#just wanted to get back to gameplay

[alicenpai]

2021 re2 and re4 doodles i unearthed, 2020-2021 were the years of art block for me - i drew a lot, but not too many of my drawings felt quite right. anyways... sherry finally got that puppy (big puppy...) and parrot she always wanted! im a big fan of taking a single obscure piece of dialogue/game mechanic/inventory item etc and then drawing it

#resident evil #resident evil 2 #resident evil 4 #leon s kennedy #ashley graham #sherry birkin #my art #this was the time when re8 came out and it changed me it was so good #i rmb watching a let's play of re3 remake when it came out but re didn't click for me . until 8 #albeit i have a soft spot for any of the games with leon. bc who doesn't #i think ive checked out all of the games besides 7 and the spinoffs. i wanted to watch 7 gameplay before i sleep as a bedtime story ^_^ #(for reference re7 is arguably the scariest one) #ill continue looking in my folders for old art i dont mind sharing. probably gonna just keep these low effort/old doodles on tumblr only #i really liked doing lineless style and i like this era of my art #but i think for me. lineless suits me better to get out quick ideas on paper. and less suited for full illustrations #i think when i tried doing lineless everything back then it didnt work. and i now know when to juggle my different styles #depending on the needs of the drawing im working on. good thoughts moving forward! #also hm. this particular lineless approach with this particular brush doesn't really resonate with people it seems

[skeletalheartattack]

#for context. a few weeks back i was playing on a fast respawn 2fort server #mostly because i just wanted to just. hang out somewhere without any real serious gameplay happening #that said. for the first few hours i was playing on there. was mostly playing gunslinger engineer and detonator pyro #and we had a good push up into their base but were stuck just at the entrance. with a heavy hold from the enemy team #but after a while. i just kinda got bored and wanted to just fuck about with the taunts and loadouts i had #first thing i did was play pyro and do the cheers taunt before getting on my bike and swerving a bunch as i drove #but i dont think anyone could tell thats what i was doing #so after a bit i just changed to scout. and started just riding my skateboard #(i also did the drinking and riding bit a few times but i eventually just ended up skateboarding around) #(one bit being me on the top of the bridge. doing the cheers taunt. getting on my board. and then skating off the bridge and killbinding) #so at some point. i kept getting stuck in place for some reason. like speficially on bumpy ground or... in the air #and the moment i got stuck in the air (for 30+ seconds mind you) i was just like ''my quantum board technique'' #and from there. i just acted as if i was playing the newest Pro Skater game #saying stuff like ''i have to do manual ollie combo for 150000000 points'' #or like ''i have to find grindrails on this level'' #eventually found my way into the sewers and said something like ''IVE FOUND THE HALF PIPES'' #before saying like ''man they really screwed up the physics since the last game'' #a soldier on the other team was trying to find me the whole time saying ''wheres tony hawk'' #specifically because he had a tony hawk avatar. and i only realized after he said something about it #anyway. after all that i skateboarded into a minisentry and died #and my last message was supposed to be ''my combo has ended'' but i ended up typing 'bombo' #and it made me laugh SO hard i couldnt backspace. and added on with ''my sweet bombo'' #and then i left because i had nothing more to do there. my bombo had ended and i had to move on.

[samarecharm]

geniunely not trying to put words in ur mouth im geniunely asking: what do you actually like about persona 5? from all ur rants im just wondering why you didnt drop the game bc it seems (again, im not trying to put words in ur mouth) that it simply not for you? i geniunely have not felt any of the issues you bring up outside of the writing ones and i cannot tell if i'm just easily pleased and not good at discerning what a good game is or we simply have dif things we enjoy in a video game. i hate getting tone across text but im asking out of geniune curiosity im not trying to attack your opinion (;-;)

Nah, i dont feel like ur attacking me, and I hope u dont feel the same when u see my complaints! Lmao. In my defense, I am replaying the game for the first time after completing my first file back in 2020, so alot of the faults i kinda shrugged off in my first playthrough are now glaringly in my face now that I no longer have the confusion and interest in learning the main story to keep me occupied. The game is clunky all the way through, and at some times, even frustratingly so.

