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I've been watching Tonbo, it's really good.

Hey, Lightning became a Louis Vuitton model, not Victoria's Secret.

Morph
Cyclops
Gambit
Psylocke

Chansey/Bellibolt
Fennekin/Froslass
Sprigatito/Omastar
Cyclizar/Sobble

Sorry again for letting the topic purge. I'm sure it's annoying for people who don't participate to have to put another topic on ignore to keep the board clear.

Anyway, next async is this Saturday, May 18th! Start sending yamls or otherwise let me know if you're interested.

I let the topic purge yet again, whoops. That's the trouble with something that only happens once a month!

Website : archipelago.gg
NOTE TO MODS: While some Archipelago games require emulation, they don't provide any of the hardware or information on how to get it. They're very careful not to break any laws so please don't delete this topic just for linking to them, thx

What is a randomizer? : Most games have linear progression. Item A unlocks Area B, and Area B has Item C to unlock Area D, and so on. In a randomizer, these items are shuffled, so you might find Item C in the first area and progress to Area D right away. How they work obviously varies from game to game, but most randomizers offer a unique progression path every time you play. Often this turns them into a kind of puzzle to complete. Randomizers use careful logic to ensure you can always beat the game, but it won't always be easy!

How can a randomizer be multiplayer? : With Archipelago, instead of a game's items being shuffled within itself, those items are shuffled between several different games. A Link to the Past player can find and send a Super Metroid player's super missiles, and then the Super Metroid player can find the LTTP player's hookshot, and so on. This turns the randomizer experience into one big puzzle split between ten or twenty or more games, and everyone needs to cooperate to complete it. This can be done with everyone playing at the same time, but Archipelago also allows for asynchronous play (or async), meaning your progress is saved and can be resumed later. Any items you send, other players receive when they start playing, and any items they send you will come when you resume.

LIST OF GAMES
Adventure
Blasphemous
Castlevania 64
Celeste 64
Dark Souls III
DLC Quest
Donkey Kong Country 3
Doom 1993
Doom II
Factorio
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Heretic
Hollow Knight
Hylics 2
Kingdom Hearts 2
Kirby's Dream Land 3
Landstalker
The Legend of Zelda
Lingo
A Link to the Past
Link's Awakening DX
Lufia II Ancient Cave
Mega Man Battle Network 3
Meritous
The Messenger
Minecraft
Muse Dash
Noita
Ocarina of Time
Overcooked 2
Pokemon Emerald
Pokemon Red and Blue
Raft
Risk of Rain 2
Rogue Legacy
Secret of Evermore
Shivers
A Short Hike
Slay the Spire
SMZ3 (LTTP and Super Metroid combined into one game)
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Starcraft 2
Stardew Valley
Subnautica
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Terraria
Timespinner
Tunic
Undertale
VVVVVV
Wargroove
The Witness
Yoshi's Island
Zillion
Zork Grand Inquisitor

How to Participate : If you're interested, that's great! Here's a quick breakdown of the steps you need to take, but feel free to ask any questions.

1: Choose your game from the list above. Remember, whatever you choose will be randomized, so you won't be playing it the usual way. Minecraft, for example, locks various crafting recipes behind checks for you to find or other players need to send you. You won't even be able to craft a stone pickaxe until you get Progressive Tools. In Starcraft II, you can't build marines until the unit is sent, etc. With that said, no one should be wary of joining. Archipelago allows forfeits if you're having trouble or not having any fun, so feel free to try it out!

2: Make sure you can get your game to work . https://archipelago.gg/tutorial/ has setup guides for the various games, and most of them require the Archipelago client too. I've played a few games and others here have played many others, so hopefully we can help if you're having trouble. If you run into big technical issues, though, you might need to go to the Archipelago discord server and ask there. There are lots of knowledgeable people there who will be happy to help with any questions!

3: Decide on your game's settings and either let me know or send me a yaml file. A yaml is the name for the file that contains your game's settings. Each game on Archipelago allows various setting changes (found here: https://archipelago.gg/games under the settings link by each game). You can either export the settings on the website and send me the file (preferably through discord) or simply let me know of your changes and, as long as there aren't a whole bunch of them, I can happily create a yaml for you. If this is your first time participating, I'd recommend just going with defaults, but some games have some real quality-of-life stuff available so make sure to take a look!

4: Once I get all the yamls and generate the multiworld, the async begins! At that point all you need to do is join in and start playing. We're pretty laid-back here, so while each async will start on a Saturday where hopefully people can play, it's fine if you can't start right away or if you can't play all the time. Most asyncs we've done have taken between a few days to a week, so there's no rush. This is meant to be fun and low-stress for everyone! All that we ask is that you communicate any major delays.

