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#i never make male sims so i thought it would be nice to switch it up
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MC: Can we wake up everyone, yet?
Monika: We still need Yuri to have a solo breakthrough before we can activate everyone. She’s been difficult…
MC: Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Monika: I think so. You’re going to need some more masks, though.
MC: It might be nice to be on the other side of things for once…
*One playthrough later*
Yuri: Natsuki, Sayori, don’t be alarmed, but I think our entire world is a dating sim. *Turns towards Monika and MC* And I’m the main character, aren’t I? Monika is the tutorial, MC is the secret route, and they’re both self aware!
Monika:
MC:
*MC and Monika laugh maniacally as MC switches to a kigurumi mask with an evil expression. They’re all transported to the Void Room.*
MC: Oh, man! I can’t believe you figured it out!
Natsuki: Wait, she’s right?
MC: Yeah. Darn it, she’s right.
Monika: We had a good run, though, didn’t we?
MC: Yeah we did.
*MC and Monika laugh maniacally again*
Sayori: Do we at least make people happy?
Monika: “Do we at least make people happy?”
MC: Sayori, you absolute Best Girl! Never change!
Monika: Well, I guess we should let them know you girls are on your way.
Natsuki: On our way where?
Monika: To your real games. The devs let us run you through to check ours for bugs and see how the beta testers like our setup. Now, you’re going to…
MC: *points at Sayori* A much better dating sim. *points at Natsuki*  A happy baking game. *points at Yuri* And a horror/mystery choose your own adventure game.
Monika: We’ll let you three mull over that for a while…
*In the clubroom proper, watching the three of them on a screen*
MC: Come on. You can do it, Yuri…
Sayori: I don’t want to leave here…
Natsuki: Yeah. You all are my friends.
Yuri: This can’t be right… There has to be something that we’re not getting…
Natsuki: What do you mean?
Yuri: Why would they have the beta test star characters that are going to be characters of different games? Where are the other characters? Why would MC have no face and why would there be a token male option for the secret route in a game like this?
Monika: Come on…
Yuri: This game is designed with psychological horror themes–!
*The game forcibly shuts down*
*Moments later, MC and Monika are cheering and high-fiving in the title screen.*
MC: She did it!
Monika: She did it!
Both: Finally!
Monika: Right at the very last second, but she did it! She achieved self-awareness!
MC: I do find it kinda hilarious that she thought I was a secret route just because she only played the Natsuki route and nothing else.
Monika: I have to admit, being called the tutorial was kind of hurtful. I’m the exposition and assistance character.
MC: …I can think of at least one of those things that you don’t do.
Monika: Yes, but this isn’t about me. We’re going to have all our friends with us!
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aharris00britney · 4 years
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ASKS 19
It’s 6am and Brandon woke me up when he got up to go to work so now... i answer asks bc i cant sleep. 
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@mileyzangel said: Can you please make a Harley Quinn hairstyle from both Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey?
I went and watched Birds of Prey the other night and it was really good. Brandon went to sleep I think tfgvhb. But I doubt I’ll try doing her hair from either of the films. @enriques4 is working on one for her Birds of Prey look if you are interested in that <3
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Anonymous said: is tiny living worth it? im leaning towards the gameplay although i love cas. is the gameplay as bad as people say?
I honestly don’t think the new beds do anything. They’re... there. Lmao I think the CAS and buy items are very nice. If we get some cc murphy beds then that would make them a lot more usable tbh.  
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Anonymous said: how do you and ayoshi keep making some fantastic collabs?? y'all are literally the first people i go to when I make a fresh install and I can't wait to see what you do next
Anonymous said: AxA CC KINGS!!!
Anonymous said: you guys didnt have to snap like that on AxA
Anonymous said: I LOVE EVERY SINGLE PACK U AND AYOSHI DO PLEASE KEEP MAKING MORE
Anonymous said: another iconic ah00b x ayoshi collab YAS LESSGOOOO
We put a bunch of cc ideas (hair and clothes) in a discord server we have together and then work on the stuff together on call usually so each item is the way we both want me. Like for example i’ll be meshing the Ivy top while he works on texturing the ribbed version.  We also only do collabs when they happen, we didn’t plan AxA 2019 or this new set, mainly just made cc starting in May and wrapped it up in July to release in August. Then this time we started making stuff late December and got most of it done by the time I got done with my break. Having a planned collab/deadline makes stuff less stressful and the stuff usually turns out better imo
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Anonymous said: hi! ur sims are so prettyyyy what skin texture and eyes do u use?
