Naglfar

Nice idea is nice. [spoiler=What my scale of ratings actually means]Ratings are from zero to ten. Battle utility is considered, availability's influence on the rating is weak. 0/10: Zero utility. Either never exists or is of no value. 1/10: Almost useless. I would advice against using this unless you have no other options. 2/10: Terrible. If you really want to use it, go ahead, but your fondness of the pokemon may be ruined. 3/10: Unserviceable. May find a place on a specialised team but you aren't going to find it very helpful most of the time. 4/10: Poor. May have a niche in which you'll find it briefly useful, but aside from that there are always far superior options. 5/10: Average. Can't be called bad, but is likely to have a crippling problem that always holds them back. 6/10: Decent. Nothing's really wrong with it, but it doesn't excel either. 7/10: Above average. The kind of pokemon that you'll always be happy to have on your team. 8/10: Strong. Not perfect, but capable of carrying any team. 9/10: Exceptional. Will typically make a significant impact even in a disadvantageous situation. 10/10: God tier. Nigh-infallible, and expect its weaknesses to have workarounds. Normal play: As a starter, the Treecko line requires no babying, which is a really good trait to have. Outspeeds everything and does great damage when Leaf Blade comes along. Falls short in a few areas due to a lack of coverage and a tendency to have bad matchups at the worst times, but you need to level your other party members at some point, right? 9/10 Zero experience: Treecko carries your team until Rustboro and makes the gym a hell of a lot easier with Bullet Seed, then stops existing for the rest of the game. Grovyle and Sceptile don't exist. Recommended.

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He was in a Kamen Rider OOO movie too. It was unfathomably cheesy. I'm not sure why this guy + pokemon = PokéFantasy Tactics (especially since Nintendo already has a far superior SRPG series to copy) but eh. Definitely a purchase once it's available.

fuck all of you

>off-phase SK >off-phase mafia janitor >vig >granny best targets

postgame since... 2am? it's 7am nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 7/14

My vanity demands a Naglfar role.

