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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES)
Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (SNES)
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (SNES)

gen 3 my beloved

gens 1 and 7 aren't actually that far off though (i don't actually like, like ultra beasts through, or golisopod). after that is probably gen 2. gen 5 would be high i suppose if i didn't have ptsd from dealing with like half of them. so many ones that gen that are just really damn annoying to take down)

oops thanks to holofes i forgot that there were other things on today of note besides it and the last day of sanrio vfes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOdjP0O9fMc)

re:act's tsukushi aria and amakawa hano both had big one-man live concerts today (here's the free sections from them)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Py1xeSdMkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z31IhV9HhXI

also himehina have been celebrating their 6th anniversary, which is also a pretty big deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB7g4VWyqzI

i guess nijisanji had some big project sekai tournament too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2urLPbPtQ

all of those aside i also noticed these so i'll mention them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8S-mQO6Q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcutbBDVgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5-o1qWklw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzaA_Te4PR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oa9aQ5NHd8
(that's the 5th anniversary of avatar2.0's Utakata Shirabe (surviving near-OG member of it and the "Fukahire Sisters" subgroup), 1st anniversary of edamame-themed indie vtuber Edanii, half-anniversary of the Sinsogumi-affiliated Tonde Pyokara, birthday of VEE's Audrey Mina (btw, that group has evidently blown up in popularity quite recently and especially her) and also for SKYCOLOR Project's Tsukihi Kira)

above is probably true, but i also suppose the biggest idea they had there was they didn't want to make it as easy to farm stamina off enemies reclaiming forts when they want to encourage active use of camps instead. also to make that one stage a little harder i guess

oh and likewise because in a worst case scenario, you don't just instantly lose when you have a unit wipe while defending your base (or else have the player feel like they have an inherent advantage over the enemy side because they can instantly claim stuff the other side can't)

i like the system because it contributes to how the game incentivises planning around fielding multiple units for objectives which i think it's better off for

sorry i'm not a wrestling fan

Sukeban Shachou Rena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA07s7jdVXg&list=PL69EAAFBFFF684842&index=7

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
Earthworm Jim 2 (SNES, Genesis)
Twisted Metal (PlayStation)
Panzer Dragoon (Saturn)
Arc the Lad (PlayStation)

Spider-Man

oh one more huh

The Hero(es): Apollo Justice
Name of Song: Apollo Justice - A New Era Begins! 2024
Source Material/Artist: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy / Horiyama Toshihiko (arr. Kitagawa Yasumasa?)
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSd0EyBAoA8

flame burst staff is basically explicitly just made for auch tbh (obviously it would be nice being able to give it to someone else but i feel like putting auch in a team with healers or druids is a waste anyway)

Murphiroth posted...

Really hope one of them isn't actually being played by who they've told us is playing them.

when the cast list is sus

i see a lot of the among us-dedicated streamers gravitate to whatever other shiny and new team-oriented games are popular at the time on the side, be it rust, phasmophobia, dread hunger, lethal company or whatever else, because they're popular lol

i have no doubt mafia streams do happen (i myself catch murder mystery custom trpg scenario streams on semi-relatively regular occasions) but people doing mainstream content are only interested in mainstream things for the most part, it's just how it works

i feel like the classes with dual wielding swords and shields are a little underwhelming in a way, since it doesn't stack the stat gains, only keeping the higher ones ithink

obviously it does mean that you have an excuse to put some cool gimmick-based secondary shield on her though which is nice, but it still kind of feels like units with dual slots there are at a disadvantage compared to ones who get more accessory slots instead

(virginia herself is still a great unit though. would say she's not quite on the same level as say berengaria or amalia as far as units from that section go but still very solid)

for better or worse, among us isn't exactly a fall guys case, it does still have an active playerbase in the tens of millions (almost entirely on mobile)

Earthbound (SNES)
Arc the Lad (PlayStation)
You Don't Know Jack (PC)
Mega Man 7 (SNES)

azuarc posted...

$7.19 - Rabi-Ribi

it is pretty much exactly as good as tevi but with a hint more nonlinearity, and has enough replay value and extra content to be able to put hundreds of hours into it easily so it's godtier value

also i donated to the crowdfunding before launch so you can tell i am TOTALLY not biased

Since it didn't make the cut I also want to insist that people check out Iblard Jikan which would be in my top 3 here (very high praise). It's definitely not for everyone, being an experience that many could argue doesn't even count as film, but I adore it.

Also those Capsule music videos animated by Studio Kajino (ghibli subsidiary) are pretty great actually.