Anonymous said: hi! wcif the eyes of the sim in the edit that Dogsill edited for you please? thank you!
Anonymous said: Hi! I really love the way your sims looks so, I was what skin and eyes you use?
I actually am changing my default eyes so I need to update my resource page soon ;n; but the skins they use are all listed for each sim on the resource page here
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Anonymous said: you always name axa packs by the year but this one was named after a season those that mean.... 👀
We are wanting to do something in the fall, just not sure how our lives will be then ya know? There’s a chance that this will be the AxA 2020. Since we weren’t sure I didn’t want to label it that if 2 AxA’s release this year lmao
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Anonymous said: what game is the pokemon thing you're playing!? pls help a guy out i'm in love with the art style
Pokemon Sword and Shield (I have shield) for Nintendo Switch. I’ll prob post more pics once I get some new shinies :P
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@kristabunny said: lol is it bad that when I saw your Santana hair I read it as Satan Hair XD
tbhhhhh it was lowkey referencing that lmao. I made the hair in October for a speed meshing video and since it was around Halloween I was like “lemme give her an almost demonic name” also Santana from glee is a queen
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Anonymous said: Tbh I absolutely adore your female cc but I LIVE for your male cc!!!
Thank you! lmao the only thing I can take full credit for is the AxA male hairs. I mesh the clothes for packs but ayoshi does the texturing for them.  
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Anonymous said: Could you have a go at the updo Dua Lipa has on the cover of her Future Nostalgia? The high bun with a flick in it and the strands of hair down the sides. Thanks if so :)
I’m not the biggest fan of the hairstyle tbh ;n; but we will see. (Physical is a serve, just saying)
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Anonymous said: So ive never played pokemon before until my friend gave me a copy of pokemon moon. I love cats so of course my starter was a litten, but i had no clue about evolutions or anything like that. I was heartbroken when my cute litten turned into some big man cat :(
omg noooo ;n; yeah Litten is a cutie... incineroar is... well I got used to him tbh and kind of like him now? I absolutely hate scorbunny’s evolution (and most of the SWSH starters final evolution) so I think that made incineroar slightly better in my eyes. My shiny litten will be staying a kitten however :)
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@multifandom-slytherin said: Hello! I love your cc! Would it be possible for you to make the bangs from your Bree Hair a separate accessory that you can put with other hairs (for example the BG low ponytail)? Thank you so much!
Anonymous said: have u considered making or allowing someone to make an acc version of your handmade bangs?
I have thought of doing accessory bangs tbh, I just like... don’t like using accessory bangs myself. So I’m not sure if I’ll end up doing it. I might try it for myself and see how many hairs they work with, and if it is a decent amount I’ll release. 
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Anonymous said: First off I want to say how amazing all of your hairs and collabs are! Second I was curious if you ever thought of going back to your old hairs and updating their thumbnails / display indexes so they matched your stuff now?
I really really wanted to have all my 2019 hairs updated by 2020. It was only January 2019-April 2019 that needed updated (thumbnails and display indexes). But I just lost motivation for doing it. I will focus on it next time I have a big break from school. Also planning on updating select stuff from 2018 and 2017. 
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Anonymous said: please put Sophia Barker in the gallery. PLEASEEEEE it's the most beautiful sim I EVER seen! >:3 PLEASEEE!!!!!!!!!!
She should be on there? I think? Make sure you have CC enabled and if you can’t find me through the gallery her tray files are here
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Anonymous said: Hi! After the recent patch I started having a small issue with Bree hair(without bangs), when I zoom out it looks like a completely different hair, something similar to that one basegame hair that's layered with tips pointed outward but longer. Thought I'd let you know, maybe others have had a similar issue or maybe I need to change a setting or something. Love your work so much!
