So a very funny thing happened to me this past weekend:
Therefore, in my pristine and unaltered state of mind, I’ve decided to put forth a third (so far) hacking contest for the year: the Super Hit Post Contest. My aim is to bring back the Ragefest-style design of ye olden days, with a bit more clarity and less sanity in the rating system. Here’s the deal: anyone who wants to can submit a 1 OR 2 chapter hack, and I will record and/or stream myself playing it and assign it a score. As long as it is genuinely possible to beat, I will continue to go at it until I complete it. The goal is to create something that generates amusement for someone, whether that be me or the viewing audience. The deadline will be the end of this year; therefore, if you plan on participating in MAPPY or FEE3, please by the gods get your shit done for those first.
Scoring
First of all, let it be known that unlike other contests, I will be the sole judge, jury, and executioner. With that in mind, here are the (extremely stupid) grading factors.
ENGINE
You will not be graded on engine chosen, but you will receive a single bonus point if your entry is created using FE6 as the base rom. This point cannot take you over the maximum score.
GAMEPLAY
Gameplay will be scored out of a total of 20 maximum points on the following criteria:
5 points - Fun factor. Something about the game should make me want to keep playing.
5 points - Sadism factor. The game should hurt the player on a mental level. Note that it’s easy enough to go for just max fun or sadism, but the goal of the challenge is to try for both.
5 points - Duration. Your project will be assigned a score based on how long it takes me to complete while commentating. Your goal is for the project to be completable in either 40 minutes per chapter or I give up on a day and try again a subsequent day. I will record/stream at most one entry per day. For every 10 minutes I take shorter or longer than this par time, I will deduct 1 point from your gameplay score. If I give up after a session and try again the next day, you automatically get 5 points for this category. If I give up and do not try your hack again on a subsequent day, you will lose all 5 points (and probably your fun factor as well).
5 points - Stability. Every crash or unintentional glitch will deduct a point. If this happens more than 5 times but I somehow feel the hack is fun enough to continue, I’ll truck on but deduct points from other gameplay categories as compensation.
WRITING
Writing will be scored out of a maximum 20 points on the following criteria:
5 points - Premise. You get 5 points if I like your premise. Since this is an extremely easy 5 points, I will not tell you what I’m looking for. Do some research, hit the books. If you @ me or post on this thread asking, you will receive 0 points for this category.
5 points - Character writing. You get 5 points if your characters have funny interactions with each other. I’m looking for goofy boss quotes, on-map talks, hidden events, anything goes here.
5 points - Sheer coverage. I want to see everything you can write on scribbled on. Guides, R-texts, the GORGON-EGG if you can manage it, whatever. You can fill these with jokes or actual lore, I like both. I will not give you points if what you put in these is boring.
5 points - Cohesion. If you have some sort of central gameplay gimmick, I would like the story be connected with it somehow.
AESTHETICS
Aesthetics will be scored out of a maximum of 20 points on the following criteria:
5 points - Cohesion OR lack of cohesion. Everything should look like it’s from the same game or be a horrible mismatch of assets. If I see like three FE8 units and then Big Chungus, you get a 0 for this, but three repo mugs from wildly different artstyles and then Big Chungus would get you a 5.
5 points - Map beauty or chaos. I would like for the map itself to either be visually appealing or damage my mind directly.
5 points - Music. I want the music chosen to be objectively good but also inflict pain upon me if I have to listen to it for forty minutes. Those of you with music theory knowledge will have a good idea of how to accomplish this, but for everyone else, aim to have a map theme with a short loop and extremely high intensity (that’s still good).
5 points - Controversial. Inclusion of an asset that has been discussed on FEU or FEUcord but has not been removed from either will net you up to 5 points. If you include something that has outright been removed, you get 0 points.
FREESTYLE
The following criteria add up to a total of 20 points and are sort of a grab bag.
5 points - Touhou. Continuing the tradition set forth by Markyjoe, you get 4 points if you include a Touhou reference somewhere in your project. You get the fifth point if the reference pertains to one of my favorite Touhou characters, which I will not be disclosing. As I have mentioned before, direct usage of Touhou assets is copyright-safe, but I’ll leave the specifics to you guys.
