a story's birth is a sudden event

For my last birthday, my brother got me "the Shin Megami Tensei game of your choice, as long as Mothman is in it" to play together. That was months ago, so naturally we've only just now gotten around to following up on it. We're three or four hours into Nocturne now, and so far it's great! I played the very beginning with surskitty a few years back, and I've heard a lot of out-of-context talk about the game from them (though I don't think I remember many important details that don't boil down to "it's an SMT game"), but beyond that it's all new and exciting to me, and I can't wait to play more.

We chose the correct name for our hero, I think:



Meet Moth "Moth-man" Man, totally normal human turned totally normal half-demon. (The other half is normal human.) It didn't even occur to me until after the fact how perfectly the name would go with "Demi-fiend", or the fact that our goal is literally the bright, shiny light above us. My only small regret is that it hasn't resulted in NPCs calling us "Man" as I'd expected. At least, not yet.

So far we've fought two bosses and steamrolled over both, which is kind of amusing to me considering how wary the game's reputation has made us, but I'm sure I'll be eating those words soon. (It probably helps to have some prior experience with SMT gameplay. And also Google. Oh god why do they not explain the Turn Press mechanics to you.) I love the battle music—really, the soundtrack in general—and god this game's visual design is astounding. So cool. *__*

I noticed partway through the first dungeon that the Demi-fiend glows red instead of teal when he's at low health. He's like a mood ring! I hope fanart has made extensive use of this.

A non-exhaustive list of sentences my brother and I have gotten to say while playing:

( Read more... )

---

I also started the new Good Omens miniseries with my family. So far (we're three episodes in because no one else is willing marathon the whole thing), my feelings on it are almost exclusively unadulturated delight. The cast is great, especially the leads, and I'm honestly kind of stunned at how well it's captured the spirit and tone of the book—a few scenes have been so precisely my mental image from the book that it's almost eerie, and I love most of the new additions/embellishments I've seen so far. (And they put such loving care into giving Crowley new stupid hair for every era he appears in! I'm so happy.)

My overall reaction can basically be summed up as this:

---

Oh, and I finally finished that Danganronpa/wolf pupy post! Here it is, for anyone interested. I've belatedly realized that this has even more characters than the Umineko one, somehow. Sometimes, I'm not sure how my life turned out this way.