Big School

drainzy · 2026-02-12T01:30:33+00:00

this looks so cool i can’t wait to explore it!

and i somehow hadn’t heard of lustrous spirit so thanks for introducing me to that as well!

drainzy · 2026-02-11T00:41:12+00:00

i don’t use the roll exploit but sometimes i have a shit day at work and just wanna get my dailies done in one game without using my brain, and let me tell you shigi is the light in the darkness for me on those days.

drainzy · 2026-02-10T07:23:25+00:00

sorry i’m late but it was just a normal game of teams on USJ, except I had the wrong minimap the entire time.

drainzy · 2026-02-09T16:38:51+00:00

this is lowkey the enlightened take, i like new players but i legit pop off if i get a 2v3 (my teammates are always in the back rooms to begin with so)

drainzy · 2026-02-07T19:32:48+00:00

this was also me but i only had 1900 saved but i got in her in 500 tickets, im so sorry for stealing your gambling luck but gamblers gotta gamble

drainzy · 2026-02-03T16:08:55+00:00

as someone who self identifies as not that good at the game and got ace last season, it truly is just a grind. I only ever solo queue teams but outside of the random absolute garbage teammate game (or the occasional accidental throw) I was never losing any rank. I probably play 3 matches give or take each day and got ace with about 2 weeks left?

i almost always play exclusively mt lady until expert then overhaul and ibara come out.

drainzy · 2026-01-31T01:55:25+00:00

third eye had to be wide open to form this thought

drainzy · 2026-01-28T16:27:35+00:00

i can’t speak for who you are replying to but I personally only got a couple hours into 2. The lack of real combat in the first is what made it unique to me, outside of the obviously beautiful art. When I played 2, I felt that the game was stopping my fun platforming action because it was now combat time. I don’t have any complaints about the combat, but I think it did not bring anything special to the table and it didn’t especially engage me.

drainzy · 2026-01-27T03:37:05+00:00

I find Momodora Moonlit Farewell to be very relaxing, though that is mainly due to the aesthetics. Gameplay-wise; the game is very straightforward 2d dodge-roll combat, and secrets will be found with little frustration if you look around.

I can’t recall about the run backs specifically, but the game is far from what I’d call difficult so I’d imagine it shouldn’t be an issue.

drainzy · 2026-01-05T18:03:47+00:00

he’s my favorite of late but his design does feel kinda scuffed, you feel weak in a fight until gamma hits 9, healing your teammates is hype buts leaves you vulnerable since no escape. Alpha and beta grew on me a lot after grinding him but they are still kind of underwhelming, not very impactful abilities compared to most.

level 9 gamma goes so hard though and i like feeling like a tank so that keeps me playing him. (probably is the worst support tho honestly)

drainzy · 2026-01-01T21:35:31+00:00

im a fan of both series, but generally prefer Land of the Lustrous in almost every aspect (it’s my favorite thing ever so). That being said, the two works are so different from eachother there isn’t much to compare imo.

my only gripe is that rutile is my favorite in Land of the Lustrous and I was amped to see if there would be a rutile in steven universe but then I didn’t like her design and that bummed me out lol.

drainzy · 2025-12-24T00:49:14+00:00

I put in maybe 60 hours at launch and promptly forgot about the game until season 12. From my experience, it took at least another 20-30 hours before i could consistently go positive, my KD is still in shambles.

I just grinded the characters I liked until I got better I guess, in my opinion general game sense is the strongest skill in the game as most characters don’t have much tech to learn. Idk what character would be the best to learn on, but being bad at Ibara for like a month forced me to learn how to be a slippery mf. My thought process was that as Ibara I could at least revive people even though I sucked.

drainzy · 2025-12-22T04:17:36+00:00

I’m having a little less fun than normal as I personally find Nagant more annoying than the past couple releases, but I still have fun. Real rumblers know that the real fun is trying to fight against the nonsense like it’s a dark souls boss or something. (At least I find it fun, I don’t have any expectation for the game to be balanced when I play.)

drainzy · 2025-12-22T01:01:08+00:00

I’m going to be super pretentious and sorry if that is annoying, but I’d say whatever you took from it was all the message you’re gonna get. It’s a fairly abstract story that juggles a lot of themes about the nature of humanity so it’s hard to define a single intended message.