Lastly, we have a discord server that we use during these. It's helpful to talk in real-time sometimes, and it makes uploading yaml files super easy. People read what's posted here too, though, so joining it isn't mandatory. The link is below and it should never expire, but if you try to join and can't just let me know and I'll generate a new one.

https://discord.gg/s5aZFEKTHz

Cianwood Division
(38) Lapras/Alakazam v. Quaquaval/Tangela (7)
(38) Piplup/Liligant v. Monferno/Whiscash (8)
(29) Golurk/Incineroar v. Larvitar/Gigalith (17)
(28) Maractus/Delphox v. Grapploct/Charcadet (18)

Star of the Day: Piplup/Liligant
In a match between two Gen IV starters, voters resoundingly sided with Piplup. Sure, Monferno is the middle evo, but still!

Dud of the Day: Quaquaval/Tangela
Tangela fought so hard to survive as the top wild card only to get blown out in what was essentially a Gen I duel.

WhiteLens posted...

What do you mean? It's been in Save My Favorite Anime Series before! It's English title is Riddle Story of Devil if that jogs your memory.

I've only participated in less than half of those. Even if it was in one of those years, I probably didn't notice it unless it went really far.

Lapras/Alakazam
Monferno/Whiscash
Larvitar/Gigalith
Maractus/Delphox

It hurts to vote against Tangela

Damn, Sara is my favorite Trails character. Then again, I'm several games behind in the series at this point.

Whoops I also slacked on results

Ever Grande Division
(28) Kyogre/Torchic v. Thievul/Mudsdale (19)
(36) Sandile/Kingambit v. Paras/Nincada (11)
(32) Falinks/Weavile v. Primarina/Bewear (15)
(21) Walking Wake/Ariados v. Houndstone/Dhelmise (26)

Star of the Day: Houndstone/Dhelmise
We have our first upset! These two will give hope to the right side of the matches for the entire rest of the round.

Dud of the Day: Walking Wake/Ariados
Likewise, these two will instill fear in the left side of the matches. They are not invincible.

I still need to watch Sakura Trick someday. And I should try that Akuma no Riddle one too, I've never heard of it before!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Just preordered the MyGO Weiss Schwarz deck, I'm fucking cooked fellas it doesn't get more rock bottom than this.

I bought the Popipa BanG Dream deck back in the day (and a Love Live one to battle it) but when I finally played with someone, I thought the card game itself was kind of meh. Still a fun collectable though.

Morph
Cyclops
Gambit
Rogue

No

voltch posted...

Baccano

Trading for Monogatari auto

Can't get Madoka/Baccano

For 7th Time Loop

Beastars

Trading for 7th Time Loop auto can't get Kaguya

Kaguya.

Kaguya

Mushishi

I've been reading the manga for A Condition Called Love. Physical release, so only up to volume 7 (...though I did skim some later chapters on certain illicit websites because I wanted more and I'm weak). 10/10 romance, realistically flawed and wonderful. I feel like I could write an essay about all the nuances in this relationship.

I've already gushed about the story plenty while talking about the anime, though. Instead, I'll briefly talk about something else. This is the first time I've read a manga beyond what an ongoing anime already covered! It's a unique experience, wondering where the season might end and what plot points they might change or cut. There have already been a few skipped chapters in the anime adaptation, which kinda made me sad.

That brings me to another thing. For as much as I love the anime, it isnt as good as the manga. The art isn't anywhere near as detailed. Some of the stuff it skipped hurt the pacing a little (or were just such cute moments that it's, like, how do you skip those ahhhh). I'm turning into a source snob! I've been anime-only for so long, I don't know how I feel about that.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Wait, what's wrong with Layer! She's great.

If it's something that happens later don't tell me lol.

S2 spoilers only I hated how she tried to steal Tae from Popipa. Layer acted like a friend but then she didn't care that Tae was stressed about something, and then it ruined Popipa's show. At least Chu2 was open in her desire to steal Tae. Layer was nefarious about it.

Chu2, even at her absolute worst, still wasn't as bad as Layer. Then of course Rui and Rana are even worse than that.

I actually kind of like Chu2. She can be a fun little gremlin.

You should buy it! You can never have too much merch to support your favorite characters. (Pictured, my three Kasumi figures)

https://imgur.com/ySSNHMz

A lot of my favorite BanG Dream songs are covers. My absolute favorite is Afterglow's cover for "Asu no Yozora Shoukaihan", but they all have a few hits in their catalogue.

I'm easy to please, though. I skimmed through S2 again the other night and I was vibing to Happy Happy Party lol

The Pastel Pallettes lip-synching incident was a huge deal for them, though sadly only covered in the mobile game. Their appearances in the anime always felt like obligatory cameos to me, even moreso than the Afterglow and HHW focused episodes.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Also, Rock spent a majority of the season being a straight up Poochie, god I hope they do something more meaningful with her in this last season.

I like Rokka because she's a Kasumi mega-fan, just like me!

MartinFF7 posted...

oh I think I remember you mentioning that in the anime topic? I'll need to do a better job of keeping up with things there, unless you make a separate project topic then I'd tag that.

