Board 8 > SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Best Smile Edition [SELF]

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Anyway, I fell asleep playing Xillia last night, too, but I didn't get very far. We made it to a new sea haven where we learn there are more dolls like Teepo in a nearby town, so we're going to investigate. I can't swap Elize into my party yet, but I imagine there's going to be a tutorial or something about her before I can use her. Also, Alvin continues to act suspicious as all get out. He gets a message via carrier pigeon (and sends one back himself), and almost immediately afterwards he starts asking Jude about what sort of secrets Milla found out about when they were in that research lab in Fennmont.

We stayed at the inn where we met this girl named Katte who belongs to the Rats, some female spy network. Alvin saved her from two guys who were assaulting her, but when they leave the next day, she's found dead at the docks. He thinks she was killed by fellow Rats to prevent themselves from being compromised now that she's been outed. Also, as we're leaving town, some old dude tells us a story without voice acting about the Devil's Beasts carrying the Devil's Arms inside them. I guess this will be the Abyssion-type sidequest for this game, huh.
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In more Xillia news, we have to take a detour through the forest to avoid a military checkpoint, where we find out what Elize can really do. It's nice having four party members now because it means everyone can be linked. At the end of the forest, we find Jiao, the huge dude with the big beard and bigger hammer, who wants to take Elize back to the village. He seems to feel bad about the situation she's in there, but he also implies that where she originally came from is even worse. That being said, Jude has no intention of letting her go back, so there's a big boss fight. He's definitely the toughest fight I've had so far, but even then, I wasn't in any serious danger of losing. After the fight, he seems happy that Elize has found new friends and maybe this is the best thing for her after all. A couple of times, Alvin talks about what a "treasure" Elize is. He insists it's because she's such a good summoner, but there's definitely more to it than that.

When we reach the next town, Milla exposes a scam at a vendor's shop who claims his pottery was fired by Efreet, but she says he values order above all else and this pottery is too sloppy. As a result, we meet a girl with ringed hair and her butler, whom I'm assuming is the person the town is named after since her last name is Sharil and this is Sharilton. She invites us to tea at her manor, and Milla is excited about the prospect of it.
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Darn, it's another recap episode in Full Metal Panic IV. I guess I'll have to wait another week to venture into new territory. Oh well, at least I got to hear Tessa's voice doing the recap.
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KH2 prologue is still great. Man, going from Roxas to Sora is such a downgrade.

Also I just realized than Yen Sid is Disney backwards
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LordoftheMorons posted...

KH2 prologue is still great. Man, going from Roxas to Sora is such a downgrade.

Also I just realized than Yen Sid is Disney backwards

there's a guy in BBS named Eraqus which is meant to be almost "Square" backwards to parallel that
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me about an hour ago:

"augh, how is it only..... crap"

this is why i hate working through the weekend argh
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Pivot

Pivot

PIVOT

PIVOT

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Shut up shut up shut UP
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whoa I got an Echore from a sidequest and it's worth 4000 points toward Shop Expansion

gonna wait for a 3x multiplier before using this bad boy, preferably on a weapons or armor shop
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oh hey the old butler dude joined my party

nice
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heck yeah you can switch out members on the fly

good work Xillia in borrowing one of the best aspects of FFX's battle system

also everyone gets EXP from every battle whether they're in the party or not

this is a good game
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I love how Milla keeps misapplying human behavioral techniques but they still achieve the desired result anyway
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How did they manage to skip making a Beauty and the Beast world in KH1 anyway
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so they could give you Beast as a party member during the solo section of Hollow Bastion
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Forgot that Olympus has like 5000 bosses when I decided to finish "just one more world" before going to bed
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Oh right, I forgot to do a Xillia update before I went to bed last night. When we arrive at the manor for tea, some important and ominous-looking dudes get into a carriage in front of the manor and leave ahead of us. We meet Driselle's brother, Clint, who is the governor of Sharilton. Elize and Driselle hit it off right away, while Clint and Alvin sneak off to discuss stuff privately. We find out that the king of Rashugal is behind everything, and he came here to conscript people here into his "service." Clint decides he can't abide this and runs off on his own, prompting cool old butler Rowen (who loves cooking but is such a perfectionist that he has yet to complete his first dish, by the way) to join the party.

We chase him down through a long gorge, where there's an assassin with a crossbow guarding the entrance to the facility. Jude uses bullet-time to dodge her arrow to distract her enough for Milla to sneak up on her from behind. Seriously, this dude's got some crazy powers that he's not really letting people in on and isn't really drawing attention to. He's not your average med student. Anyway, when we get inside, we find a similar situation to the research lab where they're draining mana from people, including Clint himself. We have to climb all the way to the top and jump in from above using some magic kite while Jude helps Alvin aim a shot at the core.

After rescuing everyone, we head back to Sharilton, where Clint is determined to rebel against Rashugal, even if it means war. Unfortunately, he takes an arrow to the chest and dies. He leaves Rowen in charge, but right at that moment, we find out that Rashugal has invaded the city. Also unfortunately, Driselle had taken Elize and Milla shopping in the square and they get captured, so we're off to rescue them.
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I also finished the audiobook for The Two Towers. They don't actually change back and forth between the two groups like they do in the movie. The first half of the book deals with Aragorn and company, and the second half deals with Frodo and Sam. I imagine Return of the King will be the same way.

