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...sooo, I'm guessing Vaike is/was Barry's Mirage? Also, I'm really quite angry that we don't get Barry as our resident axe-wielder. We've got the other bases fairly well covered at this point! Also, I'm deeply disappointed in our crew for not laughing at Yashiro after all his smugness and dramatic posing turned out to be a colossal waste of time, because let's be honest he's asking for it.
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vdate posted:...sooo, I'm guessing Vaike is/was Barry's Mirage? Also, I'm really quite angry that we don't get Barry as our resident axe-wielder. We've got the other bases fairly well covered at this point! He's asking for a lot of things. I hope we get to poke fun at him. Don't you want to? With that type of personality, it just makes you want to push his buttons and annoy him right? I sound like a terrible person, but whatever.
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Artix posted:I finally found you guys! Something awful's happened! W.T. Fits posted:GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS! I was reaching for the "Like" / "+1" button before I remembered that the SA forums don't have one. This is, I think, the first time I've wished there was a +1 feature for individual posts. Well done.
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Jul 6, 2017 15:53
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Blademaster_Aio posted:He's asking for a lot of things. I hope we get to poke fun at him. Don't you want to? With that type of personality, it just makes you want to push his buttons and annoy him right? I agree completely! On Yashiro, I mean. I dunno you well enough to say anything on the 'terrible person' front.
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Hey folks, work has been kicking my rear end lately and I haven't been able to actually put together updates. It's not like I've been doing nothing (I recorded like 4 hours of the game this morning), but I doubt I'll have the time to put anything substantial together until later this week. Hopefully things should be back soon!
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So, last time Daitou TV was under attack by a possessed Barry. That sure went south fast! ... ...Oh, and I guess we got a new party member or something? I'm sure it wasn't that important.  quote:
 Ellie is our resident archer, and like all pre-Fates archers, is fairly fast and accurate, passable on offense, and garbage otherwise. She doubles up on electricity (since we can't remove Itsuki from the party), but she does get some fire skills to help with coverage and we've been wanting for bow damage since the first dungeon. Otherwise, there isn't much to say about her other than the fact that she starts at Stage Rank 1. After all, she just got back from an overseas trip and stars in a TV show that gets really poor ratings. Why would anyone know who she is? On an aesthetic note, Ellie probably has the best design of anyone in the party. The rose arrows are a great touch, and Virion is far and away the best party mirage. Look at that loving rose pauldron. Look at it!  And here's the man himself, just chilling in the Bloom Palace. Let's get acquainted, shall we?  Aha! Itsuki, I presume? Yeah, that's me... And you are...? I am the noble Mirage partnered with Ellie... My name is Virion, good sir, and it is my distinct pleasure to make your acquaintance. Oh, so you're Ellie's Mirage. It's a pleasure to meet you too. As you have doubtless observed, dear Ellie is somewhat... rambunctious. As nobles, it is our duty to refine her into a lady of class! Um, I'm not really a noble or anything... Is that so? Strange... I could have sworn I felt a kinship! An aura of elegance, style, and fated grandeur! But no matter! Those of regal bearing and great nobility must act with all the magnanimity due of their station! If the mood ever strikes you, please, come by again for a chat! Conversation, advice, or witticism - all I shall happily supply.quote:
 Ellie's only available radiant skill slows down enemies on the field, which isn't much to write home about considering we're already faster than them.  Anyway, now that we're done with all our errands, let's get rolling. Onward to Daitou TV!  Daitou TV  Yep, this sure is a mirage attack.   Oh, Itsuki... Thank goodness... You're all right. There was a big...shadowy monster that attacked me, but Uncle Barry shielded me and- Where is he now? Over there... You're going to go save him, right...? Can I come with you...? Wait for us back at the office. Don't worry, we'll get Barry back safe. Okay...quote:
