Trabia Garden (original) (raw)

| I've just played The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, on the recommendation of two separate people who thought it seemed like my sort of thing.It is, it turns out, exactly my sort of thing.The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is a game about the fucked-up and murderous adventures of a pair of codependent, traumatised, isolated siblings, a concept so calculated to appeal to me that it's a wonder I've ever bothered to play anything else. I love sibling relationships, I love characters being isolated in tense situations together, and the game kicked off with 'so, hey, these siblings have been trapped alone in their home for months'.I was in love within twenty minutes. I'd barely played for an hour before I was sketching out fanfiction.More detailed thoughts under the cut! Heads-up: I ended up shipping the murder siblings, and you will find discussion of (fictional) incest here.( Thoughts on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.Collapse )And with that I've played all of the game currently available!Wow. It's been a while since I came across a story that felt so laser-targeted at me. 'Dark content, an irreverent tone, genuine and intense emotion' is such a good combination; it's why I fell so hard for Danganronpa as well.I don't know when the remaining chapters will be released, but I love the hell out of the ones we have so far. Awful stuff in the best way.Tags:andy and leyley, avatar, dangan ronpa, first impressions In retrospect, my entry into the Metaphor: ReFantazio fandom may have been slightly disconcerting. I started out with two cute fics about the most popular pairing, so it's possible people were expecting my third offering to be another cute protagonist/Strohl fic, rather than 'all the party members have to bang in order to give each other superpowers'.People who don't know me already, I mean. I don't imagine the unromantic everyone/everyone fic surprised anyone here.(I got so excited when I thought up an excuse to get everyone to sleep together! I originally considered 'the protagonist has to sleep with everyone who joins the party', but then I realised that 'each party member has to sleep with the next person to join' had more potential for a fun variety of dynamics; it means nobody really has a chance to get used to it, and some of them are going to feel a lot more awkward about the prospect than others.)Now that I think about it, I write about characters having unromantic sex pretty frequently! This year alone, I've written multiple fics about characters having sex for non-romantic reasons. Hold on; I'm going to tally these up. (None of these are very explicit.)- Power Exchange (Metaphor: ReFantazio, everyone/everyone, having sex to transfer magical powers)- New Experiences (Death Note, Light/Ryuk, having sex to prove you can)- Above It All (Danganronpa, Togami/Kirigiri, having sex in an effort to gain the upper hand)- Closing the Circle (If We Were Villains, Oliver/everyone, having sex with other people to distract yourself from the person you're in love with)- One Lucky Resident (Scrubs, Cox/Elliot, having sex to get the idea out of your system)- The Fourth Temper (Severance, Mark/Helly, having anonymous sex as part of a workplace ritual, NB consent issues)Six??? Six fics about characters having sex for non-romantic reasons this year? Oh, wow, I write about this a lot more than I'd realised.It might actually be seven. I'm not sure whether to count Regrets (Final Fantasy XVI, Clive/Joshua, NB incest); Joshua is genuinely attracted to Clive, but Clive only acquiesces out of a sense of obligation to him.It's a fun concept, in any case! When two characters aren't actually attracted to each other, they're unlikely to end up in bed together organically, which is always an interesting challenge to overcome. I enjoy writing about characters having awkward and tense interactions, and forcing them to have an 'uhhhh, hey, I know this prospect probably hasn't crossed your mind, but we should have sex' conversation is a great source of those. I'd say 'I should write this sort of thing more often', but it turns out I already write this sort of thing a lot.Tags:dangan ronpa, death note, fanfiction, final fantasy, final fantasy xvi, if we were villains, metaphor refantazio, on writing, scrubs, severance "Riona, why did you come up with a fic concept straight out of a porn film if you can only write fade-to-black sex?"It's a curse. I can't explain myself. I hope you enjoy this nonetheless.I'm only up to September in-game, so I apologise if I've left out any party members who join later on! I also apologise to Heismay, who got left out of the banging because I forgot about him until I'd planned out the Hulkenberg/Junah scene.Title: Power ExchangeFandom: Metaphor: ReFantazioRating: 15Relationships: everyone/everyone, pretty much!Wordcount: 2,900Summary: “You were the one who awakened that ability in Strohl,” More says. “Traditionally, the power to use Archetypes is passed from person to person through physical intimacy.”Content notes: Consensual voyeurism.