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Ilaiya 🎭

@ilaiyarotted.com
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20s | She/They 🔞 I'm that strange woman who enjoys smashing UMDs~ IN A CUTE WAY!!! Oh and I 100% musou games too I suppose... My Website: ilaiyarotted.com I Stream Sometimes: twitch.tv/ilaiyayaya And I Archive Guidebooks!: archive.org/details/@ilaiyayaya

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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 02/10/2026
It's so incredibly fucked up that Dynasty Warriors 4 only lets you have 4 Edit Officers at a time despite there being 5 different Edit Officer weapons. Like, just give me 1 more slot instead of requiring me to delete one of my other 4 to make room, it's such a mean design decision.
Edit Officer Pike: Level 1
This will be forever at level 1 until the very end of my run when I delete someone else so I can level this one. Also please ignore how low level all of the other weapons visible in this list are it's the bottom of the list I'm mostly doing them in order of top to bottom I promise most other characters are not at level 3 lol.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 29/09/2026
The archiving hobby is actually higher priority than the musou hobby in my mind so not being able to do this has been PAINFUL. Technically I have been sitting on a few already scanned books, and a bunch of discs that would take no time to upload, but haven't yet because I'm a lazy meowmeow :3
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 10/09/2026
Sachiko Senters: "Who's Girbit?"Sachiko Senters: "He's got a pretty cool name, unlike you."
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 08/09/2026
There are also a crazy amount of Keitai i-mode games including a ton of revisions for a few of them, 2 have Christmas variants and 1 has 3 different revisions released years apart from each other with complete graphics overhauls. JP mobile games are such a strannnggge universe
Don't worry about this image it's largely unrelated I just thought it was funny and stole it from an old Mega Man fansite I came across while researching.

https://themechanicalmaniacs.com/articles/keitai.php
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 08/09/2026
Spending the first half of my day off looking through every Mega Man game so I can eventually play them all with my wife and god there are so many more than I realized why the fuck is there not only several versions of every Battle Network game but also a 4.5 with a real life GBA peripheral???
The Rockman.EXE 4.5 Real Operation "Battle Chip Gate" peripheral for the Gameboy Advance that does something I don't fucking know but it's apparently basically required to play that game
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 06/09/2026
After nearly 80 hours of grinding I just remembered that this game added jumping strong-attacks, and they're really good too! For some characters it's their best crowd-clearing attack and I completely forget to even test it with like 10 characters lol. I've been playing too much by DW3 muscle memory
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 04/09/2026
It's a Drama CD but it originally came in this tall thin cardboard sleeve instead of an actual jewel case and keeping these 2 pieces together without ripping or bending the stupid paper envelope is miserable. It's difficult to even store, where the hell am I supposed to put this thing?????
I hate this stupid paper sleeve.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 04/09/2026
I'm finally setting up shelves after nearly a month of being in this place, and I have a lot of dumb junk because I'm a materialistic dork, but by far the dumbest most inconvenient thing I own is This Fucking Thing:
I forgot the translated English title of this fate/extra drama cd and I can't read kanji so oopsies teehee this alt text isn't very useful I guess you'll have to find out the title yourself if that was why you clicked on the alt text here!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 04/09/2026
FATE/EXTRA RECORD IS REEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE ONLY REMAKE I WILL EVER CARE ABOUT i should play fate/extella later this year
They gave my girl the ugliest outfit possible, this game is in good hands ;u;
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 26/08/2026
I've mentioned earlier that DW4's higher difficulties aren't actually much more difficult compared to easy or normal, case in point: I'VE BEEN GRINDING ON HARD, OFTEN WITH FRESH UNLEVELED CHARACTERS FOR THE LAST 20+ HOURS WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT??? I thought I was set to normal this entire time...
Settings

Difficulty: Hard
Events: On

Default
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 26/08/2026
I hope more than the 1 special weapon they showed is movement based, those are always my favorites and the first revealed being an air dash is a really good sign for weapons actually being impactful beyond their robot master weakness. AND PLAYABLE PROTO MAN not dlc IS SO SICK!!! Robot entrails pog?
I can't believe Mega Man gore is official... waow, I never expected Capcom to take the eroguro plunge
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/08/2026
I'm just now realizing that my last post is extremely similar to another post I made like 3 weeks ago I have NO material my brain is MELTING into GOO and SLIME and OTHER POTENTIALLY SUGARY MELTY SUBSTANCES! I have NOTHING to say about DW4 anymore!!!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/08/2026
First Dynasty Warriors 4 grinding session in New Location and I am soooo tired of Lu Bu's Revolt, like I know it's not necessarily the #1 best grinding stage in DW4 (there is no single agreed upon "best" stage) but it's one of the shortest and I've memorized the item locations so I'm sticking to it!
It's this guy. It's his revolt. He's revolting. Look everyone it's Lu Bu from his iconic revolt. Lu Bu. Yep that's him. Stunning.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 18/08/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAA MOVING COMPLETE!!!!! I can exist again :3 My setup is so fucked rn and I still have a massive amount of unpacking to do, but I at least have my computer again and that's all that's important! Now I get to play Dynasty Warriors 4 *in a new zip code!* ooooooooooooohh scarrrrryyyyyyyyyyy~
"w2c kickassia lossless dvd rip 640x480"