Sounds like Touma's got his head in the game, so we'd better follow suit. To the idolasphere!    It's a...giant Japanese garden? Yeah, sure, let's go with that.   I'll be counting on you, partner! Now let's show them how it's done in Hollywood. Illusory DTV is divided into two halves, with each one having the same basic structure. There's a large central building with four exits in the cardinal directions, and a sprawling set of paths that go around to each of the doors. This time around, there's a handful of tasks we need to do in order to set the stage and move on, but we'll see more about that once we get inside.  New enemies! The Blackwing Knights are the big ones, because now that Ellie's here, we finally have a good answer to enemy fliers. They're packing the usual assortment of lance skills and are weak to bows and wind, so we can clown on them pretty effortlessly. The Phantom, aside from being dapper as gently caress, is just another enemy in the ghost family - weak to electricity and bows.  This, incidentally, is the big reason we got Bow-Thunder on Itsuki. Ellie's starting skills leave a lot to be desired, with only Lance-Snipe and Sword-Plasma as session skills, and absolutely no one can pick up from her bow skills without Itsuki as a bridge. Itsuki/Tsubasa/Ellie is probably the best possible party for getting her going, which is pretty unfortunate because that's not a great damage-dealing party.  On our way to the west entrance, we come across an unlit lantern. Just keep it in mind for now, it'll be important in a bit.  And if we poke around on the decks a bit, we'll find another lantern and a new Performa (Garden Artistry) by the west door.  Red Mages crumble to basically any physical attack, but they are packing some Tier 2 spells so don't underestimate them in large numbers. Fortunately, they mostly spawn with Phantoms, which are far less threatening.  And our last new enemy for the moment, Infernos are basically just big buckets of HP. As you can probably guess, they're fire-elemental and hit like a truck if you let them, but they're weak to most other elements, especially ice - Kiria especially just chews through these poor guys. Just be careful if Touma is hanging around, because I'm pretty sure this is the first instance of an enemy absorbing an element.  Inside the building, the door to the south is blocked off by an orange barrier...  ...And there's a demon just standing around here. Let's see what he wants from us.   First job: Get the stage nice and ready! Turn on all four of the lanterns outside! Report to me when you finish, then we'll go to the set inside and I'll give you your next assignment. I-I understand! All riiiiiight. Good answer, good answer. I'm expecting good things! (I guess he'll lead us inside if we finish our tasks... It seems simple enough. We might as well humor him.)As Itsuki says, it's simple enough. Light the four lanterns, and you can move on to the second floor.  Now that we've spoken to the director, this menu option pops up. From here, we'll head back into the main building and go out the north door.  Past that, there's the instructions for all the assorted tasks we'll be doing in the dungeon. It's...nice, I guess? But ultimately not very useful, because you can always just talk to the director if you need a refresher.  Der Freischütz increases Ellie's crit rate with Bow skills. She's already fairly critty because of her high skill, and this just makes her moreso.  And Kiria trades out Lullaby Song for Zan. Really, I should have dumped Flux, but either way this gives Kiria more or less complete elemental coverage and lets her sub in for both Tsubasa and Touma as needed.  The north area is fairly small and there isn't much to it other than the lantern. However, we can sneak down a small side path to grab a pair of Mazan stones.  The area to the east is incredibly small, literally a single path that leads out to the lantern, but it makes up for that by going down and around to connect with the southern part of the docks. That one-way wall is the other side of the one you can see from the entrance.  Ellie picks up Skill Boost and Itsuki takes a pass on Wyrmslayer. Wyvern Riders are flyers and half of them are weak to electricity anyway, so it's not nearly as imperative as some other skills are.  Wicked Lips is a fun one, slightly cutting the cost of all offensive magic. In practice, it's largely useless simply because Kiria already has the closest thing to a bottomless EP pool, so this just makes it even more bottomless.  Tucked away in a corner is a pair of smoke machines. They're nice, but smoke machines are incredibly cheap to buy and they're so useful that there's no reason to not be walking around with 20 of them at all times.  And in the farthest corner of the first set, we find a treasure key and a Bead Chain. This one's fairly easy to miss, and it's probably the best treasure on the entire floor!  With that, all four lanterns are lit. We could go see what the director wants next, but we could use an EP top-off before doing another dive, so back to the office.  You know what? Sure, lay it on us Aya.  