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What? Etrian Odyssey Nexus is a dungeon-crawler turn-based JRPG developed by Atlus and published by Sega. Released in Japan on August 2nd, 2018, and in North America and Europe on February 5th, 2019, EON is the final Etrian Odyssey game on the 3DS, which makes sense, because the 3DS is rapidly approaching end of life. In the spirit of being the final game on the console which really propelled the series from being very niche to not as niche, EON is a celebration of the series so far, with a whopping 19 classes, all but one of which return from previous games, and a selection of Labyrinth locales from previous games alongside a few new ones (though all but a very small amount of the layouts are new). Why? Because I love this series, and because EON is a celebration of it. I prepared myself for this LP for a while by means of the Japanese version, so even though we're a mere day out from the NA release date at time of writing, I'm ready to go. Don't worry about my EOU LP, by the way, it'll be finished up as I'm doing this one, though given lower priority since it's pretty close to the end. Who? Besides myself, joining me will be a few friends of mine: Reco, who also co-commentates EOU with me, Angel, my co-writer and EOU co-commentator as of very late, and Afilitaria and Mutie, new members of our team. Oh yeah, all of the narrative characters were contributed by members of the EO LP Discord, which is a cool place for cool people and you should totally join it so you can listen to me babble about these drat games. And also babble yourself about these drat games, if that's your thing. Where? Glad you asked. Oh, by the way, no spoilers. At all. Got it? Table of Contents Update 1: The Aeon Guild Update 2: Revere the First Adventurers Update 3: Hedge Trimming (Blossombeast) Update 4: Palmtree Panic Zone 1 Update 5: More of the Same that was the Same Last Time Update 6: Pulling it Off With the Pump Sisters Update 7: The Cat Says "Borp" Update 8: Descending Bear 2nd Labyrinth Bosses Overview Update 9: Smash Attack Update 10: Wait, What Fairies? Update 11: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh Update 12: Jade Jungle, This is Not Update 13: Squirrely Dragon Wyvern Overview Update 14: Why are Wyvern's Wings so Veiny, Anyway? Update 15: If I Ever See This Stupid Rock Again, It'll Be Too Soon Class Overviews Common Passives Hero Protector Survivalist Medic Ronin Highlander Gunner Sovereign Ninja Zodiac Farmer Shogun Arcanist Imperial Pugilist Harbinger Other Etrian Odyssey Things rhematic.net, where my EO5 and EOU LPs are hosted. That EO2U LP I did forever ago. An ongoing LP of EO1, by Crosspeice, with co-commentary from Dr. Fetus and I. An LP of EO2, by Dr. Fetus. An LP of EO3, by Dr. Fetus. The EO Megathread. Rea fucked around with this message at 05:53 on May 28, 2019 |
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Hero 1: Ashley (by Angel) quote:Born to a lineage of heroes with incredible powers, Ashley Protagonist has had a glowing golden eye her whole life. It's not exactly clear why Ash inherited the powers, but not her brother. It's possible that it's because she was the firstborn, or because of her kindness. Or maybe it's just fate. But that's silly. Hero 2: Cason (by Rea) quote:If you asked Cason what his profession is, he'd instantly respond 'Dark Hero.' If you asked him 'what's the difference between a Hero and a Dark Hero,' he'd stare at you intensely until you retract the question. If you asked him why he's a Dark Hero instead of a normal Hero, he'd clam up and walk away. Survivalist: Sharpe (by BlackPersona) quote:"I'm Sharpe! I'm from Et- uh, I mean, I'm from the mainland! I wanted to join your Guild because I heard that you were a Hero! And I think that's awesome, and I wanted to learn about bein' brave and fearless and cool like you guys! Me, I'm not that cool, but I wanna be! I'm good with a bow, my m-mom taught me when I was young! I can show you later, if you want! Uhh, more about me, more about me... I'm quick on my feet, because I've been helping my mom hunt since I was eight! Yeah... Since I was eight... Protector: Holly (by Paradox Roxy) quote:The daughter of a noble family, born and raised to be wed to a princertain of high esteem, master of all types of weapons, and destined to be Ronin: Kyoko (by Angel) quote:A globetrotter, Kyoko has explored nearly every corner of the world. Whilst most Labyrinths are simply too harrowing for a lone artist, she nevertheless has