Current Events > Ivynn plays Triangle Strategy. The title is still stupid *progressive spoilers*

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does it have a good story?

Brigands have terrible voice acting, as is jrpg tradition. But here's the first battle. Now that I've familirized myself with the battle system, it should go a lot faster.

I didn't like the demo, but it still got me to buy the game. So mission accomplished?

Just wait until you get to the chapters after the demo. It'll make their choices in the demo rather confusing.

Is that in a good way?

Even tho I'm a rich noble's son, I still rummage through the peasants' houses for items and gold. Extra taxes I guess.

does it have a good story?

I'm in Chapter 13 and I'm loving the story so far. I love how the story changes, depending on what you decide to do.

When does "Ivynn watches My Hero Academia Season 5" happen? >:(

Finally get to fight again lol. Let's see if I do better in the tourney than I did in the demo. I lost Serenoa and Roland last time. >_>

Did you decide to go Morality, Liberty, or Utility?

I still need to catch up on other stuff lol. Hopefully soon.

I still need to catch up on other stuff lol. Hopefully soon.

Yeah. The demo is the first couple of chapters and those chapters have a good 2/3x the exposition as the rest of the game. It causes fatigue towards the game due to no gameplay happening for so long with nothing but stuff that you need to be thrown at you (think FFXIII). It's why IGN redid their review (that or because they read the room wrong and thought everyone was going to hate Triangle Strategy): their complaints stopped existing really early in.

But convincing the characters that preferred Aesfrost was much harder this time! It was easier in the demo, but in the end I wasn't able to convince them at all! What gives? I did choose some different dialogue choices this time around so maybe the conviction wasn't as strong? I guess I don't fully understand this conviction system yet. Thank goodness for Anna's tiebreaker vote.

Lord Dragan's drunken ramblings.... he's totally a villain, isn't he

You have to have a high enough conviction and also tell them a line of logic that they like. You also have to talk to town as some dialog options get unlocked by talking to people. While these unlocked dialogs aren't required for the conversations, some even auto-fail you, they tend to be pretty good for at least a couple of the people (usually one from each side of an argument).

But it seems every response gives you Conviction so how do you get low conviction?

Good to know. Guess I can't be willy nilly with choices and need to commit to a path. I was hoping for more flexibility tbh.

Yeah, the decisions get pretty weighty like that as you go along. I can only think of one that felt like a clear right/wrong option

Decided to be a bro and protect Roland. Bring it Aesfrosti scum!

I love how ellipses have sound effects. Thump. Thump. Thump.

I hate the ice twins.

I managed to convince them this time! Excepte Benedict but I didn't bother trying to persuade him. I think I know how to work the conviction system now. I do hope I don't run into a situation where I can't go the path I want but we'll see.

Decided to be a bro and protect Roland. Bring it Aesfrosti scum!

Try and persuade everyone that isn't going for the direction you want to go. Even if you fail you get +10 to that direction's conviction. However, make sure to do it only in one direction as attempting to convince people in another direction (even if you purposely fail to make sure that they go with their original desire) reduces that by 10 as well. Think of it like a slider in which each person you try and convince lets you move it in the direction in whichever stat it goes with and you can only get the bonus to one of the two. It's not a ton but most every vote ends with you getting +40 to a given ideology and it adds up.

Ohhh good to know. So I missed out on conviction points with Benedict. Glad I learned this early. >_>