Do you know the late-night gourmet TV show "Food Heaven"? Despite being on so late, the show is very popular and usually earns a rating of 15% thanks to its charismatic host Himemaro. Recently, however, the ratings have been falling. From what I hear, it's due to Himemaro's poor performance... They're taping Food Heaven in Shibuya right now, could you got to the Gourmet House to check on her? If something's wrong, please let me know.A food critic? Now this is something near and dear to Itsuki's heart. Don't you worry, Aya. If there was ever a time you had the right man on the case, this is it.  This is also the first point at which we have a serious prestige crunch. Between Tsubasa and Ellie, six of our ten 3-star prestiges get eaten up in Radiant Skills, and that's before we even start talking about the six or so new weapons we could forge (each of which requires 3-5 3-stars a piece).  Ultimately, I settle on making the Lilith Rod. Not because it's particularly better than any of the other options, just that Kiria is going to be the first one to need a new weapon, so we might as well have it ready. Anyway, next time we'll finish up the first set and see what's going on with our wayward food critic. See you all then! Artix fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Jul 25, 2017 04:10
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I feel something really bad...and heavy... Yeah, it feels really heavy.
no doubt about it, ms. maiko. looks like the station was just attacked
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Virion's also unique in that he's the only member of Awakening's English dub cast to not have a credited voice actor. For Fire Emblem Heroes, he does have a credited voice actor (Jameison Price, using his "Taylor Henry" pseudonym), but there hasn't been any word on whether or not that was the person who voiced Virion in Awakening.
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Jul 25, 2017 04:27
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Huh, so Eleonora has a male Emblemsona, huh? I can think of several things that might mean, including 'she just does'!
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Jul 25, 2017 05:40
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You referred to the food critic as Himemaru and Himemaro. Also I can imagine that Itsuki would do his job better, so that should be an easy sidequest.
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Jul 25, 2017 06:01
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God drat, that Virion design. That is loving incredible. It's like they crossbred Silver Chariot with the entirety of Rose of Versailles. I think I actually like this one better than Gangrel!
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Jul 25, 2017 19:01
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Virion is glorious, yes. He would totally flit around in a giant shiny rose armor if it was at all practical.
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Jul 26, 2017 03:11
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Virion and Tharja, bleck Though that is a  design
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Jul 26, 2017 05:10
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 on Virion and Carnage-Ellie, though I still think the starting trio have the best Carnage designs.
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Last time we learned of an ailing food critic, and that's one thing Itsuki simply will not stand for. But first, let's check up on some of the other residents of Shibuya. This guy looks like he's in a good spot. I'm sure he's having a great day.  *sigh* ...Hey, what're you staring at? Don't play dumb... You were staring at the weird gate, weren't ya? I've been looking for a guy like you. Think you could do me a favor?Itsuki accepted the request "Iori in Love". Hoo boy, I think I can see where this one is going.  When I first saw it, I stuck my foot in and that was that: I found myself in a strange world. Next thing I knew, all these monsters were chasing me! I ran like hell, but... They still caught up, and I thought I was gonna wind up some monster's lunch. But a girl came outta nowhere and saved me! I've never seen anyone like her... That cutie was out of this world. Ahhh... She stole my heart. It was love at first sight... ... Uh... Cat got yer tongue? So, I need you to go through the gate and tell that girl how I feel about her. My name's Souji Iori. She's somewhere near the ticket gates in that strange world. Thanks, man! I'm countin' on ya!What is it with people and falling in love with demons? I feel like it's in every single SMT game and they always go the exact same way.  Before we head into Illusory Shibuya, we might as well check in with the food critic since that's where Aya's going to send us anyway.   