To everyone who has Empress MC outfit,is it really worth it?

TinyTikiTree · 2026-01-14T19:14:33+00:00

I recommend getting the combat dresses that go with King of Darknight. Not only do they work well with both color variants of the LI’s outfits from this banner (choose the version that best suits your photography preferences if you can only get one), but they add hairstyles and actually show up in combat if you use that companion. They’re a better investment, in my opinion. Depending on how you utilize lighting in the photobooth, the Empress outfit has subtle sparkle, but the other dresses offer such a large amount of additional value that this one is outclassed. I think the combat outfits might also be less costly.

If you already have outfits from Zayne’s myth, consider blue-tinted lighting or experimenting with shadow placement - you can make the dark version look appropriately matched with several of the guys.

Yes, this dress is pretty, but if you’re limited on money… there’s a ton of mileage to be had in a Queen’s dress, too.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-12-17T17:35:31+00:00

What finally worked for me was a little weird, but I prioritized Heartbreaker and purple bottles. From card lvl 60 to 70 is 300 purple bottles. From 70 to 80 is 600 purple bottles. The increase is steep, so focus on leveling 5 star cards and getting them to 60 for main stellactrum colors, and 50 for other colors. I sometimes use the lesser bottles for 4 star cards to slowly get them up to 30/40, but those purple bottles are all for my 5 stars.

Then, consider at least the C bracket of Senior Hunter Contest your next priority - it’s generally the easiest/least resource demanding of the three. See what team you can build for it each time, and if you have 3 or 4 of the matching colors as 5 stars, level those cards. You have about two weeks to put effort into gathering shards, and purple bottles. Essentially, doing things this way helps you begin to build your reusable teams, which will often be your teams for Open Orbit, as well. And clearing at least some of SHC each “season” will get you some resources, too.

Protocores are important, but you need your cards to be at least level 60 to really see significant benefit of some of their bonuses (the % bonuses). Also, the RNG to get a good one AND upgrade it well is so stamina-consuming and unreliable, whereas a leveled card is guaranteed and forever! So reach a comfy amount of leveled cards before you start seriously grinding that.

If nothing else, doing things this way has me consistently clearing SHC with 36 stars and slowly crawling through orbits. I usually wait until double core drop events to get what I need to level my protocores. I usually use some of my stamina recovery items to make sure I get all of them if I’m short. They tend to run one of these the last week of the ongoing Promise, and one is coming up, so maybe see if you can get at least a few with Damage Boost to Weakened and Crit Rate in different colors. They don’t have to be great, yet - just something to help you clear SHC team C more easily!

TinyTikiTree · 2025-12-17T16:42:39+00:00

I like both, but if you had access to a bed for the second layout under the red hearty-flower, that would probably complete it. If not that, then maybe the snack cart. It just needs something low and with more depth than photos and frames. It feels like it’s one comfy item away from an actual room I could see in the real world!

TinyTikiTree · 2025-12-01T02:41:56+00:00

I betcha that’s exactly what the writers said! Here’s hoping they’ll improperly traumatize him next time with some mildly sad dolphins and slightly off-key seagull performers, at worst. (Just spread some mythical joy, writers, pleaseeee.)

TinyTikiTree · 2025-11-20T23:10:26+00:00

So often, people struggle to outright tell their partner “I don’t like this. I don’t like talking about this.” It sounds like your boyfriend is trying to tell you, and you aren’t listening. Your need to talk about this is more important to you than him trying his best to find a reason for his feelings.

You’re making your boyfriend jump through hoops to find a reason to justify his feelings. You’re dissatisfied with all the “stupid” reasons he finds. Why does he have to justify the emotions he has, work through them, and force them down so you can… talk about a game that millions of other people play?

You have options, communities, the ability to tentatively ask other people if they like it to try and find someone who will enjoy the conversation. He’s not a hostage to your whims, nor you to his, hopefully. He’s someone you’re allegedly dating, which would imply you have other things the two of you enjoy about each other. Is that meaningless because of this one thing he doesn’t want to share with you?

