perfect movie. i selfishly wish there had been like, 2? more groups of fairytale adversaries gunning for the wish with their own personal struggles, because i fucking love fairytales, but i also think the pacing and length in this is perfect and it would have made it kind of crammed. but like. i lowkey kinda wanted more fairy tale bounty hunters. goldi and the bears were so fucking good.
bruh.
top media ive consumed ever. the art and writing are masterful and completely rehauled how i think and approach my creative work, especially worldbuilding. raw kino based
romance manga that makes you want to eat concrete and smash your head into the wall. the character writing, concept, and execution is masterful and the writing tone, flow, and emotional control is unparalleled, and by that i mean it makes me want to eat my hand
vocaloid history extra credit. i think cinderella girls had my favorite characters (kirari, anzu) but i think i overall liked the spirit and tone of The Idolmaster more, as well as the art style. it did not entice me into playing the games though
my gaming era. i am not very good at it but i really really enjoyed it. i also think this game completely rearranged my brain cells
admittedly i'd been avoiding this anime cuz i thought it smelled kinda skeevy but to my surprise it's just good fun. i think more anime should be as fast-paced as this
while looking for idol manga i stumbled upon this and was repulsed by the premise. more surprised was i when Every Single Rec List had it. it is, in fact, one of the most grounded and well-executed manga ive ever read. but im not happy about it. the anime is also pretty good
manga that just tickles everything i like, from setting to genre to character dynamics. i love weirdo freak single-minded girls and beautiful pathetic men who cant get her to look at him. i also think china is cool. im simply obsessed with them is all
beautiful art, incredible mood-setting, intrigue, subversion of expectations, gives much to think about
the worldbuilding is peak of course, the art and characters are great, etc. i really liked the murder arc but it really fell off for me after legosi drops out. i do not like melon and i felt like the melon arc just meandered around examining interesting dynamics without any real grounded direction or goal, so it felt very aimless and kept making me go "where the hell am i". after legosi lets him go the functional goal is no longer "catch melon" and just "understand melon" is not strong enough to carry an entire narrative arc.... also i do not like melon. i don't like kyuu either and the chimera stuff went way over my head. i can tell that the mangaka really liked those characters but neither of them interested me at all.... but yeah the worldbuilding is cool obviously
my favorite part of beastars was the worldbuilding so overall i liked watching the mangaka treat her world like a playground more than a linear narrative
im currently baking these two into a pie
this movie sucked straight doo doo ass. the girl is ugly. the characters arent compelling. eve needs to stop making bangers for beautiful movies with paper thin plots and straight people have to stop trying to adapt the little mermaid. parkour was cool though
with the exception of we dont talk about bruno i literally could not tell you what a single song from this movie sounded like. like the story and characters are pretty good but the music was SO mid it brought the entire movie down. it made me want to rewatch frozen
i extremely sincerely tried to get into this game for many reasons (chinese media, game to play with friends, clout) but it's just not fun lol and the characters nor story fail to captivate me enough to play barbie with them. also it's like fucking 50000 gb and so fucking stingy like oh boy i've grinded for 5 hours and now i have 1/40th of a pull! if your game takes so long to update you need to be more generous. or if youre gonna be so stingy your game needs to be easy to boot up on a whim and not take 30000 hours every time
yes the character designs are boring and horny yes the writing is boring and horny but i dont care about any of that. that's all very respectable honestly. i hate this game because i suck ass at the puzzles and it made me feel like a fucking idiot
delightful and cozy manga. i enjoy
im reading this cuz i think the salaryman is cute BUT: the crux of it is that i only find the salaryman attractive if he doesn't reciprocate the girl's feelings because i dont think 40 year old men who like women half their age are attractive. it's like that one yuri manga about the schoolgirl seducing her classmate's single mother but it's like i can't even find the single mother attractive because i think a grown woman seriously considering a high schooler as a romantic equal is weird behavior. that's just my opinion though
been following this webcomic since 2018 but it only just wrapped up... what if love was real
it's good
"just you wait for phys-ed" was such a good line it made me leap off my couch. anyways i had a lot of opinions on this one fsr. i know literally everyone is comparing it to the 1996 film and being nostalgia blinded but listen i just watched the 1996 film again like last year and i can confidently say that movie just rules even without nostalgia goggles so im comparing them just as different adaptaions of the same base story.