But despite that, i do like this game. Alot! Its probably one of my top games ever if im being honest!

This ended up way longer than I intended, so im putting it under a readmore to keep the post short on dashboards

If i had to describe what I liked about the game in the simplest way imaginable…I think I would say, I like how the game makes me feel :) I like the music. I like the vibe. I like the immersion from city to city, and I like the premise! I like the characters and I like the connections you make with these characters! As im replaying this game, i am most excited to see Akira and his comments about the world :) i like hearing everyones voices, I like their little interactions in Mementos, and I like seeing them fight!

P5 is the first game I played in the series; its the game that introduced me to SMT in the first place! And it (smt) is a series that my longtime best friend LOVES and never thought hed be able to share with me! It is a game i keep very near to my heart; it has influenced me in ways i did not think would happen in the short couple of years since i first finished it. It genuinely keeps me awake some nights thinking about the world this game has created, and I think that is a testament to the impact its had, be it good or bad.

The joke about wishing theyd make a persona game that was Good is that despite all of its numerous flaws, the games manage to snatch your attention and pull you in anyway. Imagine if they made a game that had all of those things that i mentioned I loved, but done Right and executed Properly?? Where I got to have a story that made sense and didnt need to be spoonfed to me (in like an HOUR of dialogue and scenes; an HOUR!), and characters that talked and bonded beyond the tiny snippets of interaction theyre allowed to have in mementos? Combat that let me use PERSONAS i liked instead of BUILDS that stop me from getting instakilled throughout the entirety of the endgame, and a Persona building mechanic that didnt feel like I was shooting in the dark looking for possible fusions that end up not even being useful in the endgame.

Ive mentioned it before, but I complain so much bc I have seen what a good p5 game looks like, and its Strikers almost to a T. Combat is still your typical warriors-esque style combat, but it is at least different from the turn based strategy of the main game. Characters talk to each other freely, they hang out and comfort each other in a way that feels more connected that the base game. Strikers implements the ability to see ALL possible fusions with ALL registered personas, not just the ones in your Stock, so you can fuse easily without having yo consult a guide. The story feels like it makes SENSE with antagonists that feel morally grey and sympathetic. Genuinely, alot of the complaints for p5 I had were almost immediately rectified in this game.

But please also know that the praises I sing for this game is only bc of the groundwork laid by p5 and the world it created. Thats what I like about this game, that it had such a captivating premise and cast of characters, that a DIFFERENT company was able to hit the ground running with them. P5 had alot happening in that game, but i think what it had most was potential. The effort put into this game is astronomical, and the possible connections you can outright MISS if u arent paying attention was worth the money and time to implement; even if it meant that it could be considered a waste of resources to higher ups.

Books and games and part time jobs???!! Silly little cutscenes that add nothing to the game PLOTwise, but define and flesh out the personality of your protagonist. There was alot of love put into this game, and its evident by the fact that we have NOT seen a new persona game released; they bank on existing titles bc they are unwilling to make a game like this from scratch again. They dont want to ‘waste’ resources on good voice acting and a complex, overarching story; they dont want to waste money on scenes a player may never see, on routes a player may never get to experience. Making a game that gives u even the slightest bit of freedom means more money in programming and detailing that freedom. This has been an issue for a WHILE, and its a miracle that the gaming landscape had space for a colossal title like p5!

I complain bc I want better, and I do not think that is inherently at odds with my love of this game. In b4 im told to get good; ive played on hard and tested out merciless (its NOT fun, im making godbuilds again and its boring 😞). Its not the most accessible turnbased rpg; theres no colorblind modes, and the affinity system is convoluted and overwhelming. Combo moves are hard to keep track of and it can be incredibly frustrating to see your turns being skipped or seeing characters take extreme technical damage without understanding WHY it happened. The fact that they KNEW the game was desperate for qol improvements by the time royal came out, and instead of updating the base game to have those improvements too, they just pushed the royal edition out for people to play instead. It sucks! Customers and fans deserve better than being forced to shell out money for a game they already played !