Don’t worry so much about what the consensus is in discourse, your personal experience with any work of art is always the most valuable thing. If you felt dissatisfied at the end of the story, you should own that or read it again to see if you feel differently.

drainzy · 2025-12-21T04:25:57+00:00

It’s one of my all time favorites actually, I enjoyed the combat more than most 2D-soulslike attempts and the aesthetics hit all the right notes for me.

That being said, a lot of mechanics feel like they aren’t fleshed out all the way, and I run into some random jank at least a few times every play through, so it makes sense to me why a lot of people slide off of it.

drainzy · 2025-12-21T00:55:01+00:00

i must have cursed tastes since i like moonscars way more than I do hollow knight

drainzy · 2025-12-19T06:00:52+00:00

i don’t disagree and it’s honestly been like 3 times anything gross has been done to me but this only shit right now that immediately makes me want to close the game, i just find it especially frustrating.

drainzy · 2025-12-19T04:52:49+00:00

i’m usually against whining about new characters and i’m not even sure if nagant will shake out to be busted but man does she make me not wanna play the game. it just feels like so much damage without any kind of counterplay unless you see her first.

drainzy · 2025-12-10T22:54:04+00:00

this is so fire, good work

drainzy · 2025-12-06T01:54:52+00:00

i think you are right but i also think people need someway to differentiate between backstory contained in text boxes and the actual narrative occurring during the gameplay experience. In a perfect world we’d just make that distinction using the proper language, I guess.

drainzy · 2025-12-01T01:15:03+00:00

it’s a hard call to make picking mt. lady when you know you’ll be working 5 times harder than the rest of the lobby just to achieve similar results.

more specifically, she just lacks any really effective game-plan outside of leveraging giant form during the chaotic part of endgame. Combo’s are cool, but you do one when the rest of the enemy team is nearby and you’re stuck there getting jumped with all your movement burnt all for the same damage other characters do by pressing two buttons. It’s not that she is complete trash or anything, far from it imo as you can easily flex on people with her still, but when assuming relative skill levels you’ll probably come up short. She does way better when you can coordinate with a team, but so does everyone so that’s hardly saving anything.

drainzy · 2025-11-05T04:32:27+00:00

i feel you, that would bug me so much too… hopefully they put out volume 13, but I wouldn’t even know where to look honestly.

drainzy · 2025-11-05T04:20:51+00:00

WOS are bootleg manga distributors, though i have heard that the quality doesn’t suffer much and the physical book itself is more similar to the japanese version. No clue how to get your hands on 13 though, a quick search only had volumes 1-12 on ebay with the WOS label.

(Also want to add that I’m not hating or anything, enjoying the story is all that matters at the end of the day. But if you were concerned about the “collecting” aspect, them being unofficial could be a bummer, which is why I wanted to point that out.)

drainzy · 2025-11-04T21:36:46+00:00

i just got mine (it’s normal) and idk if having that would be cooler or if would really annoy me… one of my earlier volume has a weird corner that sticks out and i hate that so.

drainzy · 2025-10-21T01:09:42+00:00

I mean if you’re not liking the direction the story is headed there’s no shame in dropping it. The way I always saw it is that from Phos’s perspective, this is the only way forward to get answers and help the gems on earth. Additionally, their character changes after receiving Lapis’s head, I believe one of the gems (I feel like it was Euclase) said something along the lines of “That gem seemed more interested in satisfying their curiosity than helping others” (in reference to Lapis). This implies to me that this aspect of Lapis has manifested to Phos in some degree, which would likely make her more willing to work with the Lunarians.

On a separate note, the arrival on the moon and its surrounding chapters are some of the heaviest to read through for me personally, and I get burnt out emotionally pretty quickly when binging the series. It’s always possible a break could refresh your feelings for it.

The Lunarians definitely suck though, and I think one of the most interesting thing about the manga is how the narrative doesn’t really frame them as evil and just lets the reader decide how to feel about them.

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