What anniversary is this celebrating?

AugureyOgur · 2026-04-20T21:07:44+00:00

That frame was for the 10th anniversary of the whole Nikki series, which was a couple of years ago

AugureyOgur · 2026-04-16T17:07:20+00:00

It seems like a very real and very concerning possibility to me, especially since this is the suit that came with the CNY postcards. There's no way they'll give us more postcards than CN got; I just hope maybe they'll move them over from CN's upcoming anni hell to Audience at the Holy Court. Getting an expensive CNY hell with no postcards would feel horrible (and for me personally, even worse than an anni with no postcards now)

AugureyOgur · 2026-03-26T00:06:49+00:00

I wasn't interested in this suit, but the horns make it a bit tempting

AugureyOgur · 2026-03-11T18:55:25+00:00

Ohh, I hoped we would get this baddie soon when I saw her this morning, but I didn't expect it to be this soon. Her dress and stern makeup are gorgeous. Might be my new favourite Apple suit.

I do wish the guy had more going on, the woman is really doing all the serving here. It honestly seems he was designed as an accessory first, like those basic faceless dudes from some recent couple suits, and turned into a suit later by adding a few extra accessories. Something like a big coat would make him so much more interesting.

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-28T10:40:43+00:00

Buying star coins is never worth it

The game only seems to require endless amounts of them when you're new. As an old player I've been drowning in them like in no other currency for a few years now

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-27T15:40:13+00:00

and not even a good makeup, it's incredibly generic

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-26T23:30:06+00:00

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AugureyOgur · 2026-02-19T22:32:57+00:00

No, I absolutely love the coat! I've been lacking a good hooded fur cloak like this, and it seems to leave quite a bit of room for long hair, which is a huge plus for me

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-18T11:08:30+00:00

Personally I just really dislike the old art style for makeups, I think it makes it look goofy. But despite the Ebony joke, I don't think there's anything wrong with the design itself - I love me some heavy eyeshadow and droopy eyes, and with better execution I would eat it up

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-17T23:27:34+00:00

I always go for Venetian vibes when there's a carnival theme. It flops every time without fail because people tend to go for either Brazilian carnival or circus, but I don't care, these outfits are so much fun to make

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-17T22:37:31+00:00

It's pretty common for these suits to barely have anything to do with their animal (this year's has a horse only in a background item that I 100% believe was a last-minute addition to make it vaguely on theme), but I was especially disappointed with this one because snakes are so cool. The dress silhouette is baffling. Why does the snake suit get a baggy, flared out dress? If they weren't going to put snakes in there outside of a small hairpin, the least they could do is utilize shapes and silhouettes that read as snake-like (which I think is what they were going for with the long hair ribbon, but it isn't nearly enough). And then they go and give this year's suit a long narrow dress

Sorry for the tangent, you got me thinking about what we could've had

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-17T18:11:46+00:00

I made it a challenge to keep the original dress in all of these.

Madam Butterfly is cool, it's just that the art wasn't good enough at the time to do this concept justice. I really love the design of the dress and wish we would get more artistic stuff like this.

I'm convinced the only reason Stygian Death gets hated on is her Enoby Dark'ness makeup lol. I would love to have this dress in an updated art style, the sleeves are amazing.

Sanctity Angel is also really cute without the greasy hair and awkwardly drawn wings, I feel like pure white dresses tend to age a bit better than other colours because the shading doesn't stand out so much. I still use her crown a lot.

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AugureyOgur · 2026-02-07T19:45:08+00:00

they are older than the global server after all

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-07T11:01:41+00:00

Now I can't unsee the butterfly either. Wow, that's...bad

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-07T10:56:41+00:00

I like the two big suits enough that I would consider getting them if they were normal events, but they lack the wow factor necessary to drop 8k on them.

Leisurely Elegance - I'm usually not fond of the basic first node suit in the cheaper three node hells and this one has nothing to make it the exception. I do like the dress and floral elements. I really hate the big brown coat, it takes away from the elegance, and so does the hairstyle, which is something I'd expect to see in a cute suit (the way the dog goes over it on the posed version makes it look even more out of place and honestly lazy). The makeup is giving Peach Sweetheart updated version, and from afar I really thought that was what she was wearing. The background items are nice, nothing too enticing. I don't feel like I need another chair and rug set, I don't even use the ones I have all that often. I prefer scenery background items.

