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rwlh posted...

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Fragile Dreams ~ Farewell Ruins of the Moon - Bother

I am bothered by this placement

I liked Cronus and the 2 SANABI songs but definitely nothing from the "great" tier for me yet.

Tag. Don't have anything immediately but I'll come up with something

pyresword posted...

Tag. Just hoping I don't get last which is a real possibility for one of my nominations

Ok crisis averted, though given the comments you made on the bottom five I still don't feel particularly safe.

I don't have Welt to actually test it but it always seemed to me like Welt/Ratio would be a strong combination. Is that wrong?

Tag. Just hoping I don't get last which is a real possibility for one of my nominations

I am not a believer in the Wind set on Pela, but I'm also intentionally building offense on mine (which for the record I would only recommend at E6). If you aren't trying to focus on her own damage then 4 piece wind is probably best, and even if you are I'm not completely sure that the math would point you to a different set.

trdl23 posted...

Didn't try Kaijudo because I heard it's just Duel Masters again.

This is accurate. The cards are different, but there's only a handful of small differences in the rules and you wouldn't really expect people to have strongly differing opinions of the two games.

Duel Masters has a better mana system than MTG and it's not close. Still pissed at Wizards for mismanaging that game and it's successor into the ground in the West. Basically any card can also be played as a land and that led to some really interesting early game decision points based on what card you want to "throw away", in addition to significantly reducing the number of non-games. (Though I also think that problem is overstated by people complaining about the land system tbh, at least the way current Magic design works).

In principle Duel Masters mechanics allowed for cards to be played for 0 or 2 mana but all the English cards released just had a 1 in that slot. Not sure about current Japanese DM cards where the game is still ongoing.

Fun fact one of the lead designers for Lorcana (Ryan Miller) previously worked on Kaijudo (the failed successor to Duel Masters) and very obviously loved that game. Would not surprise me at all if it was a major inspiration for Lorcana based on that, though I don't know much about Lorcana mechanics.

The Wandering Emperor

I level all my characters I use to 80, but for traces I'm usually only maxing out 1 or 2 if even that many.

It's a lot more reasonable in higher powered formats I think honestly. Since it's not doing any one busted thing, when the overall power level gets high enough it's just a fair card with a good rate.

Honestly the most obnoxiously pushed card in Standard recently for me was Fable of the Mirror Breaker. Why does that card just do everything I hate it.

Danganronpa is definitely packed with anime tropes but I don't really agree with the complaints about gameplay. I liked it a lot more than at least the first Ace Attorney from that standpoint. (haven't played later Ace Attorney games)

I guess on a fundamental level I view all of these games as "tolerating the gameplay to get to the story" and would noticeably prefer them as pure visual novels in all cases. I didn't find Danganronpa's gameplay any harder to tolerate than the others but maybe I would feel differently if I cared about the gameplay at all to begin with.

I will say that if I found the headline myself, I would have had the context that the headline was on ESPN and therefore likely relevant to sports, and I think I'd have been a lot more likely to interpret the message correctly.

Voted the 2nd option but my real first reaction was something like "ok what the hell does this actually mean?"

Is the main story continuing in version 2.1? I'd assumed it was going to be 2.2 same as with version 1, but it also seems unlikely they'd release Acheron with that moveset in 2.1 otherwise when the story seems to be keeping the player in the dark as far as her powers/abilities go.

(referring to leak posts from the previous page I didn't click the bar in the above post)

The Tolarian Community College Youtube channel

trdl23 posted...

The only good thing about it is that it was so widely repudiated in both PR and sales that it actually made Hasbro of the Coast take an L

Still too high imho but I suppose I can see your point. It also seemed like people for whom money isn't an issue enjoyed the product at least >.>

Dryad Arbor

MTG 30th Anniversary Edition

This MoC seems quite rude to me since I basically have no Fire, Wind or Lightning characters that can really function as a main DPS. Will probably have to lean on mono-quantum with Silver Wolf, but that team has felt a bit on the sketchy side when you need Qingque (very skill point hungry) as your DPS and are also wanting to use skill with Silver Wolf on multiple enemies. Perhaps waiting for Sparkle before trying to go for all 36 stars is the right call.

Thank god finally got Bronya from the standard banner >.>

Finally got around to the Black Swan companion quest.

