There's some interesting information here about how archers work. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion that "archers are awesome", but it does seem like they have a wider niche than I thought. The fact that Eagle Eye allows you to apply status effect with 100% success is fantastic, and the idea of pairing a 1h bow with a knife for the Shadowpin finisher is pretty smart, too.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
No, archers suck I'm sorry I don't make the rules just that I finally don't need to have Arcylle in every fucking fight now.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
So is Harvestella worth picking up? I was hearing very mixed things.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
It's me, the guy who just got to the end of chapter two and only just remember that the crafting menu is in the shop.
Why yes, I will get some pants with +1 movement and some broken ass weapons.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Arycelle makes a better Ninja with 1H Katana + Blowgun
So is Harvestella worth picking up? I was hearing very mixed things.
it’s a good classic B-tier JRPG with a decent battle system and an enormous farming subsystem. it has a pretty reasonable amount of content for the price. whether that’s worth $60 to you is your decision!
there’s no customization on the MC, voices are irritating in some places and absent in most of them, but I found the game enjoyable and engaging overall. some chuds did not like having the option to use NB pronouns for your main character, for some reason.
It has a lot of systems that are interesting on paper but don't work as well in practice.
Also the AI doesn't ever use more than 5AP for chains from what I've heard(something that isn't explained in game or at least not very well) meaning some things do not work for them unless you reduce the AP cost of a move.
But it is fun to zip around on DUMA at least.
To bring this back up, the game does tell you. Kinda. In the tutorial fight about getting AP bonuses it mentions non-controlled allies don't gain bonus AP and when swapping characters the bonus moves with you so the characters you swap from will go back to 5AP.
I read this the first time but really didn't give it any thought. It was only when I saw it the second time that it was like, 'Oh so they did mention that.'
Anywho, new month new gacha:
Project Neural Cloud came out earlier today. It's a roguelite auto chess thing. Stage based, branching paths and buff cards. 3 selectable skills to do things like teleport units or pick up allies/enemies in a tornado.
Theme is cyberspace/cloud servers with AI people.
You're given the best tank and one of the best healers in the game for free so it's basically just building the right offense.
Banner for 980 currency lets you just pick one of it launch 3star. Should have enough at the end of the tutorial.
Mostly women but there are some dudes. Design is mostly that future street, hoodies everywhere, design Mica and Hypergryph love so much.
Played for about four hours today, whew, pretty fun if autochess is your jam.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Arycelle makes a better Ninja with 1H Katana + Blowgun
Yeah but I don't wanna use her because I always had to use her previously. And she's not canopus, the cool older brother who buys you beer.
I did honestly, earnestly forget how much this game twists the knife with every fuckin battle. Oh yeah that guy you killed three missions ago? Yeah, he had a family you asshole.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Arycelle makes a better Ninja with 1H Katana + Blowgun
Yeah but I don't wanna use her because I always had to use her previously. And she's not canopus, the cool older brother who buys you beer.
I did honestly, earnestly forget how much this game twists the knife with every fuckin battle. Oh yeah that guy you killed three missions ago? Yeah, he had a family you asshole.
Yeah if you go into the Warren Report and look at People every single enemy commander has a full bio. Like okay, that Warlock you three-shotted on the steps of Brigantys or wherever? He was into architecture and painting, before the war he volunteered his time to care for the elderly, and his daughter called him pawpo.
Normally that stuff is safely tucked away in the menus, but there's at least one battle in Chapter 2 (Law) where the enemy mage straight up goes "You killed my twin brother, is this really the path you want your life to go down?"
Not really, my dude, but this branch has the best recruits, so...
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Yeah, every single enemy has a backstory and it's great, but I'm specifically referring to when the enemies bring this shit up to you later.
"You killed my husband!" Wait that dude was married?
"You killed my fiance!" Whoa whoa whoa back up. In my defense, she was being kind of a dick.
