waltzoid: Justin (Grandia) (Default)
Yeah, I know it's a fool's effort for me to keep bashing my head against Savior King trying to make sense of its particular brand of logic. I already read 51 chapters, which covers half the story (more than half if going by raw word count), but the damn thing is (stuck on) 106 chapters long. And since I made the far-too-late decision not to read any more of this crap, my only other viable option is to read TV Tropes spoilers, and, well...if you were as disappointed as I was after reading the academy arc and were holding out hope that the war arc would be more exciting...don't.

(WARNING: Expect a lot of disorganized rambling and ranting from yours truly beyond this point. Also, the usual content warnings regarding Savior King itself apply just as much as they did before.)

Why, yes...it does get worse. MUCH worse. )

And what have I learned from all this? )
waltzoid: Justin (Grandia) (Default)
Me, that's who.

Four months after I said I'd sworn off Savior King, I picked it up again to see just how much stupider it could get from Chapter 31's "Dimitri goes berserk and kills a bunch of villagers from Remire" plot point.

"Very", okay? The answer is "very".

I originally wanted to do a full-on chapter-by-chapter review of this fanfic for das_sporking, but I changed my mind, citing to myself time constraints (I only get a few free hours after work to read, leaving little time to write a detailed critique), so I've taken to Discord to roast this thing with a few friends. Any further SK updates on this blog will only be for chapters that gave me especially big headaches.

Like Chapter 38, for example.

Spoilers for a character death that really isn't )
...
waltzoid: Justin (Grandia) (Default)
The next time someone tells you that they've experienced something "so bad it hurts to play/read/watch", ask them if playing/reading/watching that thing made them go to bed in a fitful sleep because their blood pressure ran too high.

That's what happened to me a few days ago when I'd finally checked out of reading The Savior King, the Master Tactician, and the Queen of Liberation.

Farce Emblem: Zero Logic )
waltzoid: Justin (Grandia) (Default)
 The Amazon App Store drives me nuts sometimes - no, all the time.

Trying to find quality apps and games while searching through my Fire tablet is like searching for something to read at a library, but a few of the books have pages missing and several more are copies of more famous works...handwritten entirely in pencil and full of typos. I can't tell you how many times I've had to navigate around someone trying to sell a knockoff of Among Us, Five Nights at Freddy's, or Friday Night Funkin' just to find any kind of game to play, even if the most reliable of them are of the free-to-play variety. You'd be lucky if any of these knockoff apps had a unique name to them instead of something like "Funkin' Among Friday Dance Spooky Game LOL" (not an actual example, but it wouldn't surprise me if something like that did show up).

The only part of the site that seems to have any quality control applied to it is the Movies & TV section, as it's hard to fake being the place to find Netflix, Hulu, Pluto, or any of the hundreds of apps provided by the big-name TV producers.

Profile

waltzoid: Justin (Grandia) (Default)
waltzoid

April 2025

S M T W T F S
  1234 5
678910 1112
13141516171819
202122232425 26
27282930   

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 13th, 2025 09:36 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios