Played a few games.
Scarlet Nexus: Finished Yuito's story and had a blast with it. Really fun sci-fi anime hack-and-slash, similar to Bayonetta. It feels a BIT clunkier than Bayo, but it was still rad. Loved the setting and enemies, and the music was fantastic. The story gets wild by the end, but it's really fun, too. It feels a bit un-polished (there was literally a double take for the voiceover kept in the dub for one of the sidequests on accident), but I would still highly recommend it. Taking a break before working on Kasane's story since there's two campaigns total.
Been replaying a few Pokémon games, as well:
Shining Pearl: This is the remake of Gen IV. It's fine, though that's mostly because it's the most faithful remake Pokémon's ever done. Playing this, along with watching my brother replay Platinum, solidifies my opinion that Gen IV is the worst Pokémon generation/has the worst games. D/P/Pt has my least favorite Pokémon, region, art style, and music in the series, tbh. I do like the new things that ILCA did with Shining Pearl though, and having the Elite Four and Champion have competitive movesets and teams was super fun and I hope that Game Freak continues that in the future. That aside, it's Pokémon, but like original Gen IV, it's the most mid game in the series.
White 2: Replaying this game, however, makes me remember why Gen V is one of my favorites in the series. I loved White, but rushed through White 2 the first time to play post-game stuff, so I forgot basically everything that happens in it. Going through it again made me appreciate everything that Gen V did and also made me realize how good the sequel format is compared to the "third game" format. Sword/Shield getting this sequel treatment would be a dream come true for me, and I really think it's a great way to revisit a generation while making it feel different. I'd much rather them do this than remakes.
Ultra Moon: This is a weird one. US/UM are technically the "third games" in Gen VII, but the stories get pretty different by the end, so I almost consider it like an alternate universe to the original Sun/Moon. I also remembered why I loved Gen VII when I played this: the culture in these games is really nice, and probably has the best world theming in Pokémon yet, maybe only challenged by Gen V and Gen VIII. I really liked some of the story changes, but with others I preferred how they were told in the original Sun/Moon. Loved the added emphasis on the Ultra Beasts and Necrozma, though. I NEED MY GAME SET IN THE ULTRA BEAST WORLD, GAME FREAK!! GIMME MORE ULTRA BEASTSSSS
Gonna be replaying Soul Silver pretty soon, since I have new rules when playing Pokémon now ever since I played Black/White and X/Y: only use Pokémon introduced in that region, play on set mode, use the EXP Share only to reduce grinding, and use as few items in-battle as possible (try to match whatever the person you're battling can use). Makes the games a lot tougher and more fun; Ultra Moon was probably the hardest game in the series for me by using this rule set.
I'm gonna be RPG'd out by the end of this, but by that time I'm gonna have Legends: Arceus and SMT V to play lmao
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I've decided that Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass will be the game I'll be playing primarily for a bit.
I have some compliments for the battles system. Fist the 'startled' condition isn't as annoying as it could be. It's the equivalent of flinching in pokemon, but a character becomes immune to it for 1-5 turns afterwards so stun locking isn't possible. It can also be used to disrupt certain enemy patterns and conditions so you need to be a bit frugal with inflicting it yourself.
Enemies don't attack every turn. Sometimes this is a tell for a stronger attack, other times it's just weird action economy. I like this, it gives time to recover a bit during difficult encounters.
One thing that I should have seen coming, is that sometimes the game just decides that it wants to be a horror game for a little bit. One very clever thing that the "spooky" segments do, is that they don't have battle music, the field area music plays constantly to avoid breaking the mood.
Imagine Yume Nikki, except it's a rpg, and this is playing all the time.
The game perfectly encapsulates the feeling of a dream, because much like my own dreams, I keep falling into hell dimensions just wandering around.
Jimmy's mother, Helga, has to be my favourite character. She always has really subdued and calm reactions to everything no matter how horrific, and I don't know if she's just putting on a strong face for her boys, if it's because "Helga" is a facsimile of Jimmy's mother in his dream scape, and thus can't really be expected to behave like a normal person, or if it's because Helga is an entity that exists both in this dreamworld that the game takes place in, and some meta plot that the dreamworld is an allegory for.
I have some compliments for the battles system. Fist the 'startled' condition isn't as annoying as it could be. It's the equivalent of flinching in pokemon, but a character becomes immune to it for 1-5 turns afterwards so stun locking isn't possible. It can also be used to disrupt certain enemy patterns and conditions so you need to be a bit frugal with inflicting it yourself.
Enemies don't attack every turn. Sometimes this is a tell for a stronger attack, other times it's just weird action economy. I like this, it gives time to recover a bit during difficult encounters.
One thing that I should have seen coming, is that sometimes the game just decides that it wants to be a horror game for a little bit. One very clever thing that the "spooky" segments do, is that they don't have battle music, the field area music plays constantly to avoid breaking the mood.
Imagine Yume Nikki, except it's a rpg, and this is playing all the time.
Jimmy's mother, Helga, has to be my favourite character. She always has really subdued and calm reactions to everything no matter how horrific, and I don't know if she's just putting on a strong face for her boys, if it's because "Helga" is a facsimile of Jimmy's mother in his dream scape, and thus can't really be expected to behave like a normal person, or if it's because Helga is an entity that exists both in this dreamworld that the game takes place in, and some meta plot that the dreamworld is an allegory for.
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Beat the main game of Tales of Destiny. Will do most of the sidequests later on, at least the Tower of Druaga and the Dragon raising sidequest.
Overall a great game, damn great. But it has a lot of issues in its writing and characterization that give me trouble connecting with it on an emotional level. Characters can act pretty assholish, plot threads are sudden etc. I wonder if a lot of this comes from the plotline not being directed by the Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean series man, Yoshiharu Gotanda. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Gotanda was the one who okayed the Faize x Lymle creepyness of SO4, since he's the director..
But overall I had a fun time, the battle system is a marked improvement on SNES Phantasia and I'm glad PSX Phantasia ended up happening (which ended up spawning GBA Phantasia, PSP Phantasia etc). Stunning graphics, but the music felt a bit lesser? Oh well. I don't regret spending time with it over the past while, though I did restart a few days back and been binging it these past few days. The PS2 remake streamlines things further but also goes deeper on the non-Swordian Master side characters so, I'm interested in it. I want to peruse Khang's mind palace beyond, "he acts like an absolute chad to look cool". Rutee is my fave though.
Final party: Stahn the dumbass, Rutee the asshole, Philia the weenie, Garr the badass, Khang the chad, Chelsea the zoomer
Shout outs to Kiryl the band camp chad, Leon the Wounded Edgeboy and Mary the #relatable for rounding out the star studded cast of absolute idiot fuckers
Overall a great game, damn great. But it has a lot of issues in its writing and characterization that give me trouble connecting with it on an emotional level. Characters can act pretty assholish, plot threads are sudden etc. I wonder if a lot of this comes from the plotline not being directed by the Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean series man, Yoshiharu Gotanda. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Gotanda was the one who okayed the Faize x Lymle creepyness of SO4, since he's the director..
