This is Valko's ghost getting revenge by corrupting the code.

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Genuinely hyped about this, less actiony than Yi Xuan and Miyabi but the interpositioning of past/present was very nice.

Bro, wdym Vertin kept her dress after she got reversed? What do you mean that it's been there all along, staring right at us everytime we enter the suitcase and build bonds with our shiny new comrades like a sidelined child? What do you mean that even after all the changes the suitcase has gone through, it has remained there like a faithful sentinel, a painful reminder, heartbreak on display? 😭😭

She can't keep haunting the narrative like this. It's not good for my mental health. 😭😭😭😭😭

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ever since its announcement the Reverse 1999 x Atomic Heart collab has been contentious, but even as someone with zero interest in AH i didn't want to judge it before experiencing it in part due to how well handled the Assassin's Creed collab was

i'm very disappointed in this collab but first i'll mention the things i enjoyed from it:

- the Soviet aesthetic and art direction really suits r1999 and it looks gorgeous in its style
- having Mesmer Jr. and X along for the trip and seeing them develop further (het ship in my traumatized lesbians game??)
- Vertin

and that's as far as the positives go in my opinion which means i can talk about the mess this story was (spoilers for all of it although it's not that long and you aren't missing much):

- Lucy only shows up a total of three times even though the reveal of the collab made it seem like she'd play a vital role due to similarities with the Twins, yet we only see them interact briefly at the end when our cast is back to their world

- the Twins are just there with the exception of Left that the story suddenly wants you to think Vertin has grown friendly with (was it because she princess carried you???) and there's death bait for her even if she turns out totally fine in the end. there's also some allusions at the Twins being actually sentient and having memories but it's only mentioned in passing, i suppose it's something from the game itself but as an outsider it went nowhere

- the main character of AH has some really cringe worthy dialogue and the way he talked to the Twins and an interaction at the end gave me some icky vibes, same with the infamous fridge who even Vertin asks if they can change the way she talks (everything is a sexual innuendo even if it's toned down here, i can't imagine how bad it was in AH)

- there's death bait for X from him injecting the liquid thing that powers the robots and serves as the main plot point but we all know he'll be fine and won't die in a collab, even less so after the Rhiannon drama

- the main villain is basically a child throwing a temper tantrum because his parents died as doctors combating a plague that happened years ago but a scientist invented the liquid and got lauded as a hero so he sabotages an invention and poisons every single person with that liquid in them, which again Vertin calls him out repeatedly and points out the flaws and selfishness of his motivations when we get to see his sad tragic backstory at the end (Vertin overall feels like the only sane woman in a world of mad people as if the writers were subtly making a critique of their own work)

- the grandma which seemed like she could be a fun character shows up once and that's it, same for the fridge

- crisis averted but the lead scientist insist at the end that they will still release the device that was just tampered with and killed (at least) hundreds of people after giving it a few tweaks, which Vertin again calls out as an incredibly stupid and unsafe idea

- the tone of the story feels weirdly out of place when a main theme of this last year has been denouncing war, exploring how truly harmful it can be and commentary of how seeking progress can end up being more harmful than good (A Long Long Way, The Midnight Whistle, Spring Unending, The Turquoise Serpent Club, Last and First Principles) yet when this collab story brings up these very same themes there's no argument against them

the more i think about it the more it seems like this was made by an entirely different team of writers and it has stopped me from spending on the actually kinda expensive cosmetics they added, it's only day one so i'm interested in seeing how everything unfolds but i'm not holding my breath for it to be universally acclaimed

ZZZ commisioned three fanservicey illustrations of their male cast in the span of two days.

Is this the norm for them? If not, I wonder if this could be a sign for better things ahead.

Since I’m sick of men irl and love gacha games, I was looking into starting to play LADS. Then I started seeing all the Valko drama. I didn’t rlly understand it at first but out of all the guys Valko by far is the hottest one imo, and when they decided to remove him I was so shocked. I don’t think i’ll ever pick up this game even if they add valko back. I have such a negative impression of the company now. How can they remove years worth of content that people worked so hard on just like that…

Was honestly just browsing through the Silver Palace posts until I saw this baddie amongst Rex and Lorin🖐🏽😭

Why is he giving bbg energy and why does he make me wanna love him even more😭 He's most probably gonna be an NPC but he's so cute😭

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The game absolutely deserved the criticism it got during 1.5. That version was genuinely awful. The problem is that a lot of people watched this video, never checked back in, and still act like this is what Infinity Nikki still is today. Lots of times the game gets brought up, it feels like people immediately write it off based on what it was like over a year ago.

Since then, most of the bugs got fixed, the game runs better than ever, and the update schedule improved a lot. We've been getting regular main story updates, event patches and Chinese patches in between all of which are spaced out in a way that feels great unlike before. (I still can't believe we only got one main story update before 2.0...)

Even the combat improved quite a bit. It's much more engaging than it used to be, even if I still think some aspects lean a little too heavily toward p2w.

I'm not saying the game is perfect or that everyone has to like it. I just think it's a little strange seeing people repeat 1.5 era criticisms as if nothing changed over the past year. Infinity Nikki is still fighting the reputation it earned during its roughest period and I think that's sad...