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welcome to the end of a xeno series

saga was feelin pretty lonely

Oh did Takahashi end up screwing over blade like he did with saga?

YoukaiSlayer posted...

The story is basically on the level of "it was all just a dream".

Except, you know, the part where Melia explicitly states that all of Aionios is no less real than anything else and Origin is confirmed to keep records of what happened in Aionios (hence Moebius can give people a slide show of their past lives and people like Ashera and Eunie retain some memories). There's every reason to believe that people will end up remembering their time in Aionios and that the worlds will figure out a way to unite in the future. How and when are uncertain, but Origin has granted them the time they need to figure out how to do so safely. It will happen, and it's the events of this game that will catalyze that.

All of which, incidentally, is covered in more detail and with references to specific in-game comments that support the conclusion in that video you're refusing to watch. It even explicitly shoots down the "it was just a dream" interpretation.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Additionally, if I play the game and watch everything and pay attention and still didn't understand a mass marketed AAA game, the game f***ed up it's storytelling. I shouldn't need 45 minute breakdowns to understand the story and if you look at other peoples impressions of the story, a lot of people reached very different conclusions on what physically happened. The information was conveyed poorly.

Virtually all of the information is there, you just have to pay attention and occasionally read between the lines a bit. People reach different conclusions not because the story is told poorly, but because they don't know how to find the point without having their hands held. A 45-minute breakdown is nothing compared to what's been done to analyze any of the stories that are widely considered to be the best ever written. That doesn't mean they're poorly written. Quite the opposite: It means they're written with depth and subtlety that stands up to deeper analysis and exploration of their themes and context, which in turn means that not everyone is going to fully understand them on the first pass and may need to study it further. While I'm not about to suggest that Xenoblade 3 should be held up as a literary masterpiece, the fact that there's room to explore its story like this after the fact is very much a good thing, not a failure.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

an inconsistent message about acceptance while fighting the status quo.

But it's not inconsistent. At every level, the core message is that it's better to try to make an uncertain future better than to cling to a status quo of suffering out of fear that the future might be worse. Nothing about that is inconsistent with fighting the status quo.

Judgmenl posted...

Oh did Takahashi end up screwing over blade like he did with saga?

Some people don't like how 3 ended. To call that "screwing it over" would be a little melodramatic, but there is a pretty sizable butthurt minority out there complaining about it.

Haven't been watching much, and mainly just playing Rocket League, Slay the Spire, and Pokemon RBY lately (been trying out a bunch of the more recent glitch findings). I've been reading a bunch random oneshot manga; they're great when you don't want something heavy or time consuming.

FMA Day is coming up soon ("Don't Forget Oct 03"), so I gotta remember to pick up Brotherhood again.

I said it's on the level of being just a dream. All of Aionios is undone even if we eventually regain the memories in the new world. That's how a dream works. None of the events besides escaping the dream of are of any real consequence. Unfortunately, those events are 95% of what we do throughout the game.

The theme is inconsistent because they don't fight against the status quo of annihilation. They just accept it as unchangeable fact. They don't fight against being torn apart at the end, they just accept it. There's so much they accept and don't fight to change. The story is simultaneously about coming to terms with your lot in life and also about not coming to terms with it and fighting to change it. And from the perspective of our main cast, that have no idea what's going to happen anyway, it's downright irresponsible to destroy the only world they've ever known with everyone they've ever met in it.

If souls somehow lose no energy reincarnating and acting as origin's power source and creating new souls through birth, thats also a pretty physics defying system that lets energy come from nothing, unless each soul is only fraction of the energy of their parents soul. Then theres origin that can magically harness that energy to mend or break realities in just such a random arbitrary way as to allow for this story. It feels so inconsistently applied. But we just give it a pass for some reason to create this story. Maybe thats the better way to phrase it, it feels incredibly contrived. The entire scenario of the story that is. Why can people get teleported into the final boss fight in origin? Why do physical attacks have any affect against a ball of energy infused with a consciousness? Why can only N and M defeat him? They give surface level hand waving for these things but it feels like they just can have anyone do anything at any point without any prep work, like the writer is working with infinite blank checks. It doesn't feel like they set up consistent rules and then worked within those constraints to do something clever and even reasonable.

