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KobaBeach wrote: 2 years ago Terranigma: Got past Eklemata, the scene with the goat I expected to be harsher, but it's still pretty moving. Keyblade999 complained about Dark Morph on their FAQ but it was generally piss easy, same person who complained about some questionable shit on Minelvaton Saga too so ¯\_(^o^)_/¯ maybe they just need to git gud.

Dark Morph is also super inspired by Vagullion (i had to look up the spelling) from Ys, the awful bat boss from 1 (I think Origin too?). Quintet was founded by ex-Falcom members, specifically the Ys writer (Tomoyoshi Miyazaki), and the director, designer and programmer (Masaya Hashimoto) is also a member. It's almost as annoying but its bats are easier to tank since i-frames and the ability to walk on diagonals is a thing here (I think diagonals was also on TGCD Ys though not sure, maybe just 4? Definitely not PC88, mantis boy was also dreadful). Taking a small break and will be stocking up on Medium Size Bulbs (M.Bulb) before heading on with Louran which I've triggered the dungeon entry already.

This game is art.
And what's insane is that Nintendo released this in Europe (with English localization done by Dan Owsen of NOA)...but not the States. Like I know the reasoning (Enix closed shop for a while in the States, Nintendo probably didn't want to release anything else with the N64 having just been released stateside), but STILL

I mean, getting this released on Nintendo Switch Online would be a bigger deal than Mother 3. I will fucking die on that hill
thatguyif wrote: 2 years ago No Man's Sky is a game I want to enjoy. It's beautiful, it's got cool exploration, it's got pew-pew. The problem is...it slams you in the face with crafting. Crafting I don't mind if it's a side thing to do for fun, but when it's a game that requires you to do it, it's not fun. And NMS gives those vibes. Like I wanted to explore, and they were all "you need to build a fabricator," "you need to build stuff," "you need to mine for various things just to get around," stupid shit like that. They refuse to give you controls of your ship, but they spend a lot of time teaching you crafting.
This is why I don't like survival Minecraft. It's basically sandbox with a dragon slaying goal that was added "posthumously" (I'm pretty sure it was during the final release not after but y'know) and everything relies on crafting and scavenging randomly generated worlds, creating a shelter, creating armor, creating weapons... I just want to build fancy shit. If you're gonna make me craft just give me like. Swordcraft Story level depth.
Yeah. Scavenging I wouldn't actually mind so much, since when done right it's a fun exploration thing, but when a lot of stuff is just "mine ore, build parts, build machines, build structures," it kills the mood.

Played a demo of a Dutch indie game called Aeon Drive from the Guerrilla Collective stream, and it had an interesting gimmick: Stages are in 30 second time loops (plot being your ship's warp cores will explode in 30 seconds and destroy the planet, so you need to get them all before they go boom). Gave me a lot of Katana Zero vibes, and I enjoyed that game. That said, some stuff seemed a little jank.
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Beat Mad Gaia (Earth Elemental) in Vay and got the Earth Orb. At Calzenia (Kerzalt) now, Ceasar Village (Shadhook). Mostly easy game. Otto seems to suspect Erin's from the Darneck Empire, especially since she appeared fainted outside the castle of Hynelore (Lorath) with no memory. Curious. The game is reminding me a lot of Lufia so far along with Legend of Heroes and Dragon Quest. You could have worse inspirations!

Also started the Saturn version of Lunar: Silver Star Story, worse quality FMVs but I wanted to appease the Saturn gods. Barely started gonna try to upgrade gear before progressing with the White Dragon Cave because I'm evil.
thatguyif wrote: 2 years ago And what's insane is that Nintendo released this in Europe (with English localization done by Dan Owsen of NOA)...but not the States. Like I know the reasoning (Enix closed shop for a while in the States, Nintendo probably didn't want to release anything else with the N64 having just been released stateside), but STILL

I mean, getting this released on Nintendo Switch Online would be a bigger deal than Mother 3. I will fucking die on that hill
I mean it's actually possible. I just don't know if Squeenix still owns the Quintet IPs and I have no idea where Miyazaki and Hashimoto are at these days, are they even producing JRPGs even?? Probably not! I'd check it out but im lazy.

