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TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/20/23 8:01:12 PM
#117
ok Tita's grandpa is definitely on the spectrum. Not sure if they were tried to depict it when they made the game back then, but they ended up getting super close to it

the black orbment shuts down all the orbal power in the city. My guess is that it's some kind of anti-orbment, with the ability to nullify other orbments. It did a similar thing in the climax of Ruan.

orbal power can't work on a device that is designed to counter it, so the professor has a revolutionary idea: invent the combustion engine

I guess it makes sense that since this civilization got a huge technological boost from magic rocks, they skipped some of the fundamental discoveries the real world had

we find a computer, which reveals some lore of the game. nice

Estelle carrying gasoline is a top 10 scariest moment in videogames

calling it now: the mcguffing got stolen while we went out to look for materials. Ah, never mind.

and now everybody is going out except the prof. Perfect.

apparently every single battle in the next area is against a single enemy. which is clearly good game design when the newest party member specializes in AoE (not)

I do a quest involving getting a cat to follow the party so it can identify a cigarette thief. These keep getting more and more creative

then we run into a quest to protect a broken caravan from a horde of evil bunnies, and Tita blinds 4 of them in the first turn with smoke cannon. Nice.

I meet a "boss" that is made of 4 enemies. I used "" because Tita blinds 3 and petrifies 1 in the first turn. this is ridiculous

The normal enemies come in small numbers, but there are a ton of monsters in chests, which usually are represented by large mobs. That's when the carnage starts.

you only need to get around the fact she dies on two hits by anything, I guess

scent +haze is a broken combo. the first quartz give you a ton of magic but makes enemies more likely to see you, the other one gives you more magic and makes you invisible. And the game prioritizes the effect that benefits you

Tita is not really better than the other characters, but she sticks out because this is one of those games (i. e. FF6) where magic > everything, which lends to less gameplay variety, so she sticks out like a sore thumb, being good at something other elemental wizardry. the "something" being physical AoE and status effects. I've had 5 characters so far whose main tactic was spamming aerial or white gehenna. Suddenly there's a new way to kill things.

I find an acessory called long barrel, which increases weapons range. the crippling status now comes all the way from the other side of the map

I go the the border to Calvard Republic. The last time I was at a border was the Erebonian Empire. The mood here is VERY laid back, really different from the previous one. Which makes sense since they were at war with the empire not long ago

I arrive at Elmo village, an idyllic place in an otherwise industrial region. Typical.
Topic48% of gamefaqers don't brush their teeth twice a day? What the hell?
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 6:44:21 PM
#23
I usually brush three times a day and also floss whenever I brush. I do miss it sometimes (particularly in weekends where there is no daily routine to fit the brushing with) so I picked the penultimate option.

Chances are it's too much, but it's easy to get into habit when you do it since you are a child. And where I live, everybody who is at least low to middle class brushes often.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 3:31:40 PM
#292
MacArrowny posted...
When a bad sequel comes out, that game often does well in sales based on the positivity people had based on its predecessors. The next game suffers more most of the time (AAI in this case).

Imo that's also the reason why Batman vs Superman sold and Justice League didn't. I suspect people didn't go see the later because the former had already soured them on the franchise. Because I don't think the two movies are much different in quality. But I have no data for this.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 2:50:14 PM
#105
ok I've figured it out.

Estelle: Evade 2 - HP 2/Mind 2/EP Cut 1 - Action 2/Impede 2
Joshua: Action 2 - EP 2/Cast 2/Blind/Attack 2 - HP 2
Tita: EP Cut 2 - Action 1 - Petrify/Haze/Eagle Eye - HP 2

Estelle keeps the previous setup. I don't see any room for improvement here.

Josh goes for the max time set this time. Attack 2 also gives him some good single-target power. HP 2 helps balance it, and really, it's good on everyone.

Remember when Josh was using earth wall and chaos brand? Those are Tita's jobs now. She's bad with bosses? Give her support arts that are good versus bosses. Her only AoE art is the terrible Stone Impact, but who cares, she's got AoE basic attack, which can also petrify. HP2 is mandatory for her survival, and Action is mandatory period. To be replaced by Action 2 when I get enough sepith.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 1:30:01 PM
#100
I cross Rock Tunnel. After two dozen or so battles, I arrive at the end, and meet another future party member, Little Girl, going to the opposite direction. Estelle and Josh decide to follow her all the way back instead of going out to the comfort of Zeiss. Danmit it.

fortunately theres an infinite rest thingy in the middle of the dungeon so this already has better QoL than the original Rock Tunnel from Pokemon

we meet the girl, who is trying to protect a lamp from a horde of monsters. She fires a cannon at her but misses, and the monsters all turn at her. What happens to all those helpless NPCs when we are not around, they die? Because I'm pretty sure this is at least the third time we have to bail some suicidal NPC from a monster horde

I want to just white gehenna those dorks but decide to take it slow, which pays off, because I find out Little Girl's basic attack is AoE

I repeat.

Her basic attack is AoE.