I only played one newbie game... SIX MONTHS OVERDUE POSTGAME GO It's not a very good one but I don't care. Setup As the first game I've ever hosted, this was experimental by definition. I assigned roles that would fit the characters I chose, paying relatively little heed to balance (even though Proto did provide plenty of help with that, in a custom-made game with all these power roles, is balance beyond a certain point even practically achievable?). My primary goal was an enjoyable game with plenty of possibilities, and as far as I can see, I succeeded in that respect. Due to my inexperience and semi-random decisions, I'll spare you any bullshit about why I went with anything in particular. Either I thought it'd be interesting, or Proto thought it'd help balance the game. Roles Haha, I can just copypaste this. Mostly. [spoiler=Ryuuki] Dear JBCWK, You are Kamen Rider Ryuuki. Lucky you, you got the titular character, whatever that's worth to you. Your colour scheme is a striking red and fire features prominently in a lot of your techniques. Your motif is a dragon, which stands out amongst the insect motifs Kamen Riders, especially eponymous ones, are known for. You only want to stop the fighting, but the most you can do is protect your allies. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X – Use Guard Vent on USER. You will use your shields to negate all kills targeting USER during that night. In short, you're the Town Doctor. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Knight] Dear Cap'n Flint, You are Kamen Rider Knight. You are the secondary Rider of the source material and the first to make an appearance. Your abilities are unique, owing to the arsenal of unorthodox Advent Cards at your disposal. Your motif is a medieval knight, and when your contract monster Darkwing morphs into a cape, you totally look like Meta Knight. You can do more than just fight. Each day, you can sneakily multiply yourself with your Trick Vent. Your daily lynch vote counts for two votes. In short, you're the Town Mayor. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Zolda] Dear eclipse, You are Kamen Rider Zolda. You are the fourth Rider to appear over the course of the series, and were present for longer than most. You're difficult to attack with your Magna Visor serving as a gun along with the rest of your artillery, after all. Your name is taken from the Russian word for "soldier", which is reflected in your appearance. Just shooting everyone up may not be a good idea, though, so you chose to be more subtle with your abilities. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Scope Vent on USER. By closely inspecting USER, you will discover their alignment by morning. In short, you're the Town Cop. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Raia] Dear Iris, You are Kamen Rider Raia. You are one of the few non-antihero protagonists of the series and debuted relatively early on. Your default weapon is Evil Whip, though you have the ability to copy the weapon of other Riders. Your motif is a ray. You don't want to fight, but you can put your more supernatural abilities to good use. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Sight Vent on USER. If you die that night, your psychic abilities will be triggered, revealing USER's role publicly at the start of the following Day Phase. In short, you're the Town Oracle. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Gai] Dear Nightmare, You are Kamen Rider Gai. Your introduction came a fair way into the series, though it wasn't late. You attack with your huge gauntlet, Metal Horn, while being protected by heavy armour. Your motif is a rhinoceros, so this is unsurprising. As if you needed anything more to overpower your enemies, you have a trick to put you at a distinct advantage. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Confine Vent on USER. USER's action will be voided. In short, you're the Town Roleblocker. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Tiger] Dear Levantamos/Snike, You are Kamen Rider Tiger. You were late to the party, but I guess that'd be "fashionably late"? That axe (unpictured, sadly) makes a statement, and basically sums up your fighting style, smashing everything... or possibly freezing things before smashing them, but that's for another time. Your motif is a white tiger (tigers are rad). Let's be a hero. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Strike Vent on USER. You'll use your Dest Claws, and USER will die. If you use this ability on consecutive nights, you will appear as mafia to investigative roles for the rest of the game. In short, you're the Town Vigilante. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Imperer] Dear Diavolo, You are Kamen Rider Imperer. Of the Riders to be introduced over the course of the TV series, you were the last. You fight alongside a significant number of Contract Monsters and use a strange twin drill weapon, Gazelle Stab. It's ambiguous with most things associated with you directly referencing gazelles, but your name suggests that your motif is actually an impala. With Gigazelle and its plethora of underlings on your side, you have eyes everywhere. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Advent on USER. Your monster army will keep tabs on USER wherever they go, and you'll know where they've been by morning. In short, you're the Town Tracker. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Verde] Dear Dave Strider, You are Kamen Rider Verde. You are unique in that your only appearance was in the 13 Riders TV special. During your limited screen time, you fought using more tricks than anyone else, immobilising enemies with your yo-yo weapon Bio-Winder and even copying the appearance of your enemies. Your motif is a chameleon. With a chameleon motif, naturally you have stealth abilities. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Clear Vent on USER. You will blend in with your environment and you'll be able to stalk USER; you'll see everyone who visits them that night. In short, you're the Town Watcher. