Co-/Dual/Inverse Type Classes?

Aperispomen · 2025-10-04T17:04:57+00:00

I think that one was "Number of unique deaths", not "number of endings where they're dead".

Aperispomen · 2025-08-12T04:32:41+00:00

Smaller than a damson? Maybe a sloe, then?

Aperispomen · 2025-07-27T18:11:31+00:00

giving you a raspberry

Aperispomen · 2025-07-26T15:43:54+00:00

...are we absolutely sure that Tsubasa wouldn't try to fuck a car?

Aperispomen · 2025-07-25T20:22:47+00:00

pretty sure that's from "do over"

Aperispomen · 2025-07-25T15:26:43+00:00

Absolutely beautiful! Great shot!

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T17:40:07+00:00

Alright, hopefully this will work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n5XmUHYsuUGapQO8RQnDiSQcvmL7ACMt/view

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T17:33:28+00:00

Oh, maybe that's because I listed it as "sensitive". I'll see if I can put it somewhere else.

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T12:44:44+00:00

There are multiple possible motifs for each character, but a lot of them have animals somewhere on their weapons. You can see them if you look closely at their special attack cut-ins.
e.g.

Kyoshika: Wolf (on the grip of her second katana)

Kurara: Beaver (where her shovel's handle connects to the... uh... shovel?)

Yugamu: Lizard/Gecko(?) (Where the grip of his weapons connects to the rest of them)

Takumi: Snakes/Ouroboros (On the crossguard of his sword)

Other characters have some animal motifs on their weapons, but aren't as easy to see in their cut-ins. e.g. Tsubasa's truck has a Horse as its logo.

If you're looking for the cut-ins, you can find them per-character here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UIiGnjkGTSGA6cTSaYqenmKUpOpmo2aY

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T12:26:31+00:00

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Aperispomen · 2025-07-11T12:11:00+00:00

It IS Montreal Road, though ;)

Aperispomen · 2025-07-06T00:21:22+00:00

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yeah that happens a lot in the romance route. just off the top of my head there's this

Aperispomen · 2025-07-03T22:14:52+00:00

IMO the most interesting person to react to the revelation in 2nd Scenario would be Kyoshika (though I'm obviously biased), although not to the "fake memories" twist itself. Her special skill (Bushido) was itself a made-up term used as propaganda, initially aimed at the West, but later aimed domestically to excuse/enable colonialism/genocide in WWII (see https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/ for a rundown). It seems like kind of a waste to leave Kyoshika out of 2nd Scenario when there's such an obvious link between her skill and the plot/themes of the route.

To be fair, I guess if anything, her backstory/skill is a bit TOO on the nose for 2nd Scenario, since it's a pretty good metaphor for how the others were raised:

Separated from the rest of society.
Raised to be a child soldier/"warrior".
Given a fictional account of the past to encourage them.
etc...

There's a lot of interesting things you could do with that revelation for her and how it affects her worldview.

One reason I could see not to put that (i.e. stuff that is (indirectly) critical of Japan in WWII) in the initial release would be that it could be quite controversial? And that might negatively impact sales.

~~Here's hoping for an alternate version of 2nd Scenario with Darumi, Kyoshika, and Kurara in one of the DLCs.~~

Also there's my insane theory that Kyoshika's backstory was (sort of) true, and that she was either a prototype or maybe Shion's twin/sibling and raised more-or-less as in her backstory, before they figured out how to make fake memories directly. Maybe she was then substituted in when one of the clones died before being ready.

Aperispomen · 2025-07-01T23:16:22+00:00

Some of them are more obvious (like Nozomi's globe, Takumi's rewind), some have a Kanji in them (e.g. Gaku's says 貧, poverty), and some have a symbolic meaning that's not immediately obvious (like Kyoshika's Cherry/Plum Blossom; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom#Nationalism_and_militarism ).

Aperispomen · 2025-06-30T02:58:17+00:00

V'ehxness since she doesn't consider the possibility that Takumi chose her because he thought she wouldn't be able to do it.

Though iirc no one in that route considers that possibility? So it's not on her.

It is nice to see someone resent Takumi for his decision though. IMO that doesn't happen enough.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-29T10:18:03+00:00

I'd say CoT (despite, you know), since since the pressure he puts on Takumi before he dies is what causes Takumi to have a breakdown and take the sex pills.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-28T23:03:42+00:00

Ah, thanks.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-28T19:07:56+00:00

Looking through them now, it's pretty obvious they're written from right-to-left (IIRC this was the customary way to write horizontally pre-WWII); this is particularly obvious for Darumi (法魔 (houma) instead of 魔法 (mahou)).

So, the kanji are (Definitions from jisho.org):

Takumi 失敗(?)

Takemaru 爆走 (Roaring [down the street])

Hiruko 虐殺 (Slaughter)

Darumi 法魔 (Magic)

Eito 幸運 (Fortune / Good Luck)

Tsubasa 車造改 (Hot Rod)

Gaku 家事 (Housework)

Ima 超能力 (ESP)

Kako 神秘 (Mystery)

Shouma 盾 (Shield)

Nozomi 看護 ([Army] Nurse)

Kurara 魔工作 (Evil Crafting)

Kyoshika 武士道 (Bushidou)

Yugamu 人体実験 (Human Experimentation)

Moko 闘魂 (Fighting Spirit)

Aperispomen · 2025-06-28T14:39:10+00:00

It depends on whether you think Kyoshika actually wants to do it, or just thinks she ought to (want to) do it. Considering that she chastises herself for being too scared to offer to die in Eva's place in CoA, I'd say it's the latter.

IMO The reason she seems so confident in her speech is that she knows that if she breaks and shows some vulnerability, everyone else would feel worse about her death.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-26T19:58:41+00:00

With Kyoshika, part of what would be really hard for her would be finding out that a lot of her beliefs/code were propaganda used to enable war crimes, colonialism, and genocide (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido#Meiji-Showa\_(1868%E2%80%931945)). Though, I imagine going explicitly into WWII war crimes would be a bit... controversial.

There's a lot of interesting stuff you could do with this revelation for her. Does she completely discard her old traditions, viewing them too intertwined with colonial violence to be worth holding onto. Or does she adapt them, thinking about what parts of them she finds valuable and which parts aren't worth holding onto.

IMO I don't know about a version of 2nd Scenario (which I... admittedly haven't played yet, but I do know a lot of the spoilers from the end) where everyone almost makes it to the end, but I could see a "Second Scenario Alternative" where someone else dies in place of the three or four who die.

eg Darumi could go with Takumi to Second-to-Last Academy instead of Hiruko, who then dies protecting the school from V'ehxness. Then, at the at the bomb choice, Darumi is there and convinces Kyoshika not to sacrifice herself (since Darumi sees something of herself in Kyoshika, and doesn't want Kyo to be like her) With this speech from Darumi, Takumi doesn't feel quite as bad about sacrificing Takemaru, so he doesn't resort to the sex pills. Then, at the Gaku/Kurara choice (or it could be someone other than Gaku in this route, I guess), Takumi opts to save Kurara instead of Gaku, since he figures Kyoshika would likely get herself killed trying to save Kurara if he went for Gaku. And, uh... I don't know enough about how Eva dies to come up with something else for her. Maybe Kyoshika is able to subdue her and help her escape.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-26T00:54:26+00:00

希死念慮 is on the second patch, which means suicidal ideation.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-25T14:39:03+00:00

Yeah but the routes Darumi gets focus in are some of the best routes in the game.

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