I really do like absolutely ridiculous Korean designs, something about the whole 'style-over-substance' does a lot for me.
>>98083720CoolAnything else blogpost-sama?An image dump maybe?
>>98083720Hyung Tae Kim (artist for Blade and Soul) is now the CEO of ShiftUp who makes Nikke and Stellar Blade. He's not the sole artist on either game, but under his guidance, both have tons of style and substance. However, it's notable that his works have nothing to do with traditional games. Although, Nikke is maybe the most perfect cyberpunk setting I've ever seen.
>>98083772Yeah post more of them.
>>98083720Traditional games?
>>98083720Does Korea have much of a traditional gaming market? I thought dorks mostly just played PC games in net cafes there.
>>98083909Nikke is the only "tits and ass" gachas I've seen that managed to be something more than that. Games like Azur Lane and Brown Dust feel pathetic in their titillation, but Nikke is cool.
>>98083720it's fun and colourful and extremely nonsensical. It's the closest the bugmen gets to whimsy.
>>98090901I'm still occasionally finding myself in awe of the fact that one of the best game stories I've ever experienced is from a Korean T&A gacha game
>>98086650>Traditional games?Unfortunately
S.Korea is a dying nation, the death rattle of an old man being suffocated by an oppressive corpo-elite who has strangled its future in the name of profits. It is close to the tipping point. The next few years, we will witness it enter a profound crisis from which it will just not recover from.
>>98083909>>98090901Nikke is just budget GFL with more ass jiggle
>>98092058GFL wishes it was Nikke
>>98085501I have some I think from same or similar artist. They really have a whole school of art dedicated to MMOslops where everyone draws in the same style.
>>98092308something looks very wrong with her anatomy.
The Chinese speaking world has its own fantasy mythology with wuxia and xianxiaArguably Japan too when you put all ninja lore together, a bunch of other examples when it comes to onmyodo, yokai,etcDon't know what Korea has
>>98090901Nikke is one of those dozen odd phone games where for some reason every heroic soldier is a little girl with a "unique" magic halo and maybe funny pupils, right? And they're all madly in love with senpai/master/commander/etc who is a self insert for the player?
>>98092642They unironically cope over and over about how their king came up with hangul, it's the only thing of significance in korean history until the emergence of k-pop.
>>98092675>Halothat is Blue ArchiveNikke is the one where the girls squat into a firing position and fire at a target. Nikke also has less emphasis on little girls. Other than that you are right.
>>98092068Unfortunately so, since it shouldn't need to sell out.At least the first game is finished, largely narratively disjointed from the rest of the franchise, and won't be tarnished by anything anymore, so all the mihoyo quirk chungus avatar worship coomer slop can go to gfl2. Reverse Collapse feels very separate from that game, too.
>>98093214I mean the first game has a point where the writing falls off a fucking wall. I feel that's Convolution Kernel, but the rot had sent in long before that.It's really not a narrative masterpiece, Virtual Pair has fucking ass writing.
>>98093229Convolutional Kernel is blatant internal company meddling to spite gfl2, writing it on purpose so that it doesn't align (it still doesn't now). Thematically it's fine, it just doesn't give you the ending you want. Instead Lunasia takes you aside to explain that in the grim darkness of 2064, the only victory you can attain is a personal one.Personally, I really like the actual ending, especially when it remembered that the setting is lovecraftian horror beneath all the layers of literary and video game inspiration. Virtual Pair only has one truly retarded scene in the hunting lodge, I'm really not sure how they thought that was okay. Especially after making it a point before that William is just another normal guy lucky to work on Relic technology, and -still- making that a big point in the final event. He just cut a girl into pieces when he was 12 and it gave her superpowers and that's why Nytos exist? Martha didn't create them? Okay.
>>98093267No I mean, Quantum Fluctuation DOES line up with GFL2. I'm not saying that CK is doesn't align, I'm saying that the writing fucking sucks.
>>98093280>no Relic activation in FrankfurtIt's still a triumph of gacha writing, especially since the game itself is moderately comfy, unlike something like FGO.
>>98092575That's just how Huy Something Kim draws women.
>>98092675Nikke is the one where every girl is a full brain-case cyborg and they are fighting to reclaim the surface from an endless arm of carnivorous robots that hate humanity with a burning passion.
>>98093214>>98093229>>98093267Its always interesting to hear about the lore of gacha games from and outsiders perspective, because the fan art and the like just pushes cute girl designs to the point that these games actually HAVING a plot seems utterly alien, and then you hear people talking about how it not only has a story but apparently a good one and its like getting a message from some other timeline. Whats Girls Frontline actually ABOUT? Whats the story.
>>98094987Do they give any explanation why every battle borg needs to look like a schoolgirl in scantily clothes?