Also, I looked it up to make sure I was right about this (since it's been a while since the last time I watched the movies), but the last part of Frodo and Sam's story in the Two Towers book takes place in the Return of the King movie.
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LeonhartFour posted...

the last part of Frodo and Sam's story in the Two Towers book takes place in the Return of the King movie.

This is nearly the only thing I liked better about the books (which I'm generally not a fan of) than the movies. Thought the spot the book ended was much better, but I guess they wanted to put more tense scenes in the 3rd movie and focus mostly on Helm's Deep here.

(The other major thing I liked better, which I think is an outright screw-up on the movies' part is the way they handled Faramir's character. They took out a few of his important scenes in the third book and also made some pretty major personality changes to the way he acts in the second book that are not for the better. Bleh.)
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Yeah, Two Towers ends on a pretty big cliffhanger, which is really cool. I guess the fear was if they included all that in Two Towers, there wouldn't be much for Frodo and Sam to do in Return of the King.

And yeah, I was kind of confused when Faramir showed up because I didn't quite remember him being that way in the movies, but again, I wasn't sure if I was just misremembering because I hadn't seen the movies in a while.
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Haha, Xillia clearly didn't leave much of an impression on me because there's been a lot of stuff that you've posted about in those updates that I just can't recall. Or others where I'm like "uh is that...?"

I remember that Sharilton stuff though!
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Yeah, Xillia feels kind of haphazard in its pacing and structure so far, so I can see why you'd have a hard time remembering stuff.
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I need to see Ant-Man & The Wasp at some point. It just kind of came out during a busy time for me, but that's okay. I'm fine if I don't see it for a month.
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I saw that last night. It was fine, probably a little better than the first, but I was never that big on Ant-Man to begin with.
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Yeah, Ant-Man as a whole doesn't do much for me. I'm not a huge Paul Rudd fan either.

Michael Douglas as Hank Pym was fantastic in the first movie though.
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Something tells me I wasnt supposed to fight this level 75 demon at level 25...
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what fight did you accidentally trigger
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Wandered into a demon domain in post-apocalyptic Tokyo

Found some Norse giant in the form of an eagle (Hresvelgr)

Demon research for these games has to be quite the job
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oh you're talking about SMT I guess

for some reason I thought you were still talking about KHII which is why I was confused
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that would be incredible

just imagine walking through land of dragons or pridelands or whatever and

*sky darkens*

*One Winged Angel starts playing*

*Sephiroth descends from the skies like the Reaper in P3/P5*
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I mean that's kind of how it happens in KH2
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I know but he's out of the way there. >_>
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well you can accidentally walk into superbosses in Final Mix

I remember accidentally triggering Lingering Will the first time

that was a good five seconds
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So far Ive only died once in my KH2 replay, and it was on purpose to get the trophy for getting saved by Mickey...!

In SMT, on the other hand, I found yet another domain with a super overpowered demon. This one killed me before I could even select an action!

Good thing you can save at any time in this game...
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In my few playthroughs of KH2, I don't think I've ever died during any main game sequences, only during optional boss fights.

Oh wait, I did die a couple of times fighting Roxas in Final Mix.
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LeonhartFour posted...

I need to see Ant-Man & The Wasp at some point. It just kind of came out during a busy time for me, but that's okay. I'm fine if I don't see it for a month.

yeah i was going to see it this weekend then work exploded

(not literally)

(hopefully)
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I probably just sucked at the game but I died like 15 times to the Xaldin fight in KH2 I swear. Pretty sure there was one other that gave me some trouble also but I don't remember which one.
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Yeah, Xaldin is the one that most people seem to have trouble with, so it's no coincidence that Mickey has a high chance of showing up in that battle, but I've never lost to him. I think I may have triggered Mickey once, but that's it.
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Data Xaldin was the worst.

the worst
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Xaldin was the hardest boss in the game until I learned how to use the Jump Reaction Command.
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SMT IV really could use labels on its map

I can't freaking remember where all of these Tokyo neighborhoods are
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xp1337 posted...

Data Xaldin was the worst.

the worst

I need to go back and try to fight all of those one of these days.
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You should! Some of them are really fun!

but not data xaldin

screw that guy

Lingering Will took me longer to beat but Data Xaldin felt like way more BS.
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Steins;Gate 0 episode 11 complete

Wow, they dropped a pretty big hint about the identity of the person wearing the motorcycle helmet there at the end. Well, I might have picked up on it because I already know, but still, that hint isn't in the game.
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Forget how early Timeless River was

Fun idea for a world
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Timeless River is great. Love that place.
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Woah, apparently Will Turner is voiced by Crispin Freeman
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He is indeed. I was kinda disappointed with some of the voices in the PotC world because I didn't feel like some of them really sounded like the characters, Barbossa especially. I could tell Jack Sparrow was James Arnold Taylor instantly. Will's was pretty good though.
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man transferring stuff to a new phone when you change providers is kind of annoying
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So, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure has been airing on Toonami and I've been pretty meh on it, especially given all the hype it gets, but I should give it props for having one of the best lines in anime I've ever seen.

"A video game expert is an expert at life!"
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yeah it seems like Jojo's one of those things you just "get" or you don't
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Yeah. The past few episodes have been quite good, but overall it feels very hit-or-miss and it can miss hard.
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