Acacia Sgt

Well, Thraccia still had a menu choice. If you visited the church in the middle of the map. Which, if you wanted to recruit Sleuf, then you had to end the chapter that way. That said, I agree. Making the choice possible via different Escape routes was a very cool way to portray a route split.

Funnily enough, I think someone here actually made a list already. But don't recall who or when.

I mean, considering actors very often play characters younger than them even by a couple years, don't count it out just yet. Still, props if they really don't go for LinkxZelda. Then we ask how much rupees Cia paid them.

Next chapter of CoS is up! https://archiveofourown.org/works/47390575/chapters/174787176

Thanks! Well, at least being used as gifts has always been a thing... right?

Well, in that case... oh, as if it'd be shocking for me to say it: The Super Robot Wars series They mostly do route splits in the style of Binding and Thraccia. Except the story doesn't diverge (for most of them at least). The playable party actually splits, as you would see in RD Part 4, so the events of both routes happen. You just don't see one of them. That said, SRW has done something akin to Fates too. One game has it where you have a couple linear chapters at the beginning... and then comes the big decision between which two groups to join (though both groups are allies, unlike with Fates). But, it's still the same formula of one story as both routes happen concurrently. The difference is that it's for the rest of the game. And there lies its beauty. Since it's still the same story, and things like party changes are dictated by the story for the most part, it means there's overlap. Like, you could have a unit in Route A that will leave the party... because they now will join the party of Route B. Same for which enemies you fight. Some show up and are fought in both routes because they too travel between both routes' areas of operation. The game also made it so you needed to play through both routes (thus, two playthroughs) in order to unlock the game's true ending. That was quite an interesting set-up, which hasn't actually been done again. Well, one other game came close, but only for its original version (and then some, since we're talking of a three-part "game" where two parts are happening concurrently, then join for the third, but all three are separate games so you don't need to play all three), as the remake it got now made you play through all three parts in succession. But same thing applied. Units and enemies that traveled between "routes", and thanks to there being Save Data transfer between parts, even some events and secrets were scattered across. Where doing something in one route would affect the other route, and the like.

Are you referring in specific to rest-of-the-game kind of route splits? Since I noticed you didn't mentioned Binding Blade's two sets of route splits.

Okay, reached Shiori's... I guess this one is a bonafied Bad Ending with capital B. ... If not for lack of time, I would just straight get the Good Ending now. Ah well, guess it will be for tomorrow.

6. All of the above. Somehow.

Hey, Childhood Friend Romance is a tried and true formula! Now I'm reminded how Marth, Ike, and Meta Knight have a team-up in Subspace Emissary. That could've been Roy instead! XD

At some point membership vouchers (offering like a month-long subscription access per each) became a thing sold for just regular gold on the Varrock Grand Exchange, making it much easier. That's how my brother kept his for so long, heh.

It can only be used once, and you only get it by the tail-end of the game.

Why can't Superman be real... Anyway, I decided to play once again through HM: Tale of Two Towns. I have the 3DS port, which I did started a playthrough a long while ago but, ah, I more or less abandoned it. Decided to start over. As before, I chose Konohana, since I want to focus on crops. Since I'm minding more to focus on what's important. Money! Actually, it does seem to not be too hard to accrue money in this game. Right off the bat, during Spring, you can grow turnips, cook them into turnip salads, and sell them for a bit of profit. And once you get the cooking pot, and if the shop RNG favors you, then you can also buy rice/flour in bulk, cook it, and sell the results as well. Not as profitable, but can be done more often. That said, a big money maker is the flower shop. Since you can pay to turn flowers into perfume or bouquets, and they sell for quite a bit. Heck, you can even buy the flowers too, and you'd still make a decent profit... well, if the resulting quality is high enough I guess. Only downside is that you can only have one perfume/bouquet made once per day. Still, it's something. And if the profit margin is a concern, there's always growing the flowers yourself. I suppose considering the main objective of opening the tunnel between both towns, it makes sense that getting money has to be easier since the costs... well, I'm sure they'll be quite high. Although, right now I'm saving to get a better cart for storage purposes. And perhaps a pet or two. I won't focus much on livestock for now. Not that I can while in Konohana anyway, but I got a chick and calf already. I may get a lamb later on, but that'd be it. Though once they unlock, I'm definitely gonna get an alpaca. Alpaca Wool will be... a very high importance resource to get, hehehe... Anyway, made it to Spring 6 so far. I finally got the money to start doing the perfure/bouquet trick. Shop RNG has not favored me so far since I only got rice to show up once. Well, as I mentioned, there's no lack for fast money in this game, heh.

Okay, looks like it will be Shiori's route next.

Man, for me it is over two decades. XD At least since 2004, though I didn't played too long. Now my brother, been playing since about fifteen years now at least and counting. Yeah, though if it's about seeking for the best who embodies the element, some of them would not be up for the running, admittedly. Though I'll also admit, Eltosian certainly had better picks.