But overall I had a fun time, the battle system is a marked improvement on SNES Phantasia and I'm glad PSX Phantasia ended up happening (which ended up spawning GBA Phantasia, PSP Phantasia etc). Stunning graphics, but the music felt a bit lesser? Oh well. I don't regret spending time with it over the past while, though I did restart a few days back and been binging it these past few days. The PS2 remake streamlines things further but also goes deeper on the non-Swordian Master side characters so, I'm interested in it. I want to peruse Khang's mind palace beyond, "he acts like an absolute chad to look cool". Rutee is my fave though.
Final party: Stahn the dumbass, Rutee the asshole, Philia the weenie, Garr the badass, Khang the chad, Chelsea the zoomer
Shout outs to Kiryl the band camp chad, Leon the Wounded Edgeboy and Mary the #relatable for rounding out the star studded cast of absolute idiot fuckers
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Started Tales of Destiny II Eternia yesterday. I actually did the day before but I might as well restart to get most of the missables. Very good game, something about the battles feels nicer than PSX Phantasia and Destiny. Writing is also better for now, and I'm enjoying the characters a lot. Meredy and Farah are really fun characters and Reid and Keele aren't too bad either.
I especially like Meredy's "accent", a terrible review I read on GameFAQs by some bitchboy from 2002 bitched about the "bad English voice acting" but it's really not bad. Meredy speaks funny but I guess that's just the Celestian accent. And you have to have a pitch black heart to dislike Meredy, she's precious. Her "yew beht" warms the cockles of my cold dead heart.
So far I'm halfway through Disc 1, in the Forest of Temptation. Grinded a few levels before Undine. As an aside, apparently it's pronounced "oon-dee-nie"? I just pronounced it "oon-deen" or "un-deen", when I was younger I pronounced it "un-dyne" but Undertale put the kibosh in those plans. Undine Stream felt a smidge tough, and I didn't bother with grinding before that so I was at the minimum level necessary. I'm at Lv19 now with all characters, iirc? A level above the walkthrough I'm following.
Got a few Lens, got the Namco Teacher title, had to look up some answers (not that big of a Bamco fan outside of Namco's oldschool titles, Tekken, Digimon, Klonoa and apparently now Tales) but most of the Tales of Destiny ones were hella easy.
Also tried out the actual Tales of Destiny 2 but that will be for after I'm finished with Eternia. im hype
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Oh and I started Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon GBC as a secondary game. I've only done the Witch's Tower (same type of witch as Eleniak Witch Girl in Wild Arms 2, majokko. anyway it was Arche's tower) and spoke to Klarth Claus in Euclid to unlock the Wind Valley and started the Trial of the 12 Spirits.
I actually know the plot due to Aselia Wiki but I'm not gonna spoil it here. Basically a spirit named Norn is trying to keep the children, Dio and Mel (please abstain from jojo references), from suffering a gruesome fate that she won't divulge. Thus it is their duty (and yours since you play the role of their foster parent) to cut through the chains of fate and try to stop doom from befalling them.
There's some basic raising sim mechanics but I haven't quite got a grip on them, they ask you a question after an event is over and whatever answer you give raises or decreases some bars. The first questions were "Do you think we'll be able to avoid fate?" (Dio) and "What kind of person is Arche like?" (Mel). I answered "Certainly." and "A great magician." respectively, and some changes happened. C'est la vie.
There's also the gimmick of cosplaying (narikiri, kinda "complete makeover"), where you equip a class, basically. There isn't any real mixing and matching like in FF5 or Bravely, but there is a sort of collectathon aspect to it, similar to Pokémon. There's like 66 costumes in the game, a few from events (not sure if it was real life or not yet), a lot from made-to-order combinations, and a few basic ones from shops and the like.
I'm following a guide to make sure I can get into the game, but I haven't found any option to combine outfits yet. I'm interested to get as many as I can. At least unlike Pokémon it won't require too much of a grind to get most of them.
I will say, I don't like the weird Real Time style battles. They're not very action based (Star Ocean Blue Sphere this is not), but they're not quite turn based, so you end up with a weird mishmash of nonsense like the Legend of Heroes 3's PSP remake's Japanese version, where it's too jank for me to enjoy it. I do appreciate what of the story is there, though, so I'll push onwards.
As for dungeons, they're basically what you'd expect from non-randomized Mystery Dungeon types. If you're one of the people who thought Zwei was repetitive when raocow played it, then you won't enjoy this game. I personally like the dungeon exploration though, it's simple and mindless to be good for quick play.
Wouldn't mind a translation but y'all aren't missing out on much, since there are plot summaries out there.
I especially like Meredy's "accent", a terrible review I read on GameFAQs by some bitchboy from 2002 bitched about the "bad English voice acting" but it's really not bad. Meredy speaks funny but I guess that's just the Celestian accent. And you have to have a pitch black heart to dislike Meredy, she's precious. Her "yew beht" warms the cockles of my cold dead heart.
So far I'm halfway through Disc 1, in the Forest of Temptation. Grinded a few levels before Undine. As an aside, apparently it's pronounced "oon-dee-nie"? I just pronounced it "oon-deen" or "un-deen", when I was younger I pronounced it "un-dyne" but Undertale put the kibosh in those plans. Undine Stream felt a smidge tough, and I didn't bother with grinding before that so I was at the minimum level necessary. I'm at Lv19 now with all characters, iirc? A level above the walkthrough I'm following.
Got a few Lens, got the Namco Teacher title, had to look up some answers (not that big of a Bamco fan outside of Namco's oldschool titles, Tekken, Digimon, Klonoa and apparently now Tales) but most of the Tales of Destiny ones were hella easy.
Also tried out the actual Tales of Destiny 2 but that will be for after I'm finished with Eternia. im hype
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Oh and I started Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon GBC as a secondary game. I've only done the Witch's Tower (same type of witch as Eleniak Witch Girl in Wild Arms 2, majokko. anyway it was Arche's tower) and spoke to Klarth Claus in Euclid to unlock the Wind Valley and started the Trial of the 12 Spirits.
I actually know the plot due to Aselia Wiki but I'm not gonna spoil it here. Basically a spirit named Norn is trying to keep the children, Dio and Mel (please abstain from jojo references), from suffering a gruesome fate that she won't divulge. Thus it is their duty (and yours since you play the role of their foster parent) to cut through the chains of fate and try to stop doom from befalling them.
