I was mainly focusing on beating rain code, but I didn't want to keep it playing it and I was kinda bored so I decided to check the coffin of andy and leyley
when in my previous post I said "oh the incest game" I was just following the meme I had heard. Now I get it

I didn't like this game, in fact, I would say I pretty much hate it, I honestly dont get the appeal, and i'm not saying it like I have a clue in my heard but I dont want to admit it so i'm saying this, i'm being completely honest when I say I don't get the appeal

This game is a narrative puzzle-ish game, so think the same gameplay loop as OneShot, just solve little puzzles and just enjoy the good plot. While i'm awful at puzzole games and I had to end up using a guide to solve a few of OneShot's puzzles. I can see how would you have solved them, and some of them were quite clever. However, with andy and leyley, these puzzles just comes down to spam Z with every interactable object until you hit the solution. This is not because the puzzles are hard, but because there are MULTIPLE solutions to each problem, however the game will only choose own, so I'm many cases I had an idea on how to solve something, and then I just couldn't interact with the object that would have solved that whole situation

to be fair, I did also skip some puzzles in OneShot as I said before and I fucking loved that game, however, with andy and leyley, the plot is in my personal opinion just really weird and uncomfortable. My biggest problem are just the two protagonist, they're both very unlikeable pieces of shit. However I feel you must connect with the characters somewhat which I just dont get.

Unlikable protagonist aren't itself bad, there are many games and stories where the main guy just sucks, the problem is when the plot is entirely character-based, and so far, there hasn't been any real consequence for any of their actions. It's just a game where you watch two incestuous psychopath (and no, they dont have any justification of why they're this way) run around and do uncomfortable shit with bad puzzles until the game ends, i'm sorry if i'm being way more negative with this game than with many others that I did not enjoy but I just actually hate this game

now, this game has routes, however I don't think they do it particullary well?, I feel they're two type of routes in videogames. The one that are just very clear cut choices which you know the consequences, so think something like undertale, and the ones where it's a lot of little actions that you don't realize they're really contributing to an ending however they do, so think disco elysium. This is more similar to the second half, however, they dont pull it off nearly as well as disco elysium, at least in my opinion

disco elysium ending is itself just a can of worms of game design, probably one of the hardest things to analyze just because how off the wall and how different it is to literally every other videogame ever. But the gist of it is that when you start roleplaying as your character, and take the choices you think are right, at the end of the game, you will get an ending that's appropiate for your actions and personality as a player, so it's an ending that while it may be less different than something like undertale, it will probably have a bigger impact to you as a person. But, as I said, the character's here are unlikeable, so you wont really ever get into their skin, so you're being forced between multiple choices you dont want to make, and being forced into a route that you didn't knew it was possible to avoid, this just doesn't really work for me

To give the game some credit, the art is really good, I think that's as far as compliments I can give

now, this game was successful, very succesful, people do like it, you probably recommended this because you like this game, so there is something that this game has that i'm just not seeing, at least it's how it feels like, It does feel like i'm missing the point of the game here

but really, what's the point?, it's a character-based story, with a branching narrative, but the characters are unlikable, I only see anyone really getting into this game if they can relate to the protagonist, but then, the game doesn't seem to say anything just yet, because the game is in fucking early access so there isn't even a payoff to the story just yet.

I unironically just dont get this game

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updates: finished chapter 14 for shinsekai yori, and i'm really enjoying it
I'm still at the start of rain code, but so far it's a pretty good game

Well since you're running low on requests...

Watch Boogiepop (Both versions. 2019 recommended to be watched first).

eblf2013 wrote:

Well since you're running low on requests...

Watch Boogiepop (Both versions. 2019 recommended to be watched first).

sure

Patatitta wrote:

now, this game was successful, very succesful, people do like it, you probably recommended this because you like this game, so there is something that this game has that i'm just not seeing, at least it's how it feels like, It does feel like i'm missing the point of the game here

hahaha

i think the game is OK but i didn't expect it to re-invent the wheel or anything, it's an RPG maker game made (mostly?) by one person after all, we can only have so many of these and be revolutionary

i, too, wanted to see if this game had anything special going on besides le funny incest memegame Xdd so it's good to see we have similar views on it. hopefully it gets better when all the chapters get released
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anyway, have you played mother 3? i can give you a translated rom if you can't find one

Serraionga wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

now, this game was successful, very succesful, people do like it, you probably recommended this because you like this game, so there is something that this game has that i'm just not seeing, at least it's how it feels like, It does feel like i'm missing the point of the game here

hahaha

i think the game is OK but i didn't expect it to re-invent the wheel or anything, it's an RPG maker game made (mostly?) by one person after all, we can only have so many of these and be revolutionary

i, too, wanted to see if this game had anything special going on besides le funny incest memegame Xdd so it's good to see we have similar views on it. hopefully it gets better when all the chapters get released
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anyway, have you played mother 3? i can give you a translated rom if you can't find one

oh yeah mother 3 was great, more of a fan of earthbound tho, can text-wall about any of those two if you want to, even if I played it a while back now

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Review Saints Row 2

cephaphysic wrote:

pata can you wall-text about disco elysium i really want to see what you have to say about it

disco elysium is my favourite game of all time, however, it's not an easy game to talk about, like, at all, look at the average length of your typical disco elysium analysis, if I truly were to go in depth I would need to write something that's as long as those videos



disco elysium isn't just a videogame for you to play and have fun with it. Disco elysium is art in it's purest form. It doesn't feel like it's trying to be fun, if you play disco you know what you've signed up for, and the game will remind you of it

The game in essence is a cRPG developped in estonia by a bunch of depressed communists. The premise of the game is simple, you're an insomniac detective who just woke up from a night of pure drinking in your hotel room, you learn that there is a corpse hanged up to a tree in a back-yard. Another detective by the name of kim kitsuragi also just arrived to the scene, and it's your duty to try solving the case

the actual gameplay is just pure dialogue, you read text, and then you click on the thing you want your character to say or do, there is no combat or anything here, this game is an interactive book. There are also permanent choices, that have a % chance of succcess depending on the stats of your character, that chance however can never be 100% or 0% success, and in fact, there are some checks that is better to actually fail than to succeed at.

However, the game is much more than a murder mistery, that murder mistery is just a medium for the game to disscuss politics and philosophy, nothing about "games must be apolitical", this game is hardcore, applicable to the real world, politics. And that is, because everyone in reality does have some sort of politial ideology, and when you try interviewing people for you to solve the crime, you can see that political ideology leaking in, and you can either answer to support what the person is saying, or to not, in fact, some side quests require to support certain political characters or groups. The main ideology this game represents are Fascism, Communism, Capitalism, and being a centrist. If you think some of the choices are a bit too extreme, dont worry, it's this way by design



There was a meme a while back saying "every copy of mario 64 is personalized!", however, every copy of disco elysium is actually personalized. There are hundreds of dialogue choices, and all of them matter, only a few hours in your playthrough is already going to be very different to the playthrough of any other person, there are also multiple endings to the game depending on the choices you make, and also luck

In this way, the RNG also works to differentiate your playthrough even further, not only that, but the RNG works as a way for you to avoid min-maxing the game and playing it following your true feelings. If you cant guarantee anything, why bother grinding it really

These dialogue choices at the start may seem kinda normal, however, the game is actually gauging your personality in the background, every choice has an impact on something, so just after a while of playing, the game will know perfectly how you are as a person, and will change some of the dialogue for other dialogue to say stuff that is relevant to you, to challenge YOUR political ideologies, to challenge YOUR philosophy. That combined with the beautifully written dialogue will give for moments that will truly impact you as a person, and it even doesn't really matter if you didn't have too many clears ideas on those more complex issues from before you played disco elysium, after you finish it, you will probably know more about yourself as a person from before you started the game.

This game is a cRPG, a computer roleplaying game, and while in many RPG you can just not roleplay and just troll or min-max or whatever, you cant do that for disco, as the only to not really RP while playing disco would be lying to yourself, and the game WILL call you out on it.

That's the core of the game, however, every fucking design choice in this game goes contrary to the industry standard. Most of the ways a story is told, you know a lot of the world, if you're reading a book it may even include a map of the world like with something with lord of the rings. You may be reading in a third person perspective with a narrator that will give you more information than the protagonist have, or you maybe can understand the design principles going into a certain piece of media to be able to successfully predict future twists or ideas, disco isn't this way. The world is bigger than you, there will be doors that you will never be able to open and explore, you will never see what the world was really before or after you left it, you don't know the backstories of any of the characters beforehand, you cant predict the game, you dont deserve to know about the actual game as you're just one of the many characters. You as a player dont have more worth than a npc

The actual philosophy of disco is... weird, and i'm not qualified enough to talk about it, but it does seem every person has a different interpretation of disco. I've seen debate over what the actual name of the game means, and if we haven't even reached a conclusion on what the words disco elysium actually means, you know you're going to be fucked trying to piece a full proof argument on the game.

Art exists for a reason, there is a reason why someone would draw a book depicting an idea instead of just writting a little summary on why they think x is bad, and that is, because art conveys feelings. A lot of feelings. With disco elysium those feelings are extremely complex, and it's actually nearly impossible to describe what disco elysium actually feels like to me, I don't have the vocabulary. Even by writting this is in a way prioritizing some feelings over others, because many of the ideas feel like they contradict, however you dont feel like there is anything wrong with it, however, when you write about it, you cant really contradict yourself in the same way and keep the same emotions.

A lot of the game feels like it's impossible, like the ending. By any metrics and following the bases of any review or literally analysis i've seen in my life, the finale is just bad. However, when you reach the ending, even if it feels like it's objectevely unfair, frustrating, unsatisfactory, underwhelming, an insult to you as a person, and a contradiction to everything you've been led to believe while playing disco, the finale is good, really good.

It's this reason why every disco elysium video is at least one hour long, and that none of the video actually share any ideas with the other videos, disco is such a fucking wild experience that it's nearly impossible to correctly portray. You can't have a matpat video here explaining a theory that supposedly resolves the game, such explanation does not seem to exist.

This games goes DEEP too, it doesn't just try to argue for certain philosophical ideas, it shows how those ideas can change a person, how that person change can change other person. This game tries to describe how you would join a political extreme, why would you want to believe that, why sometimes being radical is needed, why sometimes being racial is a bad idea, what does it mean to believe in a political ideology, it shows that not having a political ideology on itself is a political ideology. It talks about love, about breakup, about depression, about addiction, about racism, about police, about the paranormal, about disco music, about death, about mental disorders, about deligion. Disco elysium can mean whatever you want it to mean, as what disco elysium teachs you is a way of thinking, not just an idea.

