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Heroes Lore: Wind of Soltia - Reah's story complete.

This game's story isn't very deep but man it's kinda compelling? Even if it's a Religion Bad type deal with

the Guardians directly feeding on the lives of the Refiners and the lives said Refiners take away as their main sustenance in exchange for preserving the peace

. I wish it had more space to go into detail, but oh well.

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Donkey Kong Land taken down.

"Congratulations."

Thanks for the ending there, game. That whole adventure sure did happen.
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Bean wrote: 1 month ago Donkey Kong Land taken down.

"Congratulations."

Thanks for the ending there, game. That whole adventure sure did happen.
I played it back in 2015 just before the whole fallout I had with Rena that lasted for a hot second and I distinctly remember it controlled like ass and the level design was way too punishing

Regardless, I feel like I'd prefer it over DKL2&3 which are just. DKC2&3: Baby Edition
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Yeah. It kind of reminds me of Shantae on the Game Boy Color where it's a technically impressive game, just not the most fun one. Don't get me wrong, I'd probably give both a C-, but it's just nowhere near the quality of the DKC games is all.
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beating shiren the wanderer Actively Sucks even with savestates so im just gonna remove it from my backlog and have it as a fuck around and find out game since its much better that way
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All you have to do is get lucky, get a blank scroll, write whatever word the spell is to one-shot that enemy type out of the game, get a second one, use it on the final boss, and not get blown to bits by any tank enemies in the midway point. Still happy with that one legit run after the save state abuse one last year.

Honestly, it can be a cheap game with the enemy setups. And when it's not that, it's stepping on an explosive switch at the worst possible moment.
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Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon because I apparently can't get enough of playing this style of game every couple of months now. Torchic & Piplup are the combo I went with this time. It's a slower build at the start than Rescue Team DX, but the gameplay's exactly what I remember, just in handheld form.
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i beat pikmin 1 with all the ship parts yesterday. i think it's a really neat game but lowkey i kinda suck at it, lost a lot of my boys :(
i'll probably get around to playing pikmin 2 at some point soon

also i've been playing pizza tower. IT'S SO GOOD. i beat world 3 and did two levels in world 4. i love how the movement feels. it's one of those games i can run around in for hours doing the same levels and never get bored. just mwah absolute perfection. will probably end up being a new favorite game of mine once i finish it.

oh also i beat sonic 1 again. got all the chaos emeralds. that's all okay bye!
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i forgot to send this (persona 3s myself)

Sonic Heroes - Past both parts of Casino Park and Rail Canyon as Team Dark. At Frog Forest rn.

Dragon Quest III (SNES) - I was so Exhausted from getting Android RPGs to work that I just played this for a couple of hours. My Fem Erdrick (Slomga) and her DILF boyfriends (ROnJo the Warrior, SpleNGI the Cleric, Trov the Mage) are at Dharma (Alltrades Abbey) to gear up and grind around Baharata to prepare for the second encounter with Robbin' 'Ood.

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Legit I have like 41 Android RPGs right now and that's Killing me. Been downloading shit off dubigame and like. I legit had my computer bluescreen because of virtualization shit getting corrupted. It's fixed though.

Roster:
BlueStacks 5:
Zenonia 4
Zenonia 5
Heroes Lore 5
Destinia (fix)
FF Dimensions
FF Dimensions 2
J2ME Loader (for Heroes Lore Zero and Orcs & Elves 2)
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Aurum Blade
Elfheim (엘프하임)
Exitium
Inotia III (actually an android port of Inotia II, i dont know why the name is like that. i made it run by turning off wifi)
Immortal Dusk (Ast: A Solar Tragedy)
Inuyasha: The Final Act (이누야샤완결편, i assume it's licensed?)
Ira (아이라)
Itarus 2 (이타루스 전기2)
La Tale Mobile
Lar: Pandora's Children (라르-판도라의 아이들)
Levelling Up Is The Only Way To Survive 3 (렙업만이살길3)
Legend of Master 2 (레전드오브마스터2)
Legend of Master 3 (레전드오브마스터3, have to load this one from ES file manager i think)
Maple Story: Cygnus Knights (메이플스토리 시그너스기사단)
Maple Story: Thief (메이플스토리-도적편)
Queen's Crown 2
Seed II
Shining Force Chronicle
Shining Force Chronicle 2
Shining Force Chronicle 3
Soul Hunter Raki (소울헌터라키)
Soul Saver 2 (귀혼2자객편, Gwihon 2: Assassin Edition)
Soul Saver II (소울세이버2, by Ensony, actually Soul Saver II in hangul)
Stone of Life
The Great Merchant (거상, MMO adaptation)
Vicious: A New Legend (비셔스)
LDPlayer v1.9.1 (Chaos Rings Preservation pack):
Chaos Rings (ofc)
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Chaos Rings Omega (ofc)
Chaos Rings III (ofc)
Illusia
Illusia 2
Zenonia (hope it runs better than the virtualbox pack. i could use psp for this one but lol)
Zenonia 2
(*taking a huge drag of a cigarette* i could probably run zenonia 3 here *not even pausing to exhale from exhaustion*)