Then the characters actions within the story are dumb. Most of the cast doesn't even have any idea what they're actually doing in the final boss fight. Nobody bothered to tell all the lost numbers and colonies that success means losing everything you know. Maybe, one day, you'll reincarnate and get those memories back, but maybe you won't, you have no clue. Clearly nobody understands how origin works well enough to have any degree of certainty as they failed to predict this entirely nonsensical creation aionios in the first place. Instead they have blind faith that reality will go against their own understanding of physics and everything will work out, in incredibly irresponsible message.

If they are really going to go with everything being fine afterwards and the worlds separating and that shit, then don't just introduce the entire goal of the main cast during the final boss fight. They should have been discussing what will happen and how people feel about it and probably have to encounter resistance convincing people that aren't ok with that. That's not something to leave between the lines, not when you expect the player to be the ones carrying it out. Why weren't the characters shocked at the end that they'd be split apart? They just accept it off screen and are shown having come to terms with it perfectly, completely resigning themselves to fate.

People come to different conclusions because it's portrayed terribly and all of this stuff is arbitrary with no build up.

I don't know why I'm bothering to type this up. I'm done with the game, I'd moved on, I'm just getting irritated even thinking about it again.

Finished up made in abyss S2. Show is still great and still so uncaringly sad and brutal. Can't wait for season 3 to come out in 50 years.

Also started the new season of anime technically. Not sure why but the sword isekai from next season aired an episode earlier than it said before. Was better than I thought but still not amazing and I feel like they traversed the entire powerscale from start to finish in one episode so I'm not really sure where they will go from here. Season starts in earnest in 2 days.

The game is boring now when you're max level I guess. I thought the super boss would be harder. I guess all it had was instant death upon hit. I'm just farming SP in the final dungeon in the banquet hall. The UM that respawns there has almost the entire area as its range so I lured it towards a group of enemies and just hit them with chain attacks. I can get 40 SP per battle there. I probably will not go for the revive one.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

None of the events besides escaping the dream of are of any real consequence.

And escaping from it is the whole point of the entire game, which is a very real consequence because it saves both worlds from stagnating eternally while they gradually erode away into oblivion.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

The theme is inconsistent because they don't fight against the status quo of annihilation. They just accept it as unchangeable fact. They don't fight against being torn apart at the end, they just accept it. There's so much they accept and don't fight to change. The story is simultaneously about coming to terms with your lot in life and also about not coming to terms with it and fighting to change it.

They fight annihilation as much as they can with the time and technology they have, coming up with a solution that isn't perfect, but prevents everything in both worlds from being lost forever. That's not inconsistent with a story about trying to fix what can be fixed instead of clinging to a clearly harmful status quo, that's just the nature of problem solving as anything less than a god.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

If souls somehow lose no energy reincarnating and acting as origin's power source and creating new souls through birth, thats also a pretty physics defying system that lets energy come from nothing, unless each soul is only fraction of the energy of their parents soul.

It's pretty overtly stated that every person in Aionios was already stored in Origin before it began, even those that were born native to Aionios. The whole life energy thing is weird and seems to draw on a nebulous concept of "life force" that's not strictly a form of energy, but the conservation issue is consistent with the world gradually annihilating into energy because that would provide Origin with the power to keep going (so long as there's a world left, that is).

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Then theres origin that can magically harness that energy to mend or break realities in just such a random arbitrary way as to allow for this story. It feels so inconsistently applied. But we just give it a pass for some reason to create this story. Maybe thats the better way to phrase it, it feels incredibly contrived. The entire scenario of the story that is.

It makes enough sense. All matter/antimatter in the worlds annihilates into energy upon contact, Origin takes that energy and turns it back into the matter/antimatter that it used to be. It's all just a matter of energy/mass interconversion, with the pre-established technology of core crystals guiding the reassembly process. That's clearly pretty far-fetched technology, but it's within the realm of what's reasonable in fantasy and is internally consistent with how everything else works. Similarly, it makes enough sense that a sufficiently powerful entity who interrupted that process could manipulate Origin to use that energy in a different way to create a different world based on the information Origin provided. That kind of manipulation falls into the realm of the divine, but the notion of the collective unconscious creating a god from a sufficiently strong shared desire or emotion is not a concept unique to this game and is easy enough to accept.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Why can people get teleported into the final boss fight in origin? Why do physical attacks have any affect against a ball of energy infused with a consciousness? Why can only N and M defeat him?

