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cosmicwhoreo · 6 months
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Gold Choco Cookie
So, I got bored and turned a DnD character I had in the backlogs of "in case my main dies use this sheet", into a Cookie run OC.
And I'm not gonna lie, I think he fits in nicely-
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BIO BELOW CUT!
Some say he could rig a barter with the Devil himself and get away with it, others claim that he WAS the Devil himself... And Gold Choco Cookie himself says that he’s just a handsome devil with knack in crafting magic items and had a refined taste for gold.
And yet rumors of the "Golden Smith" were often filled with wild and strange tales of a dealmaker with witch's blood molded into his very dough. The mad creator of destructive tools powerful enough to erase entire kingdoms from the history books in their own unique and TERRIBLE ways.
Shady sales of those very same, wonderfully terrible items that typically came with a hefty price that was not always in the gold he coveted.
And with a smarmy wit that was only matched by his insatiable greed, Gold Choco Cookie had been the poster boy of infamy all his life.
But, whilst those rumors weren't unfounded, you'd be surprised to find a rather quirky and passive little fellow. Instead of some large, intimidating demon given a doughy form... A hermit who's workshop seemed to never be in the same place twice.
Sure, he was unnerving with his almost permanent grin and limitless golden limbs that were kept hidden under his cloak. But, he has never seemed interested in partaking in violence personally... more just profiting off of it.
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sillypikmin · 8 months
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For your consideration: cowboy pikmin finds a horse
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YESSSSSS OMG ...... A REAL HORSIE FOR HIM
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memen18-m5r3 · 20 days
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i am my own merch provider u_u
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pickles4nickles · 4 months
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Pickles Played Persona 5 Tactica and Has Some Words
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I finally finished Tactica and its DLC sans some challenge stuff and I do wanna do some cleanup, but I thought I'd write a review for it.
It's long (like, 3k words long) and there's spoilers and overall... it's an Okay(tm) game, but... here, just lemme talk about it a bunch:
Alright, I'm not gonna mince words.
Persona 5 Tactica is not a game I can reccomend to anyone.
But is it a bad game?
Well, no.
But I have no idea who it's for.
Maybe it's for people who want more of the P5 characters? Not exactly? Both stories' focal points are on new characters and the Phantom Thieves just kinda happen to be there. There are some nice interactions, but this isn't a story about the PTs like Strikers.
Is it for people who like tactics but aren't really into P5? Well... it might be the other way around, actually? It's an okay tactics game with persona elements, but both parts of that are watered down when compared to base game persona and other tactics games like XCOM.
With that being said, lemme just ramble about what I thought about the story and gameplay.
THE STORY
The best way I can sum up my feelings about Tactica are "the story was told well, but I'm not sure if I liked it." This is a game that's less about the Phantom Thieves and more about Toshiro and Erina and focuses around the internal conflict of rebellion versus self-preservation.
Toshiro is probably why I'm neutral towards the game At Best. Erina grew on me but Toshiro...
Ehh.
At the beginning of the game, he's a big wimp and he's constantly telling the PTs and Erina that they have to be careful. From a theming standpoint, Toshiro's behavior makes perfect sense.
But from the petty bitch inside of me, this is infuriating because not only do YOU know that this is the Phantom Thieves that have taken down Shido (and also Yaldaboth), but TOSHIRO knows it as well and he's being Like This.
Like, he kinda sucks in the beginning and does so for the first two acts, understandably, but by the third act, when The Big Persona Moments happen, my opinion of him just kinda stayed the same. They swayed in a different direction, but... still on the negative side of the spectrum.
The reveal of Erina as Toshiro's Persona... makes sense. She's Toshiro's spirit(?) of rebellion and is based off of his classmate that once inspired him to stand up for himself and others.
Did I like this revelation?
Hell no, I was punching my thigh and screaming in voice call "No fucking way, Toshiro's so lame, though" as loud as I could without upsetting my parents in the other rooms.
From this point on, Toshiro now has the resolve to do what's right, even if it's scary... but he comes off as a little too strong in my opinion. I kinda have the same feelings about Zenkichi once he gets his persona in Strikers. In the beginning they feel like a new character meant to balance out the insanity that is how the metaverse is, but once they get their persona, they're full on inundated in the anime stand battles and they're a little too extra about it.
