I Don't Get the Hype

Everybody's going on about how K-Pop is amazing and not manufactured and all that, but I don't really get the hype. It just sounds like Western pop music, but in Korean. And not the good Western pop music either, but the most generic sounding tunes you could possibly make. This is just my opinion though.

I will admit that I do like BIGBANG, but only a couple of their songs really, but I've tried listening to BTS and all that, and I tried to like it, but it just wasn't for me.  I actually also went to a K-Pop convention out of curiosity and while I did have fun, I wasn't really sure about the music. The only thing I thought was cool about this genre of music was that some of them sing in other languages like Japanese and Chinese.

But how on Earth is this stuff not manufactured? These talent agencies train them up from a very young age to be big stars and then put them into bands and write songs for them. Or at least that's what I heard. It even sounds like it's more artificial than the stuff they make over here. I don;t know. Maybe I'm wrong. They must be doing something right if they've managed to gain millions of fans across the globe.

What Should I Call This Post???

 (Spoilers below for about two different games.)


Another Story is amazing so far! I managed to get onto Ray's route without any issues. The romance comes so quickly compared to the other routes, but I'm not really complaining, because I downloaded this game so I could see some of that. However, now I'm at the bit where Rika "cleanses" him and turns him into an abusive douchebag. I'd watched some of the scenes from this part and I kind of enjoyed them, but now that I'm actually playing it, I realise that if I was treated that way in real life, I would feel really uncomfortable.

The game is giving me choices where I can either act a bit wimpy towards Saeran or try and stand up for myself. I chose the options that I would do in real life, but they are mostly the pushover options, so I won't be surprised if I get a bad ending.

In the Casual Story and Deep Story I didn't really think much of V, but now that I'm seeing him often in the RFA chat rooms, I want to play his route a bit more now. Before Ray's route existed, I had no desire to get Another Story at all. I wasn't interested in V enough to want to save up for it.

The chats are so much longer now, which is good because you have more content, but bad when you're busy and you want to get through the chat quickly. The new soundtrack is great, but I don't get to hear it often because most of the time I'm playing the game in a public place.

I almost finished Seven's secret ending, too. The voice acting was so intense during the emotional scenes, when the characters were angry or depressed, it even made me feel a bit sad and uncomfortable, like in real life, where I feel weird when somebody nearby is really upset or annoyed. But I played most of the later parts without sound, but I might go back to them just to hear some of that acting.

And I've almost done every good ending on Hakuouki now. I'm almost at the end of Harada's route. He's a nice guy and all that, but I was never really interested in dating him. I don't really find him that attractive either. His route is the most normal of the bunch, because he doesn't have any problems or anything and only a few minor characters die. He doesn't even drink the Water of Life, so you don't have to decide whether to feed him blood or not. I think if you don't give them blood or medicine they get corrupted which leads to a bad ending, but since you can't do that on Harada's route, the bad endings must work a bit differently.

Kazama isn't even present that much either during Harada's route, you get Shiranui instead. I don't really mind because I like Shiranui. I actually thought that he was a girl at first. He's quirky and somewhat interesting. I thought that he might have been one of the new characters you can date in Kyoto Winds/Edo Blossoms, but I was a bit disappointed when I found that was not the case. Maybe there wasn't any romantic interest in him amongst fans so the developers decided not to add him.

I dunno what I'm gonna do once I've completed this route. I could replay and and try to get bad endings. Every time I've started the common route again, I've been skipping through all of the bits I had already read. Is that technically cheating? Do normal people do that, or do they just reread every thing? To  be honest, I don't know why I'm concerned if that's cheating when I cheat everyday by using a walkthrough to check whether I'm selecting the right choices.

Next time I play I could just make my own choices and see what route I get, but I fear I might end up with the normal ending again. Maybe I should also stop writing posts about the same two games, too...

I just want a PS Vita so badly so I can play more of these games. My PC could easily handle visual novels but if I get them on Steam, I won't play them as often since they are not on a handheld. But I could always save up to buy one of those handheld Windows computers, like that one for gaming, I can't remember its name, but I think it begins with GPD?

It's Christmas soon, so who knows what kinds of games I will get. I was thinking of getting Forza Horizon 4, but I think I'll wait until the price goes down before picking it up. I got my Xbox One last year but I find that I am hardly using it! I'll go through phases where I don't game for a couple of months, then I'll be playing all the time for a few weeks, then I'll go back to not playing anything.

