Just too small

pistol ⭐ star

mulch for @bowelflies

Prospero

👽 bigtures bainted 👽

There's a new breed in the neighborhood

Some will say they're just no good

Half of a shark and Half of a man

Negatives

*throws a glass bottle at the wall, shattering* no more men

*throws a glass bottle at the wall, shattering* no more jokes about anime

still not invested in noelle/susie romance. i dont care enough about noelle, & susie gets Boring when theyre together *throws a glass bottle at the wall, it bounces back & hits me in the head*

i dont think asgore needed to explicitly say aloud he learnt a lesson from getting smothered by flowery. like i could trust to some degree he figured that out already & if it turned out he didnt then i can just throw another bottle & say "no more men" again

Positives

*throws a happy smile at the yippee, clapping* ralsei was a lot of fun

I liked Not Playing Deltarune in this chapter more than I did in Chapter 3

Hope's

Dawntrail has this one area that's a Theme Park. The zones of this theme park are artificial reproductions of foreign locations. You sequentially trundle around these zones in sequence, consuming whatever attractions are there - and after having used them up, you shut them down. All that's left behind are unpainted facades with no reason to ever return to them. This appears to me as reflexive writing, where they've distilled a Cynical view of the Final Fantasy 14 MMO Experience into this area's narrative. You get to participate in the game's own disposability and gimmickry in miniature & that's kinda cool right? You get to see it reduced to greybox walls before your mind ends up doing that automatically.

Anyways, you end up turning it all back on later, because FF14 is allergic to ugliness, so never fucking mind.

Except actually do fucking mind!!!!!!! because later after that, Halmarut shows up & tells you she interprets it that way too. She tells you that one day, Final Fantasy 14 is going to hit End Of Service & there's not much anyone can do about it unless you keep consuming all the content in the game until there's nothing left. Prior arc villain Calyx tried to save the world through Video Game Preservation, turning FF14 into an amazing digital mausoleum, all technically "saved" but inhabited only by ghosts. Calyx tells you there are worse fates for a live service game to meet, and all of them are being considered before releasing the player from the cycle of consumption.