There's some basic raising sim mechanics but I haven't quite got a grip on them, they ask you a question after an event is over and whatever answer you give raises or decreases some bars. The first questions were "Do you think we'll be able to avoid fate?" (Dio) and "What kind of person is Arche like?" (Mel). I answered "Certainly." and "A great magician." respectively, and some changes happened. C'est la vie.
There's also the gimmick of cosplaying (narikiri, kinda "complete makeover"), where you equip a class, basically. There isn't any real mixing and matching like in FF5 or Bravely, but there is a sort of collectathon aspect to it, similar to Pokémon. There's like 66 costumes in the game, a few from events (not sure if it was real life or not yet), a lot from made-to-order combinations, and a few basic ones from shops and the like.
I'm following a guide to make sure I can get into the game, but I haven't found any option to combine outfits yet. I'm interested to get as many as I can. At least unlike Pokémon it won't require too much of a grind to get most of them.
I will say, I don't like the weird Real Time style battles. They're not very action based (Star Ocean Blue Sphere this is not), but they're not quite turn based, so you end up with a weird mishmash of nonsense like the Legend of Heroes 3's PSP remake's Japanese version, where it's too jank for me to enjoy it. I do appreciate what of the story is there, though, so I'll push onwards.
As for dungeons, they're basically what you'd expect from non-randomized Mystery Dungeon types. If you're one of the people who thought Zwei was repetitive when raocow played it, then you won't enjoy this game. I personally like the dungeon exploration though, it's simple and mindless to be good for quick play.
Wouldn't mind a translation but y'all aren't missing out on much, since there are plot summaries out there.
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Heading to Efreet Cavern in Tales of Eternia and I'm So Pissed I Missed A Lens Somewhere. Gotta find a way to get back to Rasheans and start going down this list until I get them all because fuck you, I love shitty RPG collectathons.
Also, I was inspired by my interest in the Tales of Escort titles, and decided to play what I could withstand of the FF spinoffs. Starting with FF IV's sequels, I'm first replaying Final Fantasy IV on PSP. So far I'm only up to the visit to Troia. A very aged game, rough around the edges, but still very special to me.
List of spinoffs:
FFMQ already beat years ago, Bravely/SaGa GB/Mana 1 don't really count.
Also, I was inspired by my interest in the Tales of Escort titles, and decided to play what I could withstand of the FF spinoffs. Starting with FF IV's sequels, I'm first replaying Final Fantasy IV on PSP. So far I'm only up to the visit to Troia. A very aged game, rough around the edges, but still very special to me.
List of spinoffs:
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hoo boy where to begin
my sister talked me into getting DBZ: Kakarot on switch. The gameplay isn't really clicking for me yet - I'm not a big Beat'em Ups fan or Fighting Game fan to begin with - but I'll keep plugging away at it.
I picked Shin Megami Tensei IV back up, mostly because I've been itching for some fusion shenanigans, don't have my PS2, don't particularly want to play Last Bible/Q/Q2, and currently can't get Golden running on my laptop (I have to do some winetricks shenaniganry). I kinda have to re-learn how to play it which is equal parts fun and absolutely hair-pullingly frustrating. Doubly so since I'm used to the One More system now and have to re-learn how to operate under Press Turn.
In Xenoblade 2 I'm up to Tantal in New Game Plus; I'm getting horribly sidetracked by sidequests and the wonderful ability to send the Legendary Blades out on merc missions (Dromarch and Mythra in particular needed this for their affinity charts). Anybody who says Nia sucks clearly hasn't seen her with an Orb Master Knuckle Claw blade.
I also picked up the 3DS ports of Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story. The latter is... I don't actually know what I was thinking, as I'm chronically missing a stylus.
And all this is just my latest excuse to not play Disgaea DS.
my sister talked me into getting DBZ: Kakarot on switch. The gameplay isn't really clicking for me yet - I'm not a big Beat'em Ups fan or Fighting Game fan to begin with - but I'll keep plugging away at it.
I picked Shin Megami Tensei IV back up, mostly because I've been itching for some fusion shenanigans, don't have my PS2, don't particularly want to play Last Bible/Q/Q2, and currently can't get Golden running on my laptop (I have to do some winetricks shenaniganry). I kinda have to re-learn how to play it which is equal parts fun and absolutely hair-pullingly frustrating. Doubly so since I'm used to the One More system now and have to re-learn how to operate under Press Turn.
In Xenoblade 2 I'm up to Tantal in New Game Plus; I'm getting horribly sidetracked by sidequests and the wonderful ability to send the Legendary Blades out on merc missions (Dromarch and Mythra in particular needed this for their affinity charts). Anybody who says Nia sucks clearly hasn't seen her with an Orb Master Knuckle Claw blade.
I also picked up the 3DS ports of Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story. The latter is... I don't actually know what I was thinking, as I'm chronically missing a stylus.
And all this is just my latest excuse to not play Disgaea DS.
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At Tomra in Final Fantasy IV PSP, had to grind a few levels (went for 12, from 18 to 30 in Cecil's case but I probably didn't need all of those) for Calcobrina due to the combination of Calcobrina/Golbez script/Golbez being right after one another and you being able to lose the Golbez scripted battle if you don't revive Cecil in time. Oop.
Yeah, this game's jank is really getting to me, it being based on the OG JP SNES version (GBA version really, but its source is the OG SNES "Hardtype" version) makes the balance feel more awkward. I'm surprised I didn't die both times to Barbariccia. Break for now before continuing to the Sealed Cave and Feymarch. Edge is sadly a few levels below everyone else which blows.
Yeah, this game's jank is really getting to me, it being based on the OG JP SNES version (GBA version really, but its source is the OG SNES "Hardtype" version) makes the balance feel more awkward. I'm surprised I didn't die both times to Barbariccia. Break for now before continuing to the Sealed Cave and Feymarch. Edge is sadly a few levels below everyone else which blows.
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Heading to the second Hyades fight in Imen in Tales of Eternia, and played from Efreet Gorge to Mine of Gnome yesterday. Taking a break for now because I died to Hyades and the Gald setback was annoying (and my last save was before Celsius).
I gotta say, I don't like the Celsius battle, I appreciate that she puts up a challenge, but I don't like how she can just avoid attacks and obliterate your characters without warning, lost in the sheer particle effect mess of the battle. Had to grind two levels due to her. Combo Command is addicting, jesus... The inputs also aren't too bad, I can do them alright on keyboard even if not accurately.
It's hard to time them accurately in the heat of battle, I mostly try to mash the inputs, call it scrub behavior I guess. Two of the inputs, a 263 and a 41236 are a smidge SNK/pretzel, but I can manage. The others are a 28 and a qcf (236), combined with the Attack, Skill, Attack+Skill or Defend buttons, depending on the Arte.
I also really appreciate that there's an arte just named Sonic Chaos. That's a game, not a sword-fencing skill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's really fun doing multi-hit combos in Tales of Eternia, though, makes me want to play fightan again.
