Linden

@barometz

Podcast lover. JRPG and detective visual novel fan. Bookworm. Fishing minigame enthusiast. He/him

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Linden@barometz· Jun 22

Every time I see this guy, part of me says "I can't believe there's a Dramatical Murder character in Trails," but it really puts it over the edge for me that he also has giant yaoi hands.

Trails of Cold Steel 2 screenshot. The anime cut-in for McBurn's S-craft is superimposed over the battle. He poses with one hand raised in a claw and the other in his pocket, looking down his nose over the top of his glasses at the viewer in gleeful contempt. He is a tall, thin man with a white shirt partially laced together in the front, leaving his abs visible; over it, he wears a long, crimson red coat. His medium-length hair is draped over his shoulder and onto his chest; it is an electric cyan at the top, but the bottom quarter or so is bright pink. He is very edgy.

Linden@barometz· Jun 17

(Also, I want to be right here.)

Motoko and Batou sit in swimsuits on lounge chairs, facing away from the viewer and towards a wall of glass that stretches out beyond the screen and curves over them. Outside it is dark and raining heavily; lights from other buildings are vaguely visible through the downpour. The way the light filters through the water casts dim brightness around the two of them and several large potted ferns in the room.

Linden@barometz· May 10

I think that creating items whose only purpose is to be sold and using that as the primary way the player gets money is interesting, in that I usually don't see the point. Except when stuff like this happens; no matter how many enemies I beat in this building, I'm not going to be able to buy coffee.

Trails of Cold Steel 2 screenshot. The party attempts to buy healing items at a vending machine. With 115 mira, they can afford the 100 mira canned juice, but not the 150 mira canned coffee or 500 mira energy drink.

Linden@barometz· May 6

I really enjoy Rean holding a fish he's seen before and muttering to himself, "What... is this?" with the implication that he enjoys fishing but also has no memory for different types.

Trails of Cold Steel 2 screenshot. Protagonist Rean fishes off the edge of a rocky cliff into a small waterfall pool. The UI shows that he has caught an eel, which he holds up to his face to examine.

Linden@barometz· Apr 8

I just love Olivier so much. I'm always smiling when the bisexual disaster is onscreen. He's so obviously a spy and he's also goofy as hell.

Linden@barometz· Mar 23

I'm late but I love the bisexual lemonade.

Wawa Galaxy lemonade recharger. It has a blue raspberry layer on the bottom and a pink dragonfruit layer on top, with a purple band in the middle where they have blended together.

Linden@barometz· Jan 31

Blood and sand, in honor of Malevolent reaching its finale.

A cocktail in a simple round tumbler with a large ball of ice, sitting on top of a black and gold copy of The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers. Around the glass on top of the book are a toy snowy owl figurine, a lit tealight candle, and a small toy knife in reference to Harlan Guthrie's podcast Malevolent. The cocktail itself is a deep red brown color; it is made of equal parts scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry Heering, and orange juice.

Linden@barometz· Jan 21

Trails is not a political thriller. It is a comedy.

Linden@barometz· Jan 18

"I know what you are" is one hell of a statement from the bisexual disaster walking international incident.

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake screenshot. Olivier sits at a tavern bar with seafood soup, meat and veggies, and wine. He has turned toward the camera and offers a pensive expression as he says But errands, you said? Ah, I believe I know what you are now. He is a handsome blond young man wearing ordinary blue and white traveling clothes.

Linden@barometz· Jan 18

Let me have themmmmm

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake screenshot. Estelle stands in front of a rack with fishing rods on display, inside a wooden inn with red and gold carpet. A text box says There are fishing tools placed here.

Linden@barometz· Jan 18

Back on my Trails bullshit now that I've spent 3 months on Xillia and Pokemon, and you know who DOESN'T have anti-homeless benches? The fine kingdom of Liberl.

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter screenshot. Estelle, Joshua, and Scherazard stand in front of two wooden benches near a green area in a stone city. Sunlight dapples the brick path, mingled with the shade of a large tree.

Linden@barometz· Jan 12

Finished my replay tonight of Tales of Xillia, which remains one of my favorite RPGs. I was afraid that it wouldn't hold up to my memories of it after all this time, but it really, really does.

Linden@barometz· Dec 24

Performing my annual duty.

Four panels showing the Ace Attorney manga, live action movie, anime, and GBA/DS game. Across them, Phoenix Wright says "Did you hear what the witness just said? It was before midnight that he heard the gunshot! In other words, it wasn't Christmas yet! Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!"

Linden@barometz· Dec 14

Standing over an injured wyvern. "So, do you think it will heal?" "Ma'am, I am a horse trainer." I remember now why I love this game.

Tales of Xillia Remastered screenshot. Two people stand next to a tawny feathered dragon-like creature curled up like a cat in a town square. On the left, a blonde young woman in a pink outfit including a strawberry hair clip looks to an older man in a yellow and cream tunic on the right. He has short grey hair and wears glasses, and is looking at the wyvern with his arms crossed. Neither of their faces are visible but there is palpable anxiety.

Linden@barometz· Nov 19

Say the line, Nick

Ace Attorney 1 screenshot. Phoenix stands at the defense bench, hands on the desk, and says "¡Si 'ya casi es Navidad,' entonces aún no es Navidad!"

Linden@barometz· Nov 19

I can't believe our guy has to think hard about measurements in every language.

Ace Attorney 1 screenshot. Phoenix stands at the defense bench, and says "¡Un metro! ¡Cien centímetros!"