good: the cast was solid, the songs are good, the movie is whimsicle and fun, matilda being more of a storyteller is cute, trunchbell's hammer throwing tying into her philosophy instead of being just a scary trait is good, the wormwoods' treatment of matilda felt stronger (being an unwanted only child instead of a brother) w her room being the attic. i also loved miss honey's actress, her line in the "when i'm grown up" song made me cry
bad:
the ending sucked ass. if trunchbull was always just going to be defeated through psychic powers then matilda should have just exploded her to death at the start. the reason the 1996 movie ending was so good was because it wasn't a sheer show of strength, it was trunchbull being crushed under the guilt of her OWN actions. things she brought onto HERSELF, karmic retribution. in this movie her comeuppance also didn't feel strong enough; miss honey just tells her she sucks and she leaves. it's so baffling bc it feels like it was so simple: just make "revolting children" be when she gets chased off the premises ? so everyone she abused could have their revenge against her? felt so weird having it after she already left. i think trunchbull's child abuse in this movie being even MORE horrific makes the lack of comeuppance really stink, especially because this movie has MULTIPLE back and forths where you think the kids are getting the upper hand against trunchbull but then it reveals that no she has ultimate control and power and you were stupid for thinking you had a chance. like it does this like 4 times. like we get it.
miss honey's character felt much weaker. in 1996 miss honey takes abuse silently, and you can tell it's because she's so beaten down that she no longer feels like speaking up will make a difference. this is why matilda is such an inspiration to her. in this miss honey is much more outspoken but it actually makes her feel weaker: she's constantly just dismissed and ignored and honestly it gets kinda grating? like in the face of how comical the abuse is a line like "no miss trunchbull you CAN'T put children into the meat grinder! that's wrong and cruel!" is like yeah we know. that. in 1996 it's a big deal when she finally stands up to trunchbull, it's the manifestation of matilda giving her strength to speak up. in this one she just keeps voicing dissent and is constantly ignored until suddenly she's not, not because of her own actions or growth but because matilda exploded trunchbull with her mind. her bond with matilda is so much weaker and it makes the ending where she adopts matilda literally baffling because of my next point:
THE LIBRARIAN is an interesting character, but her presence weakens a lot of things. like first of all how has this presumably smart adult not picked up on the fact that something is wrong with the home life of this 6 year old that has spent the last 3 years with her every waking hour away from home and in her shop? and then her presence makes the miss honey adoption part strange; clearly matilda's bond with the librarian is longer-lasting and stronger than with miss honey's? why didn't SHE adopt her?? not to sound like a dick about it but having an actual reliable adult in matilda's life that she confides in really undermines a lot of her isolation and loneliness
i initially really liked the angle of matilda's little made-up story acting to highlight the parallels between her and miss honey as neglected children waiting for a savior. i really loved how out-there and unrealistic the story was because it really felt like a story a lonely little girl would make up, and showed how she was both very smart (making the connection that miss honey is like her) but still very very young. so the reveal that this was just a manifestation of her psychic powers and this absolutely fucking bonkers story is miss honey's LITERAL BACKSTORY was so fucking stupid it really undermined a lot of its impact.
anyways it was an enjoyable movie but it really just made me think about how perfect the 1996 movie was
this manga is good, well-written and grounded, which makes it gratingly obvious how bad it is
one of those manga that will stick with me forever, i've already gone back to reread it like 5 times. i actually really loved all of the other manga in this anthology too, i keep going back to reread "I Just Love My Fave" because it's so clever and cute and "david in love" is just fun, very fairytale.
watched this on a flight. this movie feels like you got the most talented people to build a beautiful elaborate mansion on top of a sinkhole. like, the worldbuilding the art animation everything is beautiful, but the basic writing premise is so fucking flawed that it seeps through and ruins the entire movie. i feel so pedantic for pointing this out but your movie's basic theme of "trust" is simply wrong? you do not, in fact, owe blind faith and trust to someone who has severely broken your trust in the past and have made no attempts at reparations. like the way the narrative punishes raya horribly for not BLINDLY TRUSTING someone who literally caused the end of the world by betraying her trust in the past is so? baffling? and then even the internal logic doesn't check out theyre like "we need to bring a gift so [] knows we trust them" HEY CAN THEY BRING *US* A GIFT SO *WE* CAN TRUST *THEM*? it was pretty though.