Ugh! I don't have the words to communicate how delicious it tastes... I can't be a food show host if I can't describe the food... Ugh, I'm such a failure... *sigh*Yep, off to the idolasphere.  Of course it's a bunny cleric. Why would it not be?  What, you have something to say to me? (A girl by the ticket gates... She must be the mirage Iori was talking about.) Ahh, I remember him. He was clinging to me, yelling "Get me outta here!" He was so revolting, so I told him the way out and got rid of him. Just thinking about him makes my hair stand on end! Hey, you! Tell that Io-whatever-his-name-is this... If I ever see him again, I'll rip that jiggly pompadour of his to shreds! (That's pretty harsh, but I guess I should tell Iori...)Well that went about as well as it always does. Let's go kill some demons.  This guy is a little harder to find, he's hiding underneath the middle ledge at the big three-path split towards the end.   It's also the first time we're on even footing with these guys, probably a little underlevelled. This has some...notable consequences, shall we say.  For starters, if they proc a weakness, that character is probably dead, even before the sessions start. This situation is not helped by me leading with Ellie and Kiria as my party.  Take two: Kiria is weak to swords, so this is still a bit of a gamble, but the myrmidons are weak to ice so we need her for damage. Touma resists fire and swords, in addition to giving us lance damage, so he's in for Ellie.  Plus, he gives us *much* better session combos for dealing with the Leviathan. Ellie's Sword-Plasma would have ended it immediately after Itsuki's initial attack, which is unfortunate to say the least.  That said, we have a much more important job for Itsuki right now. With the possibility of eating 450 damage a turn, we need a defense buff up immediately.  Now that we can handle. 200 damage a turn isn't too bad, as long as we get a little lucky with avoiding weaknesses.  That said, this is a problem. Hamstring is admittedly a Tier 1 lance skill, but even with Touma's huge strength *and* hitting a weakness, it still barely scratched his health bar, and there are two of these fuckers to deal with.  Leave it Kiria to bail us out.  Doubly so when this attack doesn't cause an enemy session because Labyrinth confused all the enemies.  With the incoming damage knocked down a bit, we have some breathing room to get on the attack. The Levianthan is probably the least dangerous of the three enemies here, but he can drop Poison Mist on us, and one less enemy is still one less enemy.  And there's the money shot. Like I said, bringing Kiria is a bit of a risk, but drat if it doesn't have a sweet payoff.    Touma picks up the Tier 2 Fire skill, as well as part of the Blockbuster skill (increases the crit rate of attacks in a session), and Itsuki trades Def Boost for Yasha Soul, which increases his crit rate with sword attacks. These fights are definitely getting trickier, but that's what makes them satisfying to clear.  The batter is crispy yet thick! The texture is absolutely amazing. Such a refined taste! This cream! It's so rich! The meat and vegetables burst out of the cream... And a spiciness adds to the explosion of flavor! This combination of crispy and creamy pushes the flavor to a whole new level! Wooooo! It's like the flavors are dancing on my tongue! Zoyo! ...I think I'm back. All right, let's do this! Zoyo!All that work for this amateur poo poo? Itsuki could have done that in his sleep.   Itsuki delivered the mirage's message to Iori... She didn't have to be so heartless! What, is it the pompadour? Is that it? Maybe it's outta fashion where she's from. *sigh* I guess it was a lost cause from the start. I mean, we literally live in different worlds. I mean, it sucks, but I guess I'll just hafta look for a new love. ...Anyways, thanks for the help. You and me are gonna be buddies, I can tell.Request complete! Received Magic Incense x2! Are we? Are we really, Iori? Well, at least we got a pair of stat ups for it.  Man, where do you people even come from? What do *you* want?   Do you have a part-time job!? I really want one! Something classy! In the big city! Senpai, please tell me you know a fancier job here in Shibuya...? It's such a trendy part of the city!Man, it's one thing to be like "Do my homework" or "Find 5 bear asses", it's quite another to literally ask "Find me a job!" Do it yourself, you lazy shitlord.  Okay, fine. Go be a waiter and stop wasting my time.  That! Is! IT! Shibuya's Cafe Seiren is THE hottest, flashiest place in town! Thank you, thank you! I need to hurry! I'm going to go now, bye!Good, go get to work and thanks for the Melmarks. Now, back to the office and finally turn in this food critic quest.  ... *cough* ...Okay, I'll work on that. Thank you for all your hard work, and I'll let you know if I hear any more suspicious rumors.Anyway, another request, another Clap Track. Next, it's back to the dungeon, for real this time!