Linden@barometz· Nov 19

Happy "Ace Attorney is finally available in Spanish" day to all who celebrate!

Ace Attorney Trilogy options screen, showing that the text and voice languages can both be set to Latin American Spanish.

Linden@barometz· Oct 26

If this is how the King talks about dinosaurs, you will never convince me they don't have Chuck Tingle fans on staff.

Screenshot from Once Upon a Katamari. The King of all Cosmos is lounging on several cushions while fanning himself with a bright yellow fan with the kanji "katamari" or "clump" on it in bright red. The Prince hovers in front of him as he says "They are handsome, very handsome. But... not as handsome as Us."

Linden@barometz· Oct 12

This is the name of that one song, right

Screenshot from Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake. Nial, a scruffy-faced reporter in a purple collared shirt and suspenders, crosses his arms with a smug grin. He says, "At Liberl News, we print gossip. Not nonsense." The back of Estelle's head makes it clear he is speaking to her. They are on top of a tall tower and puffy white clouds drift by a bright blue sky beyond the railing.

Linden@barometz· Oct 2

As someone who is still on the part of the series that is strictly turn-based, though, the hybrid battle system feels so good. I really thought it would be difficult to learn but it feels so fluid.

Linden@barometz· Oct 2

This remake is really nice, but every time I open a chest, I'm sad there's not a stupid little joke inside...

Screenshot of the Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake. Protagonists Estelle and Joshua stand in a grassy area in front of an open treasure chest. There is no prompt to interact further with the chest now that it has been emptied.

Linden@barometz· Sep 29

Like, come on.

Screenshot of We Love Katamari. From the point of view of the katamari, large white letters in imitation of the Hollywood sign instead spell out Oh My Wood on a rocky slope. In the distance, skyscraper-sized mushrooms stand on top of the cliff; a pterodactyl flies overhead.

Linden@barometz· Sep 2

I accidentally knocked Nagito off my desk and broke him in, I think, the funniest way possible

Good Smile Company's Pop-up Parade figure of Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa 2. He is a young male anime character with wild, wavy white hair. Normally, one particular section of it stands up as an ahoge or "idiot hair," but this one particular piece of the figure has broken off and nothing else. His hair now seems normal at first glance.

Linden@barometz· Aug 10

Buddy, aren't we all

Screenshot from Raidou Remastered. On the world map, Raidou speaks to a character labeled excitable schoolgirl. She says "The Capital's getting way too exciting! I'm cursed to live in interesting times..." A large mech is standing menacingly on an artificial island just offshore.

Linden@barometz· Jul 31

I cannot believe Atlus was making pancake jokes back in 2006, a full 10 years before that other game.

Screenshot from Raidou Remastered. Raidou Kuzunoha is speaking to an ippon-datara (a cobbled-together looking, one-legged demon that is dressed in a blacksmith apron and carrying tools). The demon says "Human pancake! I want butter! I want syrup! Eeeee!"

Linden@barometz· Jun 23

On one hand, what are we even doing here. On the other hand, this game rules.

Screenshot from Raidou Remastered. Raidou, a Taisho-era teenage boy in a school uniform including a cap and cape, stands under an overpass. In front of him is a demon in the form of a dilapidated car. The demon, Oboroguruma, says "In the name of the full moon, I will crush you!" as if it's Sailor Moon.

Linden@barometz· Jun 10

I have one that I didn't mind putting through the scanner!

The laminated paper sleeve for a CD, showing two girls in sailor outfits eating cake. The one on the front (right) is Arianna, cast in blue with long purple hair. The one on the back (left) is Chloe, who has pink braided hair and red glasses. Both are on patterned backgrounds matching their color schemes.

The interior of the booklet, featuring commentary from composer Yuzo Koshiro and director Shigeo Komori about Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold's music above an illustration of Arianna wearing a bikini, with a big red hibiscus in her hair, holding a transparent blue ball; on the facing page, there is also a black-and-white (well, pink-and-white) comic featuring the characters.

The CD from the sleeve, showing the protagonist mid-transformation, his right hand turned into a metallic claw, and pulling Arianna forward with his left hand. She looks surprised, and is holding a staff in her left hand. They are set against an orange, white, and pink geometric background.

Linden@barometz· Apr 12

Replaying a little bit of 13 Sentinels because this game will never let go of me, and honestly... get you a partner that gives romantic compliments like this to you.

"You're shameless, shrewd, and infuriating. People like you don't die so easily."

A screenshot from 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Two characters are shown in blue-tinted tele-communication windows superimposed on a green space-like background. On the left, Takatoshi Hijiyama (a young man with long medium-dark hair) is speaking the line in question with a serious face. On the right, Tsukasa Okino (a non-binary person about the same age, with chin-length white hair) seems to eye him with an expression that might be haughty or unimpressed. Each appears to be nude inside the extremely close quarters of their own machine cockpit of some sort.

Linden@barometz· Apr 6

Underrated part of Etrian Odyssey for me is when there's a weird mechanic and you have to figure out how to represent it on the map because the tools you have don't -quite- cover what's going on. I always wonder how many people mark things similarly/differently than me.

A screenshot from Etrian Odyssey 2 HD. The party is looking down the hall of an ornate building that is made entirely of gold, except for a bright green conveyor belt on the floor. The map has several sections of the floor highlighted in yellow to indicate the path of these conveyors, plus arrows intended to be used to show shortcuts placed instead to indicate the direction they will push the party. #世界樹の迷宮

Linden@barometz· Mar 24

"Etrian Odyssey is a scary dungeon crawler for masochists!" Wrong. It is a comedy.