GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Yesterday I randomly remembered that Echo actually does know F/DA Rider, kinda, and I had a lil bit of a crisis 'cause I remember nothing about that hecking SA RP. Like I know it happened but...what happened??
I blame memory overlap (I joined the SAMB through my first RP, which was also SA-centred, so my mind prioritises the first one)

Hopefully this isn't 'cause what I did was so cringe that I blocked the memories lol. 

-Galaxian-

 
The problem is that I forgot which character is Rider

Dongfang Yuechu is lowkey giving me whiplash 'cause his voice actor is the same as Wei Wuxian's and you can clearly hear it, so it really is just straight and sillier Wei Wuxian

-Galaxian-

Episode 7 really just pwned me

The contrast with what Dongfang Yuechu imagined Honghong's reaction to be to his eventual return (a single tear while she blushes and smiles next to the Tree) to what would be the truth (his death while she cries, their plans of 50 years nearly having been reduced to nothing by the work of the black foxes) JIOFJSDO also the scenery can kill me

-Galaxian-

I can see where the budget went xD

-Galaxian-

Ok we're back to having a time with emotions again.
Oh man oh man this is not fun at all.

I don't really get it 'cause I've been getting exercise and eating the right stuff and drinking enough water, but also I do kinda get it since I'm stuck in a rut for drawing and writing at the same time (I mean there's probably a loop going on between these things and the emotions but I digress). Idk I just feel really bad, but at least it's bad in a normal sort of way I suppose.
Unfortunately I don't think keeping off of the forums will help me so you guys get to see me around lol (I might then forget to login for a week, hopefully not)

It's not really accurate to say that I forget, just that I put it off/procrastinate for some obstinate and obsolete reason.
but yeah on the writing I think my confidence wore off. For the art part it's a skill issue again (and I am really bad at solving skill issues through the most obvious and actual solution: Getting Better)

-Galaxian-

Love how the stuff in Arknights scares me more than Limbus Company ever will

Imagine getting isekaied to a world with Terran politics :') it's just as bad as Earth's lol that's the horrifying part. Like bruh I didn't come to fiction to see reality again

I love the collab character art btw. And I like the characters themselves enough to roll a few times. I used the free multi to get Doc, who is a very handsome gentleman (also he's a doctor lol what can I say). His gameplay looks real interesting to test out. I have a Guard bias
Anywho, I think he's French? And then one of his buddy-pals is Russian which is hecking funny
(I know nothing about their origin series lol)

I also used a ticket to get another Bassline. The banner isn't very useful for me otherwise. I mean Hibiscus Alter is on there, but,,, yeah I wanted more Bassline tokens lol. 

I got my mood back up with cheese soup and art lol, but it's on thin ice so let's hope I can find a more long-term solution.

-Galaxian-

I forgot there's a welfare
Heck yeah! Algerian-French doctor and Uzbek armoured guy! (both of them are Guards lol my Guard chips are crying for help)

hopefully Uzbek is right

Also both of them are just English dubbed 'cause I'm guessing that's the way they speak in their origin series, and that took me for a spin since I have Chinese dub on

-Galaxian-

Finished the event main story!

Mateo you clown lmiaooo

Anyways I really hecking loved it. F/GO doesn't do collaborations (yet?) with any works that aren't set in the Fate multiverse, so technically this is my first cross-world collab story. And I really liked it. I mean, it's the typical Arknights event of stuff goes to crap within 8 stages (plus some story stages in between but I digress), but I really loved the cast and the art, ironically on the last part in a very good way. Btw, I don't have anything against an event being like that. I mean, F/GO events are usually just "Oh no there's another Singularity!!" There has to be some kind of common premise.

I need to learn more about the rest of Team Rainbow now

-Galaxian-

Limbus characters need to learn not to talk about the future
The instant you do that, you get 3 automatic death flags stuck on the back of your head. Don't tempt fate guys

Anyways similarly I was gonna say that I haven't lost a battle yet

well except for the tutorial but oh well. I'll just hope it's a canon event. I'm pretty sure it is.

I also redownloaded COTL and Arcaea, and then undownloaded Arcaea because song progress apparently doesn't carry across devices. What the heck.
COTL also still makes me sick, though not as sick as when I started, so I suppose that's good? I doubt I'll play a lot of it, though the flying is still as fun as ever. The players also seem to be about the same, though I wouldn't be surprised if my friends forgot me. I think I've been on hiatus for at least half a year by now.

And I got a bit sick of Awakening and F/GO gameplay lol R.I.P. For F/GO it's probably because of how long I've been playing, while for Awakening it's because I don't really feel like reading so much gameplay text. Limbus also made me worse at choosing the right cards for farming in F/GO, which I suppose is fun. 

(Just some rambling on Limbus, don't expect anything deep lol it's just some beginning thoughts)

Today's my third day, technically second since I started at an unholy hour. I'm on Canto III. I don't know what that means, but I'll probably slow down a bit and actually farm levels for the characters.  
Speaking of farming, the biggest complaint I'm having so far is the lack of tutorials (there wasn't even a note saying where to farm EXP and how to use EXP tickets, either that or I'm stupid and forgot), and I do think this is me coming from Arknights, which does pretty well with its tutorials. But in general it seems to be a bit of a struggle, including with combat. So far, Limbus Company's combat system is reminding me of SSA (Awakening btw, SS Awakening basically but now I'm reading it as side-side-angle, cursed). Lots of reading, needing to know debuffs. But also needing to know the card sets is probably kinda like F/GO's card shuffling system.  
Of course I understand that maybe they want to fit in tutorials later in a creative way and don't currently have the assets, but I'll definitely complain about this more anyways once I refuse to watch others do gameplay and start sucking at it. So far things have been fine. 

