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Hijiyama dead last? get out

It being of similar quality to Undertale's bullet hell elements is a pretty good comparison.

It doesn't get to some of the more creative elements like Undertale does with it but in terms of executing the base system its pretty close. It's not something I'd play a whole ton of afterward but it was good enough to keep me engaged the whole time through.

I played it recently as well and basically marathoned the whole thing in 4 days I was so absorbed in it.

Definitely GOTY 2020.

2016 Suprak > 2020 Suprak

Gundham sucks

It's a sequel.

But its also really bad so far so I wouldn't worry about it.

Nanis23 posted...

But the journey itself was enjoyable. It has some good moments

Yeah it definitely does

Its really just a shame it completely shit the bed in a few key areas that were really important important areas. The actual character and situation writing is fairly strong overall. It's just the overarching stuff that was a let down, which unfortunately is what most people were largely there for (for good reason). It's still worth playing.

VLR is arguably the best game in the trilogy

AI is a separate game made by the same people.

Zero Escape is 3 games with the first 2 bundled as The Nonary Games.

AI is also good, but not connected to Zero Escape.

Trick question I'm pretty sure almost all of those came out this last year.

Well pretty much expected that next year is gonna be an off year for Cosmere stuff, kinda sad. I don't really have much interest in Sanderson's YA stuff. Maybe when its done.

Oh well, maybe I'll finally start some other series like Malazan or Realm of the Elderlings, both of which have been recommended to me several times (I've read Wheel of Time and ASoIaF)

Yeah and its full of lame-o's why would you want to post there xd

We don't do that here

this is what you normies get for not living through the great sadpanda fakku hentai purge from a few years ago and learning your lesson about archiving!!

I also think Oathbringer's pacing was pretty bad. In fact, I thought it was worse the 2nd time through in my recent reread. It made up for it in other areas, though.

And I actually think that a big part of the reason the pacing felt like it dragged to me in RoW is exactly the reason of what you said makes it good to you the conflict being stretched out over 3 entire parts with no real major developments that changed the nature of the conflict absolutely killed the pacing of the back half of the book. I feel like nothing at all happened between the beginning of part 4 and the ending in terms of anything actually changing. I mean obviously there was a lot of development for Venli, Navani, Raboniel, and the nature of stormlight, but otherwise nothing happened. It was like an entire half of the book was nothing but the Shallan chapters from Way of Kings, instead of having those broken up by the more exciting Kaladin and Dalinar chapters. The only 'break' where something seemed to have actually happened was Kaladin doing another fight for a tower fabrial, but aside from the glove thing being a weird kinda interesting gimmick, it didn't actually progress anything either- it was purely a fight to maintain the status quo.

Finished the book this morning.

Overall I still think it was the weakest book due to some weird pacing and the overall theme not being as strong as the others, but it still held its own and had a lot of memorable and good moments. I don't think it comes as any surprise or even spoiler I thought the ending was pretty great, it's a Sanderson book after all.

I didn't make the Kelsier connection til I read the spoilers in this topic and wow I can't believe I missed that. That is certainly a reveal all right. And Taravangian becoming Odium is an extremely interesting turn I didn't see coming. It almost feels like this was the 'halfway point' in the series where we have a big turn and go into something greater scope, if we didn't already have a clear indication from Sanderson that book 5 is going to be that.

As far as the actual tower conflict, it was definitely the weakest of the finales across the books IMO. Teft dying and Kaladin swearing the fourth ideal was pretty emotional, as well as Navani becoming a Bondsmith, but it didn't quite have the punch that I have come to expect from the series so far. Still good, and man Raboniel was a great character. Easily one of the most interesting characters in the book. Also I am fully on the 'screw Moash' train now.

I think the bit I appreciate the most from the ending though is that Sanderson gave Eshonai a nice send off. She was one of the most tragic characters in the series and deserved far better than she got, and its nice to see she at least got to live her dream at the end.

I think having just reread them I'd rank the books 2 > 3 > 1 > 4, but there's not really a big quality gap between any of them.

banananor posted...

... because ketchup is mostly sugar and mold/ bacteria will absolutely grow on it?

...You... realize sugar is a preservative right? It actively inhibits bacteria growth.

It WILL eventually spoil, yes, but ketchup is shelf stable for nearly a year with little degradation. Again, well past what the average person would be expected to keep a bottle for.

wtf who likes cold ketchup

Why would you ever refrigerate ketchup unless one bottle lasts you like a year or you buy literal crates of it at a time

Shallan - We never found out how or why she became a Radiant with a shardblade in the first place, exactly what the deal was with her mother (in fact we don't know almost anything about her at all), the full extent her father was tied with the Ghostbloods, etc. Heck, even the Helaran thing isn't fully explored- we basically just know he was a Skybreaker and that's it.

There is a LOT of Shallan's past that is still up in the air. We did find out some big revelations, but it was pretty obvious imo that the plotline wasn't anywhere near over.

I do think I'm probably going to end up putting RoW at the bottom of my list of the books honestly, but its mostly because of pacing issues and the overall main plot themes not being all that strong compared to the others, and not repetition, which I haven't felt at all.

Yeah I can't say I agree with Cly's opinion on part 3 at all.

Also I don't know how you could possibly think we were done with Shallan's past and family connections when there was a bunch of really obvious holes

I finished part 4 so I'm getting pretty close to done.

Can't wait to follow along with your 6 topic too. I don't think 6 is as replayable as 5 is personally but its still very, very good.

Krile is suppose to be 14, btw

pjbasis posted...

Shields bro. Grind agility early on and never worry about grinding again.

