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I already pointed this out to whase and he understood. You didn't need to point this out. Also, was this topic still on page 1 of the forum when you replied to it?

The person can copy any movement made by a person within their line of sight, no matter how complicated the movement is. This even extends to mimicking the other person's voice, but only if they repeat exactly what the person said. Math Magic

I just bought that new Monster Hunter game: Monster Hunter Rise. I'm pretty much brand new to the series (though I did try the first demo for this game), so the experience is... interesting. I bought the game because it looked interesting and because I heard that the series has a bit of a steep learning curve, so I thought I'd get this game as a way of challenging myself. Today, I basically walked around the village to learn where everything is, did the tutorial mission, then did some free roaming of the Shrine Ruins (the first hunting location available). I decided to go for Sword & Shield because I heard it was versatile and beginner-friendly. I'm guessing that "beginner-friendly" is a relative statement, as it certainly was beginner-friendly compared to stuff like the longsword and the bowguns. I even practiced in the training area for a bit before going on the first mission, and the combat was still very awkward for me. I suspect that as I get better and I learn what's the best thing to do in each situation (and after I watch a ton of beginner's guide videos on using Sword & Shield), it will start to click. But hey; I still somehow managed to beat an Arzuros (the bear monster) on my first try during the free roaming. The wirebugs and the palamute really make exploring a lot of fun, and I like how you want to go off the beaten path to find items that can help with the quest, but at the same time, you are on a time limit unless you're free-roaming, so there's risk-reward involved. Because I knew I was going to go for Sword & Shield, my first idea for my custom character was to make him Link from The Legend of Zelda... then I decided against it. That said, I still made my Palamute (the dog/wolf thing) Wolf Link and my Palaco (the cat creature) Midna. The game's main hub is a surprisingly charming place; all the characters are rather quirky, but definitely in a good way, and even just engaging in chitchat with them is a bit fun. There's also something amusing about the way the player character puts an entire set of three dango in their mouth all at once and just scarfs it down. Incidentally, the opening of the game has the player character be awoken by the twins that give out the quests, and the game having the protagonist have to be woken up, as well as them being a big eater, really made me almost regret not sticking with my idea of making my character Link.

I have no idea who that is. Hinoa (Monster Hunter Rise).

I think I've only ever experienced this once or twice, as I usually try to avoid situations where the enemies piling on the unit can result in the unit's death, and when it does happen, it's usually because one of the enemy units got a lucky crit, and the pileup normally wouldn't have killed the unit. I've honestly heard about it more than I've actually experienced it. I always thought one decent remedy to this would be to create a class that specializes in this sort of scenario by being stronger and better at evasion when outnumbered; something like Landsknecht or Vanguard.

Wow; even for a video of the game (which I have never even played), my eyes immediately go to the mini-map on the bottom-left corner of the screen; that thing really is as distracting as all the critics said it was.

Sounds good. I personally would've recommended playing them in order simply for better understanding the story and characters. Oh yeah; black holes. Yeah; the post-game did do that. I never was able to get to the final post-game boss in any of the three games because I could never get past the last gate that's usually unlocked by obtaining every battle card. Honestly, I've never been a fan of "ancient alien" stories, so I'm glad that Star Force 2 stuck to ancient humans... & dinosairs. Hilarious. That said, wasn't Awakening originally going to involve outer space before they realized it could've been the last FE game and decided instead to make it a "Fire Emblem Greatest Hits"? I wonder if Jake and Anna actually would've been aliens in that version.

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I haven't played all the routes yet, and of the two that I have played, I played Crimson Flower on normal difficulty and I played Verdant Wind on hard difficulty, so I can't really agree or disagree. I can say, however, that even though I dislike that Crimson Flower has fewer chapters, I've enjoyed its chapters more than Verdant Wind's, and I like chapters that provide a fun challenge, so make of that what you will. For a good comparison, look at chapter 12: in non-Crimson Flower routes, it's rather bog-standard, to be honest, and it really doesn't offer much in challenge. It's rather boring, especially for what essentially is a defend chapter in all but name. In Crimson Flower, however, it's amazing. The enemy units are always throwing new tricks at you as you progress further forward; giving the siege on Garreg Mach an almost rhythmic back-and-forth. You send your units down the middle? Boom: enemies in the bushes. You send your units along the sides? Boom: Seteth goes on the offensive if you defeat Flayn. Get past Seteth: not only are there ballistae and magic towers, but giant golems appear, and you still have to bring down Catherine and Rhea. And I'm sure I've forgotten some of the cool things they do with this map. It's actually tense and challenging because it's able to throw you off and make you have to adapt, but not in any way that feels unfair, and this in particular is a pattern for most of the unique Crimson Flower chapters.

I see. I haven't seen any of Bleach; it's not my cup of tea. I do know what you mean though about the "they're married in the epilogue" thing, as that's what Kishimoto did for all the couples in Naruto because he felt he wasn't good at writing romance. That said, he did at least provide enough romantic interactions to make most of the couples plausible, and The Last: Naruto the Movie (the only canon Naruto movie, which shows how Naruto and Hinata got together) was good. That's a good question, and I honestly don't know the answer. It's still weird that it went from explicit in the original Japanese to ambiguous in the localization.