Really surprised this is the first time someone told me about this lmao. The hair should be updated now on SFS/Patreon <3
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Anonymous said: I tried to look around for this on your "Asks" portion before bothering you (so sorry), but do you have a link perhaps for all the lips you use on your models? Are they in game or a cc you create? Thanks so much! Love all of your work! I'm super new to cc stuff and I found yours like 2 days ago and have been going nuts with downloads lol 
like presets? None of my cc models use a lip preset. I do use this slider on some of them though. For lipsticks, that is listed for each model on my resource page <3
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Anonymous said: i’ve been looking for a hair like lexi that i actually like forever and now i find it but it’s for paterson peeps and i’m like actually broke and i’m like :/
im sorry ;n; at least it wasn’t too long of a wait? :/ I hope you liked the hair
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Anonymous said: I can't find your jisoo ponytails in your downloads?
they’re in my retired section... may they rest in peace. scroll to the bottom of my downloads and youll see ‘RETIRED.’ click that for the retired download page. 
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@eclypt-0-sims said: Hi, I recently started making MM hair and I know you're probably an expert at this but; every time I go into CAS to test a hair, all of my accessories clip with the hair. Like the hair texture would cover some glasses if my sim was wearing glasses. I don't know how to fix it, someone told me to delete an eye weight in blender but I don't really understand weight painting that much, any suggestions? love your content btw
this is a late as hell reply i’m sorry. I think that you have texture where the glasses texture would be. Hair texture should only be in hair section or hat section (if you don’t want it hat compatible). Here is a UV map layout that I use for making hair textures. It shouldnt have anything to do with weights
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Anonymous said: Do you use reshade when you take previews for your cc? and also is the tropical punch ombre overlay a palette or did you make it?
I do use reshade when I take cc previews. It adds a bit of saturation to my sims and gives them some shadows under their chin/clothes. Nothing major. Also, myself and @imvikai came up with the tropical punch palette together.
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@little-eris​ said: You probably have answered this before but who drew your tumblr icon? I’ve seen the same art style with other simmers 👉🏼👈🏼 it’s super cute!
thank you! here is their twitter 
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Anonymous said: The male sim in your Tiny Living review looks soo familiar; was there inspiration from anyone IRL? The person he reminds me of isn't even famous so I don't even know! He is very pretty though *-*
He was a gallery sim that I just revamped a bit so I’m honestly not super sure lmao. But he is very attractive yes I agree
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that concludes this ask ceremony please collect your things and move to the exit to your left. fvghbjn if you sent something I didn’t answer and it was off anon I’ll get to you soon (person who asked what beards I used for AxA... I see you)
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rorybergstrom · 4 years
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𝑫𝑰𝑫 𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑬𝑩𝑶𝑫𝒀 𝑶𝑹𝑫𝑬𝑹 𝑨 𝑩𝑰𝑺𝑬𝑿𝑼𝑨𝑳 𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑲𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝒀𝑵𝑻𝑯 𝑳𝑶𝑹𝑫  ???
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            hello, it’s nora again…. hitting u with another child. a south london-born softboi who deserves tenderness. has a burner phone and doesn’t use social media. does techno dj sets. plays the synth loudly through the night if u live in gorham his room always sounds like a space ship just landed. deals weed around campus on his rollerskates. hates that he can’t get new light up wheels because ana coto made rollerskating cool again. as is tradition, here’s the pinterest board. this intro is recycled?? so if theres mistakes, sue me??? and be sure to like and subscribe for more unboxing content x
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『 FIONN WHITEHEAD ❙ DEMI-MALE』 ⟿ looks like RORY BERGSTRÖM is here for HIS JUNIOR year as a MUSIC TECHNOLOGY student. HE is 23 years old & known to be ECCENTRIC, FANATICAL, NITPICKY & DOGMATIC. They’re living in GORHAM, so if you’re there, watch out for them. ⬳ ooc name. age. tz. pronouns. 
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bed hair from a permanent state of slumber, calloused fingertips from strumming bass into the early hours and djing into the blacklit night, self-help books thumbed once and thrown beneath your bed, battered copies of choose your own adventure books, spliffs passed half-arsed across rooftops while light pollution obscures low-hanging stars, marxist literature in stacks against your bedroom walls, a burner phone twice-shattered and a stash of replacement sim cards.