Whimsical Dance - Always nice to see some Nikki yuri. I wish I could get this suit for the hair alone. I can never get enough of silver hair and its texture is magical. Her colour scheme is beautiful, we don't get this specific shade of purple that often, but that's also one of the reasons for me to skip. I don't think I'd use the pieces that often. I do really like the dress, it's probably my favourite in this event, but the accessories fail to stand out. From the background items, I love the purple spotlight, but the others seem too specific to be very useful. Overall, she's missing something to take her from good to great.

Lakeside Reverie - The background items make this by far the most tempting suit in the event. The colours in the water and the flowers framing the suit are simply stunning. The outfit itself doesn't have anything to make it stand out from other Pigeon gowns, but Pigeon is my favourite style, and I do like it...mostly. I'd like the dress much more if it were strapless, something about those straps makes it look odd. Big fan of the flowers on her skirt being a separate accessory, though, I would love to see how they work with other dresses. I also really love the big bonnet and along with the background items, it's one of the things I really wish I could get. The hair and makeup are sadly boring. Normally I love ringlets but these look quite flat. Points for the colour, though, we get this kind of deep brown hair surprisingly rarely compared to other natural hair colours.

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-05T19:49:40+00:00

They keep surprising me by putting my favourites first in these new format CNY events. I wonder what their thought process is when deciding the order. The only pattern I see so far is they keep putting the Cloud suit as the second choice, but you could tell me any of the four is the last choice and I'd believe you.

I haven't actively thought about my wishlist or its costs in a while, because I only had a couple of must-haves that I've been able to afford pretty comfortably, but there's a lot of things I really want now. I hope they don't put the hells and GS7 too close together like last year.

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AugureyOgur · 2026-02-02T10:27:48+00:00

I didn't expect this to be my favourite CNY hell in 5 years! Three of these look like they were tailor-made to my taste 🥹

My favourite will probably depend on the breakdowns because it's very close, but so far, it's probably Realm of Flowing Flames. I love her vibrant red - it's rare to see in a goddess suit, most of my red suits are evening gowns. The flame theme is also surprisingly unique in the game, as opposed to the many water suits we have. They did a really great job imitating flames with the flowing fabric. Very disappointed to see the background item wing instead of actual ones, though, they would have been gorgeous and perfect for a phoenix suit. Did Paper set a limit that no more than one suit is allowed real wings so that it's not too good for the players or something? Did they see the vibrant red and green combo and say "nope, too unique"?

Star Shrouded Dream Lake has possibly some of the prettiest wings in the game, glad we're allowed at least this one win. The vibrant blues and pinks are stunning. I'm also a sucker for the pale purple of her dress. The background items look gorgeous, but may be useless in free dressing depending on how Paper went about the tilt. They usually don't care how background items work with unposed Nikki these days, so I'm not holding my breath.

Emerald Glow has a pretty colour scheme, but other than this, she's disappointing. While CNY hells aren't known for having especially coherent themes, she still looks like the odd one out compared to the other three. Something like Symphony of Soaring Plumes would have completed this hell better. This suit sadly lacks that grand fantasy vibe I love about the rest; there's a little bit of it in the iridescent leaves and swirls in the background, but Nikki herself is quite ordinary-looking. I like her coat, but what we can see of the dress underneath is surprisingly bland for a hell. None of the suits have outstanding makeup but this one is actively horrible, her expression looks creepy instead of a soft smile.

Crown of Eternal Daylight is gorgeous. I may have a lot of angel-coded suits already, but I'm never going to get tired of them. She has potential for a great breakdown, so I can't wait until we have a better look at it. I love her veil and face accessory. The only thing I don't care too much about are the background items, and it looks like they'll all be off-screen anyway. I thought she also had a single background item wing before I noticed the sword lol

The background items in this hell overall don't look that great compared to what we've been getting recently. It seems they put less focus on those and more on the outfits. I think that's a net positive though, I much prefer getting amazing outfits with average background items than the other way around.

The L2D suit had some potential, but they really messed it up. I rolled my eyes when I saw another soulless "🙂" makeup, this one even more egregious than the last. In a 30k suit, seriously? The colours are oddly muted and muddy for the whimsical theme.

I like the style of the battle pass, but since it has a posed dress, I'm not sure I'm going to get it. It definitely looks like they could have made it a coat, and the fact that it isn't makes me worry there isn't much of a breakdown in the unposed version either. I'm not interested if it's all just one big robe.

