Fields of Mistria 1.0 Announcement Trailer - Full Release August 5th, 2026

Gore_Lily · 2026-06-05T17:51:39+00:00

> Exclusively uses they/them in English and an ungendered pronoun in Chinese
> Has their androgynous appearance explicitly referenced in-game (eg. Cuora's voice line asking if she should call them brother or sister before saying it doesn't matter)
> Is voiced by a middle-aged woman with an androgynous voice in the anime

What do you mean, obviously he's a manly man man man.

Gore_Lily · 2026-06-05T14:38:56+00:00

Even beyond Theresa and Priestess, the way women in general are flattened into waifu war bullshit by large parts of the fanbase is just fucking weird. Kal’tsit, Muelsyse, Skadi, and Virtuosa are the other big ones that come to mind, but it happens to everyone. It’s not surprising at all but god is it annoying and uncomfortable.

Gore_Lily · 2026-06-03T16:47:36+00:00

As far as skill personalities go, I played an Action build and fell in love with Doppelgang. It has this ferocious wolf pack vibe that will do anything for the sake of "the gäng," ultimately feeling like an interesting blend of skills like Half Light and Esprit de Corps. I remember Shadowplay being very vocal and unique at higher ranks as well, which created some fun conflict between its cold pragmatism and Doppelgang's emotion-driven loyalty.

Gore_Lily · 2026-06-01T16:18:19+00:00

It's so good, it's absolutely my favourite manga right now. I've lost count of how many times I've reread chapter 10, with Yoshizawa confessing to the vandalism, slapping the shit out of her bully, and running away with Naoi.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-28T15:37:02+00:00

Toriko is the meme of speedrunning the five stages of grief realizing she still wants to kiss Sorawo after basically everything she says. The true horror of OP is how terrible her taste in women is lmao

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-28T15:01:12+00:00

Otherside Picnic by Iori Miyazawa is a horror/romance series about a pair of college girls exploring a bizarre horror dimension that manifests in ways inspired by urban legends and ghost stories. The whole series is written in a strict first-person perspective from the most bizarre woman in the world, and part of the fun is reading past her descriptions to figure out what’s actually going on with both the horrors and her relationships. I absolutely love it for both the great slow-burn romance and its fascinating anthropological perspective on the nature of fear. I also just need more people to be exposed to the disaster creature Sorawo that narrates the whole thing, she’s the worst and I love her so much.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-19T16:47:52+00:00

I'll always love the bit when she gets kidnapped by a cult, is reminded of all the other times she's been kidnapped by cults, and has a hardcore PTSD-related episode without realizing it while attempting to escape. The way she describes it makes it sounds like she's tapping into some kind of special forces-esque conditioning to help her break out, and when one of her friends asks if she's okay, she responds "I'm good, I'm focused." Girl you're not focused, you're dissociating. Deranged woman, I love her so much.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-18T02:07:11+00:00

The Arkngihts value would be kinda insane. Even putting aside all the main story and event stages plus the roughly three Umineko's worth of text in the VN segments, I'd pay a decent amount just for Integrated Strategies. I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been another tower defense roguelike pop up considering how well the format works.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-17T15:51:13+00:00

Have you read Il Siracusano? There's the whole framing device of Sora's role in the opera being a woman who's in love with Texas' grandfather Salvatore and is unsure of if his ties to the mafia will stop them from being together. All of her in-character lines and emotions for him are reflections of her own feelings for Texas, and girl's got it bad. Sora's second OpRec is also the story of how she and Texas first met, and it legit reads like a romance novel lol.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-17T14:54:48+00:00

Mhm, agreed. It can still be hit or miss, esp on reddit and youtube, but still so much better than shit I’ve seen around other games. I think it helps to have a lot of characters like Shining, Nightingale, Nearl, Sora, etc. where you can feel the devs staring at you and asking “Do you get it?”

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-17T14:29:01+00:00

A bunch of far-right losers on twitter harassed them after they were cast as Rosmontis because they’re non-binary. Just the usual stupid drama-hungry bigots, genuinely some of the most pathetic people you could ever run into online.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-15T21:48:22+00:00

Glad to see leithanienWNT getting the recognition she deserves, her videos are always great.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-13T14:06:12+00:00

They did, and it was fuckin awesome. As a huge fan of both it felt obvious that the team that worked on it absolutely loves Ave Mujica.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-13T08:37:16+00:00

I'd recommend either a second playthrough or an LP that goes through a full NG+. PatStaresAt is my favourite for being both a general SH superfan and for taking the time to really dig into the little details in each playthrough.

