cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

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 what the person is saying, or to not, in fact, some side quests require to 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 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 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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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 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

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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 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 ed 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 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.

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Do Dragon's Lair!

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Do Dragon's Lair!

the cdi looking videogame?

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Do Dragon's Lair!

the cdi looking videogame?

Yeah

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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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eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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.

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

eblf2013 wrote: 3l2l1q

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

https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/anime/800/NieA_Under_7

z0z wrote: z232j

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Watch onimai (the anime)

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

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

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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: 6m1t2o

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

You're a monster

My next request: Macross

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

A shit nevermind go watch ishuzoku reviwers

Jangsoodlor wrote: 616554

watch Angel Beats!

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

z0z wrote: z232j

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

179bpm wrote: i2b3t

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

z0z wrote: z232j

requesting rhythm doctor (steam)

rhythm game cant really analyze

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

179bpm wrote: i2b3t

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

z0z wrote: z232j

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

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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,

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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?

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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 fuck

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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 fuck

i was just asking to request it

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

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 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: 4y1w

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

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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 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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

train wrote: 2o5a4n

Review Hamilton (musical)

Rigbyuis wrote: 432j2r

hokuto no ken review with the words sigma and ohio pls

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

bump

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Anaxii wrote: 61215b

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

train wrote: 2o5a4n

Class of 09 (visual novel thing?)

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

this?

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

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

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

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

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote: 1w5n5a

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)

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

cephaphysic wrote: 406m6w

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

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

Reyalp51 wrote: 6m1t2o

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

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

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

179bpm wrote: i2b3t

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

lostsilver wrote: 2h4ne

review pokemon scarlet/violet

Hydreigon wrote: 341v11

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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.

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Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

lostsilver wrote: 2h4ne

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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 like "the steroid era" and dont elaborate on it which just leaves you very confused.

Overall good video

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Ok read Bone by Jeff Smith
Actually really good imo

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote: 1w5n5a

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)

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

Serraionga wrote: 2l6i67

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

which chapter are you in?

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

Loop Hero, good game

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 4l614z

Patatitta wrote: 4y1w

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?

Karmine wrote: 4x3m25

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)