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Yeah that staff is terrifying, especially since it seems to most often show up on Strategists.

Exactly. There's more to a translation than literally conveying the exact things the characters said in the original. Sometimes things have to be changed, either because they don't translate well or other reasons. And it offers room to improve things by making changes that aren't strictly necessary but results in a better product overall. Absolute accuracy is meaningless. If someone actually cares that much about what the characters said in the original version, then anytime they're even aware of a change, it'll mean they've learned what the original said anyway. The benefit of making it a tiny bit more aesthetically pleasing to those people is nothing compared to making the game a better experience for the rest.

Is there any precedent for games getting a lower age rating in the United States than in Japan without changes to the content in question? Since that's what would be required for it to stay as-is and get a T rating.

The fact that this shit shows up other places doesn't make it okay. In fact, that's the whole reason it's so bad: the fact that it's so prevalent that people think it's fine due to seeing it everywhere when it's actually completely disgusting.

I don't remember specifics, but I remember being confident they weren't the ones that couldn't double. I'll pay more attention for future situations like that. Yeah that staff is brutal. I just had my first encounter with it and the character that got hit was one-rounded that turn.

I'm aware, that's exactly why I said what I did. I'm not sure what you think you're informing me of. There's nothing "questionable" about it. And how DARE people say they'd rather have the game turn out in a way they'd feel comfortable purchasing than a way they don't, right?

It's not about ratings; it's about the fact that so much of it is just disgusting. If the English version still has a scene where the player avatar literally drugs someone to fall in love with him, I'm just flat-out not buying it. That's just not okay.

What the fuck? Localization team, please just destroy this.

That skill sounds powerful, but I would say it still doesn't push Guard Stance to the level of overpowered of Pair Up in Awakening just because the pair bonuses are so much lower.

I don't know much about the story and characters, although from what I've seen I'm not super impressed so far. I don't think Awakening did too great in that area either, but I'm very confused by their claims of making big improvements to it. The shitty outfits don't help with taking things seriously, either. Mechanically, though, it's fantastic. Keeps all the smoothness of Awakening but with a lot more substance and meaningful tactical decisions to make. Some maps are rather easy to slip right through but overall it's very solid. I haven't tried Lunatic yet; so far I've gone through Hoshido Hard and now I'm going through Nohr Hard, but there are definitely some challenges already.

Yeah, that'd fit. It's fixed; the game just lists off the stat boosts you're set to receive just like any other promotion only they're really big. I assume it's based on average gains.

Oh shit, that's how debuffs work? Yikes. As for clubs, I think they actually don't have a stat modifier, strange as it is. I'm also really confused about the double attacking thing. How do they even normally work? I spent a while convinced that the double attacking threshold had been moved up to 6 because I never seemed to be able to double at 5 even with weapons that seemed like they shouldn't have been a problem, until I got doubled by a boss at 5. And based on how stuff like Steel weapons work, it seems like applying that effect to both player and enemy would cancel out.

Nothing about the children mechanic makes sense. It doesn't matter how many things about a proposed fix won't make sense either. And yeah on top of the whole shitty connotations behind how you're using "homo", the fact that you're saying "they" seems to indicate that you're viewing non-straight people as this distant faction rather than actually being among the people right here arguing about this.

No. Between the lower bonuses for Guard Stance and the potentially large offensive benefit of Attack Stance, it doesn't have anywhere near the universal application it had in Awakening. It's still fantastic defensively, between the stat bonuses, Dual Guards, and nullifying enemy Dual Attacks, but there's way more thought about "is this actually worth it?" and overusing it really will hurt. Still opens up just as much movement shenanigans though.

It's not so much the children themselves as gameplay parity. No one would care about a lack of playable kids for same-sex pairings if the same was true for opposite-sex pairings, but it's hard for me to get as excited about the option of marrying another guy when it'd mean missing out on two playable characters. And again, even the kids that are already available only show up through 100% contrived convenient magic. It's not too much to ask for them to adopt a kid and bring them into the castle dimension to grow up, or to get help from a surrogate, maybe with some sort of spell so the kids get the genetics of both of them rather than just one. If they can do what they've already done just to bring in the playable kids feature people like, they can do that much more to extend it equally to same-sex couples.

I want to point out the critical missing detail that this is spoilers for not just Hoshido, but all three paths. Please don't assume that someone okay with seeing spoilers from one path is fine with seeing spoilers from another.

It's a typo; I've fought enemies with them. And nearly died due to not thinking to check.

I think the basic B-rank weapons all have that category of debuff, whether Silver or something else, but then there's other stuff like I think a naginata with Oboro's name on it that has different drops.

Uh, yes? Especially when they outright claimed that's why they added it? It's not some outrageous notion, and I don't know where you're getting this idea about the number of non-straight players being small. I can believe it may have been motivated by fetishism instead, but it's a pretty shitty possibility if so and raises a whole bunch of other complaints.

Why exactly are we comparing fetishes to same-sex romance?

Yeah personal skills are completely separate from the whole thing. Each character has just one and has no access to others. It's class skills that can be changed around and purchased and inherited.

We're talking about a game where the kids are born in an alternate dimension castle and as a result have magically accelerated aging, all to give people the playable kids they wanted. I'm pretty sure magically assisted surrogate parenting would be a perfectly reasonable extension of a feature that's already completely magic fanservice in the first place.

I was playing Hoshido. How far into the game were you?

Adoption, magic, and outside assistance are all possibilities. And being transgender, for that matter.

Wow, okay that's fucking obnoxious. Guess I'm not banging Zero this playthrough then.