Tylwyth Teg
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8 hours ago, Sir Gerwald of Vallora said:
Alright, this may sound a little venty, but my computer screen just broke.
Ouch 😮 Sorry to hear about this!! I hope the repairs are swifter than anticipated..
6 hours ago, FireFenrir said:Finnally decided to post here! I really am to shy haha (I know I shouldn't but I really have to work on it!)
I don't have to say much about me, but my hobbies are video games, drawing, listening to FE musics (most Echoes SoV!) and Fire Emblem Cipher! But actual crisis do really make me feel anxious. Good thing that video games where there to just help me think about something other. (Thanks a lot to Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, that permite me to had some good memories that I had while I was playing this game on WII for the first time in 2017!).
I also love drawing sketches, and portraits from FE characters. I'm not the best at that, but I just have to improve myself!
Talking about Xenobalde, before make me notice that I have the theme "Time to fight" that just popped up in my mind haha! Not a relaxing music really but I just don't know why it played without stopping in my mind x)
Anyway, that's a pleasure to talk here, thanks a lot for that topic Tylwyth Teg!
It's always good to meet a fellow Xenoblade fan!! I've not yet picked up the Definitive Edition, but I intend to do so at some point. I'm a little jealous of everyone else out there who is playing it!! Though it makes me happy to think of so many people playing it for the first time. It felt like such a truly special game when I played it upon its original release, and I'm sure it's lost none of that magic over time.
I'm glad you decided to post here! There is no pressure, and so no reason to worry about being shy. I hope you'll come by again in the future and update us on your gaming and drawing! 😊
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5 hours ago, twilitfalchion said:
As to myself, to be honest there's not a whole lot to say. Like Robin said in Awakening: "I mean, look at me. I'm pretty dull when you get right down to it. " I'll be starting my junior year of college this fall to earn my bachelor's in government. I'm an online student and definitely prefer the benefits of online college over the on-campus alternative. Writing is probably my favorite activity, although I've mostly written for college assignments instead of fiction (I actually just posted my first fanfic here on SF yesterday). My hobbies...I've been a pianist since I was a kid, and a gamer for even longer. Gaming has been the biggest anxiety-killer for me with the pandemic going on. And that's about it, I guess. Thanks for creating this thread by the way. It's nice to be able to share.
Robin might say that, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the cast would say otherwise 😊
It's cool to find that there are so many creative people here! And it's also great to hear that gaming has been a life-line for so many during the pandemic.
Best of luck with your online classes! I'm glad to hear it's a situation that suits you. I know many are struggling to adapt. There are silver linings to be found in one way or another for all of us!
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53 minutes ago, Michelaar said:
You somehow managed to post the exact trailers I had in mind before I had a chance to! I totally agree with you! In addition, i'd like to add the first trailer of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It filled me with so much excitement, since 1 was so good.
Yeah, the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 trailer was a good one! (And that game really delivered. I had a blast playing it!)
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Somewhat predictable, perhaps, but I still think that the best trailer I've ever seen is this trailer for Breath of the Wild. I remember exactly how I felt when first watching it (and even after playing the game it still blows me away)
The moment the music changes after the "100 years ago" line is just... wow. That music, combined with the fast cuts of all the story events (especially the Zelda content) took my breath away and filled my eyes with tears. Based on this trailer, I thought I was in for the story-driven Zelda adventure of a lifetime. It really seemed like it would be a journey that Link and Zelda went through TOGETHER, and I was sick with excitement.
Little did I know that 99% of Zelda/Link story content would be told through flashbacks and that in practice I would find it completely underwhelming... But the game was incredible other than that.
The Breath of the Wild 2 trailer fills me with a similar excitement, but also leaves me absolutely terrified haha. I'll reserve judgement on that trailer until I actually play the game someday 😉
Edit: How do you embed videos? I tried and failed spectacularly.
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39 minutes ago, Michelaar said:
Haha thanks! Ace Attorney is awesome, I do hope they come out with a new one soon. I do hope they will come to the west too, and it might be possible if you look really far (Since I think most of the Sherlock Holmes stories are now public domain) but I'm guessing they'll just leave them in the past. The first game has a completed fan-translation, which I've finished playing. The second game has it completed up to it's second trial. The second game is way superior to the first one, kind of like the Miles Edgeworth games.
That sounds fantastic! I don't know if the Great Ace Attorney games will ever be localised, but I really hope that they decide to bring whatever they make next our way. It's a series I adore too much!