Having two full acts of "hey guys maybe we shouldn't help the hat people out of hat people slavery," pivoting into "WITNESS OUR POWER AS ONE" has the same vibes as a relative who's not really an asshole, but one that you've been trying to convince for years that economic inflation is the reason why our generation can't live comfortably, and once they finally understand, they come off a little bit too strong and righteous about it that you're not sure they're genuine or if this is a "he's a little confused, but he's got the spirit" situation.
And then god happens.
In persona games, I usually don't fully understand how or why the god-being is doing all of this, but I especially can't wrap my head around how they work in Tactica. It's mostly because Toshiro's metaverse is kind of a Silent Hill kinda deal where it's a mental torture labyrinth for him personally, as opposed to Mementos, which is naturally the collective unconscious, connecting everyone's minds and hearts together.
The jump from "I'm going to bully this one guy in particular" to "now EVERYONE will be as lame as Toshiro" is lost on me. Maybe politics?
It's... it's fine, there's no reason to lose sleep over it.
The ending of the story is nice and reasonable, though. It sorta redeems Toshiro for me. It's one thing to yell in your own metaverse hellscape how you're going to do the right thing, but once he's back in the real world, he actually stands up to his dad and fiancé and steps down from his political position to build it back up from scratch, but better.
And, yeah! I respect that.
That being said, though, the game isn't devoid of new Phantom Thief interactions. There's some good ones like Futaba "I don't kinkshame" Sakura, casually bi Joker as seen in that one "who would you marry" bit, and a guys only sidequest in which they think they're looking for Toshiro's porn stash (yeah, I know) (it's not). I wouldn't say it's crumbs, but you're not getting the whole loaf that you'd get from, say, Mementos Mission or Strikers.
The story also does this thing where the Phantom Thieves can relate with Toshiro's issues, but something about it feels... off.
Toshiro's in an arranged marriage with Marie for political reasons! Just like Haru! His fiancé sees him as a pushover! Kinda like Makoto! His mom died when he was young and he blames himself for it! Wow, Yusuke and DEFINITELY Futaba can relate to that!! Eri, the real person that Erina is based on, had to transfer schools because she was accused of a crime! Gee, that SURE sounds familiar-
Part of me thinks I'm being a little too unfair on the game for creating parallels like this because Strikers also kinda did this. But in Strikers, the PTs being able to connect with the jail rulers was integral to the plot. Here, it's just kind of a wink wink nudge nudge kinda thing.
And my knee-jerk reaction to that is a small "I get it, shut uuuup."
Again, and overall because I think that rounds out what I have to say about the story, P5 Tactica's main story isn't bad. It's told well, but I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of it.
GAMEPLAY
I've only played Strikers and I don't think I've played a true tactics game, so I don't know how much weight my opinions hold.
So um.
I dunno, the gameplay was fine.
The pacing is weird because it's kind of a visual novel first, and a tactics game in-between, but I got used to that after a bit.
It's a really simple tactics game and... yeah things don't get too complex outside of sometimes there are buttons that'll open doors or raise and lower platforms, sometimes height matters, but the mechanics don't get too crazy outside of certain boss battles.
The game revolves around downing enemies to get Once More's so you can either encase the enemy in a triangle formed by your units to initiate an All-out Attack or you can chain together Once More's to extend your unit's range and move them across the map. This mechanic took a bit for me to understand fully, but I never really got tired of doing it.
Boss battles were kind of hit or miss in this game. The fights with Toshiro's Dad and Salmael I enjoyed as they were kinda formatted as "here's a weird stage, go figure out what to do." However, Marie and *checks notes* "the scary Eri Natsuhara that Shadow Toshiro made" I didn't care for as much since they changed the game from "your decisions on where to move your units are key for this" to "you need to do exactly as we say." Which always kinda sucks, y'know?
Character selection is also kind of a weird thing in this, too. It doesn't seem like it matters who you take with you into missions, which... feels weird to me considering past Persona games. The elements have all been kinda smooshed down into less of a weakness thing, but just a special move that can hinder movement, do damage over time, or change enemy placement entirely, but which type of special you bring along doesn't seem to be as crucial as other Persona games. Each character has a slightly different attack, gun spread, and movement limit, but it wasn't anything drastic that I noticed apart from Haru (she is very slow but apparently hits like a truck) and possibly Morgana (his attack was very weak for me, but I'm not sure if that's because I didn't have him kitted out properly or that's intended).