Not one of the better companion quests but it does have what I assume to be Sparkle's theme music which is a low-key banger.

I guess in theory we could also get like an Abundance/Preservation/Harmony unit that is actually a DPS which might want that planar set; it's just that we haven't seen anything really close to that yet I don't think.

Yeah the first one seems designed for Pure Fiction and seems like an immediate add to my Herta if nothing else. Maybe Himeko also? (edit: It's probably also good for the 5-star Eruditions I don't own of course)

Second one is interesting at least but I don't know how I feel about having to switch sets a bunch if I'm using a new team. Haven't used the Penacony set for the same reason. Also I don't know if the set is even good enough? Some comps that come to mind are Blade/Jingliu and Topaz/Ratio but I'm not convinced this is even better than what they're already using. Maybe if there's ever Nihility units which want to be built as a crit DPS? (I seem to remember people saying Archeron might be this...)

Junpei is a top 2 character in the series for me and it frustrates me that he doesn't seem to be popular. (He's probably #2 behind Futaba but they are very close)

I mean I sort of get it since he's intentionally written to be personally unlikeable at times but I guess I wish that didn't seem to matter to people so much. Maybe it's just that if the character arc doesn't land for any particular player, a likeable character has something to fall back on but an unlikeable one doesn't.

I have no idea on a full ranking but Sigma/Diana > Carlos > Phi >>> everyone else

I liked Junpei and Akane a lot in the other games but not really here.

I like Chess Simp and also for more serious content I like agadmator, Eric Rosen, Chess Vibes, and whatever GM Igor Smirnov's channel is called (Like Remote Chess Academy, I think?).

That companion quest was worth it solely for the line where you can interact with the Trailblazer as March and tell her to say something. (I am assuming the dialogue is unchanged for the male trailblazer but if not sucks for Caelus fans I guess.)

I mean I also enjoyed the quest overall but that one specific part was gold.

Probably my last post on the Nijisanji debacle, but there's a theory on Reddit that seems to make sense, which basically says that Nijisanji mistakenly believed that Selen's private diary-like list of grievances was actually the statement she intended to publish publicly, due to a legal mistranslation. I doubt it'll ever be confirmed but it would explain some of the seemingly odd PR moves and specific points brought up in the Elira stream.

Fu Xuan best unit gameplay-wise and probably top 5 story-wise.

I play fairly regularly and am like ~1800 in Blitz on lichess. Probably in the 1900-2000 range for rapid but not 100% clear there due to not playing a large number of rapid games.

I found the double robot boss to be the hardest by a fair margin and would never pick it. Though my setup was very strong against the Swarm boss so idk if that's harder for others.

I like the Persona 3 OST more than the others, but it's not really the same type of appeal as 4 or 5 I don't think. Also agree on the comment that it's backloaded, even though Burn my Dread and Want to Be Close are very good imo.

I see the statement where Anycolor hereby declares that they have not illegally broken confidentiality now has a community note on it. Always a good sign.

For all I know they might be right but I am still reasonably confident that openly using your streamers like this to a exploit a loophole is a PR failure if not a legal one.

At least in the English communities anyways--my gut feeling is that a large reason why things have gotten to this point is that Anycolor is a Japanese company and a lot of this stuff actually might pass in a traditional Japanese business environment. (Note: I am mainly going on reputation here--I have no firsthand knowledge of what Japanese business is like)

agesboy posted...

The fact that they tweeted from her account "Hey guys im in the hospital" back in December was already a HUGELY sus moment.

Another thing that wasn't publicly confirmed until they just tweeted it out

edit: Yes I am aware of the apostrophe conspiracy that turned out to not be a conspiracy

Worth mentioning something like 5 EN streamers have left the company or been fired in the past ~6 months and that some merch companies (I don't know if they are big or small but would guess small) have announced that they will no longer sell NijisanjiEN merchandise

Man I keep trying to write a post trying to provide context but I don't even know where to start. Even if Nijisanji is in the right regarding the original disputes (which I seriously doubt) it is just mind-boggling how much they've needlessly made things worse from a PR standpoint.

I see Raka did it while I was typing up and deleting a post for the 5th time so thank you.

What's truly baffling is how much of what is now known is due to the company's own PR statements. Like nobody ever had to know that Selen was claiming there was harassment from other talents but now every single one of them has an extra helping of shit to deal with even if they were completely uninvolved.