And yeah, I am pretty much IMMEDIATELY ending my chaos playthrough to go back to law and get the good ones before I take on the CODA shit, including the malice at the undead palace.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I actually rearranged my entire team around a winged beastmaster with a lobber, but I also have him a wortdart blowgun and in a stroke of amazing luck, I charmed the Knight, which meant I was free to pass through the rampart aura, and the entire rest of the fight became a hilarious rout.
Jeez. Knight Commander has SO MANY excellent skills, just picking 4 is hard.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I don't bother with double attack on her, so I go Whip/Ivory Tower/Intercession/Intimidate by default, and I'll flex in Dragon or Beast Slayer or even Mighty Blow as needed.
Yeah, I saw very few good reviews of Astria Ascending (not to be confused with Astlibra Revision, a recent Metroidvania that is highly regarded), but the main thing I remember is that on release, you had to play a round of the in-game CCG to progress, but it was possible to easily miss enough bits or whatever that you needed to bet, and couldn't backtrack at that point, so you got completely softlocked. Because you couldn't play the unloseable tutorial of a fucking knockoff Triple Triad.
Well that's unfortunate, but oh well. I'll replace that with 13 Sentinels then, heard good things about that.
It's incredible, one of the best stories around.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Man fuck the first battle at Port Omish. Diego either immediately gets surrounded and killed, or runs away from the party and gets killed.
Shockingly, that wen fine for me. I am now in death march mode to prepare to recruit Cressida. Before postgame.
Pray for me.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Astria Ascending is a fabulous aesthetic/art style grafted onto a shambling husk of a battle system with all the depth of a kiddie pool and painfully cringe dialog/VA.
Fun to look at, shit to play.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
I'm curious about the Valkyrie Profile game...but not $40 curious.
With the TP/MP merge and being able to use items to increase MP, Fusiliers have gotten crazy good. I had a generic female fusilier named Temperance in my PSP save file, and she was a mainstay in my squad despite being conditionally useful because, well, to be honest I just love the female fusilier artwork.
I ended up recreating her in Reborn, and because of MP items, you can basically use Course Correction liberally. The Vasque map that starts you on an island surrounded by poison at the bottom of a slope surrounded by zombie dragons? Temperance just fired her gun through a building and the earth it sat upon twice to kill the boss.
Sure fusilier RT is high, but that's nothing Boon of Swiftness or Velocity Shift can't deal with.
I've been watching a speedrun of BoF2 before I go to sleep for the past couple days, and I had honestly forgotten how completely batshit insane the entire middle of that game was in every single way.
Me neither…and I feel like that’s not something I’d forget
You don't just need to go into her body, but her sprite is four quadrants that as you kill the fat monsters, each quadrant slims down one at a time.
But wait, it gets weirder. That part isn't actually bosses or whatever. It's just a bunch of random encounters. With monsters that can run from battle. So the TAS of that segment is just getting into battle and then manipulating them all to run away.
Also, it bears noting that the dungeon itself is a palette swap of the last time you had to perform demonic exploratory surgery on the insides of a whale. And the purpose of this jaunt was to get a magic pillow to enter the brain (another cellular palette swap) of an ancient tree with demon-induced Alzheimers, which you need to cure so he can... tell you to go south. There's like five dungeons, traveling back and forth across the world multiple times, retrieving multiple kingdom's sacred treasures, all so a fucking tree can say "have you tried going south?"
And this is after whatever the fuck was going on with Jean's entire questline.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Jean was replaced by a handsome lad frog (demon) while he was out fucking about. Jean originally upset nobody recognizes the swap but in reality everyone noticed but liked the new guy better.
Pretty sure you fail to sway the palace to accept the real Jean and then his sister goes berserk forcing a confrontation with the demon imposter.
After all is said and done the people of the kingdom still seem like like the imposter being a demon vs the real Jean being a dope is a wash, but they are frogs and stop caring about it.
You're forgetting about the part where Jean challenges the imposter to a cooking competition and you have to go find a bunch of really gross ingredients to help him win.
