Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

...forgot there was a spider in Momodora RUTM that is harmless unless you run into it, and it just sits there going "uguu~" at you.

...

...apparently if you DON'T kill it or harm it you can get a shop later.

speaking of River City Girls, any track with Noize's voice actor doing vocals is amazing. https://kuniokun.fandom.com/wiki/Noize Her character design is rad as fuck and also

fuck just

she has literally the best fuckin' boss theme in the entire game.

...you know thinkinga bout it Brian David Gilbert WOULD make a pretty good Waluigi

That said, Misako and Kyoko DO appear in a couple other games, but never as Kunio and Riki's girlfriends. They both appear in Misuzu's team for one of the more recent sports games in the series too.

So... the whole plot could be seen as like, a massive case of Unreliable Narrator. Hence why the otherwise stated to be gentle, bubbly Mami and the shrewd, kind-hearted Hasebe are written as snobby and divaish in RCG.

Granted, you could play (briefly) both Misako and Kyoko up until a certain point (I did not realise this!) and they have their own special moves etc.

HOWEVER

In the original Nekketsu game (localised as Renegade in the west), and RCR/Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, Mami and Hasebe are the love interests of Riki and Kunio respectively, and also in various other games throughout the series!

So I only just found out what the deal is with RCG where your main characters seem to NOT actually be the girlfriends of Riki and Kunio.

Because... they actually aren't?? The only game in which they previously appeared AS their girlfriends, was a single game on the superfamicom called Kunio Tachi no Banka (played an english translation, it's a pretty good beatemup game, but not VERY Nekketsuish, no stats etc)

I had a dream last night and I remember none of it except a song that I was completely certain was from River City Girls except I listened to the soundtrack of it and none of them stood out as "ah yeah that's the song I was remembering" and now I can't remember what the song was aaaaa braiinnnn

oof no gotta stop that for now. it's late and I'm flagging. also argh my face itches.

|LAJK:HSFIKAJSF got really close, ended up taking a hit because I pressed attack one too many times without realising it and got stuck in an attack animation so couldn't roll

NOT impossible tho... Already did the first. The second is giving me some trouble

oof trying to "No Damage" run these bosses is harsh.

think it's time to try Momodora RUTM again.

That GM really was a dick btw. I think I was only friends with him because I didn't know better and I was desperate for some kind of social group to be a part of.

Really glad I didn't give up on roleplaying though because I definitely very nearly did because of him.

It wasn't until I was an adult and moved away from that town entirely that I started enjoying roleplaying again.

one of those "cursed" pieces of armour that changed your character's sex.
By force.

He gave me no opportunity to get it checked out beyond identifying it, which somehow didn't bring up that it was cursed, OR its actual effect. Oh and it actually gave no armour bonus whatsoever despite being "magical", so itw as just a way to force my character to be a guy instead of a girl.

I never understood why it stung so much until now.

At the time I had no idea why I just felt "eh fuck it, why not? It's just a game". When questioned on it because my gm was a dick, and he thought it was "weird", my answer was basically "does it really matter? It's just a character, right?"

Aside from the fact he constantly made sure that any loot that was any good went to his OWN character, and we got the dregs, he also made sure that one piece of sweet loot he gave me was