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(1) Someone intentionally lied to Ironmouse about their use of GenAI. They knew it was in there, and said it was not. This is the "malicious" explanation.

(2) Someone sincerely thought there was no GenAI shipping at launch and that all other "placeholders" were replaced. Some textures and a couple of video assets were missed. It's a small team with a giant library of assets, and maybe a couple dozen didn't get replaced (way fewer than Tower of Fantasy). The company that was called out for AI slop with ToF didn't want a repeat of that controversy and sincerely meant to remove the AI placeholders. They failed to get 100% of them. This is the "incompetence" explanation.

If I were to put actua

Is there a place this will matter? Because I find Nanally a little annoying, and I can't get enough of Mint. So my present crew is Hathor, Zero, Mint, and Daffodil.

Openly admit I have no idea about the "finer points" of combat, but no fight has taken me more than 2 shots at it except the headless rider (because I was out of healing items, and for some reason, I'm terrible at dodging that spin thing).

All of them seem like they would do fine if you gear them up.

Reception of this game seems divided in weird ways, and then it came to me, this morning. The main character is the CITY, not the people or activities inside it.

If you want to use a stolen Porche to pick up your date and gather supplies for your line of cafes until the sun goes down and you can do some creepy ghost hunting together, then this is a fantastic game. You can do all that in the same place. If you'd rather play a dating sim, GTA, Cafe Tycoon, look at postcards, and watch Supernatural, then do those things. But NTE lets you do them with the same people in the same place. Not at the quality level of those other things in their own worlds, but you CAN do them.

If you think the cit

• Heard Christmas Oguri will be good at this.
• Start career.
• Carefully choose legacies.
• Carefully choose supports.
• Win debut race - nice Speed stat, so far.
• Back and forth with Training and Races.
• 2nd place on Hopeful Stakes.
• Alarm clock.
• Watch race this time.
• Sees Triumphant Pulse at the end of the race ...

DOH!!!

(Wrong Oguri ...)

I am so distraught. Pace of stats was excellent. Got Turf on Classic year. Med & Pace on Senior year (and not gold sparks!?!?). And then ... ghosted by my supports. Speed was Kitisan & Kawakami, and those effing slackers didn't show up a single time after Senior Summer camp. I had 2 hammers and bought 1 going into the finals, but them ghosting me completely between August and December kept the gap too wide for me to even get speed to 1200. And speed was LEVEL 5 in the SPRING of Sr. Year thanks to previous speed trainings + an upgrade. Super frustrating. Only way I'd be more frustrated is if she landed S Long instead of S Med.

At least she turned in some okay sparks. Not epic, but good enoug

Whenever I search for differences, here, every search and every person swears there's no difference. The outcome is determined server-side and whether you watch or not doesn't make a difference. And yet ... MANT makes me feel like this is preposterous. Just had a run where EVERY skip race was a horrible loss. While watching the races never placed lower than 2nd.

Especially crazy are things like: Great Mood, used a hammer, skip, 8th place. Alarm clock, watch, 1st place. I get it - that's the point of the alarm clock - to reset the race conditions. But if this was simply RNG, then should I lose at least SOME of the time this happens? Especially if Mood is already maxed out? Zero times in many