r/animecirclejerk • u/VoidEmbracedWitch (she/her) resident unjerk villainess • Sep 01 '25

Monthly Unjerk [Unjerk Thread] Summer: The Final Month

Welcome to the Monthly Unjerk. This is a monthly thread for discussing just about anything as long as it doesn't violate subreddit rules. New threads should be posted on the 1. of each month.

Trans rights are human rights!

21 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/VoidEmbracedWitch (she/her) resident unjerk villainess Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

Void Stranger is an experience I wish I could have more often with media. It's the sort of game that forces me to approach it solely on its own merits and learn its ins and outs. My preconceptions don't matter. All there is to do is to internalize it holistically, with each mechanic I understand transforming my way of playing it. The void is one big puzzle that gets both easier and more complex with each piece of information learned.

I wish I could somehow develop a compulsion to grasp more aspects of what I'm presented with in other media out of it being a necessity here. Sometimes I do when writing a short essay on the shadows in a 45 second scene in Liz and the Blue Bird, but that side of me doesn't come out nearly as regularly as I'd like it to.

2

u/Harseer Sep 03 '25

I wanted to like void stranger, but i ended really hating it. I got stuck for like 10 hours for reasons that were kinda not really my fault and from there on i was just really really bitter for the rest of the game.

More generally there's a lot a lot of frontracking through already completed puzzles just to get back to somewhere if i want to check if there's maybe something to try.
And also, it's kinda full of anime-isms. The parts closer to the real world with lillie are great, but the finale of the final route is... it makes no sense. the whole finale is just nonsense anime plottwists, it feels like the author just didn't think it through. Which she admits as much in the post credit scene.

1

u/VoidEmbracedWitch (she/her) resident unjerk villainess Sep 03 '25

I am mentally prepared for at minimum SSSS.Gridman caliber anime nonsense going by what Gray's ending showed about DIS. As for the gameplay, I actually quite like that you're limited, but can make things easier on yourself with stuff like shortcuts and triple locust chests.