Your painting sounds great! It's interesting to challenge yourself with concepts like that. Keep it up 😊
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By the way! If anyone has any favourite Fire Emblem music mixes on Youtube, please let me know and I'll add a link to them in the top post! It's nice to have some music while recording your thoughts 😊
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17 hours ago, Benice said:
It's a fantasy setting-There is magic and magical creatures and the like.
And the plot's kinda...Hard to explain? It's more or less about an island of misfits who formed a community.
That's a good start for me! I've been really getting back into reading fantasy this year. Honestly I don't know why I stopped - I've had great fun, and look forward to more. Best of luck!!
16 hours ago, Michelaar said:To combat this, i've been playing more games, but i've also bought some paint supplies and started to express my feelings in art. It honestly feels great just producing your feelings on a white sheet with paint of all colours available while you are able to just escape from the troubles of real life, and all that goes on in the world today.
Hi friend! I'm glad you've managed to find creative outlets for your emotions. Art therapy is a very real thing, and it's great for working through your emotions! Paintings like those must be a special thing to keep, too. I imagine that, for example, in ten years time they will be precious belongings that capture the essence of certain stages of your life.
Nice profile pic btw. I've always wanted to play those Ace Attorney games! I'm still blindly hoping they'll be brought to the West on the Switch or something... Though I heart that a fan translation recently was completed, so perhaps I'll figure out a way to play that. Have you played it??
15 hours ago, Dandy Druid said:Hello~ I guess I'll share my story as well.
I just graduated college with a degree in Business Administration. It feels really weird, to be honest. My whole life I've been told I have to go to college and that has always been my goal. Now that I finished it, I feel a little overwhelmed with the directions my life can take. Although I've accepted an offer to teach English abroad in South Korea, I feel like withdrawing from the process, due to a declining interest, a lack of time to prepare all of the paperwork needed, unknown variables in regards to the pandemic, and I have more of an interest in pursuing other types of work. However, since I said I'll accept the position, I'm feeling like I have some buyer's remorse. Luckily, my recruiting agency said that I'm most likely on a wait list, so there may be time for me to pull out. I haven't signed a contract yet, so I may still have some time.
I'm also worried about my love life. I met my significant other while studying abroad last year in South Korea. Funnily enough, they were also an international student from Vietnam. Now I'm wondering how to go making our relationship work. I can try to find a teaching job in Vietnam, but I don't foresee myself doing that forever. I don't want to give up on my relationship, as I enjoy their company and I just feel drawn to them inexplicably. Plus, it will be about a year since we started dating at the end of the month, and I don't want to throw away all the time and energy I've put this far into the relationship.
Hey! Thanks for dropping by.
Congratulations on finishing your degree! Though I can definitely relate to the overwhelming number of directions you now face. I don't think you can make the wrong decision, though. Whatever you choose, it will lead to the next thing, and that will lead to the thing after that, and so on. It sounds like you're already setting yourself up with good opportunities!
Best of luck with your relationship, too. Relationships over distances can be tough, but if it's with the right person then any amount of hard work will be worthwhile.
I hope you're all doing great today!
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22 minutes ago, twilitfalchion said:
I've been playing FE6 (on Ch. 12 now). The hit rates are funky (got hit with a hand axe at 18% hit rate, wth?) and the units are on the weaker side, but it's still a pretty solid game. I haven't run into anything cheap, just challenging given my units and resources.
I think that's next on my list! Glad to hear it's good.
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Just started FE7 for the first time! It's my first GBA Fire Emblem game, and so far I'm blown away. I love the atmosphere, and the characters are extremely endearing.
(and whenever Lyn turns and looks directly at me I am WEAK)
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3 hours ago, Benice said:
Well, I guess I'm a fairly generic adolescent. I do a lot of hiking, reading and writing, but I dislike violence, which kinda limits my options. (Seriously, RD is the most violent game I've ever played, so...)
Other than that, I'm working on a novel, listen to classical music and play the oboe in my free time. The virus has some ups and downs for me, since I get to go hiking literally every day, but it's still stressful because everything's in a transition period and online classes are really annoying. Plus the fact that it's a pandemic so it's pretty bad by default.
In what ways does disliking violence limit your options? It sounds like you're the creative type, so perhaps not having violent tendencies allows you to broaden your options in other directions!
Good luck with your novel! May I ask what it is about? My wife is currently working on a novel too, and it's a fascinating process to observe
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Hello to whoever stumbles upon The Crossing next! I thought I would leave some words to get us started.
