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tremain07 posted...

Oh, that's simple, the best way to use the Bomb pin is after one of the pins that drags all the enemies into it's circle, where you are now you should have one of those water or fire vortex pins, they'll drag all the noise into them unable to flee from the bomb's splash zone, as for the boss, they're weak to fire pins so definitely put a bunch of those on especially for the desperation attack as the boss spams it more and more the closer to death it gets, as for those weird noise, I bet they seem familiar you faced something similar to them in the first game.

One enemy you'll really fucking hate is the elephant noises, they're huge, have a shitload of HP, can't be stunned and their most damaging attack sucks everybody in so if you don't know now to dodge you're in for a world of pain, especially because there's a dive sequence where you have to fight two of those fuckers at once, i won't tell you which dive it is, but all I can say is groove that shit as soon as you can

Thank you, it clicked for me, I was wondering how to make use of that darkness pin vortex that drags enemies, and the bomb strategy is great! Especially for the wolves that zip all over the place and leave a trail of fire that instantly burns my party and drains all my HP. So being able to trap them and explode them was hella satisfying

Oh my god chameleons are so bad if I don't attack them first. If I so much as target another enemy I'll regret it.

rhinos are annoying too in that tedious way of needing to attack them from behind but they're weak to ice so I freeze them often. But otherwise I'm not scared of them like I am the other big noise.

tremain07 posted...

Fun fact, light pins can heal a little bit as well as deal out damage and the their healing is tied to combos, like for example, the bomb psyche, if you use it at the right time you'll heal a massive amount of HP due to the damage inflicted on the enemies. Do note that just because your party is 5 now instead of 4 doesn't mean this gets easier, no, you're about to meet some of the deadliest enemies in the game now It's been awhile since I played but I really loved the shotgun pin, the light bullet pin, the sword arm pin, the bomb pin as mentioned and the noise pins, that's right, if you haven't noticed already you can eventually get noise pins from enemies and let me tell you, some of them are really strong and fantastic combo finishers.

Just wanted to say thanks, and that also just as I was feeling overconfident that I finally had 5 party members and kicking ass, I battled the Ayano noise monster and straight up lost -__-' . So much for that overconfidence. I had to reevaluate how I came at her.

Also the enemies getting way tougher as you said. Those gray super tough noise also feel familiar... Lotta dejavu I'm experiencing now, oh I can't wait to see what week 3 reveals.

I'm ambivalent about the bomb pins or any trap pins. When they work they're great, but trying to get the enemy to be near the bomb pin when it explodes is just a whole thing

mehmeh1 posted...

look out for scorpions, don't forget to dodge, and Killer Remix (the 300% thing) is OP. Also T-Rex's are annoying as hell

Also you'll eventually need to gold all dives if you want to get an extra scene for the ending (don't worry about it rn, since it's postgame stuff)

Yeah I thought mammoths were the worst, but T-Rexs are so much worse. I don't love sharks either when I'm grinding my C-tier pins and none of them are that effective against the shark's annoying swim mechanics.

I already go for gold on all mind dives just to get those extra friendship points, but it having an added benefit is good to know. I can revisit chapters anyway which is good because I know I missed some stuff here and there. I feel like this was also something in the first game, being able to revisit each week.

creativerealms posted...

It's a better fake DCAU film then Batman/Harley Quinn anyway.

Yeah that wasn't great, and it came right after bruce timm's horrible adaptation of killing joke, so not a great track record there. But by comparison this movie is a step in a better direction

Brykner posted...

If you want your mind blown, it <u>is</u> canon to the DCAU, Bruce Timm has said so himself. It's supposed to take place after JLU, but he realizes it causes some continuity errors so he leaves it up to the fans to work out in their heads how the canon works or to just make it non-canon in their head canon.

Oh wow. It was going to look like those DC original movies they were pumping out last decade, and then at the last minute decided on the DCAU art style. I would have loved it if even more movies got the DCAU art style.

One of the characters in the movie is a guy called mr terrific. I thought that was a nifty coincidence because the other month I was wondering why Cyborg was chosen to be a founding member of the Justice League when they rebooted DC (btw is he still a founding member?) even though John Stewart was the one I grew up watching in DCAU. Then apparently new 52 came along and iirc the founding members didn't even have a GL (nor Martian Manhunter for that matter) it was just Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg.