And then now when I finally felt people might actually be moving on they decide to drop this statement and reignite the metaphorical fire.

Moon and Magician are two of the bad ones, yes :/

Persona 3 is weird because imo individually it has the best social links but also by far the worst. Probably averages out to be about even with the other games on that front but idk

I don't think Himeko has much specific synergy with Ruan Mei, and Himeko's just kind of weak in general. (Outside of Pure Fiction where she is strong)

Of course assuming you already have Bronya I think most other choices are justifiable gameplay-wise since it's not like the others are universally fantastic either.

Well there are 4 stars I think are very bad, but among 5 stars yeah I think it's just Yanqing.

Himeko is bad for a lot of stuff but is very good for Pure Fiction and Calyx farming

Tag even though I've forgotten a lot of this game.

I think the best moments of ZTD are right up there with those from the other games, but overall I do agree that it's the weakest game in the series.

D team is indeed the best.

I do think it's pretty likely Misha will have a larger role in the remainder of the story for the record.

The Aetherium Wars quest from 1.4 did confirm that Sampo was with the Masked Fools, which is the same faction as Sparkle. Of course that doesn't tell us a whole lot but it is something.

Haven't done the Black Swan character quest yet but here's my thoughts on the new characters:

Black Swan - Probably the biggest disappointment for me actually. She's just been kind of boring, though of course with her having a character quest I haven't started and those generally being strong there is a lot of potential for this to change

Aventurine - I actually like him a lot more than I was expecting. Unfortunately for Mihoyo not in a way that would ever make me want to play as him myself, but still. Just the right amount of unpredictability and hate-ability that he's been a pretty entertaining factor in the story. Significant contrast with Topaz who is in a similar role but the story unsuccessfully tried to get me to sympathize with her.

Acheron - Really great, but it's hard to say more when there's obviously a lot about her and her powers and motivations that we don't know yet

Sparkle - She has been pretty fun so far. I am worried they might be pushing her too far into villain territory for what I'd like, but they might not do that and it also might still work if they end up doing it. Her last scene with Sunday was great

Sunday - Expected him to be whatever and he's mostly delivered, but I did really like his last scene which might be a good sign moving forward

Robin - Well at least her song is pretty good, even if I'm constantly expecting to hear "making my way downtown..." instead of whatever she's actually singing

Firefly - I was expecting her to be the best and I was right. Her scene with Trailblazer after going through Dream's End was definitely the highlight of the patch

Misha - Not much to say but I like him so far

Sam - Design is very cool and that's all I'll say for now

Finished the new Trailblaze mission. Probably my favorite main story so far and for sure better than the Xianzhou and the Space Station. Still feels like they aren't really giving the story and characters enough time to stew though which I guess is a problem that's probably endemic to the way the entire game is structured. ("problem" in the sense that it relegates the story to the "good but not great" tier)

I actually don't know what to expect going forward though which is refreshing.

Vaguely worded spoilers related to a story leak for future content: It is a bit weird that the one story leak I do have for Penacony hasn't actually happened yet though. Figured that would be a relatively early reveal and it is a bit awkward knowing that thing specifically.

I'm guessing I'm not getting this Pure Fiction either with no DoT units built and no desire to build any DoT units unless I do pull for Black Swan. I guess technically I have Serval but eh. Will have to hope that Clara/Himeko/Jingliu/soon-to-be-built Herta is enough.

Lost the 50/50 to Bailu...who I guess is a new character for me and might be an improvement over Lynx in some scenarios even if I don't want to bother investing any resources into her immediately. Did finally manage to snag the final eidolon for Tingyun though so honestly could have gone a lot worse considering I only did two 10-pulls. (starting from like 40-50 pity but still)

Not sure if I care enough about Black Swan to dump another 70-80 pulls on this banner. She is neat story/personality-wise but I don't like her playstyle much, and Sparkle, Sam, and probably Acheron are all higher priorities. Fortunately I have a ton of pulls saved up so getting all 4 might be possible, but I'll have to think on it.

Tag. I really love this game. (Well the original/P3FES. I haven't done anything with the remake yet, but I assume it's also great.)

I am incredibly nostalgic for this game in particular, but I definitely think it's good even outside of that, especially with the remake presumably changing some QoL aspects of the original that I think aren't well liked.