5 points - Speed. The first five entries done will receive 5 points in this category. Every subsequent entry will receive one fewer point, down to a minimum of -1 points (yeah you read that right). This is only worth 5 points, so don’t push yourselves too hard. If 10+ people actually submit and you care about losing the point that much, hack in FE6 lmao.
5 points - Being a TRPG. I’ll play blackjack if you make me, but I will dock 5 points for it.
5 points - Bribe Rivian. I will award these 5 points to up to 3 projects that Rivian tells me to, but no more than 3. Being awarded these points can cause you to tie for first place, but not surpass first place.
DQ Conditions
Your project will be disqualified if it requires me to do something esoteric to complete, like the enemy control glitch or some rescue staff exploit. I have nothing against these; I’m just stupid and don’t want to learn any new tricks.
You might have noticed by now that these criteria are dumb. Yes. You can work in teams of any size, with the caveat that any user can only be on the team of one project for this contest. Please hesitate to message me if you have any further questions.
FAQ
Q: are you for real
A: yes I will actually play everything submitted, please do not send me anything illegal or genuinely traumatizing
Q: who’s rivian
A: ur mum
Q: How do I actually submit something?
A: I dunno, as long as it finds its way into my hands, I’m gucc
Q: in true ragefest spirit, do you have a mug for your self insert people can use?
A: (made by TheBlindArcher)
Q: I had a hack lying around in my garage, can I submit that?
A: As long as it hasn’t been submitted to a previous contest thread on FEU, yes.
Any % Speedrun by Emmett
https://youtube.com/live/fH-DYAjCi74
Fun Factor: 2/5 - The chapters chosen didn’t really make me feel the bardtrain, but I liked the units well enough.
Sadism Factor: 0/5 - It’s a perfectly fine and non-stupid hack.
Duration: 5/5
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 2/5
Character Writing: 2/5 - I liked the little talk about dancing on a ship.
Sheer Coverage: 0/5 - MMB shows Atk but not any defensive stats, what’s even the point?
Cohesion: 5/5
Cohesion: 5/5
Map Beauty: 4/5
Music: 2/5 - I actually like vanilla FE map music, which is a minus here because it did not torment me when looping, but a plus because it’s good.
Controversial: 0/5 - Shoulda put in Lyn at least smh.
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 5/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Bribed
Total: 52/80
FESIX HYPERGOD EDITION by RandomWizard
https://youtube.com/live/0OQWgCiQ5EU
Fun Factor: 3/5 - Hitting people with Steel Blades and galeforcing with Wort is genuinely kinda fun.
Sadism Factor: 4/5 - The subtle, needling pain reminds me that I should be honing my art more. The path to torturing players is neverending.
Duration: 5/5
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 3/5
Character Writing: 5/5 - I diesded.
Sheer Coverage: 0/5
Cohesion: 1/5 - Making the plot incomprehensible is only tangentially related to bad rebalances, and is usually more of a sign of bad remakes/demakes.
Cohesion: 5/5
Map Beauty: 3/5
Music: 4/5 - This is what using good music poorly is all about.
Controversial: 0/5 - No tiddie Robin smh.
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: 5/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Briben’t
Total: 48/80
SimgaRagerts by Chair
https://youtube.com/live/83tGv2gnRSY
Fun Factor: 5/5 - Discovering kits through sheer willpower is extremely amusing.
Sadism Factor: 4.5/5 - 0.5 points deducted for the dev giving me a hint in chat, but otherwise the sadism flowed through like a period through cheap underwear.
Duration: 2/5 - Went on a little long.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5
Character Writing: 5/5 - I would, indeed, say “what”.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - Removing text is maybe the opposite of adding text, but this 5/5 is awarded in the spirit of the project.
Cohesion: 5/5 - These points are awarded solely for making me listen through the entire podcast segment when using the podcast item.
Cohesion: 5/5 - True beauty.
Map Beauty: 5/5 - True beauty.
Music: 3/5 - The music is supposed to be objectively good but just painful on loop. This is, like, halfway there. The song used in the title screen was banger though.
Controversial: 5/5 - I can confirm people have at least argued with tiddie portrait guy so that’s good enough for me.
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 5/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Briben’t
Total: 69.5/80
lowreshack.GBA by lowres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_YgtTFe8jI
Fun Factor: 4/5 - What can I say.
Sadism Factor: 1.5/5 - I don’t feel any pain from the hack itself, but I did have to turn off my air conditioning to record this waste of time so I’ll give 1.5 points for that.