As the gaming climate gets more and more hostile and unbearable, I think it is good to look at your games critically, and understand why products come out subpar. Persona 5 is a fun game that has a nice cast and an interesting premise, but it is ultimately tied down by its refusal to build on existing building blocks regarding its combat, and it insists on having insulting and downright out of character dialogue and scenes to appease the audience its designed to be targeted to. It is easy to forget sometimes that queer ppl are infact NOT the prime target of these games, its cishet gamer bros from aged 16 to 40 who will laugh at homophobic comments, who drool over a 16 yr old girl with a 16 yr old mindset and a grown womans body, who need to be placated with constant sexual comments to deal with a convoluted story that will inevitably make zero sense until its laid out for you before the literal end of the game.

Its bad. Its good. Its so shallow and its unbelievable that they thought having the plot twist make ZERO sense until they showed CUTSCENES of YOUR character discussing Goro and his connections to the metaverse for endgame SHOCK VALUE was more important than just having your team be smart and piece it together over time. Its shit. Its literally amazing. It let you FUCK your teacher ??????????????what the FUCK. They also let me shoot a god in the face w the best looking ult persona in the world so i can ignore that shit. And ultimately that is how i got through the game. Lol.

#chattin #answered #i have mentioned it before but i did NOT romance anyone #u know why? bc i literally didnt know it existed #i maxed out ann and the game was like ‘hey. this next decision is important’ #and i was like. huh. u know what. i have not looked up a guide until now. thats scary. i dont want to lose a confidant… #and learned that. #so uh. i really DID go through the game bot realizing i could date anyone. even the adults. #anyway. this was alot. and i tried to keep out alot of my other complaints #bc i have so many. but they are like. either nitpicky things or things that are issues in lots of games too #like the models suck in this game but i can look past that. graphics are always bottom on the list of complaints #and i do like the little animations!! i like akiras little tics #and i like seeing personas do their casting animations; shiki ouji and nekomata are my faves #i distinctly remember that being a thing i wished to see more of. #bc i liked thinking of what joker would look like fighting for Real #and then i remembered him being in smash so i was like COOL. ill look at those #and then i got STRIKERS and it was exactly what I wanted #i think #the game is like. #its bad. but in ways that i wouldnt call another game bad #like back 4 blood is BAD bad. its awful. the gameplay is bad. the story was shit. and the servers shut down within a year or two of launch #risk of rain 2 is bad in the way that it continuously obscures and withholds information to the player. its tedious and frustrating #but unlike b4b i LIKE ror2 and will continue to enjoy it. #bc the gameplay loop FEELS satisfying #and ultimately thats how i feel about p5 #for all of its faults; its fun. it has a gameplay loop that is consistent and fun when u get the hang of it #im playing on hard again since merciless is just me making the right instakill builds while i pick up my team over and over again #and theres still a challenge in having the endgame weapons and armor #its satisfying! and i think its satisfying bc I was given the luck of having this be my introduction into the series #maybe i would have a better opinion on the game if i came from p4. or maybe not! who knows !

[thewastelandlosers]

Girl, get your messy ass up, you did not just run off and die to fucking geckos!!

#ive just started this fucking game and ive alreadt had 5 frozen screens and a crash when i approached Easy Pete!!! #man really didnt want me talking to him that he sent me back to the home screen. #then this girl is supposed to be teaching me a few things to survive and runs off ahead leaving me with her dog! #and when i finally catch up i find her dead ass like girl be fucking for real right now 😭 #i havent even left Goodspring yet and already getting issues #i won my first ever game in Caravan tho lol #fallout gameplay #fallout nv #fallout new vegas #fnv #fnv gameplay

