Further Cookie Run feelings

[yvannairie]

I follow my guildmaster on Tumblr so I'm obviously Hip With The Cookiecourse(tm) but it actually took me a while to get the two cookies -- Roguefort and Walnut -- that have caused all of the ship police to lose their minds... and even if my interest in them wasn't poisoned by the wank, I just don't see why they're so interesting to people, lmao.

Like, Roguefort Cookie, I kinda get -- NB characters are always fun -- and even though his gimmick annoys me, his trial is actually really fun, not too fast but not too easy either. I tend to not like the gimmicks that take you "out" of the actual stage b/c I'm always so fucking disoriented when I come out of them that I immediately make some dumb mistake which makes it less fun to run with them. The only exception to this is DJ Cookie, and that's because I love rhythm games, but I have this same problem with Milk Cookie (whose trial I also tragically enjoy) and Millenial Tree cookie.

Walnut, though? She's just a boring kawaiiko with a boring gimmick that stops the run dead for ten seconds, a boring trial and a boring design with too many shades of the same colour. Even Ginger Brave has better colour variety. I remain absolutely incomprehending about how the two of these got popular enough to start generating the kind of wank that reaches beyond the bubble of the fandom.

(J/K I know it's b/c they score high.)

That actually annoys me too, like... currently if I'm doing Trophy Runs for reasons other than grinding tickets, I'm pretty much always stuck using Millenial Tree although I find him boring to play just b/c otherwise I'm constantly losing points. It's really frustrating, I don't exactly mind the screen nuke but it's just really boring, because there's not a single threat associated with gaining points. Roguefort and Milk Cookie's gimmick also have this issue, you can effectively put the phone down while they're on b/c they hoover up all the jellies and then on top of that you get whatever you get from the minigame. It's seriously so easy to get a perfect score with Roguefort, and his magic candy even makes it give you more points.

My preferred gimmicks are the ones that let me go fast and force me to play better. Pistachio and Tiger Lily, my two favourite cookies, both have gimmicks that do this, as does the newly-buffed Knight. But these cookies don't score well, because distance doesn't automatically translate to points -- jellies do. And screen nuke gimmicks as well as point generators like Vanish and Milk Cookies shield have not threat associated with gaining points, while cookies like Avocado and White Choco that generate jellies when breaking obstacles score high as well, much higher than cookies that just break obstacles.

You can kinda offset this with some Treasures -- the Candy Cane of Darkness is a staple if I'm playing with Pistachio or Tiger Lily, Tiger Lily's candy is enchanted to give more destruction points -- but it seriously is not anywhere near enough. There are cookies that take way less skill to play well that score way higher, so there's no wonder nobody ever uses cookies whose gimmick is to Go Fast. It would be so easy to offset too, just give a bonus based on the distance covered with the cookie at the end of their run and scale that based on whether it was the first cookie or someone running relay. But no.

IDK, maybe it's asking too much for the game to be balanced better, but post level 29 I've had progressively less fun running Trophy Races. And Breakouts are so long I only pretty much do them once a week just to stay on the curve and not miss out on prizes that often. I'm mostly complaining about this b/c my favourite cookies get hit with this so hard they effectively stop being competitive and I am forced to play a more boring game in order to not suck, because the punishment for placing badly in Trophy Races is pretty awful.

What I'm saying is Devsys please buff dash abilities or adjust your scoring, I'm begging you. I don't want to have to keep maximising my energy on cookies I don't even like playing in order to keep playing ;~;)

Comments

[yvannairie]

God this is gonna sound like bragging but a few of the founders of Ao3 write TF fic on the reg so yeah that's on point at least but also the very well received run of the IDW comics that doubled down on Cybertron being homonormative and having no concept of gender just ended and most of the Tumblr fandom I know came in through that one or the Prime cartoon from 2012. TFP apparently had an early example of a Garbage Tumblr Fandom and considering how everyone who is into TF is into basically all of TF, I can believe it.

(Except me, I'm doggedly refusing to become a fan of the comics. Sue me, I get awful Hype Backlash and being told that the underwhelming-looking thing is actually zomgthebestever does it for me.)

IDK what it is. I guess it's just... people not being exposed to "fandom" before they start engaging with it because people find their ways into these communities through the thing they like, and not knowing how the fuck to behave themselves. I could see there having been some merit to the current backlash when it started because so much of the functionality of Tumblr has always relied on the people using it acting in good faith (and I saw my fair share of "lmao I'm not tagging anything for anyone, don't follow me if you don't wanna see my content" back when tags were the only way to find anything. Curiously people don't talk about how everything got worse when Tumblr moved to full text search, and how Twitter has always been a full-text search platform)

People just... don't form communities anymore, having only one-on-one friendships and then treating the shared idea of a thing as a community. And that means nobody has any fucking manners anymore.