This is not a drill.

and it deals about the same damage as like, Estelle's basic attack. Granted, its area of effect is pitiful but an AoE basic attack is just incredible for any RPG's standards

Josh then explains for the 11th time the reason the monsters attacked the lamp was because of the sepith in it. Surely Estelle will learn that concept before the trilogy ends. I hope.

Tita, the girl, is the resident tech whiz. She knows the lamp was broken because her computer told her to. Estelle, who still lives in pre-information age, has no idea what shes talking about. To be fair this is a world where cell phones are considered miliary grade technology, so it's hard to know what the exact tech standards here are. It's close to the real world but not quite.

she starts with 4 slots, which is still more than Agate. LOL Agate

her orbment shape is a little worse than Estelle's but not much, and again, better than Agate's. Though those 2 space slots will be tricky to get around. Space doesn't have any dedicated spells and is only used to support other elements, which means I'll have to be creative.

ngl having a party member who is a little girl running with a massive gun is kinda of funny. I'm a fan of little characters who are more badass than they should reasonably be

She yells "Prepare to meet your doom!" when she uses her craft. Awesome.

we arrive at Zeiss. The entrance to the city is inside the factory. That sounds inconvenient for the factory itself

Wow, I love the factory song. Normally, factory music in games is some kind of quick techno. Here it's just a very laid back jazz

the song is for all of Zeiss, actually

the game lags a lot in the landing port, which kinda makes sense since they made a large 3d background for it

the protagonists are bewildered by the magic of the escalator

weapons shop: "we cater to the violently inclined!" hell yeah

Zeiss doesn't have a mayor, it has a factory chief instead. That already makes it a better place to raise your children than the other mayor infested regions

The bracer guild officer, Kilika, has deduction skills that might match Josh's. Might.

the factory's archives has a dumb, but fun story about some guys fighting a genie. It's not completel. I wanna see the end, lol.

one of the books I'm supposed to recover for the library as part of a sidequest is "kitty talk for dummies". Hmm.

"contains candid kitty conversations. Meow"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/7/6/AAO9CbAAES68.jpg

So Tita's grandpa is the guy who led the Orbal Revolution, who in turn is the disciple to the guy who invented orbments. ofc

Tita's slots have been maxed out. I finally open slots for someone besides Estelle/Josh

ok Tita's orbment sucks. In theory, the shape is fine, but try to find an use for 2 space slots that isn't some mega AoE spell Tita probably can't get anyway (and doesn't need since she's the AoE queen). I think she can get white gehenna? But then she's only doing that, and overlapping with Josh at that. This will take work to figure out.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 10:57:35 AM
#272
kevwaffles posted...
Even If 4-0 did a better job of not being entirely contrived, this is still the same universe where catching Manfred willfully forging evidence resulted in a completely frivolous penalty, ego damage withstanding. They never do anything to explain that disparity.

To be fair, legal rules in the series are anything but consistent.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 10:57:00 AM
#271
I haven't done the math, but I think Phoenix spends more time disbarred than he spends practicing Law, even adding all games in the series.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 9:14:03 AM
#99
we get a heartfelt goodbye from Kloe, and a scene that hints at who she really is. Off to the tunnel that takes us to Zeiss. Once again, the party splits and we are down to just Gon and Killua

I made a point to but a second Action 2 before leaving though. If i'll only have two characters, they better have the best quartz money can buy

and more shipping. Estelle tries to play cool about Josh liking Kloe, then she finds out he doesn't actually like Kloe and it's the best day in her life

Orbmentz:

Estelle: Evade 2 - HP 2/Mind 2/EP Cut 1 - Action 2/Impede 2
Joshua: Action 2 - EP 2/Eagle Eye/Cast 2/Defense 2 - Strike

Estelle's set is arguably a better version of what I was using with Kloe. With Action instead of a 3rd blue quartz. She doesn't get the high end healing spells, but the party doesn't even have enough HP to need that. Attacking more is more useful and she has the same spells as Kloe.

Josh is White Gehenna and Chaos Brand. I chose to sacrifice AoE elemental variety so the party can have at least one attack of every element. But Defense 2 and Strike are both still very useful, and honestly, if you have White Gehenna, you don't need a lot more AoE. And if a good single target spell is needed, I still get Flare Arrow.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 9:13:39 AM
#98
NFUN posted...
you're the one who was insulting first? what's your fucking problem dude

I was under the impression you being super young was some running gag on B8, so it wasn't meant as an insult. But if you were offended, I apologize.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 8:59:44 AM
#96
NFUN you are right and I'm wrong. I hope that satisfies you, because I'm definitely not interested in turning this thread into yet another argument against you over something trivial.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 5:50:00 AM
#260
Also 5-2 is another case people hate that I don't understand why.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 5:47:33 AM
#259
LightningStrikes posted...
Wait a minute, youre either dunking on 6-2 or 6-3 there and both of those cases are excellent! Regardless Id say every case from SoJ is better than at least case 2 from DD. I havent played the DLC though and people dont seem to like that.

6-2 isn't great.

I really love what they did with Trucy there (it's the first time in the series she feels like a human) and the twins are cool but talk about a lame ass villain. Made the whole thing anti-climatic.

