Punished Dayni

Okay, just a moment to indicate I'm off.... on holiday.

Definitely for the next week, we'll see about the week after.

So, late evening, deciding to play Lunatic Conquest again for the first time in ages after not even playing any video games outside of the Teehee SoV for weeks.

Somehow I actually managed the waves for the first time ever, captured what I wanted to get and cleared in 25 turns, which is faster than I anticipated for it (And that's with wasting Azama'a Hexing Rods).

I actually cleared 24 Conquest on Lunatic.

After what feels like over a year of bitching.

Admittedly been busy enough the last while, so not much to say on here.

But decided to pop on Mario + Rabbids to try and make progress. Got past the last map that bothered me a lot cleaner, then did another map similarly, then I got to the next map.

The death of the 3DS eshop saw me get Metroid's remake, but I also picked up an SRPG called Stella Glow because it was 4 euro. D3esign wise, there's a certain character who is pretty ridiculous by any standard, but I am not going into because yikes.

It turns out there's a guy named Archibald, a noble figure who's being billed as the serious member of the knight squad. And his quote on his turn is "I'm coming".

This guy is ruined because of ProZD

Beat Engage by the way.

I think I'll have a lot to write up before giving any serious talk on it and it'll be a while before I go back to Engage, that took a fair amount.

I'll be honest, I'm writing this for me, because the ides hasn't gone away since I first thought of it.

When the Sonic demo runs out of time:

Just got through 21 and 22.

Okay, I am at the point where I am stumped with Engage.

Chapter 20 crosses a line of elements to watch out for: Griss's madness and not knowing how it works, the FoW limiting movement is still annoying, alongside the enemies I obviously won't see and the thieves combined with the Entrap guy push it over the line to not be asking in the void of here for suggestions.

Obviously buying a Freeze may make sense (I have no uses in the convoy, RIP me), but it's just tight enough to be unsure what the hell I need to do to pull off the thieves + Entrap, while also surviving 4 turns of Griss being himself.

Chapter 20.

Yo what the fuck, that's hilarious.

Thracia Ballista were imported into Elyos, that explains this paralogue.

I haven't really spoken about Engage at all yet, kinda holding off, but an example of this game being itself.

So I've a stupid Louis at the moment, 35 Def, but of course slow (10 AS could be worse, probably a little blessed). Playing one of the paralogues and I am up at a wave of enemies. I have Louis 1-shot a mage despite there being another in that range because I figure he'll have it and 1-shot to avoid being doubled. Not accounting for an enemy having a Fracture staff in range. Naturally the enemy goes for it, the mage attacks.... and doesn't double. The meal I'd fed everyone gave +Spd and it was enough to take him out of doubling range.

This game I swear.

And another thing, where was I at in playthroughs?

SDatBoL, MotE II..... and nothing else left.

Add the routes from 3H to bring it to 22 routes..... that's 20/22.

Or if we talk just full titles 14/16

Hadn't done this in ages, thought of it now.

So, just writing this status update because I noticed I apparently have 4200 posts.

Just.... just wanted to have something to notice it with before I go past it.

(It's like blaze it... but a decade of it, man /s)

Well, it's been 9 months.

I can finally say I've had my fill of 3H.

Not because I found something more bullshit than Reunion at Dawn. I definitely did not. Just got to the end of my Maddening run and I feel like I've had my time. Raphael got MVP for the finale, because QR and Knuckles are fair, turns out the Linhart ending wasn't as bad as I necessarily expected (Certainly I don't feel like throwing up at the CG this time, so that's good)

I'll probably post in the maddening thread with pics.

I'm happy to be done.

Three houses has issues.

There are things that can be complained about across the board.

But there is nothing as bad in it as the fishing. The fishing is the worst thing about the game, no question. There's no good in how it's designed, the gameplay is an awful minigame and the sheer RNG involved is a massive fuck you to the player. It absolutely should be redesigned from the ground up.

#ISmadefishingmoreboring #Ocarinahadbetterfishing #fishingemblem

So, having finally played to completion Reunion at Dawn in maddening, I have only this to say.

Fuck Reunion at Dawn.

It is the worst kind of difficult map and once you've dealt with the first 5 turns it evaporates so long as you've been able to have a sufficient amount of stuff to work with. It's challenging, but absolutely unfun in that. Your cast can be all over the place in terms of relevance and playing blind would be awful. If most of them are dead and Byleth and the lord aren't supremely OP you're fucked.

Fuck Reunion at Dawn.

TIL holding B speeds through cutscenes in 3H.

WHY ISN'T THAT ADVERTISED? IT HELPS WITH THE DAMM PARALOGUE SCENES SO MUCH.

Me going back a week when Bernadetta doesn't ask to join my house in the week before I've got two quests to fight

When it finally happens.

Finally finished 3H with SS now. That fight was.... well, it could have been worse once I actually got to fighting Rhea and at least it wasn't as tedious as CF Also, there was some painful lag early on (I said it, you happy?). So final map is VW > SS > CF > AM.

I'm thankful to be done, even if I'll have to deal with CS someday and try to see if I can actually beat Maddening beyond C1. This route had me questioning the light touch handling of the objective big plan villains more than I had before. For now, I'm just happy I can move on to other things.

In the medium term? I've hinted at it and now I think I can really start prepping a big piece on the game of what I'd consider a personal rewrite of the routes to make them more distinct and try and throw some other ideas with it. I don't promise everyone will love it and any commentary could make me see something I missed so when I have something up go ahead. Despite that, no I absolutely don't hate this game's story. But you can tell a lot of its issues are tied to time and budget, it got delayed twice for at least 7 months it doesn't surprise me.

As for the Rhea support, MY WORD I REGRET PRESSING IT.

So, how about the end of CF huh? I was concerned I wouldn't make it at first, but after retrying 17 once (That gimmick caused me to flip the first time I saw it, but the second time I just outpaced the entire north of the map) 18 proved to not be as bad as I expected. 

I somehow feel like I have more to ask about after that ending than for VW (where I had one question), but all that can wait because there's still AM and SS left.

Also this credit music's making me think of pokemon, feels similar.

So yeah, 2 routes left, to be precise their part 2s.

Three Houses update, finished Part 1 on all routes. I have to say it's giving me a lot of material to consider and what I feel should be improvements. I already have an idea of a long essay on Three Houses.

Also, fuck Reunion at Dawn. Just, fuck everything about it. I'll expand on it if people want, but know it's managing to anger me more than Nuibaba, even if it's the principle of the thing that's the cause of my anger instead of being an utter BS map.

Okay, so I've been playing 3 Houses like mad since Mid-January.

Finished VW and Part 1 of CF so far, have got playthroughs for the other routes ready.

Would like to ask if there's a big bunch of information relating to NG+ (I'm not using it for a first playthrough for any route though).

Nostalgia train's a hell of a drug. Reignited Trilogy is finally here! So that's a thing I've been waiting on.

Adrift appears

IS: Hey fans, we've got a new banner here set in Valla-

Angry Fans: THE SALT MUST FLOW!

Didn't mention it but I finally tried Apotheoisis. Managed to unlock the secret route first try, decided I wasn't on the crazy juice yet and after a few tries got the normal route, which I cleared deathless up to the last wave.

Still cleared, got Katarina finally and may someday finally try the secret route.