#sobae

“There’s no way they’d put bird stickers at the bottom of the ocean, right? That would be ridiculous,” I, an idiot, thought.

The mocking birds theme song is so bumping omg the silly kazoo I love it

Sato was born in the wrong generation I just know her screentime would be in the teens

Wow she was born in the really wrong generation

I feel like I’m genuinely being queerbaited by Sato and Tsukasa

Man I was right on the money predicting Yumeko was in Paranormal Affairs but also I feel like that wasn’t hard to figure out

Seeing Tsutsumi and Mio’s names in the files had me pointing like the soyjak meme

Avi has the same voice as Jonas Gnosia in my head when I read their lines

^ After seeing his endings, this has become funnier iykyk

This game has its own So Sejima

Little did I know, this game would also have its own Saito Sejima. Who would’ve imagined?

There’s a low-hanging AI AU here I feel. Paranormal Affairs = ABIS. Yumeko is a psycher and Sodo is the AI ball. Tsukasa is Iris I guess idk

Yumeko and Sodo miiiiight be my favs so far but also I like all of them

Although the Avi route has a lot of heavy lore dumping moments in it that kinda tired me out a little

I also wish Circe had more dialogue that wasn’t playing the straight man to Avi. Let her be sillier

I wonder if they’re supposed to be speaking English or Japanese in the scenes where they’re alone

Does morphogenetically fielding info about the crest to Avi actually affect anything or is it just a fun extra thing

Funniest running gag I had with myself was every time Wakamura was on screen I’d be like hm turn around for me please there might be a mocking bird sticker hidden on the back of his bald head

The phone call scene was pretty funny. I wonder what would’ve happened if they never picked up. Surely that would’ve been a good thing, right? At least for a while

Sato coming back from the dead is so freaking tuff she’s so nonchalant

Shotaro is the only one reacting appropriately to all this rn

It hit me that it was Kikuko only when the camera lingered on that random pool of blood on the ground at the jetty and I was like wait a minute isn’t that where Kikuko was? … noooo. I didn’t even put together that she was the one who showed up and “witnessed” Yuza and Azami standing over Tsuyu right after she died. In a place where nobody usually goes at night. From Sato’s POV, when you spot her hiding she’s super tiny but you can still tell those are her clothes by the colors, and she comes back from that direction when she walks up on the boys.

I guess in the bad ending Sato dies since it took Yuza a few days to wake up (?) but I wonder if she died in the ocean or if she managed to get back to the island but couldn’t talk to him/got intercepted by Tomoshige :(

I have so many more questions about the logistics of immortality. If you lose a limb but then get vaporized years later do you regenerate the limb? If you get your wisdom teeth removed but then step on a land mine will you have to get them removed again? If someone rips your heart out and puts it in a blender would the heart have to regenerate and build the whole body from scratch while the perfectly good intact corpse disintegrates?

LMAO I totally called Wakamura’s sorcerer being Suigen Gamyodo that made me giggle. I always felt like that story thread was a loose end so I’m glad to see there was more to it. Also crazy how this was foreshadowed in those silly little birthday posts from the official social media

Shogo did the whole “going into corporate consulting at a young age despite not having a lot of experience and making bank” thing before it was cool

Frankly disappointed that there are no timelines where Shotaro explicitly dies. There’s that scene where Yumeko asked him if he took a business card and he says yes, and no one tells him to get rid of it (lmao by the way) and then “Ikoma” appears immediately after. I thought for sure they were about to kill him off for shock value. But nope!

I gotta say I love his facial expressions though. At the end of the game he pulls the Sarah Paulson horror face, the chill friendly 😉✌️ face, AND the scheming anime villain face all in the span of a ten min conversation

Yuza says he doesn’t want to tell Tsuyu and Azami about his immortality because he’s scared they’ll ostracize him, but let’s be fr, he should know they would never do that. I think he just didn’t want to admit to them that he attempted suicide. Thinking about how excited Tsuyu was that Yuza was coming home with the circle on her calendar. Azami would never care that Yuza’s immortal but I think he’d be pretty hurt if he found out he tried to kill himself after everything

The game says Yuza knowingly put his immortality to use while ama diving because he didn’t have to be scared of drowning and never really reacts to failing a dive, but Sato recalled in horror how drowning over and over was hell. Much to think about. Suicidal immortal guy coming up with most elaborate and extreme way to self harm without anyone noticing

After what happened to Somekawa I feel like this might have a genetic component too, like the power of friendship is so awesome but I think SSRIs might be worth a try this time

Shogo 🤝 Yuza : finding out you have strange supernatural powers and immediately figuring out how to turn them into an infinite money hack

In the first game, the stickers had a supernatural vibe about them, but they were mostly located in completely normal places like the city bridge! And the public park! But the tone kinda shifts in the second game. If I dove into an underwater cave that was previously inaccessible because an earthquake only recently reopened it, and I knew I was the first person to go there in centuries, but I pointed my flashlight up and saw a very modern looking sticker of silly birds on the cave ceiling… I’d poopoo my pants. Idk maybe I’m just sensitive but I think that’s creepy. And when Yumeko looks at them they’re… purple? What does that mean? If green is normal and red is immortal is purple like,,, godly? I wonder if the lore surrounding them will ever go deeper or if they’ll stay as mysterious little Easter eggs and nothing more.

