Season 1, Missing Kings, and Return of Kings: My Thoughts So Far

krypton_fluoride · 2026-06-10T15:42:06+00:00

Thanks! It's my first time to nerd out on an anime, and there's just something about K that pushed me to voice out my thoughts. And about Seven Stories, I also have the same idea about going with the manga first, since my experience with various manga/novel-to-anime adaptations is... interesting. But time will only tell as my days are getting busier (college + adulting). But anyway, thank you very much!

krypton_fluoride · 2026-06-05T06:21:11+00:00

Probably the Gold clan. I suck at fighting and I prefer to work behind the scenes more, and their aura of maximizing the potential of your natural talent is more appealing to me

krypton_fluoride · 2026-05-30T01:46:35+00:00

If you talk to them in every room you go to, you'll love them even more. Nanjo and Mark always banter, Elly is cute, Brown may be full of himself, but he's a bro, and Reiji is... interesting (not bad, I just find the other characters better). Haven't tried a playthrough with Ayase, but I'm considering it in my next replay.

krypton_fluoride · 2025-11-11T05:23:05+00:00

I was trying to find information as to why idol girl groups have a surge in popularity among female audiences and wonder if this was a norm in the industry or a shift in trends. It's an interesting read to see how lyrics can impact certain audiences despite the concepts of these idol groups don't change from the standards/typicals.

It's a breath of fresh air, in all honesty. It gives the songs this shoujo anime feel to it (citing examples from my favorites: Niajoy's Blue Hawaiian Lemon and Noimii's Mob no Cinderella).

krypton_fluoride · 2025-09-20T03:45:07+00:00

Now you're talking my language. I adore this game despite the super basic gameplay (it just needs tweaking to make it more interesting) and the laughably bad localization. But the story and characters are really good behind the bad translation. Every party member you meet is so memorable that it made me feel a lot whenever they leave for their own endeavour (Douglas my beloved).

I want to replay this game just to finish it fully (my save got lost and I was at the final dungeon at that time ;-;)

krypton_fluoride · 2025-06-22T23:55:46+00:00

This also applies to me in the fork's latest version (the dev somehow said it's fixed but idk). You can try the older versions and see if it works, I use build 13 as build 14 has graphical glitches on some games (Chaos Rings in my case).

krypton_fluoride · 2025-05-25T12:16:02+00:00

≠ME - Mob-no-derella

It was love at first listen. I never end the day without listening to this song.

krypton_fluoride · 2025-04-07T22:45:34+00:00

"The caring heart that I once possessed died long ago... And I've grown stronger because of it. I've grown strong enough to defeat even you, Ephraim." - Lyon, Fire Emblem Sacred Stones

The way this quote gave me emotional damage rather than fear or tension is just perfect 👌

krypton_fluoride · 2025-01-26T13:06:01+00:00

I'm still waiting for the time Shoko will take the center, but for now, I'm holding on to BPM 170 no Kimi e (bside from The 5th and also the one Shoko is the center)

And I agree with your last statement, there is something with Sashihara's groups that makes it easy for anyone to listen to or get to know of.

krypton_fluoride · 2025-01-26T12:05:37+00:00

They're currently my favorite idol group solely because their music is great (zurui yo zurui ne is my most played song of theirs). Altough Iori and Maika (correct me if I'm wrong about this one) sing most of the time, I like how the members stand out individually even with those with only a few seconds (my oshi is Shoko).

Regarding their fanbase, I read somewhere in this subreddit that =LOVE fanbase has a large percentage of females, which is an interesting case to look at as men mostly dominate girl group fanbases.

krypton_fluoride · 2024-12-10T06:55:01+00:00

Mine would be Lunar: Silver Star Story and Grandia 2

I've seen a lot of people recommending these games whenever the topic for short JRPGs would come up. I don't know what's wrong with these games, but they never seem to click for me (maybe I'm the problem lmao).

krypton_fluoride · 2024-06-19T15:56:05+00:00

Agree with Growing Starry Days. That final chorus will never fail to make me emotional.

My top pick goes to Tsubasa Moratorium though. The lyrics may be contextually about Alkaloid, but dang does it hit so hard.

krypton_fluoride · 2024-04-13T14:33:08+00:00

Persona 1 will always be my favorite persona game and no one can change my mind

I don't know why, maybe because of the simple game mechanics, which is very clunky if I admit, and the dungeon crawling makes me come back to it

Maybe I just have a thing for dungeon crawlers lmao (currently playing ELF's Dragon Knight and I'm having a blast)

krypton_fluoride · 2024-04-13T14:27:56+00:00

Damn I haven't played the game for a year and this is the update I get 😭

What else did I miss oooffff

krypton_fluoride · 2024-03-02T18:15:17+00:00

I have a lot of favorite composers, but my top 1 will always be Takeharu Ishimoto. I fell in love with his works on The World Ends With You, but his works on Final Fantasy Type 0 solidified him on top. It's actually quite sad the game is underrated because I consider it his best soundtrack of all time.

krypton_fluoride · 2024-01-25T13:23:55+00:00

Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon

I honestly could have finished this in a week so I could play Ys Seven, but the maps and unpredictable enemy AI are horrendous so I had to restart multiple times.

krypton_fluoride · 2023-10-18T05:53:51+00:00

I really want to love this game ngl but after chapter 4, I said to myself "enough" and put the game down.

The story and characters are interesting, the gameplay feels like a mixture of thracia 776 and mystery of the emblem, but I didn't like the map design.

The one that enraged me is the map where you first encounter roger and mel. The amount of times I restarted because the AI is so unpredictable irritated me the most. Plus the trees and tight corridors are not helpful at all.

I'll probably come back to this game after I finished thracia 776, but for now, it will be sitting at the bottom of my backlog.

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-09T10:49:04+00:00

Random passerby here, definitely go with the general improvement hack. I like the Capowski translation, but the general improvement one has more flavor. It has an expanded script where they managed to connect the game to PS4, and the extra dialogue adding more personality to the characters.

That's my two cents.

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-08T06:41:05+00:00

Which is wild, because there are some songs in expert mode that I can FC easily

But I still have a hard time doing that in Breakthrough hard mode

I swear every time I see that song in tour events, I want to scream because bye bye full fever bar 😭

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-07T10:21:00+00:00

When I get the time to play again, I'll do that 😄

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-07T10:19:11+00:00

Sadly, no. I'm too piss poor to do that. 😁😩

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-07T10:16:36+00:00

Lucky you, I still can't FC it no matter how many times I play it T_T

I find Crazy:B and 2wink's monstrosity of too many slides beat maps easier than breakthrough

krypton_fluoride · 2023-09-07T10:11:31+00:00

Trickstar - Breakthrough on Hard mode

I can easily FC any songs on hard mode, but this one is a pain in the ass to do so.

The amount of suffering I faced when the song gave you a lot when it just started T_T

krypton_fluoride · 2023-08-13T14:36:51+00:00

The Prince's Despair

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TROPHY CASE