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| Topic | Quinton Ranks 105 Battle Themes + 104 Overworld Themes |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 3:59:39 PM #159 | |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 3:56:39 PM #253 | Aw yeah Loewe beated The fact that he gets so many turns is kind of insane, but he wasn't too bad, all things considered. Final dungeon time! I suppose I'll go with Estelle/Joshua/Kloe/Zin since that was my final party the first time through, and it worked out well for me, so stick with what works, I say! --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 2:35:39 PM #422 | 64. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call (Janus5k)  A game centered around Final Fantasy music? You had me at "Hello!" I'm a big fan of the series and its music, so even though I'm not a rhythm game guy, I took the plunge. The first game was kind of limited, with just three songs apiece from each mainline game and a couple extras, and the characters were mostly the lead protagonists from each game (which was fine with me because the main character is almost always the best character). I still had a lot of fun with it though. Curtain Call expanded both the roster and song selection (321 total, counting DLC), even going outside of Final Fantasy for some of the DLC songs, which was neat. They even added mission maps, where you could go through various courses with a different selection of songs each time at varying difficulties depending on the level of your party. It was fun going through them not knowing what song you were going to get next, like setting up a randomized playlist of music. Theatrhythm has two different types of songs: Battle themes (which are self-explanatory) and Field themes, which can be anything from world map music to airship themes to dungeon themes. The battle themes are set up like a traditional battle with four characters on the screen, and you go through an array of classic enemies, including some of Final Fantasy's most legendary bosses, like Safer Sephiroth. The field themes are just one character strolling through a given area, and another character takes their places if you mess up too much because they'll "fall down." The field themes are generally easier. I can do perfect runs on field themes fairly regularly, even at higher difficulties. Battle themes can be rough for me, especially at the Ultimate difficulty. If I've played a lot of this game in a short span of time, my hand is usually sore from all the tapping and swiping I've done, but it's a lot of fun. Some people (Quinton first and foremost among them) can't get past Theatrhythm's art style, and I don't totally blame them. It's not great. It's still really cool to get to have a bunch of series staples all gathered together in one place and reimagined. Plus, you can assemble your dream RPG parties (provided you don't like crappy characters), and play through all your favorite songs again (assuming your taste isn't terrible). Heck, you can even have two different versions of Cloud or Yuna on the same team! I just wish all these Final Fantasy crossover games would stop using Ramza's worst design (his Chapter 1 look with the ponytail). The other two are way better! Bonus Question: What is your favorite Final Fantasy song? --- |
| Topic | How do you deal w/ the death of someone you had a complicated relationship with? |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 2:01:54 PM #16 | There's no right way to grieve or deal with death. As others have said, just let yourself feel what you feel, and don't guilt yourself into thinking you should feel differently than you do. I had a good relationship with my grandfather as a kid, but I didn't see him much after I grew up. When he died, I actually felt a little guilty that I didn't cry because I thought I was supposed to and should have. There are always things you feel like you wish you had done differently, but don't let them weigh you down. Learn from them and let them impact the relationships you still have with those around you. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 10:23:42 AM #251 | There's a super easy way to stam-kill The Fear. Let some of your food go rotten, and throw it out on the ground. Whenever his stamina drains low from using his camo, he'll go straight for the rotten food. He'll start puking his guts out and his stamina will go even lower, letting you get a super easy shot on him. Have two or three ready just in case you can't finish him off the first time because he'll go for the rotten food every single time over anything else. I mean, I know you already did it, but just for future reference or for anyone else who wants to use that info...! The End was the one I always had a problem stam-killing because of his stupid photosynthesis if you lost track of him and couldn't stop it. xp1337 posted... Ideally you traded the Carnelia books for Estelle's weapon for the added power but it's no big deal if you didn't. I actually did do that. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 2:24:04 AM #246 | Oh man, I'm just now realizing that I probably have to win that fight against Loewe in order to get max BP in Trails FC, don't I? ...I'll wait and tackle that one tomorrow. --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/11/18 12:07:35 AM #418 | 65. