If the gods of shipping do not allow it and the cards do not get here in time I WILL cry. To be clear.

It's the little joys, u know

DOOM SCROLLING? MORE LIKE DOOM picking a tag and then seeing all the latest posts made with that tag and looking at them until you get caught up and then going "haha ! Yay!" and moving on to the next thing and eventually running out of things so you have to go be productive instead.

Some of the parts were reused (like the bracelet), but most of them were remade entirely. I even redid the hair, but I don't think that's as easy to notice lol

I'm constantly torn between wanting to do new piko content and wanting to remake stuff from Piko live party 1...

Sorry, I don't have very much to post right now.. But I thought I'd share him since I made the effort to get on bsky on desktop with a vpn..

These are screenshots taken from the same frame in MMD, so the pose data is identical and hasn't been adjusted.
only the model / render setting have changed

... also i only referenced RF directly, but it is DEFINITELY not the only big game franchises to take this broad approach. a lot of nintendo and nintendo adjacent IPs are doing it right now and It makes me feel very sad.

this is why i didn't post about fire emblem the other day lmao

and all of this is to say... fingers crossed for a Story Of Seasons (3Ds)(Linking the New World(?) in japan) remake in the future. Its still my actual favorite and i miss it.

It took elements from the DS / 3DS era of SoS and elements from Pioneers of Olive Town that I actually really liked to make a SoS game that is, in my opinion, a really stand out farming sim. And it's refreshing just how lively the town feels with how they interact with you.

But SoS:GB? It has been. SO satisfying.
I like that they didn't bring back the shipping box (a thing i know people complained about with the og) because it makes the bazaar aspect more exciting and interesting.
I'm almost done with the story, but I can see myself playing this way past that.

GoA was really fun! But I haven't picked it up since i finished the main story. There's nothing to do while waiting for the post game to open up, and im honestly worried it won't be worth wasting time to get there.

Maybe the upcoming updates will change that. We'll see.

like- imo, Rune Factory and SoS games shouldn't be games you finish in a few weeks.

RF works best when the story makes you grow with it and has a rewarding and satisfying endgame.

SoS works best when the story can be beaten in 1-2 in game years but lets you grow far past that.

Like- They really remade a game that didn't do very well when it first released, gave it a bunch of QoL, added features that people have been asking for (or didn't know they wanted), while maintaining the feeling of a great SoS game.

I think it gave me what I wanted Guardians of Azuma to give me.

(Seriously, keeping the original art style is a great touch- but putting him next to Arata is just like… really? Really ?? But I also liked his design from a new beginning more, so whatever. What do I know.)

But really, I think they kinda struck gold here. Really figured out what’s been working in their games recently and tried to focus on those things more.

Now if only Samir’s head wasn’t so weirdly big and round for his tall 3D model body.. 🤔

idk. just bring back google translate, this is such ass.

i feel like this is a really good example as to why AI translations do not work and should not be used, especially not in this automated way.
I could see them being used to speed up the process by maybe having the AI do the initial translation and then having a human check behind it, but...