The Crossing is something I wanted to create during a time of need. I am currently 3000 miles away from home. When I moved to the US to be with my wife, it seemed like an easy decision. After all, at any moment I would only be a three hour flight from home - easy! Though... with the "current situation" (as people like to indirectly refer to the pandemic), I'm somewhat stranded. I know I'm not the only one in this position, but it's a very strange and sad feeling. The distance now feels more than ever.
Thankfully my wife and I are safe and well in our small town. We are lucky to live in a place rural enough that we can go out and get plenty of exercise out in nature (even if there are bears here - something I am still not used to!) I've been out of work for the past two months, so until my workplace opens back up again I have been spending time working on a comic that has been slowly building in my mind over the past year. It feels good to have an opportunity to channel myself into something I feel very passionate about!
I'm sure many of you reading this are feeling similar emotions while our lives are in such turmoil, and I wish you well!
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"Welcome to The Crossing, traveller. You've come a long way, haven't you..? Stop a while and tell us what brought you here. You'll find there's always someone who'll lend an ear..."
Hello and welcome to The Crossing!
This is a quiet place for people to gather and reflect; a place to listen, support, and tell your story. As you pass through, consider spending a moment writing about your day or week, about something that is happening to you, or something you are feeling. As with most, your experience with The Crossing may be transient. Something that passes without much thought, but with each passing you will leave your mark for somebody else to discover. And who knows? Our paths are not linear, and chances are the forest will bring you back to The Crossing once again...
Take care, traveller.
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Why not listen to some music during your stay?
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2 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:
Personally I always found it amusing to imagine Morag having an adorable fangirl crush on Hugo as the ideal Ardanian Emperor. She'd picture an amazing and all powerful warrior king without realizing that Hugo is pretty much like her younger brother. Sort of how Lucina sees Marth.
Haha! That is a very endearing thought!!
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The passion in this thread is inspiring! (Just waiting until I have chance to respond in full! Thoroughly enjoying reading the discussion in the meantime)
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3 minutes ago, Benice said:
Sorry about the slow response, but I believe there is an SF discord chat room; I haven't checked it out, but I think it's just a place to chill and talk.
Thanks Benice!
I'll take a look at that. I don't usually enjoy Discord rooms too much (the fast pace is so hard to keep up with! And there's something more enjoyable about catching up reading through a forum.)
That said, I'm having a great time just existing in the forums in general, with or without a hangout thread 🙂
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1 hour ago, Jotari said:
If that's really the motive then I think Indol would have been a much better choice given that's where the villain is hanging out and is the more mobile of the titans, so could have been positioned near Torna with some level of reasonable justification for making travel so easy.
That's an interesting idea! It might have been much more interesting to see actual society 500 years earlier (or however long the time difference is). Though... I guess that's where budget and other restrictions come in. Also, I wonder what that would mean for the community system. For me it did a fantastic job of endearing me to the citizens of Torna, and making me genuinely care about the place. Since the community is so Torna focused, I wonder if it would have been too diluted if a much more populated titan (compared to Gormott) were to be used instead.
15 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:This is not to say I dislike Torna, I really enjoyed it. But I do think if you removed it from XC2's DLC, gave it a longer development cycle, and raised the retail price on it, you wouldn't see the "faults" that it currently has. I do not discredit the many complete experiences available in gaming at a lower than $60 USD price point, experiences that are perfectly good games with 30 (or 15) hrs or less in length. But I feel Torna was worthy of $60 USD and 40-60 hrs of playtime, I think it might've wanted to be that. But it wasn't.
Torna's shorter playtime is something I appreciated! In XC2 I didn't feel particularly compelled to do many of the side-quests at all (I'm sure I'm missing out on some good content), because I just felt like the core game itself had SO MUCH to offer. Meanwhile, Torna gives you a little more room to breathe. I've really enjoyed starting up the game each night for the past week or so and just exploring, completing side quests and unlocking abilities for my blades. The lack of constant forward momentum gave me opportunity to slow down and enjoy what the game had to offer.
If the game were to double in length, I wonder how far this kind of gameplay loop could have stretched, but for the length it is - I loved it!
Also, a factor that probably aided my enjoyment - I knew beforehand that there were some requirements for community level later in the game, and so I was never caught off-guard. I think this knowledge gave me the initial push I needed to clear a bunch of the quests, but as I cleared more and more I started to seek them out purely for the enjoyment of it. I imagine that if I hadn't known they were mandatory, I definitely would have hit a roadblock sooner or later.
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9 hours ago, Caliburn Absolute said:
That being said, I dunno how long I'll end up sticking around for this time, but hopefully this'll be a nice experience.
Nice to meet you!! I hope I'll see you around the forums during your stay 🙂
Your icon is very cute btw!
