Interesting thing about these previews is they are call backs to previous events. The one with Yasu, Sensei and Ayane looks very similar to the Himawari McDonalds event and Rin has the same look as Sana during Ad Infitinum.
You know, something I think doesn't get talked about enough...is how fucking amazing the soundtrack for this game is.
Everyone has their own little soundtrack, songs that you associate with just them. Some songs are specific to the tone of a scene(Looking at you Hallelujah.mp3).
New songs pop up at just the right moment in the story to frame a scene in such a way that it just magically hits.
I'll be the first to admit that I often play games muted and listen to my own music, so when I started this game with the warning that it shouldn't be played that way, that the sounds and music were an important part of the game...I was a smidge skeptical.
I learned pretty quickly that I was wrong. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal.
You know, something I think doesn't get talked about enough...is how fucking amazing the soundtrack for this game is.
Everyone has their own little soundtrack, songs that you associate with just them. Some songs are specific to the tone of a scene(Looking at you Hallelujah.mp3).
New songs pop up at just the right moment in the story to frame a scene in such a way that it just magically hits.
I'll be the first to admit that I often play games muted and listen to my own music, so when I started this game with the warning that it shouldn't be played that way, that the sounds and music were an important part of the game...I was a smidge skeptical.
I learned pretty quickly that I was wrong. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal.
I made and pruned a playlist of every song in the game files and have been occasionally setting it as background music for some discord streaming. I've had to share a bunch of the songs to people who were watching.
It's a good part of why I'm as hooked on the game as I am.
You know, something I think doesn't get talked about enough...is how fucking amazing the soundtrack for this game is.
Everyone has their own little soundtrack, songs that you associate with just them. Some songs are specific to the tone of a scene(Looking at you Hallelujah.mp3).
New songs pop up at just the right moment in the story to frame a scene in such a way that it just magically hits.
I'll be the first to admit that I often play games muted and listen to my own music, so when I started this game with the warning that it shouldn't be played that way, that the sounds and music were an important part of the game...I was a smidge skeptical.
I learned pretty quickly that I was wrong. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal.
Originally I think there was a whole playlist of the soundtrack on Youtube, for some reason it’s all gone and the restored one isn’t complete. It hurts not being able to listen to these songs on demand
Okay wow...this update? Just WOW, I did not expect so much to be revealed. I can get emotional over stuff, and given the timespan of this game so far it had me tear up, embarrassing to say. It is kind of how I expected, theres different parallel worlds with gods that view these worlds, and a hierarchy type of thing. A couple things I wish Akira brought up more is the other gods he has seen, especially that one who appeared as ami in the pool...they seemed like an important one.
But it makes sooo much sense about the different timelines being worlds which are peoples desires...and the fact this one is so messed up is Maya. There is like so much I can say here, but this truly is lessons in Ayana. I hope they both start remembering soon. Especially because I dont even think I wanna see Akira smashing anyone like that anymore...
That said, I would like to have a soundtrack made of this. Many of them are enjoyable(all thats left are stars really hit me in the feels. I found it on youtube, lo and behold theres a bunch of comments on himawari haha). I'm going to be going through some to save them, i'm unsure how many are made by selebus or just actual songs tho, will have to see.
To add onto this: It actually proves she is completely unsaveable.
Look at what she says closely during the himawari event chain, barring even her venomous insults towards Ayane, insinuating that shes keeping akira from her, and has effectively kidnapped him.
At first she tries gentle manipulation, "oh i just happen to be in your town we should see eachother" as if shes not done it on purpose. She employs a huge array of manipulation strategies, she blames ayane, she tries to guilt trip akira, she tries to downplay the significance of what shes doing, she makes several backhanded insuniations. Its bad.
But man, if you ignore the things shes saying and just LOOK at what she is doing it is WAY more on the nose.
First thing first, she is wearing Sekai's dress, having not moved on from her past at all.
Secondly she is on the phone while driving, having not learned from her past either.