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Dragon66116)  This is the game I beat for the first time most recently. I just finished it a month or two ago, and it's definitely my favorite of the three mainline Layton games I've played thus far. I mentioned this in the FFXIII-2 writeup, but I really like time travel plots. Of course, Layton plots are never what they appear to be, but I still enjoyed the premise here. Plus, it managed to throw a swerve at me with the ending that I totally wasn't anticipating at all, and it made it that much more effective for me. You also get to see a side of Layton that you don't get in the first two games, where he's essentially a Sherlockian Ubermensch who always has all the right answers and never makes a mistake. Unwound Future does a lot to humanize him for me, especially with his relationship with Claire. All Professor Layton games are essentially the same in terms of gameplay. The majority of the game is spent solving literally hundreds of puzzles as you go from place to place advancing the plot. Most of the characters are glorified puzzle dispensers, although there are a few each game that are pretty charming despite being so one-dimensional. Unwound Future has a pretty good cast though out of the characters who actually do matter to the plot, which helps it a lot. Layton games can start to feel monotonous after a while, and it can bog down the experience if you get stuck on a puzzle. I imagine everyone has a particular type of puzzle they struggle with, and for me, it's the geometry puzzles. I'm just no good at them, which I suppose makes sense since it was my least favorite math subject in school. I personally prefer the logic puzzles, where they give you some clues and you have to make a deduction from them, such as figuring out which sibling is the oldest or which person entered the room last or what have you. Unwound Future in particular has a lot of charm to it. Future London is a really neat setting, and I had a lot of fun trying to figure out what the particulars of the mystery were (and generally being dead wrong as I am wont to be with games like this). Layton games are weird in that you can usually guess what the "solution" will be from the start, but how they get from point A to point B is usually a wild and crazy ride. It's sometimes a little too crazy for my tastes, and it feels like the proposed supernatural solution that the game goes out of its way to deny would make more sense than the answer they actually give you. It's a lot of fun in the moment though, even if you look back in hindsight and wonder what the heck just happened. Unwound Future found a good balance between sounding reasonable and being insane though, as strange as that is to say. Either way, it was definitely a good experience. Bonus Question: What is your favorite Professor Layton game? That's it for tonight. We should finish off the current tier tomorrow! --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 11:53:50 PM #245 | I'll forgive a lot of things for the sake of top notch presentation (it's one of FFVIII's greatest strengths), and Kingdom Hearts usually nails that part of the equation. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 10:56:07 PM #243 | sounds like a good friend imhotbqh --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 10:54:34 PM #241 | Frasier quote of the day: Frasier: "Niles, was that Natalie Spence I just saw you talking with?" Niles: "As a matter of fact, it was. I'd been admiring her all evening, so I steeled myself and asked her if she might be free next week." Frasier: "And?" Niles: "Well, her lips said, 'No,' but her eyes said, 'Read my lips.'" Niles is the best --- |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 10:06:39 PM #455 | but the good news is once I'm done I won't have to play it again for a long time --- |
| Topic | KP'S Top 40 Characters - Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 10:02:03 PM #255 | one of these days I'll try playing Rising again --- |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:58:10 PM #453 | maybe part of it is starting with a case I've never been super fond of and I'll never be able to come around on for various reasons c'mon 3-4 --- |
| Topic | What video game series has the most convoluted plot? |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:56:23 PM #31 | I don't find Nier to be that complex. I guess it is if you combine it with Drakengard. --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:55:22 PM #107 | KamikazePotato posted... How about we have a final that isn't just Waifu vs Waifu LOL this guy --- |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:54:42 PM #451 | also I was looking at my times and 3-4, 3-1, and 1-1 combined are shorter than E1-4, so I can hopefully pick up a little momentum once I finish here although E1-4 is basically a middle of the road case in terms of length (about 5 hours) so this is going to take me a long time either way --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:52:09 PM #103 | BlueCrystalTear posted... We just need to kill the cat already. best way to do that is to put all your efforts behind Yukiko and Makoto in that order --- |
| Topic | What video game series has the most convoluted plot? |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:51:22 PM #29 | Yeah, I don't think KH is necessarily hard to keep up with if you play all the games. It's not hard to explain. The explanation just sounds absurd. Same with MGS. Zero Escape is convoluted because of all the different timelines across three games, and it can be hard to keep straight what happens on which timeline. --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 9:44:22 PM #99 | Team P4 should push Yukiko so we can get a Yukiko/Makoto final imhotbqh --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 8:42:34 PM #87 | |
| Topic | What video game series has the most convoluted plot? |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 8:18:17 PM #24 | Paratroopa1 posted... Zero Escape Yeah, this is a really good answer. --- |
| Topic | Quinton Ranks 105 Battle Themes + 104 Overworld Themes |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 7:26:12 PM #155 | I think we've still got a way to fall. --- |