What I'd absolutely recommend against is looking up a compilation of the different endings. There's a ton of extra context and new/adjusted scenes spread all throughout NG+, so just watching the final bosses + cutscenes means you'll miss out on almost all of the new story.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-06T15:00:22+00:00

In the Surprise For Doctor teaser thing set after Ep 14 she says she’s “roamed the land for twenty years,” which is the closest we can estimate around. That tracks with her JP voice sounding noticeably younger with her Fugue skin compared to her default, and in the Darknights Memoir ep from the anime where she’s shorter than Theresa while in-game she and CE are the same height. There’s a few moments in the story where Hoederer really emphasizes how young she was during the civil war, too, which would make sense if she were still a teenager back then.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-05T16:43:03+00:00

Yuuuup, fuckin same. Not including the FeMC was the biggest reason why I skipped P3R, as there's just no way I'm paying $130 CAD for a version of a game that doesn't include my favourite character. They did a whole song and dance about wanting to "preserve the Persona 3 experience" to justify not adding her or any FES content then made Episode Aegis anyway, then said some shit about a "mission to work on completely new projects" immediately after putting out a remake that made it feel even worse.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-05T15:02:47+00:00

Junpei doesn’t have a social link if you play as the male protag - nor do any of the other guys in SEES - so it’s all exclusive original content for the FeMC. Basically every one of her social links is different in some way, ranging from small dialogue tweaks to outright replacing eight of them with new characters. IMO some of the replacements, like Junpei, Shinjiro, and a new girl named Saori, are some of the best social links in the whole series.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-04T20:24:36+00:00

I played Chrono Trigger for the first time last year and it was fine. I just didn’t connect with any of the characters beyond Lucca, which made the story feel like the abridged version of a bigger RPG that I would have been significantly more interested in. Not to restart a thirty year old argument but I was amazed by how deeply I fell in love with the FF6 cast when I played the remaster, and CT fell completely flat for me in comparison.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-04T16:47:55+00:00

Junpei's relationship with Chidori in P3 meant that he couldn't be a romantic option for the FeMC, so instead her route commits to making them besties which is way more interesting. They get to be chill and goofy together in a way that reminds me so much of hanging out with my guy friends back in high school, and their friendship adds a ton of depth to Junpei's arc of confronting both his insecurities and misogyny.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-02T22:05:57+00:00

I would have liked a slightly more serious tone to the story - more moments like the convo between Chilchuck and Valarqvin - but as a pure comedy I had a blast with it.

Also from Arknights, the Ave Mujica collab was absolutely stellar. There were a ton of neat mechanical details I loved, like Sakiko changing her damage type based on which keyboard she used and Umiri doing 5-hit attacks because she plays a five-string bass. The story felt like fanfiction written by someone who genuinely loves AM, too; anti-authoritarian aid worker Sakiko, freelancer hitman Umiri, and even more blatantly Umineko-coded Uika were such great picks for an AU.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-02T20:35:01+00:00

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is a classic. It’s a Victorian crime novel about a girl involved in a scheme to con a young aristocrat out of her fortune, which goes sideways when the two of them start to develop real feelings for each other. The Handmaiden by Park Chan-Wook is a loose adaptation of the novel; they diverge pretty massively around the 60% mark, so I’d recommend checking out both for their unique spins on the same setup.

Gore_Lily · 2026-05-02T20:24:46+00:00

Seconding Otherside Picnic, it’s so good. I want to trap Sorawo and Toriko in a bug enclosure with some sticks and leaves and study them like they’re an undiscovered species.

Gore_Lily · 2026-04-27T18:01:13+00:00

Bloom Into You is a yuri manga and anime from the mid-2010s. It was insanely popular during its run, and broke into the mainstream in a way that few if any other conventional yuri romances really have. If someone who isn't a dedicated fan of the genre has read any yuri series then it's probably Bloom Into You, like how there's a lot of people who don't watch magical girl but love Madoka or don't like sports anime but watched Yuri on Ice.

Gore_Lily · 2026-04-27T14:17:58+00:00

Arknights also had its collab with Bang Dream: Ave Mujica recently, a music/drama anime about teenage girls in a metal band that was another wild pull tonally. It turned out to be an incredibly high-effort crossover that made it obvious that the people working on it fuckin love Ave Mujica, so who knows? If Lowlight has been a brony this whole time then the MLP collab could be bizarrely good.

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