It's been a while since I've put this image on a post surely nobody will remember it certainly nobody will know that it's a reused image I've added to bweets several times in the past!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 06/08/2026
Some people say it's only the Koei musous literally titled "Warriors" (which is dumb), some say it's any game with massive enemy numbers (*way* too vague and opens up unrelated stuff like Orcs Must Die as a musou, which, no.), and some think Devil May Cry is a musou. They are wrong.
20 Games Like Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (2007)
Saya no Uta
A horror visual novel about Fuminori Sakisaka, a medicine student who suffers an accident that leaves his perception of the world distorted: everything and everyone is perceived as a twisted mass of intestines, flesh and blood.
Everything, except Saya.

Was this recommendation... useful? (yes, yes it was, thank you website that I don't remember where I found this gem, but yes this suggestion was exceptionally useful!)
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 31/07/2026
I really really miss combo farming...
:KohriCry:
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 31/07/2026
Lu Bu's Revolt? More like Lu Bu is revolting! Get it? See the joke is that THIS STAGE IS FUCKING BOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNGGGG!!!!! It's the main DW4 stage I've been using for grinding weapon levels and it feels so much slower than grinding points in DW3, a single run of this takes ~10 minutes ;-;
Select Scenario:
Lu Bu's Revolt
Lu Bu's Forces
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
All of those extra Disgaea mechanics are accounted for: Item World, Reincarnation, Magichange, etc. It's *all* here, everything that would be in a traditional Disgaea is in Mayhem and that's the only area I could see myself enjoying the full game, the combat alongside those systems isn't good enough
"What are Battle Buddies?
Magichange
Demods
Reincarnation
Battle Buddy Classes""About the Overlord's Castle
Chara Worlder
Item Worlder
Buddy Base
Dark Assembly
Cheat Shop"
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
I really wish the demo let the player experiment at least a tiny amount with the traditional Disgaea numbers-based systems. It's not present here, but judging by the official website, outside of combat the full version is just Disgaea, and that's the best part of Disgaea imo-
The Disgaea Mayhem official website, there's a section explaining all of the major mechanics which shows off a lot what's not available in the demo.
"Train, Reincarnate, Repeat! Reincarnation:
Reset and rebuild your character while retaining stat bonuses.
Reincarnation also lets you change your Battle Buddies' classes. Doing this will allow you to teach them evilities that are normally unique to other monster classes."
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
On the opposite end of GUN is the axe, what the fuck did they do to this thing??? It feels horrendous, terrible animations and attack timing, every hit feels like it has severe input delay, its range isn't even that great, this is an easy contender for one of the worst feeling weapons in any musou.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
I can also instantly tell that unless damage numbers across weapons vary wildly, some are just definitively better than others. Guns are busted, all of its strong-attacks are great, it's not especially slow, it has great AoE capabilities, all other weapons pale in comparison to the might of GUN.
Gun.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
First off, either this demo sucks, or this game would get old really fast, because of the 3 stages available all 3 have the same objective: defeat 20 enemies and move onto a boss, not even a crazy number, this is a big issue I had with Megatagmension Blanc and even that game did better than this.
Mission: Pulverize those pesky monsters! 0/20
All 3 stages have this same objective, do this, then a fairly lackluster boss monster appears.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 24/07/2026
I've been hearing a lot of not incredible things about Disgaea Mayhem in the last few days since its release, it all makes me very curious to try it, but I can't play it myself since I'm already in the middle of another musou... but that's why demos exist teehee!
The Disgaea Mayhem demo title screen.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 22/07/2026
The problem is that right now the Dynasty Warriors 3 page... doesn't exist.... I finished DW3 before I made a website, and I didn't feel like typing out what would easily be my longest essay on the site right away, so I just made a placeholder page instead and now it's coming to bite me in the ass ☠
The page that you're directed to when you click Dynasty Warriors 3 on my website (https://ilaiyarotted.com/). As you can see, it is not actually about Dynasty Warriors 3, it's a placeholder, and has been for nearly a year...
"This page will also be real eventually, but probably not for quite a while, I have way too much to say about Dynasty Warriors 3...
