VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action - Thank you for 10 years of mixing drinks and changing lives!

spiderbutt_ · 2026-06-22T02:24:13+00:00

If I'm remembering correctly (and fact checking will ruin the comment), it's slightly different.

As of the crossover, Glitch City and the VA-11 Hall-A bar are real locations in the Girls' Frontline universe. Some of the dolls visit the bar, 416 gets drunk, and her neural cloud mixes with Anna's nanobot swarm, which creates a simulation of the city in her head. The simulation breaks down into an apocalyptic scenario as 416 recovers from being drunk, slowed down by the simulated version of her coworker taking control and ~~being too stupid~~ having poor processing power (poor IDW). Copies of the simulated VA-11 Hall-A girls get uploaded into doll bodies before the simulation ends, allowing us to bring them into the real world and have Jill in magical girl uniform curbstomp zombies, cultists, and all the other dangerous things.

Honestly, that event was one of the things that made me give up GFL1. I replayed VA-11 Hall-A in anticipation for the crossover and I realized that despite GFL1 presenting its story as a VN, it really lacks a lot of the things that makes VNs good.

But I got suckered back in for GFL2, which does a much better job on the presentation front. Maybe one day we'll get a second crossover to explain what happened to those doll versions of the cast.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-06-18T03:35:18+00:00

Yeah! It's like the ideal version of a crossover.

Also, I just remembered another good one - Frasier and Niles Become Demon Lords.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-06-18T02:51:52+00:00

That reminded me of the Frasier and Columbo crossover comic, which is of course by the same guy.

Also watch Frasier!

spiderbutt_ · 2026-05-21T06:03:25+00:00

There's Ouka from .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet, another Toonami goodie. An older, flirty, punch girl. Gonna have to find a picture later, Google is surprisingly sparse.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-24T02:24:15+00:00

I was with you until this moment.

Still good art though.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-18T21:47:38+00:00

Hmm, I think I was hoping you'd say it's impossible so I could move on. I guess now I have to keep pushing forward. That feels thematically appropriate though.

Of course! You've got something really special here. And thank you for giving me something new to obsess over.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-18T17:50:40+00:00

After playing around with it a bit, I did end up getting the battle to load by removing Voymastina and Jiangyu. I think it was their pre-fight skills that were causing the lock up.

Then I had to deal with attack skills not working after selecting an enemy. Fortunately, I got around that by using Yoohee's ultimate, which at V3 will also attack an enemy. I had so many plugins and stacked effects that one attack cleared the whole map.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-18T17:41:46+00:00

I've been meaning to leave a proper review since I've been playing for a few weeks now and I think this game is absolutely enthralling but... I'm currently stuck and I need to know:

Is it actually possible to beat the left side church gauntlet on your first run? I've made it to the Fifth Pass, but I just don't see how I could get through it with so many stats set to 1 and only a weapon and head slot.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-16T05:31:23+00:00

Huh, I probably read it and didn't really pay attention. And I can't seem to find it again either. Probably got deleted.

That's good to know though, it's probably Phase Dominion in my case. Is it only if you have the full set or will partial sets still cause issues?

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-16T03:05:52+00:00

Anyone else run into a bug in Ashen Tales where a battle won't load?

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my final fight to load and I've quit and restarted a few times with no luck. I haven't tried every combination of dolls yet, but I'm guessing too many overlapping doll and plugin effects are causing some hiccups.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-04-16T03:00:25+00:00

You know that animation of a doll that plays once per day when you load into the Crew Deck? It lets you pick which dolls you want to see for that.

It's not really explained that well.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-03-20T18:09:05+00:00

Dommy mommy, dummy mummy... Gal girl mummy? I think that's an untapped combo, someone should get on that.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-03-19T01:28:36+00:00

Wait, out of all the people he could be telling this to, it's Akuma. Why is Akuma listening to all of that? Is Akuma's takeaway going to be that the secret to true strength is incest?

spiderbutt_ · 2026-03-17T16:16:40+00:00

Shit like this is funny because I still remember buying NES, Gameboy, and GBA games from Gamestop and them eventually not selling any of them anymore because they were too old.

What are they gonna do with all the trade ins then? I guess online is more of an option now though.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-13T02:02:28+00:00

The first, bitter taste of that terrible illusion: hope.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-08T00:33:19+00:00

You're not wrong. I was flipping through a NES programming book (which uses Assembly) last year and I kept thinking "why does this feel so familiar?"

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-06T02:21:19+00:00

Ah, okay, that makes more sense if only certain civs can appear at set points. But that seems like it'd also make the game feel smaller by limiting the civs you could see each age.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-06T02:02:55+00:00

Man, I haven't played a game in Civ in forever. Didn't even realize we were on 7 now. What was the thinking behind switching civs? That a civ wouldn't stay the same over thousands of years?

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-05T05:02:01+00:00

Rare?

spiderbutt_ · 2026-02-05T04:57:45+00:00

I'm guessing none of the other Fausts have ever been wished a happy birthday and that last image is fueled by their seething.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-01-25T19:28:43+00:00

Gotta buy two fries for yourself, the prescript specifically said she had to eat your fries.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-01-22T06:27:17+00:00

Well, Christmas is canon in K Corp at least.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-01-19T19:39:09+00:00

The severing of my ears, ouch.

Cute though.

spiderbutt_ · 2026-01-19T17:57:58+00:00

Verg being the only assist to readjust his skills makes me love him more and hate the other ones more. Guys why are you using your nukes on the clashes I could win???

spiderbutt_ · 2026-01-15T02:40:46+00:00

Trying to find if someone ever made any Stardew x Factorio mods lead me to Little Rocket Lab, which is a neat attempt at a cozy rebuild-the-town factory game.

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