If you internalize what disco elysium tells you, you will learn many things. If you decide to put on the same lenses that disco elysium instructs you to use while playing the game for another videogame, you will understand shit, and probably be more depressed on the end, but that's just a side effect. In many ways, it does really make you think different about the fnaf movie and this is actually not a joke, disco elysium changed the way I see art in the first place, in many ways it's unfair to compair disco to most videogames, since disco tries to be much, much more

The game currently is on a weird legal ground, basically the developpers dont get any money, so it's morably justifiable to download it over the seven seas, so feel free to do so if you want to give this masterpiece a try, there is a 2 hour video by people make games where they try breaking it down, nothing about disco elysium can be simple it seems

I haven't really touched much on the actual message of disco elysium, honesly I feel all of this falls short. but I think it's just clear why, you could try watching one of those video analysis but I dont promise you will understand much after you watch two different ones

sorry, you posted this while I was writting that post

Winnyace wrote:

Review Saints Row 2

I never played saints row 1 or any saints row, do I need to play it to understand 2?
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updates: still finishing shinsekai yori, i'm at chapter 20 rn
rain code is good, still on it, probably will take me a month to finish seeing how long the game seems to be

Patatitta wrote:

I never played saints row 1 or any saints row, do I need to play it to understand 2?

Somewhat. The story is less important here since it is kinda generic and mostly just a backdrop for the gameplay. There are videos that explain the story.

Winnyace wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I never played saints row 1 or any saints row, do I need to play it to understand 2?

Somewhat. The story is less important here since it is kinda generic and mostly just a backdrop for the gameplay. There are videos that explain the story.

I'm not a fan for watching a video to recap, I would have to play saints row 1 and 2 which is probably going to take a while

You would have to use an emulator to play SR1 on PC, as it is a Xbox 360 exclusive. The PC port of SR2 is also junk, so you might as well play the second game in the emulator too.

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cephaphysic wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

cephaphysic wrote:

pata can you wall-text about disco elysium i really want to see what you have to say about it

disco elysium is my favourite game of all time, however, it's not an easy game to talk about, like, at all, look at the average length of your typical disco elysium analysis, if I truly were to go in depth I would need to write something that's as long as those videos



disco elysium isn't just a videogame for you to play and have fun with it. Disco elysium is art in it's purest form. It doesn't feel like it's trying to be fun, if you play disco you know what you've signed up for, and the game will remind you of it

The game in essence is a cRPG developped in estonia by a bunch of depressed communists. The premise of the game is simple, you're an insomniac detective who just woke up from a night of pure drinking in your hotel room, you learn that there is a corpse hanged up to a tree in a back-yard. Another detective by the name of kim kitsuragi also just arrived to the scene, and it's your duty to try solving the case

the actual gameplay is just pure dialogue, you read text, and then you click on the thing you want your character to say or do, there is no combat or anything here, this game is an interactive book. There are also permanent choices, that have a % chance of succcess depending on the stats of your character, that chance however can never be 100% or 0% success, and in fact, there are some checks that is better to actually fail than to succeed at.

However, the game is much more than a murder mistery, that murder mistery is just a medium for the game to disscuss politics and philosophy, nothing about "games must be apolitical", this game is hardcore, applicable to the real world, politics. And that is, because everyone in reality does have some sort of politial ideology, and when you try interviewing people for you to solve the crime, you can see that political ideology leaking in, and you can either answer to support what the person is saying, or to not, in fact, some side quests require to support certain political characters or groups. The main ideology this game represents are Fascism, Communism, Capitalism, and being a centrist. If you think some of the choices are a bit too extreme, dont worry, it's this way by design



There was a meme a while back saying "every copy of mario 64 is personalized!", however, every copy of disco elysium is actually personalized. There are hundreds of dialogue choices, and all of them matter, only a few hours in your playthrough is already going to be very different to the playthrough of any other person, there are also multiple endings to the game depending on the choices you make, and also luck

In this way, the RNG also works to differentiate your playthrough even further, not only that, but the RNG works as a way for you to avoid min-maxing the game and playing it following your true feelings. If you cant guarantee anything, why bother grinding it really

These dialogue choices at the start may seem kinda normal, however, the game is actually gauging your personality in the background, every choice has an impact on something, so just after a while of playing, the game will know perfectly how you are as a person, and will change some of the dialogue for other dialogue to say stuff that is relevant to you, to challenge YOUR political ideologies, to challenge YOUR philosophy. That combined with the beautifully written dialogue will give for moments that will truly impact you as a person, and it even doesn't really matter if you didn't have too many clears ideas on those more complex issues from before you played disco elysium, after you finish it, you will probably know more about yourself as a person from before you started the game.

This game is a cRPG, a computer roleplaying game, and while in many RPG you can just not roleplay and just troll or min-max or whatever, you cant do that for disco, as the only to not really RP while playing disco would be lying to yourself, and the game WILL call you out on it.

That's the core of the game, however, every fucking design choice in this game goes contrary to the industry standard. Most of the ways a story is told, you know a lot of the world, if you're reading a book it may even include a map of the world like with something with lord of the rings. You may be reading in a third person perspective with a narrator that will give you more information than the protagonist have, or you maybe can understand the design principles going into a certain piece of media to be able to successfully predict future twists or ideas, disco isn't this way. The world is bigger than you, there will be doors that you will never be able to open and explore, you will never see what the world was really before or after you left it, you don't know the backstories of any of the characters beforehand, you cant predict the game, you dont deserve to know about the actual game as you're just one of the many characters. You as a player dont have more worth than a npc

The actual philosophy of disco is... weird, and i'm not qualified enough to talk about it, but it does seem every person has a different interpretation of disco. I've seen debate over what the actual name of the game means, and if we haven't even reached a conclusion on what the words disco elysium actually means, you know you're going to be fucked trying to piece a full proof argument on the game.

Art exists for a reason, there is a reason why someone would draw a book depicting an idea instead of just writting a little summary on why they think x is bad, and that is, because art conveys feelings. A lot of feelings. With disco elysium those feelings are extremely complex, and it's actually nearly impossible to describe what disco elysium actually feels like to me, I don't have the vocabulary. Even by writting this is in a way prioritizing some feelings over others, because many of the ideas feel like they contradict, however you dont feel like there is anything wrong with it, however, when you write about it, you cant really contradict yourself in the same way and keep the same emotions.

A lot of the game feels like it's impossible, like the ending. By any metrics and following the bases of any review or literally analysis i've seen in my life, the finale is just bad. However, when you reach the ending, even if it feels like it's objectevely unfair, frustrating, unsatisfactory, underwhelming, an insult to you as a person, and a contradiction to everything you've been led to believe while playing disco, the finale is good, really good.

It's this reason why every disco elysium video is at least one hour long, and that none of the video actually share any ideas with the other videos, disco is such a fucking wild experience that it's nearly impossible to correctly portray. You can't have a matpat video here explaining a theory that supposedly resolves the game, such explanation does not seem to exist.

This games goes DEEP too, it doesn't just try to argue for certain philosophical ideas, it shows how those ideas can change a person, how that person change can change other person. This game tries to describe how you would join a political extreme, why would you want to believe that, why sometimes being radical is needed, why sometimes being racial is a bad idea, what does it mean to believe in a political ideology, it shows that not having a political ideology on itself is a political ideology. It talks about love, about breakup, about depression, about addiction, about racism, about police, about the paranormal, about disco music, about death, about mental disorders, about deligion. Disco elysium can mean whatever you want it to mean, as what disco elysium teachs you is a way of thinking, not just an idea.

If you internalize what disco elysium tells you, you will learn many things. If you decide to put on the same lenses that disco elysium instructs you to use while playing the game for another videogame, you will understand shit, and probably be more depressed on the end, but that's just a side effect. In many ways, it does really make you think different about the fnaf movie and this is actually not a joke, disco elysium changed the way I see art in the first place, in many ways it's unfair to compair disco to most videogames, since disco tries to be much, much more

The game currently is on a weird legal ground, basically the developpers dont get any money, so it's morably justifiable to download it over the seven seas, so feel free to do so if you want to give this masterpiece a try, there is a 2 hour video by people make games where they try breaking it down, nothing about disco elysium can be simple it seems

I haven't really touched much on the actual message of disco elysium, honesly I feel all of this falls short. but I think it's just clear why, you could try watching one of those video analysis but I dont promise you will understand much after you watch two different ones

oh hell yes

i have actually played it myself, though from what i've seen and heard (including this), i've barely scratched the surface of what it has to offer. i've only gone through one playthrough so far, which i went into almost completely blind and with the goal of doing whatever i felt like doing, which turned out to be solving the case and prying for as much information as i could. i got called a human can opener several times lol

my feelings about the game are pretty straightforward tbh. to me, it feels like a discussion. like i'm engaging in a conversation with the game and its narrarative, if that makes sense. and like any discussion, it hinges on the dynamic between both parties

i guess a more flowery description of what you've already said

it sucks that the devs got screwed over though, cause they've made something unlike any other game i've played, and in the best way possible. i can easily say it's one of my favorite pieces of media as a whole

if you've played it one that's enough, I personally love since I'm a sucker for cRPGs and this type of storytelling, not everyone will have the same experience as me

Shinsekai yori:

pretty good anime, I definitively liked the first half more than the second half tho

the setting for this anime is pretty unique, as it's like a fantasy dystopia world. The story follows this direction too, from the start of the anime it's like these teenagers who discover the true nature about the world and seem like they want to do something about it, typical dystopia stuff

for the first half, it's mainly a mistery anime, of trying to piece all this information to know how this world was created and stuff like that. However, there is as change of direction, whiel the first episodes are clearly mistery based, the more the anime goes on, it moves from mistery to pure drama

this is my biggest complain with the anime really, the start really got me interested in the world and stuff, but by the end of the anime and mainly about the drama surrounding the conflict between certain nations and species, which I think it's a bit of a shame (and also my favourite characters basically got killed off so it made me a bit less interested)

however even at the end of the anime it does feature soem interesting ideas, mainly about how the psychic powers corrupted society and they ended up kinda just transforming the people that did not have power into another species so they could be racist torwards them, however, not all of the world-building makes total sense

mainly with the idea of them banning electricity, I don't really know how electricity would challenge their dominant place in the world. I just dont think that part made much sense

while it is a dystopia, the way the dystopai operates is so unlike anything that could happen in the real world. Not by the idea of powers but by the way it is politically constructed, so it sadly doesn't really go in depth about anything very much

In a way I jsut feel this anime is doing multiple contradictory things so while it is entretaining it's really failing to be anything more like that, the mistery is brought up but kinda dropped, the drama isn't as impactful as it maybe should be, and the world-building goes in a different direction to both the mistery and the drama, also in the ending nothing that big is solved, stuff just go back as it was in the beginning, which is not really that great.


next: The Flying Luna Clipper
still playing rain code

Flying Luna Clipper

surprisignly little I have to say about this. The art is interesting, reminds me of old point and click games. If I remember correctly EBLF said this was the first ever full length pixel art movie, and it would make sense. There isn't really a plot or anything, this just feels like a tech demo for this type of animation and that's about it. The voice acting is bad but there is almost no dialogue in the movie so lol

next: children of men

Patatitta wrote:

Flying Luna Clipper

surprisignly little I have to say about this. The art is interesting, reminds me of old point and click games. If I remember correctly EBLF said this was the first ever full length pixel art movie, and it would make sense. There isn't really a plot or anything, this just feels like a tech demo for this type of animation and that's about it. The voice acting is bad but there is almost no dialogue in the movie so lol

next: children of men

In fact yes, it's sort of a tech demo turned into a film. It's a collection of experimental shorts put together to make a feature-length film. The film was only released direct-to-video and was considered lost media till 2015 when a LaserDisc copy was found and ripped (that's the version uploaded to youtube).