>>98095804>Do they give any explanation why every battle borg needs to look like a schoolgirl in scantily clothes?They do, actually! The brains go insane if they're put into inhuman bodies, so they need something that "looks" and "feels" human. They're caked up because the process of making the Nikke body involves a brain-scan of the jarred brain and printing what the scan says the woman perceives as her "ideal" self. It's why Anis (homegirl) looks pretty much the same as her former body, but with significantly larger breasts and thighs.>That sounds retardedOf course it does, because it's an excuse to have scantily clad voluptuous women shoot guns that make them jiggle. This is what DMs call, "inserting your fetish into your lorebuilding."
>>98095804Luckily no. Explanations at these levels of uh, abstaction from reality is pretty dumb. Like explaining why there were chainmail bikinis back in the day.
>>98095816So basically they randomly got up all the sluttiest chicks. Sluttiest in their mind only tough.That's pretty amazing, in its own way.
>>98095816I'll buy that much, but why are there no male ones? Surely fighting men are much more available for brain scanning.
>>98095824>So basically they randomly got up all the sluttiest chicks. Sluttiest in their mind only tough.Not necessarily, you get a *lot* of "mass-produced" Nikke like pic related. The sluts are the best units because "of course they are" but they didn't skimp on showing what the common "grunt" actually is.>but why are there no male ones?They don't take the risk. The process of making a Nikke is binary (either you get one or the patient dies) and there simply aren't enough men left to throw them away like that, most men died during the initial war on the surface and the government started producing Nikke to shore up the difference. Men can be turned into robots, but it appears to degrade them mentally significantly faster.
Here is the "before and after" of Anis, by the way.
>>98095846>Not necessarily, you get a *lot* of "mass-produced" Nikke like pic related. The sluts are the best units because "of course they are" but they didn't skimp on showing what the common "grunt" actually is.Wait a sec, the average grunt is pretty much caked up as well.
>>98095856>the average grunt is pretty much caked up as well.Yeah, it's their "ideal self." They're not dressed up like sluts because they're standard pull chaff. It's a beautiful world where the women fight and the men are kept as breeding stock.
>>98092681TaekwondoIt stems from karate iirc but karate is from okinawa which was more chinese than japanese anywayAnd Sejong was kinda cool, and I'm sure there's other stuff but I'm not enough into manhwa to go lookingBoth Korea and Japan have a bunch of overlap in their cultures and folklore and religion and history but neither of them would ever admit that all
>>98092681They actually invented movable metal type before Johannes Gutenberg. They also claim to have invented the world's first pistol, but I don't know if that's right.
>>98095846I think the lore reason is that the male brain is not compatible with the Nikke-fication process. It hasn't been explored beyond that, but knowing that all the tech came from an all-female led church that is extremely fucking insane and worshipped an AI Goddess, I think that particular problem may be intentional.
>>98095846>>98096162Both are actually correct. Not only were most men killed in the initial invasion, but for some reason, males have extremely low compatibility with the process - most attempts to cyberize them have ended with the subject dead or insane. Since there's practically no men left, and the technology doesn't really work with them anyway, there aren't any male Nikkes.
>>98096199I don't think the male population is ever stated to be low enough to be considered a reason not to try and make male Nikkes work, but also by the time the Coomander enters the story, humanity is more or less completely put off on the idea of any kind of surface reclamation. Most humans are potentially immortal thanks to the Evergreen drug, so there are people old enough to still believe that it was the Nikkes' fault that they lost both Surface Reclamation wars, and that got twisted into being cynical about the Ark and the Central Government wasting any resources on more cyborg super soldiers who will either go on the surface and die or only do menial labor in the Ark anyways.Plus we've just recently learned that The Ark has been practicing strict population control the entire time and feeding unwanted or useless humans into the Core to keep the Ark powered this whole time. So it's not exactly about valuing human life or not having enough men around. It's even been shown that most of the men who go into the military academy are only trying to gain status in the CG and raise their standing in society. So they end up getting entire squads of Nikke scrapped every time they go on missions because they're only trying to seek glory and they don't see the Nikke as human beings. They make bad tactical decisions, mistreat their soldiers, nearly die, and then never try again, while blaming the Nikke for their own failures. Meanwhile, nearly everyone else in the Ark has been propagandized into almost forgetting there even is an outside world for them to reclaim.
>>98095581Girlfriend plays it. So I will recount from memory:>The world is nuked to shit>Oh shit Tiberium Wars!>The entire world is full of sex robots>The sex robots are reprogrammed to do war against robots lead by Kane>Kane's non-sex robots are generally quite useless, the sex workers cut them down like butter>You are General Incel who uses his powers of never being able to get laid to micromanage the sex robots>The sex robots all fall in love with your astounding charisma>With the power of love and saving it for marriage, you defeat all the chaste robots who are shaped like dogs and spiders>Also the entire NOD army is there despite humanity being nuked? Note sure how it works.>After your sex-bots reach their pre-determined kill-limit you are winrar>The world is safe>The ending to Evangelion playsI hope that clears it up. I think they have personal quests and reveal how they were beaten as baby robots or something.
This all just reminds me of Strike Witches lore or Girls und Panzer loreI never card for KanColle but that too