So I take all of DD over it, yes.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 5:39:05 AM
#256
SoJ is an interesting game to compare to DD because the later is about flawless consistency, and the former is about ups and downs. There are 3 cases in SoJ that are worse than every single case from DD, and 2 that are better, or at least as good, as every case from DD. Only average case is 6-1, which is still pretty solid for a first case.

So basically the Kura'In cases are fantastic, the Japanifornia cases are bad.

(Though again, "bad" in Ace Attorney is the same as "decent" in most videogame series)
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 5:35:03 AM
#254
5-1 isn't my favorite but it's very underrated.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/19/23 5:27:47 AM
#94
NFUN posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/2/AAcM16AAES1G.png
???

I know you are like 10 year old so you don't remember but check the in depth section for every old game and it has like 10+ entries. A JRPG usually has over 20.

Like, wtf do I do with a Translation Guide.

The only useful one there is the quartz guide, but I really miss more detailed commentary on the crafts and the individual characters' stats. So you have to use the wikis. And they spoil you mercilessly.

And I don't need a walkthrough. The game is very good at telling me where to go. I just want to read about strategy and mechanics.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/18/23 9:36:22 PM
#89
I love how cartoony Estelle's anger against the mayor is

Josh once again reminds us he is the most intelligent cast member by a mile by deducing the Duke is also involved

The protagonists lack proof. However, our friend the reporter arrives with the most effective way humanity has invented to catch criminals and the crooked alike: the financial accounting.

Duke: [Michael Jackson Popcorn Gif]

another boss is revealed and my hope for the game's difficulty is renewed. Two giant monster doge

Nope, still easy. The doge are just more defensive instead of offensive, but then I use earth wall and turn it into an attrition war. Now to be fair, although I'm winning everything, the game is making me think of tactics a lot, so the difficulty isn't completely trivial

I rreach lv 20 and Kloe learns a skill named Sturm, which I'm afraid I wont be able to test for a while because the chapter is probably about to end. Meh.

Cool scene. the mayor pulls out a mcguffin to paralyse the good guys. Then as he's about to kill estelle, Joshua threatens bloody murder on him. He decides to kill Joshua instead, but then Estelle's own mcguffin she got from Dad activates and stops the mayor's mcguffin

that's one COOL chase scene

the bad guy almost makes it, but the queen's royal army arrives with an airship and arrests him

this is Kloe's letter's doing, isn't it? Btw, I have been spoiled on the fact both Kloe and Olivier are princes of their respective countries. Before you throw rocks on me, the problem is that you can't google the character for info on crafts without that spoiler appearing at the top of the wiki page. Like: "List of crafts of Kloe, princess of Liberl". I wish I could use GameFAQs guides instead but this is a 21th century game so the FAQ selection is barren.

And... the mayor has also been brainwashed. Feel kinda lame this time. it was a fun antagonist to hate.

Richard arrives late, annoyed that the royal guard came first. Sorry for the loss bro, but to be fair, the group had a fucking princess, armed with a messenger Not a Falcon that connected her to the royal guard. That's too much even for Richard the Spotlight Stealer

We obtain the third gym badge. Chapter 2: The Attack of the NIMBYs beaten.

We move to a scene where Agate chases the bad guys, and they wonder how he can run so fast with such a huge sword.
Agate: "Fools! I have trained in the Cloud Strife School of Giant Sword Handling! I can use it like it's a butter knife!"

this scene has everything. Agate kicking ass, the bad guy's boss showing up, a really cool fight (this game does WONDERS with sprite fight animations. Seriously), an hologram reveal, a mysterious voice giving swordsmanship advice to Agate. Wtf is going with this game. It's deliciously cliche. I love it.

Chapter 3: The McGuffin begins
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/18/23 9:32:24 PM
#88
We meet the dean, Dumbledore

estelle and hjosh join the cast for the play and they are the protagonists, along with kloe. Ofc.

And the play has gender reversed roles, becasue Japanese game designers can't help themselves.

Though the characters themselves say it's to fight gender roles, which is surprisingly progressive for a JRPG

Josh is not happy. Where is Olivier when you need him. he would look fabulous in any role. And also think everyone is fabulous in every role.

Jill is a great character. estelle is sad she doesn't have any female friends and Jill is like "girl, you spend 24/7 with a boy. let me play the tiniest violin for you"

Josh and Estelle now have to go to school. Estelle isn't happy. now I'm wondering, why were they not going to school before? arent they 16? DId they drop out or something?

festival starts. there are things like food booths, and also students showing off some of their school projects. One of them is a computer than "analyses the orbal compatibility of characters", but it just spouts generic astrology-like stuff

I get it that Kloe is close to her Not a Falcon, but it understanding English fluently is insane. Like, even with a dog ou have to show them an object with thge smell of the person they are tracking. Kloe just says "where is Joshua?" to the bird and it gets it

this is a better play than the one from FF6. Though it could use some Ultros.

Silver Haired Dude, bearer of Plot, appears. However, it's too soon for Plot, so he leaves.

