you’re extra blades a use and trains them so they might become useful blades one day! Now if only it was a bit less... Simple.

The game also has other systems, big and small, familiar and new, throughout the game. And it really wouldn’t be a Xenoblade game without them.

The music is great. It... Just is. I don’t know what else to say. I suck at describing music. And evaluating voice performances. I played with the japanese VO and it was okay, very anime. The whole game has a very anime aesthetic to it on all levels, and I’d say you either hate it or love it but I don’t really have any strong opinions on it either way, so I guess I can’t say that.

Aaand I think that about wraps up my thoughts on the game without spoiling anything. A bit more than I initially thought I’d ahve to write. Hope this improptu review thing is useful or interesting to someone. Thanks for reading!

ALSO there’s an area with an annoying gimmick. There’s really no need for the gimmick so, why. it’s not fun. Not even an interesting challenge. I just ran through the place and would recommend others do the same.

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