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LordoftheMorons posted...

I was gonna make a spoiler-barred joke here but decided against it, just in case

I'm sure everyone can guess what it was anyway!

Oops, we had the same idea.

Don't read the spoiler Anagram.

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In AA5, this little "chain of logic" thing you do at the end of each trial at least required some thought. This one is just testing to see if you paid attention to the most basic facts of the case, it's very disappointing.

Be careful what you ask for, you may end up getting it!

THE MURDER WEAPON IS UDON DOUGH

Ok I submitted it to the site and got this response:



I... don't get why they showed a table of prediction percentages to argue that the percentage does down, when my entire point is that it only goes down by 2x instead of 64x. Wonder if they actually read everything.

It is "filed" so I don't get to argue back.

Meh. It was worth the try.

Yeah the scene where the frist two appear together for the first time is pretty cool.

I think he works better than the likes of Klavier because he is at least antagonistic. But he doesn't have much more depth than Franziska, tbh.

#26: Jet (1.10)

This one is a simple, self-contained episode, whose characters do appear later but didn't necessarily have to. WHat makes it so good is that it proposes to analyse whether people can really be considered goor or evil because of their nations.

Jet had his parents killed by the FN. So he decided to form a revolutionary group to get revenge. But at some point, the lust for revenge defined him, and overcame any notions of goodness or freedom that he might have at in the beginning. He wants to kill FN people, make them suffer, spread as much destruction as he can, even if they are innocent.

So Team Avatar meets him, and Katara gets instantly attracted by his group's ideals, which hit so close to home for her (since her mother was also killed). Sokka, on the other hand, is suspicious, but doesn't have any proof besides his hunch. At first, it seems Sokka is just jealous of Jet for being cool and protective of his sister, but Sokka's hunch is right. He then investigates and finds out Jet is planning a genocide. Katara and Aang eventually find out too, and are instantly disgusted by Jet's plan, which shows the deep constrast between Jet and them. They want revenge too, but above all, they want freedom, peace and justice, and they know random villagers don't just deserve to be murdered.

Unfortunately, they are too late to stop Jet. But Sokka is not, and he manages to go to the village and evacuate the people in there before Jet drowns them. So he loses.

Overall it's a solid examination of morality in a conflict between nations, something both this show and Korra just excel at. It's also a full episode of Sokka being cool, and we can never have enough of that. Great episode.

#27: Winter Solstice - Part 1: The Spirit World (1.07)

When I first watched the show as a kid, I liked Part 2 more, for being more epic and action packed and revealing the Winter Solstice more. Now I prefer Part 1.

This is the episode that introduces the concept of spirits. The interesting thing is, Avatar did not need to have spirits as part of its lore. It could just be the fire nations and their bending powers. But suddenly there is also this whole parallel world full of spirits with appearance and powers that border on surreal, and who sometimes come to the "real" world to influence what happens in it, while also being influenced by it. Spirits never become central to the show's plot, but they continue to be an influence until the end (S2 of Korra does make them more relevant and do some cool things with them, though).

This episode does a great job at introducing them, and developing the contrast between the angry spirit who burns things down and the friendly panda he turns into in the end. It also introduces Roku's dragon, sets up the next episode and resolves everything with an environmental message. It's a lot of good worldbuilding packed in the same episode.

And somehow, that's not the best thing about it. The coolest part is the Iroh plot. He gets captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers, who are happy for catching the Dragon of the West (this is the first time we hear about his military feats, too). He then spends the episode outsmarting them over and over, and almost escaping a few times. Until Zuko finds him, and the two kick the asses of those soldiers. I remember watching this as a kid and being amazed, while the spirit plot was boring to me. Even now, before rewatching I remember this sequence existed even though I didn't remember it was part of this episode. Iroh is just cool, man. It's nice to know he can do this stuff when he needs to, even though he would rather spend his days being a wise uncle who loves tea.

Exam week is over, so time to try to save this topic from its state of abandonment!

#28: The Chase (2.08)

This is the first episode after Toph joins Team Avatar (since they don't appear in 2.07 at all). The main theme is that Toph doesn't have a very good chemistry with the group. She is selfish and independent and doesn't want to contribute beyond training Aang and just kicking ass. Katara, being Katara, wants them to be a happy family, and the two fight. Eventually, Toph gets fed up with the group, and leaves, but some wise words from Uncle set her in the right path again, in time to join the action. Although "new member needs to learn to get along" is an old plot, it's done very well.

