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Jingle Jangle

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  1. Finish watching the Obi Wan series, overall a pretty mediocre experience. From the meh plot, weak supporting cast, questionable retcons, and dull soundtrack weaken the experience. No clue why the series don't want to use the John Willian's music until the final episode. There are some decent moments, but that's all they are; moments. Reminds me of the Solo movie too much.

  2. Completed Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker. Server queue aside (I have been waiting for a collective 11 hours just to enter the game) , overall I though it was a great conclusion to what FF14 has been building up to for the last 10 years. With tons of references and callbacks to previous events. Some lingering questions, but I suppose it will be addressed in future updates. Back to grinding.

  3. Completed Shin Megami Tensei V yesterday on the chaos ending. I was planning to get the true neutral ending, but the level scaling made fighting the super boss and practice in  either a strong team or grinding.  Overall the exploration is one of the strongest assists. Da'at is a great area to wander about with meaningful goodies every corner. Gameplay continues the series tradition of being tough but fair, especially in the early-midgame. Story is a bit underbaked with characters and beats coming and going before I got a chance to truly meet. Omagatoki: Critical and Dampeners nearly folded the game in half.

    I give the game a 7/10, good rpg to add for the SMT and Switch collection. With the possibility of a 8/9 if the issues are address in the possible rerelease.

  4. The Tomb Raider reboot trilogy are a decent action shooter games. Compared to the Uncharted games it's more of a Rambo simulator than a fun world traveling adventure . I find the Rise of the Tomb Raider to be the best of the series with more elaborate puzzles and extended play-through. Story-wise it's decent, usually about the daddy issues Lara faces; fighting off mercenaries.  At times it can feel unconformable how much want to brutalize Lara Croft. But that's my two cents.

  5. 41 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:

    Honestly, if I had to gender flip one of the dudes to make an even male-female split for Blue Houses, I would actually go with Dimitri. I do want to note that the ONLY reason I would make Dimitri female is for social experiment reasons. I am very curious as to how female!Dimitri would be received by a certain aspect of the fanbase. Would female Dimitri still be as popular with the ladies if he were no longer the handsome "husbando material" otome prince? Would female Dimitri steal a certain segment of Edelgard fans (and male Dimitri haters), suggesting that maybe it was less about Edelgard's ideals and more because she's waifu? I'm genuinely curious.

    It would be an interesting experience. There are few rpgs that have a violent female main/supporting character. Kaine, Zero, and Velvet from Neir, Drakengard, and Tales of Berseria come to find. I guess it's a headache for the marketing team to show it's a nontraditional main character. 

    My guess a female!Dimitri would be massively popular for being a rare archetype, and players wanting to "fix" her.

  6. Completed Final Fantasy 13, overall an uneven experience, but has it's moments few and far in between. Story wise it feel a remix of FF7 but done in a obtuse matter. I had to consult the in game wiki and several other wikis to fully understand what was going on. The main cast needs more moments where they are hanging out, and not being angry/trying to kill each other.

    Gameplay wise, it feel like the early prototype of the hybrid battle system later SE games would use. But done here in a rough matter. Good amount of times I died due to the seconds it takes for Paradigm changing or the party leader dying. Surprising there are a good amount of annoying enemies with massive health pools. To the point where some encounters took over five minutes to complete.

    Design wise it is a corridor in many forms. from the level design, or the slow leveling system, tunnel after tunnel. The the game does look nice after more than ten year,  I certainly know more of the developer attention went to.

  7. Think I'm almost done with Final Fantasy 13. Currently on chapter 12 before the final boss gauntlet. I don't know how am I going to evaluate this game in the end. Quality wise it's all over the place. 

  8. Currently playing Final Fantasy 13. the best way I can describe  it is being all over the place. I can tolerate (somewhat) the excessive linearity, the little exploration, but what gets on me is the  game feels designed for having 3 party members. But for the early chapters are mostly restricted to two members. And when the leader dies it's a game over. Boss fights are a coin flip if it is a breeze or a paradigm shifting mess.

  9. 33 minutes ago, Alastor15243 said:

     

    Ah yes, and then, of course, the infamous “Justice is an illusion.”

    Bitch, you are damned lucky that Arthur isn't around to hear you say that shit. Actually, Xander's just damned lucky in general. Great luck growth, which really helps his tanking.

    If we allow evil men to let their vision take precedence over our own, we all lose.”

    I feel Xander would have a secondary speech about how the word "evil" is a morally relative term to those we don't like.

    35 minutes ago, Alastor15243 said:

     

    Yeah, we get a good look at Castle Shirasagi in the background during the next scene, and I mean look at this thing! It's fucking huge!

    https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/a/a7/Hoshido_Official_Artwork.png

    I couldn't find the specific picture I'm seeing now, but this one brings up a hell of a lot more questions, because fucking look at this! Not only is it absolutely gargantuan, but it has to be the single most easily-defensible castle in Fire Emblem history! HOW WAS THERE NO CHAPTER TO GET UP HERE!? We'd have to climb up sheer cliffs that curve outward, all while being harassed by the elite Hoshidan air force, which specializes in long range fucking attacks. Getting up here without the fight of our lives should have been literally impossible.

    Perhaps the low oxygen living in the clouds affect the Hoshidan royal's thinking. I know Fates is putting contrast with Castle Shirasagi. With Castle Krakenburg being a underground parking lot.

  10. No predicted games here, but I do expect more caution in revealing games here-on out. So less companies can avoid the blunders Cyberpunk 2007 did.

    Sony will continue the trend on primary focusing on big western AAA games. Please don't get the rumor about the re-remakes of the 1st Last of Us be true.

    X-box highlight real of all the games that you can "own" if you get the game pass.

    Ubisoft/EA: Same old routine with sports, Assassins Creed, and pushing own platforms.

    Nintendo: Couple teasers for long running series, hint of the next Switch model, more ports of older games for 60 dollars. I just want to see info about SMT 5.

  11. Just wondering something, how much Nomura as responsible for the Final Fantasy being transformed into a luxury brand for rich metrosexuals? Or that the higher ups at Square Enix. Member when Cloud was pushed with a wolf motif. Actually I don't want to member that.

  12. In Xenoblade Chronicles I reached the Eryth Sea. I do like how the Definitive Edition cleans up is visuals both the interface and the world. Game is more exploration heavry than I remembered, so many exp boost just by first visiting a landmark.

    In other new Attack on Titan just ended.

    Spoiler

    it turns out that Eren global genocide happened because some  wanted some action with this sister in a flashback. Admitting that you are  pathetic on several levels.  I felt some fans self inserted as him a bit too much. He Shinjied harded than Shinji. What's the deal with Mikasa makes out with his head?

     

  13. These days I'm playing Total War: Warhammer 2.  Tons of various customization and factions to choose from. Still need to learn about the more advanced units. Keep running into the same pitfall of trying to be aggressive in the early game; only to be walled by a settlement with stronger trooper than my own. Slowing learning my lessons though.

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