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[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - Commoditized
Geth
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On the other hand, I'm not sure I can deal with another RPG where any magic using class/job/whatever I dare use is perpetually MP constrained... Finding or buying ethers is like pulling teeth, and this game doesn't seem to have tents or beds or any other purchasable means to restore it if I get too far from town or get dumped into a plot gauntlet.
I got especially frustrated when, in the demo,
I don't mind difficulty or needing to be conscious of mana pools, but Squenix has a history of making MP a frustrating mechanic.
Still, it's really good. I will probably just complain loudly while I continue playing it for way too many hours.
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So for the most part Phoenix is more like smelling salts than a tonic to raise the dead.
But then that doesn't explain how it kills zombies. Or how being stabbed with swords in battles knocks people out but the same happening in a cutscene kills them.
Just suspend your disbelief people, it's for the best.
it took me an embarrassingly long time to make the "down = down feathers" connection too
Yeah, someone pointed that out to me last year. My mind went booooooooom.
The real logic break is in Final Fantasy VII where you find Red XIII's dad, converted to stone by poison arrows. There's an item in game that specifically reverses that status.
Also, Bravely Default was amazing, easily one of the absolute best JRPGs of the last decade, everyone should play it.
or maybe the reason Majesto is royalty is that in the land of the noseless, the one-nosed man is king.
It's in game. In a more chibi style look. In some of the concept art they have regular noses.
Edit: Also regular noses in some of the cut scenes in game.
Ooooooooooooh
You gotta do the town building stuff. Like, fixing up shops and whatnot. Then it becomes easy to buy stuff like ethers. It's harder to do in the demo, but the full game will allow you to obtain townsfolk via streetpass and also I think your friends can send you one villager a day or something.
Characters have spells called "Life."
Basically, any powers or abilities or items, at all, that characters have in the game world will have no impact on plot-deaths.
Is this the right time to link to VG Cats?
Then there's the bit in FFV, where a character fights long past 0 HP, and the characters attempt all types of cure magic and Phoenix Downs, but he's too far gone for that stuff.
This sure is a, er, classic joke.
Whatevs, man. Final Fantasy games have always been all about that immersion breaking ludonarrative dissonance anyway.
That's mind blowing to me.
With their bodies' messed up surface area to volume ratio, they have to work overtime to sweat enough toxins. So yeah, they smell awful. Also they die of kidney failure before they turn 20, which is why they always look so young. Because none of them get old.
Also, I will second the fact that Bravely Default is fantastic. In the demo, I found if I turned off random battles (which you can actually control!) to run back to town to heal, that solved the MP problem, albeit tediously. Perhaps the full game will provide other avenues of MP heal, ala tents, etc. If you like JRPGs and have a 3DS, it would be criminal not to purchase it.
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Now I'm curious. Just what the hell did all of you THINK that shit was?
Like Pocky.
I think I just sort of thought about Phoenix Down as some sort of essence of phoenix right at the time of their death (down as in death / destruction / falling from the sky) thus preserving the resurrection magic for my party members.
Listen, it was a Final Fantasy thing, and I wasn't interested in spending too much time thinking about why they called things what they did. A friend of mine who also played set me straight years ago, and it was similarly eye-opening for me as it seems to be for a bunch of people in this thread, which gives me joy.
Which then was somewhat fixed in Final Fantasy IX, where you needed a super version of that item to cure a certain petrified NPC.
It's also not uncommon in Japanese comicking/cartooning styles, in general, to imply the nose or cheekbones with shading as opposed to linework.
I seriously just dismissed it as translation goofery, and the only people who say "down" ever are people who are into feather bedding. Which is the worst. I laid down on a down pillow once and my neck was stabbed by the ends of the feathers. NOPE NOPE NOPE
I hope you don't consume much comedy material because you're going to run into similar jokes / concepts a lot and I wouldn't want you to waste your time pointing every instance out to the internet.
My reaction to this was the exactly the same as Jeff's. I always chalked it up to a localization issue that persisted due to tradition.