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carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich · 4 years

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Diabolik Lovers Tag 2!

Thank you to @vampiretsuki for tagging me!

Rules: Answer the Questions and Tag whomever you want to tag~ I would love to read your answers so tag me (@vampiretsuki) and I will read them~!

1.- Would you rather wear Carla’s Scarf or Shin’s eyepatch?

Carla’s scarf because I tried wearing an eye-patch once for a costume and I only lasted like 10 minutes because it made me feel dizzy XD (how I’m going to manage when I finally get all of my Shin cosplay together, I don’t know).

2.- Which moments has been the most shocking to you? (Game, Manga, CD Drama, Stage Play, Anime)

To be honest I think the fifth track of Shin’s More, More Blood CD shocked me the most because I just really didn’t see it coming >_> I’m not going to spoil it here but yeah... Also I think Kanato’s HDB ending two where Yui murders all of the other Sakamaki brothers is pretty shocking.

3.- Have you had a Diaboy whom you hated (or had very little interest) and now you love him?

While I didn’t hate him, Carla did scare the absolute crap out of me for a while and I didn’t want to be anywhere near him (this is mainly because my introduction to him was the Carla vs Shin Versus II CD in which he straight up impales Shin through the chest then chokes and threatens to kill you within I think about 10 minutes of his introduction...). Once I got to know more about his character, I understood why he is the way he is and realized I could actually relate to him quite a lot and now he’s my second favourite.

4.- Which moments (Game, Manga, etc) has made you laugh the most?

Oh man DL has some great funny moments. I think maybe Shin’s More, More Blood bonus CD featuring Asa the hamster is the one that made me laugh the most though because it’s so funny and cute (I ramble about it in this post).

The drama CD where they search for socks is also very funny.

5.- Which moments has made you cry the most?

I’m more likely to cry because I find something touching than because I’m sad, so I think the scene that made me cry the most is actually the last track in Shin’s BTD CD. It’s just so soft that my heart can’t really handle it...

The scene between Carla and Shin in Shin’s LE vampire ending also gets to me quite a lot.

6.-Which moments has been the scariest for you?

KANATO’S HDB ENDING 3, HOLY CRAP. There are quite a lot of scary moments in DL but there’s something so horrifying to me about the idea of Kanato trapping Yui’s soul in a teddy bear that I can’t even...

Also while it’s not scary I think Subaru’s LE brute ending deserves a mention here because it’s so messed up >_>

7.- Which moments has made you the angriest?

Anytime a character in the games is a dick to Shin. There are three moments that have had me yelling at my console and these are (warning, spoilers ahead):

- Shin’s DF manservant ending when Richter makes Shin kneel at his feet and then what he does afterwards... (I remember very specifically internally willing Shin to spit on Richter’s shoes, I got so mad).

- Carla’s LE ecstasy epilogue when Kino sneaks into Shin’s room with a bunch of the ghouls and attacks him. I was mad at Kino for quite a while over this... (even though I know Shin has done worse so it’s very hypocritical but... eh...).

- When Carla whips Shin in Shin’s CL route. Again, I remember really strongly wishing for the option to get Yui to throw her shoe at Carla because I got so upset (Shin sounded like he was in so much pain >_>).

I also got fairly mad at portrait!Shin in Shin’s Zero CD... so I guess I really do just get mad when characters are mean to my boy X’D

8.- Would you like to be a student at their nocturnal school? Would you stalk/see what the Diaboys are up to? Who? (Only pick 3 diaboys!)

I think going to a nocturnal school would suit me as I’m almost nocturnal as it is when I can get away with it >_> I don’t think I would try to see what the diaboys were up to as I’d be too worried about getting caught and then trying to explain why I was spying on them ^^;;

9.- Have you had any DL Dreams? if so… Tell us your favorite or your most recent~!

I haven’t had any recently but I did have one dream where I got to ride on Shin in his wolf form which was pretty cool ^^

10.- Is there something/habit a diaboy does that bothers/annoys you?

Hmm... I mean I don’t really like it when Ruki calls you/Yui “livestock”. I know that’s his nickname and it’s not like the other guys’ nicknames are nice either but idk, I just don’t like it :/ (I’m also not a fan of “sow” either...).

11.- Is there something/habit a diaboy does that makes your heart flutter/melt?