• Because those phases happens outside while everyone is nearby and can be flown in pretty easily
• I think you might be playing the wrong genre if you're going to take issue with physical attacks damaging non-physical entities. Even then, Blades are established throughout the game as having special properties that just plain stabbing somebody does not (notably, taking someone's life requires them to be killed with a Blade and not a Levnis or other method, to say nothing of the whole "materializing out of thin air" thing), so you can chalk it up to being a matter of those special properties and ether manipulation or something like that if you want an explanation beyond "the game would suck if you couldn't."
• Because if Noah and Mio didn't let go of N and M - their incarnate desires to be with each other at the expense of everything else - the collective wish for the Endless Now (Z) would remain too strong for Origin to work properly. This is another question that that video answers.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

If they are really going to go with everything being fine afterwards and the worlds separating and that s***, then don't just introduce the entire goal of the main cast during the final boss fight.

They didn't. Nia explained it in no uncertain terms when she first explained how Origin worked and what it was meant to do. This is what I mean by you not understanding it: If you think the worlds separating at the end came out of nowhere, it's because you missed the part where it was explicitly stated that that would happen. I agree that it would have been nice to see more content exploring how the characters felt about separating, but I can also understand leaving it unsaid as everyone pushed their concerns and hesitation aside for the sake of dealing with what had to be done.

YoukaiSlayer posted...
People come to different conclusions because it's portrayed terribly and all of this stuff is arbitrary with no build up.

It's more that it's a long game with a lot of details to keep track of that some people miss either because they didn't pay enough attention or they did so much other stuff that they forgot it by the time it was needed again. Everything needed to understand the game is there, it's just a lot to take in and it's easy to get overwhelmed.

keyblader1985 posted...
FMA Day is coming up soon ("Don't Forget Oct 03"),

Huh. Today I realized that Mean Girls Day and FMA day are the same. I feel like this has meme potential, but I'm too lazy to capitalize on that.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

all of this stuff is arbitrary with no build up.

the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME was building up to the themes you despise. like this is the 7th xeno game and you explicitly hated the previous one, maybe this series just isn't for you

Minor Xenoblade 1 Spoilers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvOPYaSMFY

Thats a lot of spoiler tags that I wont get to read by the time I start my own Xeno 3 playthrough

Watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners and I want to eat your Pancreas

Pancreas Movie was actually very meh, like a 5/10. Like the first hour or so is so boring. It wasnt until the twist that it got interesting, but by that time, I was over it

Edgerunners was pretty fucking good. That Studio Trigger goodness, cool, fun, badass, neat world building, simple story executed pretty well Id say. There were a lot of moments where I got FLCL vibes too. Overall 9/10. If they have another season or series, Im all over it .

Still not touching 2077 tho

agesboy posted...

the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME was building up to the themes you despise. like this is the 7th xeno game and you explicitly hated the previous one, maybe this series just isn't for you

I didn't say the theme had no build up, it was just applied inconsistently. The actual stuff the party does had no build up. The game was building up to liberating aionios from Z, not destroying aionios, something that would have happened eventually anyway.

I also quite liked xenoblade 2, just not the ending or really the last 3rd of the game. Xenoblade 1 was similar but it's jump the shark moment was closer to 50% of the way through (stuff with mumkar or whatever the claw guys name was). After seeing the memes of rex's voice acting I expected to hate him but he was really enjoyable until he gave up for no reason in a situation where giving up means death anyway even though he is acting like he can walk away from it. It was a real "shinji, get in the robot" moment except if that happened 2/3rds of the way through eva after shinji had a ton of time to process everything. Then the very end with one of them trying to stay behind and rex being stopped by a 20 foot chasm despite some of the much larger gaps he has closed in other parts of the game. Then the even undo that pointless sacrifice making it extra stupid to have set it up that way in the first place.

The only xenoblade with a solid ending is X, which is ironic because the majority of it's story is garbage. It's like the reverse xenoblade game where only the ending is any good. Although I did find most of xenoblade X's story inoffensive despite it's poor quality. Felt very campy and silly outside of the opening and ending of the game.

