NezumiVA

I'm sure many of you may be wondering if I'm playing "The Hundred Line", so here's your answer: Yes! I just started playing it, and have gotten through what was contained in the demo. Given its sheer length and volume of content, I expect it to be something I chip away at playing in the background for...a while, but since it's a Kodaka venture (even if not solely), I figured I'd give you guys some of my thoughts here after my first play session. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS BELOW.

First, a point of clarity: No, I'm not going to be streaming this game, for a few reasons. Given that it's such a huge time investment, it would take me a LONG while to get through, and honestly I'd like to take it at my own pace, completely on my own with no outside perspectives to really color my own. I also just already have a lot of ongoing stream commitments to get to anyway.

Now, here's the bullet points of my current opinions, having finished Day 7:
- The character designs are very hit or miss for me. There's some fun ones here and there, and in a vacuum I don't think very many look actively bad, but as a lineup I feel like they gel kind of oddly.
- Similarly, I'm really not sold on the look of the invaders right now. They feel very much like mobile game enemy fodder.
- The character writing itself varies. Characters like Ima and Kako make me grimace, but everyone else is at least tolerable, if not pretty good. Sirei is actually quite a bit of fun, and I quite like Eito, Takemaru, and Hiruko. Takumi is a fine MC.
- Darumi I'm pretty firmly split down the middle on. I find her design pretty ugly (sorry), and half of her lines make me sigh, but at the same time she's clearly the "taking the piss about Danganronpa" character, which does get some laughs out of me at times. I'm intrigued by what potential depths she may have behind this gimmick, and as with a lot of Kodaka's characters, I expect their gimmicks to give way to more interesting aspects over time.
- The music is absolutely fantastic, my goat Masafumi Takada knocks it out of the park again. There are a lot of "not Danganronpa" tracks in this, but tbh I quite like all of them. Sirei's theme is groovy as hell, and the Not "Trial Underground" track is also pretty great.
- The battle system is alright. I'm not a big SRPG gal, so I probably wouldn't be the best judge on this, but I can see how the systems are both easy to understand, while having a lot of potential for depth. I just wish the maps were more interesting/less homogenous.
- Quite a few good plot hooks have been seeded here, and like DR, offers a lot of good mysteries relating to the setting itself...which I have to imagine won't exactly fall headfirst into familiar DR twist territory, because how many times can we really lampshade that?

So, yeah, interested to play more. Maybe, just maybe, if I ever finish it, I'll talk about it at more length in the future.

5 days ago | [YT] | 430

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My final livestream of the Dual Destinies DLC (and thus the game as a whole) is happening soon, so before then I'd like to pose a question to you all about what should replace its timeslot, streamwise. Should I stick to mainline Ace Attorney for now and head right on into Spirit of Justice? Or would you guys prefer we take a little detour for a while and play Investigations 1? Vote now on your phones. (Or...not on your phones, too.)

1 week ago | [YT] | 225

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Check out this trailer for a pilot I’m doing voicework for, super excited for you guys to see the full thing!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 238

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Despite having a REALLY rough start performance-wise, I've been told by multiple people now that my newest video is apparently one of the best I've ever put out? So that's really nice to hear regardless! Give it a shot, if you haven't already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Bxm...

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 626

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NEW VIDEO about Perfect Blue (and many other things) is out now!! Go give it a look! https://youtu.be/Z9BxmwUKbpc

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 217

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UPDATE: The video is done and will be up on Saturday! An early upload will be available on my Patreon shortly. Thank you, everyone.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 539

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UPDATE: Got about 40% of this video edited, and I think it's coming along decently well! It's definitely different than a lot of things I've made recently, but I hope you guys enjoy it regardless.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 521

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UPDATE: Hello all, it appears as though I might actually finally be finished with my Perfect Blue script, which is exciting and also terrifying to me! Yay! That said, I will preemptively say to temper your expectations on its length. Despite taking as long as it has, this script's elongated process has more to do with the difficulty of getting it exactly as I wanted it (due in massive part to how personal it is) than it has to do with it being an especially long video. Even so, I hope when it's finished, people will resonate with it. Thank you for your patience and support, as always.

1 month ago | [YT] | 853

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✨ NEW (PATRONS ONLY) VIDEO ✨

I challenged myself to make a 20 minute video in just one night, and what I made was half an excuse to ramble about Tsukihime, and half discussing something super specific about it - namely that it has my favorite title screen theme in all of video gaming. Video contains full spoilers for the game (just the original, not the remake), with some relevant content warnings on the post's preview text.

Video is available for $3 patrons and above: www.patreon.com/posts/124052915

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 226

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Right around the corner from 80k, and I can't say how enormously appreciative of that I am. On one hand, I can't say that it doesn't sadden me a little that I'm not as capable of engaging with my viewers as much as I used to anymore, but on the other hand - paycheck to paycheck or not - living like I do because of your support is something I never pictured myself doing when I started this channel about 7 years ago. Thank you so much.

I'll have to stew a bit on what special thing I'd like to do for 100k, when we finally reach it...but I would like to make a commitment to do an AMA stream of sorts when that milestone does come along, so feel free to stock up on questions to roll out when the time comes.

Thank you all so much for your support on the newest video (the DR character tierlist) so far, and I hope to see you soon with that Perfect Blue video!

2 months ago | [YT] | 973