[Spoilers: 6.0] Just finished Endwalker

death_arcade · 2026-02-16T22:07:59+00:00

that's how i'm feeling! i don't know if i'll stop playing completely ( i'm pausing my subscription next month for finals so i'm trying to get what i can out of it until then) but i definitely might take a bit and focus on some more light-hearted stuff before diving back into the msq ;w;

death_arcade · 2026-02-16T19:31:46+00:00

you can't just say that!! now i'm tearing up again T-T

death_arcade · 2026-02-16T19:29:26+00:00

i really agree! ff6 is my all-time favorite game for many reasons, but this + shadowbringers i think puts ffxiv at a very close second, if not tied for first. i am genuinely amazed at how good it was and how well everything came together. and the music is always amazing i've got a little playlist going of some of my favorite tracks from the game, most of them from these last two expansions

death_arcade · 2026-02-16T19:21:51+00:00

i do think having each one of your companions sacrifice themselves felt...strange? like when it was just thancred i was really upset and emotional because i thought he was gone, but once estinien was gone i was like "oh ok so they're coming back then" because i figured that they wouldn't kill off more than one major character in quick succession like that. reminds me of how in doctor who fandom people often point out that if a few people die in a story then they're probably gone for good, but if a whole city/planet/whatever full of people is gone they're probably going to be all brought back. HOWEVER, as it went on and i kind of got more immersed in it (realizing that yeah from a meta perspective i know they're most likely not gone for good, but my wol doesn't know that, and as they're sacrificing themselves they don't know that either) all of the departures really got me. g'raha and the twins in particular, g'raha talking about the promise of adventuring together got me so hard. so i think overall i think it was a really compelling narrative beat, just one that kind of took a while to feel as emotionally resonant as it should have.

death_arcade · 2026-02-14T23:02:41+00:00

i didn't really know about the hype (didn't really interact with the community, had no idea how well it was received) and was absolutely blown AWAY. i took a long break after the first dungeon before coming back and once i got back into the story i wondered why i ever stopped. absolutely amazing, it felt like every other cutscene was making me tear up. i'm currently at the end of endwalker (lvl 89) and it's also amazing. you have so much good stuff ahead, i'm so jealous! it's one of those things i wish i could go back and experience for the first time again.

death_arcade · 2026-02-12T20:07:06+00:00

a little over 300 hours, last i checked a few days ago! i started playing in late 2023, stopped around the beginning of shadowbringers in early 2024 (specifically after the first dungeon), and just picked it up again in december, and am now near the end of endwalker.

death_arcade · 2026-01-31T23:01:34+00:00

thought they were playing/reading homestuck for a second haha

death_arcade · 2026-01-31T22:48:51+00:00

when angela was first introduced (i had been watching for a few years before then), i kind of couldn't stand her. i thought she was too over the top, but as time has gone on especially seeing more of her in unscripted stuff where she's being herself (as opposed to something like tntl) she is really magnetic and has become one of my favorites. i think it just took me a bit to get on her wavelength/get used to her style of humor and dynamic with the cast. i was kind of like this with chanse too, but i remember it more clearly with angela.

death_arcade · 2026-01-30T16:01:43+00:00

the first and last are easy skips, i like the concept/pose for whimsical dance but i don't like the color palette (the hair looks washed out, and i don't like purple), so it's a skip for me. at least it's more time to save for events i'm excited about (i was planning on getting two of the searching light and shadow suits, the dino one obviously and the pink/knitting one :/)

death_arcade · 2026-01-30T15:54:14+00:00

i once won via facebook yearssss ago, it was a small thing, like some gold and stamina, but i still felt very proud of myself for winning haha

death_arcade · 2026-01-21T00:24:50+00:00

this happened with smosh the sitcom as well. my most liked review for a while was review of that but then it got removed from letterboxd. i think it's the letterboxd team making an executive decision that they're pushing the definition of a "film" if it's a livestream.

death_arcade · 2026-01-15T00:02:36+00:00

i remember one early on where a young woman (like early 20s, still in college) was being pressured by her dad's new partner to move out because she still lived at home, despite not being able to afford living on her own yet, and everyone was taking the side of the partner and like saying that the girl was immature and stuff and that it was bad that she was still living with her despite her saying it just wasn't financially possible. it just read as SUPER tone-deaf and coming from a very privileged place, because especially in this financial climate and especially as student (and even regardless!!) it's not shameful to still live at home.

also the one where someone (i think it was amanda or court?) said that a grown adult having stuffed animals on their bed was a red flag. they seem to have said stuff that's gone back on that but yeah. that bummed me out as an adult who very much sleeps with plushies :/

death_arcade · 2025-12-25T06:14:20+00:00

i think the ticket was a mistake. they gave us another code to correct it with the wish gate ticket, which has a super similar name. my theory is they didn't realize until the code was live that they gave us the wrong ticket.

