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Resleriana is still a lil too heavy on the nostalgia for me to recommend to a first timer, if you want more classic atelier I'd still recommend sophie 1. Firis is weird (first attempt at an open world) but Lydie&Suelle is peak

I missed being a part of homestar runner culture, but thanks to trogdor I always had at least a decent idea of what it was

Been playing Atelier Resleriana. It's good! Feels like a sister game to Sophie 2. The crafting seems absolutely braindead easy at first with little meaningful input, but once catalysts get involved, it takes a lot more planning. I like that you seem to be encouraged to do shorter crafts, rather than where in Ryza or Yumia you had to loop as many morphs as possible. Midgame janky synthesis feels easier to get up to an acceptable level once you unlock the equivalent of the forging or rebuilding; you can slap multiple useful traits onto an item even if you mostly botched the original creation of it, or just pump up item quality/uses further if it's already fine.

Every character has a niche that you're actually encouraged to make use of (unlike Ryza and Yumia again, where you just wanted to overpower everything). Both characters and items feel very strong this time, but you have to use all your characters and everyone has to be packing items for item mix combos. The economy is basically nonexistent- there's a store mechanic and nearly everything in the game will just automatically make bank with duplication. Gear's gated so you can't just do a Ryza 3 and have endgame gear before leaving the tutorial, at least.

Lots of old Atelier characters are present, not as much as Nelke since the game is less blatantly fanservicey but there's at least one person from pretty much every mainline game here, even Mana Khemia. Especially Mana Khemia, really, because the protagonist of 2 is an early party member. There's tons of characters who are shown to fight but aren't actually playable, which is sort of a shame but 6 party members (+2 DLC in a few months) is about all you can really expect from these games. It's a nice spread but I feel like they're milking Sophie a little too much.

Story's alright, difficulty's better than Yumia at least. It's not quite as good of a game as Shallie or Lydie&Suelle but it's in their style and has got a ton of quality of life the older games lacked. Also it's got Totori tossing Chims as nukes. Good game.

dynasty warriors origins and total war warhammer 3

that's just total war three kingdoms, both ways

you can actually buy it as soon as you enter gran soren, and it restocks at the vendor after you use it. you're just way too poor to ever afford it before you're in the endgame

that's in the first game too! there's a small number of enemies that it doesn't work on, though, like the endgame superboss (it completely destroys one weakpoint) or some enemies on bitterblack isle

Riviera: The Promised Land has a number of these, due to the game's difficulty being mostly around item and inventory management. A notable one, Longinus, only shows up at the start of the game if you S-ranked the final boss in a previous run, it has only one use, and it's the second strongest weapon in the game.

loved gladius even if it was really bad. undercooked is precisely the way to describe it lol

papercup posted...

Been watching House.

goated

couple of years ago, I watched the entire series episode by episode up till about season 6 or 7 and then just watched big episodes after that

fourth season finale is the absolute best please enjoy it

as for me, I started an episode of Castle the other day and I intend to continue it, seems similar to other stuff I've liked

ZeldaMutant posted...

Umihara Kawase.

on a quest to remember a game from my childhood with grappling hooks (it ended up being FF Mystic Quest), i stumbled upon that game yesterday actually. it looks really neat for a SNES game

trump would absolutely love to relive his apprentice days and tell people they're fired to their faces

that being said I can't read that article because paywall

tons of microtransactions

one pops up right as you finish the prologue tutorial and gets into the main game

yea!!!!

i fell off brave frontier when the descriptions' phrases turned into sentences and then into paragraphs

i still miss it though :(

the jp name for fire emblem echoes: shadows of valentia never actually mentions shadows (it's , "another hero king"), so it was probably not considered when naming this new one

also who played echoes lmao (I will eventually.....)

