This time, I was busy over the holidays so I finished rather late but I'm glad that the deadline made it possible to find the chocolate in the first place. What I liked about this year was that not many anime were used, as opposed to the previous events. A lot of new places were used so Kineta's worries were unnecessary ^^ What I also liked about this year was that the hints were worded in a way that it helped if you had watched the anime while still being "googleable" (actually, DuckDuckGo was much more useful).
I do think that I liked last year's easter hunt just a tad more but that might just be me remembering it wrong. All in all, I enjoyed it and I hope there will be another one next year. Something I did notice though was that there was much more direct help in the thread than in the past years and while I do agree that it's no fun to not being able to continue, I think users should be encouraged to give more vague hints, at least in public.
As I've said before, I overall did enjoy the challenge but there are some eggs/hints I want to highlight:
Hint #5 leading to Aqua:
I think this one was difficult to google, because I didn't know what to search for. "goddess loving nature anime" or "goddess nature beauty anime" shows me a lot of beautiful fanart but not what I was looking for.
Hint #7 leading to Zange:
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So... the idea was nice. Including videos is a nice touch and the overall concept was new. However, there are way too many paths one can research and I still don't know why we were supposed to skip to 5:38, other than that they show a church there. If it hadn't been for a hint in the thread to look for a character starting with a Z, I would have given up at this point because there is no way I'm going to check every role Hanazawa Kana has, especially when I don't know I'm looking for a nun.
Moreover, when you google 5:38 by itself, it leads to the following passage from the bible: "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth", which coincidentally is the favourite quote of Code:Breaker's Rei Oogami.
Hint #8 leading to Portrayer Phantasos:
I really liked this very creative hint! I was thinking about Shakugan no Shana first with Gods of Creation and stuff but after some research this was relatively easy to find.
Eggs #18 and #19:
These might have been two of the most difficult eggs to find in easter hunt history. If I hadn't been able to compare the two pages with a cached version in order to check whether the picture's URL was different, I would have assumed I was on the wrong page. Luckily, I know my tactics ^^ |