( Power ExchangeCollapse )Tags:fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time), metaphor refantazio By popular demand, here's another entry on Metaphor: ReFantazio! (When I say 'popular demand', I mean that Jes told me to post this. It takes very little pressure to get me to talk about videogames.)We're just about to leave Virga Island. No real plot spoilers below the cut, but you might want to avoid this entry if you don't want to know which characters have joined your party by this point.( Notes on Metaphor: ReFantazio.Collapse )I'm still absolutely loving this game. I hadn't even heard of it before the demo came out; it's been such a great surprise!Tags:conversational adventures, featuring guest star tem, metaphor refantazio Finally picked up and finished my replay of NEO: The World Ends with You from a couple of years ago!( Notes on NEO: The World Ends with You.Collapse )On a replay, I think my overall feelings on this game remain much the same. It tries to be a new story and a direct sequel simultaneously, with the result that it doesn't quite succeed in being either of those things; the returning characters ultimately just overshadow the new characters, and the two story threads distract from each other until they both end up feeling incomplete.That said, I had a great time playing it! It's a very fun, playful, stylish game. I love how lively and entertaining the dialogue is, and Fret is a delight.I'd love to see another World Ends with You game at some point. There's nothing else quite like this series.Tags:someone should probably write that, the world ends with you I've finally watched the television adaptation of The Last of Us!As someone who's played the original game multiple times, it's sort of fascinating to watch this adaptation. I've seen television series that were inspired by videogames before - I'm thinking here of Pokémon and The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog - but in those cases the games were story-light and the television series very much did its own thing. This is the first time I've seen a direct screen adaptation of a videogame's story, and it's very interesting to see what was added or changed.Given my familiarity with the game, I kept expecting way more fight sequences! It's a struggle to remember that this is a show, and it's (very sensibly) going to limit fight scenes to what's necessary for the story and atmosphere, rather than throwing them in frequently to challenge the player.Joel and Ellie are both very well cast. Pascal both looks and feels very like the game's Joel. Facially, Ramsey and Ellie look very different, but Ramsey's styling and performance - their vocal performance in particular - help the character to feel like the Ellie from the game.( More thoughts on the adaptation of The Last of Us, with spoilers (nothing beyond the show).Collapse )It's interesting to see the videogame's setting in live action! At points, the television sets evoke the game so closely that I've found myself thinking the show must have been filmed in the same place, and then I've had to remind myself that the game, uh, wasn't filmed. You cannot put the actors inside the world of your game to film the adaptation. That world exists on a small disc, and the actors will not fit in it.Tags:the last of us Here are a handful of ficlets I’ve written recently, in response to prompts on Tumblr! Fandoms: Taskmaster, Death Note, Final Fantasy VIII, The Quarry, Omori.( Taskmaster, Alex/Greg, 280 words.Collapse ) ( Death Note, L/Light/Ryuk, 150 words.Collapse ) ( Death Note: Light/reader??, 280 words.Collapse ) ( Death Note: Light and L, road trip, 280 words.Collapse ) ( Final Fantasy VIII: Squall/Rinoa/Zell, only one bed, 460 words.Collapse ) ( The Quarry, Travis/Laura, first kiss, 480 words.Collapse ) ( The Quarry, Travis/Laura, post-breakup, 130 words.Collapse ) ( Omori, Sunny/Basil, 270 words.Collapse )I’m glad I’ve kept up my tradition of writing a little bit every day in November; it’s been good to have something to focus on. I haven’t written anything for today yet; I’m going to have to think of something!Tags:death note, fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time), final fantasy, final fantasy viii, omori, taskmaster, the quarry I wrote my recent Omori fic A Helping Hand very quickly; it went from a mental image to a complete (if short) oneshot within an afternoon.Because of this, I've got an unusually clear view of how this fic developed! I thought it might be interesting to note down a bit about the writing process while it's still fresh in my mind.Like the fic itself, these notes contain spoilers for Omori and mentions of fictional suicidal ideation.