| Topic | What video game series has the most convoluted plot? |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 7:24:28 PM #20 | KH is pretty simple really --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 7:23:47 PM #59 | |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 7:21:37 PM #450 | also I guess I've never left Defendant Lobby #1 at the beginning of End because I got so much dialogue I didn't recognize, including the above line --- |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 6:41:22 PM #449 | "Miles Edgeworth, prepare me some change." - Franziska, about the vending machine not sure why but that line cracked me up I'm finally on E1-4 End --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 6:27:56 PM #43 | Leafeon13N posted... For Morgana? Sure. --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 6:23:34 PM #39 | Chie Satonaka. Trading for Yukiko again. --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 6:01:12 PM #416 | 66. Super Smash Bros. (Anagram)  The original Super Smash Bros. commercial might still be the single greatest piece of video gaming propaganda ever produced, and it's not like the game even needed it. The concept alone was enough to make everyone who grew up on Nintendo want it. I feel like I should say it was obvious that this would succeed, but maybe it wasn't considering other companies have tried similar ventures and failed. It actually had to be a good game instead of just a good idea, and thankfully, it was. Now I have no intention of discussion whether Smash Bros. is a fighting game or not. Much like arguing whether or not Zelda is an RPG, I can't even pretend to care about how a game like this is classified. As a fighting game fanboy, I love the fact that Smash Bros. is similar and yet radically different from your traditional fighter. I can have a blast either way. That being said, I only ever do 4 person fights in Smash (even if we have to use CPUs) with items on. I'm playing this because I want crazy chaos and because it's something I don't have to take seriously. I just want to laugh the whole time whenever I turn on Smash Bros. I'm also one of those weirdos who prefers Time to Stock, as well as one of those weirdos who's done the 99 minute fight and the 99 stock fight. Yeah, I have problems. Strangely enough, I never actually owned the original Super Smash Bros. I'd just rent it from Blockbuster for five days, play a ton of it, and then take it back until the urge to play it again arose, and so the cycle would begin anew. Even the single-player content can be pretty fun, whether it's the Arcade mode climaxing with the fight against Master Hand, Board the Platforms, or Break the Targets. I'm pretty sure I beat them all with every character, although I remember Yoshi's version of Break the Targets to be particularly tough, partly due to the fact that he doesn't have an Up-B to give him an extra jump. Speaking of jumps, Link's jump was pretty pathetic in the original game. If you were fighting on the Great Fox and you were on the bottom part, Link literally couldn't get back to the top without using his Up-B. The real appeal of the game was multiplayer though, of course. My favorite Smash Bros. characters across all games are Kirby and Luigi. I love Kirby's Copy powers. There was just something thrilling about seeing Kirby transform into Nintendo characters and use their abilities. His throws were the best, too, and he's got all those extra jumps. Yeah, he's lightweight, but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for me. Luigi was kind of an all-or-nothing type character with his Jump Punch and his Green Missile, but I liked the fact that they were risky to use. My favorite stage in the original is probably Hyrule Castle. It looks really cool and seeing your friend get blown away by a tornado was always funny. Favorite items are definite the Hammer (watching all your friends and even the CPU scatter in all directions as soon as you pick it up is great) and the Home Run Bat. I got so proficient with one-shotting with the Home Run Bat that my friends would literally just throw it off the side if they got to it first to prevent me from getting it instead of trying to use it themselves. Nearly all of my friends are bad at fighters though, so I wouldn't actually consider myself to be great at Smash Bros. I just never had legit competition, but I was okay with that. Winning never got old, and Smash was just for fun anyway. Bonus Question: What is your favorite game that you never owned? --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:41:01 PM #27 | JONALEON1 posted... Chie I'll take this for Yukiko. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:36:13 PM #240 | Yeah, I imagine a lot of people have moved on from the series for one reason or another over the last 12 years, but I'm still a big fan. The trailers so far have looked pretty great. --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:33:58 PM #22 | which offer are you taking --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:27:58 PM #18 | |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:27:34 PM #238 | nice there's a topic about the new KH3 trailers *reads topic* *sees usual suspects dumping all over it* I don't understand this need to let people who are excited about the game know that you're not interested in it --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 43 |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 5:21:25 PM #14 | |
| Topic | Kingdom Hearts III trailers from D23 Japan |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 8:37:25 AM #7 | so now you get multiple partners per world and you don't have to trade out Donald or Goofy to have them? excellent --- |