Or that the imposter chained a dude on the roof to slowly kill him, and instead of saving him, you go get his girlfriend instead. This is how you unlock the secret passage into the sewers by riding their plumbing, which is only accessible from secret torture chambers on the roof.
This is also somewhere in the middle of the three times you have to jump into a toilet.
E: Oh, right. And the princess's plan was to activate the castle's self-destruct system, killing everybody, but unbenownst to her, the self-destruct button was actually for hiding the legendary sword. They just told people it was to blow up the castle to make sure nobody ever pressed that button.
You're forgetting about the part where Jean challenges the imposter to a cooking competition and you have to go find a bunch of really gross ingredients to help him win.
You lose that competition and its part of why his sister goes berserk.
You hunt down and kill a sentient creature, cook it, eat it, and then throw it up.
Though to be fair, earlier in this questline, you had to visit a restaurant where witches were throwing a party, but to get in, you had to strip naked, cover yourself in salt and pepper, and then the chef tried to cook you on a massive griddle. He then attempted to murder you when it wasn't hot enough to cook you. You let him go after beating him up, and he teaches you a special skill.
This was to retrieve a ring Jean gave to the witch he was sexually harassing, which she threw into the restaurant's toilet, and then threw up on. The witch's name is Nympho.
What even was this game.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I like Chained Echoes
But
I don’t like that I can’t grind at all. Like there is almost no point to the regular battles other than to take up time.
I don’t like that I can’t grind at all. Like there is almost no point to the regular battles other than to take up time.
Wait, have we come full circle and miss grinding in games? I never thought I'd see the day.
But yeah, I hate wasting time in games. Grinding, random battles, long cutscenes, and open worlds tend to make me want to nope out of a game pretty fast.
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There's some interesting information here about how archers work. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion that "archers are awesome", but it does seem like they have a wider niche than I thought. The fact that Eagle Eye allows you to apply status effect with 100% success is fantastic, and the idea of pairing a 1h bow with a knife for the Shadowpin finisher is pretty smart, too.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Why yes, I will get some pants with +1 movement and some broken ass weapons.
it’s a good classic B-tier JRPG with a decent battle system and an enormous farming subsystem. it has a pretty reasonable amount of content for the price. whether that’s worth $60 to you is your decision!
there’s no customization on the MC, voices are irritating in some places and absent in most of them, but I found the game enjoyable and engaging overall. some chuds did not like having the option to use NB pronouns for your main character, for some reason.
To bring this back up, the game does tell you. Kinda. In the tutorial fight about getting AP bonuses it mentions non-controlled allies don't gain bonus AP and when swapping characters the bonus moves with you so the characters you swap from will go back to 5AP.
I read this the first time but really didn't give it any thought. It was only when I saw it the second time that it was like, 'Oh so they did mention that.'
Anywho, new month new gacha:
Project Neural Cloud came out earlier today. It's a roguelite auto chess thing. Stage based, branching paths and buff cards. 3 selectable skills to do things like teleport units or pick up allies/enemies in a tornado.
Theme is cyberspace/cloud servers with AI people.
You're given the best tank and one of the best healers in the game for free so it's basically just building the right offense.
Banner for 980 currency lets you just pick one of it launch 3star. Should have enough at the end of the tutorial.
Mostly women but there are some dudes. Design is mostly that future street, hoodies everywhere, design Mica and Hypergryph love so much.
Played for about four hours today, whew, pretty fun if autochess is your jam.
Yeah but I don't wanna use her because I always had to use her previously. And she's not canopus, the cool older brother who buys you beer.
I did honestly, earnestly forget how much this game twists the knife with every fuckin battle. Oh yeah that guy you killed three missions ago? Yeah, he had a family you asshole.
Yeah if you go into the Warren Report and look at People every single enemy commander has a full bio. Like okay, that Warlock you three-shotted on the steps of Brigantys or wherever? He was into architecture and painting, before the war he volunteered his time to care for the elderly, and his daughter called him pawpo.
Normally that stuff is safely tucked away in the menus, but there's at least one battle in Chapter 2 (Law) where the enemy mage straight up goes "You killed my twin brother, is this really the path you want your life to go down?"
