I was going to post this last week but we all had better things to talk about then, and i hope this doesn't come off as too long or blogposting, but i need to vent/confess.
5 months ago i had a meltdown over a translated summary of Miracle Pancake (fueled by extra JP and Gehenna in general dooming) and made an absurd rant about wanting to petition it out of the game. I made a mess, apologized a week later and hoped to be wrong about everything, but couldn't quite cope with the feeling that it was just bad and obsessed over it an unhealty amount waiting for the global version, so i could confirm whether my issues were due to poor translation or just how it was.
The event released and pretty much everything i didn't want it to be turned out to be right. It's all been discussed here already so i won't bother with the small things, but my main gripe was with how shallow Juri's development was. Her driving goal just... solved? No revelation or comprehension about herself, retaing a failure rate with no method to madness or direction for further improvements, the progression being presented without a connection to her previous attempts but closer to a toggle that was turned off. In the end the fact she could make pancakes was presented as the happy ending, but i couldn't feel it. The risk of a monster coming out was not addressed, she has basic empathy to feel bad if that happened and thus remained limited to assistance duty in the kitchen, not cooking like Fuuka as she wished.
I still wanted to do something, but couldn't find the words to properly rally any discontent, convey all that and the other issues i had.
Fuck, this got too long so (1/2)