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I_Abibde posted...

The game is a genuine Sa Ga tribute ... in that it has poor balance, mechanics that are never explained, and difficulty that waffles between easy enough to be boring and randomly snuffing your entire party in a single round.

i legit never figured out the one saga game i tried to play (minstrel song)

it felt like i was missing multiple things about how i was supposed to build my characters, where to go, and what pace i was improving at. everything was either trivially weak or impossible to defeat

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conjuration (preferably modded versions, but i'd even take vanilla)

i'm summonin the BOYS

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close your eyes (gsen)
crisscross (cross channel)
thank you for being born (umineko)
palm of a tiny hand (clannad)
hero (rance 10)
baroque (period)
after all (white album 2)
easiness at time abyssal ver (baldr sky)
re:call ()
that one song that plays at the end of wanko's route in majikoi
meiya(muvluv)
every single goddamn song in (symphonic rain)

i cry to visual novel music a lot too

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Adam_Savage posted...

is poe fun yet

poe's fun-ness has been pretty consistent

its really fun if you like its systems and it sucks ass if you dislike them

Joe_Biden posted...

what if the anime is political

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/419/592/211.png

maybe anime was political all along and we just really like to pretend the japanese are "above" it

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rimworld is definitely one of the more "storytelling" open ended games that've gotten popular in the last decade

but Dwarf Fortress is the king of that niche

and i actually have no clue if i should rec Dwarf Fortress to someone who wants new games or old games

because it is both weirdly taxing and incredibly forgiving, spec-wise

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starcraft 2 is also actually free now and has a cooperative PvE mode thats really fun

it's kind of like duoing a campaign map with both players having very distinct armies; one commander controls 5 heroes, another builds buildings that endlessly spawn zombies, one zerg one is super swarmy to the extreme but has few heavy units, etc

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try out Satisfactory or Factorio (the latter has a demo), they either click for you or they don't
Yakuza 0
One Step From Eden
Earth Defense Force 5
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Outer Wilds

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probably shop developments via selling pentanite, which is a rare ish monster drop early on or you can eventually find in the wild in higher level areas you aren't really meant to explore until third to fifth ruins

it's very much possible to sequence break in ryza 2 with luck or by avoiding monsters and trying to cheese gathering in high level areas, but i don't think that it should be expected

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these are the four locations it's dropped from

https://i.gyazo.com/09b548dff258dba1ac0cf178f4dd11b7.jpg

if you haven't completed the first ruins, the maiden's catacombs, you can't gather it directly

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tcaz2 posted...

I can't believe this is a sentence someone wrote
I don't want to believe it

the game explicitly wastes time to focus in on ryza's ass when you crawl through small spaces. i LOVE me some ass but not when it's just there to be like "behold... ass" while i'm trying to play the game

_stingers_ posted...

with the skill tree u can unlock seeds as early as u want tho. im 10 hours in and I have seeds. or am I missing something

you need to synthesize plant food to unlock it, and for that you need jade water

which doesnt drop until the third full ruins which is over halfway through the game. you can get it early via shop developments but not that much earlier, and it's more likely you'll realize you can make it a bit later than that (since it's never stated until after the quest that that's what unlocks the garden)

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i beat it the other day, 7.5/10 it was ok

story weak as usual (plot points feel way too sudden), characters good, a couple music tracks are 10/10 (boss theme and second battle theme in particular), battle system is neat and pretty but really simple and i prefer older atelier/mana khemia systems, camera focuses on ryza's ass a little too much, gear progression felt spiky and seeds were unlocked too late for me to realize how useful they were, and bos is competing for best atelier series character period

got me to go start lydie&suelle though which is a definite 9/10 at least

lolis in pretty dresses era atelier > thirst era atelier imo

Arti posted...

If I ever get through Firis maybe I'll start the Ryza games someday

i gave up midway through firis too honestly, i'll get back to it someday

sophie was amazing but trying to do open world made firis feel ehh

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Zeus posted...

Unless he's obtrusively pushing his politics in the work itself, what's the issue? Are you incapable of enjoying something unless you agree with all of the creator's personal and/or political views? Because that's kind of a shitty way to go through life.

i don't want to financially support anyone who thinks january 6th was a false flag orchestrated by antifa by giving them views or discussion when they use their position of renown to spread that misinformation

tax evasion's fine so i'll still read log horizon, supporting violent terrorists is a bit more serious than "personal and/or political views"

hell i'm still fine with Gate despite it being very clear pro-JSDF/Japanese imperial superiority propaganda

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mooreandrew58 posted...

The way i felt aboyt the story was it was more about the politics and gods than it was about the characters, they where secondary when it came to the plot.

i don't actually remember very much politics or gods happening between raithwall and pharos though

like some stuff happened in archades i guess but not very much

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12 was one of the better ones gameplay-wise, but holy shit the plot's pacing was possibly the worst in the series (that i've played, i havent played 1-3)

i legit don't remember what happens for 80% of the game because it's utterly unimportant

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DeltaBladeX posted...