And someone said that they had Cyborg because they wanted a tech guy on the team as a founding member, and then suggested that instead of Cyborg, they could have used this mr terrific. I remember the character from JLU even though he had like 3 lines of dialogue, and would have been happy to see more episodes with him. So it's kinda cool that they featured him in this movie

I think what bothered me about the whole "this is for adults now with blood and swearing" thing is that they still made Superman job, which was tolerated in JL/JLU to an extent because it was at its heart a kids show but just comes across frustrating here. Super Speed and super strength should make him solo most villains at once...

Random cameos by Harley, 2Face, "fake" Poison Ivy... feels like a love letter to those of us who grew up with the DCAU. Or it did up until they had Ivy snap a guard's neck and then I was like... :/

creativerealms posted...

This movie introduced me to Jessica Cruz, and I love the idea of a Green Lantern dealing with PTSD and having to over come her fear, as well as deal with her own issues.

I think TC my have confused Miss Martian with Kaldur, as he was created for Young Justice.

That must be it yeah Kaldur who I was thinking of.

I'm all for seeing this green lantern again in other stuff and I unironically like the domino mask design, I just don't know enough about green lantern to really get how the powers work and therefore how it fits in the context of a superhero story.

Oh also I just saw that Diane Guerrero voiced Jessica Cruz in this movie so as a fan of Doom Patrol that makes me like her even more, definitely potential there.

You know what I was instantly reminded of? There was an episode of Justice League Unlimited like this with a very similar plot. It was the episode when they wrote off Supergirl to go live in the 31st century. Basically what happened is those same goofyass legion of superhero guys come to the past to stop an evil, and cite that Supergirl was known as this great hero in their time.

As someone who just dislikes time travel in general, reusing that premise for this movie made me smirk.

Compsognathus posted...

Miss Martian was pretty much John's going "animated series Starfire is very popular, but comic Starfire is nothing like her animated counterpart. Let's make a new alien character with animated Starfire's personality".

Huh is that what it is. They definitely made her more upbeat and perky in this movie, like how MM started out in YJ s1 before the trauma reveal. I assumed for this movie she was a sub for regular martian manhunter but I didn't mind.

Raiden2909 posted...

Just a minor correction, Miss Martian was not created for YJ and was actually created by writer Geoff Johns and Artist Tony Daniel and introduced into the teen titans comics 4 years before young justice started airing specifically because DC told Geoff Johns he couldn't use Supergirl in his Teen Titans run so she was created as a replacement

Oh my b thanks, I must have been thinking of something else. I associated MM with YJ for so long it's who I think like with BB and season 2 YJ.

McMarbles posted...

Its kind of also about being a superhero while dealing with mental illness. Jess has her anxiety and Star Boy is a schizophrenic who usually can keep it under control with the medication available to him in the 31st century but in our time hes SOL, so thats a pretty interesting angle.

That actually is an interesting angle, but the movie felt very undercooked with it. It's why I felt like it was maybe an introduction to something more, because the ideas it did present definitely intrigued me enough that I'd watch a show out of it.

Also while watching I felt like or there seemed like some character development for the movie was missing.

Felt like maybe an arc or something was missing because I was like... okay? Near the end there's a scene where the Green Lantern is forced to take the bad guys to a green lantern planet where they imprisoned the bad guys' most powerful member and possible leader, and the bad guys succeed and they maim or kill off a bunch of other green lanterns, and destroy jessica's ring and she's left for dead under a pile of rubble in her human form, no powers or anything. Then she wakes up, says some speech, the ring fixes itself, and she becomes super powerful and has a cool monocle looking lantern thing on her eye and teleports to earth to save the day (because the bad guys took down the Justice League)

This random green lantern is just powerful now and can singlehandedly take down all the baddies that Superman was once again jobbing to? Felt like something was missing Especially since the movie is literally only 77 minutes. Like not even the full 90 minutes. They definitely could have fleshed out some more stuff here and there.