Thirdly she is attempting to use himawari to get back to her dad, more manipulation. The very thing that led to this outcome to begin with and cementing ayanes stance on no contact.
You know, something I think doesn't get talked about enough...is how fucking amazing the soundtrack for this game is.
Everyone has their own little soundtrack, songs that you associate with just them. Some songs are specific to the tone of a scene(Looking at you Hallelujah.mp3).
New songs pop up at just the right moment in the story to frame a scene in such a way that it just magically hits.
I'll be the first to admit that I often play games muted and listen to my own music, so when I started this game with the warning that it shouldn't be played that way, that the sounds and music were an important part of the game...I was a smidge skeptical.
I learned pretty quickly that I was wrong. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal.
Considering how much of it is just royalty free tracks Sel's done a shockingly good job with the music overall, you could easily think a lot of the tracks that are just stock music were tailor made for certain scenes and characters.
It's definitely one of the things that makes LiL stand out from other KK games, there's quite a few I'm a fan of at this point but a lot of them have the same music and it's always a bit disappointing to find.
Now, we know that wishes go to another version of you that didn't wish for them. That would mean that Kaori from another reality made some sort of wish that granted this Kaori Nao-chan.
I'm not sure this is true. It's ambiguous, but I think when someone wishes for a person (rather than a world), that person is created in the world in which the wish was made.
Himawari draws a clear distinction between wishes that create worlds and wishes that create people.
Of course this has interesting implications for Akira's wish that created Maya. That would mean the Akira in Maya's original world was the one who wished for her, and if my understanding is correct:
Akira wished for Maya in the same timeline in which he later met her. His wish didn't retroactively change the past.
Akira's wish didn't change anything about his world other than plopping Maya down into it.
You know, something I think doesn't get talked about enough...is how fucking amazing the soundtrack for this game is.
Everyone has their own little soundtrack, songs that you associate with just them. Some songs are specific to the tone of a scene(Looking at you Hallelujah.mp3).
New songs pop up at just the right moment in the story to frame a scene in such a way that it just magically hits.
I'll be the first to admit that I often play games muted and listen to my own music, so when I started this game with the warning that it shouldn't be played that way, that the sounds and music were an important part of the game...I was a smidge skeptical.
I learned pretty quickly that I was wrong. The soundtrack for this game is phenomenal.
Depends on whether you can find good BGM channels, or barring that, individual artists that make BGM tracks. AFAIK, Sel's main BGM picks come from artists featured in
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that have more stuff on their own websites, or individual artists, like
I'm not sure this is true. It's ambiguous, but I think when someone wishes for a person (rather than a world), that person is created in the world in which the wish was made.
Himawari draws a clear distinction between wishes that create worlds and wishes that create people.
Of course this has interesting implications for Akira's wish that created Maya. That would mean the Akira in Maya's original world was the one who wished for her, and if my understanding is correct:
Akira wished for Maya in the same timeline in which he later met her. His wish didn't retroactively change the past.
Akira's wish didn't change anything about his world other than plopping Maya down into it.
First off, this is a very complex topic and anything related to alternative worlds/universes and branching timelines ends up being a mess and basically boil down to one core question:
Can there even be an OG timeline/reality?
I agree with you about Kaori though, it does seem like "our" Kaori made that wish and that it manifested within the same world. However, we don't know that for a fact, it may have been indicated but not shown. We don't know enough about Kaori's backstory, what she really was like prior to the accident or even in a past timeline. Maybe the Kaori that wished for Nao-chan (i.e. becoming a mother, or maybe something more directly related to Ami and Maya?) was one that actually died in the car crash.
At the end of the day, since anyone could have wished for anything (once, at least), it's difficult to say what is supposed to be real, fake, a wish or whatever else you would call it.
The origin of Maya is an interesting question as well.
Which now also brings me to another point that I was hinting at in my previous summary post.
Opening up this pandora's box of "any world and any person could just be someone's wish", essentially only begs further questions.
