#nefres

The only thing keeping me from ending it all is the priceless Yato Kazuma crumbs we've been getting. At this point my brain just filters out all the angst. Head empty only them

OH dude, no, me saying not a proper sword form is an act of snobbery. It is, in fact, technically a sword! It’s even KINDA COOL I GUESS conceptually, because it’s clearly “the master sword, except evil”, but the thing is it’s this, y’know, big meaty serrated chopper. This thing’s almost as large as Link’s entire body. A friend of mine referred to it as a “spiked oni club” and that description stuck in my head ever since.

I can see the appeal of a [that one fish from Spongebob voice] big! meaty! sword! but the fact of the matter is Ghirahim is pretty strongly and consistently characterized before then as valuing aesthetic elegance, precision, efficiency; the weapons he wills out of his power for his own use, while made of the same materials, have a lot more in common with Ganondorf’s Wind Waker swords than what Ghirahim himself turns into when Demise grabs him for the final boss fight.

[image attached; Ghirahim’s sword form. image description: a large black sword isolated on a white background. The sword has a curving, pointed crossguard, a diamond-shaped ruby stone in the hilt, and some red filigree and an inverted triforce symbol (three triangles touching at the tips to create a larger triangle with an ‘empty space’ in the middle). The blade of the sword consists of three diamond-shaped segments, each with protruding spikes. It is a heavy weapon with a broad flat plane of a blade before tapering to the bronze-colored edges. the entirety of the blade is silhouetted in a red glow. end description.]

If you’re having fun with it then you should enjoy it!! I know it feels bad when something you like is getting beaten down but if you’re having fun then you’re having fun!

I can def tell Balan isn’t a game for everyone and some of the problems I see people mention are actually in other games I know of but those games aren’t hated despite their flaws... But I think a lot of the hate it’s getting is mostly people jumping on a bandwagon. Oh it’s hot to trash on this new thing I wanna do it too, sort of deal even if it’s a bad game. It’ll calm down eventually.

But yes if you like it for what it is then enjoy it!!! I am honestly having fun with it. When the demo was released and people were saying it was bad I afraid I wasn’t going to like it myself but I adore playing it and the characters and story!

And even if maybe you don’t like /playing/ the game itself but enjoy the charm and design that’s okay too! I like Sonic and co but, I really can’t play the games at all. Obviously not because they’re bad games but because I’m bad at them myself and, sometimes being bad at something isn’t fun. But at least I can still enjoy the characters and fun world!! And that’s okay.

That’s so sweet, thank you!! :D And wow, thanks for sticking around so long!

It’s... taken me a long, long time to try to learn that I’m allowed to be excited and passionate about my own work, even if it’s not perfect (because nothing ever will be). I still have a long ways to go, but I think we could all use more happiness in our lives, especially these days. It’s been a blast getting back to my Portal projects, like updating Real Science and blowing the dust off my old Wheatley ask blog to get that rolling again :D

hdasjdh- I’m glad you’re enjoying my reactions :’DThere’s such an absurd number of games and tbh, I’m not entirely sure if I’ll go through all of it, but I will try lmao