| Topic | It's been 10 years since the CE user burned down a church |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 1:00:42 AM #20 | the worst person of all is the one who feels the need to make an unnecessary correction --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 12:28:51 AM #413 | 67. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Axl_Rose_85)  Thankfully, during the dark period after Apollo Justice when the future of the series remained uncertain before Dual Destinies was announced, we were not bereft of Ace Attorney entirely. We were given a couple of spinoff games starring Miles Edgeworth to tide us over. They were self-contained and had no real impact on the main canon of the series since they were set in that window of time after the third game but before any of the events of the fourth game occurred. Eventually, the second Edgeworth game would become the missing link that Ace Attorney 5 had been at the time since it still hasn't been localized and may never be, but more on that later. The point is that I was glad to have anything at this point since it gave me hope that there would be more in the future, and I've made it a policy to buy just about everything Ace Attorney there is to make sure we keep getting more. It's one of the few series I make a point to support that way. Anyway, Ace Attorney Investigations was a different type of game than the mainline series besides just playing as a prosecutor instead of a defense attorney. It wasn't just a point and click game, but now there were actual sprites and the ability to physically move Edgeworth around the crime scene. It was a cool change of pace, but with the first game, it feels like they didn't quite know what all they wanted to do with this format yet. I've often said that AAI1 is the prototype and AAI2 is the finished product. That's not to say AAI1 is a bad game. I enjoy it a lot, and I was actually playing it today, in fact! It never reaches the lows Apollo Justice did, but at the same time, it never reaches the highs of the original trilogy either. It's somewhere in between. Playing as Edgeworth is great (I'm convinced the reason this game exists at all is because how much people loved his playable segment in 3-5), although honestly, he's a little too smart compared to Phoenix or Apollo. He sometimes drops big hints himself about what he knows the contradiction is, which is usually reserved for your partner. Ace Attorney Investigations does introduce some really good new characters, most notably Kay Faraday (because everyone needs an energetic female assistant, even Edgeworth!) and Agent Lang to play the rival role that Edgeworth himself would normally occupy. It also makes a boatload of references to the other games and brings back several characters as cameos, so it can give you a nostalgia rush as you play, provided the returning character isn't terrible (like, say, Mike Meekins). Most of the cases are good but not great. The finale has moments when it borders on greatness, but it really overstays its welcome and hurts itself in the long run. Many people are fond of the flashback case, but I have several issues with it that I won't elaborate on here for the sake of space and spoilers. The third case is really cool, largely because I love the amusement park setting and the Little Thief simulation of the Haunted House is fantastic (Oh right, Kay has a special gadget called Little Thief that enables her to recreate crime scenes and events to help the investigation along, which is a pretty neat gimmick). The first two cases have their moments, but they're largely nothing special. I will say that Ace Attorney Investigations might have my favorite soundtrack in the series though. The music here is excellent. It feels like the series' first attempt at a full-scale soundtrack, and they did a really good job with it. Bonus Question: Which Ace Attorney game has your favorite soundtrack? --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 12:15:12 AM #412 | Considering Very Easy gives you access to a gun literally called the EZ Gun (a tranq gun with an unbreakable silencer, laser sight, and infinite ammo which also gives Snake an instant 80% camo index, faster stamina recovery, and eliminates the noise of his footsteps), it actually is THAT much easier! --- |
| Topic | KP'S Top 40 Characters - Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series |
| LeonhartFour 02/10/18 12:04:15 AM #244 | Phoenix > Edgeworth > Maya > Godot > Apollo All pretty darn great though. --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 11:29:04 PM #410 | The cooldown in MGS3 takes forever, but it also doesn't have endless reinforcements like MGS2 does, so you can theoretically just get rid of the alert by killing or KOing everyone. Plus, you can make the enemy weaker by destroying their weapon and food supplies. All the different ways that MGS3 gives you to deal with enemies is one of the most fun things about it. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 11:26:47 PM #237 | oh hey there's a neat little "interesting with the benefit of hindsight" tidbit with the fake maid name Joshua uses --- |
| Topic | Quinton Ranks 105 Battle Themes + 104 Overworld Themes |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 11:24:51 PM #154 | I can't say goodbye to yesterday though. --- |
| Topic | Ace Attorney Topic Part 2: The Continuation (Spoilers for AA1-6, AAI1-2) |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 7:46:28 PM #448 | |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Frasier Suit Gundam Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 7:32:09 PM #233 | Eh, I don't particularly like the romance angle in FC either. --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 7:08:13 PM #407 | Yeah, I haven't played the original MGS1 in like 15+ years so I'm probably just crossing wires with Twin Snakes there. --- |
| Topic | KP'S Top 40 Characters - Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 6:50:13 PM #234 | KamikazePotato posted... He's dressed to impress but also has an extremely back-spiked anime haircut that must consume a bottle of hair gel every morning to get right. Phoenix insists that his hair is naturally that way! also Phoenix too low --- |
| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 6:33:07 PM #405 | I'm terrible at MGS stealth, too might be why I like MGS3 so much because you can Rambo your way out of getting spotted when it was literally a death sentence in the first two games if you weren't fast enough to find a hiding spot --- |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 42 *NEW RULES* |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 6:19:23 PM #109 | |
| Topic | ~*Save My Persona Character*~ Round 42 *NEW RULES* |
| LeonhartFour 02/09/18 5:30:19 PM #96 | come on Elizabeth Megidolaon for everyone --- |
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