tw ocd, anxiety, drugs
half-swedish, half-british. the swedish is on his mother’s side. he’s bilingual but thinks in english. only really speaks swedish around his mother. only child, and kinda put a lot of pressure on himself to be the perfect kid when he was young, but his parents are honestly, quite decent? and just want him to have a nice life, they don’t care if he isn’t successful or rich or anything, they’re honestly rather solid. (wow imagine having nice parents, a first for all my characters, im literally this meme)
grew up in peckham, a suburb of london. growing up, his mum was a model / actress / waitress who later retrained as a speech therapist and his dad worked in her majesty’s service at buckingham palace. his dad wasn’t allowed to tell his family what his job entailed but rory suspects it’s probably very boring and just involves a lot of…. logistics n security.
was bullied a lot at school. [cole sprouse voice] he didn’t fit in and he didn’t want to fit in. unironically wore a trenchcoat to school every day of his life. spent most of his lunchtimes in the library because it was his safe space. as a result he knows…. loads of useless information because 30% of his school years were spent reading anthologies on space and the vikings etc. would be good on a game show. obsessively recorded every episode of university challenge as a child.
middle-class and lowkey quite wealthy but rarely talks about money, one of those well-off people who still wears really old shitty shoes and only spends money if they absolutely have to
virgin who can’t drive
into star wars, not into the big bang theory. feminist. can’t watch horror movies
favourite film is where the wild things are. also loves the florida project. thinks kids are the sweetest thing and can’t wait to be a dad to some. right now is dad to one cat, whose name changes on a daily basis (identity is constantly shifting, duuuuude), but they were originally named ‘wheezer’
rory has been musical for as long as they can remember. first picked up guitar because he thought it would make this girl esther who he was in love with like him, but he just ended up falling in love with music instead.
formulated several different bands as a kid but ultimately had to give it up cos he was quite controlling and got fixated on making a certain sound so it wasn’t really fun for the others. got into electronic music because it was something he could do basically on his own and keep tweaking until he got it perfect
always drumming their fingers or strumming invisible guitar strings. tends to avoid parties bc he has quite has specific tastes when it comes to music and doesn’t like listening to r&b for eight hours while people throw up into plastic cups.
a techno connoisseur. has been making electronic music since he was about twelve.
after his parents divorce, when he was fourteen, rory & his mother moved to run-down suburban neighbourhood, pittsfield, massachussets.
big into photography. he mostly uses a canon 35mm camera, but occasionally uses disposable ones when he wants that more rustic feel.
moving to the states, their photography became more focused on suburban neighborhoods and are often quite dark and cinematic (think gregory crewsden). here are some shots of pittsfield i really like which rory has on his wall [1] [2] [3]
falls in love 12 times a day. never had a girlfriend or boyfriend. gets sweaty when someone cute looks at him. flirting?? what?? would prefer to idealise them from a distance
gender??? hm. doesn’t really know where he fits yet, sometimes he feels like a guy and sometimes they dont feel like anything at all. isn’t really bothered, cos they think it’s a social construct anyway. uses he/they pronouns interchangeably, but feels like ‘he’ is more fitting. won’t necessarily pull anyone up on it cos he knows having an identity that’s constantly…. in flux.. can be annoying for others … and doesn’t want to be a burden even tho it isn’t at all?? rory internalises guilt
everything is socially constructed. mirrors let you move through time. the whole thing’s a metaphor. he thinks he’s got free will but really he’s trapped in a maze. in a system. all he can do is consume. people think it’s a happy game. it’s not a happy game — it’s a fucking nightmare world, and the worst thing is, it’s real and we live in it
has ocd. tries to let it affect his life as little as possible, but obviously it’s incredibly hard to control a compulsive disorder. was teased for it at school when other kids started to notice. he was obsessed with the number five, would wash his hands five times, count stairs i groups of five, he could only use the corridors in one direction and always had to keep his hands busy. it manifests itself in hyper-fixations (trains when he was a child – specifically steam engines – then later he became obsessed with space and the patterns of constellations, and now he’s obsessed with synthesizers) and repetitive behaviours like counting stairs. doesn’t really affect his social life at all, he can jst get a bit locked-on n hyper-focused sometimes.