[holocene-sims]

i missed him 💚🤍

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 screenshots #ts4 gameplay #ts4 portrait #simblr #holocene.png #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: grant #he's so cute i wanna rip his head off (affectionately) #but literally i haven't opened up any saves with him in it since last month #sir i missed you i promise </3 #btw i am going to get back to posting his story again #i just got burnt out and kind of stuck figuring out how to transition between scenes and a little downtrodden bc #life has been mega difficult lately and i honestly could not commit time to something so time consuming that doesn't get a lot of attention #but i want to start back because i'm at a really exciting part of the story :( #also i will say i think my story save might be at least a little corrupt because it crashes like crazy now lmfao rip #so i might have to restart the save itself

[duskbats]

generation 3; eris grimm-shariq - she/her - gloomy, overachiever, loves outdoors.

granddaughter of eden and dima and the estranged daughter of heidi, who was born into the world as a rare combination of vampire and spellcaster. this type of hybrid status is incredibly unheard of among the occults of the sim nation. unfortunately, she never had the chance to know her mother, neither did her mother remain in contact with her father. because of this, eris was raised by a spellcaster couple who agreed to protect her, and eventually help with the discovery of her estranged mother.

now, eris finds herself on a journey of self-discovery, exploring the world before deciding on a place to settle down. her ultimate goal is to create a safe haven for vampires, and perhaps even seek out more hybrids like herself. at the very least, she hopes to share her knowledge and skills to start a new lineage of magical vampires.

*notes: i sadly lost the save and tray files for eden and heidi, which genuinely left me heartbroken as they were some of my most cherished sims, and i really enjoyed playing their legacy. i didn't want the legacy to die however, so i had to come up with the circumstances mentioned above which unfortunately means eris will never actually meet her mother nor eden, but i can always bring dima back as fortunately she was provided to me by the lovely @teaprose!

i didn't really want to write a whole story with her that played out via screenshots, so instead i wrote this summary before starting her generation.

#ts4 #the sims 4 #simblr #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #*v legacy: g3 #*eris #ok yea i gave her a lil makeover #wanted to establish her style more #also wasn't vibing with the white hair on her so #also heidi's “natural” hair isn't even white?? #anyway i only changed her hair and eyes slightly and i LOVE her more now #idk if i'm gonna go ahead with my plans right away #might just get back into the game with her first

[aheathen-conceivably]

Pretty sure I went too hard on the mini arc and gave myself burnout before the real story even begins y’all…

So much for uh, super chill gameplay time, huh?

#someone help me find some chill for real 😅 #I can’t be doing this with the actual story posts and get any done #for real I turn into more and more of a perfectionist with each post #tomorrow’s post took me almost three nights of game time just to shoot #my disappointed sigh is for me and only for me 😂 #shoulda known we couldn’t have had chill gameplay time for the pixels OR their watcher #alas #‘tis who I am #gif warning #just a heathen rambling warning #and have no fear this doesn’t mean I’m not getting back to the story #just wanted to vent with y’all thaaaaanks 😙

[moonscape]

okay i'm going to be nicer to totk for real now *deletes most of my drafts*

#bwark #god i'm fucking trying to have some kind of epiphany here where i can have it all click and be like ''even if i have my problems i can still #get enjoyment out of it'' but this game makes it so damn difficult #''i can discuss the story'' wait nope can't. story sucks ass and butt #''what about the exploration? that was the best part of botw'' uh no can't do that when the surface is practically the same and there's no #substance to the sky or the depths #''gameplay?'' i don't like ultrahand. which sucks when that's 90% of the gameplay #i respect the work that must've gone into it and the creativity it's drawn from fans but making one gameplay aspect literally ALL YOU DO #runs the risk of alienating people who can't get behind #and sure other zelda games have their gimmicks but it's different #like take tp for example. i get that the wolf mechanic isn't for everyone. but aside from the early game twilight sections and a few sparse #puzzles in the later game you're never really forced to play as wolf so it doesn't overstay its welcome #god i just remembered that totk turned wolf link into meat chunks. another thing they took from us 😔 #actually on that genuinely why couldn't they just bring him back? #like you're reusing a ton of shit from botw anyway?? #which brings me back to my main point is that anything that isn't new is just. botw again #shrines are back but they're uglier. dungeons are the divine beasts but in a new coat of paint #why did they add more shrines to the game anyway? like you'd think they'd at least lower the number because fans didn't want them to return #the SINGULAR leg up i can think of id the bosses. yeah i love botw and i'll hold my hands up and say that a lot of the common complaints for #it don't bother me personally but yeah the blights absolutely sucked #divebombing colgera with the dragon roost theme playing was the closest thing that this game came to giving me an experience #okay i'll shut up now I'M GOING TO BE NICE EVEN IF IT KILLS ME