Story-wise I try to give every game some time to develop. I'll say it definitely isn't shabby. I mean, I read it. But I do think that maybe to try to retain the fanbase, they develop the cast relationships a bit too much compared to the actual chronology of the events. And again just pwn me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure everything is happening in quick succession? But probably to make the team more cohesive and the characters more likeable, it feels like everyone gets used to each other pretty fast. Or maybe that's just the nature of some of the Sinners. I do wonder if the Sinners (and Vergilius) are all secretly really sympathetic people and that's why the development is speed-tracked, but I dunno for now, so I'll put a question mark for now. 
This is feeling a lot like a big complaint, so I'll say that I enjoy the abruptness of everything. In F/GO the team tends to really act by the player's orders instead of individual team members going off on their own, and in Limbus it's pretty much the opposite, with Dante kinda just not having control over the situation whatsoever and being disrespected all over the place. The extremes are kinda interesting. Also, I like the humour. Even if it's not exactly my style, I enjoy it. Don Quixote probably has a big role to play in this. She's kinda too loud though. 

I like the art. It lends a lot to the atmosphere and there's just so many CGs compared to what I'm used to from F/GO. Stylistically I tend to like the fancy-schmancy styles (I guess it's a Chinese preference since Chinese fanart tends to be in the sort of style I'm referring to), but Limbus Company's gets the job done very well. 
Similarly, I like the gameplay visuals too. I love that you have to parry and disarm an opponent before being able to slash them. My personal complaint in this area is that I wish you could slow down the group encounters with multiple enemies where so much is going on at the same time, since it's excellent for setting the atmosphere but is really irking me rn due to the fact that I can't tell what I need to improve on for individual action choices.  

The interface is pretty intuitive and I like the design. But in combat I really wish the gears were larger and had their own screen, kinda like F/GO's card selection screen. I also wish the screen wouldn't keep assuming that I want to look at the enemies every time I make a selection, because every time I have to click the gear and switch back to the bigger picture again. So basically, the combat screen is fine (though there's a lot of information), but I wish there were small adjustments. Changes like these would be QoL for me lol

One weird thing Limbus does is that it makes me login every single time I open the game, and never keeps my settings. It's weird. It makes me accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy every single time as well. Kinda weird, but I'm not that impatient.

The cast: I like how different everyone is. Ignore the fact that I pretty much remember nothing about Meursault, but he's gotta secretly be interesting 'cause he's from Camus' work. [joking here, though the joke intends no offence towards Albert Camus]
I also keep confusing Yi Sang with Hong Lu. Ignore how that happens. It's just both of them are East Asian, it has nothing to do with their personalities.
Anyways, Heathcliff needs a chill pill, Faust is a smart-you-know-what, Ishmael is that one tryhard student in the classroom (and this is not meant to be offensive because guess what I also am)...I have a pretty solid impression of everyone other than Meursault, which is pretty funny. But I do think this is the result of the writing doing a good job with such a big cast all being introduced together right off the bat. 
@Specter - I'm pretty sure Hong Lu is actually meant to be Hong Lou Meng's Jia Baoyu, but why's his name changed? Idk. But his younger half-brother in the work is his older half-brother here, and idk if that means anything. Also idk why he's Hong Lu rather than Hong Lou (I mean it'd be a weird name but it's weird this way too). Oof moment for him since his soulmate isn't here

And last but not least, the music: I like it a lot, so far my favorite is the music from Canto II in the Ice Castle. I like pretty music. But all of it is pretty nice so far. I was expecting more horror-y stuff, but I guess the piano horror music I'm used to listening to is scarier.
Man oh man I love the ending songs.

My overall experience so far: "Man why is this so funny"

-Galaxian-

Having a lil bit of a crisis over how to pronounce Gemini now though (I say it the way Iana does)
Guessing the English dub is more correct than Japanese trying to make it sound cool (ok but the English pronunciation + Saga/Kanon's names would be very cool)

Btw I dreamt about Apollo trying to nuke the Earth with the Sun yesterday which was so fun. I actually forgot to mention this. I can't believe I forgot
I got to try to Galaxian Explosion him back. It kinda worked :D for once I get to be OP in a dream lol

-Galaxian-

Oh yeah here's a video (spoiler for Limbus Company so yeah it's getting tagged)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wte-M6n2SHA

-Galaxian-

Just skimmed through and I wish you luck on your Limbus journey, new Manager :3
Honestly yeah I think Canto I & II are meant to be played quickly while Canto III really picks up on the battle level and storytelling. Any favorite character/unit so far?

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Guessing that based on the killing civilians joke Fuze is not a stranger to warcrimes. Great, welcome to Terra! (/hj)

-Galaxian-

It's a reference to the game where his ability often can get the hostage you're supposed to rescue killed.

It's basically a breaching charge with a grenade built into it, so you blow a hole into a wall while blowing up everything inside at the same time.

Also hi welcome to limbus

I'd totally agree with you on Cantos I and II, frankly, they're pretty fast paced and you don't get too much out of them. Dante is a pushover bum (idc if they lost their memories), and nobody cares for each other. I found it somewhat frustrating, but the thing is with every chapter, I think the storytelling gets better imo. Every canto they raise the production value, and chip away at any negatives that show itself. That and Dante becomes more based every chapter imo. So if you have any quams with any of the characters, I say that they improve every chance the get in the story.

Canto III is where it picks up imo, yeah. Where I feel you get the "inciting incident" I suppose. I can expand on it more if you feel like it and pass Canto III

On the topic of farming EXP, I'm happy to say Limbus is a pretty casual grind, once you get caught up. I like do only 1 mirror hard dungeon per week with a few EXP ticket Luxcavation runs on the side and that's about all

I too think Faust is silly

Oh and Project Moon has horrible tutorials that's kinda signature for them by now