Hayase at the bottom of the ocean was also scary I think that hits a very specific phobia for me. Going deep into the ocean and turning a corner and seeing a giant dangerous creature just waiting there? Spooky

I wish we got to learn a little more about who she actually was tho especially compared to the other two mermaids

The first game was soooo Twilight Filter compared to this one whoa I didn’t even notice until I went back to look at old posts. Is it because of the pollution? Why is everything so green and blue tinted

I think I liked the self contained narrative aspect of the Honjo story more than the openness of this one tbh. It was cool to get more world building but I think it could’ve been more interesting if a greater portion of the story was focused on Kameshima and the people there

Like there’s that one character we only see when she dies in the massacre route? Who even was that. Am I stupid who is that

Paranormasight 1 was for the aros (playing as 1) guy who has terrible luck with girls 2) kid with no love interest 3) super divorced man 4) woman who’s not divorced but probably should be 5) woman who was happily engaged but tragically lost her fiance). Paranormasight 2 was for the allos (playing as 1) soulmate couple I guess 2) woman who defied the laws of nature to be with her husband and 3) hopeless romantic single guy)

Kinda neat that there was no secret 5th playable character btw I’m glad they’re not reusing twists like that. Wonder how else they could maybe introduce a surprise extra PC in the future without it being redundant, maybe by doing it like the part where you play as Erio

Speaking of Erio and how Mio realized you were him, there’s a part where Circe has a similar reaction to Avi but I don’t remember exactly where that was

Sato and Yuza have a problematic nonchalantness gap in their relationship

Lowk thought they were gonna be secretly related and it seems like some other people thought that too. I guess the thing about being attracted to people who look similar to you is true

I wonder if the legend about Princess Hatsune being the baddest bitch around was simply propaganda. Not that she isn’t pretty, and multiple guys do like her, but tons of people fighting over her? Really? I guess they didn’t have celebrities back then so maybe the beauty standards were different.

For some reason in the true ending I’m focusing the most on Tsukasa becoming a business major. Get that bag. Be ready for the tourism boom way before it even happens

Avi’s good ending spits on the “immortality is a curse” trope more blatantly than Yuza and Sato’s story like no Sato’s not weird for enjoying it being immortal is just fucking awesome actually

I’m glad Kikuko’s death was addressed in the bad end but it’s kinda funny that her being dead or alive doesn’t change anything that happens in the main ending route like no one gaf

It should’ve been Shotaro

The final puzzle wooooah woooooah

Me when I go on a quest to find a mermaid and learn the truth of my parents’ deaths only to find out the mermaid was probably cracking my mom

This game did in fact have yuri just not where i thought it would

Polyamory is still an option

Woah the way you zoom into the portal when you start the game. Did not consider that

To be completely honest I saw that title screen Sobae shit coming from a mile away but everything else was a surprise like woah

I was even like hm this game has way less meta stuff than last time. Little did I know they just wanted to shove it all at the end

Ryugu seems boring as hell what does Sobae do all day? Sit on that damn rock and nothing else? If I died and went to Ryugu I’d be pissed it seems depressing. Maybe the wonderous magical dragon palace is just around the corner, but this infinite barren rock landscape does not inspire eternal peace to me

If the ghost is decapitated Yuza, why is he wearing diving clothes instead of his street clothes… eh don’t worry about it

EHAT FO YOU MEAN SHOGO AND YOKO’S STORY HASNT ENDED YET WAHT

Paranormasight 3????? Or 2.5???? Localize that manga too while you’re at it

That actually makes me really curious — are there any unanswered mysteries in this game like in the last game? I feel like Yumeko’s history with the bureau wasn’t fully explained

I want to see her husband so bad please tell me he speaks in a normal human voice. Official art drop when. And I need to see that photo of Circe and Mio

I guess Shogo and Sodo are distantly related. And also have met

We never saw Circe use her guardian spirit ability while the rest of her and Sodo’s abilities were used, maybe that’s something that will come back again

Give us the Yumeko and Tetsuo spinoff. Wow I sure did enjoy files 23 and 38, and hope to read 25, now where are the other 35 files? Actually I was just thinking, if there’s only one year between 23 and 38, that suggests the bureau can’t have been around for very long, right? Either that or paranormal crime is on the rise like crazy this one year in particular. They make it sound like paranormal affairs has been established for a long time but what if it’s only been operational for like three years

Earlier on I was under the impression that the three mermaids were sisters or something but I guess they’re just like coworkers? Lol quit your job (mermaid) join my emo band (paranormal detective division)