( Analysing the writing process for my Omori fic.Collapse )This fic was a little unusual in that I wrote it almost from beginning to end; my writing process is usually a lot less linear! But, in the way I started with a vague idea and just expanded on it until I saw an opportunity to tie things together, it's a pretty accurate reflection of how I usually develop a fic. This is why I usually write one-shots; I don't have the advance planning skills to write something both coherent and long!Tags:fanfiction, omori, on writing This fic basically exists because I've been haunted by the mental image of the red hands dragging or holding Sunny down, which is really an image that feels better suited for fanart. But, alas, I cannot draw! So you're getting fanfiction instead.Believe it or not, this wasn't actually intended to be a Kel/Sunny fic - I'm not a Kel/Sunny shipper! - but I cannot deny that it somehow ended up radiating Kel/Sunny vibes, so feel free to interpret their relationship however you'd like.Title: A Helping HandFandom: OmoriRating: 14Wordcount: 1,400Summary: He remembers, vividly, the first time the hands came for him.Warnings: Suicidal ideation, trauma, full-game spoilers for Omori.( A Helping HandCollapse )Tags:fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time), omori I've been trying to think of an author's note to explain or excuse this, but I think all I can do is drop it in front of you and hope you enjoy it.Title: New ExperiencesFandom: Death NoteRating: 15Pairing: Light/Ryuk, slight Light/L implicationsWordcount: 1,000Summary: Ryuk shrugs. “It’s, uh... I think the rule says it’s neither permitted nor possible for us to have sex with humans.”Warnings: Includes brief and non-explicit mention of a necrophilia fantasy.( New ExperiencesCollapse )Tags:death note, fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time) We had a home karaoke evening on Saturday!This karaoke session was very loosely Hallowe'en themed. Sometimes we stuck to the theme; Rei opened with a magnificent rendition of 'Margaret Thatcher, Blood Snatcher' by THWACK!, and Tem's 'Hell Is Forever' from Hazbin Hotel and 'Rest in Peace' from Buffy were great fun. Sometimes we came up with loose excuses; 'What's scarier than capitalism?' Rei asked, before launching into 'Six Feet' by Patent Pending.My songs, which, I'll be honest, made very little effort to stick to the theme:- 'Want You Bad' by The Offspring. This is a song I find hilarious, and I always try to do something I won't have to take too seriously first; it takes some of the pressure off!- 'Empire' by Of Monsters and Men. I was listening to this a couple of days earlier when Tem wandered in and went 'wait, what were those lyrics??' The lyrics in question were 'an empire for you, an empire for two' and not, as Tem had heard, 'I wanna fuck you; you wanna fuck too.'- 'Feeling Kinda Naughty' from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. In my experience, if you have a karaoke evening, one of the songs will end up stuck in your head for days afterwards. On this occasion, the lingering earworm is 'Feeling Kinda Naughty'. I keep catching myself singing 'I wanna lock you in a basement with soundproof walls and take over your identity,' which, let's be honest, is probably something I should avoid saying too loudly in company. Tem also did a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song, 'You Stupid Bitch', which was quite an event.- 'The Numbers' by Rise Against. This is, by some distance, the most intense song I have ever attempted at karaoke; I was shaking by the end of it. I'm famously incapable of breaking rules or hurting anyone, but my housemates very considerately did not laugh in my face for singing a song about violent revolution.- 'My Shiny Teeth and Me' by Chip Skylark, from The Fairly OddParents; I needed something silly to calm myself down after the violent revolution song!- 'Wonderful' by Everclear. I was not originally planning on this and did not practise in advance, and I startled myself by getting slightly choked up in the chorus! Very embarrassing. It's not even a song applicable to my own childhood; I just got emotional!- 'Hurricane' from the Death Note musical. It is a joy and a privilege to inhabit my terrible boy Light Yagami. Great fun to slowly build up the intensity until eventually bellowing 'I AM THE GOD OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD.' Tem handed me a notebook to hold throughout the song for greater authenticity.- 'Falling After Me' by Koethe, with Rei. I'm so pleased I managed to get Rei into Koethe's music through previous karaoke sessions! This was a lot of fun to sing together. We danced enthusiastically in the breaks.- 'The Emptiness Machine' by Linkin Park, also with Rei. I'm thrilled that Linkin Park are making music again! I took Shinoda's part and left Armstrong's part to Rei; I am not confident in my metal screaming skills.- 'Ghosts' by Mike Shinoda. Well, I had to do something appropriate for Hallowe'en. There are videos with lyrics out there, which might have been more useful for karaoke, but I was compelled to play the original music video because it's so cute.- 'Secrets and Lies' from the Death Note musical. Tem attempted to sit like L at the start of this and fell off the sofa, which, in retrospect, we should probably have foreseen. Why does L sit like that?? It's not stable!- The Jenn Fiorentino cover of 'Voices Off Camera' by Rise Against. People were really nice about my attempt at this one!