Xenoblade 2 especially felt like the classic anime storyline 3 act structure where the first act is the hero's rise, the 2nd act is the low point where the hero falters, then the 3rd act is where they resolve their failure and grow from it. However, anime/jrpg shoehorns this into a lot of stories where it doesn't work or feels stupid like infinite undiscovery or guilty crown. Xenoblade 2 is one such story. And it's not like they couldn't have rex falter, it's just the way they did it made him seem incredibly uncharacteristically stupid.

To use edgerunners as a positive example, it does the same thing. David rise's to power, david goes too hard on the chrome trying to make enough money to send lucy to the moon and keep his crew alive and rich, david redeems himself and has a heroic sacrifice at the end. It's the same structure, but they did all those aspects in ways that actually make sense and don't require the character to pick up the idiot ball or act completely out of character.

Going into xenoblade 3 and maybe even still, it was my favorite jrpg series and thats one of my favorite genres. I love the xenoblade series. The gameplay, exploration, and world building is second to none. It creates places I want to explore and enemies I want to fight and people I want to get to know better than any other series. And when it sticks to small personal stories like in the side quests, the writing usually hits well. The sidequests in xenoblade 3 are the best side quests in video games. I know the names and personality of like 100 NPCs in xenoblade 3. I understand the dynamics of so many people striving their best to survive in this world and make it liveable and peaceful in a place that had only known war. That's why it feels so shit to just crush all that work and say "actually, you don't need to pick up the pieces and strive to find a way to make things work, we'll just delete it all".

I didn't want to dislike this game, I wanted to love it and I'm crushed by how it turned out, but the damage is done, I'm done talking about it. This is my last post on xenoblade for a while.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

The game was building up to liberating aionios from Z, not destroying aionios, something that would have happened eventually anyway.

Except Aionios' inevitable annihilation would have taken the other worlds with it. I'm not sure how you can suggest that abandoning everything from the entire series to oblivion is equivalent to ending the artificial world in which copies of everyone in the original worlds just lived in suffering so that the real worlds could live on (after a momentary blip which could technically be called not living on, but given that everything about them persists through it, that's not a technicality with much practical merit).

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I also quite liked xenoblade 2, just not the ending or really the last 3rd of the game.

Uhh, the last third of the game is when all of the story's actual value shows up. Everything up to that point is just an extremely generic "rawr we bad give us ur girlfriend" "oh noes don't take my girlfriend" that only qualifies as an excuse to keep playing because they periodically drop hints about more interesting worldbuilding to come later. It's really only after the end of chapter 6 that it starts actually delving into the characters, the world, and the themes of existentialism that underpin it all and make it a really interesting story. It's extremely back-heavy on the exposition and character development (mostly on the villain side of things) that it needs to be engaging, which is probably it's greatest flaw (and, and being a really slow start mechanics-wise as well).

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Xenoblade 1 was similar but it's jump the shark moment was closer to 50% of the way through (stuff with mumkar or whatever the claw guys name was).

... You mean when the story developed into more than just a straightforward revenge story against the evil robots? I'm starting to think you just don't like stories with villains that have any depth to them. Prison Island was a major turning point for Shulk's character and shifts the story in a way that really elevates it to be something great instead of a pretty straightforward "beat the bad guy" story that you can get from any Mario game.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

The only xenoblade with a solid ending is X,

Okay, what? X doesn't even have an ending. The story stops after what feels more like a midgame boss than a final one (story-wise. Gameplay-wise, it was definitely final boss material), says "wow, this planet sure is mysterious," then rolls the credits without resolving any of the myriad questions that arose throughout the game and in those final cutscenes. It's blatantly half a story, clearly set up for a sequel that has yet to materialize. X very emphatically does not have a good ending.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I understand the dynamics of so many people striving their best to survive in this world and make it liveable and peaceful in a place that had only known war. That's why it feels so s*** to just crush all that work and say "actually, you don't need to pick up the pieces and strive to find a way to make things work, we'll just delete it all".

Except all of that is what it took to defeat Moebius. Killing all those consuls wasn't just beating up bosses for sidequests, it was a matter of helping everyone rise above the despair that had gripped them and feel hopeful for the future. It's because they didn't have that hope that Moebius arose in the first place. Kindling it in the people of Aionios in turn kindled it in the copies of the corresponding people from the original worlds stored in Origin (again, Origin is shown to store data from Aionios), allowing them to overcome their collective fear that Origin would fail.