I played the game almost entirely with Joker and Ann, while swapping between Erina and Ryuji for the last slot and I didn't run into any problems.
The last stretch of the game is... a strange one gameplay wise. Toshiro becomes a party member except... he's Different(tm). He doesn't get a skill tree, is a permanent fourth party member, and can initiate All-Out Attacks, but isn't a part of the triangle that forms it. He does have a gun, but it's in the form of a 0SP attack that Ernesto/Erina can use... that also happens to ignore walls entirely. And he also gets Almighty attacks, which kinda just do big number damage for way more SP.
It's hard to say if the game did a good job scaling the level difficulties to incorporate a fourth party member as staying on top of your persona fusing, weapons, and the skill tree can kind of make the game a breeze. I also played on the normal difficulty, so maybe in harder difficulties, Toshiro becomes more of a necessity than a party member that breaks the game.
My only big gripe with the game is just... the weirdness of the undo button. I don't know how it is in regular tactics games, but the undo in this game doesn't work on a "clear the last action this unit did" basis, but on a turn basis. If you happen to screw up on turn one, unit one, you have to back out COMPLETELY to the mission start screen, which is hella annoying especially if you're playing on the Switch because of the load times.
"But Pickles, what about the DLC? Surely you have just as many thoughts about it?"
Y'know?
I actually don't.
I liked Repaint Your Heart a lot. Again, it's less a story about the Royal Trio and more about Guernica, but it's closer to the traditional Persona 5 story format where they're changing someone's heart. This story also had much higher emotional... fidelity? I guess you could put it?
Guernica needed to remember her main inspirations for creating art - being abandoned and homeless and her big sister dying because of it and she embraces that anger against society into art that inspires hope in people less fortunate. While being groomed into a political pawn from basically birth and then, later in life, being thrown into your own mental hellscape sucks, in terms of emotional weight, Toshiro's story feels like a feather compared to Guernica's.
Also her design is just cool and the paint aesthetic is definitely more my speed.
In terms of Royal Trio content, I think this was the best case scenario we could expect from Atlus.
Emphasis on "from Atlus."
Yeah, we didn't get Black Mask Akechi, but there are MORE THAN ENOUGH moments where he lets the facade slip. His default spell is Megidola, but his skill tree lets him have both Light AND Dark spells. He'll cuss at you if you hit an enemy into him. I don't know what he's doing viscerally screaming half the time he summons Robin Hood.
Sumi. Is also there.
She is fine.
Guernica's connection to the thieves is also written in the same way as Toshiro is, in that it's a little shoehorned in and doesn't add to the story beyond that. After finding out that Luca is Guernica's sister that died, Sumi definitely feels motivated and inspired to help her out, but Akechi also being an abandoned child, scorned by society, and angry at the world because of it is never touched upon. This is probably for spoiler reasons, but... still.
Because this is a story that takes place during Sae's Palace in the main game, they all have to have amnesia about it in the end. Which, understandable, and at least no one in the trio had extensive character development but...
*clenches fist*
Man,
Having tackled this after the main game, I enjoyed the gameplay a lot! It's basically P5 Tactica but with Splatoon mixed in. When a unit is on a tile painted the opposite color for them, they can be instantly knocked down and combo'd on, which adds a whole extra layer of complexity to the game. I wish there were a few more levels to play, but the length of the DLC never overstays its welcome.
Hokay.
If you made it this far, congrats! You reached the end. And my tl;dr section.
I think that's just about it on what I cohesively have to say about P5 Tactica. This isn't a terrible game by any means, but I don't know if the audience it's intended for actually exists. It has a just okay story and just okay mechanics, but the DLC has a more than okay story and the core mechanics are given a fresh coat of paint (yeah, boo, I know) that makes the game more interesting. I would not go paying $80 USD to experience the DLC alone, though.
Thank you for reading my review if you made it all the way to the end! P5 stuff (well, mostly Akeshu) has been my muse these past few years and playing a game that was "just okay but why did they..." got into my brain real bad, so I wanted to write some stuff out.