Anyway Kaguya for sure. Grave of the Fireflies is just an inferior take on the subject matter presented compared to barefoot gen and in this corner of the world, Only Yesterday is actually great, Ocean Waves is... decent, I suppose, but also ultimately forgotten for a reason, Pom Poko is trash, Yamadas is worthless, Whisper of the Heart is also great but only really the third best here, Cat Returns has moments but falls apart in the ridiculously rushed conclusion, Arrietty is perhaps the most underwhelming take on the Borrowers ever which is impressive given where the bar is at, and Marnie... I honestly remember very little of Marnie which is perhaps a pretty bad sign for the most recent one here. Through its many flaws, Kaguya was a film that moved me more than a vast majority of other media.

yeah it's on that packed march 28 lineup

kinda wish it was a little sooner so there'd at least be a chance i'd pick it up any time soon

alas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX8UqYTUIoE there is just no way this isn't the priority pick at least for me

dang it i can't edit out my typo now lol

skelethrone: the *prey

Mostly finished up Unicorn Overlord before i got enough money to also pick up Magic Chaos as well as Death Trick (which launched two days early on Steam. I got the Switch version though so I still had to wait till less than 10 hours ago and I've been stalling on actually getting started on it which I really need to stop once I'm done rambling here)

That said, turns out a ton of other stuff crashed into the middle of the month after all, with the English translation of Murders on the Yangtze River being mere hours away at most which I'm super excited about. Additionally, installs for the game Let's Battle Online dropped just now (it was meant to go live at "5pm" presumably in jst, so it also came out early by about 17 hours) and turns out it really is in English after all (given the dev had allegedly literally removed english support from another game they'd made after getting hate comments or something, I thought for sure that this one wouldn't have it).

Although, it's the kind of translation where I have to admit I can tell why people might've had some words for the other game lol
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/eee4ec6e.jpg
It was practically promising bad machine translated scripts the moment one saw its title though so if anything I'm glad it's like this. Also the music is unexpectedly decent!

Oh yeah, speaking of music, in other news, it was apparently the 8.5th Anniversary of FF Brave Exvius, and also the 3.5th Anniversary of Mist Train Girls. The latter is notable since Basiscape's Yoshimi Kudo is responsible for the soundtrack, and they just announced their fourth soundtrack album release on the official livestream a couple of hours ago (the first since over a year ago. Notably, the game still gets new music on a regular basis, as they're apparently determined to do unique themes for every new bi-monthly event, which I think is pretty neat. To my surprise, the stream got more viewers than the FFBE stream on at the same time too, so clearly the game is doing pretty well currently. It should have another few soundtrack releases in it at at this rate.)

Snatcher (Sega CD)
Ristar (Genesis)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (PC)
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation (SNES)

i'm surprised in retrospect that the ingame cut of star tune was submitted for this ranking. i mean sure it was the one we defaulted to for the denpa set in vgmgg 400 but still

oh wait the topic upload is gone now oh i guess that could be why

... since the prompt wasn't "where there's", the first thing that came to mind for me, somehow, was actually scenes from dora the explorer (because of the emphasis it placed on interacting with the viewer to spot things)

so i guess something like "where is swiper the fox? there's swiper" i suppose?

incidentally, something worth mentioning regarding crew limits i found out

if you pick the option to NOT recruit at least one of the characters (Gilbert) he will still show up for the final boss fight, notably allowing you to go over the 10 unit limit. there may be others like this too, not sure

still cannot believe nausicaa got snubbed from the first poll though (sure, its manga is like twice as good as it but still)

fun fact i only recently found out about, the game's got a chrono trigger esque structure where you can get different endings depending on how much story progression you have before you beat it which i think is neat (though conversely it means there is a true ending and the rest are ungood)

still i really want to see people speedrunning min progression, but for now all youtube has is those bad AI voiced videos from "experts" that i desperately want to remove from my recommendations

The Hero(es): Baiganba V
Name of Song: Sunset
Source Material/Artist: SHOW BY ROCK!! / Baiganba V (vo. Bai Red) or Ito Tsubasa (vo. Takahashi Go)
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M89G1lCQGY
https://show-by-rock.fandom.com/wiki/Sunset

The Hero(es): Adol Christin (and others)
Name of Song: THEME OF ADOL
Source Material/Artist: Ys Book I & II / Koshiro Yuzo (arr. Yonemitsu Ryo)
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXytRljImVY

The Hero(es): Paddington Elrond (and others)
Name of Song: Mist Song
Source Material/Artist: Mist Train Girls ~From the Window of the Mist World~ / Kudo Yoshimi (vo. Kawasaki Hinako)
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2oCoawTu7E
(there are four cuts of this song with the opening animation, incidentally. this is the extended trailer one, but there are also two shorter versions, one less than 2 mins long and one at 3 mins flat, and another at a full 4:24 length, but i think it benefits from not having the extra... padding, pardon the pun. you can find the others here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH4Nukml7eE, here https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm38450029 and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7uSX1sqHNc respectively)

The Hero(es): Affogato (character)
Name of Song: Affogato (song)
Source Material/Artist: Affogato (game) / Kyfun (composer) lol
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJPZRp3BEc

went in decidedly different directions with all four of these save for all being from animegames so i have no expectations of ranking consistency here lol

and yes of all possible people I was the one to do a falcom song

can't believe nausicaa and porco rosso got snubbed wtf

anyway barely nausicaa over laputa then i can never decide past that. shoutout to On Your Mark though

Terranigma (SNES)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (SNES)
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (SNES)
Panel de Pon (SNES)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzX2JUqDuI

(spoiler warning)

ok in retrospect it is actually very funny i managed to get amalia this fast since i was able to just do this immediately
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4b9eb451.jpg

World

(the game, to be specific)

have made zero story progress since yesterday but i decided to focus on clearing the colosseum to get that one character

somehow pulled it off with a team of josef/hodrick/selvie/mordon/berengaria, though i did have to grind the colosseum to get selvie a ruby pendant just so she could get a sandstorm off (and i guess i also did an hour of level grinding as well to get the team barely up to lv30 too, though i'm not sure if that was actually necessary). still shocked i managed to win that fight though, especially considering i'm pretty sure one of the skills they had was one to guarantee hits (combined with a ton of party-wide attacks...) and i wasn't even using evasion builds on any of them, but i guess it worked out.

and now i just have a whole squad of people at level 30 and a newly unlocked level 40 character to complement all my barely level 20 squads lol, guess i have an excuse to retire them so i can actually fit some of the elves in

anyway i guess here's finally where i try doing the rest of the plot so i'm actually ready to move onto the other games i wanted to play this month lol

edit: i'm taking the equipment off of them now and oh wow i didn't realise i'd even just left a golden egg on one of them lmao, i definitely had a chance even without the ruby pendant if i'd optimised them a bit better. also it's very nice that the trophy character also comes with legit great equipment (at least for this point in the game anyway. a free second ruby pendant among other things is super nice given how long it takes to grind the colosseum)

Waluigi

ZeroSignal posted...

Maybe Namco should've released it as Ace Combat >_>

technically they did... just not in the west lol

rwlh posted...

Maybe its the imagery of this virtual person singing to you, and the knowledge that you can never actually know her (or date her, if thats your thing), but theres this soft piano and plaintive singing and its reallykind of heartbreaking?

this is simultaneously exceptionally accurate and inaccurate since the game itself is about dating said virtual character in another life until tragedy strikes, reincarnating and never seeing her again till finding a stream. the song mirrors this for the most part as well. maybe bittersweet, maybe not

in the middle of the elf area now. i've been finally retooling everyone and i'm becoming very wary of the many skill-embedded accessories for similar reasons to above. i mean they're good but, yeah it's a problem. like the one that you need to use all of your pp just to give another character an extra action, the only way i see that working out is if you team comp around giving it to somebody who can also just give you extra pp back somehow, because i mean basically only healers can get that and that means pretty much stopping them functioning as healers...

getting more ap+pp for everyone is kind of my goal now that i've mostly evo'd everyone. after that... the wall of 4 to 5 unit upgrades awaits and looks daunting...

Zigzagoon posted...

I mean, for moral reasons I suppose some people you shouldn't forgive but like... more options for your army is never going to be a bad thing lol

there technically is one valid reason actually. it's generally pretty inconvenient to get that item that lets you customise the stat spreads for characters so you're just stuck with the ones the characters have by default which aren't always optimal. just getting a custom guy in the respective class from a fort can arguably be better gameplay-wise (and it also means not being saddled with characters you don't like for other reasons)

poor ace combat 1 (maybe it should've been nominated as that instead oops lol)

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES)
Virtua Cop 2 (Arcade)
Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)
Time Crisis (Arcade)

CoolCly posted...