I tried looking for other feature-length pixel art films but I can't seem to find one. I'm impressed that no one made a new film in pixel-art in more than 35 years, and even taking into account the technological limitations of the era. (Also, I'm impressed this movie is so obscure given the rise of 80's aesthetics. This is THE waporwave movie)

It was an impressive feat but... yeah... it's a 7/10 for me at most.

eblf2013 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Flying Luna Clipper

surprisignly little I have to say about this. The art is interesting, reminds me of old point and click games. If I remember correctly EBLF said this was the first ever full length pixel art movie, and it would make sense. There isn't really a plot or anything, this just feels like a tech demo for this type of animation and that's about it. The voice acting is bad but there is almost no dialogue in the movie so lol

next: children of men

In fact yes, it's sort of a tech demo turned into a film. It's a collection of experimental shorts put together to make a feature-length film. The film was only released direct-to-video and was considered lost media till 2015 when a LaserDisc copy was found and ripped (that's the version uploaded to youtube).

I tried looking for other feature-length pixel art films but I can't seem to find one. I'm impressed that no one made a new film in pixel-art in more than 35 years, and even taking into account the technological limitations of the era. (Also, I'm impressed this movie is so obscure given the rise of 80's aesthetics. This is THE waporwave movie)

It was an impressive feat but... yeah... it's a 7/10 for me at most.

I assume it's just really difficult and not that worth it to really do pixel art films, the aesthetic is fine but I personally prefeer other types of more commonly used animation

Patatitta wrote:

Shinsekai yori:

pretty good anime, I definitively liked the first half more than the second half tho

the setting for this anime is pretty unique, as it's like a fantasy dystopia world. The story follows this direction too, from the start of the anime it's like these teenagers who discover the true nature about the world and seem like they want to do something about it, typical dystopia stuff

for the first half, it's mainly a mistery anime, of trying to piece all this information to know how this world was created and stuff like that. However, there is as change of direction, whiel the first episodes are clearly mistery based, the more the anime goes on, it moves from mistery to pure drama

this is my biggest complain with the anime really, the start really got me interested in the world and stuff, but by the end of the anime and mainly about the drama surrounding the conflict between certain nations and species, which I think it's a bit of a shame (and also my favourite characters basically got killed off so it made me a bit less interested)

however even at the end of the anime it does feature soem interesting ideas, mainly about how the psychic powers corrupted society and they ended up kinda just transforming the people that did not have power into another species so they could be racist torwards them, however, not all of the world-building makes total sense

mainly with the idea of them banning electricity, I don't really know how electricity would challenge their dominant place in the world. I just dont think that part made much sense

while it is a dystopia, the way the dystopai operates is so unlike anything that could happen in the real world. Not by the idea of powers but by the way it is politically constructed, so it sadly doesn't really go in depth about anything very much

In a way I jsut feel this anime is doing multiple contradictory things so while it is entretaining it's really failing to be anything more like that, the mistery is brought up but kinda dropped, the drama isn't as impactful as it maybe should be, and the world-building goes in a different direction to both the mistery and the drama, also in the ending nothing that big is solved, stuff just go back as it was in the beginning, which is not really that great.


next: The Flying Luna Clipper
still playing rain code

bro redacted harder than the FBI. This anime is maybe one of the few that do time skip in a matter of years. From when the main cast are kids, then growing up and become adult. That alone is a great feat I think

Jangsoodlor wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Shinsekai yori:

pretty good anime, I definitively liked the first half more than the second half tho

the setting for this anime is pretty unique, as it's like a fantasy dystopia world. The story follows this direction too, from the start of the anime it's like these teenagers who discover the true nature about the world and seem like they want to do something about it, typical dystopia stuff

for the first half, it's mainly a mistery anime, of trying to piece all this information to know how this world was created and stuff like that. However, there is as change of direction, whiel the first episodes are clearly mistery based, the more the anime goes on, it moves from mistery to pure drama

this is my biggest complain with the anime really, the start really got me interested in the world and stuff, but by the end of the anime and mainly about the drama surrounding the conflict between certain nations and species, which I think it's a bit of a shame (and also my favourite characters basically got killed off so it made me a bit less interested)

however even at the end of the anime it does feature soem interesting ideas, mainly about how the psychic powers corrupted society and they ended up kinda just transforming the people that did not have power into another species so they could be racist torwards them, however, not all of the world-building makes total sense

mainly with the idea of them banning electricity, I don't really know how electricity would challenge their dominant place in the world. I just dont think that part made much sense

while it is a dystopia, the way the dystopai operates is so unlike anything that could happen in the real world. Not by the idea of powers but by the way it is politically constructed, so it sadly doesn't really go in depth about anything very much

In a way I jsut feel this anime is doing multiple contradictory things so while it is entretaining it's really failing to be anything more like that, the mistery is brought up but kinda dropped, the drama isn't as impactful as it maybe should be, and the world-building goes in a different direction to both the mistery and the drama, also in the ending nothing that big is solved, stuff just go back as it was in the beginning, which is not really that great.


next: The Flying Luna Clipper
still playing rain code

bro redacted harder than the FBI. This anime is maybe one of the few that do time skip in a matter of years. From when the main cast are kids, then growing up and become adult. That alone is a great feat I think

yeah, that element really reminded me of clannad, it was cool to see

Do Dragon's Lair!

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Do Dragon's Lair!

the cdi looking videogame?

Children of men

Before I start saying anything, I love older movies that goes like THE WORLD WILL END IN 2027 or how the original blade runner movie happened in 2019, this is one of those movies

I liked this movie, but I liked it in the same I liked contagion, it's really nothing too special, but it's an entreteining watch.

First of all, the cinematography of this movie is absolutely amazing, all the shots are so good, the acting is great, this was probably the best part of the movie, it's a really cool movie to actually watch and see all the enviroments and stuff. While the setting itself is basically just 2006, all the protest the movie has, the surprise attacks, and all of that are just amazingly made

However, I do have some issues with the plot, as it felt very unfocussed and I don't really know what to think about it.

Thing is, it's 2027, and the world is going to end soon as apparently everyone has become infertile, no one knows how, it just happened. And there just happens to be a pregnant woman somehow, and it's the protagonist duty to really protect her, so similar-ish plot to lisa the painful

that plot is fairly unique and it's cool, however, the movie is more focused talking about the immigration crisis than anything else, which on itself is also a fine plot, however, these two plots doesn't really overlap much, it only really answer the question on why they just dont go to a hospital and creates a bit more action in the world (which justification in the movie was also kinda weak IMO). The actual conflict is not explored much, it's just something that happens on the protagonist daily life, so I just dont really know if I like that half of the movie was dedicated to just the protagonist running into problems because the immigration crisis when you aren't really saying anything relevant about it, cutting time away from the pregnant woman plot where it's again not really explored much

In a way the plot only exists to create a movie with sick ass cimetagrophy, which is fine on itself. I fucking love RRR, the plot itself is like completely nonsensical but holy fuck those were some good scenes. However, children of men doesn't go nearly as hard and truly tries to put EVERYTHING into just cool cinematography as RRR does, it still tries to be serious, which I just don't think it works, either you explore your plot more or you go the RRR route.

Still a fun watch


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next: Boogiepop 2019
still playing rain code
also i'm probably going to update the queue in this thread to give a direct link to each specific post where I analyze a certain thing given how long this thread is currently

Patatitta wrote:

Children of men

Before I start saying anything, I love older movies that goes like THE WORLD WILL END IN 2027 or how the original blade runner movie happened in 2019, this is one of those movies

I liked this movie, but I liked it in the same I liked contagion, it's really nothing too special, but it's an entreteining watch.

First of all, the cinematography of this movie is absolutely amazing, all the shots are so good, the acting is great, this was probably the best part of the movie, it's a really cool movie to actually watch and see all the enviroments and stuff. While the setting itself is basically just 2006, all the protest the movie has, the surprise attacks, and all of that are just amazingly made



However, I do have some issues with the plot, as it felt very unfocussed and I don't really know what to think about it.

Thing is, it's 2027, and the world is going to end soon as apparently everyone has become infertile, no one knows how, it just happened. And there just happens to be a pregnant woman somehow, and it's the protagonist duty to really protect her, so similar-ish plot to lisa the painful

that plot is fairly unique and it's cool, however, the movie is more focused talking about the immigration crisis than anything else, which on itself is also a fine plot, however, these two plots doesn't really overlap much, it only really answer the question on why they just dont go to a hospital and creates a bit more action in the world (which justification in the movie was also kinda weak IMO). The actual conflict is not explored much, it's just something that happens on the protagonist daily life, so I just dont really know if I like that half of the movie was dedicated to just the protagonist running into problems because the immigration crisis when you aren't really saying anything relevant about it, cutting time away from the pregnant woman plot where it's again not really explored much

In a way the plot only exists to create a movie with sick ass cimetagrophy, which is fine on itself. I fucking love RRR, the plot itself is like completely nonsensical but holy fuck those were some good scenes. However, children of men doesn't go nearly as hard and truly tries to put EVERYTHING into just cool cinematography as RRR does, it still tries to be serious, which I just don't think it works, either you explore your plot more or you go the RRR route.

Still a fun watch


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next: Boogiepop 2019
still playing rain code
also i'm probably going to update the queue in this thread to give a direct link to each specific post where I analyze a certain thing given how long this thread is currently

It's not just an immigration crisis, the whole country (and basically the whole world) turned into an authoritarian nightmare because of the infertility thing. That's why the characters have to go through a lot of shit, immigration is just one part of it, it just seems more important because they go through a refugee camp.
It also very lightly touches on issues like climate crisis and a few other things.
There's also a lot of references to actual events (like the Abu Ghraib torture) as well as cultural references, you'll necessarily miss some but the ones you see really help make the movie more relevant imo.
Honestly I didn't get all of it the first time I watched, but a youtube channel I follow made a video about it and after rewatching a lot of it made more sense.