I gotta say, I don't like the Celsius battle, I appreciate that she puts up a challenge, but I don't like how she can just avoid attacks and obliterate your characters without warning, lost in the sheer particle effect mess of the battle. Had to grind two levels due to her. Combo Command is addicting, jesus... The inputs also aren't too bad, I can do them alright on keyboard even if not accurately.
It's hard to time them accurately in the heat of battle, I mostly try to mash the inputs, call it scrub behavior I guess. Two of the inputs, a 263 and a 41236 are a smidge SNK/pretzel, but I can manage. The others are a 28 and a qcf (236), combined with the Attack, Skill, Attack+Skill or Defend buttons, depending on the Arte.
I also really appreciate that there's an arte just named Sonic Chaos. That's a game, not a sword-fencing skill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's really fun doing multi-hit combos in Tales of Eternia, though, makes me want to play fightan again.
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Getting close to the halfway point in Persona 5 Royal now. Nothing really to say other than that the game really loves its talking segments while I'm just shrugging. Just like Yakuza 0 last month, some of these substories are fun and others are garbage, so there's that.
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Tales of Eternia, Went through the Imen revisit to Balir's Castle yesterday and Seyfert Shrine to Aifread's Cavern up until now. Hyades I kind of bullshitted with a strategy from the walkthrough I'm using where I made Meredy's AI just use Nurse all day. Recruited Chat and Max, though I don't like how they're always leaving the party and you have to recruit them back (at least Chat, Max only did that once).
Max is the best character, complete idiot motherfucker. I love him so much i cry. Chat is also adorable, but she doesn't get much attention in the main story. Volt wasn't too hard, again I'm following a guide, but the slots were a bit weird, didn't realize you had to step in the platforms to stop them. Balir's Castle, I got a bit lost due to messing up while following the guide, but got better. Some "backgrounds with hitboxes" maps, like in this, SaGa Frontier 1&2, Final Fantasy VII-IX etc, fuck up with my directions.
Seyfert Shrine was nice, I like how
After that I've just been doing Sidequests, got some more recipes, got some more Lens (missed another one fuuuuck), got the Celesea Map, went around Celestia finding the hidden areas. And did the Shadow Cave, and Shadow was pretty fun. I liked how the dungeon was much less obtuse and actually really easy to navigate. Did forget to equip Excalibur for a hot second. Gonna hunt for the Silver Cages, then do the optional dungeons pre-Disc 3.
Max is the best character, complete idiot motherfucker. I love him so much i cry. Chat is also adorable, but she doesn't get much attention in the main story. Volt wasn't too hard, again I'm following a guide, but the slots were a bit weird, didn't realize you had to step in the platforms to stop them. Balir's Castle, I got a bit lost due to messing up while following the guide, but got better. Some "backgrounds with hitboxes" maps, like in this, SaGa Frontier 1&2, Final Fantasy VII-IX etc, fuck up with my directions.
Anyway Ras died and it was pretty sad.
Seyfert Shrine was nice, I like how
they flashbacked to the beginning with the Egg Bear, but placed Reid in its shoes
. Aifread's Cavern was hot garbage, I hated the board game style progression and how it could just shunt you back to the start. The battles were also a pain but I might have been underlevelled. Either way I savescummed. It was just not fun and I really wanted to progress in the game.After that I've just been doing Sidequests, got some more recipes, got some more Lens (missed another one fuuuuck), got the Celesea Map, went around Celestia finding the hidden areas. And did the Shadow Cave, and Shadow was pretty fun. I liked how the dungeon was much less obtuse and actually really easy to navigate. Did forget to equip Excalibur for a hot second. Gonna hunt for the Silver Cages, then do the optional dungeons pre-Disc 3.
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I've been playing Captain Toad since it's free for NSO subscribers right now.
Got to almost 100% last night before discovering Mummy-me Maze Forever and being like "well that sounds horrible, I don't want to do that" and took a break for the day after a couple failed attempts that didn't get very far. But after doing a bit of research and watching a video of someone doing it I realized it's pretty doable. One thing that's important, is you don't really need to go that out of your way to get the 5000 coin goal, because the final room has 1800 coins worth of gold mushrooms in it, so you really only need to get 3200 coins which you're basically guaranteed if you just run into some coin stacks as you make your way through the levels.
I also discovered that playing with detached joycons gives you a pretty big advantage for it, because the touch controls are really easy to control with the right joycon motion controls (Pro controller motion controls aren't quite as natural/intuitive), and you can pretty easily keep enemies stunlocked in dangerous situations which helps a ton. And if you're in a bad situation with a Chargin Chuck, you can tap them once to knock them back a pretty good distance, and again to stunlock like other enemies.
With all of that in mind, I was able to complete it with the 5000-coin goal in like 3 attempts I think?
After that i figured I might as well buy the DLC and complete that too cause it's only 18 levels, but it turns out the 18th level is another tricky "final challenge" that I didn't bother attempting for the night since the rest of the levels took me a few hours to complete with all gems + bonus challenges. I'm hoping to get 100% completed tomorrow.
Got to almost 100% last night before discovering Mummy-me Maze Forever and being like "well that sounds horrible, I don't want to do that" and took a break for the day after a couple failed attempts that didn't get very far. But after doing a bit of research and watching a video of someone doing it I realized it's pretty doable. One thing that's important, is you don't really need to go that out of your way to get the 5000 coin goal, because the final room has 1800 coins worth of gold mushrooms in it, so you really only need to get 3200 coins which you're basically guaranteed if you just run into some coin stacks as you make your way through the levels.
I also discovered that playing with detached joycons gives you a pretty big advantage for it, because the touch controls are really easy to control with the right joycon motion controls (Pro controller motion controls aren't quite as natural/intuitive), and you can pretty easily keep enemies stunlocked in dangerous situations which helps a ton. And if you're in a bad situation with a Chargin Chuck, you can tap them once to knock them back a pretty good distance, and again to stunlock like other enemies.
With all of that in mind, I was able to complete it with the 5000-coin goal in like 3 attempts I think?
After that i figured I might as well buy the DLC and complete that too cause it's only 18 levels, but it turns out the 18th level is another tricky "final challenge" that I didn't bother attempting for the night since the rest of the levels took me a few hours to complete with all gems + bonus challenges. I'm hoping to get 100% completed tomorrow.
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Finished off the DLC 100% in Captain Toad and holy cow, what a nightmare that final level was!
People hyped up the base game's final challenge and it only took me a few attempts. But the DLC's took me... I don't know, several hours? I took a few breaks in there, but it was most of my evening from ~4pm until ~8:45pm.
