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I have now cleared Act I of Clair Obscur. Aside from the very dumb death of Gustav because it was only made possible by an impromptu rock toss, I had a great skill setup with him and Lune, so with that Mark/Burn/Heal synergy gone, I guess that I will need to come up with something else as Sciel was a great third member with her isolated setup working well with anything.

I'm still not the best at defensive maneuvers (it really depends on the enemy), and now they added a fourth to my repertoire. Oh boy, am I going to be in trouble lol.

My main issue at this point is the overworld. The camera makes it off-putting, and the lackluster map combined with a lack of a mini-map doesn't incentivize me in any way to explore, so I just fumble with what I'm given and hope that I can swiftly reach my next destination.

Sea
Deep
Om

Locom

There is a lightning type that has that ability. It comes in diamond and star rarities.

Sadly, I only have one of each

That at least narrows it down to two

Rolling Thunder

Tokione
Scratcher
Sanctuary

of the Enders

Sea
Whale
Apotheosis

Players of the Week
Offense - Bills WR Calvin Ridley (160 yards, 4 TDs)
Defense - Jets OLB Joel Simms (8 tackles, 1 INT for TD)

Game of the Week
Pumpkins at Rams

Week 13 will be simmed on Friday, July 18th

Auld
Depths
Lining

Invincible Presents: Atom Eve (PC)

I never read the comics or watched the cartoon, but I really enjoyed this one. I felt that its presentation was excellent and it was a refreshing blend of graphic adventure game and turn-based RPG.

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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch)

It's not a good game, but the second half of the game showed enough promise that a follow-up could work with heavy improvements.

The novelty of the echo system wore off pretty quick. Once you start to collect several echoes, the UI becomes a chore. They only show up in a long horizontal line, so any sorting method and even just a list of favorites (which became a hassle on its own), didn't help. Combat with echoes is also problematic.

Each echo is assigned an amount of, I don't know what it's called, echo energy maybe, denoted by a number of triangles and you only have so many in your triangle pool. You can level up to get a slight increase in your pool, but basically throughout the game, you will have between 1-3 echoes simultaneously in combat situations. I found most of them to suck in combat. They all have delays and windups in their attack, and locking on to enemies did not cause them to attack them as they did what they wanted. In the case of numerous enemy types and bosses, the timing of when to summon an echo was everything, which was very stupid to me when I basically have to keep re-summoning echoes to get their attack windup just right or they will just contribute nothing to the fight.

Zelda can fight, and makes things go a lot smoother, but it uses a special meter that drains much faster than you would think/hope, and the means of replenshing that meter basically come from infrequent, special circumstances or you have to buy and consume smoothies, their version of potions, and they must be ones that specifically replenish that meter since smoothies all have different effects. So yeah, the echo system and combat are a mess, and sink this game, but the flaws are clear and can easily be cleaned up if they return to this well.

That being said, I really enjoyed the second half dungeons, and the puzzle application of echoes is relatively strong in this game. Once the game opened up in terms of echoes at your disposal and higher echo summoning pool, exploration was really neat. I'm pretty sure that I broke sequence in two dungeons, and I entered an entire region through a silly way and never explored the main western side that you were supposed to enter from lol.

After really hating the Ultra Beasts, or whatever they were, event, I decided to immediately stop once I got at least one of every promo card, so I think that I only ended up opening 10-14 packs. I think Alcremie and Audino were the ones I have 3+ of.

Stage
Doorstep
Assemble

in the court!

Players of the Week
Offense - Steelers HB Christian McCaffrey (182 yards, 2 TDs)
Defense - Chiefs DT David Onyemata (5 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FR for TD)

Game of the Week
Browns at Bengals

Week 12 will be simmed on Sunday, July 13th

Wolfenstein: The New

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Letter

Mysterious
Research
Expressway

Nick

Dwarven
Liminality
Mysterious

notdave posted...

Trading Google Sheet:
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You can always check out this handy spreadsheet! I think that I got two hits when I glanced through it just now

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Medicine

Mysterious
People
Naki

I have started Clair Obscur. Gustave is totally Robert Pattinson, but I guess he's voiced by the lead from Stardust.

I'm digging the pace of battles, especially bosses, assuming that's what they are. I'm having some trouble getting dodges and parries down. Some of it is something I remember experiencing with God of War III's intro with enemy attacks/weapons with light colors on light backgrounds making it difficult to discern the timing of actions. Part of it is each enemy has a different attack speed/windup from other enemy types, so I often just take my licks until I get dodges/parries down...only for the old enemy variants to go away and in comes a new batch lol.

I'm only in Flying Waters, so 2-3 hours in, but I'm liking this quite a bit.

Dwarven
God
Last

Blood type

(I know that the O would need a + or - after, but oh well

@Shattered

I don't know what your currency is like or how interested you are in 1-star cards, but I can complete your 1-star collection for Mythical Island and Extradimensional Crisis by trading you Dedenne and Pheromosa for STS's Spiritomb and Celestial Guardian's Turtonator.

Players of the Week
Offense - Eagles WR Justin Blackmon (10 rec for 205 yards, 2 TDs)
Defense - Rams OLB Leonard Floyd (8 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 INT, 1 FF)

Game of the Week
Rams at Panthers

Week 11 will be simmed on Friday, July 11th

Who the hell would want to do that?

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (XSX)

Easily the best Crash platformer that I played, which isn't saying much as the bar isn't high. Some of the later levels actually had interesting design/mechanics. Unfortunately, the game was heavy on precision platforming, and Crash has never been suited to be a precision platformer.

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dilateDChemist posted...

Sorry seeing this late.

I still need Grotle, Hippowden, and Armor Fossil.
I have Steenee and Minior.

If youre still looking for these. @KCF0107

@dilateDChemist

I no longer need those. I can still give you the three cards though.

If you have a spare Passimian (I need a fifth for a themed mission) to go into an Armor Fossil trade (both are 1 diamond) and/or a spare Paldean Tauros (I need a second for a themed mission) to go into a Grotle/Hippowdon trade (all are 2 diamond), that would be wonderful. Otherwise, you can just send me whatever.

Evil
Precipice
Heaven

help you?

Players of the Week
Offense - Commanders QB Nick Mullens (299 yards, 4 TDs)
Defense - Rams CB Tre Flowers (1 tackles, 1 INT for TD)

Game of the Week
Panthers at Dolphins

Byes
Bills
Chiefs
Jets
Titans

Week 10 will be simmed on Sunday, July 6th

some more of that?

Disco
Forest
Silent