Dumbledore appears and announces the people in the festival donated enough money to rebuild the orphanage. Mostly the duke and Bose's mayor. I assume the mayor donated 99% of it, which also sneaking in a contract to own the orphanage herself.

and the oprhanage crew is attacked again. damn.

We arrive at the hotel where the kids are, and learned they got mugged by two guys in masks, strong enough to beat the bracer who was guarding them. They had their one million stolen.

Agate shows up and recruits us to help. I guess he the danger is big enough he doesn't want to do it alone. Or he realized the plot only happens wherever Estelle is so he won't find anything unless he stays with her

Kloe: "the bird told us the way!"
Agate: "What the hell, you believe this bullshit?"
Estelle and Josh: "Let's go!" - marches out
Agate: "This can't be serious... ahhhhh godamn protagonists!" - runs after them

Agate only starts with 3 unlocked slots. that's the least slots from any character since Estelle/Josh, and those were there at the start. And the game doesn't let me to go to Ruan to open more. Meh.

we break into the lighthouse, where the local gang from Ruan has been brainwashed (I guess it's the same as Don) to fight us

the mayor wasn't the bad guy. his secretary was. Close

actually no, the mayor is bad too. And his motive is that he is the orphanage was lowering the region's property value and he wants to make money selling luxury houses. the villain of the arc is a freaking NIMBY

told you at least one mayor was gonna be bad, it's a statistical inevitability. I mean, jrpg villain bad, not capitalist pig bad like Bose's mayor

(yes I'm aware she is mostly a good person but I'm dying with this meme)

boss fight. they are fast, have high attack and spam AT down but I still wipe the floor with them. clock up ex, s-craft spam, morale, la teara, and they fold like wet paper. the difficulty curve of this game is a downward spiral. The enemies just can't keep up. Though I suspect this won't last forever since I'm already touching the game's strongest spells at this point.

bad guys escape by threatening to kill a hostage. The leave by using one of the most 2D ropes I've ever seen in a 3D videogame. What is this, Paper Mario?

we do recover the money, though. seems like the trend of this game is that villains' damage always gets undone but bad guys always escape

citizens are all like "stone the bad guys! release them in the mountain so they'll get eaten!". harsh, but they burned a fucking orphanage, what can I say?
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/18/23 9:27:57 PM
#246
Swap E1-4 Edgeworth with 6-6 Edgeworth and you get the correct characterizations for each point in time.

Almost like... a Turnabout Time Travel
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/18/23 7:14:51 PM
#240
DragonGargoyle posted...
Yeah, I don't really think of Edgeworth's appearance in 1-5 much, personally. iirc it also felt like it quite fit with he rest of the trilogy, althought I can't exactly remeber why that is

Edgeworth was at his best in 1-3 and 1-4 imo. I liked seeing his relationships with Franziska and Kay and Sebastian in later games, but it was those two cases that made him top tier for me

Edgeworth's worldview breaks in 1-4 and he spends some time evaluating it, coming back with a new worldview at 2-4. 1-5 is supposed to take part during the period where he is evaluating it. It does fit awkwardly in the continuity but it doesn't quite contradict it.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/18/23 7:11:48 AM
#87
so I went shopping for quartz, and switch things a little. I give josh a massive combination of time quartz that unlocks every time spell in the game. That's not hyperbole. he gets white gehenna, anti-sept all and clock up ex, on top of already having chaos brand. also give him attack 2 for good measure. estelle, on the other hand, loses evade but gets defense so she can do the earth wall.

Is Josh squishy? Yes. But Kloe is sitting on 200 CP. Let the enemy find out I can heal myself as they devoured by a time singularity

I start a side quest involving recovering an item from a thief who leaves riddles. This game does love using every cliche in the book, doesn't it

white gehenna is good

though now I'm looking at estelle and she doesn't actually get earth wall. turns out making one character amazing at something loses you flexibility overall. I find a compromise where Josh drops anti-sept all but keeps the rest, while Estelle still has Aerial and Earth Wall

doing the phantom thief quest

me: "needs to check a barrel in a warehouse"

worker: "sorry the rule says I can't let unauthorized people inside the warehouse since it's supposed to be secure. Then again, it doesn't say I can't go there and bring the object you want to check as long as you check it outside. Yay for loopholes!"

yeah ok the mayor is the phantom thief. Calling it.

I level up my bracer rank and get the Strike quartz, which boosts crits. Josh is getting that instead of Attack 2. I don't get why the attack quartz are the only ones that lower stat, would they be OP otherwise?

the school's song is pretty solid
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 8:33:14 PM
#82
I have figured out the quartz puzzle. at least until I find another shiny bauble and the whole thing needs to be overhauled again

Kloe: HP 2/Heal/Evade 2/Mind 2/Shield 1/Eagle Eye

The 3 water quartz are locked in, and give Kloe the entire water spell list. Well, not all of it, I need a wind quartz to unlock diamond dust, a nice freeze AoE. Since I have a wind quartz I may as well equip another to get Aerial, which is OP. Eagly Eye gives me the elements I need to unlock group healing spells. I could use Action, but the spell list practically writes itself.

