dude789 posted:

Just be patient with Liza. You really won't be able to consistently spark various Dominant Scrotum Crusher techniques aside from Suplex and Sliding until you have about 300 or so HP when fighting in the Bio Lab or 350-450 outside of it. Same with Emelia. A lot of Gun Techniques are back loaded to around the mid to late mid game. As for Roufas, I don't really know what's up with him. It could be worth checking an FAQ to see if the armor you have him wearing is just really min maxed or something. Remember that the defense stat displayed is only for one type of defense and that Vitality also plays a role in how much damage you take.

dude789 posted:

dude789 posted:

Next update should be up by the end of Saturday. This video should give you a good idea of how the party's doing at the end of this next update.

KataraniSword posted:

It had honestly never occurred to me when I first played this game in the Playstation era, considering it ended up in the same days as Squall, Cloud, and the parodies of them - I had always taken it as him just being that same kind of edgy, don't-touch-me jerk that CAME out of Squaresoft RPGs. Looking back at it, though, Blue really is the evil twin out of the duo.

Pork Soda posted:

This has been a great and very informative LP so far and I am really enjoying it.

I actually dusted off my copy of SaGa Frontier to start playing again and ran through Asellus' story in the past day or two. One interesting thing I noticed was that despite having put about 11 hours into the quest (several of which were afk time when I forgot to turn it off) and having all of my characters with ~600 HP, 100 WP/JP I was still fighting pretty easy enemies. I think the most difficult monster that spawned even in the increase battle rank areas was a Thundragon but most enemies were still things like Manticores, Unicorns, and IronHoppers. Of course if I fought in the swamp in Yorkland I would fight the squid guys but I thought it was a bit strange to otherwise be fighting weaker monsters. My memory might be off since I haven't played in years though. I'm also wondering if playing it on PS3 could have affected anything since I've only ever played it on PSX before this and it is emulated.

I know you've touched on battle rank and things like the enemy sprite before battle affecting combat but are you planning on going over how battle rank works in more detail in your gameplay updates?

dude789 posted:

The game will check the first skill it finds for each of these categories and use it to pick a monster form. As a result the order of your skills matters!

Bufuman posted:

This ought to be interesting. Let's see if the Goons have a better imagination for dick moves than Square does.

Though considering they're responsible for poo poo like Yiazmat and Absolute Virtue, I'm not sure that's possible.

FelicityGS posted:

And you're telling me the eventual dick move is even worse than this?

dude789 posted:

And the game sends us off with a hideously garish font truly worthy of Riki's quest. Good Riddance.

Derek Barona posted:

It never fails to make me laugh how rough Mesarthim's art is in that last picture. There's that obvious spot where someone in the localization side went "BOOBS! REMOVE THEM IMMEDIATELY!" and didn't even bother to at least touch up the spot where they went over it with the eraser.

Derek Barona posted:

Honestly, I always figured there was more than half a decent chance this whole thing could've been resolved if Mesarthim had actually said something to the guy instead of staying locked up in one room of the mansion and not wanting to talk to a human. I get the whole Asellus has to come in and resolve this because it's important to her own story, but seriously, the dude probably would've let her go if she'd told him to his face she wanted to go home.

dude789 posted:

We're thrust into a fight with three Black X fighters. Normally we'd transform into Alkaiser, but with Cotton here that's not an option. Because Red has to keep his identity a secret, he can only turn into Alkaiser if all the humans, mystics and monsters are dead or incapacitated in some way that removes their vision (status effects like blind, sleep or petrify.)