Seconding 91 Days!

So happy that Yakuza Fiancé is getting picked up 😄 I love how messy the main pairing and especially the male lead is

Definitely gonna keep watchin this, I like the dynamic between yoshino and kirishima. Yoshino especially is a breath of fresh air as a protag. I didn’t expect her to actually

I mean, I like Katawa Shoujo as well, but there’s no need to be that condescending towards other games😅

dhskhda I forgot to put it in the original post but I added it afterwards, I hope it shows up for you 😭

I didn’t censor it. The original says “my bals” but there’s only a single “bal” at risk here, so I adjusted it (badly) to fit the joke

Got myself a Switch and started playing Cult of the Lamb and Jack Jeanne! Cult of the Lamb is incredibly fun, and I’ve just started the second dungeon~

Favourite of the season: Oshi no Ko without competition, the animation quality and story were both amazing! There were some scenes that go so hard that I’m sure they’re still going to be talked about for years.

Biggest disappointment: Tower of God S2. I really looked forward to this, but the story didn’t pick up until the final two episodes of the first cour :/ The animation quality was also pretty mid. I’m still looking forward to the second half though…

Kinda meh: Elusive Samurai. At first, I got pulled in by the fantastic animation and interesting premise, but the follow-up didn’t really live up to the initial hype. It’s still entertaining to watch though, even if I think the way the protag is portrayed and treated by the cast is kinda…sus, sometimes

Yes, More TWEWY love!! I’m kind of sad that’s the franchise seems to get overlooked a lot

I found like 5 more of these and made a Mastodon thread, here you go

The DS series was the peak handheld generation for me. I like that the console’s design encouraged creative game mechanics, and it has some of my favourite games of all time. I have a DS Lite, a 3DS and a new 3DS, though I think the original DS line had the better game library compared to the 3DS. The camera and 3D effect were rather gimmicky and didn’t add much value for me.

I think the game that best encapsulates what I love about the DS is The World Ends With You, a JRPG set in modern Tokyo that used both screens at once in its action combat system - to control two different characters. The character on the bottom screen would have you use touch gestures to trigger attacks, while you needed to do button combos to control the character on the top. It was insanely fun!

Other games I liked from the early DS era are Hotel Dusk, a detective game that is played in “vertical mode” so you hold the console like a book - and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, the original Japanese version of Elite Beat Angels, a rhythm game.

I also played all romance/otome games that were available in English for the DS, my favourite was Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side.

The DS figured out touch-based interactions way better than smartphones which are like the main touch-based “handheld” nowadays. That is because you could dedicate the entire touchscreen to gameplay input, since you still had the top screen to show relevant game information. Smartphones on the other hand need to utilize the entire screen both for input and displaying stuff, which just doesn’t work as well imo.

100% gonna watch:

• The new Blue Lock season, still gotta watch episode Nagi though
• Dandadan
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
• Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.

Gonna give it a try for a few episodes:

• Uzumaki
• Trillion Game
• I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
• Yakuza Fiancé

I don’t know about Re:zero to be honest, I was kind of disappointed with where the plot was going in the second season, and it feels like the stakes aren’t really that high anymore :/

Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators

My time has come!

!otomegames@ani.social

!anime@ani.social

!visualnovels@ani.social

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

!ffxiv@possumpat.io

!finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world

What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn’t blocked bluesky as well

My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

• Easier onboarding overall since you don’t have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
• despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter’s
• Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it’s easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
• Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing “starter packs” with lists of people to follow
• I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
• meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I’m following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I’m interested in
• quote-retweets don’t exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
• the stackable moderation also helps a lot

Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon’s side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

This game was originally developed for and made 2nd place in last year’s Spooktober Visual Novel game jam!

This year’s Spooktober jam is starting in just a few days, btw 👀

https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024

(; v ;) I get you, I get you so much…the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we’re pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).

I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet… (._.)

Thank you for the nice reply! ☺️

I think, out of the different approaches outlined in the post, I’d go with the main menu link. Larian’s pre-game launcher is honestly kind of annoying, since it takes one more step to start the actual game. And the in-game pop-up method I’d only use if the advertised game is a direct sequel imo 🤔