Estelle: Ep Cut 2 - Seal/Evade 1/Impede 2 - HP 2/Action 1

This gives fire and wind AoE, as well single target options on 4 elements. If magic fails, Estelle can just spam her spear hurricanes and deal seal status. Action is mandatory. HP helps with survival and makes Estelle a backup healer, the two wind quartz make her even tankier, and Ep Cut rounds the set to make up for Estelle's low EP

Josh: Action 2 - Haze/Defense 2/Blind/Information - EP Cut 1

two party-wide effects, but they are great. Between haze and eagle eye, I get a free turn against everything. His job is to start with an earth wall buff then grab his swords and go hit things. there are also time and earth AoE/single target if necessary. There is also Chaos Brand, which confuses an enemy. That sounds OP.

now time to use this clearly overthought build to trivialize the game's Normal difficulty

Kloe's german craft that reduces enemy status is calling her Not a Hawk to strike them. Not complaining

we get a very funny sequence at the Zeiss border, where Estelle persuades the jerkass duke from before to not rent the entire military HQ for himself, by pointing her spear to his neck and yelling. When diplomacy fails, bring the Estelle.

I explore the regional elemental tower, which gives me exp, lots of treasure, and such an insane amount of sepith I don't know what to do with it.

I turn in 3 quests at the guild and it gives me another 4. all short term. main plot? what main plot?

one problem I have is kloe has no user for her CP outside bosses. bird-kun is good but single target. why not use aerial instead. and the s-craft is good if I'm dying. so far that hasn't been a scenario for me to worry about

btw just gave her range+1 in place of Eagle Eye, which makes her lose anti-sept (who cares) but makes aerial kill even more things
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 8:31:28 PM
#81
we investigate the oprhanage fire. evidence points for it to be an arson. Of course it's arson, we need a plot hook.

mayor seems like a nice dude. my plot twists senses are tingling, and with so many mayors I expect one to be evil, but I don't feel it for this one.

culprit (or savior) is a mysterious silver haired dude who Josh seems to know

the dumb kid who mugged me the other day decides to get revenge for the orphanage with his own hands, by challenging a local gang to a fight, we go bail him out

Kloe doesn't like fighting but nobody is hurting the kiddies. she pulls a rapier and finally joins the party
Kloe has every water spell in the list. No, seriously.

her s-craft is a german word that revives and healls the entire party. welp, thats our cleric

after we beat them u, red haired Jerk, aka Agate, shows up and beats them even HARDER. no seriously, I could feel that punch in the 2D sprite that took it. apparently he used to be part of the group.

Josh displays a massive feat of emotional intelligence and gets the kid on his side

oh ok Kloe comes with all her slots unlocked. that's awfully convenient

Agate comes with more hard truths. He says he's taking the case because Estelle and Josh are compromised. he's right. However he misses something. Nobody engages the main plot without being a playable character. That will just make the playable characters steal it from you

and now we got to help with a play. classic jrpg moment

Kloe has all slots open but 3 of them are water elemental. that makes her the default healer, no ifs or buts

I'm getting analysis paralysis because now that I have 3 chars with 6 slots each and starting to see mid level quartz, I can use almost every spell in the game. But that doesn't mean I can use them all at the same time

Also I found out quartz that add status to basic attacks all belong to the same "category" which means I'm not allowed to give one character Seal, Blind and Petrify at the same time. Curse devs for designing against the exploit I was intending to do.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 8:29:43 PM
#213
Honestly if there was a localization oscar I'd give it to whoever did 6-4.

Not because it's that good just out of regonition for having to deal with that.
TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 4:49:16 PM
#17
Problems with V3 ending.

Actual character development is revealed to be fake since those aren't even real people.
Completely disconnected to previous plots (since they are fake). Stuff you got emotionally invested on no longer matters.
It ends with an apology to suicide.
Ambiguous ending (those are hard to execute well and this isn't one of the good cases).
The robot is reduced to a plot device instead of a character.
Retroactively ruins the first case.
Did I mention apology to suicide? Cuz it does that, very unshamefully.
TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 4:45:30 PM
#13
NeatoAnAccount posted...
Do you have some recommendations? I like the games but they're super flawed and I could easily imagine better versions

Phoenix Wright.
TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 4:43:54 PM
#10
V3 ending isn't a bad concept by any means but the execution is just awful.
TopicPost your hot takes regarding Danganronpa
ZeldaTPLink
03/16/23 4:42:02 PM
#8
The first game is the best one, simply because the story isn't too crazy yet, and it treats its own characters with more respect than other games.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/15/23 6:28:20 AM
#79
we save some generic looking npc from being eaten by floating sharks. that was random.

we arrive at Ruan, the port city. I like how each region has dintinct roles in the kingdom. Rolent is agriculture, Bose is commerce, Ruan is port, Zeiss is industry, Grancel is where the nobility who benefits from the labor of the other 4 lives.

I open Josh's final slot, and also buy an orb of Action 2 for him, which I suspect is going to be a massive sink of time based sepith for a while.

some guys at the port decide to pick on us. The mayor and his secretary show up to rescue us. Mayors in this game are op.