What makes this episode memorable though, is the main action plot. Azula finally makes a serious attempt at hunting down the Avatar, and damn, she is effective. She realizes Appa can be tracked by the fur he is sheding, sets up a FN tank and her two henchwomen, and engages in a 24/7 pursuit. The kids are poorly equipped to deal with one of the best firebenders in the world and two other powerful fighters, and they can only run. Their lack of sleep due to having to run non-stop also contributes to the stress among the team.

Eventually, the kids win, after coming up with a clever plan to separate the 3 women and ramming Appa into Mai and Ty Lee. But Azula is still very hard to take down, and it takes Zuko, Iroh and Toph appearing at the last minute to force her into a 6 vs 1 fight even she can't win. And she still manages to almost kill Uncle before leaving.

For showcasing how badass and resourceful Azula is and being an overall strong action episode, this one earns its place in the upper half.

It has been archived.

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Adjusting_the_contest_scoring_system_based_on_prediction_percentages

I'll send a message to the gameFAQs staff and ask them to check this out. Maybe they will consider it!

Beginning of CHimera Ants arc so good. It's like a very good apocalypse film.

GI is my favorite, too.

It's just pure fun.

The arc that comes after Chimera Ants is a better Zoldyck Family arc than the Zoldyck Family arc.

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Biscuit turned into a huge adult woman to fight off one of Genthru's weirdo friends. Well that was a surprise. So her looking like a child is just some kind of Nen ability to conceal her strength.

More like to look less ugly.

And iirc she makes a living selling beauty nen products or something like that. It's interesting that she is a transformation type but she only uses her transformation nen for that kind of stuff while fighting with her fists. Probably with some enhancement nen thrown in the mix.

Rayfa is incredible.

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The opening cutscene for the next episode started without giving me a chance not to watch it, so I'll just post this as well: what is with Japan and Alice in Wonderland? I'm serious, it shows up in Japanese stuff non-stop.

I've seen someone say Mario eating mushrooms to change size is a reference to it, too. Not sure if that's official.

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And has no one ever been killed by surprise before? Like, just coming up behind you and smashing your head while you're looking at something else, so there are no clues in your memories? I realize these questions don't matter in the context of a silly lawyer game, but dammit, I'm asking them anyway.

I mean I think the game hammers really hard the idea that seances alone can't make perfect veredicts, and lawyers are necessary. You are the one who has to show that in practice!

Reconciliation conquered.

Only one more room until I finish Celeste.

Yes. Every day. Sometimes twice a day, when I do some physical activity in the morning which makes me want a second shower at night. I feel weird if it's 7 PM and I haven't showered.

It's not as consistently good at AA5 imo. Some cases are meh.

But it makes up by having two absolutely legendary cases (3 and 5).

Enjoy the ride.

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I've been told this is a bad game

Revoke their AA fandom membership card.

This game is my favorite second only to AA3.

Actually let's petition Nintendo to do another remake of Pokemon GSC so it can appear in GotD for the 3rd time.

I like consoles more but where I live console games are prohibitely expensive while PC games are actually cheaper than their worldwide price.

Stubborness done. Two more!

VintageGin posted...

Stubbornness is not so bad if I remember correctly. It's still tricky but felt a lot more manageable compared to previous sections.

It's the one with the color blocks.

Determination completed. Next is Stubborness.

I got 2065 deaths so far, lol.

Beating chapter 9 seems like a project for at least 2 weeks, tbh.

I went in this morning to see if I could get to the next checkpoint (I'm in the middle of Determination). Spend 30 minutes fighting against one room (the one with the ice blocks you jump on) until I finally beat it. Then got to the next room, died another 30 times, got frustrated and stopped.

It has like 100 rooms and at least half of them are painfully hard, so it's an exercise in patience.

It's still not as hard as 7C or maybe even 8B and 3C. But the extreme length makes it feel hard. Not even the A sides are this long, and they are much easier.

Bump. I need to archive this some time.

Nanis23 posted...