accrued quite an impressive tally in fulfilling her wanderlust. She has plunged into the depths of Ginnungagap, joined the Highlanders in hunting and exploring in the wilderness, sailed nigh-on every corner of the seas of Armoroad, traversed the four lands of Tharsis, and more. As an artist by trade, she always seeks inspiration. A life-or-death struggle awakens indescribable feelings, and beautiful, strange, or disturbing vistas bring forth contextless descriptions. You merely need to put them together, and make a piece out of them. Medic: Heath (by Spiderpig/Toyo), accompanied by Friedrich (by Rea and Angel) quote:A wolf is quite loyal to those who are wise, and Heath is no exception. Unlike most wolves, Heath usually carries around a decent lot of stuff with him, most of which being medical tools with some alterations for... Well, being a wolf. How he learned to use the types of tools in the first place isn't exactly certain, but what is certain is that he's one hell of a good service wolf. He's somewhat protective, but that's just how he is when he sees people he likes being hurt. And trust me, he likes a lot of people. quote:Friedrich is a fat cat. He's Heath's traveling companion (boyfriend? maybe? it's a bit hard to tell with animals). Sometimes he appears to hand bandaids to Heath? Mostly he just sort of sits on Heath's back and...converses? with Heath. "Conversation" between those two being more akin to back-and-forth barks and nyurms. Gunner: Sophian (by Snacks) quote:Sophian hails from a town not too close to High Lagaard, far to the west, known as "Nice." War Magus: Lavi (by TollingBells) quote:Full Name: Queen Lavi Othniel, 'The Lioness' Highlander: Adan and Abby (by Wakujuz) quote:For a whole week Adan had been having strange dreams; a fierce woman in warrior's garb, the signature spear of their people held with practiced ease. These dreams left him feeling heated and tired, worn out as if he's run all day and soaked in sweat. On the seventh day the dream abated and he awoke refreshed, but the back of his hand sported a swirling brand of quicksilver. His life was never the same. Sovereign: Edelvale (by Afilitaria) quote:Once upon a time, there existed a pair of kingdoms, no short distance from Etria. Shogun: Chihaya (by Endorph) quote:Chihaya's clan - the Tadakata clan - have been protectors of the world since ancient times, with the eldest child being taught every sword technique they've accumulated over the years, before being passed onto the next generation. That eldest child will then travel the world, righting great wrongs and checking in on areas of magical interest, before settling down and having a child to pass onto the next generation. Thus, the family's traveled far from their home, and Chihaya has no idea what country she's descended from. Zodiac: Trinity (by Plutia) quote:Born to an arrogant alchemist that wasn't all that good at their job. It didn't take long for him to find out (much to his displeasure) that his daughter was a heck of a lot better at his whole 'alchemy' thing than they were. One heck of a bad relationship later, Trinity escaped. She tries to distance herself from this past as much as possible, to the point of abandoning her alchemic talents in favor of astrology. Ninja: Amatsu (by Jade Rider) quote:Amatsu was born into a prestigious ninja family, trained rigorously for years, and never really questioned their life of rigid structure and rules. One day, however, on a break from their teachings, Amatsu was sidetracked by a group of traveling performers putting on a show. It didn't take long for them to be enthralled by it all, and after receiving whatever official ninja designations they had in their hometown, Amatsu drafted a carefully thought out letter to their parents... Farmer: Lilian (by Somebody Else) quote:Rumored to be a descendant of the legendary chef Apicius, Lilian displayed unparalleled talent in the arts of a chef from a very early age. Graduating from her homeland's premier culinary academy at the age of fifteen (a feat purportedly achieved by only two before her), she could have apprenticed under any master chef she chose. But, while touring the restaurants of the world to make her choice, her complaint was the same no matter where she went and what she tasted: as tastefully prepared and seasoned as the dishes might have been, the ingredients just weren't fresh enough. Even when the chefs protested that they had been gathered just that day, Lilian wouldn't have it; the food just didn't "taste