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but i rmeeeber all the reviews at the time in the UK sucking it off and calling it the greatest poo poo ever
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I remember when I was like idk 11 or 12 there was this insane browser game that was just pvp ffv but it was really crappily made and you had to pick all your abilities from html drop down menus. It’s impossible to find any references to it anymore but it left me permanently brain damaged so now when I play games like bravely, Octopath etc I can’t stop thinking how sick it would be to fight my tricked out team against someone else
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May 18, 2019 00:27
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it was one of the first big gba games so i think reviewers were still wowed that a game that looked fancier than FF6 was on a handheld
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May 18, 2019 00:40
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I didn’t know Golden Sun had the following it did until people started making noise about how Isaac should be in smash. I played maybe two hours of the second one before my second grade brain dropped that rear end for Pokémon yellow. The soundtracks to those games are interesting though. Every song is a midi file that uses compressed samples of instruments from a Roland SC-88 instead of a regular soundfont
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May 18, 2019 00:58
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I replayed Golden Sun recently and the slick presentation hides a thoroughly average rpg. The djinn stuff is cool, I liked all the hidden "classes" that you can figure out by combining them. The characters have no personality and the story is pretty whatever. The sequel is a lot worse because it's way longer so the flaws of the first are way more apparent, like some psi abilities only being used in the dungeon they're introduced in and maybe one or two other areas and the flat characters and the insane amount of djinn becomes a rareware style collectathon. It doesn't really deserve the hype it gets but it doesn't deserve any real guff either
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May 18, 2019 04:27
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The second game is subtly uglier too, the first game has a cohesive muted earthy color scheme and then the second one randomly has bright neon colors thrown in some areas and weird sprite work for some stuff
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May 18, 2019 04:31
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a lot of GBA sequels to GBA games made themselves way brighter on account of the early systems not being backlit and getting feedback that they're impossible to see. Harmony of Dissonance was the same way.
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May 18, 2019 05:00
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in the sequel to golden sun they made every dungeon 2-3 times as long and full of even more dumb puzzles. it's a real slog. also the best jrpg combat system is star ocean the second story
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May 18, 2019 06:55
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Love any item or skill that let's you Regen mp passively, like Chakra Walk in smt, or anything that lets you steal it from enemies. I wanna stay topped up at all times otherwise I worry about not having enough for a boss.
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May 18, 2019 13:20
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golden sun was ok but doesn't deserve some of the poo poo it gets now. it was very pretty and had a lot of charm, and the djinn system was pretty cool with some sick summons. all the secret bosses and djinn and so on were cool too. the sequel was insane and wasn't good but I'm still impressed by how much weird poo poo they crammed into it, like going to atlantis and all the weird scenarios and set pieces. unfortunately it's impossible to enjoy because for every bit like that there's four hours of the same horrible dungeon over and over
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May 18, 2019 16:13
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I liked golden sun at the time and was blown away by how good it looked but I remember very little else about it.
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May 18, 2019 16:16
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Star ocean lets you break the game with clever crafting/blacksmithing and alchemy, you don't really have to grind for exp as much as getting the right skills first. Those psp releases First Departure and Second Evo are god-tier. Second Story on psx too. I love star ocean but I must admit I was forcing myself to keep playing through last hope and integrity & faithlessness
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May 18, 2019 20:49
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:golden sun was ok but doesn't deserve some of the poo poo it gets now. it was very pretty and had a lot of charm, and the djinn system was pretty cool with some sick summons. all the secret bosses and djinn and so on were cool too. The Atlantis stuff was honestly a really cool idea, like how you had to go to a random village and play a children's rhyming game to learn the secret to enter. But while typing this I remembered the sixteen other steps before you get to atlantis like putting together the boat which is like six different quests, putting together a trident to fight the boss before Atlantis which is like four more quests. And afterward that's only like the halfway point of the game
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May 19, 2019 04:35
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I'm not even sure how it fit in anymore but there's a crazy werewolf village too you do at some point in all that.
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May 19, 2019 04:36
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The new party members in DQ8 3ds are cool but ultimately useless in boss fights. The original 4 are still the way to go for those, but for running around exploring they kick rear end due to zenny+ passives. Everyone gets equal exp whether in the party or not as well so it's win-win. I feel like this version is harder for some reason lol, Empyrea whooped my rear end like 3 times in a row
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May 19, 2019 04:38
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:The new party members in DQ8 3ds are cool but ultimately useless in boss fights. The original 4 are still the way to go for those, but for running around exploring they kick rear end due to zenny+ passives. Everyone gets equal exp whether in the party or not as well so it's win-win. I feel like this version is harder for some reason lol, Empyrea whooped my rear end like 3 times in a row a really neat thing about them is if you get a full party wipe, they run in and replace the 2 middle party members and you can continue fighting with them, and possibly resurrect the 2 people they didnt replace
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May 19, 2019 04:44
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i had that happen in a big story boss fight and managed to turn the tide back around and win and it was one the hypest things ive ever seen in a jrpg
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May 19, 2019 04:49
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elf help book posted:i had that happen in a big story boss fight and managed to turn the tide back around and win and it was one the hypest things ive ever seen in a jrpg Awesome
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May 19, 2019 04:59
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elf help book posted:i had that happen in a big story boss fight and managed to turn the tide back around and win and it was one the hypest things ive ever seen in a jrpg DQXI gives you two Kerplunk users for this very reason and it is indeed hype as all gently caress.