Wait..what...there has been a "Actual Poll of the Day" message board for years now?

Yes. But a few months ago they made a petition to be linked in the results page, and they finally got it.

One for the Poll of the Day board and one for the Actual Poll of the Day board.

I've never learned to wavedash in Melee, but I can do it in Celeste!

I feel like the difficulty ramps up the more consecutive wavedashes there are though, and the game is happy to exploit that and throw a bunch of them at you at once.

But the soundtrack continues to be amazing.

Current stuck in a room that has one of those angry blocks with the hotel puffs on top of it. Pure masochism.

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Be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQ43fwgW7Y

Does Rayman Legends have a track like this?

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HunterXAnticlimax

I like the arc overall, though. It's a pretty unique take at the revenge story.

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I was planning to stop after the area with the 5 keys but then a gorgeous violin music started and I had to kept going.

I'm starting to get the hang of jellyfish. Sort of.

I love how the game gives you a heart but Madeline is like NOPE.

That heart door feels like the game saying "Hey kiddo I see you are having fun but I hope you've AT LEAST beaten the B-sides cuz you are about to have a bad time".

That wavedashing tutorial is legendary.

Ok I've stopped. Gonna do the post-heart door part of the level another time.

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Even if they fight Kurapika themselves, knowing what exactly he can do can be huge. Nen users make a lot of effort to hide what their abilities are because fights in this manga can be decided by tactics very easily.

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Nen can be pretty match-up dependant, if Kurapika can't use his main move he might lose to another physical monster like Uvo or maybe even someone with a fancy offensive move.

For example, they could hire the Zoldyck family to kill him.

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I started playing 9.

Blowfish are weird but fun.

Jellyfish are fun until you have to drop and grab them again mid-flight. Then they are not that fun.

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MetalmindStats posted...

Oh nice, a Celeste topic! I reached the summit in 7A about an hour ago, and my feelings of accomplishment and exhilaration were really something else - in part, I suppose, because I'm not good at platformers. Plus, that ending was absolutely perfect. I know I'm far from finished, though, as I haven't even started on the B-sides for one. I suppose I'll probably wind up needing to turn on Assist Mode at some point during those. Maybe I'll catalog my progress ITT.

Like Giggsalot said (and in retrospect, this whole post is pretty much repeating theirs), what a game. Thank you, @MZero !

If you beat the A sides you are ready for the B ones. This game's learning curve is perfect like that.

You might want to complete the strawberries first, they are good point of practice.

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I love how, for once, a Core level did not have fireballs.

And while it did have those fire blocks that launch you they were almost all in the second room, not in the last, and longest one.

So this Core level wasn't as heavy on timing based mechanics and was just a frantic obstacle course with almost every mechanic from the game. Best version of Chapter 8, easily.

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Did 8C. 240 deaths.

7C
8B
3C
6B
4B
7B
8C
5C
8A
3B
5B
6C
2C
4C
1C
7A
6A
1B
2B
3A
5A
4A
2A
1A

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#29: The King of Omashu (1.05)

As an earlier episode with a plot that is kind of an exucse to have an episode, this one lives and dies on Bumi. Turns out, you couldn't have asked for a better thing to live and die on!

It's pretty silly, actually. Bumi kidnaps Sokka and Katara... because. He then puts Aang through a bunch of crazy trials, which he must solve by coming up with creative solutions, and are actually a way to convey his message of "things are not what they look like". Then in the end the two fight, which is not only a good fight scene, but is the first demonstration of earthbending in the show. And boy, it really sells earthbending.

Bumi then reveals he is actually Aang's childhood friend. The first time I saw this, it gave a strong feel of the time abyss in Aang's disappearance. Bumi might be the only living person left who knew Aang before he disappeared. He's like... 110 years old? Not that this stops him from going slide with Aang in the city's transportation system of course, because Bumi is cool like that.

This episode is a strong combination of showing off bending, comedy, worldbuilding, and just having Bumi on it. It's one of the better early episodes.

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#30: The Painted Lady (3.03)

This is a rather simple, filler episode. But it's a solid one.