right" to her. Landsknecht: Astra (by Andrew) quote:Born into a family of mages who helped run the Vental Kingdom magic university Astra was read childrens stories about the legendary adventures of heroes which sparked an interest bordering on obsession within her. Nightseeker: Aina (by Tyty) quote:An adventurer who describes herself as a fallen angel. She's completely obsessed with relics of the ancient world, particularly those from Etria, and believes that anime openings and j-pop were actually ancient warsongs holding great power. She aims to collect as many as possible, and adorns her living quarters with strange statuettes of busty women in bikinis. Arcanist: Nadym, with Magna-Calcula (by Awe) quote:Once an ordinary if irritable scholar of mathematics, Nadym was thrust into turmoil when a sinister organization launched an ultimately successful plot to discredit and eventually destroy his university. Trusted with his mentor's magical arm-mounted computer Magna-Calcula, he must learn the arts of combat geometry that his mentor was developing in secret in order to win a new life. Imperial: Runa (by Tyty) quote:An imperial engineer sent to Armoroad to research the Yggdrasil there, but she gave up on that almost immediately. She opted to research yggdroids and their culture instead. She's incredibly fascinated by robotics and machinations. After receiving news that her duties searching for a way to awaken the yggdrasil in her homeland were no longer needed, she decided to travel the world searching for more machines to study. Pugilist: Syrel (by Ciel) quote:A young girl who had thought about being a Necromancer before realizing that none of them have any fashion sense, she now dresses like a vamp and practices fighting with her body, attempting to hone an art where people can wear decent clothes and still fight effectively, while searching for the mythical secret to truly becoming a vampire, in part because what she knows of vampires is that they're physically blessed, and that means she can be even better as punching! Harbinger: Yukiko and Maru (by Afilitaria) quote:Once upon a time, there was tale of a dragon's blood that made such a powerful medicine, that it was guaranteed to be a cure for any and all diseases and wounds. However, this dragon was also infamous for its unsatiable hunger, its never-ending desire for destruction... Rea fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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It begins! Ashley is amazing, Cason is just plain adorable, and we all need to be as decisive as Heath. Also, Magna-Calcula is my favorite guild member. I hope to see them in the party often! Looking forward to seeing how the rest of the party turns out!
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That's a big and colorful cast of characters - but with 19 classes that was to be expected. It will be hard to remember what class some of them are but that's what the character write-up is for. During the fish event my gunner just shot the fish. I was wondering what would happen if you had no ranged physical class and the LP already answered that for me.
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 22:28 |
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werbear posted:During the fish event my gunner just shot the fish. I was wondering what would happen if you had no ranged physical class and the LP already answered that for me. There's a lot of different variations of that event. Namely, there's a Survivalist one (fires an arrow), a Highlander one (throws their spear), a Gunner one like you said, a Zodiac one (electrocutes the water, which damages the person in the water), and an Imperial one (fires their Drive Blade at the fish).
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 22:33 |
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I like this crew
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 23:04 |
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Oh! Thank you for reminding me to buy this now that it is out...and by extension, reminding me to finish V. Best of luck with the LP!
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 23:26 |
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This crew is very good and bless Cason for being such a teen.
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 23:28 |
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Sharpe looks like a precious child and I can't wait to ruin that through violence and death. My vote every time.