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Lover boy specifically feels like a Strange Journey reference to me. That's the only other SMT game that has a similar side quest, IIRC. Given how performas are basically formas with a prefix stapled on, I'm almost positive it's SJ specifically.
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Jul 27, 2017 20:45
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ChaosArgate posted:Lover boy specifically feels like a Strange Journey reference to me. That's the only other SMT game that has a similar side quest, IIRC. Given how performas are basically formas with a prefix stapled on, I'm almost positive it's SJ specifically. Yeah, I was gonna say, that guy might as well be named Anthony.
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ChaosArgate posted:Lover boy specifically feels like a Strange Journey reference to me. That's the only other SMT game that has a similar side quest, IIRC. Given how performas are basically formas with a prefix stapled on, I'm almost positive it's SJ specifically. practically the same rewards too.
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Jul 27, 2017 21:50
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The guy who kept falling for all the female demons, right? For being such a grim, grindy game most of the time, SJ had some pretty funny side quests.
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Jul 27, 2017 21:59
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Rangpur posted:The guy who kept falling for all the female demons, right? For being such a grim, grindy game most of the time, SJ had some pretty funny side quests. I feel like that quest was kind of a piss take on some of the creepier fans - especially the lolicons who liked the younger-looking demons.
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ChaosArgate posted:Lover boy specifically feels like a Strange Journey reference to me. That's the only other SMT game that has a similar side quest, IIRC. Given how performas are basically formas with a prefix stapled on, I'm almost positive it's SJ specifically. From the icon, I thought he was wearing a hat. There's a certain other character I could name that's too pervy for his own good, wears a blue hat, and is named Iori... On the other hand, this guy is pretty solidly Anthony also.
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Jul 27, 2017 23:54
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I read it more as poking fun at their own designs but either way it was entertaining. Also the one where your ship's bathroom is haunted by the ghost of ringworm past.
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AweStriker posted:From the icon, I thought he was wearing a hat. There's a certain other character I could name that's too pervy for his own good, wears a blue hat, and is named Iori... I'm unfamiliar with Strange Journey, not having played any SMT games besides Persona, so I also thought it was a Junpei reference. Also, there's a shot of Ellie's session break in the image where you're first fighting the Leviathan, in case anyone missed it and wanted to see what it looked like.
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ChaosArgate posted:Lover boy specifically feels like a Strange Journey reference to me. That's the only other SMT game that has a similar side quest, IIRC. Given how performas are basically formas with a prefix stapled on, I'm almost positive it's SJ specifically.
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Man, they don't mess around with challenge fights, do they? That's the SMT showing through.
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Oh, question. A couple of Carnages are based on/named after legendary weapons in the different FE games. Will you explain their origins when they come up?
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To the best of my ability. I'm not super familiar with some of the earlier FE games (4 and 5 especially) nor am I a mythology buff, so don't expect much more detail than "Tyrfing is a callback to Sigurd's legendary weapon from FE4" and maybe a point of trivia if there's something relevant.
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I only started reading the LP a day or two ago, but if they went with dubs, I see Touma being voiced by Johnny Yong Bosh.