A similar thing also happened with PSX DraQue4 where America didn't get it despite advertisements because reportedly (source is a thread on twitter talking about DQ's challenges in the west), Enix simply had no dev support due to Heartbeat dying sort of. Europe never got Dragon Quest until VIII I believe, so. In Japan it stayed.
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Lunar: Silver Star Story: At Gort Woods (Weird Woods).

The Legend of Heroes IV (remake): Playing PC and catching up instead of playing PSP because why not. Currently heading to the Dryad Forest to meet up with Archem, and run into a deacon's plan to remove the Meefa hunting ban to sell Meefa fur for a meager profit despite the fact that they detox the air in New Bornn with their natural scent.

Sengoku TURB: Eating Tainyan in the hub (Level 64 post the first opposite side chapter) to raise my attributes (HP, Strength and Defense) so I have a better chance to surpass the later stages easily. Will scavenge for Meow-Meow Coins (Nyan Nyan Coins) to hoard weapons later.

Fallout: At Lv2 and past Shady Sands and the Radscorpion Caves, helped Razlo with the Antidote. At the entrance of Vault 15 with Ian. Using a preset from a walkthrough on GameFAQs to help me learn the game. Bloody Mess is great, considering trying Jinxed later on since I watched hbomberguy's Fallout 3 analysis ages ago and that part stuck to me. I like the aesthetics of Shady Sands, reminds me of Panzer Dragoon. Need to speak to more people for lore. Brahmin are friends

Vay: Beat up the Vampyr (don't remember the Japanese name) in the cave of Raxaal (don't remember the Japanese name), and I'm now in the town of Eama looking for the stones of sunlight and rain staff Wedge of Ice, Gear of Water and Blanket of Fog (not sure if that last one is the same in Japanese) after beating up the Wind Elemental (didn't bother to look at his name in Japanese) in Tapouyah Mountains (aka Mt. Bole in English). Got the Wind Orb.

No one in Japan bothered to play this game, it's like Lagoon on the SNES. Barely any data about the Japanese release exists. It's kind of sad

Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II: Made it past the Royal Graveyard and rescued Flora, at Board's hideout. Chapter 1: Thus, The Gates of Hades Open. The Dragon Eggs (apparently that's what those are in the world map) are going bonkers and turning red, spewing monsters like some Soul Blazer enemy spawning site. I think we're off to find Barbara now, I had to look this up but, she's the woman who took Lunan Erion to the inside of the Dragon Egg in LoH1.

She has a generic old lady sprite. I confused her with Miralda, Board's butch ass ex-pirate mom who owned like fuck, her sprite was similar. I hope she's still alive. Someone I hope isn't alive is Flora's dad Gerald, who seemed like a massive creep. "My cute little Flora" and blushing when she thanked him for letting Atlas and Lando escort her, Lando even calls him a sleazeball (okay, "sukebe" which basically means that).

I looked the other way during Gami Gami Maou because he's generally an adorkable manchild apart from the pedophile tendencies. I'm pretty sure both the 3DS and PSP games' translations censor that which is for the best. So far TLoH2 feels very much like Legend of Heroes: The After Years, not liking it as much, especially with the weird repurposing of a mostly linear world.
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The Mega Man 3 recording has been in full swing since the middle Memorial Day weekend. It's been a peaks and valleys experience. One no-hit run took over five hours to do, a sad record. The one after that only took 10-15 minutes. A lot of stage are coming down to one enemy, whether it's positioning or having to do one tough jump over said enemy, and it gets tiring after a while, especially when I screw up a part after. Just glad to be past the halfway point here now at the very least.
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KobaBeach wrote: 2 years ago
thatguyif wrote: 2 years ago And what's insane is that Nintendo released this in Europe (with English localization done by Dan Owsen of NOA)...but not the States. Like I know the reasoning (Enix closed shop for a while in the States, Nintendo probably didn't want to release anything else with the N64 having just been released stateside), but STILL

I mean, getting this released on Nintendo Switch Online would be a bigger deal than Mother 3. I will fucking die on that hill
I mean it's actually possible. I just don't know if Squeenix still owns the Quintet IPs and I have no idea where Miyazaki and Hashimoto are at these days, are they even producing JRPGs even?? Probably not! I'd check it out but im lazy.
If JP Wiki (and the translations thereof) is to be trusted, Hashimoto is a freelancer these days, Miyazaki just straight up disappeared.

