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That aged poorly ðŸ˜
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Ciphers humor always on point! Sometimes too much on point,tho i must say 3.4 did had bit of a...cliffhanger.
... Yeah, I'm calling Polka
Lygus' hated series :
"Better call Polka"
The best stories are the ones you can go through a second time and find new appreciation for the finer details. That are seen as mysteries the first time but once knowing the reason behind them makes it even better and evokes a different emotion than the first time
I too love ORV
there's lots of stories even without regression that fit this.
ORV just happens to be one that does.
Personally I find World Trigger to be better at infinite re-readability but that's just me.
Orv really does fit well though, especially the novel later on (and with the As I’ve written book and the author themes from ReMC). One of the characters affiliated with the Greek gods in that story even has Agleas strings and is involved in delivering news about a prophecy/fate
ORV ties very well to this arc, but in terms of re-readability it's so-so. There's definitely things to pick out on a second read through (I've done three iirc?) but it's not the kind of infinite teaser density that, say, WT has.
Every side char in WT is shown at least once before their actual arc, most are shown several times. And there are 80+ side chars that are relevant throughout. Then there's the decisions in the story, where every decision is lampshaded by some description or prior action/interaction that seemed like flavor at the time.
And the consistency in WT's art (since it's a manga) is nigh impeccable. The sheets and screens contain real, valuable information whenever they appear, to the point where it's draining to actually pore through them sometimes.
I'd have to spoil so much WT just to tell you how much a second read through does for the series. For example, the Galoupola invasion "cut through ally to cut down enemy" trick was revealed in Black Trigger Retrieval. Galo's in chapter 150ish iirc, black trigger retrieval is in chapter 25-30 give or take. Manga chapters, so it's pretty dense; there's half a tourney arc and a war arc in between them.
LoTM too. Just coming back to reread it and seeing certain things early on with a new perspective just due to having more context.
I hear a lot about it but I haven't read it myself. How is it?
It's super good. Honestly an reasy top 3 web novels I've ever read. Klein is such a good MC and the author takes ample time to develop the side characters and show their story. Especially thre ones introduced early on, we see them all move up in life and grow and actually feel alive instead of just set piece minions for the MC.
The plot and the lore is great too, and it has some genuinely shocking twists that I never saw coming. Oh and the finale, that was just perfection.
I'd heavily recommend reading it, but as a heads up, a massive turn off is that it's a slow burn for the first 100 chapters or so. Not bad, and it leads to a good pay off that is then expound on in a masterpiece of a volume finale in volume 2 or 3, but the pacing is slow. After the first 100 or so chaoter though, pacing is no longer an issue.
This is going to make story replay in 3.6 all the better.
Ouch 🥲🥲 my poor phainon
Cipher stop please EE flashbacks This cat traumatised poor Khaslana too much.
She didn't traumatize him enough(Still not over her death)
Edit: Spoilered, Just in case
Somehow upping the pain Kevin experienced in HI3 through Khaslana.
We should check in with the HSR writers to see if they are ok.
No they are not
There is your answer
They're pretty okay. This is a heartwarming and uplifting story. They can do much worse.
I mean... She was taunting and she definitely didn't know
just replayed v3.3 story today
solabis and lunabis for no reason said that "that sword of yours...looks familliar"
foreshadowing...
Doubt it, if we follow the story logic we should not meet Phainon in 3.5 at all, he is basically merged with irontomb and there wont be Flame Reaver anymore since instead of him its we that travel back, the time that Solabis and Lunabis fight the titan, OG Phainon is not even born yet so nothing will come out of it i guess.
So the Phainon that merged with Irontomb was the ER 0 version, the one that's been looping.
But there is still a Phainon in each loop. The villagers around town acknowledge his existence, and his mom and dad are there for you to talk to.
But like we'd still meet Phainon that's created by the data of this new cycle, right?
Maybe, but Solabis and Lunabis stuff is before he was born, as Cerydra/Terravox/Hyselins and stuff like that, he said it himself when they met so there is no way for them to remember him from before if time traveling Phainon is not there anymore, atlest that what i think.
we know that Phainon is in this "new cycle" as the villagers mention him when you're in Aedes Elysiae.
whether we are finishing the fight in this "new cycle" or not is questionable as Aedes Elysiae's destruction (and Phainon's birth) should happen roughly 1000 years after Hysilens and Cerydra's time, but we know they're in 3.5.
I don't think Aedes Elysiae that we are in rn matters, its like when we finished 3.3 we could still do quests and explore but its not really "canon" in a sense, since there was no time really, storywise we just said goodbuy to Phainon and went to help Dan Heng.
Our interactions in Aedes map are all fluff basically, and the stuff that matters storywise gonna happen in the next main story quest.
We’re the Limbo version of Aedes Elysia. A small brief reprieve after the old cycle and before the new cycle begins.
I love how everyone knows Flame Reaver is Phainon but no one is ready for the gut punches when looking back at his actions under those lenses
It’s funny because the reveal didn’t shock me, but when I was playing through the earlier patches, I wasn’t thinking of the Flame Reaver in that light, so I have a new appreciation for the pre-3.4 Flame Reaver scenes.
Why did you have to hurt me this way
I love that line cerene had about how the end of the world looked. Filled with so much dedpair that hit both at first and when recontextualized
Fun(?) fact, this place is "The withered garden"
the Enlightenment also said about the "traveler"
"All flames will eventually die, all flowers will wilt.
In the withered garden, the traveler's steps grow slower, each breath aging them in sorrow.
As moonlight shifts and shadows linger."
It aged liked fine wine
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Kaslanas with their tragic stories and their doomed companions
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If tragic, why hot?
To make something tragic you need to cook. And when you cook, things get.. hot...
some of the time.
other times you can be cool as a cucumber
like when you're mixing a salad