- 'Wolves Without Teeth' by Of Monsters and Men. I wasn't originally planning to do this one - I usually try to avoid doing two songs by the same artist in one karaoke session - but I'm glad I ran out of other ideas and went with this, because I really enjoyed singing it! A few other notes from the evening:- Rei's performance of 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads was fun; the whole room joined in on the chorus! I'd only heard the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's cover and was confused by the lack of ukuleles in gaps in the singing.- J did 'Everywhere I Go' by Hollywood Undead. I enjoyed watching Tem desperately trying not to lose it laughing at the lyric 'I'll beat my meat like I'm a fucking butcher'.- Tem sang 'Rondo of Nightmare' by BABYMETAL. It's always fun when Tem does BABYMETAL songs and, even if I've never technically listened to them before, I instantly recognise them from hearing them float through the house; Tem and Ginger both listen to them a lot! I also really enjoyed Tem's performance of 'Bubblegum Bitch' by Marina and the Diamonds, even if it might technically not be as appropriate for Hallowe'en.- J did 'Bring Me to Life' by Evanescence, so the whole room got to belt out 'SAVE ME' in the choruses, which was good fun! We all did a group performance of 'In the End' by Linkin Park towards the end, and, to be honest, we all sang with such volume and passion that the microphones were completely unnecessary.Tags:crazy ex-girlfriend, death note, featuring guest star tem, karaoke, linkin park, music, real life (there's a rarity), rei is prince of cats It's time for one of those posts where I ramble about an aspect of videogames! I've been thinking about how videogames guide the player to where they need to go.My first experience with videogames, if I recall correctly, was the Sonic the Hedgehog games we had for our SEGA Master System II. Working out where you're supposed to go in a 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game is pretty simple. There are two directions: left and right. When you start the level, Sonic is facing right. Go right.'The character is facing in the direction you need to go' is simple and clear. You'll see it in a lot of sidescrolling platformers, such as the Donkey Kong Country series and early Mario games. Unfortunately, as environments become more complex, 'just point the character in the correct direction at the start of an area, and the player can just continue in that direction until the area is finished' becomes less helpful.I was eleven years old when I played Pokémon Red. It was my first RPG. It wasn't sidescrolling; you could move in four directions. But, to start with, I was able to deduce where I needed to go.In Pokémon Red, you start in your bedroom, which has one exit. Great; obviously I left the room. You talk to your mum, who says that Professor Oak, next door, is looking for you. Perfect; I know where I'm supposed to be going. I left the house and went to the building next door, which, according to the sign outside, was Oak's research lab.In the lab, Oak's grandson told me that he wasn't there.I was extremely confused.Was I... was I supposed to wait for Professor Oak?What you're supposed to do is try to leave town, at which point Oak will show up and tell you it's dangerous. The game designers had assumed the player would want to explore, and would naturally end up taking the road out of town. But they'd made the mistake of giving me a clear but unachievable goal: meet Professor Oak in his lab. Professor Oak was not in his lab. Therefore, I concluded I was expected to wait for his return.I just checked whether the FireRed remake changed this sequence at all. The answer: it doesn't change the dialogue, but it does make a small visual change to the path out of town - removing the long grass for the first couple of steps - to make it clearer that it's a path, and Oak now shows up just before you actually enter the grass, rather than just afterwards. If you're playing the original for the first time and don't know how to interpret the 'long grass' texture, you might not realise you can walk on it at all.It's easy to slip up when you're trying to guide the player, particularly if they're a new player and not yet fully acquainted with the conventions of games! But there are a lot of tools developers use to tell the player where to go next, both obvious and subtle. For example:- The character faces the direction you need to go, as mentioned. This tends to be most useful in 2D games where the possible directions are tightly limited.- You're told where to go with an icon on a map, or overlaid onto the environment. This is common in open-world games, where the environment is vast and freely explorable. If 'run two hundred miles away from the objective and do something else' is an option, you need to make sure the player will always be able to track the objective down easily, regardless of where they are in the game world. This is a very reliable way of making sure the player can get where they need to go, but it can be immersion-breaking, so some games, such as Assassin's Creed or Horizon Zero Dawn, come up with an in-world explanation for why these helpful 'your destination is here' icons exist.