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# ? Feb 6, 2019 23:35 |
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Ragnar Homsar posted:Namely, there's a Survivalist one (fires an arrow), a Highlander one (throws their spear), a Gunner one like you said, a Zodiac one (electrocutes the water, which damages the person in the water), and an Imperial one (fires their Drive Blade at the fish). I want to say anyone has a shot at throwing their weapon, because I think my Arcanist did on my playthrough. He threw his Wand with his tiny little stick arms and actually managed to nail the fish. But I haven't looked at the files myself, so I may have just misread things.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 01:18 |
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Arcade Rabbit posted:I want to say anyone has a shot at throwing their weapon, because I think my Arcanist did on my playthrough. He threw his Wand with his tiny little stick arms and actually managed to nail the fish. But I haven't looked at the files myself, so I may have just misread things. Yeah, that seems right. My Shogun threw his katana so I think the choice is random, just not the person who is fishing.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 01:30 |
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Are you using a Beast portrait from EO2U for Heath? That's great. Also, I would like to see Fredreich's full portrait. I need to see that fat cat.
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ZeButler posted:Are you using a Beast portrait from EO2U for Heath? That's great. Yes! EON lets you use every portrait in the series by means of DLC. ...Though Heath's portrait could've been inserted without the DLC, due to how I modify my games for LPs. Also, here's Friedrich's full art: He was drawn by Afilitaria, who also came up with and drew Edelvale. He's, fairly obviously, straight-up borrowed from Final Fantasy 14's Fat Cat.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 04:36 |
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Ground floor! The cast certainly gets more and more colorful than the last. Also, Kvasir is quickly becoming my favorite NPC, he's so adorable.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 06:43 |
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Yeah, everyone was really excited for this to drop in the Discord server. Glad to see it take off! I've usually played the game before, but I'll be going through this game blind, since I still haven't finished V and I felt like I experienced it pretty well through that LP! With that said, though, going through the update is giving me the itch to play again. Might have to pick up V again after all, and then see if I want to get Nexus.
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BlackPersona posted:Yeah, everyone was really excited for this to drop in the Discord server. Glad to see it take off! I've usually played the game before, but I'll be going through this game blind, since I still haven't finished V and I felt like I experienced it pretty well through that LP! There's an etrian discord server?
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tithin posted:There's an etrian discord server? The EO LP Server basically functions as one. It's linked in the OP. There's one for the r/EO subreddit, but it's, uh, not great. (I used to be in it but I left after the members continually refused to understand why "trap" is a slur against trans women despite me explaining it several times, among a lot of other things.)
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Ragnar Homsar posted:The EO LP Server basically functions as one. It's linked in the OP. Assume I'm really stupid, and couldn't see it either in the first episode of the LP, the first post in the thread, or the first post in the megathread... (also, yikes - but par for the course with reddit tbqh)
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 10:12 |
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tithin posted:Assume I'm really stupid, and couldn't see it either in the first episode of the LP, the first post in the thread, or the first post in the megathread... It's in the first post of this thread, under the "Who?" section. And yeah, that server was a shitpit, a crossover of the worst parts of reddit Gamers and 4chan Gamers. But they're not what this thread is about!
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Ragnar Homsar posted:It's in the first post of this thread, under the "Who?" section. Nope, they're not, thanks for humouring my blind, dumb, rear end. Looking forward to this running - I've not touched an EO game since my old DS got water logged by my kids at the end of stratum one of EO2U. Lost my saves from EO4 & EO1U - still have them on the SD card which still works, but because all that poo poo is encrypted - no chance of getting them back or unencrypting them.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 10:34 |
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I'm liking this cast. How old are the Protagonists? It's interesting what they did with the classes. Alchemist, Zodiac, Runemaster and Warlock were basically the same class, so we get the usual passives and spells, compression renamed as etheric charge, the warlock multihit chant and Meteor. Harbingers are streamlined since 100% auto-miasma is now a free innate; they get the debuff second title since nightseekers cover the ailment class. The summon row should have been back, it was a great addition. Just make heroes images unique if it turns out OP
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 11:47 |
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy e: gonna vote Edel and Heath every time, probably. best boys Leraika fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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So it begins. Definitely curious about where development will lead these characters, especially given the game as a whole. Also I can’t stop imagining Heath with gloves and sandals and I keep laughing from the picture in my head.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 18:35 |
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For those following at home, if I understand one spoiler right then make sure you create one character of every class. You don't need to level them up or ever put them in the active party, just having a bunch of lvl 1 scrubs in your roster is enough. And oh god I realized I haven't created a gathering party. What's the optimum, 5 farmers?
