ok so hear me out, right? i was on itch like two nights ago just doomscrolling through the tags, the usual mix of "sexy furry girls" and "queens blade" vibes, and i found this thing. the rising of the shield hero, but not like the anime, it's by niicri, so you already know the drill if you've touched their stuff before. it's that specific kind of jank that loops around to being hypnotic.

the raphtalia model is the main thing, obviously. but here's the part i got stuck on for like fifteen minutes, no joke. there's this "see through" toggle for her armor, right? standard stuff. but the way the cloth physics don't quite reset properly when you toggle it off and on again, it creates this weird visual glitch where the fabric gets stuck halfway. it's not intentional, it's totally broken, but it ends up looking like this perfect wet t-shirt contest effect that the actual game never intended. that's the kind of unpolished gold i live for. pure accident. i spent way too long trying to replicate it with different poses. couldn't. it's a ghost in the machine.

the pov creampie scenes are there and they do the x-ray thing, which i'm a total sucker for, but the ui to get there is so counter-intuitive. you basically have to click through three menus that all look the same, and half the time i ended up back at the title screen. don't even get me started on the audio, or lack of it. i had a podcast about crypto scams playing in the background and it weirdly fit the vibe.

anyway, the whole thing feels like someone's private mod project that escaped onto the internet. the tanuki ears clip through every single helmet. every single one. i wish there was a way to just lock the armor state to that glitched halfway point i found, but that'll never get patched. it's a snapshot of a moment in horny game dev history.