- You're told where to go through dialogue. This is pretty straightforward. For example, at the start of Final Fantasy VIII, Quistis tells you to go to the Fire Cavern and that it's 'east of here'. Unfortunately, there's no way to double-check this instruction; if the player gets distracted exploring the nearby town, they might forget where they're supposed to be going. I once had to restart Final Fantasy VII from the beginning because I'd set it down for too long and I had no idea where I had to go next. Final Fantasy IX is the first Final Fantasy game that really accounts for the possibility that the player will forget their destination; if you visit any marsh in the world, you can ask the moogle there for directions.- A companion indicates where to go. You'll see this in the Uncharted series, where the protagonist is often travelling with allies. Sometimes your ally will travel ahead of you, so you just need to follow them. Sometimes they'll just stand near where you're supposed to be going, as a way of drawing your attention to it. Occasionally, if you've lingered in the same area for too long and the game concludes you're not sure where you're meant to be going, your companion will call to you to point out, for example, a ladder.- You're told where to go using light. This is a useful one for dark sequences. If you shine a light on the door the player needs to go through, the player's attention will be drawn to the light and they'll notice that, oh, hey, there's a doorway there.- You're told where to go using bright, eye-catching colours. When you're looking around an area in The Last of Us, the way out is often marked with yellow, e.g. you'll need to pass through a gate that has torn yellow caution tape attached to it. In games where you're expected to climb, climbable ledges on a dark wall or cliff face will often be white to contrast with the background. As with the use of light, the goal is to catch the player's eye and make them realise there's a way to progress over here.- You're not told where to go. The player is expected to explore with minimal guidance until they stumble across their destination; they may be given a map that fills itself in as they explore, so they can check where they haven't yet been. You'll see this in survival horror games, which are designed to keep the player uncertain and off-balance. It works best in enclosed environments, such as a building; if an environment is too large and open, it can be frustrating and confusing to try to find where you're meant to be going. In the case of Silent Hill 2, I can navigate the hospital or the hotel, but I often get lost when I'm in the streets of the town.Those are the player guidance methods I can think of! Let me know if you have any to add.There are definitely things I haven't covered here. For example, I'm sure game designers have clever ways of indicating 'this is a surface you can stand on' versus 'this is just part of the background', but they're so clever I can't pin them down. I suppose Spyro games will visibly put gems in out-of-the-way places to indicate to the player that it's possible to get there; I wonder what strategies less collectible-heavy games use.Tags:final fantasy, final fantasy ix, final fantasy viii, oh younger self, pokémon, spyro, the last of us, uncharted H-how many fics is a normal number of fics to write when you're only a fifth of the way through the game?Here's another Strohl/protagonist fic for Metaphor: ReFantazio, in any case, because there are not enough fanworks for these two. I realise 'the game has only been out for a week and nobody's had time to finish it' is a pretty solid reason for the lack of fanworks, but it's my duty to rectify this regardless. No spoilers.Title: Shape of the HeartFandom: Metaphor: ReFantazioRating: PG-13Pairing: Strohl/protagonistWordcount: 1,700Summary: Will breathes out, slowly, a little unsteadily. Things might be different in the world of his book. But the idea of being desired here, now, in a world that despises him—**( Shape of the HeartCollapse )Tags:fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time), metaphor refantazio 'Riona, relatively speaking, you're still extremely early in this game. You cannot start writing fanfiction already. You have no idea what you're doing.'True! And yet here I am. I really want to get to grips with these characters, and writing fanfiction seems like the best way to do it!I originally called the protagonist Kai (the name he has in my playthrough) while writing this, but, on learning his default name is Will, I've gone with that instead, just because it seems likely to be more comfortable for readers. Fortunately, very few English words contain the letter sequence 'kai'; you can find-and-replace the name Kai much more easily than the name, say, Mark, without the concern that you might accidentally change 'remarked' into 'reWilled'.Title: Close ContactFandom:** Metaphor: ReFantazioRating: GPairing: Strohl/protagonist (implied)Wordcount: 1,000Summary: “Will?” Strohl asks. “Room in the tub for two. Do you fancy a wash?”Warnings: Mentions of canon-typical fantasy racism. No real spoilers, but this fic will make more sense if you've reached the point at which you obtain the gauntlet runner.