Okay, this was a lot.
I'm obviously not as solid of a theory crafter as the heavy hitters here, but maybe some of you guys can draw something from this or at least give me peace by disproving my thoughts, I might have forgotten about some details that could be relevant here or that would go against some of those takes.
I'm sure Terminal 22 will play a big role, including the upside down house, Nodoka and now Shiori. What's the deal with Kaori and Nao-chan, etc.
I'm confident that Sel's masterplan is complex enough for neither of us to decipher too much of the story this far in advance, even after this massive lore drop. But that's what makes it so much fun to theorize.
It actually proves she is completely unsaveable.
Look at what she says closely during the himawari event chain, barring even her venomous insults towards Ayane, insinuating that shes keeping akira from her, and has effectively kidnapped him.
At first she tries gentle manipulation, "oh i just happen to be in your town we should see eachother" as if shes not done it on purpose. She employs a huge array of manipulation strategies, she blames ayane, she tries to guilt trip akira, she tries to downplay the significance of what shes doing, she makes several backhanded insuniations. Its bad.
I don't understand how so many people can come away from this update thinking "Yes, clearly the one in the wrong is the girl who:"
Was abandoned when she was 15 by the dad who failed at raising her, leaving her completely on her own with no other family.
Was also abandoned by her only close friend (assuming Maya doesn't exist here), who ran away to have a baby with her dad.
Isn't even allowed to address the man who raised her as "Dad".
Despite all of the above, managed to be a good "aunt" to the daughter of the people who abandoned her, such that her "niece" doesn't have a single negative memory of her.
Here's a take that really shouldn't be at all controversial: you don't get to decide to leave a toxic relationship for the sake of your own mental health when that relationship is with your own 15-year-old daughter. Especially when it's mostly your fault that she's broken in the first place!
I'm seriously considering making this my signature at this point:
I don't understand how so many people can come away from this update thinking "Yes, clearly the one in the wrong is the girl who:"
Was abandoned when she was 15 by the dad who failed at raising her, leaving her completely on her own with no other family.
Was also abandoned by her only close friend (assuming Maya doesn't exist here), who ran away to have a baby with her dad.
Isn't even allowed to address the man who raised her as "Dad".
Despite all of the above, managed to be a good "aunt" to the daughter of the people who abandoned her, such that her "niece" doesn't have a single negative memory of her.
Here's a take that really shouldn't be at all controversial: you don't get to decide to leave a toxic relationship for the sake of your own mental health when that relationship is with your own 15-year-old daughter. Especially when it's mostly your fault that she's broken in the first place!
I'm seriously considering making this my signature at this point:
The only nitpick/counter argument i would make to all of that is we don't actually know how old Ami is... see, her body might be 15, but she could be hundreds of years old mentally... soooooo that kinda changes equation a bit in terms of the shittiness of abandoning her. Reminds me of a few vampire stories i've read over the years about sires abandoning their childe. Sometimes the 800 year old needs to give the boot to their 200 year old 'son'/'daughter' cause, yeah, they might look 18, but they ain't...
There is also the unresolved question of the Ami we saw during that scene where she says the other Ami isn't her... but who knows where that thread will go, if anywhere.
The only nitpick/counter argument i would make to all of that is we don't actually know how old Ami is... see, her body might be 15, but she could be hundreds of years old mentally... soooooo that kinda changes equation a bit in terms of the shittiness of abandoning her. Reminds me of a few vampire stories i've read over the years about sires abandoning their childe. Sometimes the 800 year old needs to give the boot to their 200 year old 'son'/'daughter' cause, yeah, they might look 18, but they ain't...
There is also the unresolved question of the Ami we saw during that scene where she says the other Ami isn't her... but who knows where that thread will go, if anywhere.
Bingoogus' split personality Sugoognib is that you???! Have you finally became the dominant personality and are finally sharing the analysis and theories, Bingoogus fought so hard to contain?
