REASONS YOU SHOULD PLAY STELLA GLOW
"Witches" wield the power of song in a songless world, and the "Conductor" Alto can command their powers. He gathers the Four Witches against the Witch of Destruction Hilda to stop her from crystallizing the whole world...
AMAZING plot and voice acting and music. for the company's swan song and reference to their older games this one is a BANGER‼️‼️
engaging story. literally mind blowing in the second half. literally fucking insane. literally What The Fuck. literally the main reason everyone who plays stella glow recommends it. it's SO good. do you like betrayal? do you like reincarnation? do you like PAIN????? hop on!!!!!
FIRE EMBLEM FANS! similar gameplay being a grid turn based SRPG, but instead of player phase/enemy phase, it's based on turn speed!
XENOBLADE FANS! this game is SO xenoblade adjacent in its plot and music (yasunori mitsuda is there) (i swear it's a long lost sibling to the xenoblade series) (there is a blonde guy named klaus)
BUT EVEN THAT ASIDE if you like sci-fi in your fantasy games, stella glow is great. check out this hot insane scientist lady she's hilarious
VOCALOID AND TOUHOU FANS! the art is by ideolo. to this day i think it's still the only original IP he's worked on as the lead artist!!! he still draws the characters to this day, it warms my heart that the characters are still beloved by him
IDOL FANS! you will love the music (nanjo yoshino, yui sakakibara, emi nitta, maaya uchida, yukari tamura)
one of matt mercer's more distinct/unique performances, also robbie daymond totally NAILS the protagonist role and goes so fucking hard. i Love these two in this game SO much
look at dante he's kind of gay looking he's my favorite gay person. he's kind of a bastard i love dante. bitch has the gayest ending in the game ☝️ yaoi rivalry dynamic with alto if i'm being honest
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okay but the fact that we hear all about kaveh's life post-fall out with alhaitham, the fact he graduated, worked at construction firms and continued taking on others' burdens, had a hard time finding solo work because of how arts are perceived in sumeru, that he went to his mother's wedding in fontaine, that he took a vacation from work because he was stifled by the environment and felt he had lost motivation and worth as an artist, was determined to complete the palace of alcazarzaray at the cost of everything he owned just to have a tangible object of his efforts and view of art only for its outcome to further emaciate him, until he meets alhaitham for the first time in years, is understood at once, has no need to don a front as he does for everyone else in his life, is listened to, is challenged once more and reinvigorated in his perception of his ideals, is offered a second chance, a home, and accepts it, although he cannot comprehend why alhaitham would offer such a thing and yet not ask anything of relevant substance in return, other than rent
all of this, and we hear virtually nothing of alhaitham's life post-fall out with kaveh, besides his graduation and his taking on the job of the scribe. his character stories omit this part of his life whereas kaveh's is full of detail and emotion, mostly suffering. the first instance we see of alhaitham in this time is from kaveh's perspective when the two meet again in the tavern, and in this alhaitham endeavours to understand kaveh once more, before offering his house - the research centre previously allocated to the both of them for the success of their joint thesis before they fell apart - to kaveh.
we don't know why alhaitham moved out of his grandmother's house and into the research centre, why he renovated it from a research centre into a livable home, only that he did so after kaveh informed alhaitham through a third party that he was not in need of a house, nor do we know his thought processes and emotions in the years spent apart - the years that are carefully documented in kaveh's character stories. the image we are presented with is that of stasis; alhaitham pursues no other close friendships, he works as the scribe, owns a nice house within sumeru, is financially secure, and functions within, and carries out, his own ideals - is content with this way of life. in this, from alhaitham's perspective, there are no details necessary to give from this time
but in inviting kaveh to live with him, his character stories tell us that what he gains by doing so is the mirror of himself, both in personality and scholarly thinking, and in this, he is able to gain an enhanced view of the world, which otherwise would be limited. with kaveh being present in alhaitham's life, alhaitham believes that his vision is perfected, whereas it could not be before, with kaveh's absence. it is in this that we hear what alhaitham has been missing in his life, and ultimately, it is kaveh, not just as a scholar, but as a person
what is omitted from alhaitham's character stories is provided in kaveh's character stories; where we hear about kaveh's struggles, we don't hear about alhaitham's. perhaps this is because alhaitham did not struggle as kaveh did in terms of realising and achieving his ideals, but instead his struggles were in silence, recognising that his vision, and himself, had been compromised because he had rejected the ideals that served to enhance his own vision, that he had inadvertently rejected, and thus had been rejected by, kaveh.
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I really do hope that someday parents stop thinking their kids should learn English first, or really any local language, instead of their native tongue when living somewhere
My abuelito didn't learn Spanish first when he was young because his parents didn't want him to grow up "troubled", and so he never fully learned Spanish. And when they died, he ended up forgetting how to speak it at all! He couldn't teach it to my mom, and so my mom couldn't teach it to me, and so much of the culture that we would've had is gone because of that
It's so, SO incredibly important to have sole sort of connection to your family's culture, even just through language, especially when you live in an area where it's extremely lacking!! That entire side of my family has been feeling that disconnect for so long, and my mom has been trying to make up for it by learning every traditional dish she can because learning an entire language is so difficult for her at her age
Please don't think that your kids, or that you yourself, should learn the local most spoken language because it will be "easier." It's just going to make you grieve that connection you could've had
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