I have so many games I have started and not finished, especially on my Xbox 360. Ever since I upgraded I've been neglecting it a bit. One game I got really cheap on Amazon for the 360 is Kameo, it's really good but I only managed to play it about three times over a span of about six months. Some of these games get too difficult for me sometimes, so I lose my motivation to keep playing.

This post is really long. Someone even looked over my shoulder (I'm typing this at school, unfortunately) and commented on how much text there was.

Maybe I should stop writing now. Goodbye. Have a nice day! 

Disappointment

(Spoilers up ahead!)

Well, I finished Saito's route yesterday. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Today I decided to play Chikage's route, because he's interested me from the start and he wants to marry you from the start so I expected there to be more romance early on.

I spent about twenty minutes skipping through the text in the common route, making the right choices so that I wouldn't end up dating somebody else instead. It took me two times because I didn't use a walkthrough, and somehow I ended up getting Hijikata's route even though I hardly paid any attention to him.

Eventually I got to the end of the common route, and Chikage decided to kiss me  the main character. It was very exciting, and I expected the MC to go off with him and get married or something sweet like that. But it just ended.

The credits started rolling, and I said out loud (even though I was in the school library) "Is that it?".
I had heard that his route would be short, but I didn't expect it to be that short. All that happened was the same things that happened on the normal ending that I got on my first playthrough, then he just kissed you once, admitted that he had fallen for you, and that was it.

This game is very good and and I really love it, but I still can't help but be disappointed. You couldn't even call that a route. It's just really an ending, but neither a good ending or a bad ending.

After doing some research, I found out that the two part PS Vita/PC remake gives him more romantic scenes. Now I have another reason to get a Vita. I was planning not to buy the remake if I ever got a Vita, because it's really the same story and it's a lot more expensive, but I really want a better route for my dear Chikage so I might end up purchasing it after I've burned through every other otome on the platform. You get more love interests and romance scenes, so it sounds like it may be worth it. It's just a shame that it's split into two. The first game, Kyoto Winds, has only the common route on it, which I am just skipping through now as I am replaying it to get different routes.

I just want the spin-off game, Hakuouki SSL to be translated into English! That game looks like it would have a lot of sweet romantic scenes in it. I could just buy the Japanese version but I am terrible at Japanese. I would probably spend an hour attempting to read it with Google Translate then give up and never touch it again.

Now I'm starting to play Okita's route. I'm playing the routes in order of interest. I would have played Chikage first if I could unlock him straight away, but I think if I did it may have given me a slightly worse impression of the game. Next I'm going to do Heisuke's route. He looks cool, but I've never been romantically interested in him. Harada is last because I have no interest in him. When I first saw him I thought he was just a side character. I was surprised when I found out that he was a love interest.

I'm starting to notice a pattern on this blog. I'll gain an interest in something, write four or five posts about it, then move on to writing about something else for another few posts. It must be really boring for someone who has an interest in my blog to see me ramble on about dating simulators.

Sorry, if you're reading this and you don't like what I post about.


I still haven't learnt how to write proper conclusions for blog posts, so I'm just gonna end it here.

GOODBYE!

.........

I'm currently replaying 707's route. It's amazing how much about the plot I have forgotten. This route is still my favourite. I forgot that I had to replay the prologue to get more hourglasses when I did Zen's route, so I made sure to go through it this time, using the max speed because I couldn't be bothered to read it all.

I wish 707's "maid" Vanderwood had his own route, because he's really attractive. But he really has nothing to do with the RFA so I have no idea how Cheritz would be able to shoehorn him into the main story.

Anyway, that's all I have to say. I should now use this opportunity to advertise my lonely Discord server.

https://discord.gg/2TZNqBy

I don't like Discord but it feels good owning a server.



Goodbye.

I Finished Zen's Route...

Today I completed Zen's route in Mystic Messenger. I thought I would enjoy him since from the beginning he is always very romantic to the player, and he is kind of attractive. But he was so cheesy during his route, and he wanted to date me only a few days in!

When Saeran came to kidnap me halfway through I was happy, but there was no option for the player to actually want to be taken to "paradise", you just had to act like an annoying damsel in distress.

Saeran seemed incredibly attractive in this bit, too bad I haven't unlocked his route yet!

                (I think these are the first images I have ever uploaded here to be used in a blog post.)

The only good thing about Zen's route for me is that you get loads of hourglasses for some reason. At the end during the party Zen decided to make the player go up on stage with him and announce him as his girlfriend, which made me cringe because in real life I would be dying of embarrassment.