Nearly everything Shin does? Okay but Shin’s laughter when you tickle him always makes me melt ♡＾▽＾♡

I’m going to tag @sleeping-platinum, @akumacaron, @bloody-croissant and @dlgenderbend (sorry if any of you have done this already).

#there are a lot of other things Shin does that have me turning to mush but if I listed all of them this post would get too long ^^;;#tag #also with regards to number 7 you have to understand that I am not someone who gets angry easily #and I am not confrontational at all #which is why its so funny to me that whenever a character is a jerk to Shin in game I'm like (ง'̀-'́)ง #tw: choking #I only briefly mention it but better safe than sorry

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zaggitz · 6 years

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VIDEO GAMES 2017: ONE MILLION GAMES ENTER, TEN GAMES LEAVE.

Well that sure was the best year in video games since probably 1998, wasn’t it? Nintendo put out a new console and 3 major franchise entries, basically every anticipated game of the early 10′s finally frickin’ came out, we got 4 new English Falcom games, 3 of which with good locs, and they made a new Nier? What???

What a time to be alive.

Let’s not waste any time getting to the list, lord knows VIDEO GAMES 2017 has already sucked out enough time from me for a lifetime.

Before we begin, here’s my lists for 2015 and 2016.

Honorable Mentions:

Persona 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaIo82uT0qs

It’s insane that this game isn’t in my top ten, hell, it’s insane that it isn’t in my top five. It’s less a commentary on Persona 5′s quality and more that the games that did make the list resonated with me a whole lot more. VG2017 truly was too powerful.

P5 is mired with stiff localization problems, but even without the loc in consideration, the thematic through-line of the game gets muddled and becomes a toothless version of the promising rebellious first ten hours the game provides by the time you reach the finish line, which also just happens to come 20 hours too late, in my opinion.

What a great looking and feeling game though.

Tales of Berseria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXwD2CfxOs

On the flipside we have this game, the first Tales game I’ve enjoyed since Tales of Vesperia back in 2008. This game has an amazing story and great characters with a thematic backbone that sticks to your ribs after you finish it.

Now if I didn’t hate the act of actually playing it and having to scour its way too big boring empty dungeons and crappily designed world, it’d be a list maker for sure.

OKAY NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE CERTIFIED BANGERS:

10. Metroid: Samus Returns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQWJG-_Oco

Somehow my least favorite Metroid game got two remakes that both made my list two years in a row?? This game is pretty great in it’s own right though it has a few control scheme imperfections and I could see a switch port easily being the definitive version to get.

The reason this game really makes the list though is because of how it lives up to its title. Finally an official Nintendo Metroid game that comes out and undoes Sakamoto’s vile character assassination of Samus back in Other M. .

The queen is back, and she has been missed.

9. Horizon: Zero Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0DByDxJBA

An engrossing open world, great stealth/hunting/gathering systems AND robot dinosaurs are just a part of what makes this first outing for what seems like an extremely promising series great.

No, what really sets this game apart from its contemporaries is how it fleshes out its backstory, culminating in the creation of what might actually be the most despicable piece of shit villain ever put to writing for a video game. And he’s been dead for a thousand years so you can’t do shit to him.

Fuck you, Ted Faro.

8. Night in the Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2UUFFMGcgY

This game hit extremely close to home for me. Forced to come back home to a small, dying town full of people clinging to the good old days instead of doing anything for the generation after them, having this game to play and have it be said out loud that yeah, other people are living this nightmare too, was insanely refreshing.

For as much as we all need a bit of direction sometimes, sometimes what we also need to know being a directionless 20-something asshole trying their best is okay too.

Also Gregg rulz ok.

7. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNgph1g422Q

Great gameplay, great music, fun characters, one of the most fun to explore worlds in an action adventure game. This game truly nails the sense of pure adventure Ys is known for.

It’s a shame then that it’s plagued with one of the most laughable translation efforts in the industry, much of the games personality comes from the fact that even a bad localization job can’t overwrite some character quirks, but this still leaves the rest of the script feeling extremely stiff at best and incomprehensible at worst.

I hope the re-translation patch is good. Until then, Fuck NISA and have a good day.

6. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiU65nQdZE8

I would describe this game as a great first step in evolving the Zelda formula. That’s not even really that accurate, the real first step was in Link Between World’s item rental/no dungeon order systems.

Nevertheless, BOTW amazes with a sense of scope and exploration no game has ever really come close to, and achieves it almost effortlessly by simply giving you the ability to climb anything.