I'd rather just not ever play 2 again tbh

I just hit part 4

And yeah the flashbacks honestly suck pretty bad. I really liked part 3 a lot overall aside from them, but every time I hit a flashback I was like 'ugh'.

I don't otherwise get the Venli hate though, she's fine.

2's is the only one I've never played because I can't stand actually playing 2 enough to finish a 2nd playthrough of it.

In general I find the added content in the advance versions to be pretty poorly balanced.

5's is honestly probably the best though.

Furiously.

oh woops I didn't notice the quote wasn't spoilered and its too late to edit

I'll just delete the post now

CoolCly posted...

Adolin killing 20 dudes without a shardblade was hype as hell. I like how he went into the situation noting the typical "it's actually not realistic that one guy can kill more than couple guys alone" thing so his goal is only to delay until backup arrives... and then he just kills everyone anyways

He didn't actually kill all 20 guys though, he killed about 7-8 and cut the fingers off of one other. The rest ran away. Still awesome.

Anyway I finished Part 2 and oh man, the last 5-6 chapters of that had me glued. Can't wait to get back to reading more.

Also I'd be very disappointed if Formless does end up being the spy because its literally the first thing I thought of and dismissed it as being for too obvious for Sanderson to do. Also Pattern being the sole spy would just in general be way more interesting.

2 is better because it has more and better waifus

Melia is top tier tho

So I'm in part 2, at the part where the Shadesmar expedition just got off the boat to resupply, and Shallan contacted Mraize and found out Beryl is the spy.

But I'm going to make a prediction that not only is this a misdirect, ALL of the humans are a misdirect,and the spy is actually one of the spren somehow. No idea how they'd have off'd Ialai, though.

So, FF14's Stormblood expansion had a raid themed around prior FF games where you were fighting simulations of 'ancient evils'. It had you fighting bosses from FF1, 5, and 6, specifically. FF5's 4 bosses had a few bosses from the Void, and ended with Exdeath himself. In the hardest version of the fight, they include a phase transition to Neo Exdeath (easier versions stop after the first form), which IMO is one of the coolest bits of animation they've done in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCA1PDJid10

Arishok posted...

People get horny for pokemon???

How new to the internet are you

lol

That's far from the weirdest thing people get horny for.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Wesley* from Georgia sends me... Ralts? I feel like I've seen that thing. I know nothing about it.

Its the one that evolves into Gardevoir

You know, one of the Pokemon people get horny for (...not that people don't get horny for everything, anyway, but more so)

Lopen posted...

He was like... "put your hand on top of your head like a joystick-- push your head forward, which way are you looking? Pull your head back, which way are you looking?"

This has never made sense to me. Why would my point of view be starting from behind my head instead of inside it, like it actually is?

Your eyes are on the front of your face. When you look up, you look up. When you look down, you look down.

Yeah aside from those few loose ends you've pretty much done everything.

CassandraCain posted...

Can't recall myself, was there any hint of Vivenna using them? She likely wouldn't have as much to waste.

Oathbringer: Yes, when she splits up from the group in Shadesmar she prepares to fight the fused chasing them to buy them time by asking the Honorspren on the boat to prepare bundles of cloth.

I'm actually reading RoW now having finished my rereads and Dawnshard. Not done with part 1 yet, but its been pretty interesting so far. It does feel a little... off to me for some reason I'm not quite sure of, but I do appreciate what the book is doing so far with connecting Roshar more to the rest of the Cosmere series.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Should I be allowed to trade Graveler back and forth to get Golem?

Yeah sure go for it xd

RikkuAlmighty posted...

well i picked the zanmai remix

Which is itself a straight downgrade sooo

RikkuAlmighty posted...

last surprise is good but i need a battle theme that gets me PUMPED

Then why would you pick Sky FC's battle theme?

It's a good track but all caps PUMPED is about the furthest thing from my mind when I listen to it.
It's more relaxing and chill than anything

Mime is the last vanilla job. FF5 Advance added some new ones in a new 'post game' area (The Sealed Temple, shows up when you get all 4 tablets).

You literally picked a series that has had at LEAST 10 battle themes better than that.

Including in its own game.

Well 9 is the only good one on the list so that

You can definitely beat Gogo right now.

Also I actually didn't do FJF this year and this thread is making me want to do one casually... Might do that.

Oh yeah I know very little about calculating scoring.

Luckily you really don't need to to play unless you're doing it manually IRL and even then they have apps and stuff for that these days.

Grimlyn posted...

I've mastered riichi in Clubhouse Games but I don't quite remember the different calls, the software certainly helps by just giving you the options when they arise

Chii: Taking a sequence from the person to the left of you.
Pon: Taking a triple from anyone.
Kan: Declaring 4 of a kind, reveals a dora tile from the wall. Taking the tile from an opponent reveals the dora tile after you play your next tile, having a natural (closed) kan reveals it before.

I'm Adept 2 on Mahjong Soul

Uglyface2 posted...

The language barrier is a big issue for me.

You don't need to know a different language to play mahjong, though.

Chicken knife is the best weapon in the game if you grind it up some.

The brave blade is only worthwhile if you haven't been running from battles at all and don't plan on ever doing so again, and even then it isn't as powerful as the chicken knife.

The gameplay is a very polished but average shooter game.

The story and characters are irredeemable garbage.

There is almost no food that you don't have to season.

Also never put stuffing in turkey. Always make it separate. If you want the turkey juices in it pour some of the drippings in after you cook the turkey. Otherwise you are risking illness.

And again, it should be spatchcocked anyway so you shouldn't have anything to put it in in the first place.

Just spatchcock it