The first 20 floors aren't bad, but the ghosts feel really unfair at times, and my strategy was basically to run circles around the room until the mole happened to come near me, cause there's no way I'm gonna try to weave through the ghosts in whatever bizarre pattern they follow (if there is one). Probably the biggest challenge with the ghosts for me was that you can't touch-stun them, so if you get in an awkward situation, you're basically screwed and one of your toads is gonna die.
The bullet bill rooms were also tricky, but probably ended less of my attempts than the ghosts. At least you can touch-stun them. At the very least I found those rooms more fun than the ghosts where it was just a tedious test of patience.
Anyway yeah, Captain Toad is done! I don't know if I'll ever go back to this game. I mean I won't be able to in a couple days when the trial expires anyway. But I probably wouldn't pay full price for it. It's a fine romp
People hyped up the base game's final challenge and it only took me a few attempts. But the DLC's took me... I don't know, several hours? I took a few breaks in there, but it was most of my evening from ~4pm until ~8:45pm.
The first 20 floors aren't bad, but the ghosts feel really unfair at times, and my strategy was basically to run circles around the room until the mole happened to come near me, cause there's no way I'm gonna try to weave through the ghosts in whatever bizarre pattern they follow (if there is one). Probably the biggest challenge with the ghosts for me was that you can't touch-stun them, so if you get in an awkward situation, you're basically screwed and one of your toads is gonna die.
The bullet bill rooms were also tricky, but probably ended less of my attempts than the ghosts. At least you can touch-stun them. At the very least I found those rooms more fun than the ghosts where it was just a tedious test of patience.
Anyway yeah, Captain Toad is done! I don't know if I'll ever go back to this game. I mean I won't be able to in a couple days when the trial expires anyway. But I probably wouldn't pay full price for it. It's a fine romp
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Playing an ultra moon randomizer nuzlocke with a friend and I took the liberty to add some deliberate changes to the story in addition to the randomizer challenge, for an extra bit of hilarity. Thus far it's been a constant attack of mega evolved enemies as we get horribly overleveled and miraculously survive several instances of the enemy Innards Out ability triggering.
Coming right off the back of a Pokemon X randomizer nuzlocke this just reminds me how good Gen 7 is, even without renaming the aether foundation to the fortnite foundation.
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Tales of Eternia, final dungeon, Zebraspace Shizel Castle. Got Sekundes, Maxwell and did the Aifread's Tomb and Sunken Ship quests yee fucking haw
EDIT: Beat Pokonyan! Henpokorin Adventure.
A fun little score attack game aimed at young kids. Not too deep but fun anyway, music and graphics are superb too. My biggest complaint is the physics, which have a sort of Bubsy-esque momentum, where the momentum is carried over to your jumps regardless if you make backwards force with Pokonyan, unlike Sonic or Mario. Also, its hard to find the sweet spot where you can strike the enemy, going from a jump to the kicking attack felt a bit random.
Final score: 41.
EDIT 2: Trying to puzzle out Stage 2 in Appleseed: Prometheus no Shintaku.
Garbage game, feels like a shitty Mega Drive game in visuals and gameplay, supremely buggy, but I've honestly played worse. 2.5/5, I'm gonna continue until I beat the last stage (stage 5).
EDIT 3: Gave up Appleseed, stage 2 boss is shit
EDIT: Beat Pokonyan! Henpokorin Adventure.
A fun little score attack game aimed at young kids. Not too deep but fun anyway, music and graphics are superb too. My biggest complaint is the physics, which have a sort of Bubsy-esque momentum, where the momentum is carried over to your jumps regardless if you make backwards force with Pokonyan, unlike Sonic or Mario. Also, its hard to find the sweet spot where you can strike the enemy, going from a jump to the kicking attack felt a bit random.
Final score: 41.
EDIT 2: Trying to puzzle out Stage 2 in Appleseed: Prometheus no Shintaku.
Garbage game, feels like a shitty Mega Drive game in visuals and gameplay, supremely buggy, but I've honestly played worse. 2.5/5, I'm gonna continue until I beat the last stage (stage 5).
EDIT 3: Gave up Appleseed, stage 2 boss is shit
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I have been getting into FromSoft games finally.
Demon’s Souls remake was… ok. It suffers from a lot of questionable designs that overall make the experience very tedious. It has its moments, though, and it is the game that encouraged me to finally revisit Dark Souls 3 after giving up on it back in 2018.
I beat Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro. Both are fantastic games and I recommend them both, although the Sekiro recommendation comes with extreme caution since I believe it’s the hardest game I ever played.
I tried Dark Souls Remastered and I made it to the end of the Undead Burg. So far my thoughts on this one are pretty negative. The Asylum was fine for a tutorial dungeon (much better than DS3’s for sure), but Undead Burg is a claustrophobic mess, and Taurus Demon’s arena was godawful (I did find it somewhat interesting that you can bring him up the tower or get in a plunging attack, but I just cannot stand OHKO by being knocked off a cliff in any game ever). The combat also feels sluggish. Demon’s Souls was also slow, but at least the remake made the animations and game feel super satisfying. In Dark Souls it feels like everything is in slow motion. I may give this game another chance, but I think that DS3 and Sekiro spoiled me too much to enjoy it. Maybe I should’ve played DS1 first.
I played some other soulslikes, but unfortunately none of them stuck:
I revisited Salt & Sanctuary since I recall enjoying it, but now the game feels clunky to play and has that awful “knocked off the cliff OHKO” style level design everywhere, and a lot of the enemies are obnoxious and not fun to fight. I think the main issue is that many enemies are aerial but you don’t have a lot of vertical options for dealing with them, on top of the whole knockback bottomless cliffs thing.
Ender Lilies seemed fine, actually reminds me a lot of Hollow Knight (a game I hold in high regard). Unfortunately I quickly lost interest and I am not sure why.
Blasphemous and Death’s Gambit are both pretty fun, but I dislike that the death penalties stack. It makes it hard to try exploring another area if you are struggling in one area, since you need to recover your whatevers or else you will remain penalized.
I may take a break from the soulslike genre until Elden Ring comes out.
Demon’s Souls remake was… ok. It suffers from a lot of questionable designs that overall make the experience very tedious. It has its moments, though, and it is the game that encouraged me to finally revisit Dark Souls 3 after giving up on it back in 2018.
I beat Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro. Both are fantastic games and I recommend them both, although the Sekiro recommendation comes with extreme caution since I believe it’s the hardest game I ever played.
I tried Dark Souls Remastered and I made it to the end of the Undead Burg. So far my thoughts on this one are pretty negative. The Asylum was fine for a tutorial dungeon (much better than DS3’s for sure), but Undead Burg is a claustrophobic mess, and Taurus Demon’s arena was godawful (I did find it somewhat interesting that you can bring him up the tower or get in a plunging attack, but I just cannot stand OHKO by being knocked off a cliff in any game ever). The combat also feels sluggish. Demon’s Souls was also slow, but at least the remake made the animations and game feel super satisfying. In Dark Souls it feels like everything is in slow motion. I may give this game another chance, but I think that DS3 and Sekiro spoiled me too much to enjoy it. Maybe I should’ve played DS1 first.