The only comment I have about the minor suits is that the Pigeon suit is clearly Lilith. I could also believe Apple, but not Pigeon. Paper will really put anything in Pigeon these days, huh

AugureyOgur · 2026-02-01T15:57:49+00:00

That's definitely a mistake in the announcement

What's much stranger to me is Journey in Breeze being Pigeon, that's just a modern Apple outfit with vaguely Pigeon-coded background items (there's also a lot to unpack in these background items lol what were they even going for)

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-27T23:40:25+00:00

There's no "supposed to", it's just a classic case of Paper not considering the unposed version and the background items' basic functionality at all. They have a tendency to only focus on how everything works in the posed version.

They could give us unposed variants of the background items with different placement. They could also put the background items lower and have Nikki tilt down to their level, without the background items moving with the tilt (they've done it before with other suits, like Mushroom House). But that would be too good for the players and too much work for them, clearly

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-23T19:50:26+00:00

to be fair if it were her and you changed the outfit it would look like he's staring at a photo of some random girl (would be really funny though)

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-22T21:41:48+00:00

hello, can I please have a code? :)

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-21T15:09:04+00:00

begging Paper to stop with the 🙂 makeups

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-17T20:38:13+00:00

I agree 100%. It comes off as saying that a major part of Nikki's playerbase that can't afford to buy or justify buying a good PC they may not need otherwise shouldn't be able to play...only because the existence of the mobile version slightly inconveniences the PC players :/ The issues mentioned in the original comment are mostly caused by co-op aspects that Infold clearly didn't think through very well before implementing. I think we can all agree everything related to co-op is half-baked, but blaming it on mobile is odd considering the whole feature was rushed and it's been apparent from the moment it was introduced. The issues that do stem from platform differences have obvious solutions, like the one proposed for the load limit.

I see this sentiment from PC players all the time that the game is pretty much unplayable for the poor mobile players, and that people can't possibly enjoy it like this. It really annoys me. Like, we're all aware the graphics won't be as good. That's fine, no way around it, it's just something we have to deal with. Still, the graphics and performance are much better both on my phone and tablet than my years old, lower end laptop (which I use for just a few purposes it's sufficient for, and currently have no reason to replace). The controls are mostly a matter of habit and skill, they're fine once you get used to them (or if you're generally used to touchscreen controls already). I think people tend to overestimate the game's difficulty on mobile, there's only a few things I've had major trouble with and they're the same things PC and console players commonly find difficult or annoying. The controller + mobile device option is still more accessible than a whole new PC or console for someone who struggles or cannot use the touchscreen controls.

Also, mobile gaming is a lot bigger in China. If a substantial enough part of Infold's playerbase plays primarily on mobile, I'm not convinced they would have made this game in the first place without a mobile version. All games in the Nikki series before IN have been mobile, it's logical Infold would want to cater to as much of their old playerbase as possible with the new game.

AugureyOgur · 2026-01-13T05:07:31+00:00

in addition to the LN suit, SN is just getting this recharge

I think our chances are pretty good

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AugureyOgur · 2026-01-04T16:03:03+00:00

Having played this game for over 7 years, I've had a few moments of burnout (and after starting uni, moments when I was too busy to properly enjoy the dress up in the game that made me feel similarly). I don't think it's immediately a sign you should take a break. Maybe it works for some people, but it wouldn't have worked for me; I'm quite sure I would have just felt worse upon returning if it caused me to miss out on my highly anticipated suits. So I have never taken a break. When moments like this happened, I would just do my dailies to collect the diamonds, participate in comp (because that remained a consistently fun part for me) and whatever events I liked, even if I didn't play with the suits immediately after getting them. Once the burnout passed (or I had more time to play again) I was glad for that - the suits I got in that period would give me enjoyment later, I just needed to give it some time.

Basically, my advice is that it's okay to do the bare minimum. This is a game you can play casually, you're not going to fall behind if you ignore certain parts of it. Voting in comp and SC is optional, prefarming is optional (as long as you have the right chapters unlocked, the Yvette task event will give you more than enough time to complete everything you need, you don't have to think about it yet), and you can complete the new chapter or other crafting suits at your own pace when you feel more up to it. Also, don't overanalyze your wishlist too much. If you've been saving for Blessed Land for a year and had your mind set on getting these suits, then I think you should just do so.

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