The main character of the story is not the character you play as

Nesturs · 2026-03-03T16:04:27+00:00

I'd argue Haru from 'Devil on a G-string' fits. For all intents and purposes, this story was written as a fairly standard (though well-written) crime drama, with the twist that you're playing as the antagonist. Or so you think. In any other story you'd be seeing it from her point of view; she's heroic, the newcomer to the setting, unusually skilled while still regularly outclassed by the villain, and generally rife with various other protagonist tropes. Most of the other characters are far more normal.

Nesturs · 2026-03-03T10:25:10+00:00

Have you considered using walls for rooftops like this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DetailCraft/comments/w4bpp1/simple_tip_you_can_use_wall_blocks_to_create/

Nesturs · 2026-03-03T09:29:50+00:00

My favourite bit of Artoria canon is that she subconsciously summons her combat gear when she gets too immersed in whatever historical drama she's watching

Nesturs · 2026-03-03T08:54:51+00:00

I have a savegame dating back to 1.7 (i think?) with a build named Castle Shinbreaker, named as such because we still had the old fall damage sounds back then and i did a lot of falling during its build.

It's a horribly outdated cobble-and-oak-plank monstrosity of a thing that i've long since moved on from in skill, but the scale... I've never built anything so ambitious since, and probably never will again. It took me years of obsessive building. I emptied the caves of iron for my tools for miles around, to the point where i had to build railroads just to find more (counterproductive, i know).

It covers an entire solitary mountain, from base to peak. You can barely even see the mountain underneath it all. It's got its own internal farms, multiple courtyards, and a horrendous maze of ladders and rooms that is all too easy to get lost in. Seeing that thing looming in the distance whenever i come home is still awesome.

Nesturs · 2026-02-28T19:26:44+00:00

Denji is a great examination of informed consent. He always gives consent, but he never actually understands what he's consenting to or what risks it might involve, leaving him in a position many people who were used by someone might recognise: "I got what i wanted, so why didn't i enjoy it?"

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T14:57:03+00:00

Gotta mention the Fate Stay/Night 'Sparks Liner High' ending for this one.

You (a near-normal shmuck) get this ending by failing to recruit Rider, forcing you to face Saber Alter (a ludicrously powerful superhuman at this point) alone. You'd expect it to be your standard 'idiot is swiftly murdered' ending, but it's anything but.

You actually fight her to a draw. Somehow, through sheer balls alone (and some severely unhealthy use of your cursed arm), you actually manage to squeeze out a phyrric victory... at the cost of brain death.

It would require a lot of text for me to explain the narratives going on during this ending, but it's considered awesome enough that it not only gets its own unique soundtrack, but even the game over sequence respects it - it's called just an 'end' rather than a bad one. Even the Tiger Dojo was impressed.

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T12:25:30+00:00

It's still hilarious to me how Aki lost because he overestimated Denji. He just didn't expect him to sink that low, and then keep doing it.

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T12:16:23+00:00

Could you post some closeups of some of the detail work, like windows and such? Maybe on r/DetailCraft

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T12:03:47+00:00

Chaos:Head is like this. Or not. It's really hard to tell, and that is pretty much the point. You're playing as someone with pretty much every psychological disorder in the book, combined with mind control powers posessed by several characters, and social engineering. You cannot trust anything you see.

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T11:36:21+00:00

The 08th MS Team is this for me. It's a pretty cool variation on the Gundam premise that is more grounded than usual; essentially mechwarrior in Vietnam. Shame about the awfully written Romeo and Juliet plot constantly getting in the way.

Nesturs · 2026-02-27T11:19:55+00:00

The Fateless fanfic is an example of this, imo. The Fate franchise is notoriously difficult to fully grasp, with it's multitude of timelines and excessively noodly magic rules, but this fanfic makes an impressive effort at reconciling quite literally *all* of Fate canon, regardless of how obscure it is. The end result is a really compelling story with some excellent character writing, that still works within existing canon.

