#kubz scouts

I realized something:

Ayano killing herself in snap mode is the same/similar thing to the mindslave. So technically we’ve always had the mechanics of snap mode, we just couldn’t do it ourselves.

Credit to the Ayano screenshot to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyq6mzi0wFk since they did snap mode in camera mode. (Wanted a clear picture as opposed to it in red.)

Now I realize why no one said anything bad about snap mode since we’ve technically seen it in the game already.

Also my editing skills are shit since I did this using snapchat I tried using SV to edit the photo, but it was pretty bad quality.

This is a continuation of: https://akademihighsnapchats.tumblr.com/post/165406243011/my-reaction-to-the-yakuza-part-3-ethics 

I’m combining Hostages/1980’s Mode since they were so short.

Again: Akira is a fake name I came up with for The Yakuza. (Since some people may read this first, there’s no specific order these have to be read; they just go in the order of the video.)

Hostages:

…so kids are going to wait till half the student population dies/goes missing to leave? If students started going missing left and right, you can bet your ass I’d leave that school immediately. Maybe ¼th of the school, I can see. (If the school has 100, so 25 would be a good number.) Since the school is so high class, they’d sweep everything under the rug and claim to their students that those students are only out sick.

No one would believe them, because if half their friend group is gone without any contact they’d get worried. Of course the school would close if student don’t come, but Ayano could just stalk Senpai and go to his school. I think most people would transfer to the same school if there’s another one close by. (I know that’s how it was when I went to high school. Most of us went to the same one.)

Each week his price goes up even if we chose not to use Akira. It shouldn’t go as high if we chose no to use him. It should go up, but it shouldn’t be the same price if we use him vs if we don’t use him. Since the first one is free, the second time we use him should be the same regardless of when we use him. (Except for the final rival, it should be slightly higher.)

Many people, including myself, talked about not even using Akira because of what he does is wrong. Dev said that he would change this by just having Akira kidnap the victims and then release them. The implication is that the victim would go back to school after Akira got his ransom. I’m sorry but on what fucking earth is he living on thinking that the victim would go straight back to school after this? I would think they’d drop out and leave because of the trauma. They wouldn’t want to leave their house in fear of being kidnapped again. Things couldn’t go back to where they were before.

Not everyone is happy with Akira, not everyone will want to use him. I’m honestly getting annoyed with Yandere Dev trying to please every single one of the people who play the game. You can’t make everyone happy. And just because someone doesn’t want to use a feature in your game, doesn’t make it ‘wrong’. They just don’t want to use it. I get he’s excited about this idea, that much is clear, but trying to /force/ us to use it by all these changes is kind of annoying. I actually don’t know if I would use it or not, I’m still undecided. I personally find it to be too much for this game. It’s a neat idea, but I just don’t feel it’s right for this game.

Historical Accuracy/1980’s Mode:

“Despite the differences between Info-Chan and the Yakuza, a lot of people have expressed that these two characters are still too similar in functionality and that they can’t co-exist.” There are more similarities between them, than differences. The only difference is that Akira can go further than Info-Chan to the point where she’s useless if Akira could do all the work himself.

People apparently mentioned that the Yakuza’s have been in decline for the past decade. I don’t see why people are complaining about that. It’s a video game, what does it matter if in real life there aren’t as many. Also, who’s been saying so? I haven’t see anyone complaining about the 'historical accuracy’ of Yakuzas with this game.

Also side note: Take a shot everytime Dev says, “I have a solution!”

Dev has had the idea of 1980’s mode since 2014, and couldn’t find a way to mention it until now. Really? There was no other way to mention this mode until something you want to implement is on the fence with so many people? Only mentioning the mode because you want to fit the Yakuza in.

For those who don’t know what 1980’s mode is: It’s where you’re playing as Ayano’s mother and trying to get Senpai in that time. You are limited to what’s around in that era; so no smartphones, no social media, etc.