I just finished that Uzaki-chan anime

I want more

i was gonna watch it sometime this season but then the mangaka turned out to be a trumper conspiracist somehow

right wing japan is wild

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there's always super robot wars games if yall want srpgs

not for everyone and the formula is kinda different (there's more aiming for special conditions to activate certain attacks), but it does feel similar in a lot of aspects

moon dwellers has a SEA english release on PS3/PS4, and X and V (two pretty recent ones) are on steam in english but region locked

plus there's like ten fan translated ones

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fates and awakening were both excellent games to play on the toilet

i don't think they're necessarily good fire emblem games but i had fun mindlessly grinding max stats in the endgame for twenty minutes a day over a few years

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https://i.gyazo.com/a81a34f79ab15ef588542f97c75c34d3.jpg

after about 5 hours after beating the final boss, i'm finally running a gem duplication scam

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beat ryza 2

bos has almost been confirmed as a playable character for 3 as he brings it up explicitly, and bos' feelings for kilo seem to legitimately be pure respect vs his feelings for ryza being ambiguously romantic. the ship is at port and ready to sail

7.5/10 good but not great atelier, the changes to the battle system makes it a ton simpler but there's also no real need to constantly try to improve yourself either. alchemy's better than it's ever been though. ryza 1's system plus the ability to upgrade/sidegrade any node on a limited basis makes things pretty interesting

main plot sucks as is usual for atelier but the characters are still good. also the pacing as always is fucky as hell. end of the game felt a lot more sudden than ryza 1

the new exploration shtick is being amazing and horrible. you have to do 5 specific things before you can begin tapping lights strewn around a zone, and it's not always clear exactly what you need to do (I got stuck for a few hours because i had to break like 3 specific jars in a deep part of the map to harvest a specific material that seemed to just be there for the sake of the exploration objectives. you can't even begin collecting the lights until after that, then you have to explore the entire 3-stage zone all over again to collect them all, and THEN you have to do a dumb matching keywords thing to fill out a journal

the actual lore contained in these segments is really good, and you get to see conversations between recurring historic characters, but the whole process feels so sloooooooooow

anyways patricia best girl and bos best dude. his character development over 1 and 2 are easily the best parts of both games

deoxxys posted...

Apparently Redo healer is pretty messed up, which is airing this season. It even has a uncensored version because apparently in the regular broadcast theres a 50 sec clip of the camera panning across a fireplace.

it's pure revenge porn, to the extreme, to the point where i just have no idea how it even got an anime

i've only read a single one that's worse in that respect

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chinese stuff often hinges on how interesting you find cultivation, i feel like

i recently played 2 games that were entirely centered around it so i have some background interest in it i guess

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BlackScythe0 posted...

If you're looking at Chinese novels Long Live Summons is probably my favorite one, the MC is op as fuck and just trolls everyone. Doulou Dalu is good, the ending was kinda shitty though. Release that Witch was solid. Cultivation Chat Group is an enjoyable read as well.

started "I'm An Evil God" recently and it's absolutely fantastic

main character is a sassy little bastard who powers up off of people feeling intense emotions about him, which is usually anger at being memed on

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been playing ryza 2

if ryza x bos and playable bos doesn't happen by the end of series i'm gonna be mad

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RepealThe19th posted...

What kind of JRPG character is named Patty lmao

how does patty get to you whilst judith or flynn don't

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patty is the funnest character in the game to play by far

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g senjou no maou left me motionlessly staring at the ceiling for six hours after it ended, so probably that one

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yeah warren is pathetic and performative right now

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good

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Raka_Putra posted...

Is Order of the Phoenix the fifth Harry Potter book when Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them exist?

do you consider those two to be "mainline" (as specified in the first post) though

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from my memories alone, i'd probably agree for Harry Potter

my memories are super vague at this point though

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Definitely give the whole album a listen.

dude i only listen to weeaboo japanese shit i cant manage literally an entire album

the best i've managed was kanye's lights song which- i have to admit- was fuckin sick

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i still dunno who he is but as a drunk white person i feel like i have to respect him

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

all of these differ from each other in significant ways therefore they are each separate entries by the ridiculous logic being employed in this topic

blue and red are analogous arguably

green arguably isn't

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B/W were great but B/W2 was my favorite by quite a bit. The PWT was the hypest thing.

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pyresword posted...

Tales of Symphonia is the 5th Tales game. Not really sure that one quite makes it either though.

agree, the only metric i can see anyone liking symphonia the most by is nostalgia

it was very good, but other games still did everything better depending on what you were looking for

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it was some good, but just mostly in multiplayer

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earth defense force 5 is god damn amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWG2X4jbzE

every game just gets more and more ridiculous

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it's on the apple store too, but yeah

pretty sure when holoen played they were playing on emulator too

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dragon504 posted...

Can you play Priconne the same was as gbf, via browser?

naw, and the game is 1000x better for it; being held back by browser limitations is exactly why gbf is so laggy and clunky and obtuse. priconne's UI is a million times more user friendly and polished than gbf's

jp has a PC app version but it seems like en doesn't (yet?)

