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Trails to Zero? More like Trails to Tio Telling Everyone to Sit the Hell Down and Shut Up
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Classy Hydra posted:Local police forces. The Guardian Force is an entirely separate government organization that doesn't really have anything to do with the city proper. The slow start makes more sense here, though. It's a brand new section of a widely disdained group. They are literally starting from rock bottom. There's no reason for anyone to trust them or show them respect and honestly watching them build a reputation is part of what makes this arc my favorite of the first three. The slow start in the Cold Steel games is because they insist on teaching you everything right away so there's a ton of stop-and-go and the intro to Cold Steel II is just garbage
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Feb 6, 2023 01:59
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Your discussion about Lloyd's uniform reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend waaaaaaay back when Resident Evil 2 came out on the PSX. We decided that Leon's secret hobby was sewing and he had made an RPD uniform long ago since he was such a fan of them and decided to wear that for his first day
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Feb 11, 2023 20:44
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I think they mean Azure
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Feb 20, 2023 06:42
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One thing I love about the Crossbell games is how incredibly smart each of the core 4 are in different ways. It's still pretty subtle but you can definitely see the start of this group filling their roles. -Lloyd is great at making connections and drawing conclusions in addition to his detective qualifications -Elie knows her way around politics (which comes with the added perk of knowing how decisions will play out to an extent) and excellent at deducing motives -Randy is surprisingly proficient at reading people and thinks outside the box -Tio knows everything else and can Orbal Google whatever she doesn't Rabbi Raccoon fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Feb 26, 2023 |
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Feb 26, 2023 03:35
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...I would kiss Randy. If I was around his age again and he cut off that ponytail
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Mar 5, 2023 09:06
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Hwurmp posted:
I CAN FIX HIM (he said, for the umpteenth time) In other news, I noticed this forever ago but the sheer amount of beds in Crossbell that are set up so the pillow is not against the wall is upsetting. Maybe that's why no one there can get anything done, they're too sleep deprived from picking up their pillow over and over every night
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Mar 12, 2023 06:38
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Trim the ponytail? That's a ponyfail. *kickflips out ur window, breaking the glass so it spells out DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME BABE as it lands*
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Having one of those weeks myself, so I'm using a cleric who beats truth out of people and his seven friends to fight and mug my way across a couple continents. Hope it goes better for you
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Mar 18, 2023 19:51
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I have played Zero and Azure with max DP at least 3 times and have never spoken to Fernand. Why did he get a portrait in the mod?
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Mar 26, 2023 18:47
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If Elie and Lloyd are the team mom and dad, Tio is the passive aggressive younger sister who likes to stir poo poo up. Louise Belcher on Adderall
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Apr 2, 2023 05:02
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Honestly, the stuff at the Casino is cheap enough you can literally just buy the tokens you need to get items over the course of both games
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Apr 9, 2023 05:12
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This is the only arc I never ran into money trouble. I also didn't feel the need to raise my defense just a few points, but I did go there a bunch of times at the end of Azure and had no problem getting the unique stuff from the Casino as it became available
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Apr 9, 2023 14:36
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Excuse you, in a country with the absolute WORST rear end in a top hat portrait'd NPC's, Harold is a rare pure cinnamon roll and I will physically fight you for slandering him and that just really cuts into my time and I have to go into work early tomorrow so can you buy me a coffee after the fight?
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Apr 18, 2023 06:12
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Classy Hydra posted:Estelle and Joshua's new face portraits are possibly the most jarring reminders that the series changed art directors after Sky 3. Maybe Joshua discovered the Orbal Comb
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May 14, 2023 15:29
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Cecile said "gay rights"
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May 22, 2023 06:17
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:- I think Randy was largely just teasing Lloyd because it was fun. And while Elie is the romance option, and she's fine, I think Randy's ending is actually the most interesting and gives the most new information. Honestly, a case could be made for Randy being the secret main character of this arc and there are times where it feels like he was originally supposed to be and that Lloyd was either added in later or they swapped places
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May 22, 2023 18:30
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I like to imagine Elie drawing her gun on Randy whenever she gives him the stinkeye
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Jun 4, 2023 22:49
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I actually have a theory that Imelda is from the same place as Emma
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Jun 21, 2023 05:49
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I just finished Reverie and I can honestly say I did not expect Renne to have an arc when I first saw her in SC, let alone have it be one of my highlights of the first half of the overall story
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Jul 17, 2023 02:47
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What would the Divine Blade of Metaphor's S-Craft be?
