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)

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Ok read Bone by Jeff Smith
Actually really good imo

yeah sure

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote:

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)

heard it's good, will read the manga

Patatitta wrote:

i've played more rain code, still nowhere close to beating the game

which chapter are you in?

Serraionga wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

i've played more rain code, still nowhere close to beating the game

which chapter are you in?

... ending of the first non-tutorial case

played around 9 hours of the game so far, kinda didn't play it for two weeks as I was (and still am) beating planescape torment. Game is alright but I've just been doing so much other shit that I haven't really played it for long

Loop Hero, good game

Karmine wrote:

Loop Hero, good game

oh hey I have beaten that game

loop hero is a very interesting game IMO, as it's in a kinda unexlored genre, it's like a clicker/idle game with roguelike elements, which is nice

the actual roguelikes element only serve as a way of progression as there isn't that much RNG in the game actually. Due to the way the game is made, a playthrough cant really last that long before you run out of spaces on the map, so you need to make multiple playthroughs.

the gameplay loop (pun not intended) itself is just doing a run, maybe upgrading a thing in your overworld, choosing if you want to use that new card or not and then just repeating, the game itself is also pretty chill, you kinda look the character move around and numbers goes up. There is active planning on where you place each card but like it doesn't really matter, by the third run I feel you kinda develop an algorythm you follow, the only real exceptions are rivers

There is a story but only really because it seems like every game is legally required to have some sort of story, but it's really not the focus at all

it's just a good game to play and see the clock move 20 times faster

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

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still playing rain code
next: Helck

Patatitta wrote:

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

----

still playing rain code
next: Helck

Ok, this is one of my favorite comics, and honestly, I'm ticked off at you.
Every time I try to request something, you just make a bad review of it without fully watching/reading/playing it
I requested WOY and you only watched 4 episodes, I requested G-Darius and you never even played it, saying that you didn't review videogames despite ACTUALLY REVIEWING VIDEOGAMES, and now I requested Bone, and you just read the first volume and called it some dumb comedy book, you called the art stale, and you probably never take the time to even contemplate any book with illustrations other than manga.
Are you deciding to be a Jerkwad and troll me, or do a lot of foreign people just hate me in general for existing?

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

----

still playing rain code
next: Helck

Ok, this is one of my favorite comics, and honestly, I'm ticked off at you.
Every time I try to request something, you just make a bad review of it without fully watching/reading/playing it
I requested WOY and you only watched 4 episodes, I requested G-Darius and you never even played it, saying that you didn't review videogames despite ACTUALLY REVIEWING VIDEOGAMES, and now I requested Bone, and you just read the first volume and called it some dumb comedy book, you called the art stale, and you probably never take the time to even contemplate any book with illustrations other than manga.
Are you deciding to be a Jerkwad and troll me, or do a lot of foreign people just hate me in general for existing?

Okay, let's one one by one, i'm a human being, I make posts on OT, I make this thread for fun. I'm not an YT reviewer who gets paid doing this, I'm just doing this to obtain recommendations that wouldn't have otherwise gotten. However, if there is something I disliked, I wont finish it. The only thing that finishing it would bring me is that I've spent like 5 hours of my life watching something I dont enjoy to make a review that the person who requested it is going to disagree with. And as i'm just doing this for my personal enjoyement, and if i'm not enjoying it, what's the point?

When a series starts in a way that you dont like, it's VERY hard to regain my attention later, as if you dont develop emotional connection to the characters, develop interest in the plot, etc, every subsequent plot point is going to fall flat. So if it safe to assume that if you didn't enjoy the first 4 episodes of something, I wont be enjoying chapter 20.

now, for your requests, I don't have anything against you, it's just that we seem to have very different tastes, also you seemed to missunderstand some of my points

1- Wonder Over Yonder: TLDR of my analysis, episodic comedy show, no real plot or anything outside that, and the style of comedy that it had, I just did not enjoy it, so there wasn't anything in that show for me

2- G-Darius, this is a bullet hell arcade style game. I never said I don't review videogames, I meant that I review plots and narratives and that sort of stuff, I only mention gameplay when it's related to the plot in any sort of way. With G-Darius, while it is a fun game, analyzing bullet hell games is not something I know how to do

3- Bone: Kinda the same as wonder over yonder tbh, very simplistic comic, no real plot, only comedy, and i'm not a fan of this type of comedy, meaning, there is nothing here for me

sorry for the delay

helck

this manga is a fucking mess in every sense of the word, the manga itself is fine-ish, you will enjoy it if you're into action comedy, however, for me, there were some elements that just made me dislike a lot of the reading experience

First of all, I haven't seen a manga that has more .5 chapters than this, like, you're reading a intense fight scene and every chapter there is just a random slice of life section. In a lot of ways the manga just feels like it wants to be a slice of life, however it just seems like i'm switching between two different mangas and it kinda kills a lot of the flow this manga may had for me

not only that, but the way some elements about the characters are presented are kinda wack, like, from the very start of the manga you're introduced to classes and power levels and stuff like that. However, most of them dont really have any point of reference, so they don't really mean anything. Not only that, but I feel a lot of those elements are kinda dropped after the introduction

for a better example, very early on you're shown a graph of the hierarchy of power, and there is a certain group called the heavinly kings which apparently are extremely powerful. We get introduced to one of these characters REALLY early on, and as one of the earliest characters, we dont know how strong the other groups are, and given that the entire point is that they're more powerful than x, but we haven't seen how strong x is, it's just kinda weird

the actual story is just nothing too special IMO, it's nice, i'm just not the demographic for any of the fluff


next: nothing else to read
started chapter 2 of rain code

Genocidal Organ and Harmony by Project Itoh
Either the books (if you can find them) or the movies (or both if you like)
They're not a series but take place in the same universe at different times (Harmony does reference the events of Genocidal Organ a bit)

Karmine wrote:

Genocidal Organ and Harmony by Project Itoh
Either the books (if you can find them) or the movies (or both if you like)
They're not a series but take place in the same universe at different times (Harmony does reference the events of Genocidal Organ a bit)

will read the books, may take a while tho

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Bone by Jeff Smith

first of all, when I was looking for this book I realized it wasn't just one book, but a franchise, thankfully I found one that was like a compilation of every single of those, so it wasn't a big deal

next thing I realized was that this wasn't a book, but a comic, which is fine by me

I've only read the first book (out from boneville), as this really isn't my thing, there isn't much logical justification there, it's just comedy and not my type of comedy

there really isn't any real plot outside of the comedy, the art is also pretty stale, a page normally consists of a pretty simple setting and hten the character changing experssion without really moving

I don't really have anything more to say

----

still playing rain code
next: Helck

Ok, this is one of my favorite comics, and honestly, I'm ticked off at you.
Every time I try to request something, you just make a bad review of it without fully watching/reading/playing it
I requested WOY and you only watched 4 episodes, I requested G-Darius and you never even played it, saying that you didn't review videogames despite ACTUALLY REVIEWING VIDEOGAMES, and now I requested Bone, and you just read the first volume and called it some dumb comedy book, you called the art stale, and you probably never take the time to even contemplate any book with illustrations other than manga.
Are you deciding to be a Jerkwad and troll me, or do a lot of foreign people just hate me in general for existing?

HAHAHHAHAHAHA how did I miss this gemmy gemstone.

anyway, review the song: Hey Ya by Outkast, please!