The plot is that the kids run into a city plagued with pollution and starvation caused by a FN factory. Sokka wants to move to the next place ASAP (it's never explained why they even need to go to specific places, since they are just bidding time for the invasion, but that's S3 plot nonsense for ya). But Katara wants to help, in another demonstration of what is Katara's best attribute: needing to help the innocent even if that's not pragmatic.

The episode does an interesting thing with the myth of the painted lady overlapping with Katara's actions. The first time you watch, it takes a while to realize they are the same, since the myth has existed long before the kids got there. Until they start dropping more obvious hints and Aang joins Katara to help her destroy the factory.

Then we have a cool montage at the end where with the help of her friends, Katara plays the angry goddess and helps scare the FN away. And then the real Painted Lady appears in the end to thank her. Cool stuff.

It's a rather basic episode, I admit, but I just enjoyed it. It is a nice story of the good guys wanting to help a bunch of innocent people even though that's not the best course of action, and it shows some of their stronger character aspects. It also has some funny gags, like the shopper with multiple names.

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#31: The Storm (1.12)

This is an almost pure backstory episode, and it reveals us some juicy stuff. First, we learn the air monks who lived with Aang were kind of dicks, except Gyatso (btw, did you know the Dalai Lama is named Tenzin Gyatso? So both Aang's son and master were named after him). They wanted Aang to grow faster because they were afraid of the war, and tried to separate him from his father figure to accomplish that, but only caused him to run away and get frozen in an iceberg. Also the air kids are jerks, too.

The Zuko side is cool, too, albeit a bit rushed (compare to the flashback in Zuko Alone which shows a lot more details and interactions). We learn Zuko was a Good Guy All Along, but because he decided to oppose his evil dad way when he was too young to kick ass, he was stripped of everything that ever mattered to him, getting only a cool scar for the trouble. It's interesting how for his dad, the biggest crime isn't even opposing him, but refusing to fight in the agni kai afterwards. Had Zuko fought back, he might have ended with even more scars, but regained his "honor" in the same day.

The episode has a plot about helping rescuing an old fisherman, which ties nicely into Aang overcoming his weaknesses, and getting a cool scene at the end where he and Zuko stare each other, each one with their own dark pasts and demons, and opposing ways to restore their honor.

The episode is also a very good lead into the Blue Spirit, as it gives more sense to Zuko's actions in there.

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8C is hard.

It's not even close to 7C I think, but it's even longer which gives more room for error. Though the individual obstacles require less precision.

I managed to get near the end once but I jumped onto the spikes instead of performing that hyper jump the game wanted me to. LoL.

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He has to beat 8B to unlock the C sides, I'm afraid.

The C sides are mostly very fun, though. And like Gin just said, not too long. So I think it's worth it.

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Yeah 8B is ridiculous.

It doesn't have a super long screen like the C sides but it has at least 5 shorter screens that are as hard as the hardest C sides.

So it's a long trek from one horrible room to another.

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Kotetsu534 posted...

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot 3C. I got insanely lucky with the jumps off Oshiro's head on like my 20th try.

Over 500 tries for 3C here. And it felt much more annoying than 7C, imo, despite being a little more forgiving. I hate jumping on Oshiro.

I thought 5C was a breeze in comparison.

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transience posted...

hmm. I don't think any A is harder than a B or a C.

After I beat the game I found 1B and 2B to be a cakewalk.

While 8A has some of the most annoying mechanics in the game so it takes a while to be surpassed.

I also counted berries as part of the rankings since I collected almost all of them in the normal playthrough, so it's hard to divorce them from my perception of difficulty. And 8A's berries are insane.

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and I'm surprised you haven't done 9 yet. 9 is hard, but not C hard and there's a ton of new stuff there.

People on Reddit keep saying it's the hardest one, so I saved it for last. Dunno how hard it will be for me, I guess we'll see.

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I've been ranking the levels based on difficulty as I play them, too (because you never need a reason not to rank things):

7C
8B
3C
6B
4B
7B
5C
8A
3B
5B
6C
2C
4C
1C
7A
6A
1B
2B
3A
5A
4A
2A
1A

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transience posted...

good luck with 8C. if you really focus all your energy on overcoming it, you can pull off amazing moves like I did.

https://twitter.com/necta_rines/status/1173365144241393664

Hey at least you died before collecting the heart. I hear it's possible to die after picking it in that level.

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