Ethically sourced gaslamp fantasy aesthetics

[yvannairie]

The Time Balance Department events in Cookie Run are definitely my favourites on purely aesthetic grounds.

The TBD's colours are white, yellow and orange! It's all gears and mechanisms and old incandescent light bulbs and CRTs and even vacuum tubes! It's all time-travel themed, so there's lots of clocks, arrows and hourglasses. It balances the coolness of metal with the warmness of incandescent and gaslamp light. I love warm retrofuturism.

I also like all of the musical themes, especially Timekeeper Cookie's theme. I love the bombastic supervillain cutscene rendition of it, I like the version that plays in "End of Time" that is like a sad lullaby, but I think that the lobby version that plays in "Timeless Ballroom" is my favourite -- it really lets the waltz of it all come through, it's very sweet and relaxing and it has a sort of relaxed stillness to it that really fits the lobby theme.

Also I think TBD event cookies are all bangers, and all have extremely cool outfits. Timekeeper Cookie (see the end of time, become nonbinary) has such a fun, manic design and I like how all their animations are a bit twitchy, it fits their chaotic nature really well. String Gummy Cookie is incredibly cool. Croissant Cookie is the Wrench Wench representation I love having in my media. (I also like how Baguette Cookie makes cuckoo clock noises XD the first time I heard it I lost my shit.)

Nobody here gets to the level of being my Absolute Fave, but they all dominate my top tens and fifteens easily. I think the art department, the composers and the game designers are all firing on all cylinders whenever it comes time to do a TBD event, it's great.