I'll close this out with some bullet points of thoughts that I couldn't really cohesively fit into my review:
I really really liked how they got little costumes for the old timey Japan kingdom and I was hoping we'd get more of that and every kingdom was based on a new theme... but we only got three kingdoms and the last one before "Smithy's Forge from Super Mario RPG" was............ School.
SATANAEL'S BACK IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS (BUT ONLY POST-GAME)
Erina also being Ernesto thing is mostly weird to me because she's still her own entity but also not???? The possible genderfluid connotations are cool though.
There's a quest where Haru asks Yusuke how to be fast. Yusuke tells her she has to "Become a Black Hole." I do not know what this means.
After the quest, Haru says that even though the axe slows her down, she's very partial to it as her father didn't like her chopping wood as a kid, but she'd sneak out and do it anyway. She later found out that her dad knew she was doing this, but decided not to scold her for it. She took this as a sign of kindness from her father and that's why the axe is so special to her. I do not know what this means as Haru's father was a horrible capitalist who basically tried to marry her off in pursuit of power.
The weapon designs in this game are generally kind of silly, but I appreciate that they exist in the game. There's a chompy gun with teeth that Joker gets and I really like it :)
God the Lyn tracks from the DLC FUCK
...what
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Futaba says "sus" at one point in the end
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snowrea0 · 5 months
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SO I WAS PLAYING BUDDY SIMULATOR AND OH MY GOD
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(when the raff king appeared on screen i was thinking this exact same thing but for the game outright to make a jerma reference is just *mwah* chefs kiss)
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ninjigma · 6 months
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RexWalker Week 2023 - Day 7: Rain / A Crying Kiss Illustrated for the fic "Nightmare for Others, Dream for the Self" by @battlekilt
Was unfortunately extremely busy the last few weeks and didn't think I would be able to manage anything for RexWalker Week; but I just had to illustrate something for my friend's fic because their writing for the week is bloody brilliant, and the Batakin AU is so very special.
So here it is, kind of encompassing a few prompts, but dominantly the Rain and Kiss, because these two deserve it and the writing is worth the world.
Enjoy!
@rexwalker-week
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top three nedward moments !!! 💖
My goodness this one is delightfully evil - how could I possibly choose!? 😱
The moment at the end of E05 when he is handed Crozier's pistol. I'd choose the whole episode if I could, of course, iconic as it all is, but I've narrowed it down to this as it's such a huge watershed moment for his relationship with Crozier. There's great symbolism there, I feel, in the exchanging of that weapon which I've waxed lyrical about before (mainly here if you're interested) But mostly I love it because it really does flip the whole episode on its head. Little is ground down and put upon and thinks that Crozier holds no true regard for or trust in him whatsoever. Yet in one moment - with one action - it suddenly becomes apparent that that's just not true. It becomes apparent that, in his own toxic, backwards, awful way, Crozier has a huge amount of trust in and respect for Little - he wouldn't have handed over the weapon, literally placed his life in Little's hands, if that weren't the case. But here's the thing: SOMEHOW, THAT'S WORSE THAN HAVING NO RESPECT OR TRUST AT ALL.
His first conversation with Crozier at Terror Camp (feat. sneaky Tozer) There's a lot to love about this wee scene and I think to some degree it's slept on a bit. First of all, it shows Little as a perfectly capable lieutenant and leader. He's brought the advanced party ashore, he's overseen the placement and set-up of the camp, and he's specifically praised by Crozier for having done all of that successfully. Secondly, it establishes the improvement that's occurred in his relationship with Crozier in general. They're both surprisingly relaxed for the most part, speaking openly and frankly and more as equals than they've ever been before. Thirdly, it establishes a little of the nature of his working relationship with Tozer as well. They too are fairly relaxed, open, and cordial with one another (to the point where on my first watch, I actually thought Little called Tozer by his first name). But this scene also sets the precedent of Little supporting Tozer's requests and not sufficiently questioning his motivations...! Lastly, dear Nedward just looks really good! Between this and his E06 fluffy boyband hair, it's clear that - improved working relationship notwithstanding - he's at his healthiest inside and out when he's been as separated from Crozier as humanly possible!
