I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part
as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.
every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.
until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.
imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet
at the end of the day i don’t think anyone needs to read visual novels if they don’t like them because the medium isn’t for everyone, but as with any medium or genre or series, if you’re not a fan or haven’t even really tried getting into them you have to be fine with your opinions having no weight in conversations about them. that’s not anyone gatekeeping, it’s recognizing when you just don’t care enough about something be knowledgeable about it. no serious type-moon fan is going to think your opinion about saber means anything if you haven’t read fate/stay night. avid fantasy readers will dismiss you saying it’s a dumb YA or kiddie genre instantly if you only read harry potter when you were 12 or something. horror buffs aren’t going to take you seriously if you say you like horror movies but only if they’re silly and fun. and no, american indie visual novel writer, you are not impressing your target audience by trying to subvert tropes you’ve heard exist specifically in dating sims, which you believe are dumb shallow high school romances for straight girls or pornography addicts
I love that Gold’s togekiss kept the personality it had as a Togepi. Togekiss are supposed to be blissful peace-loving creatures but every time you see Gold’s togekiss it’s like >:)
come on guys are we really praising tezcatlipoca’s design as good and cool just because seeing it made nasu pull an oberon and use the character more prominently. the art is good in a bubble, the character design could be good in a bubble, but it does not exist in a bubble. this character design was specifically made for and applied inappropriately to an aztec deity. oberon was good, sure, but we’re talking about white tezcatlipoca here. white skinned blonde-haired tezcatlipoca. congressman tezcatlipoca. “it’s just like oberon, nasu saw a good design and” what? a what design? like god i know everyone kind of let quetz slide but a whitewashed character design that is part of a larger pattern of whitewashing is actually a good design now if it’s these particular guys doing it?