hmm okay. pre-notes for this review: i only played 85 hours of this game and didnt complete *everything*, i did get the true ending though. this review will have spoilers for the true ending and other stuff
so i think the reason botw was so good was because of its atmosphere. botw was absolutely masterful at invoking a sense of isolation and loneliness. link wakes up 100 years after all his friends have died in a barren world that's all but forgotten him. he's on his own surviving in the wildnerness (gameplay), literally chasing ghosts in his pursuit of allies (story). "loneliness" is 100% what botw's magic sauce is, and it is also basically impossible to pull off that same magic sauce twice
im not sure what totk's secret sauce is. it doesn't make sense to have a theme of isolation again because link has allies from the last game and also it's only been like 3 years so everyone still knows him. maybe a guess would be "rebuilding"? that's definitely supported by the gameplay but not so much by the story or environment, really? anyways like it's not vital for totk to have a secret sauce but like. esp after botw it just tonally felt kinda confused to me. like idk what they were going for.
overall the game was good obviously im not gonna say it's bad. but i do have some gripes about it.... i guess i'll just start listing goods and bads
goods
ganon was hot i guess
THE YIGA CLAN WAS SO FUN i was literally smiling so huge during the entire yiga clan throughline i couldnt get enough of them. it was sooooo fun i loved it. and kohga's music was so good. i wish there were more of them it was just so fun it was my favorite part of the game
story was cool
ending fight was REALLY FUN i loved the mechanic of the light dragon catching you in mid-air. and ganon's "I'LL SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO BEAT YOU" was cool. and falling after zelda in the sky and stuff was really cool
the costume design in this game went crazy. every time link had his little legs out i felt insane
building the "rewind" ability into zelda's time power things was very cool
the building gameplay mechanics were flawless and awesome. i didnt really end up utilizing them as much as others but i can acknowledge how insane they were. they put so much pussy into the building mechanics htey forgot to check if the rest of the game SUCKED -->
bads
I KNOWWW LINK HAS TO BE RIGHT HANDED FOR THE MOTION CONTROLS BUT IT WAS SO FUCKED UP OF THEM TO MAKE LINK'S RIGHT ARM FUCKED UP BUT THEN NOT LET HIM HOLD THE SWORD IN HIS LEFT #LEFTYOPPRESSION
DIDN'T EVEN GET TO FIGHT EVIL ZELDA LITERALLY WHAT WAS THE POINT!!! I KNOW SHE WAS A PUPPET AND GONNA DISSOLVE ANYWAYS BUT LIKE I'D ALREADY FOUGHT 590000000 PHANTOM GANONS AT THAT POINT IT'S FUCKING BORING LET ME FIGHT GLOOM ZELDA!! EVERY MAIN STORY QUEST WAS "WOAH ZELDA IS FUCKED UP AND EVIL NOW?!" THEY KEPT BUILDING UP TO THIS EVIL ZELDA AND THEN IT'S LIKE "WOAH IT WAS ACTUALLY GANON--" NO SHIT IT WAS GANON BUT YOU WONT EVEN AT LEAST LET ME FIGHT ZELDA?? LET HER SAY SOMETHIN REALLY FUCKED UP TO LINK LIKE "you abandoned me you couldnt even catch me and now i'm lost to time fuckwad!" AND THEN LINK IS SAD ABOUT IT AND HIS FRIENDS ASSURE HIM THAT WAS JUST AN EVIL ZELDA BUT IT'S ACTUALLY A REFLECTION OF HIS INSECURITIES!!!!!! AND THEN SHE COULD DROP A DARK VERSION OF THE BOTW FINAL BOSS BOW AND IT WOULDVE BEEN FUCKING COOL!!!! FUCK!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WONT EVEN LET YOU FIGHT ZELDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they fucking damselled zelda again!! i know she got to do a lot of cool stuff in the past i guess but they just made her a damsel again!!! i really genuinely feel like this game would've been better if link was damselled and went to the past instead. 1 it's girlboss but 2. then it makes sense why like, you have different purah pad skills, and why you have to re-learn what an apple is. ALSO THEY SET ZELDA UP AS A NERD so it would make sense that she'd become a mechanic and get really into zonai tech!!!!! and you could do this really cool story thing of like "link filled out this compendium when trying to save you" "link saved people here" and it would've done more to flesh out *link's* character. like i didn't like zelda's writing treatment in this game as cool as it was that she got to turn into a dragon. like literally seeing the yiga clan disguising themselves as zelda is such a slap in the face because that's the only time she gets to be in this game. interacting with the overworld. it's sooooo
