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Thanks for this! My partner and I finished Reunion recently, so I'll try not to be too spoilery for anyone who hasn't played it yet (at least beyond stuff from early game and the announcement materials). My first thought: I enjoyed it a lot more than I'd expected. My partner did, too.

The usual disclaimers: no, it'll never be my favorite LiS game (but it'll also never be my least favorite; sorry LiS2). It's not perfect, there are tons of little things that bug the shit out of me (WHY does Chloe have the storm tattoo even though in this fused universe the storm didn't happen?), and I'd definitely have approached many things completely different if it'd been in my power to do so.

But having said all that, I actually really liked it. Many (but not all) of my favorite characters from DE returned, and I really enjoyed getting to hang out with Moses in particular more. I dig grown up Chloe and thought she and Max played off each other really nicely. The gameplay was more enjoyable than in DE, the crunched timeline of 'need to fix this problem within this specific weekend' worked well, and I thought the story was good and the mystery compelling.

There are arguments for why it wasn't the best idea to return to Max and Chloe's stories, and those are completely valid. But D9 made the decision to go back and continue that story with DE and Reunion, and overall I think they did a pretty good job. They made some great characters in both games (Moses, Amanda, Safi, Diamond, Gwen, etc), created an interesting environment in Caledon, and did - in my opinion - a really solid job with aging up Max and Chloe.

It still bugs the shit out of me that Max being into horror movies and not into anime has been canonized, since I always read her as having the opposite opinions in LiS1, but otherwise I think this is a very plausible and believable version of how Max might grow up after LiS1.

And same with Chloe; this version of Chloe makes sense to me (especially in a world where she didn't lose Joyce and her whole hometown to a storm). She's matured since her teen years, but she hasn't lost her essence. She's still a rule-breaker, still rough around the edges, still has a wicked sense of humor, but she's also more responsible and more secure in herself.

Some minor complaints about Reunion: The game should have a full on photo mode; it's ridiculous that you can only save photos if you took a picture of what the game wanted you to. Max should've at least looked up the socials for the friends she lost 11 years ago and found out were suddenly resurrected; we literally got more news about former Arcadia Bay residents from DE when almost everyone was dead. Chloe's backtalk ability should've been used more; if you're going to bring that mechanic back, it should get used more than a couple of times. And most importantly: why the fuck is there so little Diamond in this game? I legit thought she was going to be the protagonist of the next game after DE, and instead she's got, like, a tiny handful of voice lines which are very easily missable.

In conclusion: Reunion isn't perfect, but it's the game we got, and I enjoyed it. I'll play it again, and I'll enjoy it again.

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What do the ghouls think about the outfit that I wore to my first-ever concert on my thirteenth birthday recently? (Yes, that was a Pinterest Ghost ghoul thing that I drew on the back of my phone, yes, I know I butchered it terribly. The bracelet is of high-importance to me, it's a gift from somebody who means a lot to me who I made matching ghoulsonas with. The bracelet is the name of mine, their name is Pluto.)

Swiss: The hair fyre, the outfit fyre, the bracelet fyre- Rain: I think it's a very pretty outfit! Definitely suits you well :) > The ghoulettes have welcomed you to their cult-like group.. whether you are ghoul (you'd be the first), ghoulette, or everything in between, they all agree you have a pretty rad ass outfit.

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night is so perfect:

when simon turns his head, all jack can think about is how he died. how simon had taken that stupid, stupid dare from peter and walked off into the woods and never returned. how an hour had passed - and then another, and one more, right up until david pembroke decided that too much time had passed and they had to leave before they got caught. the only thought that had passed through jack’s hopelessly not-sober mind was that simon was never going to return.

and simon never did return.

until three years later, and simon stepped out of the woods again, a strange magic at the tips of his fingertips and revenge on his mind. 

(jack supposes that it makes sense. the three of them had left him for dead. it doesn’t, however, stop him from reminding himself of the way that simon looked when he turned his head that one specific evening, at the end of the soccer game, and looked jack in the eye and smiled, like he knew that jack had been staring and like he knew how fast jack’s heart was racing.

“you need to stop,” calliope says. so much for being the muse of epic poetry; she was about as smooth with her words as peter was after losing any sort of game. “simon isn’t alive anymore. what came back is something wearing his face, and it wants that marble your grandmother gave you.”

“it isn’t a marble,” jack says petulantly. david can’t hold back his snicker at how offended jack sounds. “it’s the spirit of the oracle of delphi.”