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Sephiroth looks good, and I'm glad we have a decent number of FF songs and Spirits now. They're restricted to FFVII, granted, but it's better than what we had before. Spirits not shown here include Chocobo & Moogle, Shiva, and the Turks & Rufus, and there should also be a Legend spirit we don't know about yet. Lastly, Sephiroth is available early if you bought his DLC pack/the Fighters Pass already, though he won't officially release until December 22. He comes with his stage and music but not the spirits, so we'll have to wait for those.

So basically, it's the live action Spider-Man equivalent of If they are bringing in a collection of previous Spider-Man villains, it would be strange if Venom was left out. Hopefully he'll be included in some way.

Dang it, Marvel will include Dio in their movies but not any incarnation of Venom? What has the world come to?

Mako and Jenova cells, probably. As one last prediction/wish, if Sephiroth's victory theme is derived from One-Winged Angel, I hope the announcer's "The winner is... Sephiroth!" syncs up with when his name is said in the song. Details like that make the game feel more special.

Part of the reason I asked is because I remembered that there are some field checks in Elpys that I had trouble with on my first playthrough. After looking it up, I found you only need Keen Eye 2 and Ancient Wisdom 2 for one, which only needs Brighid and Dromarch, and Fire Mastery 3 and Wind Mastery 2 for another, which only needs Brighid and Roc. It could be troublesome if you didn't go out of your way to fill out their Affinity Charts though. Assuming we're thinking of the same instance, you only need Electric Mastery 4 (and Focus 5) for it, which Pandoria can't get on her own. Vess does not have Electric Mastery, and since Herald is easily missed on a first playthrough you'll probably need to summon for that one.

Chuggaaconroy didn't fight Jin on the day of Sephiroth's presentation, literally unplayable. Speaking of, I tried to get a Full Burst on Aeshma's Core to see if I could defeat it before I'm supposed to. While I got seven orbs on it (all elements except Dark), it heals in-between attacks so you can't defeat it that way; maybe you'd have a better chance if you're overleveled? It might just be invincible even if you somehow find a way to get its health to zero. @Armagon since you completed a mostly summonless run of XC2, do you remember what random Blades you needed for mandatory field skills? I don't think there were a lot, but I'd like to know for the next time I see someone complain about how many Field Skills you "need" to finish the game. Lastly, happy birthday @lightcosmo! Assuming it's still your birthday in your timezone.

Arundel/Thales seems pretty confident that Nemesis doesn't have any descendants, which gives me an idea: if Nemesis did have any children, TWSITD hunted down and killed them because they don't want anyone to have the Crest of Flames outside their control. Likewise, since we know that TWSITD had Nemesis's body in their possession, they used his blood to give Edelgard her second Crest. Ashe and Hapi's support mentions a story about a member of House Blaiddyd who married into House Riegan after the Crescent Moon War, which could explain how the latter can be a cadet branch while also having its own Crest.

I like Pyra's "Don't shout inside my head like that! Talk to me in person, why don't you?!" Besides being rather out-of-character for her, you get the quote after Rex pulls an "and all you guys!" on calling Pyra part of his family so it appears Mythra isn't too happy about how long Rex is taking to commit.

If you need another Legendary Core, I obtained one from the chest in Olethro Ruins, and at this point you should have enough Lockpicking to open it. Thinking about it, it's a bit strange that you're concerned about Rex having too many Wind Blades when Mòrag has three out of five Ice Blades.

Aside from the story Blades, Rex has Wulfric and Nim, Nia has Finch, Vess, Kora, and Gorg, and Mòrag has Kasandra and Godfrey. Did you use the Core Crystals from the expansion pass? I didn't, which is probably why you have more Blades than I do unless I'm just unlucky. In fact, it seems the only random Blades you're missing are Electra, Agate, Gorg, Dagas, Floren, and KOS-MOS (and Herald and Theory for fixed Blades). I might use the DLC cores myself once I get Zeke.

Ah, so I'm not the only one. I tried to start Kasandra's quest but it seems you can't until you get Zeke, not that it matters since I'm at Indol already. Nim's quest should be available now too unless that also requires Zeke. Besides that, Godfrey just needs level 3 affinity and some Merc Missions, Finch needs level 5 affinity (why so high?), and the rest of my Blades (Wulfric, Gorg, Kora) require a later area to be reached. In other news, I'm surprised by how positively received Sephiroth's inclusion in Smash has been, which is saying something since this is the Smash fanbase we're talking about; he's probably the most well received DLC character since Joker. I guess it's because he was unexpected so people couldn't get tired of talking about him, but he's undeniably an icon so they can't accuse him of being a "literally who" like some other characters. People are also less hung up about Sephiroth being a second FF character or an anime swordsman than I expected them to be, and most are open to getting more characters from existing third party series (though I don't expect any more in this pass, except maybe Chun-Li or something). We should also appreciate the fact that we live in a world where Sephiroth can engage in a legendary battle with Steve, which is nice. Maybe 2020 wasn't completely bad after all.