I played some other soulslikes, but unfortunately none of them stuck:
I revisited Salt & Sanctuary since I recall enjoying it, but now the game feels clunky to play and has that awful “knocked off the cliff OHKO” style level design everywhere, and a lot of the enemies are obnoxious and not fun to fight. I think the main issue is that many enemies are aerial but you don’t have a lot of vertical options for dealing with them, on top of the whole knockback bottomless cliffs thing.
Ender Lilies seemed fine, actually reminds me a lot of Hollow Knight (a game I hold in high regard). Unfortunately I quickly lost interest and I am not sure why.
Blasphemous and Death’s Gambit are both pretty fun, but I dislike that the death penalties stack. It makes it hard to try exploring another area if you are struggling in one area, since you need to recover your whatevers or else you will remain penalized.
I may take a break from the soulslike genre until Elden Ring comes out.
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Beat Tales of Eternia and just like FFIX, Legend of Mana, SaGa Frontier, Okami and Lunar Eternal Blue it's one of my Top Whatever games ever.
Absolutely beautiful game.
still can't believe soulslike is a genre
Absolutely beautiful game.
i've played megaman & bass, actraiser 2 and most of the classicvanias i can handle it
still can't believe soulslike is a genre
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One of these days I'm going to beat King's Field.
I'm up to Shinjuku in Shin Megami Tensei IV. This is officially the farthest I've gotten in this game, and when I got to the Dullahan scenario I remembered part of why I stopped. Blight (medium Phys attack across the entire party with a good chance of dealing Poison) is overpowered for when it first appears, though if you're doing the challenge quests as you go you should be able to make Wu Kong, who is Null Phys.
I'm up to Spirit Crucible Elpys in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Thanks to New Game Plus I don't have to worry about one of the restrictions, though I'm taking advantage of it to send Mythra out on merc missions since I know plot won't force pull her out of them for a while.
I'm pushing towards Raphael the Raven in chapter 5 of Paper Mario 64. I have to rework my items and badges - Poison hits through Danger Tanking, and I didn't account for that (in the three piranhas plus magikoopa fight, I took four points of chip damage from failed blocks and then died to the poison). There's no Strange Sack in 64, either, so I can't just load up on cake mix based items.
I tried out the demo for Kingdom Hearts Cloud Version. My internet is just unreliable enough that "Cloud Version" is a liability rather than an asset, and it turns out that I really don't like Chain of Memories in proper 3D space.
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playing through The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermilion, currently heading to Tree Spirit Forest (i think it'd be Treant Forest in a proper localization? not sure)
EDIT: heading to Balloa Silver Mine
although, im thinking of making my plate for the next few weeks be: star ocean 3, then final fantasy x2, then dinosaur resurrection (testing out fishbone's translation patch, been sleeping on it for a while)
also no last i played i didn't really like re:chain of memories, i can't remember why, maybe the deck organization was a huge pain and more of a gimmick than fun gameplay, i remember enjoying riku's side much more due to it being more puzzle oriented with you strategizing around a preset deck
EDIT: heading to Balloa Silver Mine
rena was playing king's field 1-3 and shadow tower on her server recently and its inspired me to try them out later, they seem like really cool games.
although, im thinking of making my plate for the next few weeks be: star ocean 3, then final fantasy x2, then dinosaur resurrection (testing out fishbone's translation patch, been sleeping on it for a while)
*looks this up* wow 90 bucks for the worst version of kingdom hearts. thanks square-enix, constantly proving you're the worst company
also no last i played i didn't really like re:chain of memories, i can't remember why, maybe the deck organization was a huge pain and more of a gimmick than fun gameplay, i remember enjoying riku's side much more due to it being more puzzle oriented with you strategizing around a preset deck
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A Tear of Vermilion, beat Scotia. It becomes much easier if you've leveled up properly and fought enough enemies to scare away weak ones near Quitt. Roughly Lv23-25. Once you spend a few Pisca (Pia in this version don't ask me) and Rose on the weapons and armor in Quitt, you can just hack and slice Scotia with the entire party's Special Attacks (hissatsuwaza, just "Deadly" in this translation).
I'm not sure if this works in the JP version, but y'know. Got the Dellepied, the Right Leg of Bardus. This is a JP made game so "ashi" = Leg and Foot, I assume the name is meant to be Derepie as in "derecha" and "pie", since the other two body parts are Kabessa (cabeza) and Kuerupo (cuerpo).
I'm at Balloa again to help Baron Conrad. Gonna head to Guia Mine according to a walkthrough's index I'm using to gauge my distance from the end, and then I should be going to Garden Hill to get to the Idun Shrine and possibly fight Idun. After that it's Nephthys at Ourt.
Looking forward to the reunion with
I'm not sure if this works in the JP version, but y'know. Got the Dellepied, the Right Leg of Bardus. This is a JP made game so "ashi" = Leg and Foot, I assume the name is meant to be Derepie as in "derecha" and "pie", since the other two body parts are Kabessa (cabeza) and Kuerupo (cuerpo).
I'm at Balloa again to help Baron Conrad. Gonna head to Guia Mine according to a walkthrough's index I'm using to gauge my distance from the end, and then I should be going to Garden Hill to get to the Idun Shrine and possibly fight Idun. After that it's Nephthys at Ourt.
Looking forward to the reunion with
Mile's parents
to wreck me despite the horrid grammar.Oh yeah Mile is presumed dead at the end of Chapter 2 and Eimelle is missing, I have an idea of what happens later but I'm not spoiling it
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I like the idea of deck management games, but I think it works better on portable systems like the game boy advance. TFS said it best, in that you can just pop in the game while standing in line, fiddle with the deck for a few minutes, then save and shut it off. Can't exactly do that on console.KobaBeach wrote: ↑2 years agoalso no last i played i didn't really like re:chain of memories, i can't remember why, maybe the deck organization was a huge pain and more of a gimmick than fun gameplay, i remember enjoying riku's side much more due to it being more puzzle oriented with you strategizing around a preset deck
On the point of price: if I do decide to get any of these it'll be... actually, none of them. I still have my cart for Chain of Memories and I have the PS2 versions of KH1 and 2 anyway so yeah. Unless they release a fully local version for switch they're not getting my money (though the 1.5+2.5 combo comes with a hell of a lot of games so $40 is about right on the price point for that for me). The only real "new" content for me is 3 and I sure as hell can't play a cloud version of that. Even if the cloud version comes with Cloud as a playable character.
