Nòra

@heynoranora.bsky.social

3d artist • this chick digs giant robots • • Lv.31 • she/her • PhD in boobalogy • actively curing my burnout... and failing... and trying again • currently rewriting my ambitious dream project. consider supporting me on ko-fi.com/heynoranora

Ever since i found out that xenosaga2 was the best game in the world and everyone was wrong about it, ive decided that i can never trust the masses on games every again *downloads forspoken's demo* Oh. Okay. Maybe it depends lol

Despite what the video essayist class may believe, the question "...so what?" that is often deliverately provoked out of their unearned audiences hardly counts as insightful "I find this neat" is not a thesis and neither is it persuasive 😮‍💨

getting in before the M.O.M.O hype chasers flood the internet, so here's the only xeno tierlist that matters xenosaga 2 is peak and anyone who says otherwise hates fun i still need to do an analytical playthrough of xenogears and xenoblade1 so i can actually judge them accurately but that can wait

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like all the xenosaga games, episode 3 really pulls itself back together for the ending, huh. it actually brought me to tears which is something saga1 and saga2 never managed to achieve, but these characters *have* had over a hundred hours to endear me to them. i just love kos-mos, allen & shion lol

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35 hours in to xenosaga 3 and im preparing myself to accept that xenosaga 2 is straight up *better* than anything 3 has to offer. i refuse to believe it, i just can't accept that *everything* everyone has said about the saga games is the inverse of reality but that's what it's looking like...... :/

35 hours in to xenosaga 3 and im preparing myself to accept that xenosaga 2 is straight up *better* than anything 3 has to offer. i refuse to believe it, i just can't accept that *everything* everyone has said about the saga games is the inverse of reality but that's what it's looking like...... :/

I dont think people realize this but forcing microsoft to pull azure out of isreal's hands will only make isreal more powerful after the 10 seconds it'd take for them to make their own azure clone thats immediately better Shits a debuff, and we dont want an isreali equivalent taking over the world

I'm really upset that the choco momo design has started discourse in the terminally online..... Cuz now I'm getting exposed to some of the most self righteous people trying to argue that a fully clothed character is problematic without outing themselves as freaks Its so exhausting

So i did pretty much most of xenosaga 2's post game and i really gotta say: damn what a great video game! Outside of the narrative taking a major dookie after disc 2 with the story cutscenes being rushed as hell--chiefly two moments, cecily&cathe and the final boss stand out as horrid--it holds up

Twitter now objectively feels like total ass to use since it switched over to vibecoded ux... Welp, thats the last nail in the coffin Still hate bsky, but more cuz the people here are gross pearl clutchers and i cant turn off individual reposts to help me avoid them. Ill just use social media less

There's something special about xenosaga 2's cock & ball torture combat system that just turns me into a puddle of perfectly stimulated goo. If im not begging and pleading for the enemies to let up or im not in tears from narrowly surviving a 9 minute encounter, am i *really* playing a video game???

Im finding pixel art more approachable within my depression era than trying to keep a good routine with blender. Its so easy to just get a tile done and reap the dopamine fruits and then pump out another before heading back into the gaming escapism hole for 30 minutes to recharge, then going again

as im playing through xenosaga episode 2 i'm thinking i'm gonna have to write an actual review of it specifically to dispel its misguided reputation (so far) xenosaga2 is confidently the best game in the entire franchise, and i wonder if i'm even playing the same game as everyone else????

im mostly just a hater™ and a hipster but as i've grown older i've been recognizing how fan reception of pieces of media (such as the xeno series) has tainted my ability to enjoy media in a way that was accurate to the media itself and not altered by headcanons, delusions, and references

Its funny watching the deltarune fandom grasp at increasingly schizophrenic theories to explain away a simple fact that toby fox sucks at writing. Yet no one dares question toby fox, that would be sacrilege, and so doubt torments them, like an ouroborus eating away at the fandom's collective sanity

I appreciate the Silliness of the new ghost in the shell but it seems to be dialed up even further from the manga. It's a clear reminder that every rendition of the GitS concept is its own thing and that's what i really love about the franchise

colloquial word replacement always gets under my skin. like how we replaced the word "customer" with "consumer" (makes me feel so gross). now i'm seeing people replace the word "programmer" with "coder" and it seriously concerns me... everyone's using the word "coder" now, imo that word sucks!!! lol