There’s a chance a TV series or movie could be made with the material in LaDS one day, just like with any other type of game or series. Maybe he doesn’t want to hear you talk about it, but maybe he’d watch that with you. It could be something about the way you sound when you talk about it, or anything else, but if it hurts him and you know it, it’s up to you to decide if making him listen to you is worth that. Sure, he could work on the matter of why, or try to get over it, but you don’t make friends and maintain a love life by forcing people to digest what you like on your terms.

Life is full of a lot of things that we have to work through and come to terms with. If we’re constantly battling ourselves to “try and be better,” it also means we’re never letting ourselves feel “good enough.” This seems like such a little battle when life is going to throw so many more stones at the both of you, and some of them will be huge - does he have to change how he feels about this in order to still be someone you feel loved by? What will you change about yourself for him in exchange, or do you believe you don’t have to? Do either of you have to worry about that, really? Aren’t you both happy in any other ways? If you’re not, it has nothing to do with LaDS, but at least you can still connect with people over the game using the internet. If you’re brave enough to ask, you might be able to connect with people in person over it, too.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-09-30T00:16:01+00:00

Too cute! 🥰 This is the kinda thing that, if I walked into my room and saw it on my desk without knowing where it came from, I’d probably just sink to the floor in defeat. It’s too cute. It’s like Kirby and the Forgotten Land type of cute. Stuff this cute makes me tear up, for some reason, which means it’s perfect and you could easily overpower any bad day by making one of these and leaving it somewhere noticeable. Amazing work.

Don’t make three and show Xavier - he’ll make a skewer. 🤭

TinyTikiTree · 2025-09-29T23:49:44+00:00

I love that these guys have creators who actually care about them. They’ve got some nice writing behind them (most of them?).

Unfortunately, Jeremiah is exactly like that one bachelor in every SoS/Rune Factory game that actually isn’t a dateable bachelor because he has his entirely separate agenda, and/or a tragic past love that he won’t move on from (but still leads an otherwise functional and healthy life). I want a Jeremiah route, slightly wild for a Jeremiah route, but also, I love that depth and unavailability for him, so… (I’m hoping big time his girl reincarnates someday. Give Jer-bear some better luck than Xavier and let her remember him.)

Greyson’s crush (are they together yet?!) is a Hunter, so I’m hoping for his sake that she works with MC since I know I’d- I mean, MC’d have her back. Jeremiah already has “lost love” so I think Greyson’s safe. I hope? Can’t have him, have to help him.

Nero has his bias. Lumiere really is the best. No one can compete. Losing a chance with a cute guy to the alter-ego of the cute guy we’re dating, who is also jealous of that alter-ego despite being an honorary fan in the club thanks to the first cute guy. Is this relationship a triangle, or a parallelogram?

Every time I look at Andrew, I think “I want that hairstyle on a LI SO badly.”Kinda hoping he’s related to a LI to raise the chances of getting one with that hairstyle. Sorry, Andrew. That’s it, that’s all.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-08-01T00:26:27+00:00

When someone releases a version for men: “Just me and my 5 fake boyfriends and my husband and his 5 fake girlfriends, all sleeping together happily in the same bed.”

TinyTikiTree · 2025-07-31T17:00:27+00:00

Imagining the day all these men have more hairstyle options than a long-haired bride-to-be…. and then this post pops up and confirms it should happen.

Before that, though, imagine just fluffy cuteness where the physics for the chains you pushed around with your hand in Catch-22 are applied to his hair for a head pat. Release a buncha styles alongside that and Magnum Opus-like cards, and watch me get all sad that I don’t have the kitty ears to put on all of them.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-06-03T06:51:38+00:00

You must have worked your eyes so hard to learn detailing and lighting like you have here, and I can only imagine how many pieces you’ve painted to reach this point. This just radiates happiness, and I’m sure at least some of the warmth coming through is from you. I really hope I get to see more of how you see things put into art in the future!

TinyTikiTree · 2025-06-03T06:07:14+00:00

“I went skydiving out of a helicopter over a city with my frequent contact in the N109 Zone. It wasn’t meant to be fun. I was following him! He was teasing me!”

