Every new scrap of info we get from inside the black box has someone responding "here's like thirty games that directly contradict that" and everyone has a different thirty

Feeling a connection with the vaguely conservative composer in a comment for Lulua's special features who says with a tinge of bitterness that he remembers when they were aiming for a Masterpiece Theatre vibe.

Got a bit muddled at the end there, meant to say that Atelier can be counted as having ten "mainline" releases 2009-2019 even if you factor out every single Atelier thing except the first console release of a given game called "Atelier [Whoever]" on top of Gust doing remasters and other games

Halfway through typing that last one I realised how, to some, a decade might not sound like a lot of time for a series because nowadays that might mean three games if you're lucky, whereas Atelier from Rorona to Ryza 1 was ten games NOT INCLUDING Nelke or non-Atelier games from the same studio!

Not necessarily a dunk, though, Totori is my favourite Atelier! Just interesting to see them toss out some stuff that's been core to the way they design these for almost a decade.

Looking forward to your reactions to Mystic, where FMW fully begins the transition from "shockingly good for a fangame" to "actually one of the top-tier SRW"

desperate for a toon expanding on how The Cheat "doesn't know about sauces"

Congratulations! Now you just gotta get her to agree to shout at the moon with you every month