Serenes Forest's Teehee Thread

[Codename Shrimp]

3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I imagine it's probably less boring if you don't exploit the oversight

...i don't even think or consider it an oversight lol. I just naturally used fliers xD

 

[Saint Rubenio]

Oh that's just rancid.

THAT'S JUST FUCKING RANCID

Elbert's gonna lose his head again because the fucking child won't move out of the way.

This map is so bad.

25 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

...i don't even think or consider it an oversight lol. I just naturally used fliers xD

 

It's obviously an oversight lol. Those castles are supposed to spawn enemie to impede your progress, otherwise it's just a boring-ass walk forward until the pirates. But since there's not even a boss there at the start (like in the first castle) you can just seize them ahead of time. If there was a boss at least it'd be like a reward for being able to kill them just with the fliers, but as it is...

[Saint Rubenio]

For fuck's

FUCKING

sake.

I forgot to attack Titus with Slayne one turn. Because of this, I need to block Athol one more turn to get Bhuj. And then Elbert dies again.

You know what? I don't fucking care. I'd rather get the Bhuj. The ring of vows is garbage and so is this map. Go fuck yourself.

[Codename Shrimp]

21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

It's obviously an oversight lol.

a pretty big oversight if so. Like, anyone would naturally use fliers here to atleast try and test the waters, right?

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 otherwise it's just a boring-ass walk forward until the pirates

I do consider the map to be pretty damn bad tbh...but so do i think about all Zade late game maps in VS1. Bow Sigurd's maps are so much more fun

Edited December 13, 2023 by Shrimpy -Limited Edition-

[Saint Rubenio]

Didn't get shit for sparing Samantha and the kid.

I should've fucking butchered the kid.

What a garbage map that was. It makes the worst VS2 has to offer look like the average Berwick Saga map.

4 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

a pretty big oversight if so. Like, anyone would naturally use fliers here to atleast try and test the waters, right?

That's why I don't get why there isn't at least a bossman on the castles. Surely Kaga can't have just expected the player to break the map oh right Thracia 776 is a game he made.

4 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

I do consider the map to be pretty damn bad tbh...but so do i think about all Zade late game maps in VS1. Bow Sigurd's maps are so much more fun

I would contest that but then, his second post-split map is the one where you first avoid killing enemies, and second run through 1-tile corridors until you get to the boss, so.

...Eh. VS2 can't come soon enough.

Edited December 13, 2023 by Saint Rubenio

[Saint Rubenio]

Actually, it's funny I should say Road to Deliverance makes "the worst VS2 has to offer" look good, considering the worst VS2 has to offer was, in my opinion at the time I played it, a pretty similar map to Road to Deliverance. It has you running to reach specific spots of the map within time limits, with events happening as you go and reinforcements appearing in your path to hinder you. It can also get completely broken by fliers.

Except, you haven't any NPCs to escort in that one, it's home to Kaga's most bizarre, hilarious character development and the main gimmick is a lot more memorable and less annoying than "NPC Athol is useless and you can't even heal her when she steps in the range of an arbalester." Not great, due to some unfortunate terrain choices and lame usage of reinforcements, but it beats this crap.

[Acacia Sgt]

 

[Armagon]

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

should've fucking butchered the kid.

Not just the men but the women....

[BrightBow]

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

It's obviously an oversight lol. Those castles are supposed to spawn enemie to impede your progress, otherwise it's just a boring-ass walk forward until the pirates. But since there's not even a boss there at the start (like in the first castle) you can just seize them ahead of time. If there was a boss at least it'd be like a reward for being able to kill them just with the fliers, but as it is...

There are a lot of enemies on the plateau who are more than capable of endangering Athol. Besides, you have to clear the plateau anyway to ensure Zade can later safely enter the tower without issue. And fliers taking care of those castles means they have less time doing anything else, whether it's supporting the charge or treasure hunting in the North.
Frankly, I always block Athol as long as I can get away with before moving on. I find that I need all the turns that I can get.

Of course one way to cheese it would be to sacrifice one of the towns and simply block Athol indefinitely, while you clear out everything ahead. The first town has fairly low stacks, just some corrupt overseer getting away with ill-gotten cash.
 

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I forgot to attack Titus with Slayne one turn. Because of this, I need to block Athol one more turn to get Bhuj. And then Elbert dies again.

You know what? I don't fucking care. I'd rather get the Bhuj. The ring of vows is garbage and so is this map. Go fuck yourself.

Welp, guess Elbert won't get to show off his Provoke skill yet again.

https://km-hs-lr22.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/05/29/111609
 

3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Didn't get shit for sparing Samantha and the kid.

I should've fucking butchered the kid.

Sparing Samantha would be rough anyway since she keeps healing the pirate boss.
Considering she is actively helping child slavers, I am not particularly inclined to pull any punches against her.
Her kid is generally not causing any harm. But if by chance she does cause any problems, oh well...

Never actually seen her teleport in front of Athol, though. I thought she just always teleports adjacent to random blue units.