Duration: 1/5 - Fun fact: the minimum score you can get on duration for a really short hack is 1, not 0.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5
Character Writing: 2/5 - The MC is admirable, but ultimately a very static character in what is otherwise a dynamic piece.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - Removing text is maybe the opposite of adding text, but this 5/5 is awarded in the spirit of the project.
Cohesion: 0/5 - The sparse gameplay did not match the majesty of the narrative.
Cohesion: 2.5/5 - While most of the graphics did look to be from the same piece, there was a bit of a jarring nature in between different scenes, as Lawrence pointed out.
Map Beauty: 0/5 - I did not get to see the map, and thus must reward this a 0.
Music: 6/5
Controversial: 0/5
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: 5/5 - The final full speed scorer!
TRPG: 0/5
Rivian: Briben’t
Total: 37/80
The Last Gasp by Bloble
https://youtube.com/live/U8BiZzeehPg
Fun Factor: 3/5 - Mechanically it’s standard fire emblem. There might be an aspect of careful EXP management but it’s not really there. It is nice being strong af though.
Sadism Factor: 4/5 - The sadism aspect of losing your stats through taking the correct course of action is truly beautiful. Randomly missing thresholds because you lost a STR or SPD point is a wondrous pain to behold.
Duration: 5/5 - Ran me out, first one to do so.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5
Character Writing: 3/5 - The characters aren’t especially interesting but they don’t have to be for a project like this.
Sheer Coverage: 4/5 - A high score is awarded for having additional death quote add-ons as other characters lament the death of a player unit. Great touch.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Old people losing stats in their final fight is kino.
Cohesion: 5/5
Map Beauty: 5/5
Music: 1/5 - Music was fairly standard and did not grate on my nerves which, if you remember, is bad.
Controversial: 0/5
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: 5/5 - The REAL final full speed scorer! (I counted the FAQ by accident in lowreshack.GBA)
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Bribed
Total: 60/80
done.ups by ArcherBias
https://www.youtube.com/live/O74e7bTWw9s
Fun Factor: 4/5 - Mechanically it’s standard fire emblem, but an extra point is awarded here for the Devil Axe being the most satisfying weapon of all time.
Sadism Factor: 5/5 - A masterful combination of tiny, gaslighty tricks and trolls in psychological blind spots, including the fakeout of appearing like a normal hack at first to confuse me.
Duration: 5/5 - Perfectly timed for two chapters.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - The in-universe recognition of the various edits made to conform this hack to the contest bump this score up.
Character Writing: 4/5 - I liked 'em well enough.
Sheer Coverage: 3/5 - Scribbling on one’s own hack counts in a certain sense. Points also awarded for changing Rescue into Support for no reason and the Music command.
Cohesion: 4/5 - Points awarded for Missingno, basically. Otherwise the hack leans into its uniquely scuffed nature occasionally, but not really in a thoroughly blended way.
Cohesion: 5/5
Map Beauty: 5/5
Music: 5/5 - Half speed vanilla music/double speed vanilla music is exactly what I’m talking about.
Controversial: 0/5
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: 4/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Briben’t
Total: 59/80
Minutes Before Sunset by Rivian
https://www.youtube.com/live/102IVyc0fR4
Fun Factor: 5/5 - 3 turn billion action time crunch is a helluva gimmick
Sadism Factor: 4/5 - A point must be deducted for not quite being “unfair” enough to feel sadistic, but the various little traps (big iron, dark warp) as well as overall difficulty make it still a high ranker.
Duration: 3/5 - I ran over time considerably, but some of that was just me waffling so.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - Low turn hacks are awesome, especially with this much gimmickiness.
Character Writing: 5/5 - Wizard guy could’ve used a little more sauce, but otherwise immaculate.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - I wish the stat screen had exploded out and killed me at some point.
Cohesion: 5/5 - The setup and map mechanics lean well into each other, between the various blessings, the time limit, and the nature of the prophecy requiring the sub-bosses to die first.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Good “just before sunset” palette.
Map Beauty: 5/5
Music: 5/5 - Love-Colored Master Spark is great, and just enough to be annoying when you listen to it for an hour straight.
Controversial: 5/5 - I’m willing to award the points for both the fucked up HE priest guy and the fact that you never actually asked if you could edit the me mug.
