Board 8 > pxl plays tales of berseria and maybe other games part 2

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Aball is a very good section
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Everything after Faldies Ruins is amazing
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that demon with melchior is aifried, isn't it
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Phi's happy face in skits is so damn adorable

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/11/7c/20117cfef656a2e0c946140aef0f64d6.jpg

The one in the top right
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All the cats are gone from the city...

Why....

Why ban the cats
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Oh mannn

Oscar and theresa scenes. God damn
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A bit late to this, but the Return to Aball is so good.
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Holy shit

Okay I did not see that coming

I probably should have in retrospect

God damn
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that being inominat being the actual laphicet
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Oh man. This sequence. Yeah, it's great.

IIRC, I missed that too, and my excuse is I was still set on Malak!Laphicet/Number Two being the actual Laphicet so that gave me a blind spot there.
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xp1337 posted...

Oh man. This sequence. Yeah, it's great.

IIRC, I missed that too, and my excuse is I was still set on Malak!Laphicet/Number Two being the actual Laphicet so that gave me a blind spot there.

Yeah, same

That setup is so good

it makes perfect sense in hindsight, but the misdirect is so well done that most people probably don't see it. I guess my only complaint is how number 2 is just so coincidentally similar to laphi in basically every way. Maybe it's explained later, but thats a ton of coincidences otherwise. Still, a relatively minor complaint with an otherwise excellent twist/reveal
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Can i just say though, as great as the plot and story are, it's off-putting how in the middle of these serious emotional scenes the game will cut to a close up of velvets chest or crotch, or whatever other female character. Their face not even in the frame

plz
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I still remember in my playthrough topic I just asked everyone immediately to spoil me on whether or not #2 was the original Laphi. Mostly because I thought (and still do think) it would have been a terrible direction to take the plot and didn't want to spend the entire game unsure whether or not they were going to do that.
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Artorias and Celica have the same haircut
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oh fuck

Number 2 is Celica's unborn child???
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fucking Jesus

The confrontation with inominat at the end of the earthpulse was perfect. I had goosebumps.

Its been a long time since a video game plot affected me this much
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The Earthpulse section is incredible. Might have been my favorite part of the game. The whole thing is just excellent.
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Is Phi the best kid character ever or is he best kid character ever?
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I had to pause before fighting melchior to take a breather. Good lord was that whole section up til this fight intense in all the best ways. Hopefully this fight is good
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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Is Phi the best kid character ever or is he best kid character ever?

Its not even a damn question

Also this battle music is great
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That battle was alright. Not too hard but not bad either

The music in the realm of testing is real nice too
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That entire section is one of the best parts in like...any RPG ever
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The hidden inventory limit is frustrating

Trying to get a drop from one enemy across the last 3 areas, finally get one and my inventory was full. No option to even drop stuff to make room.

This game does so many things right, but a lot of the nitty gritty mechanical stuff is rather poorly implemented
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I didn't know there was a limit. Have you been dismantling stuff?
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yeah, but there was a long stretch without access to a shop and i got the drop right before i hit one

i have everything set to maximize drop rates so i get a ton of junk
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pxlated posted...

The music in the realm of testing is real nice too

IIRC that song is taken directly from the equivalent area in Zestiria. which caused some horror flashbacks for me since that place was caster hell. >_> The one place in Zestiria that broke me and had me lower the difficulty (multiple levels!) while I was there.

pxlated posted...

The hidden inventory limit is frustrating

Yeah, IIRC that's a rough stretch with the shop availability and such.
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Velvet embracing her title of Lord of calamity in the snowy village was pretty great. Another goosebumps moment
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Unlocking chaos difficulty was weird

Good thing i horde gear and had a bunch of reflect stuff
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I have really come to enjoy the dynamic between phi/eizen/rokurou
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Shigure was pretty fun
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Velvet and co. taking over the village is one of the funniest bits in the game. Magilou's taunting as all the villagers are running is perfect

Rokurou blocking Shigure's Mystic Arte never got old
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Agree with both statements

Also damn the moving mountain/titan code red boss in the volcano was tough as hell on chaos.

So many life bottles
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Melchior/waking The empyreans was rad. The flower thing was questionable, could have been set up better than immediately before the dungeon you fight him in. But not such a big deal
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Melchior is one of the absolute toughest boss fights on the hardest difficulty. Mages get exponentially more ridiculous with each cast time reduction that bumping up a difficulty grants them.
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i actually didn't have too much difficulty with melchior, playing on chaos. just took a while, but i was pretty well capable of interrupting him. one caster by itself isn't as much of a problem i find as a group of them. i think the only time anyone went down against him was when he used his mystic arte on magilou. good thing he only did that once.

i think that titan code red boss was definitely the hardest boss yet. maybe i just didn't spec the right way for it, but god it was such a slog. i used legitimately like 15 life bottles. maybe more honestly.

whoever said velvet's biggest weakness is hitting winged enemies was dead wrong. she can't hit armored things for shit - only one arte for it, it sucks, and the element attached is resisted by the hardest armored enemies it seems
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Oh shit, you're right in the middle of all the game's best parts. So much that happens in the last stretch of the game is so damn good. Rokurou blocking Shigure's mystic arte is one of the coolest in-battle things the series has ever done IMO, topped only by (Vesperia PS3 spoilers) Rita learning Indignation by using it to 1HKO Dhaos.

Also super glad you seem to be gelling well with chaos mode. It's super satisfying to be able to play this game at the highest level, so it's awesome you stuck with it! Have you been mostly playing Velvet or have you dabbled in the other crew?
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I actually didn't have too much trouble with any of the code red hunts, not anywhere near as much as with enemies like Melchior.
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i've mostly been playing velvet. i used eleanor and rokurou a bit, but it seemed at the time like they just couldn't string long combos together in the same way as velvet could, nor keep their health up in the same way. i should probably go back and try again now that everything is unlocked but idk if i'll bother at this point tbh
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KamikazePotato posted...

I actually didn't have too much trouble with any of the code red hunts, not anywhere near as much as with enemies like Melchior.

titan was the only one that gave me any trouble. i couldn't do jack for damage to it, it seemed to automatically block all my uhh, break soul finishers for velvet? the ones that happen at the end of a combo when you're thereonized. and i couldn't interrupt anything it did either. it was a slog

melchior, by comparison, i was able to interrupt reliably and string combos together like normal which made it much more tolerable
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Bump

Will finish this soon
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Sigh. Doing miscellaneous side quests and my game stopped responding to input despitemusic still running. hadnt saved in a wasnt bit because i wasnt doing any combat. Killed my desire to play for a bit.

Katz korner has cool music though
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I can move the cursor around but can do anything else. Frustrating
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Wanted a change of pace, so now im playing wolfenstein

I will finish berseria soon I swear
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Bump
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Bump

Wolfenstein is fun
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Nazis in space
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i dunno why i dont feel motivated to finish this game
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you're almost there! you gotta at least go back for the optional skits/side quests

Yeah I might turn the difficulty down to insane and finish up, I got turned off by the hardest setting because it didnt seem actually harder, just that fights took a lot longer.

Bae just bought me divinity 2 though and we have been playing that a ton
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DOS2 is so fucking good holy hell
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