u/ferinsy

https://lightandnight.vnggames.com/event/lan/pre-register

Let's go!! Also posting the synopsis and characters in case someone doesn't know a single thing about it and doesn't want to be spoiled by the wiki.

Well, it makes you choose a country between Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, but you can still pre register. (It's possible that you'll need a VPN to play if you aren't from any of those countries)

Rewards are just some level up card materials, 2k coins, and an exclusive avatar frame.

- First b&w Punirunes to come out, still has the puni puni (squishy) ball;

- They have similar programming but with different Sanrio characters;

- "Commu" seemingly stands for "community", so maybe it's meant to be like the Tamagotchi Nano, with IP collabs? We'll have to wait and see;

- 2 minigames (Punijump rope and Puniwhip);

- There's a gacha that you play once every day and can get stuff from it;

- Gifts appear when you fill a bar involving good care. Squish them to open;

- Punis still don't die, they melt and you can bring them back to their form by squishing the rubber ball;

- There are 20+ animations (maybe going out, maybe idle animations?) and other Sanrio characters can visit you;

- Cost: ¥3,300 (21 dollars), and there's a set with a Hello Kitty case for ¥4,800 ($30);

- Plushies (¥3,080) and plush keyrings (¥1,760) will also be released;

- Release date: late June, 2026.

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Official website: https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/punicommu/

Trailer: https://youtu.be/gZD-N1NclKo

It's been known in China for a while, since the last beta (in February), but just today a video by iYatoOfficial is getting viral on Twitter and lots of posts gathering over 100k likes in total have brought it to the general public's attention that in NTE you can't date men, but you can date women as female MC.

It's actually a bit of a flirty friendship, but very clearly intended to be seen as dating since the interactions are a bit too intimate. You can set up to 5 girls to date.

While it flew over my head in February (even thought I often browse xhs and bilibili) due to its neutral reception, the negative reception today is really hard to ignore bc it's everywhere if you follow any gacha fanpage, with several reposts and retweets bashing it (and a couple praising it as well).

This is making some people a bit bitter, specially because the info comes to the public attention a week after Mongil's announcement that they won't release more male characters after releasing the game with a small amount of them (https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/s/Fkub1W2Yyh).

Well, at least they aren't baiting their players into playing a game that only caters to male players (and bi/lesbian women, even if by accident and it ends up being patched in the future).

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Source: https://x.com/i/status/2045495647311433984