More music, more proper dungeons, a deeper story and a few durability tweaks are basically all you need to make the next Zelda game the easy best in series.

5. Yakuza 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB-D9qEwzI

This isn’t the best game this year, but it is easily, no question, the MOST video game this year. 110 hours in and only 60% complete, Yakuza 0 is the game that keeps on giving, with an enthralling true crime story that reshapes what we know about its protagonists. It’s pretty much a non stop emotional thrill ride to the finish line.

It effortlessly incorporates the best side story aspects from the many games in the series to come out before it, and utilizes them with a fantastical glee that keeps you with a smile on your face for the whole run. This is easily the funniest game I’ve played this year. Thank you SEGA.

4. Hollow Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1unm0LS10ao

God I can’t wait for this game to get ported to consoles. I bought a new laptop basically just to play this game and the absolutely enthralling metroidvania world design, hand drawn and animated aesthetic, and fantastic npc characters blew me away.

The encounter designs are tough but fair(except maybe the Colisseum) and the DLC so far has been great. I can’t wait for all the post release content to come out so I can play through it all again on Switch and probably PS4.

It’s insane only 3 people made this game.

3. Super Mario Odyssey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhciLj5VzOk

Nothing to say here that hasn’t been said by hundreds of others. SMO is pure joy distilled into video game form.

I can’t wait for Odyssey 2 to come out and somehow blow this one out of the water like Galaxy 2 did for Galaxy.

2. Nier: Automata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOM3lNFajE

An amazing contemplation on what it means to be alive, and a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a story that, for me at least, has been told since Drakengard in 2003. Game after game of sad tragic stories with bad endings and characters fighting an imperfect world imperfectly and only making things worse while temporarily making things better for themselves.

And really even in those cases there’s caveats.

Caviats???? Anyway.

Ending E of this game finally brings some semblance of peace for this fucked up world where a deranged killer and his dragon fell through the sky and made things the worst for everyone for literally tens of thousands of years. Finally Devola and Popola can sleep. All is well.

1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wld2q4mLhYM

Another year, another Trails game at number 1. I’ll be real with you, I’m about to drop a bunch of personal rambly stuff about what this entire trilogy means to me so if you don’t wanna read that, that’s fine.

This game is basically a perfect epilogue to a game that means a whole lot to me and serves as an amazing capper to an amazing jrpg trilogy.

When I first played Trails in the Sky First Chapter, it was the PC version in 2014. Now in 2014 I was coming off being in college for about 6 years, switching majors a few times and not really being into what I was doing but, yknow, you gotta major in something and then you gotta get a job, that’s kind of what getting started as an adult is.

So I played this weird little jrpg that was, fundamentally, about a country and the people in it trying to move on from a tragic war years prior, hiding their still fresh wounds in plain sight and just trying to go on with their lives.

It was an extremely interesting game, for how plot-light it was in the early goings, you got to really feel the struggle of these people and the unseemly past they were trying to run away from or avoid repeating. This underlying conflict builds and builds until we can’t ignore it anymore.

When I played Second Chapter a year later, I had been laid off from a job I got right out of College and had no employment prospects. I hated the fact that I’d spent basically my entire adult life up to that point doing something I wasn’t passionate about and then got let down by the system.

At the same time, the shame of my situation lead me to close up and not tell anyone about the problems I had, I was broke, I owed two months rent, on the verge of getting evicted, I felt extremely alone.

All this to get to the point that Second Chapter was ultimately a game about pulling out the dark shit we don’t like talking about and saying “it’s okay to talk about this stuff, there’s always someone who will listen.” It got me to get over myself somewhat and actually reach out for help, and I’m really thankful for it not letting me hit rock bottom.

Two years later still, I’m in a much better place, I finally feel happy about where my life is and what I’m doing and oh boy here comes Trails in the Sky the 3rd.

Completing the journey I started back in 2014, I found myself playing a game all about how it’s okay to acknowledge the bad things that happened to us, so long as we learn and move on from them accordingly.

This trilogy has so much heart, and so many memorable characters, and so much to say. It’s so, so special to me, and I was openly weeping when all the characters I’ve come to know and love over 4 years finally parted ways.

Thank you Falcom for making these games, and thank you Xseed for bringing these games to us.

TL;DR

#game of the year #trails in the sky #nier automata #night in the woods #ys #metroid #mario oddysey #hollow knight #yakuza 0 #zelda breath of the wild #horizon zero dawn

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