Midnight Riot

[got_quiet]

I just finished reading Midnight Riot a couple days ago. It's a brisk and humorous little police caper where our hero, a fresh newbie on the London police force, happens to tumble into the supernatural crimes unit (population 1, well, 2 now) after interviewing a ghost as a witness to a gruesome murder. The book is part chasing down the culprit in a series of spontaneous and brutal crimes, learning to negotiate fantasy politics between the spirits of the Thames, learning about magic, and feeling respectfully horny towards the women in his life. There's also a good deal of wry humor, particularly in the way Peter describes the world around him and the odd predicaments he finds himself in. I would say the good-natured tone of the book, and the fun narration carry the plot, which is fine and interesting, but maybe not robust enough to feel like a really good detective novel.

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I finished watching the three part Overwatch shorts and am unimpressed. There wasn't anything there in terms of narrative oomph, and the lore introduced is just begging to be picked apart. Why was Liao only able to make one intelligence, and why'd it have to die to spread consciousness to all the omnics? It's just makes no sense out side of handwavy magic-tech convenience. The general lameness of the writing was to be expected, as it was on par with pretty much everything else that's come out for Overwatch, though I still feel compelled to keep half an eye on it. I still haven't read the Reaper short story to completion, nor the one for Baptiste though, cause I just feel sad about them. I read the Orisa book a while back and felt that a children's book like that was as sophisticated as the writers could get.

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The one thing I'm following that had an update I did enjoy was Nu:Carnival lol. The last event was for summer, and had a nice long story plus included a rhythm game. The game is not particularly well optimized so I have ignore the music to get the timings right but I still enjoyed it. It's also sort of lucky that I don't pull for Edmond, Dante, or Kuya, so I got a big chunk of time to start stocking up contracts for the next event.

 

Comments

[autumndaze]

Yeah the Overwatch shorts were just like... incredibly unimpressive. Fine visually, and the stuff with the known Overwatch characters was at least interesting to watch. But it just felt kind of empty. It's sad because I know AKB can actually do good shorts. Not sure what happened with these. Maybe they laid off or scared off all the good writers.

[got_quiet]

My guess is that Blizzard is cheap and the script they got was just not good. Most of the mediocreness sort of comes from the top, because they don't want the move the lore too far forward and don't really have good ideas outside of the vibe (which is admittedly always pretty good).

[tinkaton]

OH hello a nucarni fan

I took a break from playing a few events ago though I'd been keeping up with the releases on twitter just to see what new skins there are lmao, but I finally updated the game after all these months because I am going feral over that new Aster SSR. he looks soooo good. I managed to get in on the summer event and read through the whole story because surprisingly for a BL smut game the characters/stories are pretty fun even without the smut haha. fighting myself to not pull for Dante or Kuya in the current event so I can save my gems for Aster...but the struggle is real because Kuya is one of my faves (the other is Quincy).

[got_quiet]

I'm a massive Quincy enjoyer myself. Always stock up gems for his pulls, but I had to make a new account so I could hoard for Rei when he came out.

Aster's glow up is S Tier and I'm definitely going to throw some contracts his way. Morvay is more my type but I want them both lol. Unfortunately for me the only boys I don't covet are Dante and Blade so I'm always stressed as a F2P. I do feel bad for the Aster devotees who were unhappy that his design changed so much for his SSR though.

I almost don't even bother with the H scenes anymore to be honest, the little event stories are so fun they are definitely what keep me playing. Both the fire festival and Idol events were fun so you came back at a good time!

[tinkaton]

yesss good taste. I always try to save up for Quincy and Kuya skins but there's always someone else who'll get a new skin I really like that takes me by surprise and I end up wasting gems on lmao.

Morvay's glow up is super good too, I'm not a huge fan of their normal designs (like they're cute but I don't think they're particularly sexy haha) so I'm loving the properly sexy designs now. Hopefully they'll get some more new skins in the future, now that they've finally been allowed to ascend to SSR tier.

Same honestly sjdhfjsdf like I'm slowly unlocking the rooms but it's such slow going as f2p I'm basically here just to read the cute event stories and try to collect as many of my faves as I can.