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So last time we did a bunch of random poo poo, but we're not going to get sidetracked right now, we've got to go save- No! Bad Aya! Bad! I just said- Have you heard of the comedy duo Ota-Yan Union? The funny man tells a silly joke, and then the straight man flips out. That's basically their entire act. But rumor has it that Aniki, the straight man, has lost his timing. And now he's a shell of his former self on stage... Otakura, the funny man, wrote on his blog that they're training in Harajuku for the Manzai Grand Prix, a comedy contest. Itsuki, please go and check it out for me. A mere shell... That worries me.Yep, that's great Aya, we'll get right on it. You said Illusory DTV right? On my way. (The real answer, of course, is that we barely scraped by in Illusory Shibuya and we would get destroyed by the Illusory DTV enemies.)  And hey, speaking of Illusory DTV enemies, the Red Barbarian is newest axe enemy in town. He's actually kind of a pain, because he resists both electricity and ice, which is the cornerstone of the Itsuki/Ellie/Kiria party.  Ellie's stage rank being so low to start isn't nearly as big of a deal as it seems, since she gets a lot of stuff really early. Her first sidequest is at Rank 3, and she gets an incredibly important skill at Rank 6 when everyone else gets it around Rank 8 or 9.  And while it's always nice to pick up more session skills, Elec-Snipe is about as useless of one as you can get. It pretty much exists solely to let her combo off of Itsuki since she's the only other party member with Electric skills, and no one else can pick up from Bow skills.   Anyway, since we lit all the lanterns, the director removes the barrier and we can head upstairs. On to 2F!  New floor, new enemies. Yomotsu Shikome can gently caress your day up with wind spells if you let them, but they're weak to electricity. Itsuki and Ellie should make short work of them, no matter how little you've used her.  There are a pair of beads just hanging out immediately to our right on 2F. It's kind of absurd how easy it is to get high-end healing items in this game, and combined with the fact that you have multiple items that do the same thing (see Fresh Spicy Curry and Revival Beads), it's really hard to actually die unless you get way in over your head.  The center of 2F has a locked chest, our teleporter, and the director with another task for us. We'll start with the director.  The AD's waiting close to the small room to the north, so go get your next instructions! He rules with an iron fist... ...You say something, guy? N-No! Nothing!The ol' delegation move, what a classic. Well, before we head north, let's crack that chest open.  That...was probably not the best use of a chest key. But sure, whatever, I'll take it.  The director asked us to come help the AD... Is that you? Oh, much obliged! I need you to adjust the lighting in the cast members' waiting room. I was in a rush and got them wrong... Find out what each cast member wants to figure out how many paper lanterns they want on, and fix them accordingly. After you adjust the lightning, make sure you confirm with each cast member before you come back. You can turn the paper lanterns on with these, so good luck!I actually kind of like this one, since it requires a little thought. More than "Press the four buttons" did, anyway.  There's a lantern room immediatly to the AD's left, so let's pop in real quick and see how it works.  So right now, one of the three lanterns are lit, which we know is wrong. If we talk to the demon...  Alright, easy enough. We have two spare light sources, so we'll use one of them to light a second lantern and try again.  And that's one down. Note that lighting the lantern did consume one of our light sources, but if we need more we can always go back and talk to the director again.  On our way to the west door, we meet these fuckers. Knights have a massive pile of HP and defense, and resist bows, wind and lances. However, outside of Itsuki's Zio skills, we have no way of inflicting magical fire or electric damage, so they might as well resist that too. But like the Infernos, they have a massive Kiria-sized problem in that they're weak to ice *and* have non-existent resistance.  Mind you, the HP is still a problem. It would go marginally faster if we swapped Ellie out for Tsubasa, but a 200+ damage hit doesn't even knock them below half health. Hell, Itsuki's Fatal Sword, despite being a Tier 2 Sword skill, barely cracks 130 damage.  Ellie picks up Tarunda as we work our way around the west deck. An attack debuff is probably the least useful thing she can be doing, but I guess it's better than nothing. That said, now that she's maxed out her current weapon and unlocked her first sidequest, there's no real need to keep her in the party either. Tsubasa and Kiria are both one rank away from their next sidequests, so we'll be rolling with them for the time being.  The western lantern room starts with all three lit, and he wants it a little darker. Two lanterns will do the trick here.  Stage Rank 7 simply nets Itsuki Endless Act, the physical get-out-of-jail-free card.   