Not really, my dude, but this branch has the best recruits, so...
"You killed my husband!" Wait that dude was married?
"You killed my fiance!" Whoa whoa whoa back up. In my defense, she was being kind of a dick.
And yeah, I am pretty much IMMEDIATELY ending my chaos playthrough to go back to law and get the good ones before I take on the CODA shit, including the malice at the undead palace.
Ultimately, try using Chariot to fiddle with RNG until Diego parries the first attack from the Berserker.
Edit: Never mind, I guess it left Gamepass a couple months ago.
It's incredible, one of the best stories around.
Shockingly, that wen fine for me. I am now in death march mode to prepare to recruit Cressida. Before postgame.
Pray for me.
Fun to look at, shit to play.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
More like $25 curious.
I ended up recreating her in Reborn, and because of MP items, you can basically use Course Correction liberally. The Vasque map that starts you on an island surrounded by poison at the bottom of a slope surrounded by zombie dragons? Temperance just fired her gun through a building and the earth it sat upon twice to kill the boss.
Sure fusilier RT is high, but that's nothing Boon of Swiftness or Velocity Shift can't deal with.
I miss that.
Me neither…and I feel like that’s not something I’d forget
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You don't just need to go into her body, but her sprite is four quadrants that as you kill the fat monsters, each quadrant slims down one at a time.
But wait, it gets weirder. That part isn't actually bosses or whatever. It's just a bunch of random encounters. With monsters that can run from battle. So the TAS of that segment is just getting into battle and then manipulating them all to run away.
Also, it bears noting that the dungeon itself is a palette swap of the last time you had to perform demonic exploratory surgery on the insides of a whale. And the purpose of this jaunt was to get a magic pillow to enter the brain (another cellular palette swap) of an ancient tree with demon-induced Alzheimers, which you need to cure so he can... tell you to go south. There's like five dungeons, traveling back and forth across the world multiple times, retrieving multiple kingdom's sacred treasures, all so a fucking tree can say "have you tried going south?"
And this is after whatever the fuck was going on with Jean's entire questline.
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Pretty sure you fail to sway the palace to accept the real Jean and then his sister goes berserk forcing a confrontation with the demon imposter.
After all is said and done the people of the kingdom still seem like like the imposter being a demon vs the real Jean being a dope is a wash, but they are frogs and stop caring about it.
Or that the imposter chained a dude on the roof to slowly kill him, and instead of saving him, you go get his girlfriend instead. This is how you unlock the secret passage into the sewers by riding their plumbing, which is only accessible from secret torture chambers on the roof.
This is also somewhere in the middle of the three times you have to jump into a toilet.
E: Oh, right. And the princess's plan was to activate the castle's self-destruct system, killing everybody, but unbenownst to her, the self-destruct button was actually for hiding the legendary sword. They just told people it was to blow up the castle to make sure nobody ever pressed that button.
BoF2 was a fucking trip.
You lose that competition and its part of why his sister goes berserk.
I did forget about the sword/self destruct
One of them is fully sentient.
You hunt down and kill a sentient creature, cook it, eat it, and then throw it up.
Though to be fair, earlier in this questline, you had to visit a restaurant where witches were throwing a party, but to get in, you had to strip naked, cover yourself in salt and pepper, and then the chef tried to cook you on a massive griddle. He then attempted to murder you when it wasn't hot enough to cook you. You let him go after beating him up, and he teaches you a special skill.
This was to retrieve a ring Jean gave to the witch he was sexually harassing, which she threw into the restaurant's toilet, and then threw up on. The witch's name is Nympho.
What even was this game.
But
I don’t like that I can’t grind at all. Like there is almost no point to the regular battles other than to take up time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
Wait, have we come full circle and miss grinding in games? I never thought I'd see the day.
But yeah, I hate wasting time in games. Grinding, random battles, long cutscenes, and open worlds tend to make me want to nope out of a game pretty fast.
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