[Saint Rubenio]

1 minute ago, BrightBow said:

There are a lot of enemies on the plateau who are more than capable of endangering Athol. Besides, you have to clear the plateau anyway to ensure Zade can later safely enter the tower without issue. And fliers taking care of those castles means they have less time doing anything else, whether it's supporting the charge or treasure hunting in the North.
Frankly, I always block Athol as long as I can get away with before moving on. I find that I need all the turns that I can get.

Honestly, this might just get me to look at the boat map in VS2 with kinder eyes. Sure it's cringe, but at least there I'm in full control of the cringe. I don't have to deal with the green unit.

...Then again, there's the graveyard... Here I can at move at full speed throughout. Ah, we'll see. I'm so looking forward to that VS2 replay. It'll be nice to talk more freely about it too, last times I was under oath of silence.

1 minute ago, BrightBow said:

Of course one way to cheese it would be to sacrifice one of the towns and simply block Athol indefinitely, while you clear out everything ahead. The first town has fairly low stacks, just some corrupt overseer getting away with ill-gotten cash.

I mean, that jerkass Pandolf gets to keep his laurels either way. If Elbert dies Athol swears to investigate him, but if he doesn't she just leaves. And Elbert already sent his brigade off, there's nothing stopping Pandolf from doing the same thing he does after she leaves.

Still probably better to save him but honestly, as far as stakes go, I feel like letting Tasha get Cecily'd or letting the pirates get away with 30 fucking children is a lot worse.

That being said, yeah, the first town is probably the least harmful to fail. Kinda poopy not to be able to eat the rich but it's better than the Kaga situations going on elsewhere.

1 minute ago, BrightBow said:

Sparing Samantha would be rough anyway since she keeps healing the pirate boss.
Considering she is actively helping child slavers, I am not particularly inclined to pull any punches against her.
Her kid is generally not causing any harm. But if by chance she does cause any problems, oh well...

Do you need to talk to her with a flier or something so the game counts them as "spared"? Because I didn't touch them and I got nothing. Then again, they also didn't have any scenes, even though I recall them being supposed to have some dialogue... Ah, fucked if I know.

11 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

Welp, guess Elbert won't get to show off his Provoke skill yet again.

https://km-hs-lr22.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/05/29/111609

At least this time, I was able to see it, since I had a save on time to wrap up before he died. It didn't happen, but I saw it.

...someone way back while I was playtesting VS2 suggested he might be an intentional reference to Berwick Elbert, with how much he loves provoking people. I wouldn't be surprised, honestly.

2 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

Never actually seen her teleport in front of Athol, though. I thought she just always teleports adjacent to random blue units.

She does, she just happened to teleport to the people standing near Athol, right in front of Athol. Twice in a row. I'll admit Zayid didn't need to be standing there the second time, but the first time I had absolutely no other choice, Athol would've died to the ballistician or the pirate if I hadn't made those moves.

[BrightBow]

3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Do you need to talk to her with a flier or something so the game counts them as "spared"? Because I didn't touch them and I got nothing. Then again, they also didn't have any scenes, even though I recall them being supposed to have some dialogue... Ah, fucked if I know.

Nah. There is no reward for not murdering any children. It's just a matter of conscience.

[Codename Shrimp]

I am having way too much fun with the outfit mod lol

 

[Saint Rubenio]

1 minute ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

I am having way too much fun with the outfit mod lol

 

I put Seadall in the full Sommie suit. Watching him dance like that for the first time was an experience.

[Codename Shrimp]

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1 minute ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I put Seadall in the full Sommie suit. Watching him dance like that for the first time was an experience.

Ahahahaha sounds like fun 😄

 

[Saint Rubenio]

11 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

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NGL his default casual attire is better. Still, the monocle alone elevates him so much.

12 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

Ahahahaha sounds like fun 😄

Dressing up in this game in general is a lot of fun. Too bad IntSys decided the workout minigame was a more important use of their time and resources.

[Codename Shrimp]

Just now, Saint Rubenio said:

Dressing up in this game in general is a lot of fun. Too bad IntSys decided the workout minigame was a more important use of their time and resources.

>Make cool new quirky characters

>give them alot of dressing up options

>Don't make them available in battle

>Don't make them available in battle

 

[Saint Rubenio]

8 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

>Make cool new quirky characters

>give them alot of dressing up options

>Don't make them available in battle

>Don't make them available in battle

 

"They would've needed to make low-res models for every unit/attire combination, too much trouble."

Then... Find a different, more cost-efficient way to handle the overworld models? Instead of dooming poor ol' Pinet to uselessness?

[Codename Shrimp]

2 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

"They would've needed to make low-res models for every unit/attire combination, too much trouble."

These so called low-res models look better than the normal 3H ones and people were fine with 3H

2 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Then... Find a different, more cost-efficient way to handle the overworld models? Instead of dooming poor ol' Pinet to uselessness?

Scratch the mini games that no one uses, put the resources into dolling up XD

[Saint Rubenio]

8 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

These so called low-res models look better than the normal 3H ones and people were fine with 3H

Hah! True.