Riku's "world is supervillainpon" line carries more depth than it might seem to at first glance. Not only is the endless war a product of how the world works, but it's the world and all the people who live in it lacking the will to rise above it that perpetuates the suffering. Every colony you liberate is a blow against that world because you're giving people the opportunity - and by extension, the will - to fight back. This is why the final battle is not just the party punching the big bad in the face, as was the case in 1 and 2. It's everyone in the world fighting against Moebius because they've decided they don't want anyone else to suffer as they have, and that collective decision is what allows Origin to move forward. That they might not know that they're bound for oblivion (putting aside for a moment the question of their memories and experiences being preserved and passed on to their real-world counterparts) doesn't actually take away from this: they've decided to give up their lives if they need to for the sake of the cause for which they've chosen to fight. As it happens, they do need to, but they've already committed to that.

Is it sad to put that work into securing bright futures for people that are only going to be around for a few months? Absolutely. Again, though, if the party failed, most of those Commanders would be dead within 1-2 years anyway, so it's not that big of a difference. Otherwise, you can think of it as a sort of palliative care, making sure that they can enjoy the small amount of time they have left. Sad, but still meaningful and worthwhile (even putting aside the role it plays in winning). I'm okay with that.

Danmachi Season 4 is done until 2023. Have not decided what to watch from the current season. Still unpacking things from the move.

Picked up Diofield Chronicle. My Game Stop had a delay on Trails From Zero, but I can wait another day or two on that.

I noticed Diofield Chronicle a little while back and it mildly piqued my interest. I should look into it further to see how it turned out.

A strategy RPG that limits you to four characters on the field seems really weird to me.

I found an easy way to farm revives so I did that while also farming other things. Not sure how to farm burst affinity since it's so random.

Do the stats carry over to NG+? Might be easier to just finish and restart.

i played a little of diofield, i got just past the intro and it's not for me, it's not what i thought it would be like

it's more rts than anthing

Finished up kingdom S4 and damn, what a show. I expected this season to be weak because it was a regrouping and strength building section of the plot after the insane huge battles of season 3 but they managed to make it great. I kind of wish they would remake at least season 1 if not 2 as well because it's such a shame poor animation in those seasons keeps people away from one of the GOATs.

This season I've started some stuff. Two cat girl fantasy shows already. That's just the type of flavor I like in my generic isekai garbage (even though 1 is just a fantasy). The farmer isekai looks geniunely terrible after the first episode. I can't beleive frame 1 they start with such an atrocious cgi dragon. Shit looked like claymation.

Beast tamer (the 2nd of the cat girl fantasy shows) looked fine and generic. I'll probably keep watching it.

I see the new gundam first episode just went up and I have high hopes after it's episode 0 thing it aired a few weeks ago was amazing.

YURI?!? In my gundam? You love to see it. This is everything I could want in a gundam. The mechs look really cool, the animation is great, the music is great, the corporate war story backdrop is great, and it has space lesbians! Woohoo! This is what gundam would look like if I made it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eytpBOkOFA
Yoasobi did the ED so it's guaranteed to be good.
As for the first episode I enjoyed it.

Started the Beast Tamer manga after watching episode 1 and yep, safe generic shit. Kinda surprised I've read none of it since there's a pretty big chunk of it translated (about 60 chapters)

Revelation34 posted...

I found an easy way to farm revives so I did that while also farming other things. Not sure how to farm burst affinity since it's so random.

Do the stats carry over to NG+? Might be easier to just finish and restart.

I believe they do carry over, but you might want to create an extra save file and use that just in case. Most fights aren't going to last long enough to have a decent chance at burst affinities if you've got endgame gear and skills, though, even if you delevel yourself.

adjl posted...

I believe they do carry over, but you might want to create an extra save file and use that just in case. Most fights aren't going to last long enough to have a decent chance at burst affinities if you've got endgame gear and skills, though, even if you delevel yourself.

I guess I could remove all the skills and gear. I think it should be possible to farm them off mechon with misses.
After that is the annoying new year one and a super easy party wipe since I can just farm that off the laser using superboss.

