Oh god I remember watching the 2019 anime but getting really confused a few episodes in because things just seemed off and like I was missing something. When I searched for it the next day on the site I was using showed the 1998 OVA "series", and I thought it might provide the context I was missing. And oh boy it certainly did, just not in the way I expected...
Never knew it had such a big role in Visual Novel history. That's cool to learn!
I'll say it a million times: they tried to copy several games but ignored the development structure that made them successful: release a minimum version and work on it alongside the community.
A lot of people saw this coming since when they announced that they were completely restarting development of their engine.
They let perfect be the enemy of good enough and so not a single build ever saw public release.
Oh my god I had completely forgotten about that game!! I vaguely recall being taught some exploit that trivialised it but it was so fun to come back to every now and again.
I tend to find it's the other way around. Once you've got a scarf modelled and rigged, it'll work* for all animations, but for animated 2D sprites you have a lot more things to do.
* May have visual artifacts like clipping
Woah, this is really helpful! I don't know why but I've always struggled keeping up with SGF and similar events, so thank you for sharing!
No they're wrong in mathematics too. -5^2 is -25, but -5^2 is not the same as x^2 where x= -5. No brackets needed on x.
I'm so glad someone's mentioned CrossCode! Such a wonderful experience from beginning to end. The world really feels alive with every inch of a mal being used to either enhance the story or hide a puzzle! I loved seeing chests and figuring out how to get to them across several maps.
I'm really looking forward to their next project, Alabaster Dawn. I hope it's just as good!
Of course nothing should be inflexible, but I'm just saying there's no reason for every campaign to be derailed completely. If your players are actively going against the scenario something's gone wrong. And yeah, if you give them the opportunity to do something, be prepared for it to happen and roll with the consequences.
Unless you play low level John Does every time, characters should know stuff about the world they've lived in their whole lives. And if none of that ties into the scenario are you playing a campaign or in a sandbox?
If everyone's on the same page and wanting to play out a story, seeing how your characters and world changes in response to things not playing out as expected is part of the fun. It should never truly derail unless someone is trying intentionally to, in which case you need to talk about it. Or you got complacent and dangled a campaign altering thing too close for them to resist...
I can't imagine how infuriating that must be. How do you live with it?
I was the same! I think it was the Egyptian inspired series where one of the characters asked about what happens when people who don't believe in anything die. Even though I don't remember the exact answer, the feeling of oblivion has stuck with me ever since.
I'd still like to believe that all the gods are actually having a giant battle for supremacy though lol.
I find that most people I talk to had positive opinions of the late queen, but as you said are apathetic towards Charles at best and disturbed by Andrew. Prince William seems to be highly regarded though.