so no triforce? (SMASHES SKATEBOARD) i mean like it wasnt very prevelant in botw either. and botw was my first zelda game so i know im like not one to talk. but isnt the triforce the whole appeal of the zelda series? that link and zelda and ganon are all three linked by fate, hand in unlovable hand in unlovable hand, that they are born knowing each other? enough with the fucking Secret Rocks i didnt understand that shit at all
the sages in this game were... weird..... like let me explain my process. i first went to goron city because i love yunobo and i wanted to know why he wasn't in the promo art only to find out yunobo had become evil. and i was like ohhhh that's kinda cool so like all the sages turned evil? theyre all gonna have a cool corrupty mask? Sexy corrupt Sidon in my Mouth? No it was just Yunobo who turned evil actually. so then i went to the ritos because the plot clearly wanted you to go to the ritos first and instead of the chief guy from the last game it was his son, cuz the chief guy was busy being chief. and i was like oh how cool! so all the previous sages are going to pass on to their next of kin because theyre busy? so i went to the zora domain where i got CUCKED and i was like dawg this sucks but okay i get it i get the formula now. sidon is busy being chief and he's the only one who can purify the water so he can't come with me, and his newly introduced-out-of-nowhere fiance will be my adventuring companion instead-- No just kidding actually she can stay behind and purify the sludge she was just letting Sidon do that on his own for fun. Sidon is coming with you. And then obviously Riju didn't have any of that. so it's like. STRANGE why did only yunobo turn evil. why was tulin the only new sage. also having the ancestors be some literal nameless faceless Guy was soooooooooooooo fucking lame like i know doing mipha again wouldve been impractical but it just has no emotional weight. i dont know it was just weird and all-around inconsistent. I wish Sidon was evil and sexy and I got to fight him
SAGES WERE WEIRD PART 2: the gameplay of the sages fucking sucked dawg. like sidon's shield is useful but having to FIND AND RUN TO HIM to turn it on fucking sucks. and riju's thing is crazy good but her AI is a CLOSE RANGE FIGHTER and having to run into danger to use a far range attack is like. who fucking approved this. and then every day of my life i press A to pick up an item and accidentally activate tulin and he blows it away. like i wish they were more integrated into the gameplay like the botw sages were, those felt so natural and good. or at least a DIFFERENT BUTTON THAN A these were so clunky and awkward and i hated using themmmmmmmmmm
maybe this is a skill issue but the balance in this game sucked literally for like the first 30 hours i played a red moblin would just smack me ONCE and i'd die and it'd be all fucking over. shit is unplayable if you dont have 72 defense at all times
Yuno. i liked her character enough and her design is cute. But. not to sound like a misogynist but girl LITERALLY served no purpose but to confirm that sidon is 100% not gay. in fact her being the one to give sidon the "youre afraid of losing another you love" pep talk was actually MUCH WEAKER than if a character like sidon's father had given him the talk, because sidon's father 1. actually knew mipha? lol? yuno being introduced out of nowhere means we never saw her interact with mipha and we have no reason to believe she actually fucking knew her lol 2. is himself injured so it holds more weight for sidon. like her being the ONLY new introduced major character related to the sages is so jarring and her literal narrative dead weight makes it obvious she is literally only there because nintendo couldnt handle how much link sidon yaoi there was. ALSO i think sidon hates you now like he doesnt even offer to have you swim on his back anymore. also his AI stayed 500 yards away from me at all times like do you hate me? do you think im ugly?? please come closer so i can finish this puzzle? convinced this is yuno's fault (joking)
they made yunobo a CEO and gave him an ugly little goatee. i would not wish this fate on my worst enemy.
