Anonymous asked:
Any updates about the Complete Box English patch? I want to support Sanbondo, but not so much I'm willing to buy a game I can't really play to do so. Thanks!
There is currently a bottleneck involving technical difficulties, but I don’t know any more details than that.
varia1234 asked:
The amount of feels in that 1920's style rhine history film, playing over an old timey love song..... God I love Saria and Kirsten's trainqreck of a relationship in all its beautiful tradgedy. And given who the event boss is I cannot wait to see Kirsten confront silence.
BTW, if you have read Ifrit's operator Record, it takes place while "saria and silence are away on an important mission in columbia."
shuttershocky answered:
Now you’ve done it, you’ve activated the brainworms
My favorite part about Blues With You is that even in a piece of Rhine Lab propaganda (Written and Directed by Kirsten Wright) downplaying Saria and Kirsten’s split as Saria simply throwing a temper tantrum over nothing important, whenever you see the Saria and Kirsten standees together,
Kirsten
is
always
in
front.
Even in the shots set in the past long before their relationship deteriorated, Saria’s always been behind Kirsten, supporting her away from behind the limelight while she got showered with all the awards, success, and acclaim over what they built together. The video even starts with a photo of Kirsten in the news gaining accolades from the scientific community for being a genius, when we see in the Records of Rhine Lab manhua that Saria was every bit the scientist she was, even presenting their findings herself and getting grilled for it when in college.
Even when Kirsten’s making a video about those halcyon days with Saria, her egomania can’t stop her from putting herself first always. UNLESS the implication is that even in those days when they were happy together, their relationship was always uneven (though i doubt that Kirsten has the self-awareness to put that into her film)
The only shot where Saria and Kirsten are posed together is the scene where they get their first investor, Muelsyse.
That same shot also says this film was co-produced by Saria even if it was clearly made long after Saria had left Rhine Lab. it isn’t trustworthy when we’ve seen in the manhua that Kirsten would simply lie about certain projects to get Saria’s signature and approval on things Kirsten knows she would have objected to, which is also how Parvis got Silence to think Saria was in on the whole deal of making Ifrit into a weapon.
(Sidenote 1 - Also extremely funny that this is the one shot where they’re posed together, as if writing ‘Co-produced by Saria’ made Kirsten remember they were partners and equals and posed them together before resuming putting Saria behind her at all times)
(Sidenote 2 - EXTREMELY good detail that the way they frame their falling out has Kirsten literally be the bigger person, even though in the previous image when they’re posed together, they’re the same height)
Which is why the most violently brainrotting detail is that while the film is about the creation of Rhine Lab, if you read the lyrics of Blues With You, it sounds a lot more like it’s about how perfect Kirsten believes she and Saria were together and how she spends her days reminiscing about being together.
I mean look at these lyrics
I never sensed a bond so pure
Fearless spirit, wild and adventurous
Drawn together that we couldn’t hide
Lost myself in this situation
Trapped in the void, fighting for a response
Drifting apart like the moon and tide
The grip of fate, a tightening noose
Redemption’s grace, we find truth
A beacon of hope in the darkest of times
Escape from control, our hearts unbind
Breaking free, I face my affliction
Struggle to persist, to reclaim my reign
From your embrace, our hearts have untwined
Never thought I would be without you
As we surrender
Lost in the memories of a time with you
with you
with you.
I MEAN
Do you know what’s onscreen at 'From your embrace our hearts have untwined?“ The only shot where Saria isn’t behind Kirsten
Saria’s already ahead of her and facing away from everyone else in Rhine Lab.
Even the shot that shows their fight is where the song goes "Never thought I’d be without you”
Kirsten made a whole love song about how wonderful and perfect she and Saria were and how life tore them apart like tragic lovers and she spends her days thinking of when they were together then made it to be the background song of a movie showing how badly she mistreated Saria at Rhine and made her feel alone for years.
There’s something deeply wrong with her. Best Arknights villain 10/10 Jesselton’s dying out here asking for just a crumb of what she has
Pretty sure the video is shot from Muelsyse’s perspective, not Kirsten’s. Everything centers on her point of view, from seeing Kirsten on the news and getting her interest piqued, to her being portrayed as a small child upset that her parents are getting a divorce. And like the last screenshot in your post is Muelsyse standing helplessly in the center as the other directors move in different directions. She’s also credited as the Director of Photography, ie: she is literally controlling the lens we see this through.
Also, well, she’s kind of being set up as one of the main characters of Lone Trail, so at this point it isn’t Kirsten or Saria’s story anymore.