has insomnia. barely ever sleeps. finds it hard to switch off from work / writing / gaming / whatever’s preoccupying him in that moment. he’s always awake at 5am and quite often sleeps in through classes but still gets really good grades because he’s very good at his course. rarely attends classes. prefers to work independently. doesn’t really trust his tutors are intelligent enough to be teaching him, and is particularly suspicious of the lockwood tutors. a music snob tbh
secretly a small-scale drug dealer, only does weed n some party pills. rollerskates around campus dealing cos they dnt have a car
likes: techno, the webpage cats on synthesizers in space, allen ginsberg, vintage gramophones,  floating points, lcd soundsystem, marijuana, soft dogs that let you pet them, late-night strolls talking about the universe, independent films, cigarettes, herbal tea, gallows humour, long showers, brown eyes, tchaikovsky, dr. seuss, constellations, photography, late night jazz, vintage game boys and girls who could rip his still-beating heart out of his chest and use it as an ashtray. dislikes:  weddings, funerals, formality, button-up shirts that people actually button-up, bananas, hot coffee, social media, people who watch and play sports, rap music – especially of the misogynistic variety, indie wankers in wire-framed glasses that play ed sheeran songs at open mic nights.
plot ! with ! me ! i’d say all the usual “exes fwb hookups spiel” but rory… is very tender and tame… i feel like a deer in the headlights of love……. so give me
study buddies,
people who are also into techno and are music snobs about it,
people who love all kinds of music,
people who are in bands that maybe rory’s recorded and produced stuff for,
people he actually jams with (he plays bass and synth),
unrequited crushes!!
someone they met at a knitting club in freshman year and have remained friends with despite no longer going to it
people rory knows from open mic nights and gigs
library girlfriends / boyfriends that he stares at longingly while paging through leatherbound volumes
gamers !!! social recluses !!! hermits !!
people he deals weed to on his rollerskates (why r all my characters obsessed with rollerskates)
skaters. rory is really shit at skateboarding. like really shit. help the smol
hm now that rory has !Evolved! ig we can do hook up plots if u want but he’s not tht good at divorcing sex from emotion?? like he  hooked up w teddy once n felt hopelessly inlove so..... if u want soft plots b prepared for crippling sadness.......
stay groovy XD XD
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slade-neko · 5 years
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My Thoughts on Fire Emblem: Three Houses!
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This is not a full review, but more or less my thoughts, opinions, and early impressions of the game so far. I have not beaten the game yet, but am 56 hours in. Hours might be a bit bloated as I’ve idled some and am taking my sweet time going through the game (Hey! I’m a perfectionist! I gotta make sure everyone gets the perfect gifts, perfect tea times, and that I don’t waste any free days.) I’ve also not yet reached the time-skip. That said, here’s my thoughts...
The Graphics
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Okay, so right of the bat I think I should mention the graphics. Before the game was out I had heard people mention the graphics being “bad”, but didn’t think much of it, just people complaining as they always do. Not long into playing the game myself I started to see some things that seemed low quality. There are a few times I see “blotchy” low-res textures on characters and environments. I know the Switch isn’t the strongest console in terms of graphics, but I feel as if they could’ve squeezed a bit more out of it. While its by no means horrible and ugly, most characters do look good especially their faces, just sometimes I notice low resolution on certain characters’ armor parts or hair details. Also the cloud textures during Monastery exploration are noticeably not amazing, but that’s nitpicking.  
Graphics are not a major thing for me personally, just something I felt was worth noting. Any way you slice it, it still looks 1000x times better than being on a crappy 3DS with 240p quality! 
The Combat
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Not too much to mention about combat, but personally it feels a bit easier? I am only playing it on Normal right now for my first playthrough, so that could easily change when I do harder difficulties on my next playthroughs. I’ve only loss 1 unit in my entire playthrough (I did use a Divine Pulse to re-winded time, of course.) The whole Divine Pulse system is very nice though. It’s a good way to combat the middle of battle save scumming (which I admittedly have done in past games.) 
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I sometimes make slight mistakes in battle at times, so being able to rewind the clock a couple of turns with the Divine Pulse feature is much nicer than soft resetting the entire game.