lowkey i think it's funny that every other sage had some kind of growth moment but riju was just chilling
all the sage AI sucked except for tulin my headshotting son but everyone else sucked
true ending sucked. i know they HAD to turn zelda back from being a dragon but i didnt expect it to be as anticlimactic as "oh sonia's time powers whatever whatever whatever" AND THEN THEY ALSO TOOK LINK'S COOL ARM HOW IS HE GOING TO BUILD HIS GADGETS NOW like also if you could've done this why did it take so long. idk i dont really get it it felt so rushed and shoe-in. honestly i kind of expected like, after you defeat ganon for there to be *another* questline to turn zelda back from being a dragon like i get why they didnt but. idk it being so easy to un-draconify her kind of makes her draconification sacrifice feel cheaper and sadder which im sure wasnt their intent but it's how it came off :(
ZELDA TOOK MY FUCKING HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "zelink is canon because this confirms zelda and link live in the same house with one bed--" NO SHE TOOK MY FUCKING HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO BUILD MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE ELSEWHERE SHE TOOK!!!!!!!!!! MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will turn Penn into a Thanksgiving roast with my own two fucking hands
watched nimona. it's wild to see it as a movie as someone who read the original comic as it updated 10 years ago. i feel kind of unfair even critiquing it knowing how hard it had to claw upwards to survive, but i dont want to be pedantic and i dont like the idea of not being able to interact with queer art sincerely just out of pity. also maybe if it didnt want me to criticize it it should've been better lmao. i also reread the original comic too to compare it for this review. original comic's 10/10 (completely not blindsighted by nostalgia
tldr: a lot of attempted emotional payoff but not enough emotional setup OR "cool allegory bro now can you make your movie make logical sense"
there are a lot of good things i liked
movie was about 10000% more gay!! good for them!!!!!
cant state enough how gay this movie was. awesome
eugene lee yang had a brilliant voice acting debut. good for him . all the acting was pretty solid
introducing a lot of more interesting themes with the introduction of bloodlines and inheritence
i liked the thing about the director using nimona being a shapeshifter to draw fear and vision into the common people. that was a cool allegory
there were a lot of cool allegories
honestly i didn't mind most of the changes, i know things need to change between a comic adaptation and a movie. overall the changes don't bother me
animation and colors were on point
bad things
getting rid of blackheart's scientist thing is LAME and it SUCKS like where'd he get that arm from now
not a single joke about goldenloin's name BOOOO
no real come-uppance OR redemption for that dick guard, only a half-hearted attempt at each. man should've died
im going to be so honest. nimona came off as more grating and annoying than spunky and charming. in the comics nimona is loud but in the end reliable. in the movie she never listens which yes i know is the point but like her being annoying is never narratively rewarded, like it never comes out to the greater good, it's never "the way strategic braveheart did it it wouldn't have worked, but luckily nimona being spontaneous and loud made it work" it's just "oh nimona being spontaneous and loud made things more difficult" (except the initial prison break which happens off screen and was not a collaborative effort). like in the comic nimona comes down to blackheart's level: "see? i didn't kill him!" but in this movie it's all him going up to her level, they never meet mid-way. it makes me pissed off at her
nimona's emotional just breakdown doesn't make sense to me. in the comics her breakdown is literally a result of being physically tortured. it is extremely strong suspension of disbelief that after 1000 years just BEING CALLED a "monster" still bothers her so much it causees that level of breakdown. like she even straightup says to braveheart during the arrow scene "i'm not people", i don't get what her relationship is to being a shapeshifter. and even if it's the argument that "oh the hurt is because it's coming from someone she loves so it's a betrayal of trust", like, she's only known blackheart for like what 2 weeks???? speaking of
i never really got a part where i felt like nimona and blackheart had that bond click. like i have no ide awhen and how the transition from "nuisance" to "reliable sidekick" happens, one second boldheart thinks she's annoying and the next he's defending her to his ex. in the comics this is done really well by having blackheart think nimona dies in that first escape, like even if she's annoying the idea that she might've literally been killed is a really fast and efficient way to get him to care about her. in this one like. she keeps making plans go awry over and over and doing things in ways that blackheart clearly doesn't like. and then randomly he decides to like her so he can make a funny quip to goldenloins. it makes no sense to me
the director's plan was fucking stupid. PUBLICALLY ASSASSINATING THE QUEEN is so laughably disruptive when your goal is to maintain the social order like girl what did you think would happen. i cannot get over how stupid the director was. it was kinda slay when she tried to kil goldenloin though im ngl . idk a lot about the director was so weird. like "now that nimona isnt a big dragon anymore im still gonna fire the cannon and kill innocents" bro just fucking get one of the knights in those drones to shoot her she's like 4 feet tall. i just didn't like her character in this she wasn't good at being evil and she wasn't fun at being evil either
uhhh the gay allegory throughout was pretty cool and all. but am i supposed to come away with the implication that "if you do not accept people who are other they will become monsters and try to kill you" because that's all i came away from it with
i think goldenloin's refusal to immediately believe in blackheart wholeheartedly was so odd. especially now that they were lovers at the time. like i actually would've believed it more if they were still in the crushing stage because at that stage you don't know if you really *know* the other person, but a lover is someone you trust whole-heartedly. like im sure goldenloin has baggage so it's not that i *can't* believe he'd choose the institution over his lover, i just wish it was explored and explained a little more
Like okay not to be all cinemasins about it but why would you have braveheart try to show goldenloin the damning director evidence IN FRONT OF THE DIRECTOR SHE IS RIGHT. THERE. TO DESTROY THE EVIDENCE. like beyond being mind-numbingly and distractingly STUPID, having the director *literally* whispering dissent into goldenloin's ear completely removes his agency and weakens his character beat. like it's MUCH MORE INTERESTING if braveheard did everything right, showed goldenloin the evidence in private with no outside influence, and *still* have goldenloin choose the institution! it would make that betrayal feel much more raw if goldenloin is doing it out of his own agency. like it's just stuff like this that makes me want to slam my head into the wall like the logistics of it completely take you out of the scene and that makes the emotional allegory weaker as well !!!!