“The reason I bring it up is that the Yakuza were much more powerful in the 1980s.” And there it is. The whole reason Dev finallymentions this mode. Just as a way to convince more people to want the Yakuza. If your intention to mention a major game mode is to convince us for another game feature, maybe you should rethink how you go about it. From the way I saw it, Dev seemed desperate to get the Yakuza thing to work. Not everyone is going to agree, and shoving it down our throats with more 'evidence’ of how it can work, won’t change people’s minds. Dev said that Akira could just be limited to 1980’s mode because there’s no Info-chan.

Dev brought up how the delinquents should look vs how they looked in the old days. As well as how they may not even be in the 1980’s mode because the school was much more strict. It’s a video game, I really don’t think you have to be accurate on every single detail. I thought they looked fine with dark hair, and if they have bleach blond it just looks out of place.

If the delinquents were out of 1980’s mode all together, that just makes it harder to find Akira and get him to do stuff since he wouldn’t have a younger brother that’s a delinquent there. (I would say just have one of the students be their older brother, that’s probably a good route to go if Dev is doing it this way.)

My Conclusion:

In conclusion to all of these points I talked about, honestly I feel it’s just toomuch for this game. I actually did a blind reaction this time, I didn’t go to any of the blogs I follow and see other’s opinion on this video because I didn’t want to base my views on someone else.

If this was a whole different game, then I’d be thrilled about it. Like you as the player have to change how the delinquents at your school are to gain the favor of a Yakuza. Then in turn he’d help you out with something. Maybe a whole different game or something so it’s not how Yandere Sim is.

I personally feel Dev is trying to get us to like the idea and use it because he has an idea for everything people disagree with. The way it seems, he can’t take when someone doesn’t like his ideas. He finds someway to do it anyway. It feels if he does this so often, he’ll drive those who want to play the game away because of his attitude.

On the other hand, it is his game. He should implement what he wants. If he’s telling people what it is, he has to expect people to disagree with it. I’ve said this before, he can’t make every single player happy no matter how hard he tries. He’s going to burn out before he makes every single person happy.

As I said in my Part 1 when The Yakuza was originally talked about, if you disagree with anything I said feel free to comment or message me. (I may message back if I can’t tag in chat or anything. I just figured out you can tag in chat lol.)

Sorry for 3 posts about this, I didn’t want to make any of them super long so I separated. Whenever I get the chance, I’ll resume snapchats.

This is a continuation of this post: https://akademihighsnapchats.tumblr.com/post/165405284261/my-reaction-to-the-yakuza-part-2

It got pretty long so I separated the segments.

Let’s continue!

Remember: I made a name for the Yakuza.

Dev proposed 3 separate things for Akira’s ethics.

The first part was that Akira is a vigilante who kills those who deserve to die. (Like Jason Todd from DC media.) Dev also said that maybe Ayano would deceive Akira by convincing him that the person she wants dead deserves to die. I would think that Akira would do his own research before killing someone.

I wouldn’t think that a 17 year old high school student can manipulate someone like that to kill whoever she wants. There’s no way that Akira would kill someone without thinking that they deserve it, in this instance. That’s just not possible. He’d make sure his target deserved it before doing the deed.

The second part was that maybe Akira is trapped where he is because his boss threatened to kill his brother. Now this one I can see happening. Akira gets caught up in crime to provide for his brother, that he gets stuck in there. Like if you were in the mafia. Once you’re there, you can’t get out. You’re trapped until death.

I can see that Akira would want to get to the top of the organization, but if he doesn’t like it why would he want to get to the top? Only so the boss is dead and his brother is okay? This just brings in more questions. Dev also came up with Ayano doing the deed herself, and killing the boss. Yes, let’s get the high school girl to do the deed that you should do. Like if Akira can’t do it, why does anyone think a high school girl could?

And finally the last part Dev talked about is maybe Akira went crazy from everything he had to do over the years. The only thing that kept him going is his younger brother. All he thinks about is providing his brother with the life he never had. I mean, isn’t he doing all of that already though? The only thing that’s in this section is that Akira is slowly losing his sanity.

