this should surprise no one, but it's time for more zero time dilemma. spoilers ahoy!

before i jump in to the game, i'm going to try and collect my thoughts/theories/curiosities.

( thoughts & theories (ZTD spoilers) )

...and of course, once i got all that written up, i got distracted by playing minecraft with my friends. (and after all that deliberation on whether to play zero escape or be with pals, too...)

ok now to like... try to actually... play the game... maybe??
( gameplay (ZTD spoilers) )

good night, y'all.

i am on a roll this week in bandori! full combo'd expert Silhouette just now. it's not a song i usually play, which is why it's neat when people in multiplayer pick songs that aren't played that often. (you know, instead of FUWA-FUWA TIME for the eight thousandth time. no, i'm not salty, why do you ask?) i also just played Goka! Gokai!? Phantom Thief! on expert for the first time, and while i did barely manage to clear it, i was going what the fuck is going on the whole time.

anyhow, back to zero escape.

( zero time dilemma spoilers )

anyhow. going to bed shortly. had a good christmas -- my younger brother got Super Smash Bros Ultimate, so me and my siblings played that for a few hours earlier. it's fun! we didn't open all of our presents, though, as my grandma and aunt are flying in later today, so we decided to hold off on opening the presents from them til they get here. so later today (since it's already 7am now lmao) we'll have christmas part 2: electric boogaloo. hopefully i'll be awake and not completely sleep deprived. lmao.

(this is becoming a pattern for me with zero escape. after my last final a few weeks ago i came home and played Virtue's Last Reward, and then i kept playing for the next eleven or so hours, give or take, because i was finally at the point where i was Figuring Out All The Things.)

anyways!! this has gone on long enough! i'll actually sleep now.

this week in bandori i got full combos on expert for B.O.F. and Koi wa Chaos no Shimobenari, so i am officially marking this week up as a Success. now if only i could get a full combo on expert PICO!!!... that's the dream.

bandori (aka BanG Dream!) is the only rhythm game i play these days, because i got fed up with love live. it's funny, because as a kid i was always rotten at DDR, guitar hero, rock band, etc. turns out i can be decent at rhythm games if i get to tap the notes directly on my phone! so over the last year or so i've been playing some phone rhythm games -- first love live, then bandori (and i highly prefer bandori for a variety of reasons), and i've been slowly improving. at this point i can clear pretty much all but the most difficult songs on expert -- it's cool to be able to look back and remember "oh yeah, back in april i was still struggling with some of these songs on hard, but now i can do most of them on expert!"

also, i mostly play this game for the game and not the story (even tho i've heard it's got a p good story), but Kaoru is my #1 fave and today i joined a multiplayer lobby, saw that someone's username was "Kaoru is worst girl," and immediately left that lobby, because how dare you >:(

the other night i commissioned cactuskhee for a sketch commission of Snake from 999 (the first Zero Escape game), and i love it so much, i'm making it my new default icon. Snake has rapidly become one of my top favorite characters, along with Ouma Kokichi (NDRv3) and Aizawa Shouta (BNHA). i'm not sure what, if anything, those 3 faves say about me as a person, but they're def the characters who have most thoroughly lodged themselves in my heart/brain in the last year or so.

speaking of zero escape, i'm several hours into Zero Time Dilemma and, as to be expected, my intrigue is growing. "Life is truly unfair" seems to be Zero's running catchphrase here, and i am very curious to find out what that's about.