Now I am just going to play the Deep Route again. I'm probably going to try and aim for Jumin's bad ending where he keeps you in a cage like a pet. I don't know why I want to get that route. It seems better than the other bad endings.

I'm sure I'll have enough hourglasses to play Saeran's route eventually. I don't know if I want to romance V, though. He just sounds like a whiny loser to me. I'll probably end up playing him eventually. I hope I don't end up being a replacement for Rika like I almost was with Yoosung.

My first route ever was Yoosung's, when I was trying to get Zen. Yoosung's nice and all that, but I wouldn't want to date him. He would just be nice as a friend. It didn't help that I thought he was a girl initially, either.

My second route ended up being Jaehee's, even though I tried so hard for Zen. Sometimes when you compliment Zen it gives you a heart for Jaehee instead, which can be frustrating. Jaehee's route was cool. I do like her as a character, although when I finally got Zen's route, she was being very annoying.

I have played some of the after endings in the game. After playing 707's route, I unlocked one of the secret endings. It cost 10 hourglasses per chapter! I managed to unlock all but one of them, because I eventually ran out of hourglasses to play any further. It's quite interesting. There are some very cute moments between Seven and the player in it.

This post turned into half of a review of Mystic Messenger. I should stop rambling on about this game and think of posting something different for once.


Goodbye.







Sorry for the abrupt end to this post.

The Video Game Relationship Problems Post

I finally managed to get onto Zen's route on Mystic Messenger. When I first started playing the game, I thought he was one of the best possible love interests, but now I'm not so sure.

Zen is a nice guy and all that, and I never really cared about how he was a bit narcissistic, but now I'm finding him slightly annoying. Maybe it's because he's so overly romantic, even though he only met me around six days ago. I'm just finding this route kind of cheesy. I have no idea why.

I'm also getting a bit fed up with my Stardew Valley husband, Sebastian. One of the reasons I got married was to have an extra person to help me out on the farm. I thought that I had read somewhere that your in-game spouse would always feed the animals and water the plants, but Sebastian hardly does any of that! When he does feed the animals, I check up on them and there is no food and they are "looking thin"! And he hardly ever waters the plants. I would divorce him but I only have around 10,000g right now. I should have married Elliott or Shane. The reason I chose Sebastian was because he looked a bit like a Japanese light novel character I used to have a crush on.

But I was talking about Mystic Messenger, wasn't I? The only reason I downloaded it again was to see if I could gather 550 hourglasses for Saeran's route without spending real money. Now I'm in love with the game again like I was last year. And I've just been reading a load of things about the "Reset Theory", which is very interesting to me.

I have no idea how to conclude this blog post, so GOODBYE!

EDIT: I just changed the colours of the blog's theme. Hopefully my blog won't look like an eyesore to my lovely readers.

Infinity War (Spoilers!!!)

In a previous post, I said that I might discuss the plot of Infinity War once the film is a few months old, so people who haven't seen it don't run into spoilers. The Blu-Ray is releasing in a few days, and I'm planning on buying the 4K disc, even though I've seen it in the cinema three times now, once in 3D, again in IMAX 3D, and then in regular 2D.

When I watched for the third time I expected the cinema to be less packed, but no, the screening was almost full! It was great every single time I saw it, but nothing will compare to when I saw it for the first time. My hands were constantly clenched together, and I would brought them to my mouth in shock many times.

First of all, I did not expect Loki (Who I have a massive crush on, like every other girl my age) to die so quickly. I didn't cry, though. In some interview somewhere I heard that he was going to be with Thanos for about half of the film, but that was obviously said to throw some fans off.

I know some people online said that his death sucked, and that it was weird that he tried to kill Thanos with a couple of daggers when he knows all of these fancy magic tricks. That is true, but I didn't really think that at all. There have been petitions going around the Internet to get Marvel to bring him back, but I think it would be a bit cheap if they did that.

When half of the universe died because of the snap, it didn't make me cry either. When Bucky went the guy next to me farted, so I was busy trying not to laugh. (I know, I am very immature.) We all know everybody who got dusted is coming back anyway.

Loads of people hate Star-Lord now too, for getting angry at Thanos for messing everything up. But I thought it was very in character. If everything had gone according to plan and they had defeated Thanos, there wouldn't be a second part of the film planned.

Before IW, Doctor Strange wasn't one of my favourite characters. Now, I think he's awesome. He was really cool in Infinity War. Every character was, really. People have also said that the CGI looks really off when Bruce Banner is in the Hulkbuster. I keep trying to notice that part, but I cannot find it anywhere. Maybe I'm immune to bad CGI.