Played the Onmo Demo. It's a very chill game for what it's worth with nice aesthetics. That said, it was extremely basic (like, it's about 20 minutes worth of game, really), and the post-demo did little to suggest that there was more to it than that. (Though you get to surf on your staff, that was rad)

Went into Hollow Knight again. I've exceeded the playtime of my first playthrough, and I am much further in than I was in the first. I feel like I'm getting very close to the endgame here. The remaining mysteries:
  • How to deal with the black tendril barriers so I can finally get the map to Fog Canyon
  • Exploring Queen's Garden
  • What lies beyond the King's Crest door in Ancient Basin, now that I have said crest
  • Who is giggling behind that door in the Tower of Love
  • The remaining Stagway stations
I also haven't really done much with

Colloseum of Fools

or any of the DLC content. But I would be unsurprised if I get things done this month, before the C͞͏҉͓̫̝̗̳͉̳̰̰̪̺̝̘͇̜͇̙u̸̡̲̝̰͙͠ŗ̶̮̙͉̬́̀s̡̯̝̙͔͖͎͕̖̹͉̼͢e͔̦̟̤̩̪̰̗̲̪͢͜ͅd̵͏̟͇̺̝̲̝̪̫̺̻͍̥̥̭͎ ̡̱̻̫͖͈̰̩̦̭͔̲̞͈̫͇̀̀̀͜F͡͝҉̪͇̩͕̗̖̻͖͉̜̤͕ͅì̶͎̠̳̞͕͎̟̲͘ͅè̵̛͘͏̟̠̖̖̱̘̬̩̬̠̣̠͈̩͚ͅͅş̸̸̨̰̠̮̖̩̦͖̻́t̵̝̻̠̰̪̱̕a̮͇̖̪̲̳͙̼̻͖͘ begins.
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1. FFTA - Next totema: The Viera One... Omega, I think?
2. MMBN2 - ALicense exams, then on to Yumland!
3. Intense EET - Mary Sue the Fighter/Wild Mage - Currently working westwards from Nashkel to the Gnoll Stronghold
4. Trickster Online - Mermaid Palace
5. Pocket Monsters Sword - Something about Motostoke? It's been a hot minute...
6. MMMerge - The economy in MMMerge sucks if you do MM6 first due to the reputation system. 
7. Revelations: The Demon Slayer - Test Modern Spell Names + Better Monster Names
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thatguyif wrote: 2 years ago If JP Wiki (and the translations thereof) is to be trusted, Hashimoto is a freelancer these days, Miyazaki just straight up disappeared.
time to put him on the side of a milk carton
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Vay: Had to redo the Vampyr (Vampire) and Wind Elemental (Devil Wind) fights because the bastard didn't save. My graphics card went down for like a second while playing so it could have been from that (was playing on PC and Kega Fusion is crusty as shit, this time on Vita though). I need a new graphics card soon before this one dies, it keeps crashing whenever it tries to reboot from standby mode. Crypto please die already (but don't die crypto from telefang i love you both as a boyfriend and as a litle creacher)

Grinded to get gold for some armor, as well as EXP. Got an upcoming plot point spoiled for me by accident,

Pottle's death, so I only updated Lei-Fang/Rachel and Nehna/P.J.'s armor, iirc Hybelger/Sandor's too

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So, if you all saw the spoiler list for Hollow Knight...it turns out later that day I got all of that :rao:

I've cleaned up significantly in the time I've played this week. Last night I got

Cartographer and Obsessions

achievements, tonight,

Metamorphosis and Warrior

. I'm pretty sure I've found every room on the main map.

Poor Cloth...



Goals at this point:
  • Nosk, as I just found him
  • Trial of the Conqueror, maybe the third?
  • Soul Tyrant and Lost Kin
Basically doing everything I can to avoid the

Dreamers

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After having not played a video game since February (other than some party games at a friend's place), I was listening to a podcast today, grabbed my Switch, and fired into SNES Online to find something to occupy myself. I did a quick scan through the new games that were added since I last looked, and clicked a random one with cover art that gave no hint as to what it was: Psycho Dream

It's a 2D platformer where you move forward and mash your way through enemy spam until you're at the end of the level. There's a weapon upgrade system where enemies will drop yellow gems that upgrade your weapon, although "upgrade" could maybe be in quotes cause I'm not even sure if it's more powerful? Just like... a different attack type. And one doesn't seem to always necessarily be better than the last. It's strange. But also you can upgrade to this super ultra powered form that kinda makes the game a joke.