(zenonia and illusia dont work, see below)
Never underestimate my autism for dinky RPGs. I hope this information helps anyone because. People on Reddit are legit mourning the fact they can't play some of these games anymore (especially Illusia) because the mobile games industry fucking hates game preservation and that breaks my fucking heart.
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shifting gears from megaten to pokemon, playing through speedchoice red now. made the mistake of starting with a charmander.
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Dragon Quest III (SNES) - All six orbs obtained, Ramia was released, just grinding to Lv35 before Baramos. At Lv33.
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Heroes Lore: Wind of Soltia - Aramor done.

Honestly a very grim kinda game, but I liked it. Biggest issue with it is that it's grindy, but that seems to be a general issue with Korean phone RPGs.

The Rashomon storytelling approach to an RPG is neat, but it does make the plot kinda hard to follow. Some of its notes of sacrificing people for the sake of a false paradise kinda remind me of FFX which, I'm also playing, but the aspect of

it being the result of escaping from an entire realm being ravaged, instead of aiming to restore that area to its former beauty using the Refiners' power rather than just. Making living weapons that feed on people

does give it a neat wrinkle of how fucked up everything is.

It is a bit marred by its translation, but again, had fun. Would I recommend this? Probably if you're an RPG idiot like me.

EDIT: Just typed out a whole ass plot analysis because I was having a hard time proccing it and god... It's peam. It's so fucking grim.

Spoilers below.
The game doesn't touch upon it much, but it does mention that the Guardians are living weapons. I don't know how that works, but I feel like its the aspect of it draining its host, and Refiners being implied to have their minds warped by it, being forced to kill, like say. Anubis from JoJo (the Heroes Lore games have the occasional JoJoke). That may have caused the fact everyone's just Okay with people sacrificing themselves for the sake of Soltia. More food, more power.

The Guardians do also work as a reservoir of elemental power of sorts, and everytime their host dies, or the Guardian is getting old or they're killed, they go haywire and start causing problems, such as heatwaves around the Temple of Fire, flooding near the Temple of Water...

The elders also seem to only care about their cushy living, as exemplified by the fact they (or the government of Erebos) exhausted the old cities of Erebos and escaped to Soltia to establish PYLONS to channel energy, rather than working to restore order with their powers. It's very similar to FFX's destruction of Zanarkand and establishment of Yevon being seen as penance. People dying is just an afterthought, exemplified by the fact that Guardians are the "Messengers of God" according to elders rather than just weapons.

Aramor is kinda messed up in his ambition though, he wants to restore normalcy, but he feels the people need a scapegoat for all the pain and strife, so he sacrifices himself, being a double agent in the Elder's Council and the Crusaders, in order to lead (kinda manipulate in a way) Reah and Ronin, the latter being his late best friend's son. Everything is a huge mess and the only one with any real clear conscience is really Ronin, the one most detached from the drama at hand yet gets forced into a starring role by Aramor, which. Says a lot about the cast.
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beat shaft round 1 the other day, haven't had much luck with the refight so far

the autoplay tutorial didn't help much, either

i'm not good enough to juggle him!
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KobaBeach wrote: 1 month ago LDPlayer v1.9.1 (Chaos Rings Preservation pack):
Chaos Rings (ofc)
Chaos Rings II (ofc)
Chaos Rings Omega (ofc)
Chaos Rings III (ofc)
Illusia
Illusia 2
Zenonia (hope it runs better than the virtualbox pack. i could use psp for this one but lol)
Zenonia 2
(*taking a huge drag of a cigarette* i could probably run zenonia 3 here *not even pausing to exhale from exhaustion*)
i regret to announce illusia and zenonia close after picking a class. illusia and zenonia run nicely on my ancient android phone from middle school and there is a semi-buggy zenonia 1-3 remaster lying around but. this is not an ideal situation

this fucking sucks man

booting up dq3 snes tho
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Dragon Quest III (SNES) - Gearing up at Rimuldar and levelling up before Zoma babey it's all about the mets baby come on mets

Such a fucking cozy ass game I'm so glad I booted this up as a therapy game of sorts. Also I have an appointment with my psychiatrist tomorrow (mental health doctor rather than therapist, he handles my meds basically), I should try to ask him about setting up therapy again. Sadly it may take a couple of months due to Portugal's health care system being dead in the gutter.