FALLBACK PLAN GO!!!" and then there's an image of Magilou from Tales of Berseria crying, clicking it goes to my Dynasty Warriors 3 notes page.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/07/2026
I haven't completely put on hold *all* of my personal projects, but I just haven't had the time for the lower priority ones like streaming and social media. My schedule is finally starting to free up tho, so I'll actually exist on here again and be back to my DW4 grind by the end of the month!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 29/06/2026
I want giant robot arms...
Strength... Big mechanical hands... waow...
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 22/06/2026
I should really start Utawarerumono Mask of Truth soon while Mask of Deception is still relatively fresh in my mind, especially since I still kinda want to do Zan 2 by early next year, but I'm a bit scared of starting another long investment semi-obligation game while I'm still so busy...
"Clandestine Love! ~ The Cocky General Seeks the Prince's Secret Sword!"
Half of my screenshots of Mask of Deception are just BL...
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 16/06/2026
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/06/2026
As an extra warding spell to keep the evil demons away from my yapping I have a special spirit bomb chant, everyone say it with me! GOD I FUCKING LOVE YAOI AND I LOVE BEING TRANSGENDER!!!! happy pride everynyan
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/06/2026
I know this is *the* biggest Rance entry for most people, but Sengoku's far from my favorite. Kichikuou will always be my favorite child for its gameplay and personal first-game bias, and I think almost every entry after Sengoku, as well as VI have significantly better stories. Sengoku is just Good.
Chinu Kobayakawa: Daddy! Poisoning them all would be fastest, in my opinion!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/06/2026
So time to rip off the bandage with the absolute worst possible series I could choose as someone who doesn't want dumb arguments in my comments: so for the last year+ I've been playing through the Rance series with my partner, and we recently started Sengoku Rance! :3
Ninja Ranger 68: In your time of crisis, a mysterious ninja squad comes to the rescue.The Ninja Rangers!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 11/06/2026
I should try to be more active on here again since I've had so little to say about DW4 progress, I got too reliant on stream announcements as my obligatory I'm Not Dead posts, and I've been too busy lately to make fast progress on musous I should pull out the emergency visual novel yapping button...
"You can be happy just havin' a sunflower on your head. Yep. Yep!
^ Holding hands with the hanny
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 19/05/2026
Finally finished scanning one of the worst books I've ever decided to archive, I'd been dreading this one for months and it was just as bad as I expected ;-; Falling apart at the spine, super dirty, several hundred pages, and it's the best guidebook for DW4, so I couldn't even put it off any longer!
The cover of "Shin Sangokumusou 3 Maniax". It's a guidebook covering all of Dynasty Warriors 4, Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends, and Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 06/05/2026
Showing the exact range of all of character's attacks is really cool, and an extra detailed chart of their stats is neat I guess, but not all of this information is super necessary, or is even covered in-game, and *every* one of these guidebooks includes a massive section on this!
Character profile section for Zhang Liao in Dynasty Warriors 4. I can't read most of this :c
...*yet*...Yep that's the 2nd half of the character profile for Zhang Liao in Dynasty Warriors 4. I still can't read at least 80% of this so I can't make good alt text for this image sorry whoopsie gravy!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 02/05/2026
In Dynasty Warriors 3 getting a combo against an enemy with a multiple of 8 would increase the tier of the stat drop up to a maximum of +8. It made grinding actually engaging and slightly less mindless, which I enjoyed, in Dynasty Warriors 4 stat drop are completely predetermined for each enemy ;-;
An attack-stat increasing item (this one is +2!)
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 25/04/2026
All of Ma Chao's light-attacks hit on the right side of your horse and they're super fast, which makes juggling possible. His strong-attack is a wide circular AoE that not only does a lot of damage, but also stuns. Ma Chao is arguably the best character in this entire game while mounted it's insane!
This is Ma Chao! Everyone say hi to Ma Chao!!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 12/04/2026
I don't want to stream Dynasty Warriors 4 right now because I'm in the really boring part of the game where all I'm doing is mindless grinding, and I prefer doing that in super short bursts, but I do still want to stream so I feel like that's the best alternative for now.
"I'm still nowhere close to being a true gamer..."