Like throughout the movie Starboy was saying how Jessica Cruz is known as a legend in his time and known as Limelight, but they never show why or explain what made her special or powerful. Hell I got annoyed with Starboy because he seemed completely useless throughout the movie until the end when it was finally revealed what his role was and what he did and I was like um okay. I don't really care there was an emotional component missing so Jessica crying about him and then citing Martin Luther King Jr in his honor made me go "um"

Overall, it was fine as a direct-to-video movie. But not sure why it exists, if it was meant to double as a pilot or attempt to revitalize interest in DCAU/a new IP (after all, Justice League Unlimited ended waay too soon, it was beyond ahead of its time and the large cast of characters meant there was an endless supply of stories to tell about all the comic characters we don't usually see outside of the main 7)

After watching it, the movie is okay and I was interested in the beginning but it started to lose me near the middle and climax. I didn't understand what this Starboy's deal was at all, and I was like wait what nearly a year passed and he was just chilling in Arkham? And the bad guys were just chilling in that time machine? And the legion didn't send someone back? Or there was just one time machine and that's it.

They also introduced Jessica Cruz as this woman who had this rather horribly random traumatic moment where she's hiking in the woods with friends and stumble upon some bad guys who shoot her friend and she gets away, now living with both PTSD and survivor's guilt. And also is a green lantern.

When I saw Miss Martian on the poster I thought the movie would feature her more prominently but it's more about this Green Lantern so that was a surprise.

However, the movie is actually about this random Green Lantern called Jessica Cruz, and that's when the movie kinda lost me because I don't know anything about the Green Lanterns (nor particularly care) because it's the most sci-fi/star warsy type genre of superheroes with all the goofy alien designs and cereal box decoder rings. I only liked John Green Lantern in JLU because it's John, and they didn't really get into the Green Lantern stuff so it was more approachable.

It's also about the time travel guys the 31st century legion of superheroes which I feel the same as I do Green Lantern stuff, it's more "this is 50s era comic book goofiness that I'm not really into" rather than comic stories of the big 3.

That all being said it was damn nice seeing DCAU style again so I was here for it no matter the story or characters.

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It is absolutely surreal to watch this movie, it looks like the DCAU, it sounds like the DCAU (hearing Kevin Conroy as Batman again v__v ) but it isn't quite the DCAU. There's straight up killing where they show the bullet wound of someone shot in the forehead, copious amounts of blood, and some cringey swearing that sounds off. It's like the censorship is what made the DCAU writers get creative with their plots, stories and dialogue.

But what I thought was interesting is... it features a DCAU take on Miss Martian, who was created for Young Justice. A different take than YJ for sure, but it definitely fits for the DCAU.

Oh hell yes! I got a 5th party member! It's Shoka. I was a bit surprised even though I knew she didn't want to do the whole reaper thing, but not to the point of straight up helping us, I wonder if she did that in week 1 or if Sho knew, they should have worked together oh well.

I was doing pretty well with 4 party members, but with 5 party members... this is fantastic. If I want to I can straight up relegate one person to just heal/cure my status ailments while the rest are heavy hitters that attack.

And 300% groove is. a. freaking. godsend. I don't even bother equipping a healing pin, I actually just focus on getting to that 300% groove, because it unleashes this badass attack that kills all the enemies, and restores my health to full, better than any pin possibly could. I'm literally chaining like 10 encounters at a time when previously it was suicide, because now I can heal myself in during one of those 10 encounters which gives me enough HP to finish the battle instead of constantly dying from hundreds of enemies' attacks slowly chipping away at my health. So glad this game lets us have as many as 5 party members battling on screen. Even getting to 300% is easier now and I'm constantly doing it.

PerseusRad posted...

So I dont know what difficulty youre playing on, but I know personally there was a bit of a spike later on, so Ill just say to not feel bad if you have to turn it down. It doesnt help that theres some timed stuff iirc.

Playing on Hard Mode, the enemies drop better pins so it's actually easier/better to play on Hard Mode and have stronger pins/more money to buy gear and food for stats up.

The timed mind dive stuff is so hectic and stressful to do if you want gold... but what I love about the game is that you can experiment with pins and pin combos and all their different inputs, so when I was too frustrated at being unable to get the gold rank for this one mind dive, I messed around with my pin setup until I found the perfect synergy for all my party members and finally got it. Felt very satisfying.

What I love about the Week 2 ending is that we fight Susukichi again right, and at the end of Week 1 I kept freaking losing to him my pins and characters were so weak, by the time I won it was by the skin of my teeth. But by week 2's end I had become so powerful (not to mention was on to his tricks) that I pretty easily beat his ass, losing only half my HP in the process. Feels good.

Oh damn at the end of week 2! I mean... who else would the ruinbringers be, obviously shiba, and Susuikichi was obviously a reaper we saw his reaper wings in combat so... I don't know why the characters are shocked.