No prior notice given, it just dropped when Nintendo announced it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqMRXKUNwo
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fire-emblem-shadows/id6746113513
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nintendo.zaha&hl=en_US

tldr: quick simple 3 player among us, where the subterfuge decides how hard the 2v1 boss battle is

It's... not particularly a good game and I can't see it staying alive for very long, but it is a novel concept, at least. 3 players fight some monsters with full friendly fire enabled and one is a traitor that has extra shadow abilities that can't be traced back to them, though you see who's targetted. After the fight, everyone guesses who the traitor is, and a correct guess gives back two lives while an incorrect guess gives back only one. Then there's a 2v1 boss fight against the traitor player who's buffed up to full power. The other two players will have between one and three lives (+1 for surviving the first fight, +1 for guessing wrong, +2 for guessing right). Every player has a global cooldown after each skill use (round 1 traitor skills are a separate timer) and can still cast while dead, albeit at a doubled cooldown.

I'm not sure how players playing properly would ever end up with less than two lives each going into the second round, though. Nuking someone out of existence costs so much traitor skill cooldown time that others can likely guess who you are (if not both, then at least one of them- there's only 3 people and they know what role they are), but nuking yourself will probably lead to them living through round one. Especially observant and opportunistic traitors can probably force it down a bit, but it's simple so far.

The rounds are very short, at least, and there's no actual communication, so you can absolutely just pick up and go. Still, don't spend money on it lmao. They bait you with a battlepass that immediately gives you Lyn like 20 minutes in, and Dmitri is also in the game. Rest are originals

feels like this is gonna last as long as that bofuri tower defense game did, which is to say, less than a year

20 minutes in and it's dangling microtransactions and battlepasses in front of me already

lmao dmitri and lyn are gacha characters

it's out right now, i'm playing it

from what I see, everyone automatically moves and does normal moves while also being able to target others with skills, and traitors can utilize friendly fire and traitor-unique shadow spells to sabotage the fight

dead characters can still use abilities, and guessing the traitor right gives you more autorevives for the players-vs-traitor fight

look in the bottom right

jkay posted...

Why can't they look more like Final Fantasy 4 video game characters? Just overall cool and fun stylish design!

it's not like Amano has completely stopped drawing, he still does concept art and planning for FFXIV sometimes

one raid back in Stormblood was basically his art style brought to life

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5f9cdc58.jpg

clear separation between the original world and the new world is one of the core aspects of an isekai, and kabaya functionally forced it. creating an isekai was basically his explicit goal, and he succeeded in creating an artificial one

now alicization is a different can of worms

it's arguable depending on the execution, but probably, yeah

one of the more interesting "is it an isekai" questions is Super Dimension Century Orguss, where (early spoilers) it appears it's an isekai but in actually it's earth after a timeskip with a bunch of OTHER realities' earths (where dinos survived and evolved, etc) smashed into it, due to a bomb in the intro screwing up spacetime. it's still probably an isekai even if everything is still taking place on earth prime, where the main character is from

whether it feels like an isekai depends on how "otherworldly"" it appears, I guess. isekai's more of a vibe than a hard rule these days

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I wouldn't, shit's disgusting.

finally PO exposes himself with the most incorrect opinion of all time

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Huh, no way I'll be your lover had a movie announced instead of a S2. Why? Just give me another 12 episodes.

apparently the movie is episodes 13-17 and they'll release it on tv and/or streaming later

weird way to do it but I guess maybe it's an arc that fits the movie format

ayyy for real? I have my post times set to relative

algorithms can often see how often you pause when certain things are mentioned, so maybe you lingered on something related to teeth longer than you normally would

i avoid ""satisfying"" medical videos like the plague. get that shit out of my sight there's nothing satisfying about what's going on with that foot

detective conan kinda

You technically can do most fights completely in real time but if I remember right the game incentivizes you to mix in both with more battle rewards

I'm pretty sure the old super mario bros movie was objectively bad but that shit was my jam. apparently the guy that played luigi was absolutely smashed the entire time they were filming?

