Melliel

@mellielart.bsky.social

NSFW! 18+ only! Artist, Animator, Programmer, Aspiring Game Developer, Paizuri Enthusiast. AI sucks.

Some Deltarune thoughts that are easier to screenshot rather than type out. Will Alt text though. In hindsight, I don't fully agree with all of my wording here, but I feel it gets my thoughts out well enough. Minor spoilers.

Been thinking about writing up some thoughts about this chapter. Mainly because there's a couple aspects to it that I have issues with.

Primarily, the purpose of TP has shifted.

It no longer feels like TP is a resource because the reward for using it is so insignificant. Susie can spend almost all TP to heal around one hit of damage, even after being upgraded. Ralsei's is better but feels more like a stall. And if you're good enough at the game, I expect you're probably not going to be getting hit enough to have to spend TP for healing anyway. You've got items for that.

The new abilities both of them have, I've never used. Susie's is just a more expensive spare, and Ralsei's, it's not viable in the only fights I'd want to use it in.

TP feels like it's just become a way for the game to prolong a fight. Why does "Susie's idea" cost TP, if not for the sole purpose of making you wait longer before you can use it? What reason would you then have to use TP on anything else? This isn't a new problem, I know, but I had a problem with it in chapter 4 as well. It makes the fights less fun to have those choices taken away by making some of them obviously wrong.

Compounding on that is the fact that many of those same fights also require the full party to act, meaning if anyone goes down, you have to take a heal turn in order to make progress, which then can result in loops where party members will go down after you've just healed them. I also don't know if you get any revive mints in this chapter either. This is the sole reason why I didn't first try the Flowery fight. Susie went down, and I had to outheal the damage I was taking. In my two attempts, I was put into that situation both times. I chose to refight him after completing the chapter, and the heal cycle happened again. And every time, I was getting frustrated at the game for making me have to heal instead of just allowing me to end the fight when I've already gotten to the end of it.

@xel44lex.bsky.social is posting their "art" again, so big reminder they have been caught tracing AI, they disabled replies and quotes since then (which they did on their two latest posts too to shut us up) and dissapeared after being caught until now. They are back now hoping we all forgot.

💀✞ Scarlet ✞💀@thescarletdevil.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The ribbon is blending with the pants and isn't attached to the bikini slip at all. A legit artist does not make simple mistakes like these, even beginners don't. Looks to be that they trace over AI and present is as their own work. This is extremely disappointing..