Lurker > Strife2

I'm going to mute the TV until the crowd stops fucking singing. The match is great, but it is distracting.

There's the match you waited for.

I mean, the main event for sure will be overbooked madness of hilarious proportions. There's no way that won't be good as a floor and absurd fun as a ceiling.

The ladder fucked up yesterday
The table said nope today
We just need a chair to bounce back in someone's face for the trifecta

Holy crap. That is how you do a cash in.

Hey, his outfit is somehow more gloriously dumb and yet less stupid.

I unironically like the stupid dumb comedy show turning into serious shit and showing teeth in Seasons 3-5...

I finished Apothecary Diaries, and holy crap, Maomao is my favorite character in an anime in like forever. It's impressive just how much one character can mean to a show's success when they are written as nuanced as she is. Downtrodden, street smart, yet childish, angsty when necessary, yet always shows multiple sides, and always able to change the tide of a scene without it coming off as against type.

The political intrigue and mystery bits are done well enough, kinda like a less serious Raven of the Inner Palace. Really, the reason I prefer this over Raven is how Maomao is portrayed. Similar to Frieren, where the comedy doesn't seem out of place and the serious moments don't seem unnatural. Just a perfect balance: just like Maomao. I can't wait for Season 2.

Gunther routinely has the best matches on any card he's in (outside of a meh match with Riddle). I would put that #2 so far, because that main event was just perfect in its audacity.

The crowd was into it the entire time. The pacing was great, because the opening had all those unique matchups and they milked it. The wait for the match to get into the goofy madness was worth it.

Arte was the definition of, "good enough."

This match is amazing

Good on them focusing on Rock and Seth. There's going to be plenty of Cody and Roman tomorrow anyway.

Seth and Cody deserve to lose just because of that fucking outfit Seth is wearing. Cody has to be thinking, "What the fuck am I doing?" The Rock and Roman just strolling in like badasses, and my partner is wearing flowers, leopard print robes, and puke.

What the absolute fuck is Seth wearing?

Sami and Gunther sure made up for a lull since the tag title match. Time for shenanigans.

Finished Frieren just now. From start to finish, just like Apothecary, this show just hit every stride and stayed great all the way through. Frieren is an intriguing character, but I think what works best is how it mixes in deadpan humor just enough to match the serious tone. It's amazing how it kept Himmel's party and their exploits in the forefront to explain current party situations. There's so much to love, and I want more someday.

10/10

Dahlia's exorcism is burned into my brain.

Funny: I dumped Rouge after 10 minutes because the main character was boring as cardboard.

My favorites from Bones that I've seen (from the Wiki List)

Case Study of Vanitas
Cowboy Bebop Movie
Darker than Black: The Black Contractor
Scrapped Princess
FMA 2003*
Wolf's Rain
Space Dandy
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Kurau Phantom Memory
RahXephon
Snow White/Red Hair
Ouran High School Host Club
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Concrete Revolutio

*Didn't Finish Brotherhood, shows that long don't hold me. Even 50 ep shows get close to the drop zone for me these days*

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Pirateking2000 posted...

FF7 players:
https://youtu.be/t478uHgasII?feature=shared

Me at that ending too

I was actually thinking they were gonna kill Tifa off instead, given the higher amount of Cloud/Tifa scenes in the game.

It would have probably still have been bad, but a simple bait and switch "get stabbed and die" would have been more preferable to the multiverse nonsense.

Nomura didn't write anything in OG, so I would think Kitase and others have just as much fondness for weird shit.

So...you're saying FF writers created their own bullshit Zelda altered timeline stuff?

Great...

They spent way too long trying to justify the weird multiversal shit. For a game that was doing a very good job building up character dynamics and relationships. However, they keep jumping back and forth between things, and made the final scenes a "go for broke all out crazy fever dream.". Cool visual spectacle and Cloud's even more an unreliable narrator...but fucking hell. FF just can't keep things simple, can they?

Play Dancing, and Haru is like the best dancer by default, other than whatever Elizabeth and Kanji consider dancing.

Haru at the top? Good man. Very few give her the time of day. The spinoff stuff make her fabulous.

If there was a lower tier than what I had, Nozomi, Mishima, Shinya, and Ryuji would have been even lower.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/febd6ead.jpg

I don't hate Morgana as much as I hate Teddie. Morgana at least has some style and street smarts/wisecracks. All Teddie did right was the Alice costume scene.

Ken is a dope. He's Hope from FFXIII with none of the sympathy...if that were even possible.

It's the Square Enix version of Ugly Sonic

Also, I guess the game has said, all of Aigis's weird sayings? Blame Junpei.