( Close ContactCollapse )Tags:fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time), metaphor refantazio The full game of Metaphor: ReFantazio is now out, and I continue to have a great time with it! Atlus games tend to be on the hard side, so I'm playing on easy mode, which I'm personally finding to have a satisfying level of challenge.If you're on the lookout for a mediaeval fantasy RPG, I can recommend trying out the demo; you can transfer your save data to the full version, and it definitely showcases enough of the game to help you decide whether it's up your street! In fact, the demo took me eleven hours to finish. A trailer played at the end, and I went, 'Do you... really think you still need to sell this game to me? I've been playing for eleven hours; I think you can safely assume that I'm enjoying it.'Strohl, on discovering the existence of a washroom on the runner, was cheerfully willing to strip off in front of his companions to make use of it. Hulkenberg was scandalised by this prospect. I'm just making a note because 'Strohl thinks nothing of being nude in front of his friends' is a valuable detail for fanfiction.I can't say for certain whether I'll end up writing Metaphor: ReFantazio fanfiction. I'd like to! I definitely ship Strohl with the protagonist in theory; as with Yosuke and Ryuji before him, it's clear that Strohl met the protagonist and fell in love with him straight away. But the protagonist isn't giving me any sense of personality yet, and I don't want my fanfiction to come across as 'Strohl is in love with a block of wood'.Thinking about this was part of the reason I made yesterday's post about which silent protagonists I find interesting. The protagonist of Metaphor: ReFantazio is not technically silent, but he's definitely a silent protagonist in spirit. Hopefully I'll get more of a sense of his personality as the game goes on!And, if not, maybe I'll get desperate and write Strohl/protagonist fanfiction, but in an AU in which the protagonist of Metaphor: ReFantazio is Joker from Persona 5.Actually, that's an incredible idea. Someone rewrite the entire game with Joker at the head of the party.On a final note: it's very funny that the fast travel system in this game involves actual canonical teleportation, and that the characters notice and are weirded out by this.Tags:metaphor refantazio, on writing, persona, persona 5, someone should probably write that I've been thinking recently about silent protagonists.It tends to put me off trying a videogame if the protagonist is silent. I often find it hard to get invested in silent protagonists, and that can really impair my enjoyment of a game. If I'm going to spend hours inhabiting a particular character, I'd like to care about that character!However, in recent years, I've discovered a couple of silent protagonists who really clicked for me. I thought it might be interesting - for me, if no one else - to consider which silent protagonists work for me, and what makes them work.Therefore: here's a list of silent protagonists from games I've played, in roughly descending order of fondness!I'm defining 'silent protagonist' here as a character who hits both of the following points:a) They are unvoiced or minimally voiced. They might have voiced action grunts or brief battle quotes, but they're never going to say an eloquent line of dialogue aloud.b) If they speak at all, it's exclusively or almost exclusively through occasional dialogue options chosen by the player. They don't paraphrase or elaborate on the dialogue option; the text in the option is all you get.I've omitted characters from games I never really played enough of to form a strong impression of the protagonist, e.g. Bloodborne and the various Zelda games I've unsuccessfully attempted to get into. I've also probably omitted some characters just because they slipped my mind.Silent protagonists I love: Protagonist (Persona 5). I've never seen another silent protagonist with quite as much personality as Joker. Plenty of voiced protagonists don't have as much personality as Joker. His animations are stylish and distinctive; his dialogue options are frequently hilarious. He's a bold, playful, sarcastic little shit and I love him.Sunny (Omori). The game really immerses you in Sunny's head, in a very literal way. Although he never speaks, I got a strong impression of his fears and delusions and psychological struggles, and I ended up getting very attached to this kid. Omori doesn't typically give you choices more complex than 'yes/no', but I found it interesting that the game would sometimes offer yes/no choices as a way of indicating hesitation, fear or reluctance; there are times when just the fact that you're being offered the choice tells you something about Sunny's character, because it means he's torn between the two options.Kris (Deltarune). I find Kris fascinating. There's something so strange and dark and unsettling about them, and the glimpses we get of their character paint an interestingly complicated picture. They're lonely, they're bored, they're an outcast, they're sentimental, they have a