Black Butler

Growing Words - Ciel Phantomhive / Elizabeth Midford

Momma's Girl 🔞- Madame Red / Grell Sutcliff

Borderlands

Jackothy Drabble: Workout Routine

Jackothy Drabble: God is in My Skin 🔞

Mandatory Lunch Break 🔞 - Handsome Jack / Rhys

Who Needs Competition When You Were Born to be Last 🔞 - Handsome Jack / Timothy Lawrence

Boyfriend to Death 🔞

A Carcer in the Mind 🔞 - Rire / OC (Secret Killer Gift Exchange)

Meteorus autographae 🔞 - Lawrence Oleander

Normality 🔞- Lawrence Oleander

Once You Hit Rock Bottom You Can Always Go Into The Core of the Earth 🔞 - Lawrence Oleander

Hellsing

ABC's of Flower Symbolism - Collection

A New World - Rip Van Winkle / Tubalcain Alhambra

Geist von Frangipani - Rip Van Winkle / Tubalcain Alhambra

Trouble 🔞 - Zorin Blitz / Tubalcain Alhambra

V is for Violet - Luke & Jan Valentine

Original Works

Granma Should've Kept the Plastic Cover on Her Couch 🔞 - Nina / Jaylin (OCs)

Overwatch

The Impracticality of Talon Uniforms 🔞 - Baptiste / Mauga

Tumbling Down the Mountain 🔞 - Baptiste / Mauga

You Kill Me Everytime 🔞

I always hoped Tyreen was AfroLatina, when I played my first time around. I so so wanted Black punk rep. Only recently did I learn she's actually Latina and white. Soo, naturally I chose to redesign her for this event.

She's easily one of my favorite characters in BL3. She's so spunky and contrary to popular belief, I thought her "annoying streamer" vibe was funny and charming. She was cunning and had so much confidence in what she was doing. I would let her eat me.

I gave her "emo braids". Borderlands is not creative with Black hairstyles despite having characters live in a Mad Max style apocalyptic wasteland. Half of her head is shaved and grown out so I gave her that here as well. Lot's of texture with 4c coils, straight hair and braids, perfect for a girl with lots of texture in her design already.

I also gave her coat feathers the Puerto Rican flag color scheme for funsies. Her VA is Puerto Rican and canoncially Tyreen speaks Spanish in-game.

I'm wanting to go light on the criticism here because this section of the game is meant to be an introduction and as I've played every game in the series including this one, is not meant for me. Narratively, this section is loaded with information and dialogue from characters old and new. Upon first starting the game, it's nice to have a callback to BL1 with the bus and Lilith talking via her siren powers. And the tutorial given by Claptrap is always great. Pretty straightforward, don't have any issues with it. Beyond this point is where I have some major criticisms.

Lilith on her own is good character wise. I like that she has taken Roland's place and is more serious and level headed compared to her being fiery (haha) and immature in BL2. Claptrap on his own is Claptrap, no issues with him. Vaughn is…tricky. I did not play the BL2 Fight for Sanctuary DLC to know how he was characterized in that, but I knew him in Tales. Good on him for taking on the Bandit Lifestyle, he seems happy. Don't like that he's in his underwear and his dick has jiggle physics. Ellie is fine, I love her. Tannis is still Tannis. The Calypsos are also fine. I never had an issue with them, I always liked Tyreen and the dynamic between her and Troy is interesting. I think they're funny.

Now, the story so far is fine, but the execution is troublesome. The game holds your hand, a lot, both in gameplay AND in storytelling. In the fifth installment of the series, the player should know Pandora and the characters and how the world works. The game acts like you don't. "Pandora is wild and crazy and violent" "Pandoran handshake, Pandoran hello, Pandoran flat tire". I get it. I know how the world works. Why are we explaining the area we have spent three games in? TPS didn't explain Elpis this much. This telling and not showing (even though there is a LOT of showing in environments and character tone and with enemies and NPCs. I really love the environments in this game) makes the game narratively annoying. It happens with the introduction to the Calypsos as well. Vaughn states that, "Tyreen runs the show and Troy takes the backseat." When not even 20 minutes later we both see and hear this in the sequence with Mouthpiece and the scene where the twins fight Lilith. Why not let me see it myself naturally? It ruins the immersion of the cut scenes and dialogue in the first place. I know Troy is second in command because Tyreen calls him a parasite after she shares Lilith's powers with him. We see this in how he's weak and on the floor while Tyreen is triumphant. Tyreen is more confident, her body language shows annoyance with him.

For a game that shoves its narrative down the players throat, it acts like the player isn't paying attention. As if an over 4 minute long cut scene wasn't watched and needs to be foreshadowed before you get to it to understand it.

I know I said I wanted to go light on my criticism, but again, I've already played this game. I know what is upcoming narratively. I am noticing problems that will presumably grow worse as the game progresses. I'm hoping that these issues aren't as prominent though and are only here to setup the story, but it's done poorly. No other game really did this so far. They expected you to know the previous installments or had a story that didn't require past knowledge to understand from the beginning.

Some other criticism is the dialogue and auditory clutter. Dialogue exchanges between characters feel forced, and at times useless. The dialogue between Vaughn and Lilith in the beginning is unneeded. Frankly, I don't care about the relationship between Vaughn and Lilith. I can learn about that in a side quest or in small dialogue before turning in/accepting a mission like in BL2 with the crimson raiders. I don't need to know that Ellie thinks Lilith is stubborn or hardheaded. I can see that in their other interactions. This relates to what I said above about telling excessively. There is no need to tell when it's shown blatantly.

TLDR: I like the gameplay, the environments, characters, and story. I don't like how the game is hand holding me through the narrative while also forcing me to pay attention to it. If I'm watching cutscenes, I understand the story.

I might expand on this post later and my opinions will hopefully change as I continue through the story. I also might reblog this with my opinions on the gameplay, but I actually like the movement and gunplay. I don't really have much to say on it in terms of criticism.