I initially started off playing the default character, got him to the end of the first level, then died because I lost my ultra form at the final boss and it didn't seem to be made to be fought with melee attacks. So after I got a game over I tried out the other character, Maria, and her super powered form is like a fairy that shoots a bajillion orbs that home into enemies and murder them like it's nothing. So you basically just walk forward and mash fire and it will take you all the way to the final boss of the game (the whole game is only 6 stages total).

But then that final boss, oh god. So the weird thing about that ultra upgrade form is if you get one of the normal yellow upgrade gems while in it, it knocks you out of the final form? So I guess you should avoid them. But I never really figured out that whole system (I still don't understand and don't care to look it up). But anyway, if you lose your ultra form at the final boss, I don't think there's a way to get it back. So with Maria you can use your base whip, or the basic yellow-gem upgrade path weapons that are dropped from attacking the boss's projectiles. But the thing is, this boss is so spammy and the hitboxes are so bad that all the upgraded weapons are basically impossible to use on the boss. So I just stuck with the whip, and any time an upgrade gem dropped I'd avoid it until it disappeared because it would guarantee me a loss.

You start off having to destroy the boss' arms, and that alone must have taken me like, an hour of attempts. So I wasn't super stoked when I got rid of both of them and there was another phase where you fight the floating head (though wasn't entirely surprising since what boss has ever been defeated by destroying just the arms?). After going for long enough I started getting slightly more consistent at the first phase, though never great by any means. I also set myself a savestate on the game over screen so if I screwed up an attempt early on I could save myself 15 seconds of killing myself the rest of the way.

The final phase didn't seem super overwhelming as long as I took my time and didn't get greedy, but it turned out taking my time wasn't really an option when I died from timeout on an attempt. So I had to play a bit more aggressive. The method I ended up discovering for the final phase was to go on the ground floor and let the head chase me, at which point I'd mash the whip a few times, and since the hitbox goes behind you a bit in the animation, it was enough to hit him. And then if he ever went over my head I'd do a little hop + whip underneath him, and again since the whip hitbox goes a little above you as she swings, it was enough to deal damage.

All in all, the final boss was probably 90% of my playtime. And it made me very mad but I eventually did it!
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Hah so I went back and did another run-through as Ryo (whose full-powered form is not nearly as OP as Maria's, she's just unbalanced I guess) and the final boss is like 100x easier if you just don't go to the bottom floor of the arena. Took me 3(?) attempts this time. Boy that could have saved me some time!
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Kaze and the Wild Masks is basically what would happen if you took Donkey Kong Country where the main character is both Dixie Kong and all of your animal buddies. Also gives off some light Rayman Origins vibes. Don't really have much to say about it other than the game is solid and helping me unwind from some of these MM3 stage runs at the moment.
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Since I have the time on my hands I've started playing Breath of the Wild Master Mode. It's a very different experience from the normal game. Enemies are usually so much stronger it just doesn't make sense to engage them, and because of that, it's more of a stealth game. I've also decided that I'll try to get enough korok seeds to get all the equipment slot upgrades, I'm over a third of the way, I feel this might be a mistake.
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Got the Wedge of Ice and the Gear of Water in Vay the other day. The Gigatron (forgot its Japanese name) wasn't too tough, but it was a bit of a damage sponge.

Progressed further in Lacrima Castle in Riviera, the Jet Black Wind battle is really dumb (it blows you away to 2-9 if you take too long to beat it, but you can try again repeatedly once you make it back to 2-5 from 2-9), there's probably an easy way to beat it in a few rounds but.

At Litz in Terranigma, so far Louran was a pain because of the tough Zombie enemies and the awkward design of the dungeon, as its built like a ruined town. Then Norfest was a pain because of the Sabredog enemies that can poison you and walk on diagonals, on top of needing to find a Dog Whistle for the wolves in Storkholm (Stockholm?). Now we're off to help Christopher Columbus (fuck this bitch tbh).