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May 19, 2019 05:06
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I could probably find the tv screenshot I took with my phone camera a few years ago of DQVIII standing over 3 dead bodies + godbird Defeated
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May 19, 2019 05:12
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In Training posted:I could probably find the tv screenshot I took with my phone camera a few years ago of DQVIII standing over 3 dead bodies + godbird Defeated I definitely remember the Dhoulmagus fight being a noob wall but not Empyrea. She utterly destroyed me with confusion/paralysis. Maybe I was just underleveled but I don't remember doing anything differently from my other runs
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May 19, 2019 05:23
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In Training posted:I could probably find the tv screenshot I took with my phone camera a few years ago of DQVIII standing over 3 dead bodies + godbird Defeated i got that with the lil octopus guy at the start once you board the boat.. the fight took like 4 rounds total and it was carnage. it was like that scene u get in anime where u get like 2 samurai slash eachother once and bohth are wounded and then 1 eventually falls over, defeated.
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May 19, 2019 11:24
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the octopus fight in dq10 was the hardest boss for me too, cos i didnt do the cannon thing. that was ppretty long though. i got him on the first try but .. so much death ...
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May 19, 2019 11:26
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GorfZaplen posted:The Atlantis stuff was honestly a really cool idea, like how you had to go to a random village and play a children's rhyming game to learn the secret to enter. But while typing this I remembered the sixteen other steps before you get to atlantis like putting together the boat which is like six different quests, putting together a trident to fight the boss before Atlantis which is like four more quests. And afterward that's only like the halfway point of the game
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May 19, 2019 13:29
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Got a new tech attack for KOSMOS that loads an FMV when you use it
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May 19, 2019 15:58
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I definitely remember the Dhoulmagus fight being a noob wall but not Empyrea. She utterly destroyed me with confusion/paralysis. Maybe I was just underleveled but I don't remember doing anything differently from my other runs when i played dq8 on 3ds a few years ago empyrea was a major wall. only way to deal real dmg was to tense up mc/yangus over several turns and land a big hit, but Empyrea spams stuns and the "status clear" thing late DQ bosses do so the whole match was a gamble took me a ton of tries but you get the best reward ever for beating her
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May 19, 2019 22:06
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mysterious loyall X posted:Demonius x unsheathing a katana and you can see the letters NIG and half of another g obscured by the sheath
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May 19, 2019 22:57
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Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is a pretty good jrpg and i hope that falcom will eventually make a sequel now that they're done with trails of cold steel. idk how i feel about the localization though, it's weird to see a character say "i guess i'm taking this L"
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May 20, 2019 03:28
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that one was localized by different ppl than the other falcom games and they left all the *chuckle*s and *chortle*s in which i hate
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May 20, 2019 05:28
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Minus Green posted:Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is a pretty good jrpg and i hope that falcom will eventually make a sequel now that they're done with trails of cold steel. idk how i feel about the localization though, it's weird to see a character say "i guess i'm taking this L" I started playing this and it’s pretty deece so far... Persona’s social stuff and Ys-like gameplay in the dungeons
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May 20, 2019 22:59
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it's pretty good prob the weakest of the vita falcom games and is really blatant about being made out of repurposed cold steel assets but i still enjoyed it
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May 21, 2019 05:56
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I am now 42 hours into octopath and am still digging it. I vow to put some time into xenoblade soon though. I hope dq11 will come out soon though because I think it might grab me more than xenoblade was able to
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May 22, 2019 06:00
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I've unlocked two of the secret jobs in Octopath (starseer and runelord) and I'm going completely out of my mind trying to come up with insane party setups. if the other two have similarly clever abilities/options I'm going to end up in full theorycrafting sicko mode and never actually play it again
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May 23, 2019 00:02
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Wait what. I just found out about subclasses and that was enough to blow my mind. I gave the scholar subclass to the cleric and she’s now an elemental goddess of death
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May 23, 2019 00:41
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I've unlocked two of the secret jobs in Octopath (starseer and runelord) and I'm going completely out of my mind trying to come up with insane party setups. if the other two have similarly clever abilities/options I'm going to end up in full theorycrafting sicko mode and never actually play it again the other 2 are way less clever and more brute force powerful
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May 23, 2019 02:28
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that's probably for the best. Warlord was the first one I fought and I couldn't beat her so I'm gonna go back with the other classes now
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May 23, 2019 08:42
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:that's probably for the best. Warlord was the first one I fought and I couldn't beat her so I'm gonna go back with the other classes now lol i wandered into the runelord one around like level 42 and got slaughtered most of my party is now around lvl 50 or so save for my cleric since I kept rotating between her and the dancer I have high hopes for xenoblade after this, but this game just really reminds me of the only jrpgs I ever got to play as a kid: breath of fire 1/2 and golden sun (which was not close to as good)
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May 23, 2019 16:39
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Runelord tressa = aoe spell blade
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May 24, 2019 06:03
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I've heard that Trails on the Sky > Trails of cold steel, confirm/deny please Both are great apparently
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I think so but that's primarily because Sky has already finished telling its complete story whereas Cold Steel is only halfway through. I do think Cold Steel is a bit bloated though, the first two games are paced a bit slower than I'd like. Regardless the series is one of the best RPG series ever so yeah they're all great.
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