Can be good, usually isn't. The best motion blur is when I'm surprised to find it's an option in the graphics settings

the evan chandler case was such a shitshow because the guy was obviously trying to use his son to con for money, and a bunch of the other related allegations were parents not taking the case to the police but instead selling it to tabloids for lump sums of money. idk about much that happened after the initial set of investigations, but the initial allegations were incredibly slimy. seriously go read up on them rather than going off memory and vibes

they even found more evidence in support of him in his autopsy after his death

which parts of your PC, the motherboard+CPU? just replace that

https://x.com/olafredland/status/1967809794758283601 lol

zakuzaku actors isn't one though

hey, there's some really really good ones out there! zakuzaku actors, demons roots, and monster girl quest paradox are legitimately better than 99.9% of real games out there

just listen to music from better games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnWJM8zMjA

'are there multiple routes' and/or 'how much do choices actually matter'

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Yeah this is not new for Sinclair and the people who would see this were already seeing shit like this before. It sucks but it's not quite as dramatic as it seems on it's face.

https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?si=Xut2soEcwkZ6deeb

I had completely forgotten he'd done a piece on it, but I know I've rewatched this episode in the past year because I remember that bear

I just can't hate on xenoblade DLC when the finale of 2 and 3's season passes were almost whole-ass new games. they probably had that in the works before the game released but mostly because they'd have to

i think jen was mean to me once because my post could have been read the opposite way i intended

the situation was soon corrected but i fear those who incur her wrath
Jen0125 posted...

you're lesbianese
i know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_snjarJuU

getting close to next season... let's check out the isekai

campfire cooking's always welcome
May I Ask for One Final Thing?.... I know I read this one, but all that comes to mind was it starts off in the villainess engagement cancellation situation
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's - read it, can't remember which of the multiple assassin>hero manga it is I've read
Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator - good but very self indulgent with how overpowered their entire family is. the anime's probably gonna just be bad
A Wild Last Boss Appeared! - definitely in my top 5 isekai. does multiple pretty neat things for the genre, like the main character is isekai'd into the web novelization of an MMO he played the heel in, but it's very much not the game itself
9999 Gacha - absolute slop. i fucking love how shameless it is. it's revenge porn like redo of healer but without.... some of its more controversial aspects. it's going to be bad. the full title actually breaks the jnovel app because of the length
The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest- this is ACTUALLY the same exact premise I've read at least 3 other times (and one got an anime a few seasons ago), but I don't think I've read this one

every other isekai I have absolutely no idea about as a rabid isekai consumer

may gnosia save this godforsaken season (go play it if you haven't it's cheap and short-ish)

every time I read Destiny Warriors I get excited you're gonna play one of the goated Dynasty Warriors games. stop faking me out like this :(

I feel like if they were going to doctor texts they wouldn't paint the trans roommate in an arguably positive light (there's obstruction or whatever due to "delete this" but it's understandable). and yeah, his tone is weird, but internet weirdos be like that sometimes

you really need to base your opinion on more than one 50 second clip some twitter guy baited you to get mad about

https://x.com/ThinkingMunk/status/1966442901136699755

there's literal hours of stream from that day

edit: oh i see where you got 100% of your information from xd https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxDEgZjvuQR_LJVB_E7-BEqWb6xigUok1U

willythemailboy posted...

Bullshit he's not. He's saying enough examples need to be made that the survivors learn from those examples.

he's absolutely not saying that more examples need to be made, you're hearing what you want to hear

he's saying more people need to realize the consequences of hateful violent rhetoric, not have the consequences happen to them, so that they can influence their politicians to be less hateful and violent

people can grow and change their opinions without having murder forced on them and their loved ones. it's called empathy, something charlie kirk called a "made up new age term"

willythemailboy posted...

Well there he is on stream directly advocating for political violence. After that I couldn't give less of a damn what he claims to advocate.

he's not advocating for violence, what the hell are you on about

to put it another way: if you walk into the saloon with a hand on your gun, you're more likely to get shot. destiny's not wishing that guy would get shot and learn a lesson by dying, he's wishing that guy would realize that's dangerous and chill out

willythemailboy posted...

Edit: the Destiny source was easy enough to find

destiny has stated tons of time he does not advocate for political violence at all. he's pointing out that the end result of violent rhetoric is more violence, and the right is reacting to that violence with more violent rhetoric, creating a self-reinforcing loop. you HAVE to deescalate at some point if you actually seek a peaceful resolution

oh yeah @YoukaiSlayer "large-scale DLC" announced for dynasty warriors origins for january, looking like it might have a focus on zhang jiao with lu bu being an ally in the trailer. let me +99 rank 8 weapons already damnit

https://youtu.be/yL69vFOt_lM?t=40