I wonder if Sephiroth will have Heartless Angel in his moveset. It's one of his signature moves, but Smash doesn't have HP in the conventional sense so it might be hard to translate in a balanced way. Would it set the target's damage to 999%? Maybe it will be exclusive to his "wing mode". Speaking of, will his wing give him another jump? As for what we know, Sephiroth has Shadow Flare, Scintilla, and Octaslash as special moves and Hell's Gate (the attack he did you-know-what with) as his down air. I would like for him to get Oblivion (i.e. the attack he begins his Kingdom Hearts II battle with) as a dash attack, and it would be cool if some of his moves have a "slash once but strike multiple times" effect like his attacks do in other games.

If we get new FFVII spirits, and we should because Sephiroth's coming with a new Spirit Board, then I hope Cloud's Fighter Spirit gets updated with his original artwork. I assume the spirits will be using Nomura's artwork for the original game, in which case there's no reason for Cloud to not use art from his own series. I don't think we'll get spirits outside FFVII as Joker and Hero didn't have spirits for characters outside their home games, but I'm wondering about the Mii costumes Sephiroth will come with. Chances are that Geno's reckoning will finally come, and maybe we'll get costumes for FF characters outside VII since Joker came with Persona 3 and 4 costumes.

Praxis's Core Crystal is available for awakening, and I would prefer to use now to fill out her affinity chart sooner rather than later. Who should I give her core to? The last party member hasn't joined yet, so should I wait until then? Oh yeah, Doom Eternal is finally on the Switch now too, I'll probably get it eventually since I enjoyed the previous game. Strangely enough it takes up less storage space than Doom 2016 did (17.5 GB vs. 22 GB), so it seems Panic Button got better at data compression since then.

Ah, there's the date. Sephiroth's presentation will be one week from now.

Sephiroth's page on the Smash Bros. website is up, and gentlemen, he has a shirtless alt.

Sephiroth's a pretty cool inclusion, and I'm excited for him. He's also releasing later this month, so we'll likely get his Sakurai presentation soon. Hopefully we'll finally get Final Fantasy spirits after all this time, and music too. We might get only One Winged Angel for music, but it is One Winged Angel so it could be worse.

I just happened to watch the stream at the end of the trailer with "I will never be a memory" and I thought "Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2 already?" But then it showed the Smash copyrights and I thought "Huh, what?" Then I went back and realized my mistake. That being said... Honestly Sephiroth is much, much cooler than what I was expecting, and I'm not disappointed to see him in. Final Fantasy is also the first third party to get more than one unique character, and while I think people will complain that VII got another character over a character from a different FF game, Sephiroth is one of gaming's most iconic villains so I think his inclusion makes sense. It's funny that Sakurai wanted to include One Winged Angel so badly that he added a whole character with it.

Chugga should've done the Merc Missions offscreen while doing... the whole rest of the game, and then edit the relevant footage together once the quest was done, rather than spending three days doing absolutely nothing just so he could say he did the whole quest in one video. It was calculated that 13 hours is the minimum time needed to finish Ursula's quest if you have the optimal Blades, but he didn't mention that so I assume he doesn't know that fact.

So besides the royal siblings Fáfnir, Ótr, and Reginn, we also have two "valkyries" and a witchy lady as our new characters. Reginn and Ótr are the siblings of the mythological Fafnir, but Reginn's namesake was male. I wonder what mythological figures the other three characters will be based on. Also Selena has Julie Ann Taylor listed as her VA rather than Tiana Camacho, but she doesn't sound like any of Taylor's other roles. Maybe whoever made the trailer got their Selenas mixed up?

I'm guessing we don't have a trailer yet because they didn't feel the need to start promoting it too long before release. KotM already had its first two trailers five months before release (the third was released on my birthday, incidentally), but whoever does the marketing probably doesn't feel the need to release trailers that far in advance at this point.

Fair enough, but I like seeing movies in theaters so I'll consider my options when the movie comes out. With a new movie and show coming along, it makes sense that Toho wants to give Godzilla a big push next year. There's apparently a contract that Toho can't make any live-action Godzilla movies until GvK releases, so I look forward to seeing what next year brings for the franchise.

You monster, don’t you want to financially support the franchise so we get more MonsterVerse films? Even Ghidorah would be disappointed in you. And anyway, I suspect they wouldn’t let you watch any simultaneously released films with a free trial. Unless the article you linked says differently, because I can’t view it right now.

Good, I hope you enjoy it. I look forward to seeing how you feel about everything--the gameplay, plot, characters, etc., so don't be afraid to share your thoughts. Though I'm surprised you convinced your parents to get it, much less with the DLC, since you just got two new games. Did you agree to do more chores after all?

I have 76.7 GB of available space on my Switch when counting my microSD card, since I have a preference for getting games physically. I assume you would be able to buy it now and download it later when you have space available, but obviously I've never been in that situation so I don't know for sure.