Mayor threatens to call the bracer's guild and the bullies say they don't care cuz the bracers will take long to arrive anyway. That's the cue Estelle was waiting for:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/8/AAO9CbAAER8A.jpg

Bose's mayor was all about "capitalism, ho. I own you, and you, and also you"

Ruan's mayor is more like "you can be dickheads all you want, but if you do anything to damage the city's tourism, I'll fucking destroy you"

we get a nice room in a hotel, and then a duke arrives and kicks us out on the ground of "I'm literally nobility so everything belongs to me". wow.

but reporter guy is here and lets us sleep in his room. you know, the news duo is turning into some of the best chars in this game over time.

Noooooo you ditched plucky photographer girl? She was great!

meanwhile, there's a fire at the orphanage. that's uh... stereotypically evil
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/15/23 6:25:13 AM
#78
we recover the stolen emblem from the little kid thief. this is going to turn into one of those stories where the main character has to help some little kid have hope, right?

the kid lives in an orphanage owned by Matron Teresa. Hmm

we meet blue haired girl again, who likes to hang out at the orphanage because shes so kind and all that. and she has a pet falcon, or whatever falcons are called in game, cuz why not

blue haired girl, aka Kloe, starts following us but doesn't really join the party. basically an escort. she casts healing spells in battle, though, even if I cant control her

chests regularly make fun of the player when they interact with one thats already open. some of them are meaner than the others.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/7/AAO9CbAAER7_.jpg
TopicI'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies.
ZeldaTPLink
03/14/23 5:21:38 AM
#31
SeabassDebeste posted...
3 is by a huge margin the worst as a book fan.

It's like if they made a movie adaptation of Phoenix Wright and removed the elevator flashback in the last case. So the villain hates Edgeworth for mysterious reasons and he must be taken down because he's a jerk I guess.
TopicI'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies.
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 8:37:08 PM
#26
Mr_Lasastryke posted...
strong disagree. it felt like 90% of the book was missing from the movie. sure, not everything they skipped was important but a lot of stuff was.

why they turned the longest book into a 2 hour movie is beyond me.

90% of every book is missing from movies and HP should have never been a movie series.

But Movie 5 seems to be aware of that and it focuses on getting the DA vs Umbridge war right. Which I tought it did when I watched it.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Pokemon
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 4:32:04 PM
#62
Gen 7 (S/M) is great and I wish they tried to do leagues without normal gyms more often.
TopicI'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies.
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 4:28:02 PM
#20
I went home crying after seeing 1 (I was a kid), though I'm giving it the benefit if the doubt in retrospect because that was the first time watching a book-movie adaptation

2 is fine.

3 is mostly fine but it skips the main plot of the book (the marauders) at the end for no reason.

4 has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

5 should be bad considering the size of the book but they actually managed to capture the tone of the book and not skip anything important so the end product is good.

6 is mostly ok but it also skips the freaking final battle so meh.

7 is the best one.

8 is ok-ish but the final battle is meme levels of stupid.
TopicI'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies.
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 4:22:26 PM
#17
Though if you really must submit yourself to that, the watchable films are 1, 2, 5 and 7.
TopicI'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies.
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 4:20:41 PM
#16
Why
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 2:17:09 PM
#193
5-3 is amazing tho.

It's terrible. But also amazing.

Why are Athena cases so impossibly goofy.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/13/23 1:32:07 PM
#188
It definitely has the weakest final case besides AA4.

Though the murder case itself is really solid. Love the stuff with the robots.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/12/23 8:28:41 PM
#75
meanwhile, Schera catchs Olivier talking in a cell phone, which is a big deal, because cell phones are technology only the empire has. It's revealed he is an empire operative, and for some reason, he wants to meet Cassius. The scene ends before more is revealed.

Also Cassius is one of the 4 DIvine Blades. So anime.

We now return to our regular schedule. In the last arc of HunterxHunter, two teenage kids who just passed a test to join a powerful organization that does random quests went on a journey to find one of the kids' father. Said kid is extroverted and stupid, while the other is calm and intelligent and with a mysterious past. They are joined by a number of allies who come and go, the more recent ones being a woman who is a veteran at their organization and who teaches them useful skills, and a blonde guy who is usually nice but also hides his feelings. They join forces to hunt a band of thieves. The arc ends with them failing to find the hero's dad, who is very slippery, so the duo parts ways with their allies and goes to the next location.

Oh you mean Trails in the Sky? Well, see above.

