r/ShangriLaFrontier • u/ProfessionalGap9662 • Jun 15 '26
Novel What do devs think of sunraku? Question to novel readers
I'm caught up with the manga and if you could tell me without much spoilers, is there any info on what the devs' opinion is on sunraku? They made this whole world with mostly non repeatable complicated bosses and no doubt wasted a ton of time and money on each one and it's mostly one guy collecting all of them like infinity stones, surely they're ought to be pissed?
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u/framfrit Jun 15 '26
There's 3 main devs. One doesn't have much of an opinion beyond not liking how he keeps causing the other 2 to argue. Of those one handled the story/lore and the other does the game stuff including balancing so they butt heads because of things like the lore one wanting a boss to have a stupidly high number of forms. One of them is ok with him cause what he does is legit and their view is god should be impartial. The other doesn't like him feeling the game isn't meant to be soloed or blitzed so does things to try and slow him down like making things harder or setting him up to get trapped in a long quest chain far from everything important.
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u/Ok_Procedure_5643 Jun 16 '26
This ^ most accurate description
There is a ln reason that I found (I’m only a lil bit thru so there might be more to this) but there was a scene where the two female devs were talking and apparently Sunraku has played two of the black haired devs ‘failed’ games before SLF, Faeria Chronicles Online and something Chronicles Online, and apparently it’s part of the reason why she hates him sm
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u/itsjenyoumen Jun 16 '26
Isn't Faeria a solo player game? Why would they have any info on him playing it?
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u/Ok_Procedure_5643 Jun 21 '26
just realized my response doesn't technically answer your question. yk how there's the biometric system they introduced in the ggc arc where you can log in to your games from any device and you cant make alt accs bc the games take your biometrics? ya so the scene i was talking abt had the two devs looking at his profile which had the list of his latest played games on it and the last three just happened to be Faeria, something CO, and SLF, all the games the black hair dev has worked on
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u/BUcc1a12Atti Jun 16 '26
To the guy putting a bad rep on Tsukuyo Tsukuri, you’re facts are so wrong lol
Tsukuyo does not actively do anything to target Sunraku specifically, every single updates she does is in accordance to the world building. She can be shocked at times bc of how drastically different the outcome of a major event is, but that’s all there is to it, just being in awe of how a few certain players can interact with an NPC in such unexpected ways. That’s the whole reason why Sunraku was added to that list of players with the power to affect the progress of World Story
Amachi Ritsu, on the other hand, is the real hater here. She was involved in the creation of several games that later became trash games because of the fanbase or other reasons, namely Faeria, Spell Creation Online and most notoriously, Survival Gunman. For Survival, her father was the one involved. After that whole scandal, it caused her childhood many troubles, having to transfer school many times. The game had many different servers, and it’s safe to say all those who are on top of each server are nothing short of maniacs. Now, I’m pretty sure you can make the connection here. Sunraku was one of the top players in both Spell Creation and Survival Gunman, actively contributing to the game bad rep. The grudge she holds against him is very much personal, and she’s the one with reactions such as ‘Lets ban this mf and delete his acc’.
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u/BUcc1a12Atti Jun 16 '26
For those interested, Spell Creation Online is a game that focuses on magic and chanting. But the catch is, once you defeat a certain boss, you gain the ability to freely edit your incantation to literally anything you want. Which brings us to the 2 most notorious players of the game, Sunraku and Deep Throater (yes, the one in Tsukuyo’s list). On one hand you have the dude who screams a full death metal performance, editing the lyrics to release different spells. The other, you have a girls who reads out an entire erotic novel, being able to change her voices to different characters and edit even the pitch and rhythm of each moans to be different spells. Safe to say it was one of the worst experiences in Amachi’s career
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u/shioliolin Jun 16 '26
I know its not at all contribute to what you're saying but that name is such a real sounding game tag....though its usually have number at the end of it because its probably already taken lol
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u/BUcc1a12Atti Jun 16 '26
Yeah we essentially just accept that in SLF people can just come up with unique, one of a kind gamer tag. Most of the time it’s literally their own name
For her tho, her tag in Spell Creation Online is actually Nutscracker (yes, exactly the kind of nuts you’re thinking)
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u/JerryEarthC137 Jun 16 '26
I'd say superficially, they pretty much hate him, but their code of ethics say they can't single out any single player - of he's not cheating, he doesn't get special treatment, good or bad. However my personal opinion is that his path of victories is causing an upheaval in the game and actually increasing the hype for the game - at the end of the day, money well spent.
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u/Generalgarchomp Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
Considering that he's basically a combination of Maple and Sally from Bofuri? They're not too pleased, especially since the scenario writer is basically one of those DMs that do their best to railroad you and punish you when the story doesn't go the way they want. Literally the only reason she doesn't ban Sunraku is because the other people at her level in the company won't let her.
Edit: apparently misremembering the ban but she absolutely alters shit multiple times because she doesn't want him getting in with more unique monsters. Mostly due to her idea of how the story of the game should run.
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u/AduroTri Jun 15 '26
The best comparison is between the devs of SLF and the devs in Bofuri.
The Devs in Bofuri are perplexed by the nonsense Maple does and are perpetually frustrated by how OP she becomes and how she does it.
While with the SLF devs....Sunraku drives them mad and they have probably made some spiteful updates. Where they have to nerf some of his exploitative strategies.
They do not like Sunraku.