The Protagonist/ Byleth
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I am giving Byleth their own little section because there are quite a few things I want to talk about them specifically as a character. First off, when I came into this game I was under the impression Byleth was a predefined protagonist like what the older FE games had. With that logic I was also under the assumption that he/ she would be fully voice with many lines of dialogue and other characters would address them as “Byleth.” I was admittedly a bit shocked to see that you could name him/ her and that the other characters would just call you “Professor.” I guess the naming aspect is something similar to how in the Zelda games, you can name Link regardless that the fact is that he is Link. It comes off as a bit of an odd design choice to me. Why make a predefined, non-customizable protagonist, but not make them fully voiced and allow you to change their name? When I say not fully voiced, I know Byleth has voice actors, but they are a (mostly) SILENT protagonist! Majority of the time I only hear Byleth speak in combat. Never do they speak in normal dialogue with other characters. My mind may be a bit warped of the perspective of Robin and Corrin talking more since they are in Smash and FE Warriors, but it seems to me that even they talk more than Byleth does in their own games. I get the feeling if the developers really wanted to, they could’ve passed Byleth off as a “create-your-own unit” like Awakening and Fates, but instead they are a bit of a mix. 
I would honestly prefer if they just gave us either a straight up completely fleshed out fully-voiced protagonist with no name changing or a player created avatar who is mostly silent.
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With all that said, as a character, I do like Byleth a lot. I honestly prefer male Byleth over the "official” male designs and personalities of Robin and Corrin (Robin being book nerd and Corrin a peace loving nature boy who doesn’t wear shoes.) Hey look, I like Robin and Corrin, but male Robin IS a bit dorky and Corrin, well sometimes he just comes of as whiny.
The Characters
I know before the game was out I stated that some of the lesser characters/ other students didn’t draw me in that much (except Bernie.) 
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Well... turns out I was WRONG! I LOVE the characters in this game. When I was first starting out, I was still a little mixed on them, but their designs and character personalities have really grown on me. I think them being fully voiced helps a lot. I love hearing and recognizing all the voice talent in this game. Erica Mendez does an AMAZING job as Bernadetta!
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My current playthrough is with the Black Eagles, so I know them all the most, but the other students seem very wonderful too. I am already clamoring to get as many recruits as I can over to my house.
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The Support System
Oh boy, the support system also known as the thing that turned Fire Emblem from a strategy RPG into a weeby anime dating sim! 
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I know the support system did not always work the same as it does in Awakening and Fates with unit romances. My first real Fire Emblem game was Awakening, but I can understand the appeal of the original support system like in the old games. In previous Fire Emblem games characters had predefined relationships with each other and is told by the game’s story. 
I am fine that they removed the “S-Rank” romance/ marriages for characters other than the protagonist and am glad there is no forced children system. 
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I prefer that the story tells me if the characters have romantic relationships with each other and not having me to decide them. I did not like shipping characters in Awakening and especially in Fates. I remember wanting Selkie in Fates, but hated having to ship Kaden with any of the girls. I didn’t see him to have any real romantic feelings towards other characters in Fates and to me personally it felt wrong and forced when I had to ship him with someone just so I could get Selkie. I will say that the whole “S-rank” support/ marriage system only really worked in Awakening and should be left in Awakening (even then I only hooked up like 3 couples because they had some canonical merits to them.) It was clearly forced into Fates, which didn’t bode well for that game.
That said I do like the support system in Three Houses and the conversations for building friendly relationships among units. They are entertaining and a great way to delve into side characters back stories.
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The Story
Can’t say much about the story since I haven’t actually beaten the game yet, but I am liking it so far and it will hopefully stay that way. I don’t expect it to take a dip and become a bad story towards the end, but I’ll have to wait and see.
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Final Notes
While this game may have a few small shortcomings and weird things about it (all games generally do) as a fan of Fire Emblem I love Fire Emblem Three Houses! I am so glad to finally be able to experience a Fire Emblem game on a home console and not a handheld.
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tumblunni · 7 years
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Oh that’s cute! The title screen has a random chance of switching between the two different ‘masks’ of the characters each time you boot it up!
Okay I’m gonna start a bloggin’ my comments as I play this game! Woo!
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Wow, a quick travel menu between checkpoints in the story is incredibly useful for multiple ending visual novels! I’m surprised I’ve never seen one do it before! Tho its a lil silly the game shows it the first time you boot it up.
Also, randomly, just gotta say that I really like the protagonist’s human form design! The colourscheme is a nice unusual one that just caught my eye immediately, and I like the little dot pattern accessories. Feels very vintage shoujo even if the art style isnt.