Back to Bose. I stop by the orbment shop and get Josh's 5th slot and Estelle's 6th and final slot. Which makes up a little for the loss of two characters, I guess

Next is Amberl Tower, where apparently I missed a big quest beceuase I should have gone there early. Thanks for warning me, game (not)! I go there anyway so I can at least loot the chests

chests looted. there was one I couldnt get, because the enemies guarded it are clearly designed to be faced by 4 characters, but wiki says its just armor, so it eventually becomes obsolete. The chest I could get gave me an amulet that makes my attack and armor wind elemental. Interesting.

we travel west to the next region, Ruan. We stop at the border to rest at a military checkpoint

things are going well until an old acquaintance appears to share the bedroom with us. Red haired jerk!

he immediately starts insulting our skill and telling us we are only winning battles because Schera is helping. Which is one of those times where you are technically right but socially wrong. because at the end of the day, nobody has to like you for it. some people consistently fail to understand that and then they think it's everyone else's fault they are alone. Red Haired Jerk seems to be such a case

I mean, how newbies are going to stop being newbiews unless they do non-newbie stuff?

he should be careful of making estelle mad, though

suddenly the base is attacked by a wolf pack, and Jerk joins the party to help beat them

... wow, hes 6 levels higher than us

Jerk enters tsundere mode and starts praising us but not really

it's interesting how the fact people have aircrafts basically killed this road, everyone looks at us like we are weird for walking

we arrive at a small seaside town, after almost getting rekt by some flaming things that spam confusion

we meet another future playable character, blue haired girl, and Josh seems to know her

estelle and josh have a scene that will pleaser shippers. and then we get mugged by a little kid. Don't let Jerk see that

TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/12/23 6:34:44 PM
#175
It's definitely better than Danganronpa. Which had potential to be as good as but kept trying too much to make craaaaazy twists.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/12/23 10:15:00 AM
#74
bandits hideout is rather empty, no random guards patrolling corridors. instead they are all eating together in a room. this game has some interesting ways to be realistic. I beat those up, and Schera tortures them with her whip to make them say where the hostages are. but they refuse to rat our their bosses. Very loyal

they drop a shitton of fire quartz and at this point I'll open at least 2 slots when I return. Sweet

we beat more bandits and find the hostages. Unfortunately, your dad is in another castle

we arrive at the boss room, where Giovanni awaits, along with Jesse and James (yes, i'm taking that joke to the limit)

they are arguing because Giovanni wants to slaughter the hostages instead of just getting away with the money

he thinks he's smart but that's very stupid. yes, the hostages can identify him, but how much manpower do you think the governments will employ to catch you after you kill a dozen children in cold blood? Literally all of it.

giovanni has a small cannon. what is this, Donkey Kong Country?

he thinks he's the shit because his name is Don Capua. Unfortunately, that's a name for a midboss, no a final villain

Jesse and James are tough, but 4 s-crafts are just too much for them to handle, and earth wall keeps me safe until they are down. I also use anti-sept on jesse to remove her healing just in case. once they are down, Giovanni is still a tough cookie, but this is 4v1 and he can't self heal or use status, just tank and deal damage. he eventually falls.

this game has gotten much easier now that I have lots of tactical options. wonder if it gets harder later.
so Giovanni has been brainwahed, and now that we hit him hard enough, he's back to normal, but doesn't remember a thing. That's sad

Team Rocket attempts to blast off again, but now we get to chase them. My guess we we will pull this off, but with some plot twist

we arrive at the exit, and the military is arresting the bandits. Colonel Richard, with his amazing military expertise, found their hideout, arrested them and is even giving credit to the protagonists for doing the heavy part! What an amazing man!

(yeah he is bad. Now I'm sure of it. Only question is whether he's the final boss or a henchman)

time for rewards. we get a ton of money, another gym badge, and a letter from dad

the letter from dad reveals nothing, but at least gives a time frame of months before he returns. It seems the queen's birthday is the big event the game is aiming for

there is also a parcel with a mysterious relic

And Estelle is having none of it. she just wants her father back

Then Joshua suggests they keep tackling the Pokemon League to collect all the badges, so maybe they'll figure out the Plot in the meantime. Sounds like a plan

Schera and Olivier are not following, though. Apparently we get new party members every region we go (yes I've read about this). Another game that had a similar system was Skies of Arcadia

I guess it can have upsides and downsides. Upside is that it's good for the story, since you can have dialogue and character quests customized for every character, as the devs always know who will be in the party. Downside is the gameplay, as the player doesn't get to mix and match team setups

Olivier realizes Schera is going to feed him unholy amounts of liquor in Rolent and tries to give up, but she drags him to the airship. I feel bad for him

chapter 1 beaten
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/12/23 5:35:15 AM
#172
Key doesn't have amazing chemistry with Edgeworth but she's pretty likable overall.

I feel like if you put her with Nick or Apollo she would shine.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 9:04:18 PM
#72
those bandits are slippery but they are also rather careless. which means they are good at escaping but they should work on being harder to find in the first place

like, everywhere they go, someone sees them. this time its a random fisherman

which means I may or may not be close to their hideout

josh: "wait a minute estelle, take care of anything left before you reserve a room". wow, thats a way to spoil HEAVY PLOT THREADS are about to be unvelied

or maybe its just a fishming minigame. ok

I use google to know what combination of spot, lure and strategy I need to use to get the best fish. then I do it with different combinations to see all pieces of diologue. I get a steam achievement for it

Josh has disappeared. I go to check if the other party members have too, but Schera is in the inn, making Olivier drink with her until he faints. Sorry for your fate, soldier.

