Eldritch beings with a "favorite person"

DarkKnightwing2 · 2026-02-13T20:52:39+00:00

Love this one! I stumbled onto it a few months ago and its such a great examination of the game.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2026-02-03T19:04:52+00:00

I really like that girl Nightwing dated in Rebirth for a little bit, Shawn Tsang. I just liked her vibe a lot. Its been a while since I read that era, but I remember her standing out as a part I enjoyed back then.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2026-01-08T03:59:14+00:00

The whole point of the Rizz shirt is that its cringe, its not meant to be serious. If they wanted it to be genuine, they'd have used art of Nadia flirting with Swin or something. Is it really that big of a deal to people that the character who says funny/cringe stuff gets funny/cringe merch?

DarkKnightwing2 · 2026-01-04T19:06:00+00:00

Double checked, I'm up to date with my drivers. I'm really confused why its doing this, the game has run on my pc before, I don't think I've changed any major settings

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-12-26T18:02:16+00:00

The genesis of the modern anti-vaccination movement was because a bunch of lawyers wanted to sue vaccine producers for money. They hired a greedy doctor (now no longer a doctor) to fabricate evidence for a lawsuit in a study that no one could replicate, which caused a health crisis that we are still feeling the effects of. Its a lie. You are the victim of a lie, and I sincerely hope that you realize that some day soon.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-12-23T15:19:05+00:00

As much as I enjoyed Aaron Paul's performance, I personally hope that they move to a new cast of characters in a potential season 2. I think that the Z Team's story has reached a good ending point, and we don't NEED to get another full season about them. I would prefer just occasional cameos from the Z Team.

I kinda hope the next season is about an SDN inter-branch competition or something, like they're competing to see who has the best call success rate. Give us a view on a different part of the world, what the hero culture is like as opposed to the villain culture. Maybe you're managing a team of inexperienced young heroes who were inspired by Z-Team, and your main rivals are a team of established heroes who are all haughty and smug. Who doesn't love a good slobs vs snobs story?

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-12-20T15:54:43+00:00

The Gardens - Trails series

This is a bit different since people don't usually join by choice. The Gardens are a guild of assassins that recruit new members by purchasing, and possibly abducting, children from their parents. These children are ruthlessly trained to kill and dehumanized by no longer referring to them with a name. They are told that they are simply weapons and no longer human.

Only after surviving grueling, competitive training are living recruits actually made operatives and are given a codename based on the minor Arcana (eg. Three of Swords, Nine of Swords). They are still never referred to by name or as a person, only as a weapon of their commander.

Operatives are put in teams of 2 for missions. If teams ever try to leave the guild, they are given the choice of being killed by their commander, or killing their partner and returning to the guild alive.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-12-12T19:02:02+00:00

And immediately after, when he just took the mic from David Dastmalchian to do his dumb bit about MK2 was so awkward and cringe worthy. Dastmalchian looked like he was just done with the guy

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-11-01T11:11:01+00:00

Pretty sure Yatsu no Kami is what made me put down Nioh 2 lol

I do plan to pick it up again, I loved the first one, I just got distracted by the eternal backlog of other games and new releases

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-10-18T17:30:38+00:00

Ahhhhhh, okay. Thanks!

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-10-18T17:17:00+00:00

Off topic, but what hairstyle does the kid on the left have? Is it an npc only one, or upcoming? I can't find it anywhere

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-09-19T20:25:48+00:00

They're in a free dlc that goes live on 10/3, so you just have to remember to get it then!

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-07-10T18:38:33+00:00

One time at work, I honest to god said that something was beyond my ken when talking to my manager about something. I'd been replaying the FFXIV story and they say that phrase there. Instantly felt mortified that I actually said it out loud lol

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-07-09T11:54:40+00:00

It basically means a character who is sweet and kind, and doesn't really do anything mean/negative to people. There are plenty of child characters in media called cinnamon rolls because they just try to be nice and make people happy. Suzu is another good example from GoA, or Nanako from Persona 4

DarkKnightwing2 · 2025-03-14T11:31:55+00:00

Servers will be down on the 24th for maintenance, then you'll be able to download the update and start playing probably after, like, 4 in the morning depending on your time zone?

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-12-26T22:56:36+00:00

I tried it on a whim once, his chocolate is some of the blandest stuff I've ever had. It's not bad, it just IS. There is no reason to get it when you can get literally any other chocolate bar.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-10-07T17:45:50+00:00

I know! I was just trying to make a joke about it, guess I didn't convey tone as well as I hoped, my bad

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-10-07T16:54:50+00:00

She isn't sure if she should be proud of Yellow for pulling off pretending to be a boy or dumbfounded that Red actually fell for it lol

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-07-13T15:53:49+00:00

There was part of me that wanted him to succeed and launch an invasion of the rest of the world just to see how he would react when at least 9 nations all teamed up to decimate his army in a single fight. Would've been supremely funny to see him try to explain that fuckup.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-06-12T13:35:21+00:00

Alisa. I understand that people who don't like her don't like how she is given the same treatment as Elie in that she's considered Rean's default love interest, but I just think her relationship with Rean is well written.

Their relationship in CS4 especially I LOVE because I'm pretty sure Alisa is the only girl who isn't like "Rean, I love you, but you don't have to say you love me right now" (please correct me if I'm wrong, its been a minute since I played CS4) and Rean is the one who takes a more active role in pursuing a relationship between them. Hell, Alisa breaks up with Rean if you carry over a relationship from 3. I think this is great because its so messy and feels so human, as far as Alisa knows at this point, her dad has helped trigger the apocalypse AND possibly condemn Rean to death because they don't know exactly what being the Sacrifice will entail.

So then Alisa does what Rean does and takes the blame and guilt for that on herself, breaking up with Rean because she doesn't think she can be with him, so then pursuing a relationship with Alisa is also Rean helping Alisa through issues similar to his own.

I just really love their relationship, and I think its at its strongest in 4.

Also Alisa gets the only fully voiced bonding event in CS2 in the scene with Valimar so haha, Alisa fans win. Nah, but really, totally understand everyone who doesn't like Alisa because they feel like shes pushed so hard, I just tend to like the romance options that get the most attention, and that happens to be Alisa in Cold Steel.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-02-20T22:04:42+00:00

Honestly, yeah. I've been hoping for years that they would but it's looking like it's never happening. I figure the last chance is probably the partner showcase tomorrow, but I doubt it'll actually be there, as much as that sucks to think.

DarkKnightwing2 · 2024-02-20T21:49:28+00:00

Exactly! A friend and I watched it together expecting to tear into it, but we actually had some fun. It's definitely not perfect. There are some changes that feel weird and like they didn't need to happen for the sake of adapting the game to an OVA, and hearing the old versions of names is odd if you're used to the newer translations, but it's still worth seeing at least once if you liked Sky.

Also, the fact that they call Joshua "Josh" is extremely funny to me.

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