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Omobono posted:I'm liking this cast. How old are the Protagonists? Cason is 18, Ashley is 34.
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# ? Feb 7, 2019 21:53 |
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Oh dear. Something happened to the LP save while I was recording update 3. I wonder what this means...
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# ? Feb 8, 2019 00:53 |
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Update 2.
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# ? Feb 8, 2019 23:27 |
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It's ok, Cason. Many people's spirits light up with fire after being complimented by a cute person. Course, yours is a bit more literal than normal, but still! Desynced EXP bars were bound to happen, but at least you have the healing powers of fuzzy animals to help you! Great job with the first dungeon and looking forward to seeing you take on the first boss!
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# ? Feb 8, 2019 23:59 |
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You can tell Birgitta is a nice person because she paints under doors. Funnily enough my Gunner died in the same area Cason did and has been behind on XP ever since. EO fights are often faster than those in many other RPGs but it feels at least in the beginning Nexus pushed it even further. Either the enemy dies by turn two - or you do.
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# ? Feb 9, 2019 00:22 |
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Friedrich is still the best character. If you let anything bad happen to him, you deserve death.
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# ? Feb 9, 2019 04:47 |
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gently caress Squirrels That is all. This game is very mean on bosses. We get one this soon, and when I saw the boss at the end of the second side labyrinth I started laughing. I wonder if the game keeps up the meanness later on
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# ? Feb 9, 2019 05:09 |
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Fun fact: Persephone will actually use Kvasir's nickname "Goat-grabber" if you talk to her after accepting the mission. He, uh, wasn't joking when he said that's what your guild was known for. However, she'll use the fish one instead if that's how you introduce yourself to her.
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# ? Feb 9, 2019 06:41 |
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Are there voice samples of all 60 voices anywhere? I may have the game, but the way I'm doing things facilitates having access to something like a video showcasing the voice samples.
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Update 2 posted:If you're used to previous games, you might expect Birgitta to be a guest party member. This isn't the case in EON, though--most NPCs will just follow you around without doing anything, just adding to the pool of possible voice lines for stuff happening. Only one person will join you as a guest in EON, and they're a bit of a ways away. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure this is wrong. Most guest NPCs do have extra effects, but they're all passive field skills like "heal when gathering." The ones that do literally nothing are the exceptions.
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Grashbar posted:Are there voice samples of all 60 voices anywhere? I may have the game, but the way I'm doing things facilitates having access to something like a video showcasing the voice samples. As a matter of fact, there are samples of all 60 on the official Japanese twitter account for the series. Here's a pastebin with a list of links to all of them (including VA names), which I got from one SirSystemError, though I don't know the original original source: https://pastebin.com/b1p9VJR0
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 06:13 |
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That'll do it, thanks a lot.
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# ? Feb 12, 2019 11:25 |
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Yay, so excited for this! I'm enjoying this game immensely, and I got into it and the other games in part because of the LPs done on here. I do like this cast of characters quite a bit. I'm surprised but happy you actually made one for each class, just because that's a hell of a lot of people to juggle. And while I was disappointed the thread couldn't choose people, all was forgiven when I saw you're using a Beast Medic, which I'm also doing. I'm voting for Heath every time now.
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# ? Feb 13, 2019 20:33 |
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Update 3.
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# ? Feb 14, 2019 22:54 |
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Can I just say they missed out on a golden opportunity to name that guy "Brave Sir Robin"? Because seriously? Why not use it?!
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# ? May 2, 2024 06:56 |
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Will this LP aim to catch all of the talk dialogue of the town NPCs? Because that seems like a huge hassle this time around. Not only do the townsfolk no longer update all at the same time, they also don't do it once per floor anymore. I had Mueller not change his dialogue for a whole labyrinth only for it to change before the bossfight, after the bossfight and once again after handing in the mission that send me to kill the boss...
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