Also found a Dragon Quest VI shoutout in Neotokio when I was doing some sidequests there (Quintet, Noodle King ramen contest, the whack-a-mole game in Safarium (cute lioms are still cute)).

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It's pretty unknown since its untranslated and a lot of people who play Terranigma don't know Japanese. Posted it on Twitter and it's attracting a few JRPG fans, glad I could bring this to some people's attention. ^^

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So I made a bold rush on the last few days to clear Hollow Knight, and it paid off handsomely. 106%, Endings 1 and 2 (Hollow Knight and Sealed Siblings).

Man, what a game. I had to finagle some final bits in the last rush and spoil myself a little bit, but even so, what an incredible experience. I loved the art, even when it was rather dark. It was fun to play, even when things got extremely frustrating. And all the little moments...Pleasure House, the grave of

the Traitors' child

,

Mister Mushroom

's Bizarre Dialogues Adventure, the Nailmasters, even Zote was fun. The boss fights at first sucked, but then they got a lot better. Charm management can be so tricky sometimes...

There are still some things I want to do before I truly call it, including:
  • Ending 3, i.e. Fight the Radiance
  • Grey Prince Zote
  • Possibly the postgame, aka Gods and Glory
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Past Recover the Ancient Manuscript or whatever in Legend of Heroes IV (original), recruited Muse. Gonna get Muse and Mile to Weapon Lv10 (and Martie if I get him), then grind some money with the Hamakages on the way to Ziziki Cave since they drop 5 Pisca. Gotta carry more Tents. Then I'll do Mining for Sapphires and Whatnot (サファイアなどの採掘).

Also at Maurina in Albert Odyssey, turns out the Shin that was the boss is actually a girl named Shin. Seems like two friends, a man's young daughter and a woman's adult son lost their lives after they departed (possibly to defeat monsters). Distraught with grief, she urged for power so she could prevent this from happening, thus Oswald appeared and made an agreement with her, he'd grant her power in exchange for working for him. Got the Ring of Darkness from the father and the Ring of Light from the mother. Now I'm a bit lost, will look up a guide. ^w^
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Defeated

The Radiance

in Hollow Knight. Finally the main game, which I first attempted around raocow's LP, is done. While I intend to revisit and go through Gods and Glory, I am putting it down for now.

While I am definitely going to purchase THPS 1+2 this week, and now that I have a couch Bully is back on the docket, what's really next on the agenda is what I like to call The C̶͉͇̈́͋ú̶̮̓͑͑̍̓r̷̡͎̈́̊̄̓̏ș̵̗̺̖̹̯̀̕ḛ̴͍͓̰̰͙̈̈́͠͝ḑ̷͕͔͉̕͜ Fiesta. In the past couple hours, the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta (this year benefiting Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) went live. I am taking a...unique approach to it this year. As some of you may be aware, there is a new shuffler mod for Bizhawk conceived by Goon friend slowbeef, developed by Kusogrande man Brossentia, and refined to its current form by talkhaus project player authorblues. This shuffler changes the game from a set of however many ROMs you put into it every, say, 60-90 seconds (though you can change the range at any give time).

To put what I plan in succinct terms: I'm going to run 4 different seeds of Four Job Fiesta in Bizhawk Shuffler at once.

The seeds are:
  • Normal
  • Popular with a Fifth Job modification
  • Advance
  • Pure Chaos
Already, it's looking like a doozy. To spice things up, I'm using the Fiesta Hack for the latter two seeds, which means that whatever I get, I have to use right away. The first jobs for each are: Knight, Ranger, White Mage, and Time Mage. This time, I will commit to using Time Mage at start, even though you don't get use for it until after the Water Crystal.

I'll probably set things up tonight.

(And in case you're wondering how I managed to pull it off: I've accumulated six Twitter accounts in the time it's existed...almost all of which are inactive)
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Lost my LoH IV PSX save because porting saves from Mednafen to Adrenaline is an ordeal and a half, I suspect Mednafen compresses saves as opposed to ePSXe which is what CWCheat (christine weston cheatler) accepts, both mcr format though. Grinding again, but I don't mind ^^. Gonna try to get Avin and Mile to Weapon Lv10 before doing guild missions. Avin's already at 3.
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I'd forgotten that Mega Man Battle Network 2 had a point where you're supposed to backtrack to an earlier area and jack in to a random item in order to progress the story.

