Board 8 > SaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Aloha Edition [SELF]

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pjbasis posted...

This mario in space game is pretty good

ya go my Galaxy

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LOL Florida

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Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 10 complete!

Connie is suggesting this is possibly an Eren doppelganger, huh? I get what he's saying in a sense because the dude in this episode didn't look like Eren, and the big mystery of this season is what made him change so much. A fake Eren seems too absurd to be true, so either he saw something that made him change or Zeke somehow convinced him to change.

Also yikes, what have they done to Historia? I don't like this.

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I actually just beat Galaxy a bit ago. I don't feel like I have as much to say about it because it's just so competent.

I'll say that at first I found it a bit slow. I was in the Sunshine mode of really exploring the space given to you, but it's pretty unrewarding. Nothing to find but star bits, coins, and 1-ups. I kinda wish there was a small collectible system that the 2D games use. I would regularly grab 1-ups because they were in the kind of hard to reach places that seemed fun to try to get. But it's still a little hollow when you're just doing it for yourself. I also don't like the Bee powerup. Too slow.

But that's kinda it as far as something I can complain about. The game is just bursting with meaningful content and never feels like it drags. I even liked the purple coin challenges much more this time around because it did give me that rewarding feeling of fully knowing a level.

Currently trying to get through as Luigi because I wanna do the grand master galaxy, hopefully it's just as fun a second time!

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You're playing the first one, aren't you? grandmaster Galaxy is in the second game. I mean, there is something in the end and I enjoyed it enough to play as Luigi too, but it's not a grand master galaxy you're getting to.

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Yeah I guess it doesn't really matter. I just never played it as Luigi before and did the final thing. Definitely gonna take my time though. With no Galaxy 2 HD I'm in no rush :(

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Hmmm...Maybe I should start 13 Sentinels.

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Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth beated.

Excellent game/series, would highly recommend to anyone willing to put the time in to play the series.

I think last time I posted I'd just beaten Raiko. The trip to Tuskur was fun and getting to see Eruruu and Hakuowlo again was great. Now Woshis... if there was a weak point in Mask of Truth, I think the Woshis plot and the direction it ended up spinning off into is it. I actually started spinning through Woshis theories in real time during the confrontation in the Capital and for a moment I thought it was going to turn out that Woshis was a clone of Haku to complete the Mikado's recreating his family with Honoka and Anju and I think I'd have preferred that but eh. Still, if it all ended there with Amaterasu firing, and Woshis ultimately realizing he completely missed that he was loved all along, that'd be fine. But I wasn't a fan of how this lead to him using the prototype Akuruka and going semi-Uitsulnemetia. Which plays into the real losers of the game - the Watanarabe. We could have done without those guys, I think. Shichiriya is cool, he can stay, but the rest really overstayed their welcome.

Anyway, the endgame/final battle was quite honestly god-tier and among the absolute best in all of gaming, IMO. I was going to be upset if Kuon just transformed into a monster like the rest of the Akurutukura and not have Evil!Kuon/Uitsulnemetia!Kuon be the boss but then the way it actually got pulled off was AAA++++. The shadow clones of the old party were fun, just like Prelude the Final Strike dialogue changed for the final battle, and then when Kuon "really" appeared in her prison orb thing I was 100% satisfied with the battle taking that form. But I was absolutely floored when I did my first Co-Op Final Strike on Kuon and it broke into a unique dialogue between the co-op partners before and through the Co-Op Final Strike. It being Haku and Nekone made it even more powerful, I was shedding tears by the end of it.

Also glad that Haku's death "probably" stuck. No problems with happy endings but it would have cheapened his goodbye scenes when he turned to salt if he literally came back for real in that final battle. I like the bittersweet take a lot more and I suppose there's some ambiguity there if you want to believe. I do think there's some lowkey horror that the twins are apparently with him though because uh... how did they manage that one? I was hoping they'd start living life on their own like Haku wanted but they somehow ended up in the semi-heaven that Uitsulnemetia has? Also, it was nice ending on Eruruu and Hakuowlo finally getting to be together for real after everything in the first game.

Bleh, probably have a lot more thoughts and as always I can be poked for specific ones if anyone wants, but overall this was definitely an amazing experience. Like with MoD before, I'll stick around for the postgame because actually the gameplay in MoT is like... way improved and genuinely super fun, IMO. After that... Persona 5 Strikers, I think. Then perhaps I'll jump on that 13 Sentinels bandwagon.

Character Ranking: Kuon > Haku > Nekone > Rulutieh > Mikazuchi > Anju > Oshtor > Ougi > Raiko > Shis > Atuy >= Jachtwaldt > Mikado > Twins > Munechika > Itak > Woshis > Nosuri > Kiwru > Honoka > Fumirul > Maroro > Vurai

Anju/Oshtor and above are excellent/incredible characters. Mikado and above are really good. And it isn't really until you get to Honoka where I start going "meh."

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Actually, I guess I should play Death Stranding in order to please my wife since she got this game for my birthday.

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is she truly prepared for a hideo kojima experience

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I don't know if anyone can be prepared for a Hideo Kojima experience if Death Stranding is your very first one

this could be a good social experiment

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My roomate has been playing Death Stranding recently. I think he's enjoying it a lot and he's also playing it very detailed and careful. From what I've seen him play it seems too repetitive for me, but better than I otherwise would have thought.

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Dragon Ball Z Episode 82 complete!

Well, at least Piccolo lasted a few episodes. And now Frieza teases that he has one more transformation up his sleeve after this one.

On a related note, my wife found a meme that asked what would happen if the cast of your last show was planning your wedding. If it were DBZ, we might never get married and we'll keep waiting for Goku to show up.

"Goku is the best man and he has the ring. Can he get to the wedding in time to ensure a happy ending? Find out...

TODAY!"

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Okay, time to start up Death Stranding.

Huh, I can't remember a game other than Final Fantasy Tactics where your birthday actually matters when they ask you to enter it, but they seem to indicate that it does here.

My birthday was great for FFT, so hopefully the trend will continue!

According to this, higher levels of DOOMS abilities (whatever those are) have been observed in those born under Pisces aw yeah

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okay I finished the prologue and I feel like I didn't understand a word Sam and Fragile said to each other

and I wouldn't have it any other way

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Aw yeah Utawarerumono. Haku and Kuon definitely the top 2 so you have it right there. Next tier is probably some amalgamation of Oshtor/Atuy/the Mikado/Nekone/Anju and I don't want to try and figure out an order. (I don't know why I was such a huge fan of Atuy but I liked her a lot)

I don't know whether or not to be suprised you didn't end up liking Woshis. I liked him quite a bit even if he'd be in my tier 3, but there was some ways about how his character was handled that weren't great. Also the plotline with him/Haku/the Mikado also reminded a bit of Final Fantasy IX which I know you didn't like although I don't know whether or not the reason has anything to do with that.

I never did the postgame, as usual, but I did think the gameplay was really fun, and I'm someone who normally just doesn't like SRPG's. (This has more to do with common implementation than it does with core mechanics, but still)
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F/GO: the power of gacha continues to encroach on my soul

Made an absolutely terrible decision trying to go for Kama here. I had originally decided I didn't care at all other than throwing like 10 tickets at the banner instead of just 5 in case the miracle happen... but then later I talked myself into making something of an attempt. That's.. fine, so far. The problem was I talked myself into "one more 10-roll" a few times after I hit the limit I had imposed to myself at the start.

Started at like 810 quartz. Told myself to stop at 600. Actually stopped at 480.

and literally only got a Parvati (technically NP2 because in my initial yolo ticket thing I do for event banners I actually got my first Parvati) and Diarmuid (Saber) to show for it.

ughhhhhhhhhhh honestly feel kinda sick. I feel like I was in a pretty good position for my Reines + Merlin with Stretch Goal Skadi towards the end of the year and now I feel like I just took a wrecking ball to it.

gachas are very scary my friends and i probably should not be trusted to play one

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https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1374159105947021312

if only dog shows allowed mutts Maya could be a champ because she looks a lot like this dog

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they should allow them

all doggos should be represented

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World 5 in Super Mario 3D World beated!

I'm over 100 stars now. I don't know how many in the game there are total, but I'm guessing it's quite a lot because I haven't been trying to get them all before moving on.

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World 6 in Super Mario 3D World beated!

Hmm...World 7 looks like the last one unless there's a secret world or this is just a red herring. Guess I'll find out! It does feel like there should always be 8 worlds in a Mario game like this.

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Mario 3D World might crack my top ten Mario games depending on how it finishes up. This has definitely exceeded my expectations. I guess I went into this expecting it to be just a follow up to 3D Land, which was fine, but it wasn't anything special by the series' standard.

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Yeah, 3D World is wildly better than 3D Land.

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World 7 in Super Mario 3D World beated!

Yep, as I suspected, there is indeed one more world to go! I hope the last boss delivers. I feel like Mario games are so hit or miss with bosses. You end up with the same boss fight repeated later on, just with a new move this time. They tend to try to make final Bowser fights special, though not always!

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Dragon Ball Z Episode 83 complete!

Man, I would've laughed so hard if Vegeta's plan backfiring had resulted in his death.

Also Frieza's final form looks like Hojo's final form in FFVII.

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Aw yeah PS5 is arriving today

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Leonhart4 posted...

Man, I would've laughed so hard if Vegeta's plan backfiring had resulted in his death.

this was so incredibly dumb as an exploitation of what pretty much feels like a plot device, i loved it
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There's a local coffee shop here that also sells donuts, and they had a salted caramel donut, which sounded interesting, so I gave it a try.

It was an awful mistake. Those flavors don't blend, and now I've got the aftertaste is dominating my mouth.

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yeah that doesn't sound like a good combo to me

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I don't know why I'm torturing myself, but the jump rope minigame in FFIX is impossible

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I haven't attempted the jump rope mini-game in 20 years

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I can now pretty consistently get to 20, but the change in tempo just instantly kills me... the most I've done is 24

I'm just trying to go for 50 to get a Mognet letter at the moment (at which point I can punt to disc 4 for the purgatory of "in theory I could come back and do this later, so let's punt and pretend that will ever happen"

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Finally got to 50 after more than two hours of trying

Time to pitch this minigame back into the pit of hell it came from!

