#mytona

Ravenhill was then rereleased last year 2024, and it kept the old UI that it had before it was taken down and i'm a little surprised that it wasn't revamped or anything, that they kept it the same.

and it's very reminiscent of what seekers notes used to look like with its old UI and overall atmosphere. That of which has been lost as of late. This is just an opinion, though. I'll elaborate on throughout this post.

Seekers notes presents itself to be very mysterious, magical, mystical, that sort of vibe this is taken from their company's website

and you can clearly feel that vibe when you look through it's old locations, and its old UI, the descriptions given to the locations i've included the year it was released as well in the IDs

a handful of the early locations --- some of which had makeovers -- for reference. You can tell that it holds this almost.. abandoned sort of feeling in it's details. the mist in the train station, the creeping vines in the alley, the desolate and dirty look to the marketplace then the shattered mirror in the dressing room, the dirty wallpaper

and it's further shown in the descriptions of these locations,

okay, putting the description of the marketplace aside, we can all agree that it still holds an air of mystique, yeah? What i'm getting at is, a lot of the locations are either abandoned or seemed to give a sort of otherworldly feel to it.

Not only this, but also the colour palette of the locations as well, i'll give examples of brighter rooms just to give some variance because a handful of the early locations are set at night

I included the playground in this to give an example of a more "vibrant location in SN, and though these locations are bright and have more colour to them, they're rather desaturated as compared to the locations that SN has been releasing the past couple years

you can see how the locations gradually get more saturated as the years go by but when you compare them to locations released these past 2 years, the differences are very stark

these are locations released one after the other, The Winery in Nov of 2023 and The Antique House in Feb of 2024. It's genuinely such a large difference from what locations used to look like those couple years ago.

I've talked about Antique House on here before, because it was originally a location from Ravenhill that was taken and revamped for Seekers Notes

comparing to what it used to look like before, they very clearly made it more vibrant and not just because it was a CNY themed location because they've had CNY themed locations before and they weren't this saturated

Take these two for example, even though Moon Court is vibrant, and yes, admittedly it is saturated, it's clearly emphasised for the lantern's glow and not the entire location's colours being amped up.

Alongside the locations becoming more saturated, the descriptions of the locations stray further and further away from the initial abandoned and slightly unsettling atmosphere the game had set up

These are locations released one after the other last year spanning from Aug to Nov, and here are its respective descriptions

they've made the locations so much more lived in that it no longer holds the eeriness and desertedness that it had promoted itself to have

I honestly imagine the reason for this change could be Mytona becoming more corporate, or it might be because of it's older audience. A lot of middle aged people play this game and it just might be easier for them to see with more saturated colours.

A couple months ago in Jan, a location called Frosty Alley released, and for a moment, it held that same mysterious energy that seekers notes was once known for with its more monotone colour palette