Blue Archive - The south Korean Gacha game that almost died, is now being released on Steam this summer.

I did plat
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Oh no... my daughter has entered her "slut" phase.

Finished the story. Not really the biggest fan of the Ninjas other then Izuna. Their new outfits were cute and the story was nice. Tsukuyo having to choose between her friends or fame (that she didint even ask for) is a relatable. Would you rather be rich and miserable or simply live your life around people you love?
 
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Didn't get to play the new event yet but I just wanted to say that I prefer these low-stake, daily life of students stories more than some of the high-risk heist/conspiracy ones. You get to see more of the characters' normal lives and how they would react to unexpected situations instead of plunging them into heroic quests that demand them to harden on and make sacrifices. It reminds me of the substories of the Yakuza series, where you're learning to play minigames or goofing around instead of beating people to near death all the time.

Some amazing artwork of Idol Mari by @8quuu_ on twitter.
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Kivotos strongest Sensei said:
Didn't get to play the new event yet but I just wanted to say that I prefer these low-stake, daily life of students stories more than some of the high-risk heist/conspiracy ones. You get to see more of the characters' normal lives and how they would react to unexpected situations instead of plunging them into heroic quests that demand them to harden on and make sacrifices. It reminds me of the substories of the Yakuza series, where you're learning to play minigames or goofing around instead of beating people to near death all the time.
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Serenade Promenade kind of has best of both worlds where the story is 95% cultural festival, and 5% "Nagisa accidentally triggering a political crisis."

Without going for spoilers, "An Unconcealed Path" does obviously contain things that can only happen in Kivotos, but most of the core narrative/themes could easily be repurposed into a story that takes place in the real world.
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
"Nagisa accidentally triggering a political crisis."
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I liked how the voice of reason for the Tea Party was Mika, showing how far she's come since the events of Eden Treaty, and how she was just refusing to be the attack dog.

IT was a great event for sure.

Also I have to say that I really appreciate this game even more, lately. I ended up with a new job taking care of children, who have been abused or taken advantage of by adults and a lot of quotes from Sensei really do pop into my head when I'm dealing with a difficult student.
 
One of the real-life applicable lessons/themes is that there's rarely if ever a magical fix to any problem (excluding some of the problems that Kivotos has experienced, which are arguably "magical" in nature.)

Volume One: Abydos is still massively in debt. However Foreclosure Task Force's position is made much more secure at the end, when they're officially made the Student Council of Abydos.

Volume Two: Game Development Department receives what could be described as "participation trophy" but they put in the hard work and genuinely created something that people enjoyed (at least based on the comments posted online.)

Volume Three: EDEN Treaty, that the whole story largely revolved around, completely fails. But other bonds are forged, more powerful than some piece of paper.

Volume Four: System is honestly kind of fucked, we can't really fix it, but we sure as hell are still going to do what we can to fight against injustice.

Volume Five: Chapter One's emotional climax is bunch of kids realizing they can just say "I'm sorry that I lied. I thought it was better if I did, but I was wrong" to each other and resume being friends. Chapter Two doesn't have as strong of a through-line, but upholds the themes of "doing the right thing" and "the choice you're making right now is the most important."

Volume Six: Turns out magically nuking a cult leader doesn't magically de-program the cult members and integrate them back to the wider society.
 
Gorilla Milk said:
I liked how the voice of reason for the Tea Party was Mika, showing how far she's come since the events of Eden Treaty, and how she was just refusing to be the attack dog.

IT was a great event for sure.

Also I have to say that I really appreciate this game even more, lately. I ended up with a new job taking care of children, who have been abused or taken advantage of by adults and a lot of quotes from Sensei really do pop into my head when I'm dealing with a difficult student.
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I wonder if it's the main draw for the female players (the few of them that exist), the game does the sensei experience really well.
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
One of the real-life applicable lessons/themes is that there's rarely if ever a magical fix to any problem (excluding some of the problems that Kivotos has experienced, which are arguably "magical" in nature.)

Volume One: Abydos is still massively in debt. However Foreclosure Task Force's position is made much more secure at the end, when they're officially made the Student Council of Abydos.

Volume Two: Game Development Department receives what could be described as "participation trophy" but they put in the hard work and genuinely created something that people enjoyed (at least based on the comments posted online.)

Volume Three: EDEN Treaty, that the whole story largely revolved around, completely fails. But other bonds are forged, more powerful than some piece of paper.

Volume Four: System is honestly kind of fucked, we can't really fix it, but we sure as hell are still going to do what we can to fight against injustice.

Volume Five: Chapter One's emotional climax is bunch of kids realizing they can just say "I'm sorry that I lied. I thought it was better if I did, but I was wrong" to each other and resume being friends. Chapter Two doesn't have as strong of a through-line, but upholds the themes of "doing the right thing" and "the choice you're making right now is the most important."

Volume Six: Turns out magically nuking a cult leader doesn't magically de-program the cult members and integrate them back to the wider society.
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It does show how people can change, but slowly. Mika is probably the character that has the most being less gung ho about violence and suffering Gehenners.
 
Got a friend who is a gun nut into the game. Yesterday, while he was disappointed when I spoiled that there's no character (yet) that wields a P90, I did tell him that there's a character who uses the G11. He said "I hope she's the most autistic character in the game." Boy is he gonna love the surprise.
 
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Volume Six: Turns out magically nuking a cult leader doesn't magically de-program the cult members and integrate them back to the wider society.
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And yes, Adults can be fooled too.

Those pater trinities are on my shitlist.

Gorilla Milk said:
Seems to have a surprisingly active cosplay community, and they seem to know a lot about the characters. Maybe in Korea and Japan it's more common for girls to play this kind of game?
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The game is relatively easy to play for casuals and the cosplays are remarkably easy (unless you want the guns, either prop or airsoft) so it kind of make sense that there are females who got interested with the game and sticking around.

Or they just adore cute students doing cute slice of life things. Or they just like it so that they can genderswap the student for whatever reason. Who knows.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Do they do just genderswap fanart, or do some even make them pooners like the pooner Uma Musume fanart that has been coming up after it's Global release?
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My experience seeing it has mostly been "female artists who play BA drawing sensei as a female since they're self inserting' vs "drawing [enter student here] as a pooner or a troon"
 
Thiletonomics said:
Do they do just genderswap fanart, or do some even make them pooners like the pooner Uma Musume fanart that has been coming up after it's Global release?
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Pure genderswap/Rule 63 for the students. Generally I seen this on artists who are female and self-inserting themselves as female sensei and genderswap a student they liked (say, Kanna the valkyrie police). I don't believe I saw anything like the Umamusume ones on global BA fandom but its likely that if it exist it got swamped by other artists outside of the EN community with their superior skills and arts.

That said, the "female sensei and genderswap student" actually kinda outnumbered with those who drew female senseis that are either:
- doesn't genderswap the student so anything remotely romantic is basically yuri/lesbian coded.
- Futas. Blame xipa for this.
 
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