Prima Materia

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Stellar Blade as much as I did. Last November, Shaun, a YouTuber who I’ve been following a very long time released a video called: Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage. I’m re-watching is as I write this post, but it was mainly about how Mark Kern (it’s really hard to describe who he is in one sentence so here’s a video) created a fake bogey-man and owned “wokeness” by praising the developer of Stellar Blade, Shift Up, for giving their main protagonist a lot of sex appeal.

Shaun also provides a review for the game, which I watched before playing the game for myself, regrettably. It shaped a lot of my opinions going into the game which I had to force myself to let go the deeper I got into it.

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There’s this game that I’ve been playing on and off for about a month called Dolls Nest, developed/published by Nitroplus. I’ve seen the people in the Steam reviews call it a hybrid between Dark Souls and Armored Core and I think that’s a pretty fair assessment.

Your character is a customizable humanoid girl that you can outfit with a “frame”.

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I just finished the GFL2 Aphelion event story as of an hour ago. Since I talked about another GFL2 event earlier in the year, I figured I’d do it again. I missed out on the Centauressi event in March (I think), so I have a bit of a gap in the event stories. Aside from that, I’ve been pretty consistent. GFL2 is not my main game so it’s taken me a bit of time to finish. My main game is NIKKE and I can typically get away with doing daillies at work. However, I do a lot of events at home on my PC. As I’ve said many times over the last few posts, March/April has been really busy so I missed out on the last couple of banners. I’ll have to pick up 416/Klukai at another time. I’m glad the events last the entire month, though! Since I’m working on a visual novel, I’m interested in learning what I can about storytelling from games I already like to play.

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Around 15 years ago, when I was still in high school, I stumbled upon fan art of a character named Sansei Muramasa (see below) when I was browsing newly uploaded illustrations on Pixiv. There was a lot about the character I really liked, so I decided to look up the source material thinking she was from an anime or manga. Back then, I was really disappointed to learn that Muramasa was from a visual novel named Soukou Akki Muramasa, or Full Metal Daemon Muramasa as it’s called in English.

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