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Juna doesn't know what an atelier is, she is now Armagon's least favorite character. It has something to do with barrels, I think? Anyway, now I am far enough into CSIV that I can tell it will follow CSII's structure of revisiting the previous game's areas in Act I Everyone's outfits are much more stylish this time, and Emma is a rare case where being unhatted is an improvement (heretical for Team Fortress 2 fans), though that might be because I like her moon hair clip. A weak recolored FE boss that barely has any dialogue? That could apply to half the bosses in the series.

Sending Shirley to school is the worst decision anyone has ever come up with. Cold Steel IV begins by dumping a ton of returning characters on you, to the point that it takes 30 minutes to start any actual gameplay. Though anyone who has played eight games to reach this point probably won't mind that. It would mainly serve to make enemy critical hits less devastating, so naturally IS would give every enemy a 10% critical rate if such a mechanic was implemented. I did get to use her... for a chapter and a half.

Fire Emblem should have a mechanic where if you get a critical hit on the final boss, it takes a minute for its health bar to go down. It's because I ended up developing a semi-ironic appreciation for Shirley when she isn't inappropriately touching anyone, partially because she enables Rixia's character development and because they don't try acting like she isn't a horrible person. Also, her voice acting is fun to listen to. When I saw that Trails to Azure was rated T for "sexual themes" I wondered what deep, dark themes it would have, and then it turned out to be just because of Shirley. B-but I used Lyn and Eliwood... I never got past Sonia's chapter though. Where does "the assassination order was taken over by an evil sorcerer" rank on the list of Fire Emblem twists? CSIII ending stuff

I finished Trails of Cold Steel III, it was pretty cool but I'm not sure how much it qualified as an "ending". Together, we shall write the end to my posts about CSIII. In ink, black as despair. Since the game told me to rest for now, I will continue tomorrow. IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Vilen Borshevik's mere presence is the funniest joke in this game. I definitely didn't see him coming.

Cold Steel III final dungeon musings In any case, I'll finish the game tomorrow. I had to use two tickets for him. If I had an extra, I would've used it on Elliot, Emma, or Millium since I had four stars with them. I respect and fear your dedication to getting every romance ending. Elise still has Patrick in this scenario, so it's a happy ending for her regardless. Persona moment You have good timing, since another collection was announced the other day. Sonic Adventure and Adventure 2 were well-received when they released, though their design philosophy was different from Generations in that they placed a bigger emphasis on platforming and exploration (the stages were still linear, but you had more freedom on which paths to take). People were pretty tired of the "boost formula" by the time Frontiers came out, which is probably why it was seen as a step in the right direction.

When the endgame boss rush starts with McBurn and Arianrhod, you know it means business. The prodigal son returns, I see. The characters are good (though Rean should probably get a restraining order from Musse), I look forward to seeing how everyone develops in the next game. Everyone has good voice acting, but I like listening to Juna in particular (I GOT ONE?!). It was also nice seeing returning characters and how they interact with the Erebonians. I prioritized using tickets on the characters whose unimportant festival scenes I could see, so all the students, Alisa, Towa, and Elise/Alfin. How many of the final events are romance options? I had Rean romance Alisa immediately so I never found out. The music is good, I'll go through the tracks when I'm finished and form a more concrete opinion then. I miss Zero/Azure's feature of telling you the track names when they play. Also, much more new information was revealed than I was expecting. What's even left for the next game to reveal? (If you're interested in my in-the-moment thoughts, you can look through my post history if you feel inclined.) They did talk about it a bit, just not in a way where you would make the connection beforehand. I assume this is what you meant when you said the ancient mecha lore wasn't interesting until now. They're both good because you need to view them twice to make sure you didn't miss any details.

With the pre-final dungeon exposition dump, Cold Steel III reaches levels of exposition that shouldn't even be possible. I see, so it's not like Trails to Azure where the final chapter is 40% of the game. Sommie has graduated from eating beans to eating souls. Classic Sonic fans must know how modern Sonic fans felt. But Hey! Pikmin has Olimar feel sorry for Donkey Kong because he thinks he has an office job, so it's pretty good. I didn't think we would get a 4-6 collection, so this is nice to see. Now more people can experience the wonders of Spark Brushel and Paul Atishon. Apollo really only has one backstory, and it took three games for him to get it (unless you count "he had a friend" as a backstory).

Cold Steel III end of ch. 4 The final chapter doesn't seem to be too long, so I might finish it within the next ten hours of gameplay... probably. I've always wondered why you watch those anime videos YouTube recommends to you. Maybe you should watch more videos about people with beards and YouTube will recommend beard videos instead? Hmm... (Even if this song originated from Sonic Adventure.) You say that like no Reddit is a bad thing. My condolences, I hope the situation resolves itself without too much trouble. So what you're saying is, Hortensia was a member of that band?