This video about it is fine

Next movie you should watch: Mr. Nobody

Karmine wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Children of men

Before I start saying anything, I love older movies that goes like THE WORLD WILL END IN 2027 or how the original blade runner movie happened in 2019, this is one of those movies

I liked this movie, but I liked it in the same I liked contagion, it's really nothing too special, but it's an entreteining watch.

First of all, the cinematography of this movie is absolutely amazing, all the shots are so good, the acting is great, this was probably the best part of the movie, it's a really cool movie to actually watch and see all the enviroments and stuff. While the setting itself is basically just 2006, all the protest the movie has, the surprise attacks, and all of that are just amazingly made

However, I do have some issues with the plot, as it felt very unfocussed and I don't really know what to think about it.

Thing is, it's 2027, and the world is going to end soon as apparently everyone has become infertile, no one knows how, it just happened. And there just happens to be a pregnant woman somehow, and it's the protagonist duty to really protect her, so similar-ish plot to lisa the painful

that plot is fairly unique and it's cool, however, the movie is more focused talking about the immigration crisis than anything else, which on itself is also a fine plot, however, these two plots doesn't really overlap much, it only really answer the question on why they just dont go to a hospital and creates a bit more action in the world (which justification in the movie was also kinda weak IMO). The actual conflict is not explored much, it's just something that happens on the protagonist daily life, so I just dont really know if I like that half of the movie was dedicated to just the protagonist running into problems because the immigration crisis when you aren't really saying anything relevant about it, cutting time away from the pregnant woman plot where it's again not really explored much

In a way the plot only exists to create a movie with sick ass cimetagrophy, which is fine on itself. I fucking love RRR, the plot itself is like completely nonsensical but holy fuck those were some good scenes. However, children of men doesn't go nearly as hard and truly tries to put EVERYTHING into just cool cinematography as RRR does, it still tries to be serious, which I just don't think it works, either you explore your plot more or you go the RRR route.

Still a fun watch


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next: Boogiepop 2019
still playing rain code
also i'm probably going to update the queue in this thread to give a direct link to each specific post where I analyze a certain thing given how long this thread is currently

It's not just an immigration crisis, the whole country (and basically the whole world) turned into an authoritarian nightmare because of the infertility thing. That's why the characters have to go through a lot of shit, immigration is just one part of it, it just seems more important because they go through a refugee camp.
It also very lightly touches on issues like climate crisis and a few other things.
There's also a lot of references to actual events (like the Abu Ghraib torture) as well as cultural references, you'll necessarily miss some but the ones you see really help make the movie more relevant imo.
Honestly I didn't get all of it the first time I watched, but a youtube channel I follow made a video about it and after rewatching a lot of it made more sense.

Next movie you should watch: Mr. Nobody

I know the consequences of the inmmigration thing and how britain is the only place that really stands and whatever, however it just feels like ah "oh that just happened lol", and just doing refence to something isn't going in depth on that. I remember with oshi no ko that really had that issue where it took just real life events and stuff and kinda just put them without really saying anything about it. A reference or something being inspired by a real world event is just setting, not plot. I still don't really think that if you're just using that plot as purely world-building, which is what it is, I don't think it should take half the movie you could have used to explore the other half of the movie

will watch mr nobody

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Do Dragon's Lair!

the cdi looking videogame?

Yeah

the one time OP delivers, and it's massive

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Do Dragon's Lair!

the cdi looking videogame?

Yeah

will do

edit: I updated the queue with links to every post

Boogiepop and Others (2019):

pretty enjoyable watch, pretty standard mistery manga that tries to explore some deeper more philosophical elements

however, while I do think the mistery elements work pretty well, I don't think it goes deep enough or crazy enough with it's philosophy to really be anything that special. It's just a philosophical undertone more than it being the entire point like with something like kino no tabi.

Now, other than that, I just dont thinks anime is overall that special, as I said it was pretty standard, so I don't really have that much to say about it, the OST is great (the opening is a BANGER), art is overall fine, etc

it's just a nice watch, I really don't have almost anything to say about it, I just feel completely neutral torwards this anime

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next: Boogiepop Phantom (2000)
still playing rain code as it's a 82382382 hour long RPG and yeah i'm going to die before I finish this game

Patatitta wrote:

Boogiepop and Others (2019):

pretty enjoyable watch, pretty standard mistery manga that tries to explore some deeper more philosophical elements

however, while I do think the mistery elements work pretty well, I don't think it goes deep enough or crazy enough with it's philosophy to really be anything that special. It's just a philosophical undertone more than it being the entire point like with something like kino no tabi.

Now, other than that, I just dont thinks anime is overall that special, as I said it was pretty standard, so I don't really have that much to say about it, the OST is great (the opening is a BANGER), art is overall fine, etc

it's just a nice watch, I really don't have almost anything to say about it, I just feel completely neutral torwards this anime

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As most LN adaptations, stuff is either scrubbed or incomplete when adapted to anime, and adding to this, the anime adapts just 4 of the 24 novels reased so far (not counting spin-offs). The 2000 anime is an original story taking place between the 1st and 2nd arc of the 2019 anime, with a vastly different atmosphere.

Either way, I like the concept of "antiheroine trying to save depressed teenagers while reality starts to break apart". And I really like the fact how Boogiepop tackles such philosophical topics not from a cynical way but rather with a more optimistic and hopeful manner.

eblf2013 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Boogiepop and Others (2019):

pretty enjoyable watch, pretty standard mistery manga that tries to explore some deeper more philosophical elements

however, while I do think the mistery elements work pretty well, I don't think it goes deep enough or crazy enough with it's philosophy to really be anything that special. It's just a philosophical undertone more than it being the entire point like with something like kino no tabi.

Now, other than that, I just dont thinks anime is overall that special, as I said it was pretty standard, so I don't really have that much to say about it, the OST is great (the opening is a BANGER), art is overall fine, etc

it's just a nice watch, I really don't have almost anything to say about it, I just feel completely neutral torwards this anime

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As most LN adaptations, stuff is either scrubbed or incomplete when adapted to anime, and adding to this, the anime adapts just 4 of the 24 novels reased so far (not counting spin-offs). The 2000 anime is an original story taking place between the 1st and 2nd arc of the 2019 anime, with a vastly different atmosphere.

Either way, I like the concept of "antiheroine trying to save depressed teenagers while reality starts to break apart". And I really like the fact how Boogiepop tackles such philosophical topics not from a cynical way but rather with a more optimistic and hopeful manner.

weird plot sounds cool

boogiepop phantom (2000)

I enjoyed this more than 2019 but it's not that much better, it for sure is a lot better in the sound design department and the overall aesthetic of the show. I love when animes mix real images in but hyper edited, I think it works well for this too. I'm aware the fact that every shot was so dark and the usage of these images is probably because they wanted to reduce budgets, but given how the anime is, it works

as I said earlier, the sound is a lot better, the OST is really fucking strange, which makes it a lot more memorable than in 2019. I personally enjoyed it the OST but I feel a lot of people will hate it LMAO

the one element I think 2019 does better is the actual story-telling, while 2000 starts fairly strong, I feel the later chapters aren't as exciting as the first ones, the whole philosophy thing is expanded less than in 2019 IMO, it just feels like a paranormal mistery, more than it having any weight behind the words that the character say

That was also a problem that I had with 2019 but it felt less like that, and I honestly would blame it, not on the adaptation, but the actual source material, (I want to say, I have NOT read the novels) as it's very hard to really make that mistake twice. Even in kino no tabi, which has recieved two big adaptations in 2003 and 2017, while the 2017 version is less over the top and philosophical, you can still feel that energy in the actual story beats, with boogiepop, not so much.

The actual mistery part of the anime is also fairly weak, and that is (this also kinda happened in 2019), they don't really know how to end arcs? They can make interesting characters and situation, but I feel they fail on actually developing them. The character is there, you have an idea, but then you fail at saying anything particulary interesting. This is most aparent with the last chapter, the last chapter of boogiepop 2000 is probably one of the least exciting finales i've seen in any mistery anime.

I still enjoyed the anime, but It's just an enjoyable watch, nothing more, nothing else


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next: mr nobody
i'm going to die before I finish rain code, may consider stopping playing it for a bit and do dragon's lair first or something

Patatitta wrote:

i'm going to die before I finish rain code, may consider stopping playing it for a bit and do dragon's lair first or something

it took me nearly a month to beat it, and that's not including the DLC. don't rush it!! very very long game!!

mr nobody:

First of all, this movie is pretty original. It's about the life of this kid, and the different timelines and possibilities that life could have taken. In order for the movie to do this, and for it to have an overarching plot there is a sci-fi plot connecting it all.

first of all, the OST is a banger, there are so many good songs in this movie. The cinematography and acting is pretty good IMO too.

The actual life and things are pretty cool, I don't have any problem with that. IOn my opinion, it looks like the idea for a movie where you just see 3 timelines of the same character life was the main idea. The only real problem I have with this movie is the sci-fi elements, which on itself works fine, however I don't know how well it works in conjuction with the non sci-fi part

the movie is kinda is hard to understand, and while the ovearching plot does fine in connecting all of the stories, I don't really believe it really explores it much. It explores more the concept of living multiple lifes than the actual consequences of each action. Which isn't bad on itself, I just would have prefeered to be the opposite

I just think it would have worked better if it was just a little easier to understand, because there is truly material here that is worth digging into, it's just hard to get into it

now, what does the movie actually have to say about choices? From my opinion and what I understand, that there really isn't a wrong way to live a life other than to stop living. Living in this context means the actual act of living in conjuction with having new experiences and enjoying yourself.

The way the movie illustrates this point is by in the sci-fi elements, a cure for aging was found, however, in the process for everyone living together it seems like everyone starting living a very homogeneous life, a lot of things are anned, and society as a whole seems to believe that there really one choice, and one right way to live life, this according to our protagonist, isn't really living

Our protagonist is like the complete opposite of that, living 3 contradictory lifes, and being proved right (kinda?) at the end of the movie


And that sometimes those things are out of control. That life changing decisions can be altered by just someone random boiling an egg. However, the fact that some things are out of our control doesn't mean we should give up in life, your choices do matter. It's just kinda hard to predict sometimes, and sometimes, not making a choice is a choice on itself

about the scientific shit honestly I have no clue


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update: still need to finish rain code, wont rush it

next: there isn't actually any more movies/anime I have to watch, suprising, i'm free to watch whatever I want until in 2 hours when a new request comes

Well, guess it's time to tell the potato to watch Niea_7

https://myanimelist.net/anime/800/NieA_Under_7

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

Watch onimai (the anime)

eblf2013 wrote:

Well, guess it's time to tell the potato to watch Niea_7

https://myanimelist.net/anime/800/NieA_Under_7

will do

z0z wrote:

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

Reyalp51 wrote:

Watch onimai (the anime)

I really didn't want to watch this one but since I'm faithful to this thread I have to give it an honest try now

I knew you wouldnt like it thats why i said that one lmao

Patatitta wrote:

mr nobody:

First of all, this movie is pretty original. It's about the life of this kid, and the different timelines and possibilities that life could have taken. In order for the movie to do this, and for it to have an overarching plot there is a sci-fi plot connecting it all.

first of all, the OST is a banger, there are so many good songs in this movie. The cinematography and acting is pretty good IMO too.