Revelation34 posted...

I doubt anything is as bad as Crestoria's grinding. The real way to power up characters is by doing the events over and over again because the raid drop rates are pure shit.

you can actually play gbf for like 10+ hours a day, and occasionally the game pretty much expects you to. gbf is on a whole different level of mobile game

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Yeah gbf's grind has been even more gross over the years. I have to spend ten fuckin hours on gw prelims!!!

Meanwhile priconne's gw-equivalent is spend your daily stamina as usual, then fight at 3-6 bosses on a timer of 90s each. It's like I died and went to gbf heaven.

And the production values are ridiculous.

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@dragon504 after years of super casually playing priconne, i'm now playing eng priconne

it's so much better of an experience than gbf, if you ever get burnt out you can just do all your dailies and spend al stamina optimally in like 5 minutes

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Joe_Biden posted...

people being interested or not does not make a topic disruptive or not

yes it does

the goal of a forum is for different people to communicate, trying to force a conversation noone but you wants to have is absolutely disruptive to the overall forum

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ReturnOfFa posted...

I agree. Every time I turn on an episode, I laugh out loud for nearly the whole 11 minutes.

i find him either super cringe or incredibly funny

i get why he's doing it so it's not like i dislike him, but some of the situations he manufactures are just painful to watch for me

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less than a month until rance quest (8) releases....

finally.......................

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_TqMOaL_XQ

peak comedy

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went ahead and watched it earlier and you can see a corner of the screen he's looking at

it's not explicit but its definitely the same thing lmao

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i have no idea where you're getting that slippery slope from

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Soup_or_Science posted...

So which one do I want to play, jesus christ?

baldr sky, it was life changing for me

Lokarin posted...

I did a VN speedrun, everyone downvoted it

baldr sky has combo videos which are infinitely cooler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdYtRybWhk

dragon504 posted...

I quite liked the main Grisaia trilogy.

yuuji is still a top 5 VN protag for me

DeltaBladeX posted...

Have you played A Sky Full of Stars yet?

got it via that bundle recently but the talk about censoring out stuff has made me kinda pass on actually reading it for now, will eventually though. it's less neutered than if my heart had wings, at least

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FlRE

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Monopoman posted...

I think 99% of all VN players like Anime shit, this genre is probably a big time bad thing if they don't.

theres some people who claim to like vns but all theyve consumed is like ace attorney and 999

those are great and all but they can't handle stuff like... nene's entire route... which is centered around her being ultra horny due to magical influences.......

SpeedDemon20 posted...

I hear good things about Clannad, but that is too much money.

it definitely is

its a price tag you can justify in retrospect, but not up front

COUGH

i do think little busters is a lot more approachable (also it was $20 on a steam sale recently), but clannad is a much more timeless experience

summer pockets is also as good as other key stuff

https://store.steampowered.com/app/897220/Summer_Pockets/

check out for sales or whatever gets you to try one of them, if tragic plots attract you

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baldr sky is the best one available in english currently and for probably the near future

https://store.steampowered.com/app/741140/Baldr_Sky/

a near 2nd is muvluv, but it has a lengthy buildup before it becomes stellar, and Alternative is a god-tier experience

https://store.steampowered.com/app/802880/MuvLuv/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/802890/MuvLuv_Alternative/

dies irae and g senjou are both spectacular, but their monetization methods are kind of wack (dies irae sells routes 1+3 as a pack, then routes 2+4) (g senjou will let you buy the game for half price if you're willing to go without voices, which i really don't recommend)
but hey, dies irae has a pretty lengthy demo (covers up to route split), so it's kinda worth trying out. and g senjou was my favorite out of approximately a hundred visual novels for the better part of a decade

https://store.steampowered.com/app/644540/Dies_irae_Amantes_amentes/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/377670/Gsenjou_no_Maou__The_Devil_on_GString/

do you like crying? clannad. i'm not even gonna explain further. it's just great ok and everyone at least knows of the anime at this point

https://store.steampowered.com/app/324160/CLANNAD/

want something more niche but universally acclaimed? i'm dumping here

https://store.steampowered.com/app/888790/Sabbat_of_the_Witch/ (like anime shit? please play this jus trust me PLEASE then also play senren banka and riddle joker)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/812560/CROSSCHANNEL_Steam_Edition/ (TL questionable, but it's a goddamn classic)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/635940/Little_Busters_English_Edition/ (similar vein to clannad but its friendship instead of family)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1460490/Majikoi_Love_Me_Seriously/ (its out on other platforms already so steam should be soon.... 10/10 comedy)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/648100/Raging_Loop/ (do you like werewolf mafia, or the zero escape series? this is perfect for you)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/438130/Root_Double_Before_Crime__After_Days_Xtend_Edition/ (similar feel to zero escape series, but no game, just escape)

these are all the god tiers i can think of, if you want something more specific @ me

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