It's been eight games and this song is still around. "Oh, dear, you're right. I'm turning 25 this year. Death is swiftly approaching..." -Sharon In regard to the mandatory Summer Festival quest: There go my dreams of forging the Master Bokoblin Guts. Now that you brought it up, do you have to follow the plot beats to fight the final boss, or can you run straight there after the tutorial like in BotW?

To exist... is to know pain. "This army’s too pretty. It’s not right." -Hortensia Wikipedia defines a cliffhanger as "a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction," so I guess TGAA1's ending would qualify as a cliffhanger by this definition. Though it doesn't say that video games can have cliffhangers, however. Just wait until Atlus announces its next big project, Persona 5 2. Will Jason Momoa voice Ganondorf? It is. It's another Russian saying, I think. That's not true, DC basically just milks Batman nowadays.

One of the more tonally-dissonant collaborations I've seen. Also I'm at Cold Steel III's final dungeon... except not really, but I might've thought it was the final dungeon if I wasn't using a guide. If Ouroboros is in FEH now, I hope they add Duvalie so I can spend all 2000 of my orbs on her. That's true, but it's not a cliffhanger in the sense that it ends in the middle of a scene. I remember that I was expecting the ending to be less conclusive than it ended up being. It's an actual Russian saying, apparently. I believe the last stories went into public domain earlier this year, so Holmes respecting women is no longer copyright infringement. That said, I still prefer Sholmes as a character inspired by Sherlock Holmes rather than him actually being Sherlock Holmes, and the name fits him being a weirdo bootleg Holmes.

Average Fire Emblem Heroes player Also it has been confirmed that vampires are real in the Trails universe, I should've seen it coming at this point. Chao that have both Shiny and Jewel genes tend to look rather... strange, so they're probably bugged to some extent. Some of them are invisible, some of them are transparent, and some look nothing like how their genes suggest they should. On the topic, Chao genetics are basically the same as actual genetics in that they have phenotypes and genotypes to determine their appearance, with two alleles for each gene. Those biology classes certainly came in handy. It's because most games are at the bottom of the barrel in terms of popular characters at this point, except Engage (which has been ignored since Alear and co. were added), Three Houses sort of, and probably Tellius. Also Tokyo Mirage Sessions, maybe. No way, Banner Saga is a Trails game? Though TGAA1 doesn't end on a cliffhanger despite having several unanswered questions, not that it would matter since both games were localized together. TGAA is basically a spiritual successor to PLvPW, both in character designs and gameplay mechanics. As a fun fact, the Paynes were always Auchi in the Japanese version, with Payne being the localized version to preserve the pun. It is the Grandmasterpon's will...

I can't wait to store Pikmin 2 in my DNA one day. Cold Steel III mid-ch. 4 I see, now you just have to find Naga somewhere to get a sword of light that's effective against Ganondorf. I think Sky Blue would match the watery extremities... but if you're feeling bold, you can make it a Shiny Jewel Gray. (Which is invisible, for the uninitiated.) My Xenosaga knowledge is a bit rusty but I'll try to explain some things:

Trails of Cold Steel makes me feel like I'm back in school because it makes you study for the in-game tests (unless you look up the answers), even when you're playing as a teacher this time. Broke "doing badly on the midterms because you're too lazy to study" vs. woke "doing badly on the midterms so Fie doesn't feel left out" After almost two decades, I have conquered Pikmin 2's Submerged Castle... though despite dreading the Waterwraith's appearance the entire time, I was quick/lucky enough that it never actually showed up until you're supposed to fight it, even with a less than optimal number of Pikmin casualties. So instead of the fight being payback against a previously-unstoppable enemy, it just came across as an unusually weak boss. It did kill one Purple Pikmin, however. With the Submerged Castle done, now I only have the final area left... except I have to go back for one treasure in the Valley of Repose, since I forgot that treasures inside enemies despawn when you go into caves. The Steel Daughters When will Rean get the Zora Mask to fight it? All pictures of Chao are worthwhile, regardless of quality. You should get a Neutral Chaos Chao too, also known as a Light Chao. Can you attach dragon fangs to a sword to make Falchion? Though I would assume there's no dragon effectiveness in this game.