I mean you have to do this all the time anyway but BN2 kind of forgets to tell you to do this at this point (FreezeMan scenario, after rescuing the HeatData Prog in YumLand). It's one of those things that makes sense if you've jacked into the target machine once before but I kind of didn't.
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taking a break from KH2 rando runs to play some other games

Woodle Tree 2: Deluxe was on sale for dirt cheap on the switch. It's a kinda mediocre platformer that has a surprisingly large open world to explore and collect stuff in and good tools to do so alongside satisfyingly hidden secrets, I just wish it didn't try to be a course clear platformer sometimes because it's really, really bad at being that but otherwise really chill and fun to explore around in

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is like the culmination of all my indie faves of the past few years and it's just great. I guess it's a zelda-esque puzzle game (there's almost no combat) about painting where you are a dog with a magic paintbrush so it's basically Okami again but different. The writing has that Wandersong charm to it and it's just really nice
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The Legend of Heroes IV (original): Did all the Guild Missions in Phildin and got Avin to Weapon Lv11 Magic Lv2, Mile to WLv9 (MLv still 3), and recruited Muse (WLv3 MLv3) and Martie (WLv1 MLv5), gonna level them up to WLv10 soon.
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Levelled Avin to Magic 3 and Muse to Weapon 5 in LoH4 PC98 (PSX ver.).

Also installed DualShock 4 plugins on my Win8.1 install because my brother was like "yoooo you can play ps4 with remote play on your pc which would be great because you're always on your pc" and bless his absolute idiot dipshit himbo heart (fat men can be himbos right) he has a point.

So I played Wild Arms 3 with our black Dualshock 4 for like an hour and made it to the Ruins of Memory before stopping with a Gimel Coin partway through because man not being able to run away from encounters other than warding them with your limited encounter points that you gain back by fighting battles is tiring, even with autobattle to leave everything hands off.

Two Gimel Coins actually, one was the first save, the second one was right after so I could see the savefile ending FMV, which Wild Arms 2&3 have and I think 4 and 5 too, 1 doesn't and I'm pretty sure XF has filesize constraints to worry about since it's on PSP. The fact it's a weird puzzle game/strategy RPG hybrid wouldn't matter it would absolutely have an anime as fuck opening and ending for every savefile loading and ending.
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Past Weird Woods (ゴートの森, Gort Woods), Old Hag's Forest (魔法ババアの森, Forest of the Witching Wench, but the English translation is alright for space issues, I just like word play) and Saith in Lunar: Silver Star Story, now at Meribia. Saved in Mel's office so I don't forget where I'm supposed to go.

Playing blind definitely hurt when I was fighting the Saline Slimer (ゼィ・ウーズ, The Ooze), it was terrible, no idea you could get Vigor at Lv12 and that Cascade Song helped that much, I usually don't use buffs because a lot of the time in JRPGs they're unnecessary unless mandatory because they tend to not have that big an effect to actually matter (also Purity Song heals the ooze stun, i swear i tried that because it's a status ailment, but Luna just attacked, what the shit). At least beating it felt nice, even if I had to look it up.

The entire boat segment was pure art, both Wind's Nocturne/Luna's Boat Song/Shii's Song and the scene where

the Sega CD original is effectively retconned by having Luna join you on the boat to Meribia

. Already this game is meeting all my standards /papy. Curious to play the English PSX version later down the line.
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dangit i just beat mmbn2 why am i going back in for another round of it right away
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An update on the Cursed Fiesta: A_Raving_Loon, the streamer who got me back into FFV, is now doing his own variation of my idea. We are brothers in arms now, given three of the four Wind Crystal jobs matched. And Yagamoth, a speedrunner who is one of the regular competitors for The Run that kicks off Fiesta season, is now interested. authorblues, who helped me troubleshoot the shuffler and all-around dece dude, mentioned a new plugin that should make playing repeat iterations of the same game clear to viewers.


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For what it's worth, started my run Thursday. Got everyone to Tule post-Wind Shrine before stopping. It's going to be a hoot...
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