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 3/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Briben’t
Total: 69/80
Spaghettimancer's Apprentice by UltraxBlade
https://www.youtube.com/live/1tqB8Dh_MgI
https://www.youtube.com/live/tm5f5eGspco
https://www.youtube.com/live/lQl4yw42w8o
Fun Factor: 5/5 - Amazing unit design, amazing gameplay gimmicks, fun for the whole family (do not play this anywhere near your family). Rescue your entire army into your main guy. Do it again, maybe even a third time. Drink from the sink with no filter.
Sadism Factor: 4.5/5 - A point deducted for having an answer key at all in Sigma difficulty, half a point returned because the ending actually checks to see if you used it.
Duration: 5/5 - Three videos, two chapters means this one gets the “absolutely pummeled me” award.
Stability: 4/5 - One point deducted for hanging in the intro lmao.
Premise: 5/5 - Yeah I like “stuck in a game” genre can you tell.
Character Writing: 5/5 - While the side characters were more or less one-off jokes, Ultrax’s voice comes through very clearly (and he captures me reasonably accurately), and disturbingly the characters act in accordance with what would be their motivations.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - Yes.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Making use of the mechanics of FEBuilder for a trapped in a romhack hack is sublime.
Cohesion: 5/5 - The buggy affect is quite nice, especially when it escalates in endgame.
Map Beauty: 5/5 - Map 1 was quite nice to look at and move around in, and Map 2 was suitably freaky-looking.
Music: 4.5/5 - There was just enough variation in the music to actually make it not painful enough. However, a bonus half point is awarded for the goddamn Wind Across The Plains randomly coming on at the dumbest times.
Controversial: 6/5 - For sheer commitment to debauched dialogue and character designs, I am awarding a bonus point here. (There is precedent for going off the scale as the Speed category goes down to -1, which is the entire reason why I did that.)
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 2/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: Bribed
Total: 76/80
How to Patch Hack by Alguien
https://youtube.com/live/in6KSaqOe7g
https://youtube.com/live/eQhkzjzkSjU
https://youtube.com/live/nDvCPLHhOcM
https://youtube.com/live/-RxLu2e2cyQ
Fun Factor: 4.5/5 - It’s quite enjoyable putting on a variety show. Half a point deducted for the more tedious ones.
Sadism Factor: 5/5 - Making me sing is fucked up. Good work.
Duration: 5/5 - Ez
Stability: 4/5 - One point deducted for the actual “patch” trick not working.
Premise: 5/5 - I love ARGs. You should’ve mailed me Anthrax.
Character Writing: 5/5 - The character of Alguien is clearly defined in this artistic endeavor. The lust for points practically oozes from my computer monitor.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - On technicality.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Challenge timbre is roughly about the same level of, uh, yeah.
Cohesion: 5/5 - There were, if I recall correctly, two maps: that one blurry SNES map, and the FE3 Book 2 chapter. Both were very cohesive due to being vanilla.
Map Beauty: 3.5/5 - ngl I don’t like FE3 aesthetics.
Music: 5/5 - I greatly enjoyed the Winnie the Pooh movie soundtrack in my youth.
Controversial: 6/5 - Bonus point awarded due to the audience discussing the legality of forcing me to play FE3 Book 2.
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 1/5
TRPG: 2/5
Rivian: No
Total: 66/80
How to Patch Hack, The Actual Hack by Alguien
https://youtube.com/live/nDvCPLHhOcM
https://youtube.com/live/-RxLu2e2cyQ
Fun Factor: 3.5/5 - At least I had to think.
Sadism Factor: 5.5/5 - John crash was fucked up.
Duration: 5/5 - Ez
Stability: 4/5 - One point deducted for the tile change issue.
Premise: 5/5 - I’m not sure it had one.
Character Writing: 5/5 - John.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - On technicality (by just crashing half the text).
Cohesion: 5/5 - i mean in the sense that everything is unraveling at the seams yes
Cohesion: 5/5 - : D
Map Beauty: 5/5 - Absolutely hideous, you have a career ahead of you in “being SigmaRaven”.
Music: 4/5 - Greatly enjoyed the original earrot, but overreliance on FE6 music which I don’t mind a lot.
Controversial: 5/5 - Points awarded for Krash convos even though I didn’t see them.