And in any case Atlus would need to port P3FES and P4G to Switch before I can fully abandon my PS2, so yeah screw Square Enix and Disney.
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I realized the other day just how fast I've been going through Super Robot Wars T. I'm at scenario 45 out of like 52 and I've been playing the game for less than a month, roughly. I'm having a lot of fun with it and I've found some new series I may want to try to watch at some point. Watching TV shows is a struggle for me usually... anyway, I think my team is basically all solidified at this point, not like we're really getting any new characters at this point but still.
And I've been playing a Scenario every once in a while in Langrisser 1 on Switch. The load times are pretty long, surprisingly, considering the game is entirely sprites. Otherwise, it's fine, it's the only translated version of Langrisser 1 that's not the original Genesis version, so that's nice. I do wish the PS1/Saturn version got translated though, since the visuals of that version blow the modern version out of the water. Alas... The gameplay changes that this version makes are a little odd and definitely took some getting used to after playing a lot of the older versions of 1, 2, and 4. I'm not really sure how I feel about them just yet, but I'm not super happy that the only way for commanders to heal themselves now is to level up, or get healed by someone with a cure spell. You do have an actual health bar to compensate, but still. I suppose it does mean you have to be more careful with how you use your units since now you can't just have your best commander run in and destroy, take some damage, then s/he just heals it the next turn.
And I've been playing a Scenario every once in a while in Langrisser 1 on Switch. The load times are pretty long, surprisingly, considering the game is entirely sprites. Otherwise, it's fine, it's the only translated version of Langrisser 1 that's not the original Genesis version, so that's nice. I do wish the PS1/Saturn version got translated though, since the visuals of that version blow the modern version out of the water. Alas... The gameplay changes that this version makes are a little odd and definitely took some getting used to after playing a lot of the older versions of 1, 2, and 4. I'm not really sure how I feel about them just yet, but I'm not super happy that the only way for commanders to heal themselves now is to level up, or get healed by someone with a cure spell. You do have an actual health bar to compensate, but still. I suppose it does mean you have to be more careful with how you use your units since now you can't just have your best commander run in and destroy, take some damage, then s/he just heals it the next turn.
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I made some more time to play Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass.
The main gimmick is that the main character, Jimmy, can swap forms which shuffles around his stats and abilities. I took this for granted at first, but now I realise this is a big deal because the game like to forcibly switch around your other party members.
One of the highlights is the dungeons, especially the way a lot of them are themed. I swear this game has twice as many optional dungeons as it does required one. Sometimes when you enter a dungeon, there's no normal way out (you can still leave by either losing or using an item) but the game only does this if it would be thematically appropriate. You can't escape the "claustrophobia" or "sleep paralysis demon" dungeons, but can escape the "it's 8pm, you're sitting at the kitchen table and your dad is trying to help you learn your multiplication table but he just keeps yelling 'what is 6X8?' at you" dungeon.
There's two dungeons that I found noteworthy (but not necessarily good).
One is basically, an rpg maker horror puzzle game where you wander around collecting items and trying to solve puzzles that should be in a point and click game. What makes it interesting is that there are no enemies, until you solve the big puzzle, then they start appearing. Good way of giving the player some time to think.
The second is a brilliant idea, but dreadful execution. The idea is the enemies become more demented and visceral the farther in you go. The enemies on in the outer areas are pushovers and don't give much exp or money, so if you want to grind you need to go deep inside. However you can't skip the earlier encounters because those enemies are considered to be the same level as the "real" ones. Getting to the maggot infested meat and rotting potatoes is a tedious experience. It doesn't help that the dungeons is pretty much one corridor.
Jimmy likes it's body horror, while that might be a bit hard to do with just small or mostly static pixel sprites, the game makes up for it with the writing. Lots of eerie dialogue about hunger and rotting, and excellent descriptions of writhing maggots and what not.
The main gimmick is that the main character, Jimmy, can swap forms which shuffles around his stats and abilities. I took this for granted at first, but now I realise this is a big deal because the game like to forcibly switch around your other party members.
One of the highlights is the dungeons, especially the way a lot of them are themed. I swear this game has twice as many optional dungeons as it does required one. Sometimes when you enter a dungeon, there's no normal way out (you can still leave by either losing or using an item) but the game only does this if it would be thematically appropriate. You can't escape the "claustrophobia" or "sleep paralysis demon" dungeons, but can escape the "it's 8pm, you're sitting at the kitchen table and your dad is trying to help you learn your multiplication table but he just keeps yelling 'what is 6X8?' at you" dungeon.
There's two dungeons that I found noteworthy (but not necessarily good).
One is basically, an rpg maker horror puzzle game where you wander around collecting items and trying to solve puzzles that should be in a point and click game. What makes it interesting is that there are no enemies, until you solve the big puzzle, then they start appearing. Good way of giving the player some time to think.
The second is a brilliant idea, but dreadful execution. The idea is the enemies become more demented and visceral the farther in you go. The enemies on in the outer areas are pushovers and don't give much exp or money, so if you want to grind you need to go deep inside. However you can't skip the earlier encounters because those enemies are considered to be the same level as the "real" ones. Getting to the maggot infested meat and rotting potatoes is a tedious experience. It doesn't help that the dungeons is pretty much one corridor.
Jimmy likes it's body horror, while that might be a bit hard to do with just small or mostly static pixel sprites, the game makes up for it with the writing. Lots of eerie dialogue about hunger and rotting, and excellent descriptions of writhing maggots and what not.
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I beat The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermilion today and it's one of the best written and worst translated games I have ever played, up there with Wild Arms 2.... Can't have shit in this hosue
And now I'm heading to Peterny thru Palmira Plains in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time and, god the way they tried to shoehorn stuff like Bonus Multipliers, the Fury stamina bar, the new way of using Special Skills, kind of brings the game down with over complification and clunkyness, especially since reliably grinding is harder due to enemies giving like 69 EXP at this point of Disc 1.
You gotta build the gauge to get a Bonus Battle going, then hope you can get a Triple EXP bonus or hope you can get it in later chains before it breaks then try to keep it from breaking from like, having your guard broken or something, I'm not sure. And when you can get it going it feels good, but when it breaks it's like
and wow
And Fury is like. I hear thunder, pitter-patter It basically keeps you from being able to do attacks if you're at 0% Fury and it really fucks with the flow of battle and no. It's no good. I don't like it. I'm glad I overleveled a smidge and I hope I can find another place to reliably grind because wow, Kirlsa Training Facility was a fucking disaster, garbage overly large map where everything was like green and brown and you got incredibly easily lost because the minimap and large map only show so much.