The actual life and things are pretty cool, I don't have any problem with that. IOn my opinion, it looks like the idea for a movie where you just see 3 timelines of the same character life was the main idea. The only real problem I have with this movie is the sci-fi elements, which on itself works fine, however I don't know how well it works in conjuction with the non sci-fi part

the movie is kinda is hard to understand, and while the ovearching plot does fine in connecting all of the stories, I don't really believe it really explores it much. It explores more the concept of living multiple lifes than the actual consequences of each action. Which isn't bad on itself, I just would have prefeered to be the opposite

I just think it would have worked better if it was just a little easier to understand, because there is truly material here that is worth digging into, it's just hard to get into it

now, what does the movie actually have to say about choices? From my opinion and what I understand, that there really isn't a wrong way to live a life other than to stop living. Living in this context means the actual act of living in conjuction with having new experiences and enjoying yourself.

The way the movie illustrates this point is by in the sci-fi elements, a cure for aging was found, however, in the process for everyone living together it seems like everyone starting living a very homogeneous life, a lot of things are anned, and society as a whole seems to believe that there really one choice, and one right way to live life, this according to our protagonist, isn't really living

Our protagonist is like the complete opposite of that, living 3 contradictory lifes, and being proved right (kinda?) at the end of the movie


And that sometimes those things are out of control. That life changing decisions can be altered by just someone random boiling an egg. However, the fact that some things are out of our control doesn't mean we should give up in life, your choices do matter. It's just kinda hard to predict sometimes, and sometimes, not making a choice is a choice on itself

about the scientific shit honestly I have no clue


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update: still need to finish rain code, wont rush it

next: there isn't actually any more movies/anime I have to watch, suprising, i'm free to watch whatever I want until in 2 hours when a new request comes

I pretty much agree with you, the sci-fi stuff is kinda weird but it is sort of necessary for the end to work I guess?

Reyalp51 wrote:

I knew you wouldnt like it thats why i said that one lmao

You're a monster

My next request: Macross

Karmine wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

mr nobody:

First of all, this movie is pretty original. It's about the life of this kid, and the different timelines and possibilities that life could have taken. In order for the movie to do this, and for it to have an overarching plot there is a sci-fi plot connecting it all.

first of all, the OST is a banger, there are so many good songs in this movie. The cinematography and acting is pretty good IMO too.

The actual life and things are pretty cool, I don't have any problem with that. IOn my opinion, it looks like the idea for a movie where you just see 3 timelines of the same character life was the main idea. The only real problem I have with this movie is the sci-fi elements, which on itself works fine, however I don't know how well it works in conjuction with the non sci-fi part

the movie is kinda is hard to understand, and while the ovearching plot does fine in connecting all of the stories, I don't really believe it really explores it much. It explores more the concept of living multiple lifes than the actual consequences of each action. Which isn't bad on itself, I just would have prefeered to be the opposite

I just think it would have worked better if it was just a little easier to understand, because there is truly material here that is worth digging into, it's just hard to get into it

now, what does the movie actually have to say about choices? From my opinion and what I understand, that there really isn't a wrong way to live a life other than to stop living. Living in this context means the actual act of living in conjuction with having new experiences and enjoying yourself.

The way the movie illustrates this point is by in the sci-fi elements, a cure for aging was found, however, in the process for everyone living together it seems like everyone starting living a very homogeneous life, a lot of things are anned, and society as a whole seems to believe that there really one choice, and one right way to live life, this according to our protagonist, isn't really living

Our protagonist is like the complete opposite of that, living 3 contradictory lifes, and being proved right (kinda?) at the end of the movie


And that sometimes those things are out of control. That life changing decisions can be altered by just someone random boiling an egg. However, the fact that some things are out of our control doesn't mean we should give up in life, your choices do matter. It's just kinda hard to predict sometimes, and sometimes, not making a choice is a choice on itself

about the scientific shit honestly I have no clue


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update: still need to finish rain code, wont rush it

next: there isn't actually any more movies/anime I have to watch, suprising, i'm free to watch whatever I want until in 2 hours when a new request comes

I pretty much agree with you, the sci-fi stuff is kinda weird but it is sort of necessary for the end to work I guess?

Reyalp51 wrote:

I knew you wouldnt like it thats why i said that one lmao

You're a monster

My next request: Macross

never heard of it but looks cool, will add to the list


edit: wait reyalp, I thought you were saying a different anime, kinda mixed names on my head. I HAVE read the manga for Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!, does that work for you?, I don't really like watching the adaptations for stuff i've already read

A shit nevermind go watch ishuzoku reviwers

Reyalp51 wrote:

A shit nevermind go watch ishuzoku reviwers

... I have already watched it as a joke with friends, also the CENSORED version, realized there was an uncensored version like a year later, I do not have it listed on myanimelist for obvious reasons but you're going to have to trust me on this

NieA Under 7

cute slice of life/comedy which turns into a drama by the end, liked it

the animation style is great, it has some very stylized segments, chapter 13 is completley full of those sections which really makes this anime stand-up visually compared to the rest

I do feel you can split this anime into two sections, the comedy part and the more drama part

starting with the comedy part, (which I think lasts until chapter 8 or so idk didn't really pay attention to the chapter number), the anime is just about this girl who lives with a freeloader alien who loves food. (Aliens are normal in this world). The comedy just reminds me a lot of jashin-chan but less over the top as this was a 2000s anime without a large budget.

The point of this section (or at least what I interpet it being), is just for you to grow familiar with the cast of characters, and the situation, and if you notice, it slowly goes and introduce ideas and problems that will later be expanded in the drama section

for chapters 9 to 13, the anime kinda does drop a lot of the comedy aspect, and focuses mostly on the life situation of our protagonists. Having to resolve difficult problems, and becoming a better and stronger person by it. Even if it's two fairly different styles (given the two absolute extremes on this genre, you would have yuru camp/nichijou on the first section, and yomawari-sensei in the other extreme). The way it transitions is really invisible. It flows super well, and it really takes advantage of things that were foreshadowed or mentioned in the past

the anime never reaches to be like absolutely heartbreaking or anything, it is just more emotional than jashin-chan, which I mentioned earlier. I do think this is a pretty good anime, and if you kinda just want a nice little slice of life to watch and enjoy, this is good

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next: macross
haven't made any progress on rain code as i'm just playing planescape torment

watch Angel Beats!

Jangsoodlor wrote:

watch Angel Beats!

yeah sure

Patatitta wrote:

z0z wrote:

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

it has a story though, act 5 came out a while ago

179bpm wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

z0z wrote:

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

it has a story though, act 5 came out a while ago

i'm aware, however it's just so basic that it's not really on the same level as anything on here, it's more focused on making fun level and introducing mechanics

Patatitta wrote:

179bpm wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

z0z wrote:

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

it has a story though, act 5 came out a while ago

i'm aware, however it's just so basic that it's not really on the same level as anything on here, it's more focused on making fun level and introducing mechanics

i think you can rate how well it does that and the story

yeah I could try that however no promises I will go on with it, I have too much shit I want to play lmao

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

Patatitta wrote:

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

ok have you read tokyo ghoul already?

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

ok have you read tokyo ghoul already?

wait was tokyo ghoul requested? I actually don't remember fuck

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

ok have you read tokyo ghoul already?

wait was tokyo ghoul requested? I actually don't remember fuck

i was just asking to request it

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

ok have you read tokyo ghoul already?

wait was tokyo ghoul requested? I actually don't remember fuck

i was just asking to request it

yeah I haven't read tokyo ghoul, my brother did and fucking despises it so it's going to be a funny read

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Serraionga wrote:

play the new super mario rpg remake that is coming out tomorrow

i'm also gonna be playing it after work and after the good ol' siesta MMMMMMMMMM Yes,

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

ok have you read tokyo ghoul already?

wait was tokyo ghoul requested? I actually don't remember fuck

i was just asking to request it

yeah I haven't read tokyo ghoul, my brother did and fucking despises it so it's going to be a funny read

cool

Patatitta wrote:

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

We Must Go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!!!!!!!!!! CONSOOM MY DEAR PATATITTA!!! CONSOOM!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!111ONE

i'm actually not that knowledgeable on manga/anime so i can only suggest videojugables. i remember watching doraemon, death note and initial d a very, very long time ago (doraemon was even broadcasted on TV when i was a kid, those were fun times)

recently i was recommended by someone to use an app called CloudStream which is allegedly very good/not a pain in the ass to use for watching anime and i'll probably be using that to watch some of the things that have been requested here. hopefully i'll be able to fit in the time lolllllllllll

Serraionga wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

okay not really blaming anyone on here, however:

I have 2 animes to watch

0 things to read

four 30+ hour games + another one that idk how long it is

will add to the list even if I have already seen someone play the original over discord so it's not particullary exciting for me

We Must Go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!!!!!!!!!! CONSOOM MY DEAR PATATITTA!!! CONSOOM!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!111ONE

i'm actually not that knowledgeable on manga/anime so i can only suggest videojugables. i remember watching doraemon, death note and initial d a very, very long time ago (doraemon was even broadcasted on TV when i was a kid, those were fun times)

recently i was recommended by someone to use an app called CloudStream which is allegedly very good/not a pain in the ass to use for watching anime and i'll probably be using that to watch some of the things that have been requested here. hopefully i'll be able to fit in the time lolllllllllll

tbf, regular movies or books also works for me, i'm not really complaining about having a long list, i'm just saying that you're going to have to wait 4 months

Patatitta wrote:

tbf, regular movies or books also works for me, i'm not really complaining about having a long list, i'm just saying that you're going to have to wait 4 months

that is fine, i can wait. take it easy!!!!

Review Hamilton (musical)

train wrote:

Review Hamilton (musical)

I have a friend who really got into hamilton so yeah I don't oppose this, will watch

hokuto no ken review with the words sigma and ohio pls

Rigbyuis wrote:

hokuto no ken review with the words sigma and ohio pls

I will be reading the manga, is that ok?

bump

Anaxii wrote:

bump

I was going to bump this myself anyways when I finished reading stuff, just dont flood the front page so this doesn't happen dude, only post in the threads you care about please

Patatitta wrote:

Anaxii wrote:

bump

I was going to bump this myself anyways when I finished reading stuff, just dont flood the front page so this doesn't happen dude, only post in the threads you care about please

alright!