[whimhaven]

why is it literally so hard to come back and be consistent after a break/hiatus. it's like so debilitating!! like im frozen in place, i just want to post so bad :(((

#shanna.txt #finding it hard to get back into the swing of posting gameplay again #i want to continue delilah's story so bad #and is it just me or there's less and less gameplay on my dash #where'd all my fav stories go :(

[fizzytoo]

adrien helps out mama on the days he doesn’t have soccer practice

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #postcard legacy challenge #rosa’s someone who loves to match #she saw adrien wearing his headband and she ran back inside to get hers #i’ve been trying to come up with nicknames for adrien but i know she has cute little ones him #she still calls him her baby or her little love #adrien’s just as much as that cuddly kid he was as a child #he’ll still sit on the floor between rosa’s legs while they watch tv so she can play with his hair #he still gives her a kiss on the cheek before leaving the house #he’ll still try to crawl into his moms bed on saturday mornings to capture some warmth. rosa peppers his little face with kisses #even tho sometimes to feeling of the stubble growing on his chin makes her want to cry bc he’s growing up #*the #the han-avagyan household is full of sims who love to hold and be held #postcard: gen2 #queue #sim: adrien herrera #sim: rosa han

[ssspringroll]

And until/unless morphmaker gets adopted by a new developer, I don't really plan on making any more presets or sliders. Toddlers are broken right now. It's only a matter of time before all ages are broken with the way EA patches this damn game. I don't wanna keep making stuff that is, essentially, not going to be updateable, you know? It feels like there's an invisible time limit on morphmaker and I just don't wanna touch it anymore unless I have to.

Thanks for all the love on all my presets and sliders over the years. It's been fun! I love making stuff like that that's quick and easy and versatile. I don't know what my cc is going to be in the future. Anything I feel like making, I suppose, that's always been how I've done things. It'll probably happen a lot less often though. Everything else takes me so much longer to make and test and refine

#which is all to say‚ really‚ if you're just here for cc #i can't help ya. I'm probably not going to have anything to upload for months and months #i wanna get back into gameplay #i wanna get back into sim requests #i dunno #i feel like making cc is all im good for sometimes lol #but all i want to do is make sims #and I've been severely neglecting my cc folder. #it's hungry. it needs downloads. #i haven't done a clothing or hair shopping spree since like. island living. #simoleon

[p5x-theories]

I mean, how many characters have models that you haven’t posted yet? Bc I would like to see all of the models but if there’s a ton then I wouldn’t ask that of you

To be clear, literally every character in the game has one or more 3D models. Every single NPC, those faceless people that you walk by/through while walking through the city, every playable character (and every outfit they have; every single one of Wonder's outfit options), every shadow, every Persona, etc. The game's all 3D models (with 2D images over them making up the UI and portraits), and the files are where those 3D models and 2D images are stored, so quite literally, anything you see in the game is somewhere in the files, and something I could theoretically extract for you.

There's also a ton of stuff in the files that doesn't show up in the game (yet?), like 3D models and portraits for a bunch of the Confidants and Palace rulers in P5. Even stuff you only see for a few seconds, like the table and tea set that appears for Noir during her AOA finisher in the split second before it swaps to the 2D image people usually think of for her AOA, have their own 3D models.

So I appreciate that you're not asking me for all of them, haha!

