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HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

Please. No more sports, countries, or idols edition.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

what would you like, anon?

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

they want everyone to be as unhappy as they are obvs

don't app anything, nothing makes them happy gosh

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

well DAMN, jackie, i can't control how many sports animes they produce!






but nah what kind of canons/characters do you think the game could use more of, leaving off what you think it could use less of. i wanna app but dont know who to pick yet.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

diffent anon, but i've always wanted to try playing in holly. however, the sports and anime there in general is what keeps me away. most of my characters are adults or 2real looking vg and i know i wouldn't get much cr with 100+ animes saying my character is a gramps or granny when they're only 30+. i've been in other games that have given me the same treatment, so idk. the same cr (mentoring, advice giving, adult doing damage control on teen animu shenanigans) for years only goes so far. i love hh's premise since it's cute and lowkey, but it'd be a chore to play if i were to app atm.

all in all, i just want more adults versus eighteen year olds assigned to parent slots. good luck if you do decide to app, anon!

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

i'm gonna be honest, hh is a really teenagers and anime-heavy game. if you play a character who does nothing but talk down to teenagers you're gonna have a tough time, so i'm not going to say "more adults!!", because it's a shitty suggestion. i will say don't app if you're looking to keep away from all teenager cr, it'll save everyone a headache. i don't think you ~have to app an anime~, either, but if your character isn't going to deal well with character types common in anime, it's going to take a little work to get cr. contrary to popular belief, it's not impossible as long as you're willing to tag around and able to be realistic about the fact that some people are lost causes. (some of the sports players clearly only want to play with other sports like 90% of the time. that kind of cliquishness isn't universal, though, and tbh it's just as annoying from the gross legbeard brigade.)

adults (or mature older teenagers/young adults) who can balance cr with the other adults in-game and engage with teenagers is probably the best way to describe the kind of character i, personally, am looking for. to be frank, it's not like our firmly adult characters are models of maturity or grace: it's mostly gintama and kill la kill with a smattering of some others, so the ratio of dick jokes is pretty high.

girls are always welcome. yes, including the idol and sports kinds. there's a lot of complaining about gay teenage boys (as if that's different from anywhere else in rp?) but imo it's a sort of chicken-and-egg thing where people who only care about yaoi apped in and that turned some girls off but a smaller amount of teenage girls meant players of teenage boys would go for other ships, so even for those players who would be interested in het it's just not that easy. older high school range girls would be especially great from a teenage perspective. adult women of any stripe would also be really great to see - i don't have the time for one atm but i'd like to add one to my game roster some time soon. and until then i'd kill to play with one.

anon above me seems to have the expectation that all adult-teen cr in this game is mentoring/parenting shit and that's not, in my experience, really true, and especially not on a game-wide scale.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

sorry i play my sports at hh

there aren't very many decent sol games around and i don't find it appropriate to throw them into any of the abundance of horror games

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

by "appropriate" you probably mean "not as easy to ship" right? because that's all the "development" I ever see in hh.

the sports casts in the abundance of horror games usually fare a lot better than 90% of the hh populace, too. guess this game has a knack for attracting the worst of the crop.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

don't you get tired of whining like this? if you don't like it, don't play it.

let people have fun, be the change you want to see, drop, etc. etc .

there are only so many things that people can tell you and if you really hate it that much, it's time to go

maybe other people would app and join if this unwelcoming bs didn't come up every fucking time someone brings up the game. i know well enough that saying anything is like whispering into the wind, but can't we just be positive for once?

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

But personally this is the first time I personally whined about this so idk what to tell you

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

the game population is basically 99% japanese characters, right? somebody should app Dean Winchester.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

and his moe eyes

throw in kawaii tony stark and it will be a dream team

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

i bet if a dean apped, he would have animus lined up down the block trying to get cr with him. same with any other popular male la.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

what if someone apps the dean from the supernatural anime

what if

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

~there is no wank in holly heights~

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

sorry nobody wants to play with your trash shonen protag

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

complaining about slice of life characters in a slice of life game is boring. let's talk about the halloween ball poll.

[(Anonymous)]

but that's boring, too!

[(Anonymous)]

I've been going back and forth on a few characters that I want to rp here. The two teenagers I have aren't exactly sports but they have interest in them - I thought it'd be funny to play one off of a cast having to do with their sport of choice just so they could be bewildered over how intense they are about it.

My main concern is being unmotivated to tag due to the repetition of events in the game. From what I've noticed, LCWs don't excel in this game, so it seems better to app into a cast. I had some people interested in the characters I wanted to bring, but it wasn't enough to make me take the leap.

I have another character I'd like to try who is an adult, but he's a sports! I thought that maybe he could do well with the teenagers, acting as a mentor, but from what I've read in this thread and what I've had friends in the game tell me, adults don't do well in the game at all. I noticed that the Gintama cast is doing okay though.

[(Anonymous)]

some adults do fine but they have to be adults who'd be willing to engage with the teenage casts. the kotetsu from tiger and bunny who recently dropped had a bunch of solid cr for that reason. all my characters are 'kid' aged but i'd like to have more adults around and have actively sought adult cr with all my characters. of course, this thread would have you think i'm a giant lying liar who lies but w/e.

i think one thing that hasn't really been mentioned in the thread is that the adult characters who seem to do better (in my experience) are the ones who take the 'parent' label at least half-seriously. it gives them a reason to get involved in the lives of the teenagers and their friends, but they can also be teachers or even bosses and employ the munchkins. adults and teens don't normally socialize together so in a straight up sol setting (outside of events that randomly stick characters together) there needs to be a reason for them to interact. if these aren't ideal places to start then yeah, it might not be the right game for you, but if these are things you can work with then maybe try to get in on the end of this month's tdm or come into the next one.

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Like the above anon said, taking the parent label half seriously or very seriously definitely helps, but I don't think it even necessarily has to be that. It's just good if the character is interested in interacting with the teenagers and kids in general. I know that's at least the case with all of us in the Gintama cast. Our characters tend to easily develop a sense of responsibility for kids. At the same time, though, the more adult characters the more they can hang out with each other. So come hang with us? We've got an old man club and everything.

But yeah considering how filled to the brim with teenagers the game is, you really have to app an adult that will put in SOME effort to spend time with them. But if it's a sports adult, it sounds like he should fit that bill.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

It's too late to do the Enable Me thing on the meme, but I want to work on an app for the next round, so:

Who would you rather have in the game: Nishimiya Shouko from Koe no Katachi or Tatsumi Takeshi from Giant Killing?

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

personally, nishimiya for sure. the game really does need more girls--i know a couple of people planning to app some next round--and she's fantastic. as tempting as it is to ask for another adult sport to go with the ones we have and will be getting, i really think she'd be just wonderful to have in the game.

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

Nishimiya!

Re: HOLLY HEIGHTS

[(Anonymous)]

so basically the complaint here is that a lighthearted slice of life game is full of characters from lighthearted slice of life canons and the grimdark mcstubble players don't have enough other depressed adults to drink heavily and angst over having ptsd with