Macross:

The only mecha anime i've really seen is evangelion. I don't really know anything about the genre. I decided go tie macross a try since it was recommended here, and i'm sorry to say, idk if this anime in particular is just my thing. watched the first 3 episodes and I really didn't get invested into it, so I decided to not erally continue it any further. Not a big fan of action, or militarry things, and not really invested into mecha, so yeah, sorry. Delayed this post since idk if I would continue it or not as it was not bad, it just didn't get into it

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Angel Beats!

I've known of this anime for the longest time just on name alone, however, I thought it was a random idols anime or something, however, recently a friend of mine watched me and told that it was in fact not an anime about idols. And now that it got requested, I watched it

it was actually very nice, over the top school anime with a gimmick, it works great, however, the anime mainly starts to really become really good near the end

the idea of the anime is that they're on some sort of afterlife, which takes the form of a high school (it's an anime, of course the afterlife is a high school), the initial premise is that everyone in the world don't really have a soul except them that they have freedom of choice. And they're trying to defeat another high school girl since they tried to keep order in the afterlife, which our protagonist sees as an enemie

That arc on itself isn't the most exciting, each episode they have a different plan to defeat this girl and it's just fun. However, it seems that all of this arc, which last for more for half the anime, is jsut mainly world-building and developing characters. In the great twist of the anime it turns out that this character (named angel btw) isn't bad and is just trying to help people live their best lifes, since the goal of the afterlife (and the reason why it's a highschool), is that this world just helps people who percieved their real lifes to be bad to really feel free and accomplish things before moving on to the next life

I really enjoyed this concept a lot, it really makes sense that it had that slice of life-ish first arc to set everything up. It's not a new idea or anything, it's just executed really well. The slice of life setting and the really exagerated and over the top ideas and chapter plots really allow for each of the characters personality to show through, personality which was defined by their previous experiences in life, which in most cases include: their previous life.

The actual finale is just all the characters who hasn't moved on to the true afterlife yet to come to that realization of the world and it's just a very emotional scene, honestly the ending for angel beats is like peak high school anime IMO

honestly, just a fun and surprising emotional high school anime, really liekd it


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updates: haven't played rain code in a while due to me trying to beat planescape torment sorry

tokyo ghoul isn't actually that bad, i'm going to be able to finish it without dropping it, which was more than I expected tbh

next: Hamilton (musical)

Sad Macross fan noises
I'm not really into mecha either but I love Macross, binge watching it is a bad idea though, some songs repeat a lot

Class of 09 (visual novel thing?)

train wrote:

Class of 09 (visual novel thing?)

oh fuck you are right, i really hope he reviews that game, its fucking hilarious

Patatitta wrote:

this?

Yes

Just a heads up for class of 09, it is very edgy and I'm not sure if you would like it. Still give it a shot tho

tokyo ghoul:

I'm going to be honest, I went this with LOW expectations, I was on the mindset of dropping this by volume 2, however, I actually didn't hate it, not that I ended up enjoying it, however it was still better than I expected

With these posts I try to go a little bit further than a review, just talking about certain elements and how the work and why I feel they work, however, it's hard to do that for a work you dislike. So I will be explaining in great detail why I dislike the character of kaneki

Tokyo ghoul is a manga about this random high school guy being bitten by a ghoul, and becoming a ghoul themselves, ghoul are humans that can only really eat other humans, so society hates them and are afraid of them

The first 2 volumes or so are actually very nice, kaneki is just this dude, and they talk about how being a ghoul will change the rest of their life, how they will lose relationships and friendships. Not only that, but they discover that an adult on the school is in fact also a ghoul like them. Kaneki learns trick to live as a ghoul and it's honestly just kinda cool. From this start you can just go in a more drama-focused narrative and it would have been a lot more enjoyable in my opinion

from the way i've read this character, they just seem sad and afraid, they didn't want any of this to happen, however by volume 6 the story has transitioned into mainly being focused on action

And I just don't get why that happens honestly, kaneki isn't following revenge, they are not loyal to the ghouls as they were once a human, they didn't need to fight to survive, kaneki had a lot of options to defuse the rest of manga and just living a normal ghoul life like all of the other ghouls are doing. However, kaneki decides to get involved with this group and start fighting, and I just don't like it. This is the moment wher kaneki jus becomes edgy, they didn't have to fight, yet they decided to do it, and not only that, but without practice, without any training arc, they're already one of the best and most dangerous ghouls. For me it felt kaneki didn't need to be on that position or deserve to that strong

The rest of the manga is honestly a bit of a blur in my brain, it's a lot harder to really focus on a plot when you kinda just give up on it. So I for sure have missed out on a lot of nuance, but they just keep fighting, getting more powerful, and getting edgier

Another complain I have with the manga is the dialogue. There is like 4 pages disscusing the semantics of what half-killing someone means? I know the purpouse of this dialogue is to be kinda intimidating and stuff, however it just felt kinda weird in my opinion and really doesn't improve the character of kaneki.

My problem with kaneki is not the fact that they're trying to be badass, it's that the way they get to that point and the specific type of badass they are it's just kinda painful to read

If you've read ITT2 or shitpost thread you know I've recently watched this other movie called "Harakiri", (1962), the protagonist of that movie is probably the single most badass character i've seen on media, but in harakiri it works, they're that way for a justified reason, the dialogue they deliver is actually incredibly good and makes you think. It's not just badass for the sake of being badass (which is what kaneki feels), it's being badass because being badass helps telling the story and make a more compeling character. (Also please watch harakiri it's like really fucking good and I just mainly did this comparasion to tell people to watch harakiri, trust me, even if it's a black and white film it's incredibly frenetic and it's just amazing)


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hamilton (the musical)

as I explained in my tokyo ghoul analysis, I try to say more than just a review, and gibven this is a musical (which I don't really consume, tis is my first ever time seeing a broadway production!) and the fact that I literally did not know who alexander hamilton was before watchig the analysis, it makes me incredilby unqualified to really say anything substantial about hamilton

now, it was good, they really moved and singed and it was very frenetic and cool. Some jokes went over my head since I literally do not know shit about american history

was really surprised how impressive the actual performance was given this must be played live, but idk if that is just a hamilton thing or a broadway thing

yeah it was just good



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next: class of 09 (Not reading anything rn so even if it's a videogame and I haven't finished the 20 others, i'm counting it more as a book than anything else tbh)

still need to finish rain code

i was hoping you would like it actually, kanekis multiple personalitys evolving as he gets more knowledge and shit happens to him is really interesting imo, like when the black reaper personality is obssesed with "dying in a cool way" and then kaneki thinking later he was a dumbass for being so obsessed with that and apreciating more life

Reyalp51 wrote:

i was hoping you would like it actually, kanekis multiple personalitys evolving as he gets more knowledge and shit happens to him is really interesting imo, like when the black reaper personality is obssesed with "dying in a cool way" and then kaneki thinking later he was a dumbass and stuff

I just cant really vouch or care for someone who kinda did all of that to themselves, if they decide to get involved into fights and then gets hurt, I don't really feel bad because they didn't have to fight in the first place. It's just that I really did not enjoy the origin story for kaneki making the rest of the manga fall flat

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cephaphysic wrote:

i can't think of anything else rn, so here's a single character: GLaDOS (portal series)

It's been so long since i've played portal so i'm going to just be talking out of memory here, idk if I will make factual mistakes or not

first of all, we must lay down what portal is. It's a pretty good puzzle game focused on the actual puzzle design and with some comedy sprinkled on top. The plot is pretty secondary to the actual game.

glados is just this robot that runs the puzzle facilities you encounter yourself in. For most of the game they just treat you as a random test subject, teaches you a few mechanics and pushes you go to forward

In the great twist of portal which I won't mark as spoiler because it's fucking portal is that glados just wants to kill you and now you must escape, that segment is fine, but again, is more interesting from a gameplay perspective than from a storytelling perspective

glados just mainly works as a way to make what would if not just be a pretty nice little puzzle game into something more memorable, spawning multiple memes and a couple nice songs, it's not the most interesting character by itself, it just fits perfectly in an already great game

this is kinda unrelated, but this is my one chance to really talk about this and i'm for sure going to take it. But i've seen portal and glados been praised a lot on the past, however, in 2023, I personally feel that we have games like portal but way better, just look at the talos principle. (tbf I didn't finish the game and defaulted to just watching a couple youtube videos about it since I just suck ass at puzzle games but that's not a game issue that's just me being AWFUL at puzzle games and being really frustrated by them, so a skill issue)

Talos principle is portal but bigger and better, and the writting is actually NUTS. I fucking love the dialogue of talos principle, however, when people talk about great characters on puzzle games they mention glados. Not the talos principle

but I don't feel this is limited but just portal, it happens with valve as a company, I feel that people are a lot more sympathetic to valve games for the sake of them being valve games. And given that gabe newell was seen as literally jesus christ in an earlier age of the internet. It does make sense why

Could you give this a watch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pkVu6Kw00M&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFQua1LlKNMg1IOqAn15RkUT

It's a documentary series about the history of a baseball team that's about 4 hours in length. I'm assuming you don't know much about baseball, and if you don't, it'd be interesting to see how you find this documentary, especially looking at it through a analytical lens instead of just as a youtube video. I've wanted to talk to some of my friends about this but I didn't want to just drop on them a 4 hour documentary that they wouldn't have any inherent interest in, but I feel like I can do that here lol



Also this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1713610/Purrgatory/

It's a random free game I found on steam, but it went extraordinarily hard for a short free steam game imo. It's one of those furry adjacent VNs you can find on itch.io lol. Fun fact, the guy who made this is a ranked mapper on osu and used to be a BN (hi Nivrad00 if you are reading this for some reason)

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote:

Could you give this a watch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pkVu6Kw00M&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFQua1LlKNMg1IOqAn15RkUT

It's a documentary series about the history of a baseball team that's about 4 hours in length. I'm assuming you don't know much about baseball, and if you don't, it'd be interesting to see how you find this documentary, especially looking at it through a analytical lens instead of just as a youtube video. I've wanted to talk to some of my friends about this but I didn't want to just drop on them a 4 hour documentary that they wouldn't have any inherent interest in, but I feel like I can do that here lol



Also this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1713610/Purrgatory/

It's a random free game I found on steam, but it went extraordinarily hard for a short free steam game imo. It's one of those furry adjacent VNs you can find on itch.io lol. Fun fact, the guy who made this is a ranked mapper on osu and used to be a BN (hi Nivrad00 if you are reading this for some reason)

I can do both yeah, will do

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cephaphysic wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

cephaphysic wrote:

i can't think of anything else rn, so here's a single character: GLaDOS (portal series)

It's been so long since i've played portal so i'm going to just be talking out of memory here, idk if I will make factual mistakes or not

first of all, we must lay down what portal is. It's a pretty good puzzle game focused on the actual puzzle design and with some comedy sprinkled on top. The plot is pretty secondary to the actual game.