Touhou: 5/5
Speed: 1/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: No
FE6: 1
Total: 69/80
drizzy.gba by Citrus
https://youtube.com/live/17UbtvrmjP4
Fun Factor: 3/5 - Held forward, but the sound effects alone made it tolerable.
Sadism Factor: 1/5 - 1 point awarded for mind-numbing gameplay.
Duration: 2/5 - Short, as expected for a 5 hour blitz.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - This certainly came to you in a dream.
Character Writing: 5/5 - I know more about Drake than I ever will now.
Sheer Coverage: 3/5 - The stat lyrics were good, and the generics name was funny, but the classes and weapons were ripe for the picking.
Cohesion: 5/5 - unh
Cohesion: 3.5/5 - good leaf
Map Beauty: 5/5 - Yeah this sucked, good job.
Music: 6/5 - Well-deserved bonus point here.
Controversial: 5/5 - Having Drake n co. be the blue units is certainly a choice.
Touhou: 4/5 - Reimu is not really a favorite of mine.
Speed: 0/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: No
Total: 57.5/80
Desert Bus by BandanaSplitzzz
https://www.youtube.com/live/EppjUPNUYn8
https://www.youtube.com/live/pHWzWQEL9f8
Fun Factor: 5/5 - Entirely due to co-commentators, mind you, but the hack facilitates this so I’ll give it.
Sadism Factor: 3/5 - Kelik checkpoint was defeated by resume (loser), and having Kelik join to force a fifth unit to move would’ve been so much worse.
Duration: 6/5 - Awarding an extra point because jesus.
Stability: 4.5/5 - Post-Kelik jank map scrollery gets 0.5 points taken off because you confessed it wasn’t intentional.
Premise: 5/5 - No notes.
Character Writing: 4/5 - Poor understanding of me as a character, perfect understanding of every other unit portrayed.
Sheer Coverage: 3/5 - No command R-text smh.
Cohesion: 5/5
Cohesion: 5/5 - i mean yeah
Map Beauty: 3/5 - Honestly the maps weren’t really brain-damaging enough. Too much visual variety.
Music: 6/5 - Bonus point given for the effort in porting (that was 50% wasted).
Controversial: 5/5 - Some of the conversational topics were a choice.
Touhou: 4/5 - Mixing two touhous is gauche.
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5 - You’re on thin ice buster.
Rivian: No
Darrman: -5/5
Total: 57.5/80
TMGC Project Alex by cb
https://youtube.com/live/tj3nx-shYGw
Fun Factor: 3/5 - It’s, like, basically TMGC lol. Yoink.
Sadism Factor: 4/5 - No full ball punch moment, but the enemy inventories and range overlaps were extremely uncomfortable.
Duration: 2/5
Stability: 5/5 - If there were a crash I would’ve deducted a point from Retina instead.
Premise: 3/5 - Glazing someone else in a third party’s romhack is honestly just bizarre. All points awarded for the sheer weirdness of this submission premise.
Character Writing: 5/5 - Seemed accurate enough, I think?
Sheer Coverage: 2/5 - Left hand was pretty funny.
Cohesion: 4/5 - I would’ve liked to see more Alexness in the enemy formations, but otherwise barely any premise + barely any gimmicks is a good match.
Cohesion: 5/5 - These points actually do go to Retina.
Map Beauty: 4/5 - Walkable swamps do damage the mind.
Music: 3/5
Controversial: 4/5 - Points awarded for spoiling the end of TMGC, I guess.
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: No
Total: 48/80
Aurelia 2017 by TritraSerpifeu
https://youtube.com/live/RRUeUWZzsFc
Fun Factor: 5/5 - Genuinely fun gameplay, the minute to minute of managing inventories is sick.
Sadism Factor: 1/5 - There was really very little sadism. Most of the difficulty was entirely fair. Maybe, like, 1 point awarded for the infinite reinforcements with no second weapon idk.
Duration: 5/5
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 4/5 - Random FE characters/OCs/granblue(?) characters building an orphanage is, like, such a random plot. However I like it and this category is subjective.
Character Writing: 5/5 - Hiya papaya.
Sheer Coverage: 0/5
Cohesion: 2/5 - There’s really nothing tying “we came to build an orphanage” with “all our weapons are in disrepair”, especially since the intro cutscene states that the group saw little combat. If they’d seen more combat on the road and this caused their weapons to be weathered, that would make a lot more sense.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Normal.