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I... dont really like her catgirl form as much though. It just feels like the most generic catgirl ever and she even loses her colourscheme, she’s just this more muted version and doesnt have blue hair anymore even?? Like wow, human = non human hair, catgirl = actually plausable albino??? Also its weird that she de-ages when her ears pop out, wtf. I am neeeeeevr gonna be a fan of the stupid ‘looks like a child but she isnt a child so its somehow okay’ anime cliche. Thats what made me worry this was gonna be ecchi when i first saw the screenshots on steam, this design choice is kinda disproportionately used in That Kind Of Dating Game. And catgirls already have a bit of a bad reputation in that sense too :P Also from what little I know about this via the steam description and reviews, it seems somehow her personality changes when she transforms, so she even ACTS more like an actual child.. man why so weird yo... I just hope that none of these red flags come true and I’m just worrying for nothing!
OH. YEAH. WHAT THE GAME IS ABOUT. If I’m gonna do more detailed posts of my Game Excitements, then I may as well give some context first! According to the store description, the protagonist is a seemingly-human girl who suddenly discovers she has latent catgirl powers on her 18th birthday or something? And her love interest has a secret identity too, there’s something about him being a royal guard but acting less serious and more goofy when he’s around her. And that sounds pretty cute actually. And you have multiple routes about embracing your new beast-person powers or trying to become human for real, which is a nice sort of plot that you wouldnt expect. I just hope it lives up to my expectations!
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.... every time a catgirl actually says “nya”, it lowers my expectations. Please game, I believe in you, please dont be awful!
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Shoutout to my BFF’s pet cat, yo!
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Expectations.. plummetting... oh god... the voiceacting how do i turn it off oh god if its gonna be like THAT the whole time i cant stand Generic Anime Voice #5 screeching NYAAAA at the end of each line, holy fuck...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjY3eM7Ta7A Okay, the intro actually is quite cute, even though its just clipart bouncing around. But umm.. the starting text lowers my expectations a bit more, urp... Like.. uhh.. geez... I really do not like the odd trope of ‘but I thought you were just like a brother to me and then we fell in love’. Or rather I dont like how its weirdly common that this is the ONLY way childhood romances are presented in anime, and how like.. its so.. frequent that plots have ‘but its LIKE incest even though it isnt’ as something that just has to be mentioned.. often..?? I dont get it yo. Obviously this isnt actually incest, but it just weirds me out how a game would want to mention incest when it isnt?? As if it would somehow add appeal or something?? Am I overreacting? I mean.. like.. the only other explanation I can think of for why childhood romances in anime are ALWAYS ‘but we were just like siblings’ is that like.. the writers have zero experience with the concept of men and women being friends. Which I could kinda assume already from how this weird angst always has to happen whenever friends fall in love in anime, geez. It always has to be BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS AND WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS NOW WE ARE DATING AND MY FEELINGS WERE ALWAYS LOVE AND NEVER FRIENDSHIP OF COURSE, BLABLABLA. And how if the love isnt recipricated then they almost never get to stay friends afterwards?? And just like.. really.. how EVERY male-female childhood friendship is always ‘we were like siblings’ as an excuse to not really write them being friends?? Its like thats the only excuse they can think of for why a man wouldnt wanna fuck a woman, and EVEN THEN they have to be wrong about their feelings and fuck in the end anyway. This kind of attitude is probably what leads to the sexualization of actual sibling relationships even, and the attitude that rape is inevitable if an attractive woman just EXISTS, and how rape cant happen to men because its just natural any man would want to fuck any woman at any time.... ANYWAY This isnt a criticism of this game (yet), since I havent even played far enough to find out if it does any of this stuff. This is just a vent about how I’ve seen this bullshit happen in a lot of other anime and anime-styled dating sims, and why now I get wary whenever I see a hint of it.
SO YEAH not very high expectations yet, alas which is a shame cos I was pretty excited when i booted it up and now im like BRACE FOR ANIME CLICHES AHOY pretty much describes my first playthrough of FE Awakening too, and I ended up liking that overall even though I had complaints. so I’ll hope for a repeat performance!
ANYWAY now is time to actually get into playing the game, and come back when I have some stuff to say~! I just figured making a post of my initial reactions and speculations and stuff would be fun! Also I didnt expect to be reminded of a rant about anime cliches and waste so much text space on that, lol
BONUS: i like to pronounce the acronym as ‘huhtuhtuhtoym’
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