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

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Cryptosporidium 138 said:
That girl on the right's got some hangers, is she the only one like that? Lot of 5000 year old vampires in this game huh?
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Some other curvy titty monsters in the game include (but are not limited to) Asuna, Hasumi, Eimi, Nonomi, Satsuki, Karin, Tsubaki, Yukari (look up her swimsuit alt she hid some bombs under that uniform), Tsurugi (ditto), Akane. Need I go on?
 
Cryptosporidium 138 said:
Lot of 5000 year old vampires in this game huh?
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AFAIK there's only a handful of characters that would fall under that trope, that is, look younger than stated (Hina, Seia, Kisaki looking younger than 17), but otherwise most of the characters look older than what the lore says. During the Blue Archive beta, Shun was supposedly shown to be 24 years old, but it's now left a mystery how old she really is due to Nexon estabilishing the high school setting as definitive.

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Big Brown Schlub said:
Some other curvy titty monsters in the game include (but are not limited to) Asuna, Hasumi, Eimi, Nonomi, Satsuki, Karin, Tsubaki, Yukari (look up her swimsuit alt she hid some bombs under that uniform), Tsurugi (ditto), Akane. Need I go on?
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So there IS curvy women with calcium cannons? shit negro, that's all you had to say.
 
Cryptosporidium 138 said:
So there IS curvy women with calcium cannons? shit negro, that's all you had to say.
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if being straight doesn't work for you then simply enjoy them for who they are, 90% of them have good momos/l2ds and are also great characters in the main story as well

speaking of goated characters

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Cryptosporidium 138 said:
So i'm a filthy Nikke player, is this game fun? i've been thinking of playing it. how prevalent are the loli's? are they like.... every single character? Cause if so, i might just not then.
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I'll be honest - There are only six (technically). Ibuki in Gehenna (11), Kokona in Shanhaijing(11) - Both of these are mentioned to be exceptional, elite students who skipped several grades. Sora, the shop character is in Middle School.

Then there is Shun, who is explicitly an adult who in an event got changed into a kid version of herself, so there are two versions of her - Adult and Small. She's an elementary school teacher, funny enough, so she's actually able to be considered a peer to Sensei (the PC, who is also a teacher). However they're leaning into the "Actually a 9000 year old witch" trope with this.

The last two are your AI assistants. Arona and Plana. But Plana is literally just an alternate universe, goth version of Arona...

The other characters who get called lolis tend to be teenagers who are petite, rather than preteen characters. But being petite doesn't make someone a loli, despite what some people insist.

As an aside, I've seen people on twitter unironically harassing an adult woman in her mid 20s who cosplays, because she's 4'11". Forget the age of consent, have you considered the Height of Consent?

Anyhow yeah like @Overpriced Gaming Chair said, it depends on your definition. I view "loli" as "Prepubescent / Pre-teen anime character", not "Teenaged anime character" but there isn't really a universally agreed idea of what it is.

Also - She isn't a playable character, but Kokuriko is explicitly a "student' despite being in her mid 30s, so Shun being in her 20s wouldn't be unique.
 
Holy fuck. I got Swimsuit Shiruko last week but I wasn't sure how good she was. She basically was my hail Mary and allowed me to beat Binah (Elastic) on Hardcore mode on my 4th (final) attempt. The Ex skill gage just fucking ZOOM'd up and everything was reduced cost, in addition to reducing the boss' defense.

I had no trouble with Special armor Binah or Light Armor Binah and was able to finish him on my first team, but the lack of Sonic dealers I have made that way more difficult than I expected it to be.
 
Finished Volume 5. Goddamn, feeling bad for Nagusa. Really great writing with taking a common trope character and making it realistic and emotional, without going full SUBVERT YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

A lot of media is just afraid of showing the bad side of characters, not realizing that those sides humanize them the most and make the relationships actually feel earned.

It's nice that even this late into the story there are still chapters with relatively low stakes about few students.
 
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Cryptosporidium 138 said:
Ah, i'm just being a dumb nigger, fair enough. that plush is cute though, i like the different colored eyes. I'll probably start playing the game this weekend then, i think i've been sold on it.
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You'll love Abydos. Hoshino is your tank for that part of the story, and she has a really cool armored variant that you can get. The entire Abydos school is comprised of 5 students so unlike Trinity, Millennium or Gehenna when they focus on Abydos you see a lot of Serika, Ayane, Hoshino, Nonomi (in fact they give you Nonomi for free and help you level her to 4 stars) and Shiroko.
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
Ojisan has layers.
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The layers in question:


Gorilla Milk said:
Holy fuck. I got Swimsuit Shiruko last week but I wasn't sure how good she was.
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Just so you know, she wrecks in PvP too. Immediate cost support for everyone at the start of battle is insane, coupled with CostRegen it makes her even more insane, now if you have Shun, who is outright giving you some EX bar at the start of battle, and you've already got a PvP beast team just with these two. Your students will always do their EXs before your opponent will, and quicker.
 
Started Ex chapter. Kinda annoying that the first half is chronologically before Vol. 2 chapter 2, especially as Himari is a major player in chapter 2 and she doesn't get an introduction there.

Probably my biggest gripe with the game is needing a flow chart for chapter order. Having the events introducing characters doesn't help.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Started Ex chapter. Kinda annoying that the first half is chronologically before Vol. 2 chapter 2, especially as Himari is a major player in chapter 2 and she doesn't get an introduction there.

Probably my biggest gripe with the game is needing a flow chart for chapter order. Having the events introducing characters doesn't help.
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I've had to personally "headcanon" this as something like "when you read a chapter/event, it's you unlocking a memory of what has already happened" and "some of the memories are bit out of order" to make the non-linearity less jarring.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Started Ex chapter. Kinda annoying that the first half is chronologically before Vol. 2 chapter 2, especially as Himari is a major player in chapter 2 and she doesn't get an introduction there.

Probably my biggest gripe with the game is needing a flow chart for chapter order. Having the events introducing characters doesn't help.
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Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
I've had to personally "headcanon" this as something like "when you read a chapter/event, it's you unlocking a memory of what has already happened" and "some of the memories are bit out of order" to make the non-linearity less jarring.
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I understand this annoyance about the unclear release order when trying to read the story. Looking into this, I see that the wiki has release dates not just for the events, but also the main story updates as well:
It's still a hassle, but you can refer to these pages to figure out what to read next.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Toki is fun,
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But Rio is the waifu material with her pure autism
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I like how Toko hits the "emergency call Sensei button" because she was bored and wanted to play a game. Total 180 from her super serious actions in part 2 where she almost broke Neru's arm, kidnapped a cripple and piloted a mecha to keep the GDC, C&C and Veritas from saving Aris.
 
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