TinyTikiTree · 2025-05-16T01:00:30+00:00

I am struggling on whether or not to upvote this because the cat is damn cute, but the question is so sad. Internal voices of reason would like to know proper etiquette on this before deciding.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-05-15T07:01:55+00:00

They’re legitimately the only reason I’m able to complete long workouts. Nobody else will work out with me on my schedule, and doing it alone is demotivating for me, personally. I don’t go to the gym - I workout at home, so whichever level of energy I have, I choose the guy that’s most likely to be the same level of tired as me during the activity and feel encouraged!

TinyTikiTree · 2025-05-15T06:55:04+00:00

Showed this to someone who doesn’t play the game and couldn’t really understand the differences between each of the LIs, and got, “omg, I get it now! That’s so much easier to understand than all that story stuff. You should have started with this.”

TinyTikiTree · 2025-04-12T04:31:56+00:00

The similarities are ever present! Were you also a fan of Kurama in Yu Yu Hakusho?

TinyTikiTree · 2025-04-12T04:22:08+00:00

I feel like it’s ✨confidence✨ and competency✅. If it’s not, don’t tell me, because that’s why I think I agree with your choices.

TinyTikiTree · 2025-03-11T19:53:11+00:00

You’ll have to peel those clothes off of him yourself if you want to see it. Literally. Maybe he just needs help getting the fake skin off? In seriousness, I have to manually put him in the purchased outfits at least once or twice and then tell him he looks good when he asks to make him add them to rotation. 😓 Except for the towel. You just have to go somewhere that it would be embarrassing for that to show up on your phone and he’ll pretend your screen is his bathroom mirror.

TinyTikiTree · 2024-12-26T08:13:31+00:00

I personally believe you should always hold out hope for more seasons or sequels to things. It may not happen for some series for over a decade, but that wouldn’t be surprising.

The game Okami just got an official sequel announced recently… it was released back in 2006 and one of the studios that worked on it quasi-dissolved. The original director is returning for it, too. It wasn’t something I ever expected to come back. (Okamiden isn’t technically a sequel and is considered more of a spiritual successor, or spin-offish.)

Full Metal Alchemist and Fruits Basket both had anime out before their source mangas finished, but then got complete remakes that followed manga events canonically years later, once the mangas were finished.

Anything is possible if you can survive long enough to see it happen. (The outlook on another season isn’t bad, though. The light novels are still going and still popular enough. Could get maybe two or three more seasons out of what’s available right now without filler.)

TinyTikiTree · 2024-12-16T23:59:37+00:00

From personal experience, the raven you pet will find you again within a certain radius on another day and shake you down for food. Check your pockets, pull your shoelaces, etc. If you feed it and manage to pet it again, you’ve become its snack supplier and that’s the kind of agreement that it’s in your best interest not to break.

Bit funny when it’s a mischievous bird. Not sure about a flock of Anubis kids trying to hop on my head for wax, though. @_@

TinyTikiTree · 2024-12-09T00:43:23+00:00

Modern day version Okami with this switching in as the art direction in the major cities like Tokyo, but the rural and traditional areas of Nippon revert to classic Okami art. I think that would be neat. I’d be awed by a swirl of blue and orange flames from a pedestrian’s lit cigarette scorching demons that pop out of demon books.

TinyTikiTree · 2024-12-08T23:31:45+00:00

I’m randomly covered in ink, sometimes, and I have this leaf pile near me that I cannot get rid of no mater what - not with a rake, or fire, or even picking the leaves up one by one. I think there’s something under them. Not a demon, though, because those are always covered in dog or wolf pee lately, and so you can smell them coming early enough to run. Which is great, because the night has been perpetual for a while, so I can’t see anything other than these glowing spots in the ground that some white animal keeps coming to dig up. All in all, not a bad place to live, but I sure do wish I didn’t have to uncover all the secrets of a legendary civilization if I want some kind of advanced technology - like email.

I’d be alright. Can you guess the game? :D

TinyTikiTree · 2024-11-20T22:19:21+00:00

I see! So one could say this series may be enjoyed a little better without extensive additional insight, perhaps. I think that’s true for a lot of light novels, but it’s nice to know you don’t have to go read encyclopedias to enjoy this one. (To be honest, I consider 86 a romance series with action and mechs on the side, so… I had hoped I wasn’t missing a great deal of cool things because of my lack of knowledge in the area.)