That person likes his room bright, but I don't need it to be THAT bright.The southern room, while not particularly difficult on its own (he wants it dropped to one lantern), mostly exists to set up the final one. That one is not completable without taking the flame essences from this room (or backtracking all the way to the director to get an extra one).  Because the east room requires you to have three banked flame essences. If this is the last one that you do, you should have the three that you need ready to go, but if not, you're going to be doing some backtracking. Anyway, with all four dressing rooms taken care of, let's head back to the director.  Along the way, Tsubasa picks up Healing Expertise, which increases the amount of HP her spells restore. Passive skills aren't as useful as you'd think in this game, but there are definitely clear winners and losers, and a heal boost is a hell of a lot more useful than Res +2.   You probably won't get lost...but don't stop and smell the roses, or you'll be late!And with that, we are now completely done with the first half of the dungeon. Coming up next is the miniboss, so let's go cash in our radiant skills and make some new weapons.  Itsuki has a trio of new toys, but we're going to be paying special attention to the Matador. Not only does it come with intrinsic Auto-Sukukaja, it teaches Itsuki the skill Dual Dispatch, which rolls Horseslayer and Armorslayer into one skill for just 10 MP. As far as utility skills go, it's about as good as you're going to get on Itsuki.  For Tsubasa, the Stingray and Hayakaze are largely identical, it just depends on whether you want to upgrade her lance skills or wind magic first. As nice as Assault Dive is, it's not *that* much of an upgrade for her, so we definitely want the Hayakaze here.  Kiria is in a similar position. Lorelei increases her magic evasion and the Vajra blocks confusion, but otherwise this is a pretty blatant "DO YOU WANT FIRE, ICE OR WIND MAGIC?" choice.  And finally, Ellie picks up this...interesting weapon. On the surface, it doesn't look very good since it makes her weak to every flavor of physical attacks, but the skills that it has make it worth it. Flame Strike (Tier 2 fire attack), Fire Boost, and a very early Arrow Rain (Tier 2 arrow damage to all enemies) makes it worth putting up with the weaknesses, especially early on in the dungeon. But we're not going to be doing any of that nonsense next time. Next time, we're going on a date. See you then!
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Huh, I never noticed Matador grants Auto-Sukukaja. That's kinda cheeky, Atlus. 
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ChaosArgate posted:Huh, I never noticed Matador grants Auto-Sukukaja. That's kinda cheeky, Atlus. Agreed, it's a nice touch.
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Aug 3, 2017 18:59
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Auto-Sukukaja. They know. Oh god they know 
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ChaosArgate posted:Huh, I never noticed Matador grants Auto-Sukukaja. That's kinda cheeky, Atlus. Nocturne reference? Never played that one, but the Nocturne Matador boss fight is kinda legendary.
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Aug 5, 2017 19:40
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Omobono posted:Nocturne reference? Never played that one, but the Nocturne Matador boss fight is kinda legendary.
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I am so excited for next update you don't even know. I am also excited for when we finally save manzai comedy.
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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, Matador in Nocturne had an ability called Red Capote, which applied four stacks of Sukukaja to him, rendering him almost impossible to hit. And if you Dekaja/Sukunda'd him, he'd just re-cast Red Capote. he doesn't use Capote till about 75%, so if you can stack sukunda before hand you can make him waste turns,
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Do those X-slayer type attacks also start a session, or is that damage type only?
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Glazius posted:Do those X-slayer type attacks also start a session, or is that damage type only? They can start a session, i believe. Would need to boot up my copy to check
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Glazius posted:Do those X-slayer type attacks also start a session, or is that damage type only? They do! It's a weapon attack, so as long as something can session off that weapon, it works.
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Glazius posted:Do those X-slayer type attacks also start a session, or is that damage type only? X-Slayer attacks both trigger sessions and elemental immunities/repels/absorbs are ignored from the start in said session. Commander Keene posted:Yeah, Matador in Nocturne had an ability called Red Capote, which applied four stacks of Sukukaja to him, rendering him almost impossible to hit. And if you Dekaja/Sukunda'd him, he'd just re-cast Red Capote. Wouldn't a party member chaining dekaja/sukunda force Matador to waste turns rebuffing himself in that case? 1 to 1 turn trades tend to be in the player's favour in this kind of games.
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