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Femme] Dear 13thshadow, You are Kamen Rider Femme. You are the first official female Kamen Rider, but like all official female Kamen Riders, you made no appearance outside of movies (actually, you appeared briefly in the 13 Riders TV special, but it's hardly worth mentioning). It's kind of a sore spot with me. For combat, you can choose between your Blanc Visor that doubles as a rapier or the double-bladed Wing Slasher. Your motif is a swan. You're rather good at getting people to do what you want. Once each day, at any time, you may reply to this Role PM with Day X - Use Mind Vent on USER1 - "##Vote: USER2". USER1's lynch vote will become USER2 as soon as a host sees your PM, regardless of whether or not they have submitted a vote that day, and it cannot be changed. In short, you're the Town Persuader. You are town-aligned. You win if all anti-town players are dead. [spoiler=Scissors] Dear Strawman the DucksawDucky, You are Kamen Rider Scissors. You are the third Rider to appear, and your status as an antagonist was used to show the Japanese public that the Riders this time around aren't all the heroes they're used to. You use a lot of brute force, but not much else of note. Your motif is a crab. In this game, visiting you is a bad idea. Anyone who does will be killed by your Crush Vent, but remember that their action will not be voided. In short, you're the Mafia Paranoid Gun Owner. You are mafia-aligned. You win if you achieve parity with all non-mafia players. [spoiler=Ouja] Dear Shinori/Kaoz, You are Kamen Rider Ouja. You are easily the most consistent villain of the series, constantly attacking everyone. You fight with multiple weapons, though most commonly your Veno Saber, a spiral-bladed sword, and you go crazy with it. Your motif is a cobra. If it's there, may as well use it. Each night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Steal Vent on USER. If USER targets a member of the mafia with their night action, their action is voided. It resolves as your own action, targeting its original user. In short, you're the Mafia Copier. You are mafia-aligned. You win if you achieve parity with all non-mafia players. [spoiler=Abyss] Dear Kay, You are Kamen Rider Abyss. You are the only Ryuuki-continuity Rider to make no appearance in the original work, and you only showed up as an alternate universe Rider seven years later, designed for the 2009 series Kamen Rider Decade. You were the Big Bad of Ryuuki's world, your two Contract Monsters giving you a significant advantage in combat. Your motif is a shark. Your affinity for water makes cleaning up messes easy. At night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Torrent Vent on USER. If USER dies that night, only the mafia will get to see the dead player's Role PM, and you will be unable to use this ability again. In short, you're the Mafia Janitor. You are mafia-aligned. You win if you achieve parity with all non-mafia players. [spoiler=Odin] Dear Princess K, You are Kamen Rider Odin. Introduced midway through the series, you are the representative of the primary antagonist. In addition to having power leaps and bounds beyond that of any other Rider, you are capable of teleporting short distances, and even manipulating time with one of your disproportionately potent Advent Cards. Your motif is a phoenix. These idiots have no chance. Each even-numbered night, you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Use Final Vent on USER. Your Eternal Chaos attack will kill USER. There is no defence against it. Well, a doctor or something, I guess. Let's not be overpowered here. You can't die at night either. In short, you're the Independent Serial Killer. You are self-aligned. You win if all other players are dead. [spoiler=Ryuuga] Dear Rapier, You are Kamen Rider Ryuuga. You are the primary antagonist of the movie, not appearing anywhere else. You're not technically one of the ensemble of Riders, rather you're sort of an evil clone of Ryuuki. Functionally, you mirror Ryuuki perfectly, though you're black and your base form is slightly stronger. Your motif is a dragon. Your goal is to replace Ryuuki. You don't care about anything else, so you will be protecting yourself with your Guard Vent at all times and one attempt to kill you at night will fail. A second will be successful. In short, you're the Independent Bulletproof. You are self-aligned. You win if you survive and Kamen Rider Ryuuki does not. [spoiler=Mafia!] Dear Strawman the DucksawDucky, Shinori/Kaoz and Kay, You are the mafia. If one of you is Nightmare, I apologise. Each odd-numbered night, any of you may reply to this Role PM with Night X - Send MEMBER to kill USER. MEMBER kills USER. It's incredible. You know that there is no martyr. You also know that Kamen Rider Alternative and Kamen Rider Alternative Zero are not in the game. That's all you should need. Good luck! How Shit Went Down If you ask me, there was a fair bit of interesting stuff that happened during the game. Mostly you people being retarded. You all disgust me. Actions [spoiler=Cycle 1] 13th persuades Rein onto Nightmare Bizz/Snike idles Core tracks Kay Eclipse investigates Iris Iris scries Rapier JB protects Bizz/Snike Nightmare blocks Sho Rein watches Eclipse Kay shoots Bizz/Snike Kay janitors Bizz/Snike Shinori/Kaoz rolesteals JB Blitz was lynched. 13 players remain. [spoiler=Cycle 2] 13th persuades Rapier onto 13th Bizz/Snike shoots Core Core tracks Iris Eclipse investigates Shinori/Kaoz Iris scries Shinori/Kaoz JB protects Nightmare Nightmare blocks Kay Rein watches Shinori/Kaoz Kay idles Shinori/Kaoz rolesteals Nightmare Sho idles Rapier was lynched. Core was killed. 11 players remain. [spoiler=Cycle 3] 13th persuades Shinori/Kaoz onto Rein Bizz/Snike idles Eclipse investigates Sho Iris scries Kay JB protects Eclipse Nightmare blocks Bizz/Snike Rein watches Eclipse Kay shoots Iris Kay janitors Iris Shinori/Kaoz was lynched. Iris was killed. 9 players remain. [spoiler=Cycle 4] Bizz/Snike shoots 13th Eclipse investigates Rein JB protects Eclipse Nightmare blocks Strawman Rein watches JB Sho shoots Bizz/Snike Kay was lynched. 13th, Bizz/Snike and Nightmare were killed. 5 players remain. [spoiler=Cycle 5] Eclipse investigates Strawman Rein watches JB JB protects Eclipse Strawman shoots JB Sho was lynched. JB was killed. 3 players remain. [spoiler=Cycle 6] Strawman was lynched. Eclipse and Rein survived. Town victory. Individual shit once I've written it. On that right now, 2/14 done. Let me know if there's anything else I should write about.