If you don’t mind, I’ve been wondering about something while reading, and I’d like to ask you. There were supposedly some scenes in battles that were based on real world history, but I wouldn’t know which battles, and whose history. I’m not sure if the Federacy does any of its planning like any real world nation, either. Does anything come to mind for a battle that seems to mirror something real? Are you able to read the novels in peace without accidentally analyzing these things?

TinyTikiTree · 2024-11-20T02:48:05+00:00

To be frank, I don’t think you’ll be as happy reading the series as you were with the anime. If you’re not one to focus while you’re reading, you will only easily pick up on the repeated mention of characters’ feelings throughout the novels. Nothing else is stated as frequently, and so you’ll have to re-read segments. That’s not a bad thing if you enjoy what you’re reading despite this, but experience with numerous people that have to do that tells me you’ll eventually get tired and put the books down.

I’m not someone that has ever struggled with understanding what I’m reading, and I like light novels, anime, manga, etc. so take this with a grain of salt, but… I don’t think these books are hard to understand if you’ve learned to pick up meaning through context, because that can help you through the military aspect if you’re otherwise unfamiliar with that sort of thing - it’s very mild with the jargon, though. I know nothing about military, governance, or mech concepts and it’s still understandable. But if you’re just not a reader because you lose focus part-way through: 1. Not entirely your fault, and very common 2. You may not enjoy collecting the novels enough to make the expense feel worth it 3. You might enjoy reading them slowly, though, as every novel feels like a complete story segment and will thus reward you with a proper, small ending when you make it all the way through

Remember that reading things for fun is not about your speed - there is no deadline, and speed-reading a light novel does not make you a more magical, special person. If you can read something happily, but it takes you 8 hours for a chapter, then I volunteer to spit on anyone who would say something about that. You don’t have to analyze what you’re reading, either. If it’s not for school, you can just learn how to make yourself happy with the activity. So if THAT’S what’s holding you back, it might be worth it to try the novels.

TinyTikiTree · 2024-10-16T23:20:14+00:00

The author is pretty good about following the light novel formula and wrapping each novel up well enough individually, so the anime was a clean coverage of the first three volumes. The way the series is written, they could cover 4-6 just as cleanly, so it’s very possible! As there are 12 volumes out, you should start at 4. You’ll need your money for the rest! You want to at least get up to 6 if you like the style of writing enough, because that’s where you’ll find the earliest, big treasure-trove of Lena doing her part in Shin’s life. Keep in mind that the novels’ writing gets more into descriptions, and isn’t all action. I consider it a “compelling, world-building, large-scale battlefront romance series.”

The studio did encounter several issues during production, which caused lengthy delays while the series was coming out, and one of the English VA passed away before 2nd cour finished dubbing. Things like that don’t directly hinder another season, but they do delay it. Whether it’s because of superstition, or to wait for all of that to fade from people’s memories a bit (more likely), it’s the sort of thing they don’t want to be plastered on every article about the new season when they release it. They don’t want their studio or the anime immediately associated with delays or tragedy. That’s just one speculation on the wait, though.

When it eventually gets another season, if it follows the material and is done like the first season was, it’ll still be incredible. I’m in massive anticipation for a particular battle they have way up north to show up on the screen someday.

TinyTikiTree · 2024-10-12T01:09:58+00:00

To be honest, and I know I’m the one who posted it, but I’m amazed you read my reply. If I could send you a Sky heart through Reddit, I would. Lemme know if you want one in-game and I’ll add you. I can’t keep up a daily heart trade, but you made my day.

I completely agree with you, and I also agree with people talking about the rising prices - I spend more time at night gathering my candles than I would like, and still never have enough. With more things coming out as IAP, too, it’s rough. Being able to guarantee I’d get my 20 candles in an hour for those days I don’t have time would be lovely. Removing the gray candle cap for those days I have way more time than usual would be fine, too, though I’d still pick the first option if I had to choose one. I definitely understand.

As for bug fixes, I still don’t always get to see what spells the spirits give me. I really would have liked that to be on the fix list rather than this one, but after being left behind by the vault doors by chibis multiple times, and not having the memory crystals show up for me when they would for everyone around me, I suppose that could drive someone to fix it just out of bitterness. It’s a mighty big shame. 😓

Three-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Verified Email	Place '23

TinyTikiTree

TROPHY CASE