That person at the computer... it has to be Beat's sister right it has to! I don't remember her name and I'm not googling it for fear of spoilers, but I'm positive that has to be Beat's sister from the first game!

teep_ posted...

Really loved how it captured the feel of twewy so we'll, and imo it's one of the best examples of the 3D-ification of a 2D game

Absolutely, I'm shocked at that other poster who didn't like it because from the getgo they nailed the art style and atmosphere of TWEWY, and definitely agree on how they made a handheld game into a console game in the best way.

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Rika_Furude posted...

how would you rate the story so far compared to the first?

Well it's been 15 years since I played the TWEWY so I don't remember specific details; just the general theme, message, and some high points which I love.

But that being said I am absolutely loving Neo's story so far. This is how you do a sequel, by introducing new characters that you actually like (Fret and Rindo are definitely a likable pair) and slowly revealing more and more of the story, more references to the original, old and new characters alike, and having them all tie into the story.

I just about freaked when I saw Sho Minamimoto, ton of nostalgia floodgates flowing in.

I definitely feel like I've gotten into a much better groove in week 2, playing on Hard pretty much the whole time.

Loving this game, take note Tales of Symphonia 2 this is how you start a sequel! At first I thought that was Neku, but it turned out to be Beat! Love that bait-and-switch, I was like no way that could be Neku and he lose against some random girl and I was right.

I'm really loving the story so far, and have got some good pins so I finally have a good groove going in combat. On week 2 already and some great spoilers so far.

TheGoldenEel posted...

it really sucks how shitty Nintendo is as a company because when they truly try (which is happening farther and farther between lately) they make the best games in the industry

That's the thing, if you look at their history they seem to only ever try when they're struggling in the market. RE 4 on gamecube, Bayonetta 2 on Wii u then later bundled with Bayo 1, they only ever bother when they're out of options. It makes you not want to support them because if you do, they just get more greedy rather than supportive.

Proto_Spark posted...

Yeah it's a shame the game didn't receive well, because it clearly a love letter to the classic Crash games. The problem is it goes way too far in that direction, hiding things in frustrating parts and every level being like 4 times as long as any of the PS1 ones. Not to mention the levels themselves just being more difficult.

The levels being so long makes doing stuff like making it through the level without dying or never missing a box so much more annoying, when in the PS1 games those were fun targets to go after because they were generally harder, but not much harder than just playing through the level, which made going after the extra rewards more encouraging (the exception to this are the 2nd/3rd time trial rewards, but the first time trials weren't too hard).

Its just being too over-indulgent into what people love about Crash, that it sort of goes too deep and ends up missing the mark.

Also a shame, because it means we'll also probably never get a similar game with Spyro.

Agreed, and that last bit in particular is what's sad because we definitely won't get another Spyro game. I played the remake trilogy and overall they were not bad, I'd say I enjoyed them.

But actually I would much rather have Sly 5, which is the real shame because it's a fun platformer and yet seems to be the most forgotten out of the Sony platformer properties despite having my favorite aesthetic and feel (heists, saturday morning cartoon style adventures, cel-shaded graphics, it checks all boxes)

viewmaster_pi posted...

the problem with "just don't do it" means you miss out on like... 70% of the game's content and replayability. people should go off and mald as the kids say so maybe next time the devs will try something that isn't tedious and almost spiteful to the player at times

not that the series isn't face down in the ditch now anyway

Good point. What do you think about "punishing" the devs by forcing them to complete their own game? I don't know how extensive their playtesting is but it feels doubtful they could actually complete their own game.

Damn there are some days where I feel like I've finally gotten into the groove and switch to Hard Mode, and other days where I can't seem to kick ass as much as I want.

Hard pressing the shoulder buttons is gonna destroy my controller isn't it... I'm glad I have one more controller and just a couple ps4 games left anyway so it's no big deal, but yeah. I just remembered, the original game actually caused me to end up scratching my DS touch screen, after putting in like 500 hours into the game.

Thoughts on the Blue Beetle AI having their own personality, Khaji-Da? Felt like they were doing quips a little too quickly for what it was, maybe it's explained that they adapt to the Host's personality or something

GeminiDeus posted...

Honestly, just hold off on it. Maybe next Mar10 or the year after it will be 33% off. I'm sure you've got other games you can or want to play until then. I've held off on purchasing many games I've wanted for price drops, such as Mario+Rabbids Sparks of Hope Gold Edition, which I finally bought in January for like $41 (which went on sale again for Mar10 for $36).

