“Why does a game about a ninja stabbing people with a sword need so many cutscenes” I really don’t know what to tell you, man. The original Ninja Gaiden has like twenty minutes of cinematic cutscenes, and this is an NES game from 1988 with a typical non-speedrun playing time that’s under four hours. That’s a higher cutscene-to-gameplay ratio than many contemporary RPGs. People who make games about ninjas have just always been Like That.
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Y'shtola: Thank you for coming. I thought to keep my suspicions to myself, but after witnessing your victory at Rak'tika Falls, I fear they prove true, and so I must share them with you.
Y'shtola: From the first when we met at Fort Gohn, your aether has appeared…tainted. Suffused with an overabundance of light not unlike the sin eaters.
Y'shtola: When you defeated the Lightwarden, I fear the light which poured forth from it was not negated by Hydaelyn's blessing. Rather, it was absorbed into your being.
Y'shtola: Urianger also suspects as much, though he is unwilling to share his thoughts on the matter.
Y'shtola: One thing is certain: with every Warden you defeat, the danger to you grows greater. Greater perhaps than we can imagine. If you begin to feel anything strange─anything at all─pray inform me at once.
Y'shtola: You should hurry, before the others begin to worry. Once I have sorted my things here I will join you.
-Y'shtola Rhul, "Out of the Wood", Shadowbringers.
Much like "Lyse takes the credit" slander from Stormblood, there sometimes still pops up people justifying Y'shtola as bad or secretive, and the Scions as using the WoL even in ShB, due to "not telling WoL about the Light corruption."
Now, I tend to recall this scene as voiced--but it's not, and I think what I am remembering (along with maybe some other, later scenes where she checks in with WoL), and what many others are too, is Y'shtola's private conversation with Urianger prior to Ran'jit's arrival at Slitherbough, a conversation the WoL overhears. In that voiced scene, Y'shtola is trying to get answers from Urianger, who is stone silent on the matter. Then Plot Happens, and we end up racing ahead of Ran'jit to get to the Lightwarden.
It's immediately after slaying the Lightwarden in Qitana Ravel, on return to Slitherbough, this conversation happens. You turn in the previous quest to Runar, and then accept this quest from Y'shtola, who takes the WoL into her chamber to privately discuss exactly what she sees going on, and asks the WoL to let her know if anything weird happens that may be due to this absorbed Light aether.
And on return to the Crystarium, and quest turnin at the Pendants, WoL examines themselves and talks the corruption over with Ardbert, though he's at a loss as to how he might help.
Y'shtola didn't say anything right away--because she was trying to get answers first. But after watching WoL with the Lightwarden, she can't wait anymore, or delay due to Urianger's silence. We go to Rak'tika knowing Y'shtola was suspicious of the Exarch and his plots, and she knows Urianger is involved somehow--and when she must, she brings it to the WoL's attention out of concern. While she trusts Urianger at least, she's undoubtedly worried about WoL's welfare.
We don't get to see the Scions' conversations as they left Mt Gulg and however long it took for WoL to wake up after; we do know they were all desperately scouring the realm for ways to help WoL. I'd like to know the arguments and remonstrations and pleas for calm that happened in the wake of the mountain's events.
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GUYS I JUST HAD THE BEST DREAM IN MY LIFE FR FR
So if you don't know yet (you must do) i'm obssesed with miracle musical and undertale
WELL GUESS WHAT
I DREAMED ABOUT A FANGAME OF UNDERTALE X HAWAII PART II
it was hyper mega sad
And hyper mega delulu
I remember a cutscene like the end of the Asriel fight where he tells how was life with chara and him (in yellow filter) but with Simon and Stella saying something like "im too insane to remember not to remember you" and depressing stuff like that
Also, at the starts of dialogue instead of an asterisk it was an Stella octongula, neat detail my brain made, huh
Anyways, here's what it looked like (except more beautiful)
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(Royale stands at the register, shilling out Minecraft diamonds for several bottles of water. They spill out of her hands and scatter across the gas station's filthy floor.)
Fuck my life. Fuck my whole entire life. - @casinoroyale
DOTTLE
(Just entering; has red-rimmed eyes. Sees the mess and leans a crutch on the wall to pick up a handful of the diamonds.) What the hell is this stuff?
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