Enjoying the fleeting warmth of the sun on his choochy wee face at the end of E06 I've waxed lyrical about this too, as blink-and-you'll-miss-it a moment as it is, but still it delights me. If ever there was an explorer made of hope, it's Nedward, and if you interpret that moment as I do - as him taking the time to feel the warm sunshine on his face while everyone around him can only resent the fleeting nature of it - it's a moment that perfectly exemplifies his deep-seated hope and optimism.
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aroaceleovaldez · 4 months
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obligatory intermittent post once again requesting more people make pjo askblogs. pretty pretty please. they're very fun I promise and askblogs are a dying species. i'm very sad that for like the past 6 years there's usually only been one or two riordanverse askblogs active and I'm one of them.
"but i can't-" there's options! text-based askblogs! illustrated/drawn-response askblogs! cosplay askblogs! voice acting askblogs! combinations of the above! whatever else your heart desires! get funky with it! getting funky with it is really cool!
also do your local askblogs a favor and send them some asks sometimes. here's a list of illustrated pjo askblogs I have curated, and a list of other formats of pjo askblogs. I'm also working on another list of general askblogs so if you have any other askblogs you should tell me about those ones too.
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dear malevolent/other horror podcast fans in that realm (also accepting tma, tmagp, wtnv, w.bg etc. fans):
I NEED MORE MUTUALS WHO LIKE PODCASTS :'''[ i've got approximately two followers who actually engage with like 90% of my fandom related reblogs and itsa makin me sad :[
if you want my original posts abt these fandoms, my personal blog is @hypocrisy-incarnate ^^ all my reblogs will be here on main tho!!
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ro-bottt · 18 days
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idk sometimes i just
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yeah
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icantalk710 · 5 months
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Tried out this jogging thing a bit (8/10 would [and will] do again, since the views definitely help) 🏃🏽‍♂️
(Goal was actually 25 mins [with light starts/stops bc vieeeews] but I felt up to 5-7 mins extra and then just forgot to stop my timer app lmao)
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memen18-m5r3 · 2 months
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>look for merch >can't find shit >sadge >"oh wait i'm an artist i can just make myself some"
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haha yeah anyway making a cute little acrylic stand to put on my shelf
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nancyheart11 · 3 months
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Ancient
... and Lanayru desert is so ancient it used to be called the sand sea!
Sky turned around after proudly gesturing to the endless miserable lines of sand that the rest of the group looked on with apprehension.
on all of their minds was how little water they had after spending a week in Time's extensive labyrinths of poisened wells.
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chordsykat · 2 years
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Kloktober 2022 Day 23 - Group Photo or Feeling Lonely
To be continued tomorrow :)
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sfigatino · 2 months
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heyyy is everyone having trouble getting into everything? I can’t get discord or anything to open rn and I have no idea what’s going on lol
My parents can’t open their Facebooks and it looks like everything’s down everywhere
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boutta drop this passenger fic so in the spirit of that
tell me a thought, any thought, you have about that movie AND
a song you think fits the vibe of the film or one of the guys
hope you get feeling better!! the booster kicked my ass too. rip
AHHHHHHHHH bro I’m so fuckin excited for this fic u don’t even know. I’m gonna eat it the fuck UP I am gonna dine WELL, I fuckin know it.
God. Any thought about the movie? I have so many. Most coherent thing I can think of rn is the ending and how I don’t think Randy’s ever going to be able to fully move on from what happened. He got closure with Miss Beard. He had the opportunity to repair things with her. Benson, though? He didn’t get that closure. He watched Benson’s violent end and will never get the chance to repair things with him, because he’s gone. Yeah, he looks pretty happy and well-adjusted at the end of the film. But let’s be realistic. What Randy went through in those less-than-24-hours, and knowing how his actions toward Miss Beard haunted him? There’s no way he’ll be able to just fully move on, despite how much he can project the image that he has. I think Benson’s skeleton has a permanent place in Randy’s closet by the end of it all.
As for a song, I think “Hysteria” by Spritbox is a perfect fit for this movie. “What I’ve created as violent delights in my head will have a violent end. A broken, violent end.” Like c’mon, it perfectly fits. Also “Pet”, by A Perfect Circle. The vibe is just right.
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