@Glennstavos The Switch doesn't have a pointer; the IR thing you're talking about is a depth-tracking sensor that's used for reading objects and motions in front of the remote. Any gameplay mechanic that used the pointer for the Wii is done using the gyro on the Switch, and both joy-cons have a gyro and an accelerometer. In other words, every part of the motion controls from Skyward Sword could easily get mapped to either joy-con. It also means that there was no excuse for Super Mario Galaxy to only allow the use of the right joy-con's gyro for the pointer controls. EDIT: Sorry; this should've been an edit, not a second post. Can someone please delete this second post?

They could just pull a Toon Link/Spirit Train and have Hubert be there instead whenever Edelgard's on stage as a fighter.

Ah. I played through all three and I really enjoyed them all despite their faults. The second one's often considered the weak one of the three, but I honestly really liked it. Yeah, sure; it never involves outer space despite the series being called Megaman Starforce, but I honestly thought it was a neat way to differentiate itself from the first. Besides, with stuff from outer space as a threat to Earth, your options are basically aliens and meteors, and both of those each were used by the other two games.

I haven't heard much controversy either, but one thing I know about is that Byleth and Edelgard's paired ending explicitly states they got married in the original Japanese but the localization mistranslated it in a way that makes it ambiguous and unclear for some odd reason.

Ah. Thanks. I've never seen Hunter x Hunter. All I know about it is that apparently it keeps going on hiatus or something like that.

Thanks. Yeah; Bakugo and Kirishima shippers would've been a better example; I went with the Deku and Bakugo example simply because of how vocal their shippers are. I really didn't think through what I had said and I really should have. Who are Gon and Killua (what story are they from)? It's true that Ike pretty much is a shonen protagonist, and him being oblivious to love would make a lot of sense. Is the mini-epilogue thing a reference to anything in particular? I agree; what matters is that the two characters have an interesting relationship forged through meaningful interactions. I like Ike and Elincia in the NA localization of Path of Radiance because of the meaningful interactions between them, and using a reference to shonen anime since we were talking about that, I like Naruto and Hinata because, though they didn't have many interactions, they were very meaningful. To be clear though; I don't ship characters, I just watch the story play out.

I think it's funny that, before even thinking, "Clever pun", I thought, "I know who that is: that guy's one of the bosses in the first Megaman Starforce game". So... Robin would be her type then?

Reminding me of... actually, I never saw Henry IV in any of my classes. Bad fight choreography and costuming, but good acting. This one is five minutes long; you can either watch all of it (note that the song ends at around 4:34), or since it's the "full" version (as in the entire song), you can instead watch the version that was used as the show's opening, which is just a minute and 30 seconds and which I'll post below it as a link. Just please let me know which version you watched when stating your opinion on it: Violet Evergarden Opening HD | Sincerely | - YouTube

I see. That's very strange. I wonder why that is, especially since I can see it just fine. I'll try again by editing my reply and changing it from the video to just the link. If it still doesn't work, please let me know and I'll replace it with a different video.

I would say Edelgard, but Byleth stole her axe, so I guess Black Knight even though I see him as more of a boss or an assist trophy than a fighter.

Was it meddling? Given what I had heard from all the interviews with the developers and such, I thought it was overambition.

True. Perhaps a closer comparison would be Revelation with Azura giving the throne of Valla (which admittedly is a fallen kingdom with... how many survivors exactly?). Corrin actually asks why, and Azura says that she doesn't want it. Revelation did something better than SoV. Revelation did something better than another FE game; how is that possible? There was a huge double-standard in the Medieval World; men could sire all the illegitimate children that they wanted and face nothing for it, but if a married woman among the nobility sired a child that clearly wasn't her husband's, then she and the child's father would be severely punished (and the child would likely be killed as well to prevent it from growing up to want revenge for its parents). Now, a fantasy game like FE doesn't have to reflect this, but given what we learn about Lima's court, it's very likely that this double-standard held.

It says something that Radiant Dawn handled something similar to this far better in the form of Lord Renning being alive with just the subtext within one base conversation; Renning's a knight, not a ruler, and he can see clearly that Crimea is in good hands with his niece Elincia as queen. You don't need much to explain it; even just, "Nah; I don't want it" would've sufficed. …Now that I think about it, Fates: Revelation handled it better by having Corrin ask Azura why she handed the throne over to them and her answering that she doesn't want it. Revelation handled something better than another FE game! That is a sentence I never thought I would say without any sarcasm!

If it weren't, people would've found out. There's actually a mathematical formula that can estimate how long a conspiracy can last before it completely unravels based on how many know about it and stuff like that. Using it, people have determined that, for just one example, if the moon landing had been faked, it would've become common knowledge over a decade ago.

I see. Interesting. That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I figured it was a case of all-the-eggs-in-another-basket because, well, Boruto and Black Clover released within a year of each other, and Boruto got a ton of funding and a lot more animators than Black Clover and its animation was relatively consistent from the start. It's rather easy to see that and come to the conclusion of, "Okay, we're making two shows. Which one is more marketable?" Incidentally, the Boruto and Black Clover fandoms used to be very friendly until the Black Clover fandom began to suspect Studio Perriot was showing favoritism to Boruto. Now, it's not nearly as bad as, say, relations between the MHA fandom and literally every other anime fandom, but things did apparently get a bit tense. By the way, since Record of Grancrest War (the other anime I had posted a video for) was made by A-1 Pictures, I'm curious: does A-1 Pictures have any particular issues? As for the video, I can honestly say I've never watched Digimon. The music instead made me think of stuff like the classic Megaman games. Sasuke vs Kinshiki | Boruto: Naruto Next Generations - YouTube