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Jul 24, 2023 13:46
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:- The next chapter boss makes up for any disappointment you might feel about this chapter's boss. The next chapter is my favorite in the game. Completely solid, start to finish
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Jul 25, 2023 02:28
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Dude, it's ok. Promise. Real life happens. Like, a lot. Especially in 2023 That said, this is my favorite chapter in the duology
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Aug 13, 2023 06:13
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When Ilya isn't being an HR nightmare, she's a pretty solid character. And, if nothing else, I appreciate how her being a lesbian is treated as just a fact. No one questions it or finds it unusual, which as A Gay is nice to see. Sky wasn't BAD about per se, but Olivier's finding Joshua attractive is treated as slightly odd. At least by Estelle. But then again Estelle was very anti-anyone finding Joshua attractive
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Aug 14, 2023 05:27
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Being able to dodge earthquakes in Cold Steel is always hilarious to me
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Aug 29, 2023 16:55
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Re: Those high level chests. You've seen ~85% of the main locations in the duology. You will absolutely see most of those chests when you're at more appropriate levels
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Aug 30, 2023 01:28
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Huh. I just realized something about Elie that makes me like her a bit more. I mean, she's still my least favorite of the 4 but something worth noting much MUCH later on
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Nov 1, 2023 15:45
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I've seen Elie and Tio's Combo Crafts but I usually stick with Randy's. The girls have better things to use CP on
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Nov 2, 2023 00:57
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Ugh, Mariabell. Easily my least favorite character from the series for a whole list of reasons I won't get into. I can handle "evil and malicious" far better than I can handle "obnoxious"
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Dec 24, 2023 14:29
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I'm sure I know who beats her and that's absolutely fair Mariabell is Penny from Inspector Gadget if she grew up to be one of these girls who says "I'm a bitch and I don't care; I own it"
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Dec 25, 2023 23:08
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Just in time to finish my playthrough of the "official" version Mariabell is the anti-Penny from Inspector Gadget and no one can convince me otherwise
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Apr 22, 2024 19:39
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One thing I wasn't a fan of was how ingrained the minigames became to completion as the series went on. Vantage Masters, Pom Party, all that. Hell, even cooking. Sure, put stuff behind it, but don't make it 25% of the game. Fishing (barely) gets a pass for being so easy after Cold Steel II
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Apr 26, 2024 19:03
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I love Noel. I wasn't a big fan of her my first time through the duology, but she grew on me and her arc was pretty great, even if it does feel like it replaces a certain someone's arc whose basically sidelined in Azure. Her biggest strength is also her biggest weakness. When she's useful, which is 90% of the time, she is incredibly useful. Debuffing in a game where it's actually useful and makes a ton of hard fights manageable, natural AoE, and solid physical stats. Very handy to have around and I tend to replace Elie with her for random battles. But that 10% of the time she's useless and, sometimes, an active liability and should be regulated to buffing and item usage, which aren't always the best option. She really blooms in Azure. Between her and Randy's Crash Bomb, 75% of random battles are in the bag Also it's fun to imagine her just hauling around an armory wherever she goes All that said...while we're approaching the end of it, we're still at that first part of Trails games before the fun stuff becomes readily accessible so she's just ok right now Stabbey_the_Clown posted:- Support turns are unfortunately both uncommon and unpredictable. It's not a great system. I like the system, but it has a pretty glaring flaw. The ones that are offensive are all AoE, and one of Trails' favorite things is making you fight a group of enemies who have a strong attack they use once they've been damaged at all. And as a result, those fights are going to be long so you're almost certainly gonna find yourself in a tough spot if you don't forget to turn them off. The defensive ones are great. Elie gets pretty nerfed in Azure so, outside of a few fights, I kept her on the back lines whenever possible. She used Saintly Bullet surprisingly often. Rabbi Raccoon fucked around with this message at 22:08 on May 8, 2024 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:In terms of combat, the SSS is so well balanced that swapping someone else in, anyone else, tends to be a worse choice. For Noel specifically, in combat she came across to me as mostly useless whenever I had the possibility of using someone else. (Her locked Earth slot does not help because Earth is a bad element for stats, and she isn't good at casting.) In terms of personality, she started out fine, but as time passed, I started to find her schtick more tiresome. It's probably my playstyle, but I've always been a student of the school of "you don't need to heal if the bad guys die quick enough". I tend to only put Elie on the front lines for boss fights whenever possibly because even by the end of both games, 3 physical attackers + Tio is usually enough for the randos and quicker. Zero is when Trails starts to dip it's toe into giving you the tools to bust the game wide open Rabbi Raccoon fucked around with this message at 05:59 on May 9, 2024 |
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