Cold Steel III end of ch. 3: Also @Armagon, Kong is getting an animated series if you haven't seen it yet. But the idea is that I don't want to cheese the game... I can't believe TotK Ganondorf is the true reincarnation of Demise, and OoT Ganondorf is just some guy who happened to become the incarnation of evil (this probably isn't how it goes, but I'll find that out myself eventually). I'd think it's like how every incarnation of Link happens to be named Link, though technically most Links have customizable names and only BotW/TotK Link is "canonically" named Link. Jill just wants the world to be free of discrimination and gender roles (also, people would get a kick out of it). "I'm playing a tiny violin for you. Like, minuscule in size." -Jill

I think the perpetrators in Cold Steel III's A Tale of 2 Shops quest got off a bit too easy for trying to burn down their competitor's store. Though they never tried to directly murder anyone, so it is arguably less strange than in Xenoblade 2's Mellica the Chorister quest. I was expecting the sidequest fight with Wallace to be on par with the dreaded Lynn and Aeolia fight, but it was more doable that I imagined. Mainly because Shining art + Sirius MQ + Spirit Unification makes Rean do 11,000 damage when counterattacking. It still doesn't make the fight a cakewalk though, since getting into counterattack range can be tricky. The pace of plot developments has been generally consistent in this chapter (full Sara and Claire backstories, hooray), but I have some musseings about the backstory of Rean's biggest fangirl in particular (Ch. 3): I can't believe it took 25 years to explain where Gorons come from (and why there are no female Gorons, by extension). Yes that's me, I am one of those people. Or at least, I feel like the difficulty has been fair so far.

I wonder what Virgin vs. Chad memes are like in the Trails universe... Also I am in Ordis now, which I assume means I'm roughly halfway through the game... probably, depending on how long the final chapter is. Does TotK include the amiibo content in the base game? Or maybe you used a Majora's Mask Link amiibo and I just can't tell from the image. Kloe is still more helpful than the majority of NPC guest characters, even if she doesn't bash enemies with a briefcase like another character does.

Juna is real sick of Musse's antics, teehee. Actually most of the references are visual and in the music, Chris Pratt isn't the one making them. I'm just glad it had a Pikmin reference for two seconds, personally. It doesn't feel like there are many platformers released nowadays. There was a resurgence when Crash N. Sane Trilogy came out, but now there's Mario, Sonic, Kirby and... some other things I'm probably forgetting. Metroid Dread counts, right? How many times has it been now...?

I saw someone wearing a suavemente Ganondorf shirt today, it's not related to anything but I thought I'd mention it. Since the 30th live action Japanese Godzilla movie is releasing later this year, I'm on a mission to watch all of them before it releases (though unlike when Armagon did the same thing, I'm watching them in order). Godzilla Raids Again was alright, but it kind of forgot it was a Godzilla movie for ten minutes. I'm impressed how much plot Cold Steel III fits into its cutscenes, specifically the rate at which mysteries are introduced and resolved. Even questions I didn't know I had get acknowledged. I'm having trouble keeping track of them all... I figured it was going to be one of those games but since I asked about it, I'll look into it eventually. You think the CDi is your ally? You merely adopted the CDi. I was born with it, molded by it. I didn't see a real Zelda game until I was already a man. (Not that I actually played any of the CDi games, mind you.) This is probably the closest we'll get to Nintendo acknowledging it nowadays. You must perform the optimal Engage Maddening strategy: warpskip the whole chapter and defeat the boss on the first turn.

Cold Steel III end of Ch. 2 Yes. But the problem is, am I more of an Ouroboros apologist or a Rixia fan? I don't want anything too questionable... I'll think about it. AAA video game publishers when a game is actually finished before it releases

Chapter 2 isn't over yet but still has a lot to unpack: B-but it's still the fourth best selling game in the series... Unpopular opinion: I wouldn't mind too much. Though I never play any visual novels, oddly enough. I got it, it's Knuckles the Echidna.

I like how Juna's response to learning that she just back talked the heir to the throne of the Empire is just "Eh?" Cold Steel III Ch. 2 No, I'm pretty sure I don't have anything that run it. I can't wait to build Mechagodzilla to fight Ganon. But that's not even the worst mental image Armagon gave us.

He becomes more like Sara every day... Cold Steel III end of Ch 1/Ch. 2 Xenoblade trivia: while the Bionis' Shoulder is placed between Frontier Village and Eryth Sea in the data, it was actually a test area that was never intended for the final game according to this interview. It ended up as the setting for Future Connected because the developers thought it was fun to explore. Sorry Mario, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little, mmm, richer.

Same energy I don't plan on looking into TotK too much before I get it (though if there are any new dragons besides the three from the previous game, I'd like to know), but I watched some of the Treehouse presentation yesterday. I'm not sure how I feel about rubies being grenades now...

Elliot lost Resounding Beat, how am I supposed to get past the early game now? Though I'm guessing Brave Orders are supposed to be the replacement for team buffing crafts. Half of the things Musse says come across as threats for some reason, teehee. I remember watching Arlo's big fat review of BotW and he said something to the effect of "if BotW is already this good, just imagine how good the next one will be!" And now the next one is out and it's pretty good, it seems. I don't think I'll be getting it at launch though, probably in a few months when I'm done with Trails into Reverie and Pikmin 4. But Zelda isn't Western, photorealistic, or a cinematic experience, does it count as AAA? But Lumera was friends with Sommie, surely that counts for something. Lumera should get her own game, featuring Sommie as her sidekick. I can't wait to find out who they are (one or two games from now).