And the enemies were a fucking nightmare to try and get Triple EXP from. I found a good one, the toad people and lizardmen, but the encounter I used was extremely far away from the healing and save pad. Nightmare
And now I'm heading to Peterny thru Palmira Plains in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time and, god the way they tried to shoehorn stuff like Bonus Multipliers, the Fury stamina bar, the new way of using Special Skills, kind of brings the game down with over complification and clunkyness, especially since reliably grinding is harder due to enemies giving like 69 EXP at this point of Disc 1.
You gotta build the gauge to get a Bonus Battle going, then hope you can get a Triple EXP bonus or hope you can get it in later chains before it breaks then try to keep it from breaking from like, having your guard broken or something, I'm not sure. And when you can get it going it feels good, but when it breaks it's like
and wowAnd Fury is like. I hear thunder, pitter-patter It basically keeps you from being able to do attacks if you're at 0% Fury and it really fucks with the flow of battle and no. It's no good. I don't like it. I'm glad I overleveled a smidge and I hope I can find another place to reliably grind because wow, Kirlsa Training Facility was a fucking disaster, garbage overly large map where everything was like green and brown and you got incredibly easily lost because the minimap and large map only show so much.
And the enemies were a fucking nightmare to try and get Triple EXP from. I found a good one, the toad people and lizardmen, but the encounter I used was extremely far away from the healing and save pad. Nightmare
#1 mega cd enjoyer AND "making fun of"-er MaGL Patch Collection / vg backlog spreadsheet / animu list / mcmangos / steam
oogggghhhh games aren't art Fuck You Roger Ebert *kills him with a hamemr*
Re: What games are you playing?
Too late in the evening to edit, my phone is charging, I should do something to pass the time before falling asleep, at least
Metroid Fusion...never thought I'd get salty on that game. Let alone twice. But here I go! Basically, I did the usual item collection business at the endgame, and I found out I was one energy tank short. Where was it? Oh, you know, at the very beginning of the game just before the first boss. Which gets locked out after you access the Research Lab. (Because they didn't want you chasing that last Core-X for plot reasons, no sirree!) So I played a run that was 99% item collection, 3:06 in-game time.
Very bitter about that missing energy tank, I did a salty runback. This time, I made sure to get that energy tank. I also got super-efficient with my routing...except for one item: A power bomb expansion you can pick up in Sector 5 as you head towards the Nightmare. It's a little off the main path, but not that far off (like an extra 15 seconds of going to and fro). I missed this somehow, and while I was able to get it relatively easily, its place in Sector 5 meant there was no efficient way to get it during item collection. So it took me probably 2-3 minutes to grab it.
What was my final result?
100% item collection
2:01 in game time
If I hadn't fucked up that one power bomb expansion, I'd have best ending. Fuuuuuuck. I am probably doing a double salty runback, just so I can get the best ending. And then I will never play this game ever again.
I also started playing Bioshock Infinite, finally. This game is very pretty, very interesting, and seems fun to play for the most part. But I haven't gotten particularly far in the game because every session really drains me for some reason. I guess part of it is the exploration. But I think another part of it was...well, do you remember when I played Bioshock 2 and commented (in spoilers) how weirdly vacillated race was in that game? Well, good fucking Lord...Levine and team went all fucking in on Gilded Age-era racism. Like...what if you had the South but without the Lost Cause rhetoric, instead claiming that America was great before Lincoln showed up (along with a heavy helping of post-war nativism)? Thaaaaat's Columbia. Like, first big thing you do before you start actually fighting is choose between chucking a baseball at a mixed-race couple caught "miscengenating" or chucking it at the Henry Ford/Thomas Edison composite. One of the first big areas of fighting is a cult dedicated to John Wilkes Booth. It's a bit much, I swear, and knowing Ken, it's probably only going to get worse. So I've only gotten past the first setpiece fight after you get Elizabeth (when you're trying to get airship tickets) and just arrived at what looks like an automaton museum or something? I also get the feeling my choices are going to matter in more awful ways (even though I've been being nice this whole time).
That said, several years ago, despite never playing it, I sadly learned
Things I am not fond of as well: Every Vigor vending machine I've come across in the game so far is too expensive, which is really stupid and annoying. On top of that, I'm not sure how I feel about the two-gun limit, since I like to be flexible on these things (and I don't like the idea that I have to be more mage than gunfighter in an FPS...never liked being mage in FPSes). Still...this feels very early, and shit looks like it'll get weird very quickly, so I'm looking forward to that. At the same time, if I continue being drained from sessions, I may hold off on Burial At Sea after I finish, since I know that will be particularly draining. (I also sadly learned
Metroid Fusion...never thought I'd get salty on that game. Let alone twice. But here I go! Basically, I did the usual item collection business at the endgame, and I found out I was one energy tank short. Where was it? Oh, you know, at the very beginning of the game just before the first boss. Which gets locked out after you access the Research Lab. (Because they didn't want you chasing that last Core-X for plot reasons, no sirree!) So I played a run that was 99% item collection, 3:06 in-game time.
Very bitter about that missing energy tank, I did a salty runback. This time, I made sure to get that energy tank. I also got super-efficient with my routing...except for one item: A power bomb expansion you can pick up in Sector 5 as you head towards the Nightmare. It's a little off the main path, but not that far off (like an extra 15 seconds of going to and fro). I missed this somehow, and while I was able to get it relatively easily, its place in Sector 5 meant there was no efficient way to get it during item collection. So it took me probably 2-3 minutes to grab it.
What was my final result?
100% item collection
2:01 in game time
If I hadn't fucked up that one power bomb expansion, I'd have best ending. Fuuuuuuck. I am probably doing a double salty runback, just so I can get the best ending. And then I will never play this game ever again.
I also started playing Bioshock Infinite, finally. This game is very pretty, very interesting, and seems fun to play for the most part. But I haven't gotten particularly far in the game because every session really drains me for some reason. I guess part of it is the exploration. But I think another part of it was...well, do you remember when I played Bioshock 2 and commented (in spoilers) how weirdly vacillated race was in that game? Well, good fucking Lord...Levine and team went all fucking in on Gilded Age-era racism. Like...what if you had the South but without the Lost Cause rhetoric, instead claiming that America was great before Lincoln showed up (along with a heavy helping of post-war nativism)? Thaaaaat's Columbia. Like, first big thing you do before you start actually fighting is choose between chucking a baseball at a mixed-race couple caught "miscengenating" or chucking it at the Henry Ford/Thomas Edison composite. One of the first big areas of fighting is a cult dedicated to John Wilkes Booth. It's a bit much, I swear, and knowing Ken, it's probably only going to get worse. So I've only gotten past the first setpiece fight after you get Elizabeth (when you're trying to get airship tickets) and just arrived at what looks like an automaton museum or something? I also get the feeling my choices are going to matter in more awful ways (even though I've been being nice this whole time).
That said, several years ago, despite never playing it, I sadly learned
the plot twist of the game
on accident, so further thoughts in spoilers:the ending
on accident.)