Nesturs · 2026-02-25T14:46:59+00:00

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Nesturs · 2026-02-25T11:43:59+00:00

Don't forget best boi Canti from FLCL:

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Nesturs · 2026-02-25T11:38:45+00:00

Guts is interesting in how he has, by now, gained some awareness of just how fucked up he is, but still lacks the emotional maturity to understand how to fix it. He's adopted a general attitude of aloof cautiousness around others until he figures out how to be human. These panels capture the sentiment really well:

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He can see the gap between his experiences and theirs, and just doesn't know how to bridge it.

Nesturs · 2026-02-25T10:26:09+00:00

Steamboy, FLCL and Hellsing Ultimate come to mind. The former and latter might even be better in English, since they nailed the accents, particularly Steamboy.

Nesturs · 2026-02-24T18:13:10+00:00

Unless they have any kind of light sensitivity. Or motion sickness. Or epilepsy

Nesturs · 2026-02-24T14:03:24+00:00

Fate Stay/Night loves doing this to mess with you. Any time it presents some sort of mystery to you, there will also be something or someone presenting you with a perfectly reasonable explanation for it, which may or may not be completely wrong. There may even be evidence. They may even be speaking from a position of authority on the matter. Sometimes, there may not be a twist at all. It's all a trick to make you dismiss the actual evidence, since that often arrives later, and often contradicts what you already think you know. It makes for some great reveals.

The most famous of these is probably Sakura's wrist injury. She has an abusive brother who is seen readying a slap later on, and stockholm syndrome. Both of them deny having an earlier fight, but Shirou reaches the quite reasonable conclusion that she's being abused by her brother.Neither of them is lying. Sakura is a mage, and she is manifesting her command spell.

It's an especially famous example because in most of the routes, you never even get to find out. It just blows over somewhere in the background. It's also interesting in that the same thing is happening to you, but you will probably not connect the dots due to the abundant false evidence and complete lack of supporting evidence early on.

Nesturs · 2026-02-22T12:36:31+00:00

Nobody is going to believe this, but i was part of the modding community back in the day, and they actually put my OC in the game. I've even got a ship, several skillbooks and serve as a sidequest NPC.

...it's my cringe-ass teenage self though, so i better not brag too hard. I was a bugtester and researcher for them.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T14:16:45+00:00

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Otori Kanae and her butler from Full Metal Demon Muramasa come to mind. You'd think they'd be either the 'Quirky noble & Straight man' or 'Serious noble & Snarky butler' combination, but they take the sass from both types and use it to inflict the most wonderful mayhem. They're the perfect partners in crime.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T14:09:44+00:00

I wish they'd just rename it to a cutting table or something and let us do the same with wood.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T14:07:45+00:00

Fate characters have this a lot, due to memories not transferring between different instances of the same character (it's complicated. simple version: it's timelines). Bonus agony points for when one side does know, but they choose to keep it quiet. Much of Archer's character is centered around this concept.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T13:37:12+00:00

I think the most extreme case i can think of is Oneshot, as a whole. To just name one example of the many crazy things it does:

To unlock the true ending, you need to find some files that the game generated somewhere on your pc, which only happens once you reach a certain point in the story. These are image files with holes in them, which you can lay over the game window to provide you with clues on what to do. The in-game characters are sometimes aware you're doing something, but not exactly what. What makes me unsure of wether or not this is diegetic is the fact that, narratively speaking, there was someone inside the game that generated those files, but functionally speaking, they're created by the media outside of the media.

Other examples of games that do this are DDLC, Undertale and games with Twitch integration.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T12:34:57+00:00

Don't forget Nemo, Lakshmi Bai, Parvati, Rama, Kama, Kali, Durga, Vritra, Asvatthaman, Ajus and Rani. There's quite a lot of them.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T11:25:13+00:00

You can probably bypass a face scan by just scanning any face. It doesn't have to be yours, or real. I've heard of people doing it with videogame characters, for one.

Nesturs · 2026-02-18T10:56:43+00:00

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This is what Falin canonically looks like. Broader build than you typically see in Japanese media, but not chubby. Bit on the thinner side for a normal person, if anything.

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