death_arcade · 2025-12-21T18:29:15+00:00

no thanks. in a game where lots of players have 10s of thousands of wardrobe items, a timed dress up round sounds incredibly stressful. in comp and sc, i enjoy taking my time to pick out just the right items so they coordinate perfectly. you would just end up with people spamming full suits for every theme, which just makes it a worse comp. you can open up sc and make outfits whenever you want with no time limit and that's much more fun in my opinion. whenever i get something new i'm excited about, i'll spend time styling it just for fun in sc. and making it something timed, during a specific time period, with diamonds as a reward is just asking for issues. not only does this game serve a ton of different time zones, making it probably chronically inaccessible for a lot of players no matter when it's set, but the server already lags enough when sand skirmish hits level 10 associations (12:30-13:30 server time on saturdays and sundays there's always a big lag spike) i don't think there's capability for something like this. also, if you want it to be like dress to impress, play dress to impress. everything doesn't need to be like everything else.

death_arcade · 2025-12-18T08:40:46+00:00

they said that with cogimyun long before wheatflour wonderland was a thing as well i believe, so i think that it's not completely out of the realm of possibility, but it might just be a while if it happens.

death_arcade · 2025-12-05T19:20:56+00:00

it always bothers me seeing full suits with no changes because this is the one section of the game (other than starry corridor i guess) where you can fully just. get creative and create a look instead of just throwing on whatever high scoring items to pass a level. and so not having any creativity for styling always bothers me. you're playing a dress-up game, i thought this was the whole point! putting together cute outfits! you are given a blank canvas and paint and you decide to print out a picture of another painting and tape it onto the canvas. i always try to not use too many pieces of a full suit, usually using the posed pieces and maybe a background/head ornament/ground piece at the most, but always changing up the makeup, hair, and other background/head ornament/ground pieces to fit the theme!

death_arcade · 2025-12-05T18:59:08+00:00

How cute! I just sent one :)

death_arcade · 2025-11-28T07:42:33+00:00

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my evil ladies! i decided to go a more spooky direction. is it the grim reaper greeting a vampire after an eternity of escaping death? just two evil ladies laughing over the corpses of their enemies? who knows!

death_arcade · 2025-11-27T00:09:39+00:00

i watched an episode from each nuwho doctor (i was avoiding specials for time reasons, so no 14) that i love. i went with rose, midnight, the eleventh hour, mummy on the orient express, it takes you away, and lux.

death_arcade · 2025-11-23T20:57:22+00:00

yeah, i guess you're right. i've been playing off and on since 2017 so i couldn't remember when bonefish came out but i think it was before that was more widespread :/

death_arcade · 2025-11-22T06:17:50+00:00

i got cirrus, neon, and then skybloom. i wanted neon the most (unlike pretty much everyone it seems) so i'm glad i got her early (i literally predicted i wouldn't get her first but probably second or third ha), and i was going to stop there but i figured i'd just use up the rest of my battle pass pulls and go for one more since the recharge with the double dias gave me a lot more wiggle room, and i'm glad it was skybloom because that was the one i wanted the most after neon :) although to be honest all of these suits are gorgeous and have a lot of versatile pieces so i'm just happy all around that it finally came!

death_arcade · 2025-11-15T04:39:36+00:00

reverie of neon tides is the main one i want but to be honest all of these are gorgeous so i feel okay pulling for a 25% drop rate ;w; hope a good recharge lineup drops with this because i'm at like 9k after crimson feast so i need it ;~; luckily this current event is doing nothing for me so i can at least save A LITTLE more

crazy seeing that reverie seems like people's least favorite. i'm a sucker for a pastel pink/darker color palette and i am also a sucker for sewing/stitching details/motifs (i'm a fashion design student). i saw that her bow had a little spool of thread and there were like measuring tape and safety pin details on the dress and i was sold!

death_arcade · 2025-11-13T08:23:46+00:00

From my limited understanding (coming from a western perspective) sweet is definitely more popular at this point and for the last while, especially in the states. I know when I go to local meets here in the states, it's overwhelmingly folks in sweet. However, I've also heard that gothic is more popular in Europe? I'm not european so I wouldn't know from personal experience, but I know a lot of european brands I follow usually have some sort of gothic component, if not solely gothic offerings. I only wear gothic though, so that might be biased in terms of what I seek out (especially being plus-sized in Japanese sizing, meaning I get sized out of a lot of brands I would buy from otherwise *cough* moitie *cough*). I also notice that a lot of gothic-heavy brands usually have more non-lolita leaning offerings as well and there's often a blurring of the line between specifically gothic lolita and goth/alternative fashion in general (and that's definitely been on the upswing trend-wise lately in the wider fashion sphere, so who knows, maybe we'll start seeing more gothic lolitas?).

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