But I will be a true gamer after playing Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness!!! That's right, the only way to know which game I'll be streaming next is by reading the alt text! Good job for reading the enclosed instruction booklet!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 03/04/2026
About half of them are normal battles but with an exclusive map (although a lot of these "exclusive" maps are really just slightly cropped versions of other stages, something I think DW4 has a really bad habit of doing), but the other half are super interesting with really unique mission design.
"The Yellow Turban Rebellion" stage."Dong Zhuo in Ji" stage. Despite being listed as 2 separate maps, this one is just the lower portion of the previous map cropped into its own individual map.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 03/04/2026
Ok, finally I have every Tales stage and every rare item collected in Dynasty Warriors 4! Of course that doesn't include Xtreme Legends' items, but ngl, the item unlocks in this game were way too easy and boring, also very few of them are actually useful in my opinion lmao
The full item list in Dynasty Warriors 4. Ignore the unobtained item in the 2nd row, that's a common item not a rare item so getting it is entirely up to RNG.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 22/03/2026
Obviously it's not going to be *short*, still at least over 100 hours, but I had initially assumed it would take even longer than DW3XL, but it seems like DW4 doesn't actually have many things to unlock, and since Musou Mode is so heavily scaled down it could actually be way shorter than 3.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 20/03/2026
I'm really tempted to play the Oneechanbara Wii game now that it has an achievement set... It's not a musou right? It's made by Tamsoft but it's not a musou is it? I'm allowed to play it right, I wouldn't be breaking my own rules would I???
OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/03/2026
戦国無双 キャラクターズ真書 (Samurai Warriors Characters Profile) archive.org/details/swch... 真・三國無双2 マニアックス (Dynasty Warriors 3 Maniax Guide) archive.org/details/dw3m... 激・戦国無双 ガイドブック 上 (Samurai Warriors: State of War Guidebook Vol. 1) archive.org/details/swso...
Samurai Warriors Characters ProfileDynasty Warriors 3 Maniax GuideSamurai Warriors: State of War Guidebook Vol. 1
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 13/03/2026
ガンダム無双Special 完全攻略ガイド (Dynasty Warriors Gundam Special Perfect Guide) archive.org/details/dwgs... 真・三國無双2 コンプリートガイド 上 (Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Guide Vol. 1) archive.org/details/dw3c... 真・三國無双2 コンプリートガイド 下 (Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Guide Vol. 2) archive.org/details/dw3c...
Dynasty Warriors Gundam Special Perfect GuideDynasty Warriors 3 Complete Guide Vol. 1Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Guide Vol. 2
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 03/03/2026
It's really cool that someone went out of their way to comment on a silly little scuffed webpage I made, and I guess some people are finding it through neocities, but this is like finding a message in a bottle, I can't log into that account, I have no way of directly acknowledging this person lmao
Magilou-cry-sad.webp
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 03/03/2026
I completely forgot that when I made my site last year I was originally going to host it through neocities. I ended up not doing that, but since I made the account I just had it redirect to the real page, but I guess neocities supports website comments, so uhhh... I can't respond to this lol 😭
[[REDACTED]] just commented on your site:

it's so interesting that utawarerumono zan is one of the best musous in your opinion...!!! as someone who LOVES utawarerumono the vn i'm glad the zan adaptation stacks up. utawarerumono zan 2 finally got a localization in english if you ever want to give that a try too!!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 01/03/2026
I still have 3 extra musou mode campaigns left (Nanman, Yuan Shao, and Lu Bu, as well as the Xtreme Legends campaigns later) but we're now done with all 3 of the main DW4 campaigns! 🎉 Now I should be able to efficiently get *most* rare items before next stream SO WE'LL FINALLY HAVE A HORSE! YIPPEE!!
The majestic Red Hare steed in its natural low poly Playstation 2 environment! Isn't it beautiful?
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 23/02/2026
I should buy a PS Vita... I need Vita game recommendations... VN-Machine go bzzzzzzzz (Please no musou recommendations btw I already know all of those (as far I'm aware 🤔) I already plan to buy Dynasty Warriors Next, the Senran Kagura games, and Winning Post 8)
I think those are candles??? Definitely not a Sony Playstation Vita though.
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 11/02/2026
I've spent way too much time and brainpower in the last few days trying to deduce why exactly combat in MegaTagmension feels so much worse than in Neptunia U, despite sharing a lot of the same fundamentals, and after hours of labbing like a competitive FGC player I think I've solved the case!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 10/02/2026
It's definitely not under what I would consider the musou genre, so fortunately I don't have to 100% it, but Warriors: Abyss is surprisingly fun for a roguelike. I don't know how much more I'll stream it since it is kinda repetitive, but I'm glad I played it at least once. Also Lord Enma is a cutie!
Gender non-conforming king Lord Enma!
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Ilaiya 🎭 @ilaiyarotted.com · 08/02/2026
But there's also a 3rd JP-only version: Musou Orochi Z, which "combines the first two games with more characters and stages on an updated platform". So if this "combines" the last 2, does that confirm that WO2 completely overhauls the Story Mode and this combines both WO1's and WO2's story???
Musou Orochi Z's Japanese cover artwork.
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