glados is just this robot that runs the puzzle facilities you encounter yourself in. For most of the game they just treat you as a random test subject, teaches you a few mechanics and pushes you go to forward

In the great twist of portal which I won't mark as spoiler because it's fucking portal is that glados just wants to kill you and now you must escape, that segment is fine, but again, is more interesting from a gameplay perspective than from a storytelling perspective

glados just mainly works as a way to make what would if not just be a pretty nice little puzzle game into something more memorable, spawning multiple memes and a couple nice songs, it's not the most interesting character by itself, it just fits perfectly in an already great game

this is kinda unrelated, but this is my one chance to really talk about this and i'm for sure going to take it. But i've seen portal and glados been praised a lot on the past, however, in 2023, I personally feel that we have games like portal but way better, just look at the talos principle. (tbf I didn't finish the game and defaulted to just watching a couple youtube videos about it since I just suck ass at puzzle games but that's not a game issue that's just me being AWFUL at puzzle games and being really frustrated by them, so a skill issue)

Talos principle is portal but bigger and better, and the writting is actually NUTS. I fucking love the dialogue of talos principle, however, when people talk about great characters on puzzle games they mention glados. Not the talos principle

but I don't feel this is limited but just portal, it happens with valve as a company, I feel that people are a lot more sympathetic to valve games for the sake of them being valve games. And given that gabe newell was seen as literally jesus christ in an earlier age of the internet. It does make sense why

i assume a lot of people's liking and intrigue towards glados comes from portal 2, since that game goes more into her as a character. though i always see people talking about portal 1's atmosphere and how glados' presence adds to it (makes sense, since portal 1 really focuses on atmosphere, though it doesn't affect me the same way)

also i swear i've heard of the talos principle before. no clue why i didn't have it wishlisted already

tbh I only have played portal 2

class of 09

got to one of the endings, unistalled the game

for me, tokyo ghoul was just kinda bad, but whatever, class of 09 actively makes me angry, the game feels like it was made in a collaboration between 4chan and the people who claims old newgrounds was the best the internet ever had. The writting is pretty bad, the comedy is just "LOOK, BAD THING (rape, pedophilia, necrophilia, etc) LAUGH"

unrelated but in the steam description for class of 09 (note that i'm not actually buying the game, it just resulted I already had a copy saved up in my basement that I legally dumped into my pc), the game claims to be an anti-visual novel which makes no sense as it IS a visual novel, if anything, you want to say anti-dating sim because you just "reject" people (except it's not really a dating sim?, it really doesn't have any dating sim elements other than it being a vn which doesn't on itself mean dating sim. tbh I doubt the creators have playing many vns or dating sims tho), so like, the description is actually just nonsensical

I fucking hate this game

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next: purrgatory

im really enjoying sharing things to patata that i know he wont like, his opinions are always interesting to read. But i think i should stop asking for that or else i will be ignored later lmao

Reyalp51 wrote:

im really enjoying sharing things to patata that i know he wont like, his opinions are always interesting to read. But i think i should stop asking for that or else i will be ignored later lmao

nah it's exciting to have stuff to hate from time to time, feel free to continue going

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

im really enjoying sharing things to patata that i know he wont like, his opinions are always interesting to read. But i think i should stop asking for that or else i will be ignored later lmao

nah it's exciting to have stuff to hate from time to time, feel free to continue going

Watch Skelter Heaven. It's just 19 minutes long.

Now for the unironic recommendation: Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei.

will watch them both

edit: okay I did not recognise it by the japanese name but tatami galaxy was in my plan to watch, heard it's good, excidet to see it

purrgatory:

this game is a banger and i'm honestly surprised that I haven't played it before, if niv reads this for whatever reason, good job

I say i'm surprised I didn't play it before because I could tell what side of itch.io this game was on by the first 5 lines of dialogue. In many ways, the way the dialogue is written and how it is overall made really reminds me of people like nomnomnami and npckc and the such. Just these shorter, very cute and fluffly VN/graphical adventures. I really got into those type of games a few years back, so idk how I really hadn't played this

The only actual complaint I have about the game is the map being a bit disorienting, it was a little bit to navigate at first when you didn't know the map from memory, maybe adding a map or something like that would have helped, or changing the perspectives of certain rooms

Honestly I really appreciate that this was just requested after class of '09, because I cant name two games, which are mostly on the same genre, that are more opposite from each other than these two. If this game were places, class of 09 is a nuclear wasteland and purrgatory is a pillow fort. Honeslty I think comparing the two games is a really good way to talk about them

the dialogue in purrgatory is instantly recognisable of this type of games, as they're normally all lowercase, very informal, sometimes uses emotions like :3, and feels more like you're reading a discord conversation than vn dialogue. Which has it's charm, as I say, I like this subgenre

The characters are all furries, which, was to be expected with a game like this. But actually, having furry character is actually mad good for making instantly recognisable characters, and that helps when you're introduced to many characters in such a small ammount of time, like this game, it's easier to tell apart a moth from a snake than just two human beings

Now, the comedy. I enjoyed the coemdy, however, the ammount of cat puns and puns in general are enough to kill some people, which on itself would be a cat-astrophe (That joke is stolen directly from the game, that's the level of comedy we're working with here). But, honestly, I think puns works, the atmosphere of the game is very comfy so just having this little harmless silly jokes really makes sense

This atmosphere also helps a lot with the story, which is on the line of "just enjoy the mundane of life", no need to get 25434 awards and set your name in history, just staying in bed one day or two and working on a webcomic you started for fun is a fine way of living life

on the topic of the story, I did not expect that credit sequence, really made me a bit emotional

Again, comparing to class of 09, this is probably one of the most striking differences, class of 09 feels made under the idea of "oh comedy is dead, everyone gets offended nowadays", and then you have a game with 40 different cat puns

The game was never difficult, never had to use the guide, which is good consdiering i'm dumb af.

Yeah this game is just very good, really enjoyed, 5 stars, followed on itch.io



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skelter heaven

this isn't a bad anime, this is a anime speedrun.

It's not like ex-arm where it's just shit, this is just a 20 minute anime trying to speedrun the plot, tries to be mysterius and profound with like the random object that moves, introduces waifus and mechas, has ecchi scenes with the waifus, then has a dramatic moment on like the friendships and relations of the characters, then they have an action scene, etc

I'm going to say, this is not the worst thing i've seen. While this is a speedrun, they at least kinda tried something, I would argue that something like gladiformers is worse just because it is a copy of something else

also voice acting is fucking funny I love it


next: tatami galaxy
also I remembered I said to do fist of the north star manga woops kinda forgot about it will also do

no updates on rain code
been watching that yt video too it's cool I guess

the tatami galaxy


god tier anime, really

First of all, tamami galaxy probably has one of the best animations in anime in my perosnal opinion, the actual visuals are absolutely amazing, the way color is used to express ideas, mainly with that twist in chapter 10 that really makes you rethink the color choices for the entire anime, that's just brilliant

the plot itself is also great, in short, it's about this guy who wants to live their school years to the max, however, at the end of it, they always think that they could hnave done different life choices. The next chapter is usually a different life path the protagonist could have taken. Note that there is also an overarching plot

this anime blurs every line in existance. In this case, this anime knows it's an anime, and is more focused on giving you the best watching experience over anything else. This is true for most works, however, it feels like tatami galaxy takes it that to the next level. It feels like most fourth wall breaks nowadays are extremely blantant, however, tatami only really starts making cheeky references to that in like chapter 6, and it's just a very quick line of dialogue.

Not only that, but there are certain characters and reacurring jokes, that while it may break up the actual timeline and maybe the protagonist knows something that they shouldn't to make the joke, the anime isn't too worried about that. And I feel teh anime is better because of that

even if it seems like each chapter is their contained story, this really isn't the case, as in their different lifes, characters from their previous life will appear, which no need now introduction, since they were a main character in the past. It's also interesting to see how much the relationship changes depending in which circustances and how they end up meeting each character.

Now, the dialogue, holy fucking shit slow down a bit, this is proably the FASTEST narration i've seen. Like really, it is fast. However, the internal monologue is actually really good, again, the character doesn't talk in a way that would be realistic, it works in the way that better shows the idea the anime is trying to push

the actual idea is interesting, in the anime, every idea, every club they joined kinda ended up in failure for the goal they wanted to achieve, it was only in giving up the idea of living the best years possibles that they found the happiness they were looking for, in every reality, in every moment, they had the opportunity to turn things back around, but the protagonist just didn't realize this.

anime is just really good

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The History of the Seattle Mariners | Dorktown (Yt docummentary)

ah yes, 4 hour long video on stuff I dont really care about or know anything, my beloved (but actually).

The actual video was good, it kinda reminded me of this video but if instead of directed to science nerds it was directed torwards sports guys. Now, I will say, while I dont really have much to say because it's just a docummentary on true things, with not too much on top, I will say that this video isn't the most welcoming if you dont know anything about baseball (me)

I understood the video yes, however, from time to time they just drop terms like "the steroid era" and dont elaborate on it which just leaves you very confused.

Overall good video



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next: I don't think I have any more watch requests
i've played more rain code, still nowhere close to beating the game
have yet to start fist of the north star

Wait, what kind of games can i request? Do you have a bunch catalogued in steam or do u watch gameplay?

review pokemon scarlet/violet

i know it came out a while ago but can you watch guardians of the galaxy vol 3?

feel free to watch it after youre done with everything in the list if you want to, dont wanna add to the stress

thanks in advance

Hydreigon wrote:

Wait, what kind of games can i request? Do you have a bunch catalogued in steam or do u watch gameplay?

I accept movies, anime, manga, books, comics, anime, light novel, videogames and visual novels

however, if you look at the request tab in the OP, you may see I have alerady like 6 games to play and nothing really else to play, so if you recommend a game, I'm going to take like 5 months to get around to play it

also, for games, I mostly play story based games, so dont recommend stuff like cookie clicker or valorant or magic the gathering



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also for fist of the north star i'm sorry but I dropped it, this aint my thing


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179bpm wrote:

i know it came out a while ago but can you watch guardians of the galaxy vol 3?

feel free to watch it after youre done with everything in the list if you want to, dont wanna add to the stress

thanks in advance

i'm currently so lost on marvel and I don't have plans to catch up again

Patatitta wrote:

I accept movies, anime, manga, books, comics, anime, light novel, videogames and visual novels

however, if you look at the request tab in the OP, you may see I have alerady like 6 games to play and nothing really else to play, so if you recommend a game, I'm going to take like 5 months to get around to play it

also, for games, I mostly play story based games, so dont recommend stuff like cookie clicker or valorant or magic the gathering

Hmm, alright then, then how bout Chainsaw Man, the anime version since its shorter.

lostsilver wrote:

review pokemon scarlet/violet

lucky for you, I HAVE already played it. I have played pokemon since I was a kid so I was interested in playing it

First of all, I played it when it first came in emulator. And my opinion on it are interesting for sure. The most recent pokemon game I had played at that time was omega ruby. So I got surprised by a lot of stuff that got added in the previous games

For me, the game was enjoyable, yeah it didn't look the best, and I don't think I would have paid 60€ for it, but, I got to run around and catch cute pokemons, which was my goal, the story is better than in previous pokemon games IMO, I really liked the switch from saving the world to just running around doing a school project, but it's still not nearly as good as like any rpg on the maerket rn. Normally I don't like open world games, however in pokemon it feels good.