I just focus on posting the interesting things and the new stuff; new portraits for main characters, 3D models for civilian outfits of the Phantom Idols that we haven't really gotten to see, characters indicated as future Phantom Thieves/Idols, stuff like that. And then if anyone asks me for specific stuff outside of that, I don't mind going back for it, because I noted down where everything is in the (massively disorganized) files, so it theoretically shouldn't take me too long to hunt down the pieces for any given character and put them together to post.

All that to say, I try to post the things that I know myself and others are probably most interested in seeing. You're not really missing much in the rest of the files, unless, for instance, there's a sidequest NPC or something you have a particular interest in and want to see the full portraits/model for.

#anonymous #I think the only models I grabbed just because *I* thought they were fun and wasn't going to bother posting #are the nameless kokatsu students that play instruments in the background with wonder during the music minigame #they are quite literally nameless. their files don't even have a name or nickname for them they're just student_drum and etc #posting the portraits and models is also kind of tedious though not difficult #because the portraits are broken up into a head base + a bunch of eyes + a bunch of mouths + a mask where applicable #so I have to put those files back together and layer them correctly to give you a complete portrait #and 3d models need 2d textures to show up as anything but featureless grey #so for those I have to hunt down all the 3d model pieces (hair face eyes body. usually) and then match up all their textures to them #it's a lot of work haha! #but I don't mind it too much because I know most people don't really know how to get into the files and do it themselves #in fact I learned *for* the sake of datamining p5x! #I basically haven't done anything but sort through files. watch gameplay. and put things together to post. since the beta started haha #my life sort of goes on hold (as much as possible) each beta until I'm done with the files so I can get them posted asap! #but this is partially because *I* want to see them as bad as you guys do haha #so uh. yeah! that's probably way more of an answer than you wanted but that's the true reality of the work going into this behind the scene

[aurorangen]

as you can tell tjol is on hiatus and there won't be any posts for the next few days

#i know i just got back to playing #something came up irl so nosims #after the 8th ill have all the time in the world...until uni starts again #reason for tjol on pause is i want to get to city detective ASAP!!!!! #dont want to end spending a whole year on beach conservationist #which would likely happen if i post tjol rn JUST GET IT DONE RORY #after ill happily post both :) #gameplay update #rambles #last thing the sim dump is done but i need to sort out the download!

[todayisafridaynight]

you probably won't even care about yakuza by the time the plushies are out if we go by your track record

i cant even deny this cause my interests do tend to have a shelf life of one year and it'll be one year come june

#snap chats #i got back into rgg in june last year despite only really starting to make public fanart for it in july #i wouldnt say i wouldnt care wholly tho like im still hyped for DB stuff despite not drawing for it #like BT4 just got announced and im fuckin nutting to see gameplay of that #and i still keep up with the new jojo manga- even if i havent read 7 and 8 yet ☠️ #wait can i say really quick my fucking computer auto updated to windows 11 and its fucking with me so bad #trying to grab that emoji made me want to die eveyrthing is so fucking SQUISHY #its not a matter of i wont care for it i just wont be so fixated on it #but who's to say it's hard for me to get into new things- like all the things i was recently into (db/kh/rgg) #they were all things i liked in the past that i figured id revisit during the pandemic #oh well. now im compelled to keep rgg posting for another year to spite this LMAO #i mean LAD8 is coming out next year not to mention gaiden #like i still very much have reasons to keep watching the series and the sort #who wants to find that fuckin. post i made mapping out my interests over time cause i needa check the data

[hellafluff]

Currently obsessively thinking about a silent hill from Mary's perspective. Starting in the hospital, the nurses replaced with doctors, faces blacked out except for white shiny gnashing teeth. She only has in her pockets a note written on hotel stationary that says I'm Sorry.

Escaping and meeting a young man, cute and a lil awkward, who says you look a lot like his girlfriend Maria, and shes missing too? Can we look for her together?

Hes... sweet, a bit quiet. He gets very close to Mary often, pushes her boundaries, but this is all weird and strange and maybe hes just scared. When she mentions it, however, he makes a rude remark abt Just Wanting To Help Her but backs off.

