For some reason Choose Love, the latest interactive movie on Netflix, played out for me just as I had wanted it to.

As soon as the last love interest was introduced, I had formed this entire narrative in my head in accordance with Cami's character. I knew what she has to do to leave the past in the past, try out the new opportunity that has come her way, and by the end still be where I wanted her, which was safely back home.

With the way everything played out with my first run of the movie, it's safe to say I'll be able to read the consequences of my choices in the next run very well.

Consequences of having a writer mind, am I right?

Anyway, the concept of Choose Love is fun and it felt that way too when I was watching/directing it. The characters besides Cami, who is sort of a blank slate for obvious reasons, are as fleshed out as you can expect any rom-com characters to be.

It's cute. Give it a try.

Just finished watching all the options on my Batman Death in the Family interactive movie I got for Christmas and... Only two of the main options have a continuing story line that you get to make choices in.

The third main option leaves us with Talia handing Damian over to Jason. And then it ends. And we're left wondering.

I really would've liked at least one more set of options after this. For example:

Jason joins the league of assassins, will he follow through with his intentions?

Turn Damian against Bruce and Talia

OR

Bend to the will of the League

The first option gives us Jason doing exactly as he told himself he would, following through with his plan to manipulate Damian during his time with the league and mold him into a weapon to use against both Talia, as revenge for her father's involvement with Joker, and Bruce, who sentenced Jason and the others to a life of pain.

Damian becomes Jason's protege and together they take down the league and the all the bats. Two brothers to rule all of Gotham.

The second option, well. Jason learns to love. Caring for Damian, watching him grow- somehow he loses his objective. He can't remember when things started to change, but Damian is the light of his life, a baby brother he wants to protect. Needs to protect.

Bending to the will of the league, Jason does everything he does for Damian.

You can split these options again. The 1st can come to a decision between Jason and Damian killing Bruce and Talia, or something else.

The 2nd option, it can be split between Talia seeing a weakness in Jason and using that to get what she wants most, or Jason takes Damian and escapes the league running back to Gotham.

But, since these aren't options, I'm looking for fanfiction that might possibly align with any of them. So please if you know any good fanfiction along the lines of any of this that'd be great! Or just Jason raising Damian at the very least!

I really wished it was expanded on in the interactive, but what's fanfiction for if not to quench the thirst for more options and what ifs?

Thankyou in advance to anyone who helps me find what I'm looking for <3

Dの食卓 D (3DO ver., 1995)

Time for a Nostalgia Trip to the 90's. Vivi from the classic game Brain Dead 13.

Top 47K - Star Trek: Borg

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an ambitious FMV game starring some (two) Next Generation cast members.

I’m sorry this Barbie epic road trip interactive movie on Netflix IS SO COOL!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Spoiler!!!!

((((((I got abducted by aliens????!!!)))))

So I finally got my bf into wrestling and... his thirst for the Undertaker is unquenchable

Kazutaka Kodaka's "DEATH COME TRUE" starts with your character — a small young man in a hoodie named "Makoto" — waking up in confusion, initially unclear on where he is or how he got there.

So. You know. Kind of a familiar start.

For the uninitiated: Kodaka is the guy who created/wrote Danganronpa.

Yeah. Now you're getting it. These opening moments feel like an olive branch to everybody who played and embraced the first DR title.

Also, if you're a Danganronpa fan? Briefly skim through this trailer for DEATH COME TRUE featuring illustrations of each DCT character as drawn by DR character artist Rui Komatsuzaki in his signature style. SO COOL.

Makoto winds up having amnesia, which is clearly a beloved trope for Kodaka. And if I'm being honest, the whole "protagonist who wakes up with some level of amnesia, leaving them to suss out where they are and why" is a beloved trope for me as well. As I've learned what kinds of stories and media leave me most satisfied and/or engaged over the years, I've come to accept that I am, frankly, a sucker for that well-worn setup.

I'm obviously a sucker for Kodaka as well — his writing has produced BIG FAVES of mine and has yet to disappoint me. I adore and admire his GDC presentation on creating memorable characters, considering it rather inspirational. Though I sadly haven't experienced everything he's done (anybody wanna translate "School of Ragnarok" into English?), I'm obviously In The Tank for this "game."

HOWEVER... ! At the risk of outing myself as a Bad Fan®, I only finally played (er... watched?) DEATH COME TRUE just last night. In goddamn April 2023, almost three friggin' years after its initial release. See... I was aware that this is basically just an interactive movie where you make binary choices on occasion, and I was ALSO aware that it's short enough to be completed in one playthrough. And so, in spite of the writing pedigree behind it, I wound up holding out for a pretty major sale before picking it up. I saw such a sale like one or two weeks ago, so here I (finally) am!

Makoto wakes up in a hotel suite where he IMMEDIATELY sees a news broadcast that identifies him as a wanted serial killer, much to his understandable horror. He then finds a woman laying in the suite's bathtub that's either dead, asleep, or unconscious. While he's still getting his bearings, there's a knock at the suite's door, and you're thrown into making your first of many choices.

