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BrightBow

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  1. The kids' growths are 100% of the same-gender parent + 50% of the opposite-gender parent. They don't have any innate growths independent from their parents.
  2. In Petrine's case it's just that the game does not beat you over the head with the tragic aspect of her character. If you have Soren fight her and find out that she is a Branded, it very much recontextualizes her whole relationship with Ashnard and general behavior. I mean, I am firmly of the opinion that the likes of Tharja, Camilla and Peri are only different from your average evil dumbass bossman in that they happen to really want to fuck the player self-insert, which the games seem to think is a redeeming character trait somehow.
  3. What confuses me are the Cross Knights. Like, were they really named that or was this a liberty taken by the translation, considering every other group of knights has a German name? It's not limited to Grandbell either. Like, Lenster has their Lanzenritter. So I don't see why Augustria would be different. Not to mention "Cross Knights" are not really a thing in English. It's just what you get if you translate the two individual words that the word "Kreuzritter" is made out of. But "Kreuzritter" is just the German term for Crusader. What kind of lame quote is that? What about "Die! With magnificence!" or "Rest in Pieces"? How can you be a good guy if you don't tell a random drafted schmuck how much you will enjoy murdering them? And with that, Mahnya already has had more of an acknowledgement of her death than Philia had when she got one-shot by teleporting zombie archers. Present company excluded? Hand Axe Lachesis is most certainly a new one. Never really seen the need for it, considering she can use bows now. But considering she actually has Pursuit, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that it can be quite effective. She got quotes with Levin and Fury too, btw. Maybe the AI simply gets dumber once their leader dies. Or alternatively if they retreat to get reinforcements. I think Pamela is one of the leaders who can do that. Hostage against who, exactly? Look, if you don't want to kill your brother's wife, you can just say so. Not everything has to be part of some evil ploy. I can't believe they used the portrait of an Verdanian prince for some generic brute. How unfitting. Only time in the game you are seeing the female Bow Fighter. Everyone in that army has Pursuit as a class skill, just to screw you over if you actually bothered teleporting Arden across the mountains. Status swords function differently from Status staffs. Status staffs always work, assuming you have more magic than the target has resistance. But status swords only have an activation rate of 30%. Minus the Res of the target. So they don't always succeed in inflicting status. ...unless the target happens to have more than 30 Res. Because if the activation rate is lower than 0, it loops around to 255. And you really enjoy dancing because... it reminds you of the good old days of getting beaten up? Wut? Good thing Blizzard does not inflict Sleep in this game. Yet for some reason people still keep not doing that. It's weird. Which considering Sigurd's shortsightedness is really saying something. But I suppose no one can accuse him of not trying his best to live up to his responsibilities. God, I hate how Ismaire is basically the same character as Rahna, but someone figured she apparently really needed to repent for being a less-than-ideal mother to Joshua. Needless to say I appreciate Rahna remaining steadfast about Levin's juvenile attitude being the problem. The Lord gave you 7 movement for a reason. Sigurd with capped speed. What the heck?
  4. I suppose her keeping the Dandelion now does make it even more awkward that she doesn't get her armor back too. Before that part was obvious. She was robbed of all her valuables, weapons, armor, horse and whatnot, before getting sold herself. Her new horse is a priced horse that she specifically stole as part of the event. But she has no way to reclaim any of her old gear. Idk, maybe now the pirates simply leave her Spear laying around in chapter 3, and you can reunite it with it's owner later. Would also serve as a nod to the player that Merida is not gone for good.
  5. Seems the explanation marks on the portraits indicate Talks. That's convenient. And it seems that Silken Knight Merida was moved into chapter 5. That most certainly addresses her biggest problem compared to regular Merida. And Light Cavalry movement in chapter 7 sounds pretty amazing. Of course I was always perfectly happy to ignore that event, so I didn't exactly mind that SK Merida was not worthwhile anyway. Seems there are more changes, though. This looks like the Dandelion in her inventory. Or maybe she gets a different pref spear with the same number of uses. Also a pref shield in her inventory, which is likely responsible for the +5 in defense. And 2 new skills. Which may or may not be tied to her shield.
  6. Oh wow, to lose Zayid of all people. What a scrub.
  7. It's also noteable that the lady has no practical reason to even exist. Dewey up there has a sidequest where you need to get him a ladder so he can finally get off that shelf. But Payop got nothing. No sidequest. No gameplay hint. No lore. Maybe she is going to become the main villain of Arzette 2 or something.
  8. I do wonder what he is doing to that chair, though. In any case, I suppose Ophelia's time feckery was a different level of villainy than anything Morti did. And it seems like in the case of a Game Over, she actually succeeds in killing the player character. And in her case, they aren't even gradeschoolers. ...wait, were the two people in the library in Arzette based on them?
  9. It's kinda funny how when Ganon is confronted by Link, he is confidently posturing. But when he is confronted by Zelda, he is cowering and starts blasting in a panic. Can't exactly blame him after what happened to Hectan. Girl is scary. That also explains why in Faces of Evil, Ganon waited until the darkest nightmare hour, when not moon or sun has risen, in order to kidnap Zelda. He was no doubt worried that if he tried that when she was awake, she would turn him into another puddle for Duke Onklet to clean up.
  10. That visual style is so unsettling. This kinda Newgrounds-like skeleton animation style but with overly detailed sprites... reminds me a lot of porn games, honestly. Or of mobile game ads before they were all replaced by RAIDSHADOWLEGENDS.
  11. I do appreciate that the sleepy boi is on the cover of the 30xx soundtrack. They know who the real poster boy of the game is. Well, that and the fact that the Echocaves have a sound theme. With speakers in the background and everything. But who cares about that?
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