They get seperated when the Red Pyramid Thing, unchanged in this version, comes and attacks them both, but chooses to persue him.

Laura is still there, and when Mary and her meet they cling together. She talks about an awful, ugly man she met earlier, and to watch out for him. She helps guide Mary through a maze like area before the Other World sets in and separates them.

The monsters in Mary's Silent Hill are almost all larger then her, and many masculine in appearance. They attack her head, try and choke her. Certain ones cough and gasp, arms thrashing wildly and thrashing on the floor when knocked down. Some seems to have exposed, black lungs that stutter to breathe. If Angela and Eddie are the same in this version, then their boss fights remain the same. The Abstract Daddy just as horrifying to Mary as it is to Angela.

Every reunion with the man, hes different. Less nice, more haunted looking. He starts to call her Maria, and barely acknowledges her if she corrects him. Following his advice leads to darker and more dangerous areas. The Red Pyramid keeps coming and chasing him away, but shes always collateral damage when that happens.

Eventually, she makes it to the hotel. Hes waiting for her in the hotel room, haggard, almost unrecognizable from the man he was when they first met. He has a monologue about how she's been sick, and hes been trying his best to be there for her. She doesnt understand, she doesnt know him, shes NOT Maria! She never will be. She starts coughing.

He makes to leave but at the last second turns, and hes a monster now. Large, fleshy, imposing, always trying to suffocate her under thick hands. Upon his defeat, two Red Pyramids arrive and stab at the dying thing over and over until finally impaling themselves.

There are different endings still. She remembers her disease, and her murder, in most of them. In the best ending she leaves the town with Laura, likely still ill, but alive again. In one of the worst, she wakes up in the trunk of a car, as water begins seeping in.

#silent hill #silent hill 2 #i have a few other ideas for this but wasnt sure how to work them into the prosey wording this took #i think Angela's story goes the same way but instead of James being flustered and kinda unsympathetic #Mary has kind words but no way to help #and their final meeting isnt as hostile as her and james but its still bitter #gameplay wise i also am imagining James Constantly being up on Mary and like pushing her into monsters while trying to atk them himself #instead of always trailing behind #Mary doesnt get her own PH bc hes a punisher and she doesnt need punishing (its why Angela doesnt have one but Eddie does yknow) #but im tempted to say she gets a prefinal boss that is Maria in some way #not like how we know maria but im thinking a mix of the Mannequins and the Flesh Lips enemies #its got the moth/butterfly motif still too #i do have a kinda clear scene in my head #of late in the game leading to this fight Mary has just shaken off James again and hes fully in the Youre Maria :) mental state #and she passes a mirror in a hall and sees herself as Maria. she turns back to look again and Maria smiles before reaching through and #grabs Mary by the throat as she transforms into the boss #crazee talk #i wrote this over the course of an hour and a half directly after waking up today #what was going on my sleep brain #took all day to post it bc i wanted to edit the tags on desktop and i had stuff to do

[bleaksqueak]

HEY SPEAKING OF TENDER SUGAR, have I ever linked this amazing cover? Yeah yeah, "CINEMATIC COVER" is such a cliche, but this cover has more the mood of the mix that's used in the actual game instead of the soundtrack version... It's awesome! I can practically hear Joseph prattling on about the Sacraments while Henry disassociates in the bg.

This was supposed to have a link to the song but it didn't link, so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbumhWJtKWo

#It took me nearly 20 years but I can finally appreciate Silent Hill 4 for more than just the music #it turns out that when you're not the one playing the game it's an amazing game #that is to say #I'm not getting so angry at the obnoxious ghosts and the gameplay loop I'm actually able to pay attention to and enjoy the story #So now I feel kinda guilty for not appreciating it at first #but man fuck jasper and cynthia's ghosts in particular #and I'm sorry but the fart monsters are still hilarious #anyway if you've never played silent hill 4 maybe don't but check out an LP instead and you can enjoy the weiird cool story it has #or play it if you want to the water prison is cool #and twin victims monster is one of the series best #anyway back to art #Youtube