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On the plus side it didn't take that long to impress 100 nobles...!

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Got the PS5 set up. I guess Death Stranding will be the first game I experience on here, as it should be.

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I'm about 25% through Wheel of Time book 4, and it's been really good so far.

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Oh yeah go my Shadow Rising.

xp1337 posted...

F/GO: the power of gacha continues to encroach on my soul

Made an absolutely terrible decision trying to go for Kama here. I had originally decided I didn't care at all other than throwing like 10 tickets at the banner instead of just 5 in case the miracle happen... but then later I talked myself into making something of an attempt. That's.. fine, so far. The problem was I talked myself into "one more 10-roll" a few times after I hit the limit I had imposed to myself at the start.

Started at like 810 quartz. Told myself to stop at 600. Actually stopped at 480.

and literally only got a Parvati (technically NP2 because in my initial yolo ticket thing I do for event banners I actually got my first Parvati) and Diarmuid (Saber) to show for it.

ughhhhhhhhhhh honestly feel kinda sick. I feel like I was in a pretty good position for my Reines + Merlin with Stretch Goal Skadi towards the end of the year and now I feel like I just took a wrecking ball to it.

gachas are very scary my friends and i probably should not be trusted to play one

Oh hey I had that experience too. 500 SQ on Kama with no 5*s. Woo. I actually wanted her more than later servants though.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Oh hey I had that experience too. 500 SQ on Kama with no 5*s. Woo. I actually wanted her more than later servants though.

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. >_<

For my part, it's less that I missed on Kama (granted given the resources I put in my odds were north of 50%, but not by all that much) and more that for the first real time I got tilted by the rolls being just so bad and went over the limit I set for myself at the start and may have put my plans for the year in serious jeopardy. I had felt pretty good about them before the event given where I was at and now it could become an unmitigated disaster depending on the luck of the gacha.

Technically speaking, I think this is the biggest dud of a banner I've had so far in terms of resources spent so I guess this is my first "the real gacha starts here" moment and I've been fortunate up until now but argh I just wish it didn't happen a month before Case Files. Of all the times to lose composure.

Current trying to trick myself into believing the gambler's fallacy and that this just means the Case Files banner will go relatively painlessly and I can remain in good position for Merlin this summer. Worst-case scenario is I miss on Reines entirely (I'm thinking I'll be going in with just shy of 600 SQ as a conservative estimate, but tickets will definitely put me effectively a bit above that, but statistically that still isn't a great place to be) in which case you will find me inconsolable in a month's time lol. Especially because if I'm emptied out I'll be in a really bad position to recover in time for Merlin so it'll just snowball from there.

...It's a shame because it's put a bit of a damper on the actual event which I'm actually quite enjoying!

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Think of it this way: you wouldn't have gotten a 5* by spending this SQ on Reines/Merlin anyway, so you're just getting your disappointment early.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

Think of it this way: you wouldn't have gotten a 5* by spending this SQ on Reines/Merlin anyway, so you're just getting your disappointment early.

That's what I'm telling myself!

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Super Mario 3D World beated!

Well, the main game anyway. I'll tackle Bowser's Fury later. I want to go back and collect all the stars and stamps I missed first. That certainly wasn't the final boss I was expecting, but I appreciate the attempt to try something different.

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oh wait looks like I've unlocked the Star Road (or this game's equivalent anyway) so there's still more to come!

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SM3DW's final boss is great. Maybe second best mainline Mario final boss after Odyssey?
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I dunno. I think Mario World's final boss is probably my favorite, but it might be nostalgia because it's one of the first games I distinctly remember beating. I have fond memories of the final boss fight in Mario 64, too.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2 complete!

Man, Sam and Bucky have such good chemistry with each other.

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Yeah SMW final boss is good. Definitely a contender. Love the design.

I don't think SM64 final boss is all that special though, especially since it's basically the same as the previous two Bowsers.
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Yeah, a lot of final bosses are the same as previous fights, just with a twist. I just like the floor falling away to create a star, and you actually have to put some effort into it.

I also enjoy good atmosphere in a final boss, which is why I enjoy Mario Galaxy's last boss even though it's not any different than the first two. I just like the setting and the music.

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Most Bowser fights are good by atmosphere alone, but in general they're mostly all great. Sunshine isn't unfortunately and I also think 3's is a weak point in an otherwise almost perfect game.

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Okay, I finally finished The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya. I enjoyed Tsuruya's Challenge, although overall, it doesn't feel like they progressed the story in any meaningful way. I feel like they only acknowledged the events of Surprise once, and it was just a quick passing reference. I don't know if it gives me any real hope that Tanigawa is planning to write another one any time soon, although they did do a little foreshadowing at the end, as well as acknowledging and lampshading his own Chekhov's Gun from Intrigues. Regardless, I'm glad to have more Haruhi after all this time.

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