I rather doubt it's considered standard practice for the evening news in Japan to put jokey newscasters wearing loud suits in front of pastels to announce warnings about at-large serial killers. But hey, what do I know?

As I'd previously heard and read, you only "control" your character insofar as you select one of two binary choices at various points in a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-type way. This remains true until you're in the home stretch of the story, which is when they finally start bringing in some choices with more than two options... but those choices have less impact than the usual binary ones, so that expansion of the concept comes out as a wash.

This is a mystery story with murder as a major component, as is Kodaka's primary wheelhouse. The main story only takes about 2.5-3 hours to reach whatever is your ultimate ending (and there are really only two legitimate endings that aren't bad endings/deaths). Along the way, Kodaka fans will recognize a number of themes and concepts he's used over the years, but I won't spoil what they are. Some of them are reused in a straightforward fashion, while others are tweaked or mildly subverted from what you might've seen in his various Dangan tales. And if you're unfamiliar with Danganronpa? Then it's surprising and it's a little weird that you're reading this, but it's gonna make the story of this game much more surprising and twisty for you.

One thing you won't see coming: His swag.

That's not to say that a seasoned Kodaka fan like myself wasn't adequately surprised and engaged at plenty of points, though! I was worried that the "live-action choose-your-path movie" format would leave me less invested than visual-novel-style mystery game with more direct control, but in actual practice, I was UTTERLY absorbed. That's right: To the surprise of precisely no one, I strongly liked DEATH COME TRUE. And given that Kodaka was both the writer AND the director of this "movie," I was really pleasantly surprised by his skill behind the camera. (Though I don't talk about it very much on this Tumblr, I've long been a movie/filmmaking fan, so let me put on that hat for a minute.) There are some dramatic camera moves and angles that served to heighten my adrenaline/tension during key moments. And although I can't say for sure how much he 'directed' his actors, the cast is goddamn excellent. EXCELLENT. I found myself rewinding to watch their eyes and subtle movements in various scenes. The performances sucked me into the narrative just as much as the story. I'm a filthy American dork who doesn't consume much Japanese live-action media, so I was only aware of two of the actors in here from their relatively minor roles in American movies. Furthermore, I didn't know the lead actor, Kanata Hongō, from anything at all! But based on his performance here, I want to look up more of his work.

Chihiro Yamamoto is the only actor here who seems to think she's playing a Danganronpa character — for both better AND worse.

Did I feel ANY disappointments during my experience? One obvious one is the brevity of the experience: I would've been happy to spend twice as long with these characters in this world. But for something like $6-$12, it's satisfying enough. My only other two disappointments were: A) The ultimate "culprit" behind everything was too easy to peg. As soon as that character first comes on-screen, they struck me as the obvious culprit behind everything, so it's unfortunate that they wound up being that predictable. And B) There's one character/actor who is just deeply underutilized/unexplored. They provide a bizarre, fascinating presence that barely has any role in the proceedings, and by the time the ending reveals of the story roll around, I can't help but wonder how they fit into this story at all?

Don't take those gripes as anything major, though. DEATH COME TRUE is never gonna have a super strong place in my heart, but I spent those few hours entranced and will fondly remember them. ALSO: You unlock achievements and videos by experiencing as many deaths as possible, so there's actually a benefit to screwing things up! The videos include behind-the-scenes "Making Of" footage as well as the full-length takes of the newscasters who are heard in the background of the opening scene. It's the latter that's especially fun, because the performers clearly knew that they were recording material that would be muffled/obscured, and they have a good time getting weird with it.

It's hard for me to look over my death medal collection without imagining they're accompanied by death metal, because homophones amuse me.

Look: Kodaka has always been clear that this was a very quick project that was rapidly thrown together and executed before he settled in and focused on writing the scenario for Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. It's his baby, but it's also a side gig. With that in mind, the shortness of the experience is more understandable. It also means that you shouldn't expect it to have the depth of his other narratives/games. It's a Kodaka snack, not a meal. But this still a snack with a ton of nutritional value and flavor packed into its small size and minimalist packaging. Take a night to experience it. As long you don't pay full retail, I doubt you'll regret it.

I wrote a vent thing for my tiktok but no one really saw it or cares and I doubt anyone here will but I wanna re post it anyways.

I hope someone like reads this and like helps me, I need to figure out what’s wrong with because it’s only getting worse.

Does anyone know where I can watch Batman: Death in the Family online?

Because I've only ever found the "default" version of Bruce's pov of Under the Red Hood and I can't seem to find anything else

So please if you have any link (or something) you can share, that would be awesome

Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.

The Quarry (Part 2)

Overclocked: A History of Violence

House of Tales’ Overclocked: A History of Violence can best be described as a game that came out before developers caught on to the approach that would have best suited it. It’s an interactive drama dressed up like a point-and-click adventure game that was released ever so slightly before interactive dramas took off in mainstream gaming.

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