Map Beauty: 2/5 - Too normal.
Music: 3/5 - See the Any % Speedrun review, although since this actually was vanilla music, it was slightly more grating and therefore receives an extra point.
Controversial: -1/5 - You made this hack for your mum that’s the least controversial thing imaginable.
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: No
Total: 40/80
FESiano extreme by Frog
https://www.youtube.com/live/2j7axnbyBNU?feature=share
Fun Factor: 2/5 - I got to stomp people, no one will admit this but that’s kind of fun for like 10 minutes sure.
Sadism Factor: 2/5 - The forced resume puzzle would’ve fucked me without RW in chat to explain.
Duration: -1/5 - 10 minutes for 2 chapters…
Stability: 5/5 - Unbelievably.
Premise: 5/5 - I, too, think the unstrange should die at the hands of the strange.
Character Writing: 4/5 - You surely did not have to name the main character Lyn.
Sheer Coverage: 2/5 - Ascetics who wield
Cohesion: 4/5 - Your units are strange in story and mechanically. Awesome! A point is deducted because there were strange enemies as well.
Cohesion: 5/5 - It’s FE7.
Map Beauty: 2/5 - Too normal because it’s FE7.
Music: 3/5 - It’s FE7.
Controversial: 1/5 - A pity point awarded for the main character advocating genocide because of a minor slight.
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5
Rivian: No
Total: 38/80
CBT by ATHATH
https://www.youtube.com/live/rZmmhURLVEU?feature=share
Fun Factor: -1/5 - Are you kidding me.
Sadism Factor: 6/5 - The fact that this is 100% consistently possible in
Duration: 5/5 - Took me a few hours just to code the script to make it doable.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - guh
Character Writing: 5/5 - Sure I’ll give you the point for the boss dialogue change.
Sheer Coverage: 3/5 - I missed a few but you could’ve done more I think.
Cohesion: 5/5 - gah
Cohesion: 5/5 - It’s FE8.
Map Beauty: 2/5 - Too normal because it’s FE8
Music: 5/5 - FE8 sped up is helltorture.
Controversial: 0/5 - There is something funny in a controversial sense that happens but it’s not really ATHATH’s doing so I can’t credit the points.
Touhou: 0/5
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5 - You’re on thin ice buddy.
Rivian: No
Darrman: -5/5
Total: 44/80
New Year's Hit Post by Kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmpQzSX9rI
Fun Factor: 2/5 - Trying to find the right sequence of attacks to get the RNs to cooperate is kind of fun, I will admit.
Sadism Factor: 1/5 - Sadism requires intent. If I stub my toe on a dresser, that inflicts pain, but who among us would call the dresser sadistic?
Duration: 2/5 - Bit short.
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - I, too, duel paparazzi to the death.
Character Writing: 5/5 - Aya’s in character at least.
Sheer Coverage: 4/5 - MANA_desc
Cohesion: 5/5 - Short story, short chapter.
Cohesion: 5/5 - It is quite dire.
Map Beauty: 5/5 - Good war crime.
Music: 4/5 - The actual map music was a little too forgettable, but I did like the really sped up music in the intro.
Controversial: 0/5
Touhou: 5/5 - I do like both Aya and Sekibanki.
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 5/5 - You’re on thin ice buddy.
Rivian: No
Total: 52/80
Isekai Emblem 2 by Dooblerino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU7ifyl1CXY
Fun Factor: 4/5 - I like JRPGs.
Sadism Factor: 5/5 - Some truly fucked up on-map shenanigans.
Duration: 2/5 - Went quite a bit over time, I think. I even started on time too!
Stability: 5/5
Premise: 5/5 - Yeah.
Character Writing: 5/5 - Took the lines right out of my mouth.
Sheer Coverage: 5/5 - I love enemy scan entries.
Cohesion: 5/5 - Core core.
Cohesion: 5/5 - The fucked up maps complement the fucked up enemy graphics.
Map Beauty: 5/5 - See above.
Music: 5/5 - Both enjoyable and also absolutely fucked up to listen to on loop. Good job.
Controversial: 0/5 - I’m not giving you the points for spongebob man I’m just not.
Touhou: 5/5 - Sure.
Speed: -1/5
TRPG: 0/5
Rivian: No
Total: 55/80