Now, I played the game on release, and so did my friends, the new pokemon region is based on spain, so the hype was massive. We had many irl talks about the game. My friends are HARDCORE pokemon fans, and I just realized they played a LOT differently than how I played it. Like, I discovered this pokemon called "eiscue", I love penguins so I caught one and added it to my team. I was talking to one of my friends about them and they went "oh yeah the abbility of that pokemon is really good", and I realize, that they weren't just catching cute pokemons, but they were metagaming the game and just choosing the best competitibly viable team

for them, they didn't enjoy the game as much, they argued that the game was just not difficult, and that it was a cashgrab, that last part I can understand, it would have been cool to see more developement time on it. Still, many of those issues, mainly with the difficulty thing, I just think they're not in the target demographic for pokemon, and that they could enjoy many other turn based RPGs that do focus more on them. But they don't play turn based rpgs, they play pokemon

So when I say "oh you shoult totally play chained echoes", which in personal opinion is the best combat i've ever seen in a turn based RPG, they kinda just say "oh cool" and never really do it, even if i'm completely sure they would love chained echoes. This doesn't happen with just pokemon tho, this happen with many franchises made with kids in mind, that you grow up playing this franchise, and then it's hard to move past it. Or not just that, but you're in a community where those franchises are highly rated and it's hard to see past it. This happens with pokemon, this happens with FNAF, this happens with TADC and it happens with many others. In fact I want to make a thread on this phenomenon but in a way that it's not a textwall like this, because I know that the people who read my textwall are not the specific type of people i'm trying to talk about, i'm still thinking on how to do that

It's just more pokemon, it aint getting better, either you adventure past pokemon, or you die in here


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Hydreigon wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I accept movies, anime, manga, books, comics, anime, light novel, videogames and visual novels

however, if you look at the request tab in the OP, you may see I have alerady like 6 games to play and nothing really else to play, so if you recommend a game, I'm going to take like 5 months to get around to play it

also, for games, I mostly play story based games, so dont recommend stuff like cookie clicker or valorant or magic the gathering

Hmm, alright then, then how bout Chainsaw Man, the anime version since its shorter.

lucky for you I HAVE already read chainsaw man (well i'm not totally caught up, I think like 5 chapters will have come out sinceI last read it, idk if chainsaw is weekly or monthly)

Chainsaw man is my favourite combat shounen, however, i'm not a fan of that genre to begin with, so even if it's my fav I think I gave it a 7 in myanimelist

I think chainsaw man is an fairly interesting manga. I like the main idea of the manga, of this half demon having to fight other half-demons, that cool, the characters itself are also interesting. Now the characters, not the biggest fan of it, I like makima as a character, the way they just lie and do shit and the relationship with the main protagonist, however, I feel that there are many things that they do that seems like they're just trying to bait femdom r34, like that one chapter where they make the main character act like a dog.

However I will give it points in that it is only in certain scenes, so it's not like an ecchi anime or whatever, it's more like made in abyss in anything else

The fight scenes and some of the plot is where I have most of my problems with this manga tho. First of all, the fight scenes are mainly purely fluff, which is just the standard if you're into a combat shounen, but i'm not a fan of combat shounen so for after a while I just kinda speedread the fight scenes because I just didn't call much about them. However, I will admit, the art for the fight scene is good, while most of manga art is standard, in the fight scenes they mostly have these hyperdramatic shots that while not completely unseen has some elements that make it instantly recognisable, thinslike the blood being this purely lienar black lines and being a lot of it while the character walks out in front being a badass


Now, there is a story arc that I do not like, and that is, the gun demon. I'm sorry but just going GUN DEMON WAS IN JAPAN FOR 20 SECOND 50000 DEAD like that's just too fucking much come on, and they jsut beat them in the end. The story isn't really focused on exploring the consequence of those actions or to make really cool plot, they just want to have badass fight scenes, which as I said, I speedread. So for me there really wasn't anything too worth it in this manga other than the start and those aquarium chapters which I thought were very funny.

Patatitta wrote:

lostsilver wrote:

review pokemon scarlet/violet

lucky for you, I HAVE already played it. I have played pokemon since I was a kid so I was interested in playing it

First of all, I played it when it first came in emulator. And my opinion on it are interesting for sure. The most recent pokemon game I had played at that time was omega ruby. So I got surprised by a lot of stuff that got added in the previous games

For me, the game was enjoyable, yeah it didn't look the best, and I don't think I would have paid 60€ for it, but, I got to run around and catch cute pokemons, which was my goal, the story is better than in previous pokemon games IMO, I really liked the switch from saving the world to just running around doing a school project, but it's still not nearly as good as like any rpg on the maerket rn. Normally I don't like open world games, however in pokemon it feels good.

Now, I played the game on release, and so did my friends, the new pokemon region is based on spain, so the hype was massive. We had many irl talks about the game. My friends are HARDCORE pokemon fans, and I just realized they played a LOT differently than how I played it. Like, I discovered this pokemon called "eiscue", I love penguins so I caught one and added it to my team. I was talking to one of my friends about them and they went "oh yeah the abbility of that pokemon is really good", and I realize, that they weren't just catching cute pokemons, but they were metagaming the game and just choosing the best competitibly viable team

for them, they didn't enjoy the game as much, they argued that the game was just not difficult, and that it was a cashgrab, that last part I can understand, it would have been cool to see more developement time on it. Still, many of those issues, mainly with the difficulty thing, I just think they're not in the target demographic for pokemon, and that they could enjoy many other turn based RPGs that do focus more on them. But they don't play turn based rpgs, they play pokemon

So when I say "oh you shoult totally play chained echoes", which in personal opinion is the best combat i've ever seen in a turn based RPG, they kinda just say "oh cool" and never really do it, even if i'm completely sure they would love chained echoes. This doesn't happen with just pokemon tho, this happen with many franchises made with kids in mind, that you grow up playing this franchise, and then it's hard to move past it. Or not just that, but you're in a community where those franchises are highly rated and it's hard to see past it. This happens with pokemon, this happens with FNAF, this happens with TADC and it happens with many others. In fact I want to make a thread on this phenomenon but in a way that it's not a textwall like this, because I know that the people who read my textwall are not the specific type of people i'm trying to talk about, i'm still thinking on how to do that

It's just more pokemon, it aint getting better, either you adventure past pokemon, or you die in here

lesgooooo
i watched a friend play scarlet and now wanna do violet for myself (i think you know why i chose violet as my game bc i love purple >:3) thanks for reviewing the game too! glad you liked it somewhat

Ok read Bone by Jeff Smith
Actually really good imo

Patatitta wrote:

purrgatory:

this game is a banger and i'm honestly surprised that I haven't played it before, if niv reads this for whatever reason, good job

I say i'm surprised I didn't play it before because I could tell what side of itch.io this game was on by the first 5 lines of dialogue. In many ways, the way the dialogue is written and how it is overall made really reminds me of people like nomnomnami and npckc and the such. Just these shorter, very cute and fluffly VN/graphical adventures. I really got into those type of games a few years back, so idk how I really hadn't played this

The only actual complaint I have about the game is the map being a bit disorienting, it was a little bit to navigate at first when you didn't know the map from memory, maybe adding a map or something like that would have helped, or changing the perspectives of certain rooms

Honestly I really appreciate that this was just requested after class of '09, because I cant name two games, which are mostly on the same genre, that are more opposite from each other than these two. If this game were places, class of 09 is a nuclear wasteland and purrgatory is a pillow fort. Honeslty I think comparing the two games is a really good way to talk about them

the dialogue in purrgatory is instantly recognisable of this type of games, as they're normally all lowercase, very informal, sometimes uses emotions like :3, and feels more like you're reading a discord conversation than vn dialogue. Which has it's charm, as I say, I like this subgenre

The characters are all furries, which, was to be expected with a game like this. But actually, having furry character is actually mad good for making instantly recognisable characters, and that helps when you're introduced to many characters in such a small ammount of time, like this game, it's easier to tell apart a moth from a snake than just two human beings

Now, the comedy. I enjoyed the coemdy, however, the ammount of cat puns and puns in general are enough to kill some people, which on itself would be a cat-astrophe (That joke is stolen directly from the game, that's the level of comedy we're working with here). But, honestly, I think puns works, the atmosphere of the game is very comfy so just having this little harmless silly jokes really makes sense

This atmosphere also helps a lot with the story, which is on the line of "just enjoy the mundane of life", no need to get 25434 awards and set your name in history, just staying in bed one day or two and working on a webcomic you started for fun is a fine way of living life

on the topic of the story, I did not expect that credit sequence, really made me a bit emotional

Again, comparing to class of 09, this is probably one of the most striking differences, class of 09 feels made under the idea of "oh comedy is dead, everyone gets offended nowadays", and then you have a game with 40 different cat puns

The game was never difficult, never had to use the guide, which is good consdiering i'm dumb af.

Yeah this game is just very good, really enjoyed, 5 stars, followed on itch.io

Glad you enjoyed the game :3

Patatitta wrote:

The History of the Seattle Mariners | Dorktown (Yt docummentary)

ah yes, 4 hour long video on stuff I dont really care about or know anything, my beloved (but actually).

The actual video was good, it kinda reminded me of this video but if instead of directed to science nerds it was directed torwards sports guys. Now, I will say, while I dont really have much to say because it's just a docummentary on true things, with not too much on top, I will say that this video isn't the most welcoming if you dont know anything about baseball (me)

I understood the video yes, however, from time to time they just drop terms like "the steroid era" and dont elaborate on it which just leaves you very confused.

Overall good video

Yeah I'm pretty sure Bobbybroccoli uses the same technique Jon Bois does, he literally made a video tutorial on it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfM7cqOlgds

The work Jon Bois does on youtube is some of my favourite, I really like how he turns sports statistics and stuff and manages to turn it into a story with meaning. This isn't a request, but if you liked this then he's helped make other super long documentaries and lots of shorter ones as well, not only on the Secret Base channel but on his own personal channel. I would definitely recommend learning the rules of NFL if you wanted to watch his NFL videos otherwise you won't have any idea about what's going on lol



As for a request, can you do Helck? The manga, not the anime (although maybe you can watch the anime as well to compare, I haven't watched it though)