Yeah that's when I bought Bayonetta Origins, Nintendo had one of their "sales" where it was $42 instead of the usual $60 so I got it then. I'll do the same with lm 2, definitely not in a hurry to buy or play it until it goes on sale, or as much a sale as Nintendo is willing to go.

Wish they had released 2 before 3 because I'm worried the QoL improvements in 3 will make me not want to go back to 2. Oh well.

Someone posted this video in the other topic:

https://youtu.be/5yapbT_FgFQ

I skimmed a couple minutes of it and it's actually not half bad

You know even on ps4 it doesn't quite have great performance, there's a surprising amount of slowdown and load times for what looks like a really non-resource intensive game. Not a big deal but just putting it out there, can only imagine how much worse it would be on Switch.

So now it's not just The Suicide Squad, but also Blue Beetle, 2 live action movies from DC that are good/great after 15 years

Yeah this month is pretty much the best time for me to go through my own backlog, I finished Barry and decided might as well finish up Doom Patrol after waiting all these years for it to wrap up

Asherlee10 posted...

P. Terry's

I'm curious what a veggie burger of theirs is made of. Also oatmeal and chocolate chip in one cookie? Some interesting choices they're making.

Squall28 posted...

Yeah it starts retreading on too much stuff in season 3. I didn't even bother with season 4.

That's what it felt like, retreading the same ground of the previous seasons which gets tiresome. You're really not gonna continue with 4 now that all episodes are out though?

Welp I just ragequit and turned it off. Got poisoned by the Scorpion enemy Noise variety. I seem to have a vague recollection of this enemy also being annoying in the original game. Guess I'm gonna have to find anti-poison gear because it's insane how quickly my HP dropped.

Honestly I'm just mashing buttons right now which hurts my hand so I'm gonna need to see if there's a rhythm to the triangle-square-L1-R1 button presses.

ECW_Originals12 posted...

And three years from now it'll still be 60 dollars

Kirby and Bayonetta had one of those "$15 off" Sales on Switch store a year and a half after release so hopefully the same thing will happen here

Damn, reading old posts about the game and the amount of vitriol people had for it... just don't do 100%, it's not like the game kidnapped your family and forced you to do it. What's with some gamers' compulsive need to do everything. The hate is completely justified but at the same time it's like, don't do it.

I definitely got frustrated at times, but honestly I was thankful for the infinity lives mechanic the game had and that they maintained the aku aku mask tradition. It helps for us who just want to beat the game.

There are some obvious parallels with Ant-Man 1, all of which I liked or didn't mind, especially since I enjoyed Ant-Man 1.

havean776 posted...

I like the part where he keeps telling his suit how wrong killing is. Then his Grandma mows down a group of people in front of him with a machine gun and he's all like "Grandma You're so cool!".

That was certainly... odd. Like they wanted their cake and eat it too.

Especially funny because then they did the whole oh bb is going to kill the bad guy out of rage and then suddenly the bb system is like no Jaime, killing is wrong. Like an attempt at a callback but really clunky.

Really hope it makes it into the new DCU or at least gets a sequel, because it was perfectly self-contained as a first movie and could either continue to be self-contained or be brought into any fold.

I don't know if I'm liking season 3.

I watched the first 2 seasons during the pandemic and was going crazy at the cliffhanger for season 2. But then season 3 starts with a whimper and now this whole sisterhood of dada arc is just... boring.

I actually enjoyed it in season 1 and 2 for being a character study more than a traditional superhero show, especially when they went on crazy adventures like the pink bad idea insects. But now as of season 3 it just feels... meandering. And no Timothy Dalton sucks :(

Especially after losing Alan Tudyk

Um a bit of an overreaction itt to the protagonist that we spent the year getting to know, fostering relationships with and developing bonds, dying at the end. Am I missing something here?

It's been 15 years since I played the original and so much has changed since then, but so much becomes instantly recognizable like the soundtrack and beats

Hayame_Zero posted...

I would be surprised if it was cheaper than that. It's Nintendo.

But I wouldn't get it if it was $20 because it was not good.

That's what worries me, I hope I'll still like it and that having console controls will help. They had a sale a couple months back for kirby forgotten land so I'll wait until they do the same thing for lm 2.