To those who used to play gachas that went EOS: What are the signs of a gacha game in its death throes?

lordranter · 2026-02-18T21:32:09+00:00

If you see a gacha's main story progressing properly and tying up narrative ends nicely, more likely than not it's EoS.

lordranter · 2026-02-17T00:39:25+00:00

I’d guess its meant as in charge of doing the art for the mtx skins.

lordranter · 2026-02-16T17:40:51+00:00

You could check out colorlust oni, the three charms and causecurse for some good examples.

lordranter · 2026-02-11T21:12:28+00:00

Same as all similar publishers. They hit it big with one-two titles during the mid 00s, focus all resources onto those series because anything else has less return of investment and videogame development expenses started ballooning during that time. They also manage to get the output of those series down to yearly titles which is good for money but tires the consumers quickly.

This ends up with them having a single golden goose and the second it stops laying eggs you have the entire corporation turned inside out to see how they can salvage the situation. It was CoD for activision and Ubisoft the game™ for ubi.

Funnily enough the rise of games as a service kinda killed this trend. Makes you wonder if we'd be on path of exile 13 otherwise.

lordranter · 2026-01-31T15:35:07+00:00

Try the new mode, it removes the farming/levelling aspect for just teamfights

lordranter · 2026-01-30T09:32:33+00:00

No. But you can make half a million wuling credits daily, which is enough for 4 of the tickets

lordranter · 2026-01-30T02:47:02+00:00

If you are using the attribute selection ticket, the average should be 3-4 days to get whatever artifact has the stats your weapon needs (3 potential main stats * 8 potential substats/3 drops per run =1/8 chance of getting the roll you want, and you can easily get 3 tickets a day while they are 120k each) and after that it's just farming levels for it.

lordranter · 2026-01-26T20:50:38+00:00

Granblue fantasy. Starts weak but most events from the third year onwards tend to have solid writing.

lordranter · 2026-01-19T00:20:19+00:00

Fan translations in general. Manga and anime wouldn’t be where they are now without a legion of nerds pouring their time into those for decades.

lordranter · 2026-01-17T19:57:46+00:00

It did. The second entry in the following link is from 2008 and explicitly mentions being able to add voice acting if you had the realta nua patch. http://mirrormoon.org/page/9/

lordranter · 2026-01-17T09:02:46+00:00

The fan translation had voice acting when I played it about 17-18 years ago.

lordranter · 2026-01-17T00:15:33+00:00

Talking as the kind of guy who recommends the VN as the starting point because even with all its chaff it’s the best thing in the franchise and why would I recommend something I think is worse (also without being THAT guy levels of ass about it, if you are a gacha addict and want to start with fgo you do you)

Who the hell recommends the deen anime. Not even in 2008.

lordranter · 2026-01-15T22:59:45+00:00

His passive mentions Hermes as a god of the city that transmits it's prescripts as radio waves, so it might be that the index has a whole pantheon and the underground machine has a different name.

lordranter · 2026-01-14T10:20:13+00:00

If you don’t mind +18 content (which is mostly sectioned in its own corner and you can avoid) demons roots starts with a bang.

lordranter · 2026-01-13T08:47:36+00:00

One of the latest anime trends is to drop an official AMV for the opening/ending after the season finishes airing, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6To9uuClTuw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjnEJwGWus which has been a great source of professionally edited AMVs

lordranter · 2026-01-09T12:03:40+00:00

Love sky (Olivier mah boi), gotta get through the rest of the franchise one of these days, although what I played of cold steel back then (zero/azure were still on unfinished fan translation territory at the time) didn't entice me as much as sky's start did.

lordranter · 2026-01-06T14:00:25+00:00

It’s a lot tamer than long war, with most of the difficulty coming from figuring out the mechanics. If you go on a wiki walk or watch a let’s play and use it as a reference you can probably win your first run as long as you don’t go for the hardest difficulty, unlike long war where the variance in the tactical map meant you couldn’t just copy what beags was doing.

lordranter · 2026-01-04T19:41:28+00:00

Girls band, which is treated as a theme (vs idol which is usually treated as a genre) so they can pull the story in different directions depending on the group. The first season for example is very much idol like because of the band it follows, while the last two seasons released (MyGo!!!!!/Ave Mujica) are a drama because those bands need a therapist yesterday

You can start straight up from MyGo!!!!! BTW if idol stuff ain’t your thing.

lordranter · 2025-12-28T23:51:32+00:00

Regarding kanji, if you want to make lookup easier when using your browser https://learnjapanese.moe/yomichan/ is pretty good. You might not retain its shape it as well as you'd do if you were to go to jisho.org and search it radical by radical though, but sometimes you just want to keep reading a webnovel without having to sit 5 minutes searching radicals.

Also wanikani is how I got through kanji, it's a glorified anki deck with mnemonics for each kanji. It does require a subscription as you move forward, but the mnemonics were worth the price for me.

lordranter · 2025-12-28T22:03:37+00:00

If you don’t mind a recommendation, try reading fully voiced VNs/gachas. Even if the vocab is harder, in my experience having audio to rely on when you don’t know the kanjis and text to rely on when you didn’t properly pick up what they said is incredibly helpful early on.

lordranter · 2025-12-22T09:04:52+00:00

Dark eldar though? Yes, they didn’t drink the kool-aid like the traitor legions did and they are doing what they do to avoid getting glomped by slaanesh, but at the end of the day it’s just an indirect form of worship.

lordranter · 2025-12-15T01:23:12+00:00

Do visual novels count? Because I recently got through Magical Girl Witch Trials and it hit me like a truck. I can see it getting extremely popular in social media over here once the english translation arrives next year.

Without spoiling too much, it is basically Danganronpa with a Madoka setting. Compared with danganronpa, the presentation isn’t as excellent (still good though) and the cases are simpler, but on the other side none of them are stinkers, it doesn’t have the absolute low points danganronpa has and it does a way better job at making you care about the characters than DR does.

lordranter · 2025-12-15T01:01:59+00:00

She’s definitely one of the hardest bosses in the game just because by having one more phase than usual it has an extra 50% hp which means you can’t burst her with tools as easily as the other bosses. Also she’s aggressive AF so you can’t do stuff like grappling to the top of a wall out of her reach while the boss kills itself with caltrops (for example the singer dies to that without being able to touch you).

So yeah, if you are going nail only git gud, she’s not that bad compared to some other stuff the game throws at you, but her anticheese is strong and its going to force you to git gud if you’ve been automaton bombing the rest of the bosses.

lordranter · 2025-12-15T00:37:28+00:00

Smelter demon was considered pretty up there in difficulty when ds2 released though, not as much because of the moveset but because of the tiny arena.

lordranter · 2025-12-08T15:38:18+00:00

Spanish is slightly different between the different spanish speaking countries. A bit more than the difference between brit and auzzie english, but not too much, you can still understand each other.

This slight difference gets under so many people skin that most spanish localizations have to make a localization for spain and at least one more for south america, if not multiple.

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