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A frankly WAY TOO DEEP analysis of Reign of Nightfall Lore

After rewatching the entire story + FOOL Event P1 I have noted down everything I thought seemed lore relevant. I might have missed a few things here or there but ultimately this is the final result. Here are some notes:

  • Voiced lines triumph over translated lines. Of course, that also means there's no actual spelling for the words so pardon me if they're written incorrectly.
  • Took an embarassingly long time to deduce Nodus is the current continent, becuase nobody actually says "Gosh I love this continent we live in called Nodus". They say things like "I sail between Nodus and Santa". Translation often called it Southern Ocean Continent or Mainlaind or even China. However it once translated to 'Naze' which is exactly what Nodus is translated to.
  • For the Shadowborn Abilities Index, I only wrote the abilities I was 100% sure. For example I'm sure characters like Liquidator and Candela have abilities. I'm also unsure whether Ghost has anything to do with the blue lights/lantern. And I'm pretty sure mistress has either a paper or a map related ability, but unless the story spells it out, I ain't putting it down.
  • I also only placed people with actual sprites. So I didn't include, for example, the Security Guard in Fool Event who can sense shadow abilities.
  • For specific locations (as in shops, houses, etc) I only entered those with a Name and a background. Otherwise they get a passing name.
  • The story mentions 7 continents , though one is unknown. I don't know what the 6th one is. Maybe it IS nodus and I just merged those into two, but it'll remain that way until I get more evidence they're not the same place
  • Thank you idk for posting the entire story in youtube.
  • If you want to add things or issue corrections I would appreciate telling me exactly where your correction comes from "chapter 5" means 3 hours of research for something you might misremember. "chapter 5-11" is at least much more helpful.
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u/Tinynanami1 — 2 days ago

>Unable to ignore the gaze

Machine translation

NG is—
Interviewer, Painter, Producer.
Silent, Manic, Confused.
It's the Not Good storyboard, the taint that needs repeated scrubbing, the worshiped “art trend.”

NG sometimes forgets who they are, or perhaps never figured it out to begin with,
But it doesn't matter—“oneself” has always been the hardest role to play.

▸ #DesireSecretFiles# ·NG
▸ 𝒩𝒢|𝒩ℴ𝒶𝒽 𝒢𝒶𝓁𝓁ℴ𝓌

u/Intelligent_Car_1471 — 4 days ago

[Upside-Down Paradise Lost · Part 2] Version Event Overview

Machine translation

The world is a charade, life is a show.

Reign of Nightfall's new version event [Paradise Lost·Part 2] will officially premiere on July 9th.
The event calendar and overview can be viewed by swiping the accompanying images.

When the carnival curtain falls, welcome to the "reality" behind the scenes.

u/Intelligent_Car_1471 — 4 days ago

NG · Noah Gallow • Dream Producer • 6 Star Card

“Go ahead, paint me, define me....”
Can a blank canvas also yearn for attention?
If that’s the case, don’t look away,
until the colors blend into your skin, until they become part of you...
• NG| Noah Gallow

>>>>>
The world's a charade, life's a show. Welcome to the "truth" behind the curtain. July 9th, the event "Paradise Inverted Part 2" is dropping soon.
*Check out some interactions from the six-star card "Dream Producer • NG", but the final look? You'll have to see it in the game to know for sure.

u/Known-Committee7984 — 5 days ago

June Revenue

Reign of Nightfall made 5 million in june from its CN server, ranking it 29th among all gacha games in June. This is estimations by SensorTower and, iiirc, only accounts for mobile and not PC purchases.

For the rest of the ranking https://revenue.ennead.cc/revenue

What does this mean for us, the players?

Many games never reach top 50, so I think the fact our game reached that as a great sign for things to come. I doubt we have to worry about EoS. Honestly July should be more indicative of the game's actual placement since every gacha gets some boosts for their release (and other major milestones like anniversaries). I expect RoN to fall off in July, but I have high hopes it'll remain in top 50.

~~Also with a certain other gacha orienated for women taking a MAJOR hit it's possible some fans trickle down to RoN since they share a similar fanbase.~~

Global! Global...Global. Global?

I have no idea whether this is enough for global, but I have hopes. Mostly because this game is already with one foot in the global rather than anything revenue-wise. They paying double the money to voice everything in English [actually more, because they have to first hire a team to translate those lines to english] AND the game has an option to change the text (although chinese is only option right now). The 6th game is Naruto Online and it's CN exclusive.

Profit or Loss?

Since this only shows the revenue, we don't know how much profit was actually made. Were I to guess I think this game isn't expensive enough for this to be a loss. It's difficult to say. The game has SO many CGs ,[the fool event for example has like 10+], every NPC is voiced, there's so many animations, the art is SO gorgeous it MUST cost a pretty penny. Even things like UI art (think of how many assets used in the fool event, from the shop to the dice game, to the tetris game, etc) are pretty nice.

With that said, its still a 2D game without an open world, so I would guess it made a profit.

Anyway that's all!

u/Tinynanami1 — 6 days ago

“Paradise Inverted: Part 2” Event PV

The world is a charade, life is a show.
The poor rise, the successful fall.
The camera pulls back from memory, colors turning into fish.
The audience thinks they are watching, until they see the pair of eyes in the reflection on the screen.
- "Good morning, good afternoon, good evening... goodbye."
>>>
Welcome to the "truth" behind the curtain.
July 9th, the event version "Paradise Inverted: Part 2" is coming soon.

u/Known-Committee7984 — 5 days ago

"Please look at me."

"Please look at me, expose me,
and then..... completely ▇▄▃▬▂ meー"
>>> PV releases on July 3rd, please stay tuned!

u/Intelligent_Car_1471 — 6 days ago

Recent optimization content notes [2]

Dear BOSS, good afternoon!
In the blink of an eye, BangBang is already almost a month old! Lately, we’ve been balancing the development of new version content while continuously keeping a close eye on everyone’s feedback.

Our last optimization sync was on June 10. Since then, alongside the adjustments already pushed to the game via updates, we have mapped out several new optimizations. These have now been added to our checklist, and we’re here to report them all to you today:

Upcoming Art Optimizations (Hotfix on July 2 / This Thursday)
Card Game Prophet · The Fool Style: Facial optimization for the first card cg.
Survival of the Fittest · Tyrant Outfit: Detail improvements for the character splash art.

Future Continuous Optimizations:
Security & Verification: Implementation of secondary passwords and double confirmation for high-value operations.
Birthday Wishes: Added functionality for Shadowborn self-select / multi-select.
Lobby Customization: Main interface character rotation feature.
Monthly Card Perks: Expanded benefits to support custom (DIY) App icons.

BOSS, you can check the detailed optimization checklist on the post image, Of course, this list isn't exhaustive. we will continue to audit, review, and optimize as we go. Whatever can be improved will be rolled out step by step.

Delayed features:
Permanent Unlock for Birthday Exclusive Attire and Story Speed-up, were originally expected to complete development this month. However, due to development and testing scheduling constraints, they will need to be postponed and will officially debut sometime in July.

Moving forward, we will regularly sync our optimization progress with you. Thank you, BOSS, for walking alongside us to make the Shadow world a better place. We will keep giving it our all!

Sleepless Night Studio

u/Intelligent_Car_1471 — 8 days ago

Possible next banner character

on a products info site it’s shows an illustration of >!the director (?) of paradise lost!< similar to the cards art so he might be part 2 character

It also might be an art from the event so….

u/Intelligent_Car_1471 — 11 days ago