cruel streak, their friends mean a lot to them. The player, in their role as the one controlling the protagonist, is able to make Kris do things against their will, but it's unclear how Kris feels about the player's presence overall. I'm so interested to see how the rest of Deltarune goes.Silent protagonists I like: Chell (Portal). Chell is truly silent, never gets so much as a dialogue option, but the gameplay conveys an impression of her character as relentlessly determined. She also stands out to me for being a female silent protagonist, which I haven't seen many of! It often feels like protagonists aren't allowed to be female unless there's somehow a reason for them to be female, so I appreciate the fact that Chell is a woman despite the fact that, if she were a man, pretty much nothing about the game would change. She's not a woman for plot purposes. She's not a woman for eye candy purposes; it's a first-person game and you almost never see her on screen. She just happens to be a woman.Protagonist (Persona 3). I'm talking about the original game here, as I haven't yet played Reload. The Persona 3 protagonist doesn't have anywhere near the amount of personality that comes through in Persona 5's protagonist, but I still got a slight impression of his character. The Persona 3 protagonist generally comes across to me as clueless and eager to please, which is mildly endearing.Protagonist (Persona 4). Again, I only got a faint sense of personality from Persona 4's protagonist, but there's still enough there for me to pick up on something: a quiet, serious kid who cares very strongly about his friends.Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog). Sonic gets an unfair advantage here because I used to watch The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and read Sonic the Comic! But his animations still give him some cute personality as a silent protagonist, e.g. the way he gets visibly impatient if you leave him motionless.Amaterasu (Okami). I considered putting Amaterasu in the 'basically indifferent to, but they get points for being cute' tier below! But, in addition to being cute, she gets extra points for the touch of personality in her reactions, and in being able to bite anyone. Stanley (The Stanley Parable). As with Chell, Stanley is truly and completely silent, but the nature of the gameplay gives you an impression of his character: rebellious, contrary, curious.Silent protagonists I'm basically indifferent to, but they get points for being cute: Ori (Ori and the Blind Forest). Ori is, to be fair, very cute, and a little personality comes across in the story cutscenes. It's possible I'm ranking Ori down slightly because I hated the ending of Ori and the Will of the Wisps so much that it impacted my feelings about the entire series.Dixie/Donkey/Diddy Kong (Donkey Kong Country). There's some personality in their animations, but I never became invested in them as characters.Silent protagonists I'm indifferent to: Frisk (Undertale). There's some cute personality in some of the ACT options, but overall I didn't get especially attached to Frisk.Jak (Jak & Daxter). In the first game, I had no real interest in Jak; the most interesting thing about him is probably the fact that this quiet kid is friends with the non-stop chatterbox Daxter. (Which works out pretty well; as a quiet kid, I found it comfortable to be friends with other kids who were happy to talk without much input from me!) In Jak II he gained the ability to talk (and a lot of trauma) and immediately became a lot more interesting to me!Reycho (World's End Club). This kid has basically no personality, but he escapes last place because he joined in the stupid 'A human, a human, a human!' dance that made me crack up.Mario (Super Mario series). Mario is, of course, a classic videogame protagonist who has starred in a lot of well-crafted games! But I do not care about him as a character.Separately, there's a 'this isn't a character; this is just me' section that doesn't really fit into the fondness ranking:Protagonist (Pokémon). The protagonist of Pokémon games is just me. It's a kid, and it's often a boy; in Pokémon games where you choose the protagonist's gender, I'll just go with whichever protagonist I prefer the design of. But it's still me.When I'm playing as a boy in Pokémon games, I usually name the protagonist Rakuni. (If I'm playing as a girl, of course, I'll go with Riona.) But 'Bulby is the protagonist's Bulbasaur' or 'Bulby is Rakuni's Bulbasaur' would be an absolutely insane thing to say. Bulby is my Bulbasaur.There are Pokémon protagonist designs I like more than others; my favourite is the male protagonist (Hilbert) in Pokémon Black. But I can't rank the characters by fondness; they're all just me.I'm not sure what conclusions I can draw from this exercise!I suppose, looking back over this list, I find it interesting that my three favourite silent protagonists each caught my attention in different ways. Joker's personality shines through in his charming animations and fun dialogue options. Sunny's trauma and inner thoughts are conveyed to the player through the game's environments and