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Critic of the Dawn posted:So, a friend and I played all the way through this game together over a course of an entire year, and one question I was never able to get a decent answer for is... They're referred to as 'gunlances' in various materials; from what I can tell, the shield isn't actually a shield, but a cowling for a piston mechanism used to drive the blade or speartip forward. It's functionally a weaponized pile bunker/stake driver.
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Critic of the Dawn posted:So, in other words, it is indeed intended to be a spring-loaded shield giant bottle opener club spear claw thing just like I assumed. My favorite detail is that Reyn barely even uses it for its actual function. He pretty much just clubs poo poo over the head with it, because REYN TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS.
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Aug 10, 2013 17:57
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Hjalmar posted:It's also worth mentioning with Chain Attacks that if you end a fight during one, you get double EXP and AP. So, with certain characters who are really good at building the party meter, that's just another way to mitigate any sense of "grind" that is usually such a pain in JRPGs. Yeah, the game really does not require any sort of 'grinding' in the traditional sense. It's simply that the game is absurdly, brainmeltingly LONG. You're pretty much always decently equipped to handle anything that comes your way; actually BREAKING the game is more to do with skillful play and knowing how the various upgrade systems work.
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Aug 11, 2013 03:09
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Critic of the Dawn posted:I noticed that as well - I'm not sure if the animations work like that to draw attention to the fact that Reyn is both very strong and a little dense, or if it's just the typical "video game animators have no idea how the weapons they are tasked to animate actually work, so everything just gets swung around like a sword or a club" thing. He gets SOME of the moves right(interestingly, a lot of his later arts involve properly utilizing his weapon, giving some nice mechanical integration of his character development), and we see a number of soldiers in the prologue and throughout the game using it properly, so I think it actually was intentional. When it comes to stuff like 'man, did they do that on PURPOSE, or was that a mistake,' you can generally bank on Xenoblade doing it for a good reason. Later stuff REALLY drives that point home; arguably the biggest strength of the game is the sheer economy of storytelling. If it seems meaningful, it probably is, there's very few pointless details.
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Aug 11, 2013 16:50
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Yeah. Reyn's not a DUMBASS, he just runs his mouth when he shouldn't and doesn't think things through. He only really looks stupid next to Shulk, who is an actual genius; when your best buddy is frigging Einstein, it's hard not to seem like Joe Blow from Kokomo in comparison.
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Aug 11, 2013 17:01
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Hey, Lethemonster, I was pondering doing some party member writeups as they become part of the main group, detailing what they're good at and how to use them. Obviously I'd start with Shulk and Reyn; would it be cool if I went ahead with that?
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Aug 13, 2013 17:10
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Ah, cool beans then! I'll hold off until you do.
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Aug 13, 2013 19:31
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Ah yes, THIS lovely fellow. I feel like when they showed his VA a picture of the character design, he just went 'that's an Ork Warboss,' decided to put on his best 'mad cockney git' voice, and hammed it up as spectacularly as he could.
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Aug 14, 2013 20:28
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It's not that they're too high, it's simply that the Monado doesn't work on them unless they're toppled. Essentially, against Faces, the Monado is considered a normal weapon, which means you have to fight them like you would regular Mechon. Break/Topple/Daze works just fine against them, though.
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Aug 15, 2013 00:17
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dude789 posted:I feel that Sharla gets a bit of a bad rap. She's just a bit more specialized than the other characters. She's not great against random mobs, but she also saves you a lot of grinding by making fights winnable a few levels before they would be without her healing. The problem with Sharla is that healing simply isn't all that useful in Xenoblade. She's great if you want to punch above your weight-class to get more experience, but... why would you EVER do that in Xenoblade? Sharla's not a BAD character by any means; situationally, she's amazingly handy. But she is the LEAST useful character in a party of playables who are all INCREDIBLY useful.
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Aug 15, 2013 01:07
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Huh. Interesting. Although considering it further that DOES make sense.
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Aug 15, 2013 01:55
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Wonderslug posted:We should all just be grateful the localization team didn't take it in a different direction. To be fair I would watch the poo poo out of that movie. Also 
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In the US 'learnt' is typically associated with country and hillbilly dialects; 'learned' is the typical form in modern American english, whereas 'learnt' is considered archaic and bumpkin-ish.
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