nimona's backstory was weird. so like... was the legend a mistranslation/exaggeration? gloreth wasn't a brilliant knight but just a small girl? or did gloreth slay nimona AGAIN after they'd grown up? and like...... why did she say that????? lmao??????? i really don't buy that gloreth wouldve just turned on nimona after watching all the villagers start beating her up for literally no reason. i realize it's an allegory but at least give me a shot of her parents whispering to her while nimona is asleep or something, or some indication that it's a priority for gloreth to remain accepted by the villagers/secure her future/etc. like it feels like it so came out of nowhere so the basis just doesnt make sense
idk like i'm willing to overlook a lot of logical stuff for satisfying themes and allegory and good character development but i feel like this only introduced the themes of otheredness and the LGBTQ allegories that come with it and they didn't pay off or tie well into the plot. and a lot of sequences didn't make logical or emotional sense to me. also like the general disneyification of it all like the dance sequence when they were undermining the institution and radicalizing the people? weird. like in my head im comparing it to spiderverse and the last wish which were also silly kids movies but had good emotional and logical beats AND good consistent themes and allegories that paid off! idk shrugs like i'm really really happy it exists. i can be happy a movie exists and also think it's kinda mid i think, i think it's just a result of too many chefs in the kitchen that can't pull off a singular Themed Thing the same way one comic artist can. shrugs
i wish date hadn't said all that about iris. it'd be basically a perfect story if he hadn't
really good game, the themes and thesises were good. the iris route was a miserable fucking experience and i hated it but the hitomi route retroactively made it fucking hilarious so i'll forgive it. i also think i only enjoyed this game as much as i did because i got lone to play most of the somnium parts for me. i really disliked the somnium portions. i realize it's the core part of the game, and it ties well into everything else so i don't really know if anything could've been Done or Fixed about it? but it was so unintuitive and honestly it doesn't even make much sense. if we can't use this evidence in court why are we doing it lololol what is a subconscious supposed to say about anything. last night i had a dream about hitting someone with a car boss would have me in the interrogation room for that?? lol
oh also the alternate timeline thing tying into the murder mystery resolution was like... whatever. idk. it was whatever. i didn't really like it but whatever
"and god's a liar, too!" this line had me screaming and throwing up
loved all* the characters, loved the story, great murder mystery payoff imo, game was beautiful, worldbuilding was really good and the themes and stuff were very clever and thought out, voice acting was really good, gameplay SUCKED ASS!!!!! but i didn't play them so i enjoyed it. i would recommend everyone watch a playthrough of ai the somnium files. lol
*she's a good character but to be so honest i did not enjoy iris's presence. about 10 hours into the game lone pulled me aside to watch the ARG because "if I hadn't watched the ARG i don't think I would've liked Iris very much in the game" but it was too late i had already started to dislike iris. and also her route was insufferable. but overall she's a good character i just wish there was less That with her... but also she just pissed me off like day 3 of not getting her testimony about who visited her i was ready to kill her myself. the worst thing a character can be in a murder mystery is purposely unhelpful. and i wish she had shorts