I have more thoughts about the film, but I can't remember them right now since the last time I saw the film was weeks ago. They may come back once I watch it again, though. Infinity War is currently my favourite film, but it may be dethroned when Avengers 4 comes out.

I saw Ant-Man and the Wasp the day before it came out, and that was really good too! But for the sake of spoilers, I won't say too much about it here. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.


And that's all I have to say today.


Goodbye!

:)

Hello.

I was surfing the web today and I found this weird Gorillaz self-insert fan fiction that was kinda bad, but it was really addicting. It was written years ago, so the person who wrote it must be quite a bit older now. Then I found more outdated social media accounts for this person, and I spent a long time reading them.

Somebody in the future is probably going to discover all of my awful online content and cringe at it in the same way I cringed at this person I found today. I would link to the website where I found this person's work, but I don't really want anybody to tell me off for criticising the work of an innocent teenager.

Some of the stuff that I found was awful. The self insert character has literally all of the edgy tropes that OCs do, and even though she was fifteen, she still gets to date a guy in the story who's in his twenties. Then she gets pregnant from him. She's also a vampire who ran away from her parents who she thinks to have died in 9/11. There was also art work she made to go along with her stories.

Well, I guess everybody makes some cringeworthy stuff when they are a teenager. This blog is an example of that. I also wrote some pretty edgy shit on Wattpad that I immediately regretted once. Luckily it's all gone now. Another example of something cringe-inducing I wrote is probably that Mystic Messenger post I wrote on this blog a while ago. Scroll down further to read it.

I like to preserve things that I've made, but I'm sure I will be too embarrassed to look at most of my content in the future.

Anyway, that's all I have to write for now. Goodbye.

My Opinion on Mystic Messenger so far

Warning: there may be spoilers for Mystic Messenger down here!

So far I have completed four Mystic Messenger routes. I just completed 707's route and it was by far the best route ever. Apparently I even unlocked the first secret ending! The secret ending adds another story to the game, it's really worth spending hourglasses on.

I didn't realise that each party guest you successfully invite gives you one hourglass! Yesterday I managed to claim about thirty of them! The part of the game where you have to invite party guests was the most difficult part for me. I could've just looked up walkthroughs online, but I was too lazy to do that.

Even though I didn't wake up at one o' clock in the morning for this game, it has taken up a lot of my life. That is why I am taking a short break. Maybe next week I might try Zen's route? I had tried to get his route before, but every time I tried to get hearts for him, I got hearts for Jaehee instead. I may have to play Yoosung's route again, even though he's my least favourite, because I only got the normal ending. That was because I was new to the game so I wasn't as good as convincing the party guests to attend. I'm not going to try and get all of the bad endings, because some of those require me to be a douchebag to the other characters.

During Jumin's ending and after ending, I kind of cringed a bit. If any of that had happened to me in real life, I probably would die of embarrassment. Not because I don't want someone proposing to me, it's just that for some reason I am a really shy person and that would just scare me if everybody was watching some man propose to me.

I don't know if I'll be able to play the DLC or V's route, since they cost a lot of hour glasses. I'm trying to play the game without spending money, so hourglasses are pretty hard to save up for. The things I want to spend hour glasses on are the after endings and the "Valentines Day specials". The after endings are really short to me, but that's because I normally speed through them because I am a fast reader.

When I got to the parts of the game where it shows an image of the player as a faceless girl with brown hair, it was really hard to imagine that girl as myself. It just felt like some random girl was stealing my love interest!  That was probably because the girl looked nothing like me and because she was drawn wearing girly outfits I would never wear.

I think the character I would get along with most in real life would be 707. We mainly have the same interests, so we would probably have some interesting conversations. I'd probably get along with Yoosung, too. All of the other characters probably wouldn't find me interesting.

Most of the time I was playing the game without the sound on, so I missed out on a lot of the voice acting. I'm going to have to go through the history and listen to all of the calls properly.

I had a lot of fun with this game. I think I would rate it about eight or nine out of ten. Sometimes it's a bit cheesy, but it's still a great game. If you haven't played it yet, I would really recommend it!

Just a quick note before I leave: None of my blog posts are edited. On my old blogs I used to edit stuff, but the purpose of this site is just to provide a place where I can quickly spill my thoughts. I didn't really intend this post to turn into what it is now. I was just going to say that I was taking a break from the game!