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got the keys for the other 2 jackbox games nice
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done with Legend of Fae. made it to the last boss and its a fuckin pain. doesnt feel impossible but its just augh. its one of those 2 enemy one heals the other and the both summon minion kinda fights. wouldnt be so bad except youre constantly being hit and constantly being afflicted with statuses. i had one fairly good run and then got locked down with seemingly no way to recover :/ . i should probably respec and try again but i really dont care enough to keep trying
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also finished No Mouth etc. still a good one but yeah very dated mechanically. still highly recommend imo. saw an interview with Ellison where he said he wanted a game that was impossible to beat and yeah i can kinda see that in this. the interview wasnt very long but he seemed like a good dude. shame hes passed :(
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and i did decide to start up something new - Labyronia RPG. its another one of the good ol JRPGH bundle games. went with it because of the 4 of those i had left, 3 of them are Labyronia games so i thought it best to get one done to kinda split them up a bit. this one is...mostly competent. story is of course not so good and has some weird phrasing and typos from time to time. gameplay is of course rpgmaker so nothing of note there. the one sorta interesting thing it has is the Cue system which is how new skills are learned. basically you have to find odd/interesting/out of place things scattered throughout the world which inspires the character to create new skills. nothing overly impressive but is at least a something
it does have 2 major issues though. firstly the fucking maps. dungeons are fairly large labyrinths that have a ton of branching dead ends and are just generally obnoxious trying to get through. this is story related though so its kinda forgivable. however there are 3 gigantic endless looping areas that are fucking ridiculous. i think i spent like 2 hours in one of them and at least an hour in the other 2 just aimlessly wandering around trying to find anything. i think these were also story related but holy shit they are so bad it doenst matter. instead of being one big looping are theyre divided into smaller sections that loop so you can walk too high or too left and get off the section you need to be on and get looped to the opposite end of the area. fucking awful
secondly the pacing is/scaling is off. theres a total of 3 party members but 2 of them dont join until the 2nd to last dungeon even though you can find equipment and cues for them way before then (you can collect the cues either meaning backtracking yay). enemies dont give enough xp to keep your level up meaning grinding is needed. of course theres 2 spots that are explicitly designed for grinding so i guess thats fine? theres several progression items that are hidden that you dont know you need until you get to where theyre needed so thats more backtracking unless you happen to find them. since some of these are in the fucking looping areas if you dont know what to look for itd be a massive pain (i was using a guide because fuck). if the looping areas werent so bad this wouldnt that big of an issue but they are so it is
so yeah at least im done with it. apparently Labyronia is some kinda franchise because theres like 4 games and a remake of this one. i might have to get the last one for completions sake and if they removed/fixed loops they may at least be sufficiently decent
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and weekly fite game is Fighting EX Layer made by Arika of Street Fighter EX fame. mostly just grabbed achievements which didnt require much actual playing so cant say too much on it. something about it feels off though but not sure what. im also not the biggest fan of the characters. its definitely not bad though especially for what 8$. they also went back and added rollback to it so thats worth something (i dont think its especially good rollback but its there). i like the idea of the GOUGI sytem although i havent followed the game enough to know if its good or bullshit or what. for the unfamiliar, the GOUGI system lets you pick a deck of powers that are activated by performing certain actions during a match. so things like dealing a certain amount of damage to increase your damage, avoid the opponenet for 6 seconds to gain an invisible dash, get knocked down 12 times to gain permanent super armor, etc nonsense. i should probably spend some actual time with it at some point
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and that is it for this week. only one fite game left in the backlog until melty, only 3 games left in the JRPGH bundle, and down to 6 point/clicks so things are clearing up! even if i dont get d2r im still gonna get Endwalker so thats gonna kill backlog time. gonna try to get as much finished before then as possible so even if i just stop after that ill at least have cleared out most of this mess.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/391260/Labyronia_RPG/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/871200/FIGHTING_EX_LAYER/

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congrats to azuarc for victorying GotD guru
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