Estelle and Josh deliver some FEELS over the pier

you know, Schera's drinking scenes are funny and all, but you stop thinking about it and it's a pretty serious case of alcoholism. I don't expect the game to touch on that, though.

and it turns out she got him drunk so he doesn't join the party for the big confrontation, since he's a civilian. in-story it makes sense, out of story I'm very disappointed

it does mean Schera managed to dodge the mayor's will like a champ, and I respect her more for that

Team Rocket arrives.

they discuss plot with some shady guys who probably work for the main faction. meanwhile, we are going to destroy their ship, so they don't use the same escaping tactic for the 3rd consecutive time

Olivier follows us. The man is a cockroach. A fabulous cockroach. It also means the mayor continues to win.

and he's got an idea I was thinking about myself. Instead of destroying the ship, sneak into it, and have it take us to the hideout

Olivier has the highest intelligence stat in the party and nobody notices it because he's the bard

time to follow their... Trails in the Sky :D

and their hideout is in that place I thought was optional. no optional places in this game I suppose. time to do some good old Team Rocket Hideout crackdown
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 9:01:17 PM
#168
He's okay.

Fighting him is incredibly unfun though.

Feels like a weaker version of what we got from 1-5 and 6-5 villains too.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 5:12:22 PM
#160
I like spirit channeling because it makes cases more difficult to crack, and the series uses it masterfully, particularly in 3-5 and 6-5. Suddenly it's not just people moving, it is also spirits moving between bodies and you have to figure out the puzzle that comes from it.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 5:04:01 PM
#158
foolm0r0n posted...
Edgeworth isn't a good enough character to have his own game

Nah Edgeworth is great.

It's just that AA needs trials to work. Endless arguments in the street ain't it. It just feels like every case is dragging.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 9:01:56 AM
#127
NFUN posted...
4-1 isn't good

it's not bad either. it makes me feel absolutely nothing

This.

Yeah it's fun to play and it has a twist! But it needs story to work and the fact this is the one game where the filler cases are the best ones says something about its story.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 8:59:24 AM
#126
1-3 has good writing but is the weak link of the first game, again because of the gameplay. 1-5 challenges it in the regard but the story is so fantastic it manages to stay afloat.

2-3 is average.

3-2 is overrated.

4-3 is alright. 4-2 is probably the best case in that game.

AA5/AA6 are just that good and I'm sad so many people dropped the series after 3 or 4.

TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 8:50:16 AM
#125
Though that makes for another hot take: the villain of I-4 is great, enough to almost make I-5 playable. Almost.
TopicPost Your Hot Takes Regarding Ace Attorney
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 8:45:49 AM
#124
All 5 cases from AAI1 combined aren't better than any single case from the main series. Not even whatever you are thinking of. The game itself is just incredibly unfun to play, and all cases are badly designed story-wise except maybe I-4 (which still suffers from bad gameplay anyway). Even the cases from the main series that have bad writing/characters are better because the games themselves are fun.

If this had been the start of the Ace Attorney series, it would have died after just this game.
TopicTrails in the Sky Playthrough Topic
ZeldaTPLink
03/11/23 8:35:37 AM
#71
photographer girl is a fan of olivier for nabbing expensive wine. goofballs unite, I guess

we meet Colonel Richard, who seems to be much for reasonable than General Dick

(final villain material? yes plz)

we luck out into some information suggesting the bandit's hideout is at the lake. That army needs to hire protagonists some time, they are great at finding plot threads!

exploring nebel valley, I find a small house with a guy who shares bed and food with us. Except the food almost kills Olivier. I guess free things aren't free

alright, Olivier wins the prize for coolest s-craft. I just like big explosions, I guess. Also an AoE s-craft is sweet. Was facing a big thing with 4 magic eggs and it turned the later into omelette.

nebel valley is huge. and the game seems to think I'm underleved for this place, since I'm getting lots of xp. But the two quests about to expire suggest otherwise. Weird. Is this place optional?

I come back from the city, report quests, unlock Estelle's 5th slot and get the Petrify orbment. Nice.

current orbment set:

Estelle: Ep Cut 1 - Cast/Action 1 - Information/HP 2
Joshua: Blind - Attack 1 - Eagle Eye/Action 1
Schera: Impede 2 - HP 2 - Evade 1/Action 1
Olivier: Ep 1/Cast/Action 1/Petrify/Defense 1

Olivier can use stronger earth magic and cast it fast, he also has some time magic at its disposal. Joshua is mainly built for damage, and blinding things while he damages, but also has some time and fire attacks. Schera doesn't have a lot of variety but who needs variety when you have broken wind AoE. she can be the back up healer in a pinch, too. Estelle is the main healer, and also has some time magic and cast cast both fast

I figure it's redundant to say people can cast time magic so I'm only mentioning the ones with more than one time orbment. Which is... almost everyone

I have enough quartz to buy a house, but no fire quartz. This is annoying. Yes, I've noticed the pink snakes give 4 fire quartz each, but that's not enough to make grinding worthwhile unless I'm just about to open a slot before entering a dungeon. I do kill those snakes whenever they are on my path, though. The problem is that all the other enemies drop different types, so you end up imbalanced in the long run.
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