fantastic

not convinced he wasn't trolling you all

Naglfar#6905 on the mericas. Forth, Serenes.

:I if any genre is a memorisation game it's shmups

Yeah, lunatic's going to roflstomp you like that. Shmups often do that; if you haven't already figured out how you're going to deal with something before it becomes an immediate threat, things are going to be a lot harder for you. The practice mode goes a long way.

Like I said, there's not much of a difficulty gap between normal and lunatic... once you've memorised them, anyway. At least for me. Just clearing normal mode when you haven't played it in so long and you're not really into it is a bit of a pain. I wasn't thinking of that at the time, though. Lunatic is also more engaging since it provides far more consistent challenge. You could say that makes it easier, since you wouldn't be as prone to the kind of complacency that playing on normal might result in. I'm fine with it if you guys are...

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to be fair, from a business perspective, server upkeep is gonna be a bitch if they cater to those few moments in the game's life cycle when their entire player base is trying to log in at once, and a few people having to wait a little while isn't a big deal, especially if it's that cute

>make a game with no offline mode >don't have jesus-servers blizzard

I basically haven't been since the beginning. There was a reason my original idea involved easy mode, and that I wasn't entirely intending to participate in the first place...

jesus one minute 1st: Raymond - 461,503,430, ReimuA (5) DNF: KAL - this isn't a clear are you sure you sent me the right replay, MarisaA (0) DNF: Naglfar - nothing submitted in time, MarisaB (0) DNF: Bal - nothing submitted in time, MarisaC (0) 1st: Raymond (23) 2nd: Naglfar (13) 3rd: KAL (5) 4th: BAL (0) full disclosure: I can't do this anymore and considering what the scores have become there doesn't seem to be much point anyway, but hell Round 6, th12, starts now. It ends a week from this post.

Dear god I'm going to kill someone. Here's a secret: normal is actually no easier than lunatic. It just makes you feel like more of a retard when you fuck up.

Okuu is just a really fun boss. Not only do you have to dodge, but you also need to actively identify threats since there's usually two or three things going on at once and getting your brain to process it all at once is not as easy as it looks. One of the best bosses ZUN's made, definitely.

I know this. However, not only did I forget that detail somehow, I also have a strong natural aversion to bombing. Thus I tend to not do it unless I'm pretty much certain I can't make it through normally. This results in many wasted bombs as I'm just not as good in practice as I think I am.

raocow's voice acting is the best

Man, I have no idea what I'm doing! 1st: Raymond - 478,191,550, MarisaA (5) 2nd: Naglfar - 257,890,700, MarisaC (3) DNF: KAL - nothing submitted in time, ReimuB (0) DNF: Bal - nothing submitted in time, ReimuA (0) 1st: Raymond (18) 2nd: Naglfar (13) 3rd: KAL (5) 4th: Bal (0) Round 5, th11, starts now. It ends a week from this post.

I'm here...