I mean, I'll blame Junpei on everything, especially reliving that fucking Babe Hunt scene, but god.

*Takes Mitsuru, Aigis, and Yukari for a Gatekeeper fight*

Aigis: Is this what they call a harem? It seems like every man fantasizes about this scenario.

Mitsuru: Ulterior motives aside, the party is well-balanced.

Yukari: You didn't just do this for the lolz, did you?

No. I usually pick Aigis and Mitsuru anyway, and Yukari is the best healer. I do appreciate this kind of dialogue though.

I think for me, Roche is trying to fit the same niche that the Turks already occupy, but with a deliberately creepy love boner for Cloud being a legendary level swordsman. He has a tendency like the Turks do of seeing the greater good and letting the party pass after they kick the shit out of him, but again, he's just filling boss quota without being more than a bike loving weirdo.

At least with most of Gilgamesh's appearances, he kinda waffles back and forth between the giggling quipmaster in FF5 and a complete badass you don't fuck with, without it feeling wrong either way.

I'm going to be the weirdo who says it: Roche got on my nerves the more I saw him. Chadley sucks sure, but at least he hasn't had multiple boss fights over multiple games where they are trying and failing to make a recurring side boss.

I get it game. I don't need it more than once.

If you're not wasting any time on sidequesting, you can get out of places in 90 minutes to 2 hours. Maybe places like Costa Del Sol take way longer due to the mechanics at play, but I never felt that inconvenienced.

Then again, after Infinite Wealth, I swore off doing side bullshit for a while. Dondoko Island was cool, but Sujimon's Discreet Four quests just ate away at me. Well, that and deciding to do nearly all the substories as soon as things got unlocked. Fucking lemonade stand...

Yuffie is great. Not Tifa/Aerith besties great though

Nevermind...the ending has me VERY confused.

Well, I can enjoy everything all the same. I haven't seen if they stick the landing of Rebirth yet (only up to 2nd Gold Saucer), but the pace of this game is really damn good. If you don't do sidequesty bullshit, you get through areas in about 1-2 hours. The game is filled to the brim with cool character moments, and I think it actually plays around with Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith's stories in a way that makes more sense than they did in OG. That's mostly due to Cloud's mental state being way better produced and executed in this graphical style and presentation. The changes in the story also seem less complex somehow...again...so far. It's different enough to feel original, without making the original feel like it is being completely overwritten; that's pretty fucking funny, given that is exactly the type of story they are doing, in a cheeky way. OG still exists on its own, but this isn't replacing anything.

There is every chance this cocks up, but I've loved the story and pacing of Rebirth. It's a different version of FF7, and I've loved every minute of it since leaving Midgar. The World Tour was my favorite part of OG anyway. I'm glad it hasn't disappointed.

I will say the game does really well at getting characters down. Elena's a fascinating try hard wannabe hard ass. Yuffie just bounces all over the place. Red has his place, getting pissy at all the backwards comments about being a pet.

It's just more of what Remake got right.

I mean, yes, but I haven't gotten to him yet, so I won't judge until that point. Can't be any worse than new Zack. He just sounds so wimpy...

Cool. What did they do?

I looked up the cast again, and saw one of my favorites (J. Michael Tatum) was Cid. I knew he was doing more video games than anime recently, but it's still kinda crazy him going from Black Butler and Spice and Wolf to a pretty major character in the biggest JRPG in god knows how long. Met him once at a con too. Super cool guy.

Yuffie is just as much an energetic weirdo as she ever was. It's great.

I'm really enjoying all the little character moments. Aerith and Tifa continue their besties routine from Remake, and Aerith and Red have some weird story rapport going on that is kinda nice. I'm a sucker for intra-party bonding moments that happen away from the main story.

Just hit Costa Del Sol...and now I want to Chocobo-a-Go-Go...oh wait, wrong beach based game.

Youtube uploads are trickling in now. After Infinite Wealth killed my hands (95 hours in a month is...a bit much at my age), watching this game is gonna feel like a dream. I'm only at the Chocobo Ranch, but cool stuff is already peppered in. Story differences, new character scenes, the vistas are just cool and big. I'm amped for this.

Better yet, other than the Flashback, Kalm took only about a half hour or so. No super sized Midgar bullshit this time. Only Junon should get that treatment. Maybe they learned they have too much fucking shit to redo.

It has the characters, music, visuals, and other "FF7" stuff down pat, even if the story goes off in some weird new directions. The combat is kinda wonky. Bosses specifically have this, "Better figure out our thing, or spend half an hour fighting this guy." There's also this issue of difficulty spikes. Either the enemies are complete pushovers, or they do a shit ton of damage.

Adol announces a game!

And Dogi gets left behind again.