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Welcome to the forum!! Great to meet you. I'm looking forward to seeing what you are producing!
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10 hours ago, Jotari said:
It;s especially baffling in the context that they decided to put Gormotii in the game, which you travel back and forth to several, to many, times. If you're going to call the game Torna then set the entire thing on Torna.
I expect that perhaps the justification for having Gormott in the Torna DLC was to provide the players a common area between the two games to demonstrate the time difference. There was a small novelty in seeing what things were like previously, but not nearly enough to really sell it.
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2 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Here is a large collection of Torna commentary logs I made, they're better than my memory for what my actual firsthand impressions were:
That was indeed a large collection! I enjoyed reading through it and seeing such detailed thoughts. This must be cool for yourself to read through again in the future! Do you write commentaries on games like this often? Perhaps it's something I should consider someday.
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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I'm guilty of just finding Malos to be pretty boring overall. He's super powerful, which lends his fights at least some bombastic drama. But, like you say, he really just came across as a big bully to me.
As for Jin, I feel like I can see the glimmer of an interesting idea that the writers wanted to explore. The struggle of being a blade is explored the most through his character, and feels akin to the classic "Vampire who lives forever and sees the world dying around him" trope. I don't think they explored it to its full potential, but I did enjoy it. I'm hopeful that in future Xeno titles they'll feel confident to go head first into exploring more philosophical things again. It adds a lot of flavour!!
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14 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:
Torna's destruction felt more meaningful since you get to know most NPC's through a sidequest system not unlike Majora. You know the people that all end up dying or just lost their home.
The Majora comparison is very appropriate! I felt very driven to help these people, knowing what was coming. A part of me hoped that by helping them in quests, like the one in which you build a shelter in the city, they would stand a better chance of survival in the end...
(I'm also opting for the spoiler tag, just in case!)
Spoiler...Of course, I was forgetting that Amalthus makes short work of them in the end.
I agree with you on Hugo's death. The way the camera panned down to the core crystals as Addam held him was really a gut-punch moment!
Mik's motivations in the main game following this are a bit weird. Like... I assume they are wanting us to think he blames Mythra for this? Which is kind of fair enough, but it makes very little sense that he'd team up with Malos.
I'd be curious to know what someone's experience was playing the entire experience in chronological order - Torna, then XC2. Sure, certain villainous ambiguities would be ruined, but any scenes involving these characters (Jin in particular) would be so much more interesting having seen their past. If the game weren't so dang long, I'd be tempted to play it again just to get a feel. Maybe someday... 😜
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Hello everyone!
I just finished my first playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicle 2's Torna DLC, and was wondering if any of you have played it and what you thought!
Overall I was very impressed by it. I loved that it really felt like a fleshed out game, and I was really hooked by the community system. Seeing those little stories intertwine was really satisfying. I've got just a few more to do in the post-game, with hunting down all the named monsters a particularly big task I'm looking forward to.
As for plot stuff:
SpoilerI ADORED the final boss fight against Malos. I think more so than the fight in the main game. There was something about fighting him whilst the mechs clashed above us. Their battle was particularly impactful as they crashed into the ground around us, and I felt it captured the sense of scale.
Of course, we all knew the death of Torna was to follow this, and I was surprised at how heartbroken I was despite its inevitability. Seeing the events play out added a whole new layer to the main game, providing and fleshing out character motivations that feel really necessary now.
I now see Jin, in particular, in a completely different light. In the main game I felt that he kinda fell a little short of what they were trying to achieve. Though his flashbacks to Lora's death attempt to explain his motivation, I didn't feel emotionally compelled to empathise with him. Now I've played Torna, however, and have seen just how close the bond between he and Lora was, it is all so much more effective. I just rewatched her death scene from the main game, and I found it genuinely difficult to watch.
All that said, I'm pretty sure this might be some of the best DLC content I've ever played. Perhaps only rivaled by BOTW. If any of you all have played it, what did you think? I'd love to discuss!
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16 minutes ago, Jakenister said:
Hii, i'm New here too, so, about a fav char in FE7, Raymond and Nino are very useful units, Nino came a little earlier, but with a Lot of xp became the better mage in the game!!
Nice to meet someone else who is new!
Thanks for the tips! And you like Sacred Stones a lot, huh? I’m really looking forward to playing that one too 🙂
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What was your favourite moment from this weekend? No matter how big or small, let us know!
My favourite moment came after I rearranged our living room, moving our couch to be next to the window. Afterwards, I opened the window and sat on the couch to play some games, and was so relaxed by the gentle cool breeze drifting over me. It felt very wonderful!!