mechanics. Kris is a mystery who you learn about primarily through the way other characters react to or talk about them.So I suppose there are multiple ways to create an interesting silent protagonist! It's still rare for games to present me with a silent protagonist who really catches my attention, but it's good to know that it can be done.Tags:jak, okami, omori, persona, persona 3, persona 4, persona 5, pokémon, portal, undertale, world's end club I was not at all psychologically prepared for how weird the release of the Silent Hill 2 remake would be.The original Silent Hill 2 permanently rewired my psyche when I was sixteen. It's responsible for half my taste in fiction. So many of the characters I love, so many of the things I've written, they can all be traced back to James Sunderland. I have been insane about this specific fictional character for twenty years.And suddenly he's everywhere! Suddenly everyone is talking about this character who was wildly, catastrophically formative for me!I haven't played the remake yet, so I don't know whether it will click for me! Whether it does or not, though, it's great to see a brand new generation of gamers falling into the pit I've lived in for so long. Welcome to the world of Being Weird About James Sunderland. Here's to the next twenty years.This morning, I saw that hamsterwoman had posted a collection of character-specific meme questions, and this seemed like a great opportunity to express some of the feelings I have about this disaster of a fictional man.There are full-game spoilers for Silent Hill 2 below the cut. As I haven't played the remake, I'm speaking about the James of the original game; I'll be interested to learn how similar or different the remake James feels!( It is once again time for me to talk about James Sunderland.Collapse )Tem, Ginger and I have been watching a Let's Play of the first Silent Hill game. After the awkwardly voiced first conversation between Harry and Dahlia:Riona: You see, my big concern about the Silent Hill 2 remake is... Tem: ...what if the voice acting is too good?Riona: Exactly! It won't be the same with actual professional voice actors.Tem: These characters aren't supposed to be voiced by people who know what they're doing!Riona: The awkward voice acting between James and Angela really gets across the fact that these characters are trying to have a conversation while barely being capable of registering the fact that anyone else exists. Their interactions feel deeply weird, and they should, because these characters are not normal.(pause)Riona: And I realise I'm being the worst sort of fan here. Trying to explain why a game's shortcomings are actually good and important. I got so annoyed with people going 'have you considered it's actually a good thing you can't pause in Bloodborne?' The 'Could I be housemates with this character?' question reminded me of a Tumblr post I saw a few weeks ago. It said, paraphrased, 'Think of a fictional character. You now live with them, in their living situation, for the rest of your life. How are you doing?'Very unfortunately, my first thought was Light Yagami of Death Note.There are technically worse people to live with. Light would be tidy, he'd be polite on the surface, he'd be absent most of the time, and he wouldn't try to hit on me. But our cohabitation would be inconvenient for him, so I’d die in a mysterious accident the moment he thought he could get away with it, if Misa didn’t kill me first.Tags:conversational adventures, dark pictures, death note, featuring guest star tem, music, silent hill, until dawn Having written a couple of Ace Attorney fics lately, I've had Ace Attorney on the mind, and I've just managed to unearth a bunch of Spirit of Justice notes I never posted here!I wrote these about four years ago, so I've completely forgotten the context for some of them. Rereading these notes is a puzzling experience!( Long-overdue notes on Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice, up to somewhere in the fifth case.Collapse )I never actually finished Spirit of Justice! I was playing this game in February 2020, and then the world ended, which was a bit of a distraction.I should really get back to it at some point. I've forgotten everything that's happened, so I'd really be bumbling my way through the trials, but that is at least in the spirit of Ace Attorney. (In the spirit of justice, one might say.)Tags:ace attorney I very much seem to be in my 'only one bed' era at the moment. No idea why this is happening, but, hey, I'm having fun.This fic's been nothing but a tiny unfinished snippet for years, but I finally decided that I had to get this written. I needed Apollo and Athena to fall asleep on each other; it was essential. I really love the dynamic between these two.Title: After HoursFandom: Ace AttorneyRating: PGPairing: Apollo/Athena (implied)Wordcount: 1,500Summary: Apollo and Athena accidentally fall asleep on each other. Things get awkward when they wake up.**( After HoursCollapse )**Tags:ace attorney, fanfiction, fanfiction (really this time) Previous 20 EntriesTop of Page | | | 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