8 minutes ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

Scratch the mini games that no one uses, put the resources into dolling up XD

Yeah, definitely this.

[Codename Shrimp]

Void curse enemies appear in ch8 already? TIL

Then again, i am usually done by now....what taking Celine away from me does ;_;

[Codename Shrimp]

Adaptable with Ai vs. Adaptable with player:

 

[BrightBow]

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...someone way back while I was playtesting VS2 suggested he might be an intentional reference to Berwick Elbert, with how much he loves provoking people. I wouldn't be surprised, honestly.

Most certainly. The game does not seem to be lacking in references. Like the dialog that Neira gave to get the guard at the great yurt to stand down seems to be based on the one Shiida gave to Navarre.
Which I guess explains why it's so overly dramatic, with her telling him to strike her down if he does not want to listen.

In the desert map there is one house that tells you that there was a guy running into the desert shouting about the wrath of his thunder sword and who at this point likely died miserable. Which could be seen as a general reference to the FE3 tendency of bosses to dramatically announce the weapon they are using, but is likely a more specific Berwick Saga reference to a Thunder Sword mini-boss in chapter 7 who also does this stick, but also happens to be more susceptible to captures to underline how much of an overconfident braggart he is.

Haldyn had to be referencing Vega with his "Don't stand behind me, woman!" line. Except that he is of course a complete dork about it.
 

1 hour ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Still probably better to save him but honestly, as far as stakes go, I feel like letting Tasha get Cecily'd or letting the pirates get away with 30 fucking children is a lot worse.

Yeah. If Tasha gets kidnapped again, her bakery in chapter 18 won't appear.

Can I just point out that everything that happened since Venecia was a means to the end of finding a route back to Meledia? And getting kidnapped allowed Tasha to get there much faster somehow.
Granted, when planning the trip through the desert, they did talk about how moving thousands of troops is of course different than moving just a few people. On top of establishing that outlaws know about routes that are not common knowledge.

[Codename Shrimp]

[Saint Rubenio]

1 minute ago, BrightBow said:

Most certainly. The game does not seem to be lacking in references. Like the dialog that Neira gave to get the guard at the great yurt to stand down seems to be based on the one Shiida gave to Navarre.
Which I guess explains why it's so overly dramatic, with her telling him to strike her down if he does not want to listen.

I'm pretty sure I missed that both times. Or maybe I just missed it this time and forgot I did it the first time.

...Honestly that dude should've been recruitable. Has a unique face and all. There's no prepromoted axe infantry in the game.

2 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

In the desert map there is one house that tells you that there was a guy running into the desert shouting about the wrath of his thunder sword and who at this point likely died miserable. Which could be seen as a general reference to the FE3 tendency of bosses to dramatically announce the weapon they are using, but is likely a more specific Berwick Saga reference to a Thunder Sword mini-boss in chapter 7 who also does this stick, but also happens to be more susceptible to captures to underline how much of an overconfident braggart he is.

Haha, oh yeah, Qadi. I remember him. He's funny. I don't know if the zephyr sword guy is a specific reference to anything, though - just a cheeky way to set up the skeleton that gives you the zephyr sword later on the map.

Bosses referencing their weapon is a staple of the series. Pretty sure there's a couple in Vestaria too. I'd think a better way to reference them would be to... Well, have a boss loudly reference their weapon. Bonus points if they subvert it by making it just a generic-ass weapon.

2 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

Haldyn had to be referencing Vega with his "Don't stand behind me, woman!" line. Except that he is of course a complete dork about it.

That's the one I always got, of course. It's very overt.

3 minutes ago, BrightBow said:

Can I just point out that everything that happened since Venecia was a means to the end of finding a route back to Meledia? And getting kidnapped allowed Tasha to get there much faster somehow.
Granted, when planning the trip through the desert, they did talk about how moving thousands of troops is of course different than moving just a few people. On top of establishing that outlaws know about routes that are not common knowledge.

Yes, the point is that moving a whole-ass army wouldn't be quite so easy. Still, it is really funny. Maybe Zade should've just gotten the lot of them kidnapped.

[GuardianSing]

I wonder if I'm obsessed...

9 hours ago, Eltosian Kadath said:

Rather horny today I see 😛

The serenes forum's unique emojis give me a fight or flight response, I swear.

But yes I appreciate Radiant Dawn for having a good milf/dilf ratio.

6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

If you're going to do this, Guardian, set aside 3 or 4 hours. Endgame 1 alone is extremely long and RD isn't moving any faster.

12 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:

Well, RD is, for better or worse, a little overstuffed.😆

You've only got the Endgame left. A few words of advice.:

• Try to do it in one sitting, would probably feel better that way.
• Buy whatever you need, strip anyone you won't be using of their skills to redistribute them. Nihil and Parity are the two you'll particularly want.
• Bring your best, or your favorites, whichever you prefer.

...And hopefully it'll be enjoyable.😀

I'll probably do it once I get off work today, if not after some errands downtown.