“Everything he does is the result of a warped, twisted love for his brother, like a Yandere!” Are we seriously calling Akira a yandere in this instance? Yandere’s do it as love for someone they want a romantic relationship with. They kill for their love of someone. Akira isn’t a yandere, because that’s a term to describe someone who wants a romantic relationship with someone. It’s not for the love of a sibling. He’s not trying to get his younger brother’s attention, just to provide for him. The brother already looks up to Akira, and wants to be like him. So no, he wouldn’t be ‘like a Yandere’.

I’ll make another post for the 'Hostages’.

First off, sorry for not posting any snapchats in awhile, I do have some I made, just haven’t posted. (Kinda forgot this was a thing tbh.) Been in college for a couple weeks, so that’s been eating up my time. (Oh who am I kidding about that eating up my time, I sit at home and do nothing lol.)

Anyway back to business. Yandere Dev posted a new video with Osana Progress and more information on the Yakuza. (I actually waited till I was on my laptop to see the Yakuza part so I could type my thoughts after I watch segments.)

Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Vmuwg8k30

PS: In a couple paragraphs, I name the Yakuza so he’s easier to talk about. This is not his canon name. (And if it does become his canon name, it’s the first name to come up when you google, “badass Japanese boy names”, but some credit would be nice.)

Backstory:

Why am I not surprised that there’s some tragic backstory over why the Yakuza is a Yakuza? Not every bad thing you become stems from bad parents. I actually would’ve thought of it being a better story if the Yakuza and the delinquent had good parents. There would be more development on why they turned out like this, if they were brought up pretty well. (Kind of like Lars from Steven Universe. His parents are good parents to him, but Lars is kind of a problem, angsty teenager.)

Like I get YanDev is trying to make us feel sorry for the Yakuza, at least that’s what it seems to me. He wants us to feel bad for him, so we have more of a reason to work for him.

Look I’m all for Akira, let’s call him that for simplicity because that’s a badass Japanese name, raising his kid brother. (Kinda remind me of Big Hero 6, since Tadashi helped raise Hiro since their parents died at a young age.) That’s actually interesting, and kind of how he went into crime because he needed the money. (That actually seems to be a common trope in stuff, have a character commit a crime for money. I used that trope myself with a OC I have in a different fandom.) I’m also all for Akira not wanting his brother to turn out like he did. (I still want to know why the delinquent we help is a guy, and can’t be a girl.)

Now we’re going to be having another option of ‘changing the delinquents’ instead of giving Akira bodies. I’m questioning if going through all that work will be worth it. This is ultimately a game where you try and stop your rival from confessing in numerous ways, but then there’s all these side things you can do to help prevent that.

If we’re reforming the delinquents, are we reforming ALL of them? Like the girls as well, Dev only showed the boys. (It would probably be easier if Akira had a younger sister, but not the point.) I know this is a video game, but I honestly don’t think that a high school girl could change a whole group of delinquents. Just because she did them one favor, or multiple favors, I doubt they’d take her opinions into consideration. You’d have to join them for them to actually value what you have to say.

Wouldn’t they talk to Osoro even if she wasn’t in school? I would think things would change beforeshe came to school. Since she’s their leader and all. Wouldn’t someonemention about Ayano? I would think if Ayano is trying to be a delinquent and doing favors they would tell their boss.

When Dev was talking about how high class the school was, I honestly just thought it was a private school. You know with the uniforms and all. (Altho I guess that would be high class now that I think about it. I went to private catholic school for 13 years, never thought of it as high class.) "If it’s so prestigious why would it tolerate delinquents?“ Because not everyone in high class schools are perfect little angels? I never questioned it once. The school probably shoves what they do under the rug, so the rich and fancy still bring their children there. (I would know my high school did just that whenever shit happened, but that’s a whole different rant I won’t get into.) Also if it’s so prestigious how is Kokona a student? On a scholarship perhaps. (Like Haruhi from OHSHC.) Prestigious schools like that cost a shit ton of money, at least in America. (Just last year my dad spent over 7K just for my Senior Year alone.)