Also why is Ortega hotter than I remember, like I thought the Japanese bara art I saw of him exaggerated him to fuck and back. Can I get fanart like that for Pankraz too btw
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I wanna hug Baramos too, he's giving "Hans Moleman if he was cute".

Zenonia - Ayles affairs done (did all quests, I believe) and moved on to Adonis. Got into the Guild of Light, going for the Hero Ending I assume. Playing on my ancient Android from middle school(?).

Lv10 and I'm also gonna work on a few quests around the latter town. Sidequests are always really fun, I feel like I heard the P2W microtransactions encouraged you to spend money on EXP multipliers for them though? That may be Zen4&5, not sure. We'll see when we get there.

I'm glad the villagers are getting nicer* though I can imagine Denis ("gay dude with a crush on you" stereotype) is gonna age as badly as the /v/irgin who made an epic greentext Tomodachi Life song on YouTube about how Mewtwo (and Ridley) would never get in Sm4sh and then proceeded to "not get mad" about it.

* - Pholtos hates this game due to that and the grind which. Didn't he play Ragnarok, at least the DS game? Ragnarok is up there with Runescape in grind levels
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shaft 2 done!!!

time to go for the missing stages
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locking 5' behind dracula was dumb

frog statue maiden was also dumb

mostly good but overhyped/10
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Might and Magic - Clash of Heroes - coming up on the end of the Heresh campaign, so I'm officially at the halfway point now. It's a neat little puzzle game. ...I just realized that I'm going to have to play through the HD Definitive Edition at some point this year.

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Grounder wrote: 4 weeks ago locking 5' behind dracula was dumb
you misunderstand that stage is postgame. that's why it's that hard

Final Fantasy X (PS2) - I kinda screwed up my builds in Expert Grid so I restarted with Standard Grid. Did everything from Prologue to Luca.

At the Mi'ihen Highroad, levelling up after the laughter cutscene.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - Swamp Palace and Skull Woods done. Skull Woods was really tough and I died a lot, on top of being tired due to it being 1 AM (it is currently 4:36 AM, took a nap) so I wound up just. Savescumming a la 2008 SMW hack lps.

I wish Mothula a very burn to the ground /hyenard
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KobaBeach wrote: 3 weeks ago
Grounder wrote: 4 weeks ago locking 5' behind dracula was dumb
you misunderstand that stage is postgame. that's why it's that hard
okay, let me rephrase: locking it behind dracula and a possible stage replay is dumb

already did everything else, i don't think i need to fight carmilla again

it's kinda nitpicky, though, i admit
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Zenonia - Levelled up a bit more and did the sidequests I had around Adonis.

Roland vamoused with the scroll for the Cave of Deceit, so we have to chase him down in said cave. First off, more sidequesting and. Man I'm really feeling how the hunger system kinda gets in the way a bit, on top of the reduced sidequest EXP. I think 1x EXP gain MMO servers are similar to this, outside of repeatable quick grind quests like in Ragnarok or something but still.

Also thank god Denis was just practicing his wedding proposals in public instead of being a gay stereotype.

Dragon Quest III (SNES) - Zoma beat. Had to use some savestates on him because he's DAMN hard but.

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jumped into harmony of dissonance

it starts off a lot better than circle to be sure, but the progression has since gotten really weird

it feels like the double jump and slide were the only real movement upgrades they could think of, because now i'm just moving from warp to warp with no rhyme or reason
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La Tale - I logged on and did some quests (Lv21 rn) but Papaya Play's servers are shitting the bed super hard ooggghhh. The plot is giving post-BigBang Maple Story (red flag) but the gameplay is incredibly cozy.

Zenonia - Played a bit of this because my parents' new induction stove isn't properly wired so it kept shutting down the power supply and I turned off my pc until they were done cooking because I was scared of currupt data (they were legit getting kinda stressed getting it under control ogh) and

The grind is multiplying. Very little EXP gains in this game + hunger mechanic + weight mechanic + reviving requires either a 2000G item or sacrificing your weapon's durability and current EXP = whoa just take it easy man (drake & josh voice)

I'll keep going through it because the story is cute but also can Medium from the diner stop giving me a billion quests? help

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played some more and have reached the "where the fuck do i go now" stage this game is apparently known for

clearly not in castle 2, unless i missed what the brass knuckles do
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Grounder wrote: 3 weeks agonow i'm just moving from warp to warp with no rhyme or reason
That's Harmony of Dissonance in a nutshell, really. (Which it's about time for me to run another randomizer of that, myself).

Might and Magic - Clash of Heroes - Lordess Ludmilla was insurmountably hard the first time and laughably easy the second time (Necropolis has two "fast" units, one of whom apply poison on hit, and poison lingers as long as the target is on the field. Now consider that, because she's a boss, Lordess Ludmilla never leaves the field). So now I'm on the Inferno leg of the campaign and now I really get to bust some heads.
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