Don't worry, I'll tag you whenever I post thoughts about LotGH to make sure you don't miss them. I'm going to finally knuckle down and try to reach that first "season" stopping point this weekend.

MysteriousStan posted...

I'm the only one who nominated 7th Time Loop and it almost got cut by the randomizer so I'm shocked to see it make the Top 10. It's not the type of show I've dabbled too much into so I don't know how it compares to other shows like it but I thought it was very good!

I've watched all the villainess anime (which 7th Time Loop calls itself in the subtitle even though Rishe isn't much of a villainess). For me, 7th Time Loop is at the top of that subgenre! If you want another anime similar it, I'd recommend "Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion". It's an incomplete adaptation, but enjoyable regardless. It has a similar vibe to 7th Time Loop in a lot of ways.

MartinFF7 posted...

wowwww you gotta watch Baccano!!! How did that slip through the cracks when you were speedrunning all those one-cour series...

I only just recently downloaded it! It's on the list for that project I'm doing where I watch one anime per season for 100 seasons. I'll watch it once I get to 2007

Here's my ranking of the seven I've seen (so not DBZ, Haikyuu, or Baccano). I thought all of these were at least worth watching. Nothing I hate here. Only partway through S2 of Mushishi.

7th Time Loop
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Monogatari
Mushishi
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Beastars

Gogoat is cool and all, but I hate Regice

I'm sorry that I couldn't help MyGO more. I wasn't a huge fan of the spinoff but it was fun seeing a BanG Dream anime do well.

Growlithe/Tyrantrum
Sirfetch'd/Empoleon
Xatu/Donphan
Chatot/Magnemite

Beastars

Trading for 7th Time Loop auto, can't get Mushishi or Kaguya

Kaguya

Mushishi

All of Poppin Party and Afterglow are at the same schools, but all the other bands are split up (except Morfonica but they don't exist yet)

Sceptilesolar posted...

I'll give you that one for free, they're pretty bad.

But one of them is a girl in a bear costume!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Thought the first few episodes were fun but it dragged a lot the rest of the way through for me.

I figured you'd like the end of BanG Dream S1 more than the beginning! You talked about enjoying how Kasumi wasn't instantly great at guitar, that whole final arc is her struggling with the fact that she's holding the others back.

I hope you don't get instantly turned off by all the new characters in S2. I'm genuinely curious what a MyGO fan would think of the big dramatic arc later in the season. I hated it, but I wasn't a big MyGO fan either so hey. Also curious what a MyGO fan thinks of Hello Happy World. There's a good reason they were the only band not to get a cameo in MyGO, Kokoro would've cut through that drama like a knife through butter...

Also don't talk bad about Rimi! She's my fourth favorite BanG Dream character (Kasumi > Arisa > Rokka > Rimi).

Is the Order a Rabbit is the purest CGDCT out of all of those. The others all have prominent secondary genres (or, in the case of Lucky Star, a large portion of the show that subverts the cuteness aka Akira on Lucky Channel). I still say Kiniro Mosaic is cuter though.

Xeybozn posted...

In my experience manga are usually much worse in this regard. LN adaptations generally either cover fewer volumes or make huge cuts; either way, there's less repeated content before you get to new stuff. I agree about the overly simple writing simple style, though.

True, but manga have pretty pictures! I don't mind getting ripped off there as much.

In manga news, I read the first four volumes of the 7th Time Loop manga. I'm getting physical copies so that's as far as it goes for now... which sucks because it still hasn't caught up to the anime and I want to see what happens next! I know this series started as light novels, but the few LN I've read had super basic writing and I couldn't get into them. I'm sticking with the manga.

I'd say the anime was a bit better. It had a few extra scenes, like when Rishe got pranked with spicy wine but drank it anyway like a boss. The voice acting and animation added a lot too, especially to certain action scenes. Still, the manga is good. I like the cute little bonus comics at the end of each volume. Plus there's no guarantee 7th Time Loop will ever get another season, so at least I'll be able to continue Rishe's badass adventures in this format.

(Regarding my comment on LNs, I'm sure there are good ones out there. I've only read one crappy SCP one and the first Haruhi one where I mostly just felt ripped off for paying full book price for content the anime covered in three or so episodes.)

MartinFF7 posted...

on a cute-girls-doing-cute-things scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is Antarctica and 1 is, uh... Blood-C?... where does it rank

Antarctica is only like a 7 on the cute girls scale. You should watch something like Kiniro Mosaic, now that's a 10!

MyGO is more dramatic than Antarctica, but there are girls and they are cute... I'd give it a 6.

MyGO

Dragon Ball Z

Team A

Jynx 4 lyfe

Trading for 7th Time Loop auto, can't get Mushishi or Kaguya

Kaguya

Mushishi

Gambit
Psylocke
Rogue
Beast
Cyclops
Morph