I haven’t seen anyone talking about these, so just so everyone knows, getting the endings in IS3 also unlocks these little short stories in the library (Caerula Recorder -> Time-Carved Steleforest). Maybe everyone else already knew this, but it’s not entirely obvious, imo.
Anonymous asked:
Hey, sorry for asking for help a lot, but how do you deal with the sarkaz casters in 4-8? I've been making it to the last big wave and then they just wipe me out.
shuttershocky answered:
I’m going to give you a tip that will serve you way beyond 4-8.
Whenever you see an enemy that has an attack you don’t like (maybe they have a supercharged attack, or maybe they bind your units like the Sarkaz Casters), you just throw Gravel at them.
Gravel is very cheap, has a fast redeployment time, and her S2 gives her a shield based off her Max HP that makes her very tanky for a few seconds, making her the perfect bait for all sorts of enemies whose gimmicks you simply don’t want to deal with.
Throw Gravel in front of the Sarkaz Casters, they throw their bind skill on her, retreat Gravel (retreatingoperators refunds some of their DP cost), and congrats now the Sarkaz Casters need to take time to charge up their bind skill again, in the meantime they’re sitting ducks.
This is something Gravel’s been doing from the very first launch of Arknights all the way to now, almost 4 years later. You don’t like something? Make Gravel handle it and put that enemy skill on cooldown. Rinse and repeat until the problem goes away.
cloudedrho asked:
i didnt play the rhine lab event cause i was (and still am) kinda burnt out on arknights but wtf going on with the sky?
shuttershocky answered:
Oh it wasn’t a major part of Dorothy’s Vision, we’ve known the sky is fake as far back as Astesia’s profile where Kal'tsit notes that humans haven’t been able to see the real stars for a very long time (which is a very funny thing to write down on the profile of someone who’s an astrologist.)
It seems like Terra is covered in a massive dome thousands of meters high (it’s high enough that even mountains like Mount Karlan can’t touch it) that simulates a day and night sky. Saria’s old partner Kirsten has made it her life’s goal to break it and see what’s really out there
It’s also mentioned in the dialog of Heart of Surging Flame (which came out at the same time as Astesia - she was on the event banner), where Alty asks Kal’tsit to reminisce about back when they could still see the stars. “Something is wrong with the stars” more generally also comes up now and then in random dialog, like in Stultifera Navis where Lumen suggests using the stars to navigate at sea and Irene acts like that’s obviously impossible and everyone knows that, but for scientific reasons that she’s clearly never thought about.
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acceptableduraz asked:
I remember you weren't a fan of the earlier Phantasmagoria games. Are there any changes to the formula you're hoping for this time around?
Well, from the blurb ZUN released, it sounds like he is actually making the changes I was hoping for.
Basically my main problem with PoFV was that when playing against the AI, it was more or less perfect until enough time had passed that it decided to kill itself. There was not much you could do to put pressure on it because it could dodge almost anything, so it ended up mostly non-interactive, which resulted in playing a slightly boring Touhou game longer. Well, maybe there were some secret tricks to killing it faster, but I certainly didn’t know them. Anyway, ZUN said that story mode would function a little differently than multiplayer so that gives me hope.
Second, the controls were awkward with that whole zone expanding… thing, and ZUN also said it would control more similarly to a standard Touhou game.
dlparadox asked:
Do you have any characters you want to see playable for the first time in Touhou 19? I really want to see Shou even though she's technically not a tiger and thus not a beast.
My most wanted are probably Saki, Yachie, and Yuuma just because I think they’re cool. Shou would be neat but like you said she’s not technically a youjuu so I don’t know how that would play out. Or perhaps focusing too much on “beasts” is a misdirection in the first place; ZUN loves misdirections.
But sticking to beasts, I suppose Keine and Yamame are probably the other ones I want to see most, off the top of my head.
Okay, here’s what we know about the new Touhou game:
A) It’s animal-themed, in that the story blurb talks about youjuu (animal youkai), all the known playable characters other than Reimu/Marisa are youjuu, and the Japanese title is 獣王園, roughly meaning “beast king garden.” Given that Yuuma has previously been referred to as a King of Beasts and we know that the animal spirits from WBaWC are back, it’s pretty likely imo that we’ll see some of the animal yakuza again.
B) It’s a Phantasmagoria-type game, meaning head-to-head multiplayer danmaku battles like PoFV. However, the blurb also mentions that the gameplay will be closer to a standard Touhou game, and story mode might have different mechanics to make it play better as a single player game.
C) No Mima, unless she turns into a catgirl.