I’d really love to hear Dev’s explanation on why the delinquents are there. Based on stuff I’ve see so far, I don’t think it’ll be as good as I hope. Also Dev thought about Ayano reforming the delinquents before he thought of Akira? No offense, but not everyone needs to be reformed.

This got pretty long, so i’ll make a Part 3 for the 'Ethics’ part of the video. (And maybe a Part 4 if there’s a 3rd segment.)

I know this isn’t a snapchat, but I hope you guys read this post anyway. (Maybe I may do more reactions if people want me to, but ultimately this will be a snapchat blog.)

For those of you who haven’t seen Yandere Dev’s recent video. He talked about adding a character he calls “Yakuza” who is the older brother of a delinquent. Once you do an unpayable debt for one of them, they’ll give you a way to contact Yakuza. Yakuza will do what you want for free to pay back what you did for his sibling. Once the freebie is done, you’ll have to pay for more favors by doing certain tasks. The tasks can range from kidnapping a girl to give Yakuza for Human Trafficking, organs, etc. Apparently the payment gets heavier the more you use him, and will be gigantic if you do it for Megami.

I actually don’t know how to feel about this if it were to be implemented into the game. Throughout the video I was questioning if it fits in the game. Dev said it would be optional if implemented. Is it really necessary though? It feels like Dev is just try to start up more hype with an idea like this. Most of the fanbase was like, “Oh my god he’s hot” and probably don’t understand what they do. I also saw a comment saying, “Omg I ship Yakuza and Ayano.” …. Ffs.

When I was looking at the poll this morning, I saw a crap ton of people vote to have him in the game. The votes went up as I looked at the poll.

I actually went back to the video and looked at the comments. Most of the top comments are his fans saying, “Yakuza is hot”, “Replace Yakuza with Senpai”, “Can you make it so Yakuza is the endgoal instead of Senpai?” Ffs.

As of now about 150K people are in love with the idea. That’s 87% of the poll. Like I get this game is supposed to be dark. I get it. But are that many people really going to buy the game when it comes out? (Or if it ever comes out with the way Osana is being dealt with.) Most of the votes are probably people younger than 13. Those kids shouldn’t even be exposed to the kind of stuff Yakuza does.

Yandere Chan is the type of girl who wants things done herself, she wants her rivals eliminated so she can get Senpai. Sure she gets help from Info-Chan, but that’s a provider/client relationship. Why would Ayano rely on another person to help her do her work? I mean it can help so Senpai doesn’t ever figure out its her, but still.

I’m kind of all over the place with this to be honest. (I voted ‘meh’ on the poll if anyone was wondering.) If you were working with someone that powerful, wouldn’t you think that they could go behind your back? You did their task, but hey they don’t want to do yours. *Boom dead* Someone like that can’t be trustworthy.

“He can acquire illegal weapons and hard drugs.” Cigarettes aren’t enough to get your rival expelled these days? And killing someone with something at school doesn’t suit well? Hell I can take a knife from home, sneak it to school, and kill someone. And it’s free. (Note: I am not going to do that, just giving an example.)

Maybe I’m looking too much into this, I don’t know. Feel free to give me your opinions on this. If you don’t feel the same way I do, let me know and explain why. Please don’t just be like, “This is the best idea, you’re wrong.” No one is wrong or right. We have different opinions.

Tbh, a lot of my opinions on this were somewhat influenced on what other people were saying. That’s why I’m mostly in between on the idea of Yakuza. Don’t know if I could be swayed to favor or hate it if I’m being honest.

If anyone wants me to do more 'reactions’ to new stuff Dev wants to add, let me know and i’ll try to do a blind reaction before looking to see what others think.

PS: If anyone is wondering just how old I am, I’m 18. Just had to say that before anyone thought I was younger, nope.