Gryphon + Thief + Lex does make sense. The problem with flyers and Lex though is who is the leader? Lex gives ranged assist cover but the flyer wants to be leader to go fast

I stuck Travis with Alain's group because from the tutorial example and have left them there. It seems kinda nice because Travis only dodges perfectly for as long as he has PP, and Alain will block one shot and then heal himself so helps stretch out Travis's dodges. Gave him the silken scarf to improve his dodge even more so he's unlikely to ever take damage

incidentally i've just had travis lex but with clive+adel instead which is admittedly also been very awkward for "who leader". still it's kind of been my best unit (maybe at least partially because i threw stat boosts at travis and just let them oneshot half the maps) besides josef/hodrick/renault/auch who have been for better or worse a godsend for the early game, though the other ones have been catching up

my alain group was just alain lead and yahna/chloe/selvie support for a while which was obviously pretty reliable for securing wins though not terribly efficient with his mid damage, now i've just put him in a unit with misc people i'm trying to level lol and passed the others off to better team comps. he's not even in my first squad any more, it's the 8th now lol

made it to c rank now i guess and i'm glad i got all the squads up to 4 units each by now because oh god how else will i have room for all these class upgrades!!! lol, i bet you thought i'd be talking about something that actually fills more unit space

biggest issue i'm realising is that i've JUST reached the point where i actually have too many units to fit in any of the squads (even with a full 10 squads at 4 characters each) not sure if i'm gonna just boot all five of the generic recruits i got or just sideline everyone now

also i only just realised the dlc came with some pretty fun heraldry images. i think it's neat that every unit has an emblem representing the faction they came from, but i couldn't resist replacing all of them with this now
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/694f2055.png

bebr117 posted...

I think it's supposed to be funny?

rwlh posted...

its cute and bouncy

i believe the intended phrase is "cute and funny"

okay anyway i'm glad it was the first one downed. the only thing i'm disappointed about is that this didn't get "little girl music" anywhere on its writeup

more or less around the same point i suppose, i'd skipped a few things like the swamp before tacking the big objective so i'm getting on them now

I would say animal was the first to come to mind as far as phrases go, but i also had the mental image of a train crossing first, so... Train i guess

ZeroSignal posted...

Wario Land was the Virtual Boy's best game

well i wouldn't actually go that far, most popular and also legit great, sure, but vb's lineup was unusually packed for such a small library on such a bad system

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
Psychic Force (Arcade)
Shining Force CD (Sega CD)
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ZeroSignal posted...

Despite my best efforts while working overnight, I found nothing in regards to what it's on

https://konami.fandom.com/wiki/AnEarth_Fantasy_Stories

(turbografx cd is technically correct, but since it's also unlocalised due to its late release date, technically wrong. then again, it's more or less the same as saying a super famicom exclusive is a snes game so it's not really a crucial detail)

nominate Ultimate ___, Endless ___, Team ___, ___ Soft, ___ Action, ___ Battle, and ___ Men

actually wait a second i only just realised seiya monogatari got labeled as a pc game lol

it's pc *engine*!

Hello.

dinger | dinger box (ver. 5.0.0) (7:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTKoN9GBHs
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Furukawa Nob | Again and Again (4:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYiZOq-ZkrQ
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Hoshino Meguri -MegRi- | Tears of marionette (4:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-nqlENMbc
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Aitsuki Nakuru | Qulalim Stella (4:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPc0QPOHrCc
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Marumochi Tsukimi | Half of the Moon (tsuki no kataware) (3:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnJsimUUyE
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Yamamii | Utsuru Mainichi Finder (4:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zraqO_7Wg38
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NEQRE (PSY.parDRUXX) | Motva (5:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1uJhp-jyEA
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Choko | Hoshimeguri no Uta (2:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0TYfILjs9I
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RIM | Sweet & Red (Amakute Akakute) (4:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGLou4XSCc
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Kumogahata Yaya | nobleness (3:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7PMM7Ydmc
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Miyao Tiyu | MiyaoMiyaoSyndrome (3:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH387rq92G0
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Teten Maru | devilla6ue (2:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-d2FNT1V0
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Himekuma Ribon | ookami san to aka ribon chan (4:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BUc8NVzdY
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Amakawa Hano | kiraitonesu (3:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzXOMeCeS6I
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Mameko | Kirameku Otome (4:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_s1M62r7Q
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okbye i'm still in the middle of a mission in unicorn overlord lol

and yes i did just do 15 vtuber original songs (and also if you're wondering yes i just had these ready for the last 2 weeks lol)

You Don't Know Jack (PC)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (PC)
Seiya Monogatari: AnEarth Fantasy Stories (PC)
Virtual Boy Wario Land (VB)

seiya monogatari has so many makings of a masterpiece and i'm glad it isn't being shut out. siimilarly i'm glad ydkj appears to be holding its own too, i feel like dracula x is rather overrated given that it's a bad remake, even if it's still a decent castlevania. lastly, rooting for the vb's one and only shot at winning a match in any of these contests lol, especially since vb wario land is legit a top 2 wario land game imo