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[Twinwolf]

I assume that the player characters must be female?

[Ruludos]

I assume that the player characters must be female?

Bah! It's almost like you don't want to play a Magical Girl game at all!

[Twinwolf]

It's a legitimate question. In "Rise of the Magical Girls" on the non-rtd games, being a magical girl is not actually a requirement.

[Empiricist]

Also, seeing as essence is unique to the Yami and the girls, I presume that eating random civilians won't be an acceptable method of restoring it?

Well, since the Yami require hosts with certain emotions, one of the acceptable ones being Despair, you could just torture civilians until a Yami uses them as a host, and then devour them before it can establish a firm enough foothold to retaliate ^__^

Or better yet, abduct little girls, torture them half to death in front of their parents, eat the parents when they are used as hosts due to their despair, and then recruit the dying girl!

[AoshimaMichio]

I assume that the player characters must be female?

Of course not.

[piecewise]

Perhaps Dark comedy is the best description?

You got it right; grimdark is when there's literally no hope of a good ending, and shooting yourself now will just save you time in the long run. Sounds like it'll land somewhere next to Madoka on the idealism/cynicism scale, where ultimate victory will be very difficult but possible with enough determination.

The Yami cannot interact with this dimension under normal circumstances, but can manifest themselves if they have a host which is producing the right brainwave (they have some sort of affinity for the right frequency waves, especially organically produced ones). These Brainwaves are those created by negative emotions; hate, cruelty, despair, apathy, etc. Young girls are chosen because they seem to lack the capacity to produce the kind of brainwaves needed to become parasitized.

Sort of like Day Break Illusion's Diabolos Tarot, then? Of course, I can see some spectacularly fumbled rolls (can't look up the name of the stat now that you've taken the online copy down) letting the Yami in at exactly the wrong time. Must suck for your first batch of supersoldiers to get hijacked by the enemy and go berserk inside your base; that sort of trial-and-error can't have been any fun.

So now the magical girls are shipped around the world, fighting outbreaks of these Yami wherever they pop up.  Magical girl Xcom where you're fighting alien demons produced by negative emotions.

Simple, right 

Now that I remember you describing it as X-COM: Mahou Shoujo edition I'm following you much more easily. Seeing as the PCs will be the ground soldiers, I presume the research aspects will be dropped? While player progression will follow along nicely as the enemies grow stronger, I can see the discovery of the source of the Yami and the research of various artifacts/locations tied to them being the driving force of the plot, like it was in Symphogear. No need to spend any time researching new weapons when your soldiers can rip new ones right off of the enemy.

Also, seeing as essence is unique to the Yami and the girls, I presume that eating random civilians won't be an acceptable method of restoring it?

Nah, random citizens don't contain that good good alien juice.

Also, seeing as essence is unique to the Yami and the girls, I presume that eating random civilians won't be an acceptable method of restoring it?

Well, since the Yami require hosts with certain emotions, one of the acceptable ones being Despair, you could just torture civilians until a Yami uses them as a host, and then devour them before it can establish a firm enough foothold to retaliate ^__^

Or better yet, abduct little girls, torture them half to death in front of their parents, eat the parents when they are used as hosts due to their despair, and then recruit the dying girl!

I should point out that Yami have "kingdoms" of sorts, hierarchy of power determined by the "purity" or "Strength" of the emotion.

Despair is a very pure, powerful emotion and summoning up one of them would be a very poor idea indeed.

[Empiricist]

Okay, so screaming civvies tormented by the sight of their child being tortured to death is a Sometime Food then.

[IronyOwl]

I should point out that Yami have "kingdoms" of sorts, hierarchy of power determined by the "purity" or "Strength" of the emotion.

Figurative kingdoms or goddamn it do not treat with an envoy from the souleating abominations kingdoms?

Okay, so screaming civvies tormented by the sight of their child being tortured to death is a Sometime Food then.

Oh my god we're internet trolls.

"Let's torture her entire family to death."
"NO! I'm low on Essence and Emily's almost got her fancy bow, let's just do something easy!"
"Fiiiiiiine, we'll call her husbando shit before admitting we didn't even watch the show like usual. Scrape out a living on punk-ass Calmless like every other goddamned mission."

[flabort]

No, it's an all you can eat buffet reserved for the VIPs of the VIP Yami world. Only for the cream of the crop, but boy are the cream of the crop hungry - very, very, world consuming hungry.

[Empiricist]

Am I the only one who keeps on placing all this information in terms of drugs?

"This, this is Despair. Pure, emotion. Not the shit your common Yami snorts, cut with whatever the fuck they put into them nowadays. No, this is the good shit, the real stuff. When a King gets high, THIS is what they use. You, you don't want this. Not unless you want to OD, and I, sure as hell don't want you to OD. The dead can't pay up, after all, and I can assure you, there is a lot to pay. The good shit's expensive. And Despair is the best."

I mean, a Magical Girl is basically a junkie on supernatural crack, who needs to shakedown eldritch drug dealers for their supply in order to keep their habit going.

[piecewise]

For reference, Despair rolls...according to a dice average calculator, in the 63-71 range on average. Which is strong enough to pick you up and hurl you several miles. And it never runs out of Essence.

[ATHATH]

For reference, Despair rolls...according to a dice average calculator, in the 63-71 range on average. Which is strong enough to pick you up and hurl you several miles. And it never runs out of Essence.

Can we strap medical apparatus to a Kami and pump out infinite essence?

[piecewise]

For reference, Despair rolls...according to a dice average calculator, in the 63-71 range on average. Which is strong enough to pick you up and hurl you several miles. And it never runs out of Essence.

Can we strap medical apparatus to a Kami and pump out infinite essence?

That strikes me as very unlikely.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

So what's the most powerful Kami emotion?

[Empiricist]

So what's the most powerful Yami emotion?

I'm going to guess it'd be something really rare. Like "jacking off to the holocaust" levels of sadism or something. Otherwise every time someone gets too pissed off, a world-razing abomination will pop-up and trolls literally bring forth the end of the world.