Watched episode 1 of novice alchemist. It feels very heavily inspired by atelier ryza in particular. A fair amount of soft yuribait and an ok setup. I expect it'll be a comfy cute show but nothing special. Will keep watching.

Watched Management of Novice Alchemist. Huge Atelier vibes would probably recommend on the first episode alone because I am not typically a fan of fantasy anime.

Wow, that new ninja anime has maybe the worst censorship I've ever seen. A girl in her underwear had the most obnoxiously bright light censoring I've ever seen.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/7/AAIKvIAADvnH.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/8/AAIKvIAADvnI.jpg
Look at this shit. She isn't even naked, you can see that she is wearing underwear.

lmao

If it's got to be censored that badly, it shouldn't even exist..

Also, in a strange twist it turns out that the single biggest challenge to my "don't lewd the Academia girls" personal rule is the freaking invisible girl.

if she is fully hidden

she is fully naked

Lmao, why on earth would they censor it that heavily?

hera posted...

if she is fully hidden

she is fully naked

Lol.

dragon504 posted...

Lmao, why on earth would they censor it that heavily?

remember that blatant AI censoring manga shit

https://preview.redd.it/6fkm1mxc05e91.jpg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=841efc3ab7269504e207459582712206e9b036a1

maybe its happening again.....

Supposedly it was cause of bilibili strict censorship rules or something. Anyway theres already a non censored version out thankfully.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/9/AAIKvIAADvwr.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/0/AAIKvIAADvws.jpg

Hilarious that they bothered to censor it in the first place. The first episode overall was kinda mediocre. A lot of dumb decisions they just don't want you to question and main guy has no real personality yet. Still will probably give it one more episode because this one was basically just a prologue.

Sword isekai is pretty good. Second episode is out. Fran is adorable and badass at the same time, all the time. This and gundam are the best new shows for me so far.

I also watched eminence in the shadows and it was ok. Similar to the ninja show yesterday, I feel like this prologue doesn't really show us what the show will actually be like but I'm invested enough to at least watch the next episode. I expect it to be a forgettable 7/10 show but a lot of people hyped the source up so maybe it'll surprise me.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Supposedly it was cause of bilibili strict censorship rules or something. Anyway theres already a non censored version out thankfully.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/9/AAIKvIAADvwr.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/0/AAIKvIAADvws.jpg

Hilarious that they bothered to censor it in the first place. The first episode overall was kinda mediocre. A lot of dumb decisions they just don't want you to question and main guy has no real personality yet. Still will probably give it one more episode because this one was basically just a prologue.

@hera

Nah she's clearly naked.

...ok?

i never made any comment about that post

I am only 9 minutes into the first episode, but Do It Yourself!! is fantastic.

Judgmenl posted...

I am only 9 minutes into the first episode, but Do It Yourself!! is fantastic.

I just finished it and I agree. Better than I expected. Also damn, yuri fans like me eatin good this season. There's at least soft yuri in like 60% of the shows I've checked out. Would never have expected gundam to be the most yuri of them all. What a magical season.

hera posted...

...ok?

i never made any comment about that post

Lol.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80044363?page=43#433

yeah that didn't have anything to do with slayers post

you should look up the invisible girl in mha

you know

the post directly above mine

Just found out that Makima's voice actress is Tomori. All of the months of helly complaining about that character and it ends up being one of my favorite VAs.

fuck makima

Damn there's not many RPGs on the Switch's SNES collection. I might check out Earthbound Beginnings one day. I didn't play much of it back in the day.

Most of my Switch SNES time has been spent on Link to the Past and Panel de Pon. I also recently found out that not only is there a Panel de Pon game on Gamecube, but it's got an English patch just like the original game.

hera posted...

fuck makima

thats definitely something i'd like to do

Hitori Bocchi The Rock is very good as well. Thought this season wasn't stacked but it actually is.

agesboy posted...

thats definitely something i'd like to do

no

Speaking of SNES rpgs, I've been playing Ara Fell and I gotta say, they really nailed the feel of a snes rpg, while still being modern.

I usually don't go for RPGmaker games, but after hearing that the devs went back and redid some stuff with a new engine just to bring it up to their new standards, shows how much they care for the game.

The writing is good. The combat, while simple, can have some surprising depth. Overall, the game is good. Definitely worth a try if you're a fan of old snes jrpgs.