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Canonically, Estelle is also a fishing freak. Rean is also an avid fan of radio shows.
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Estelle is also a sneaker fanatic. And a bug collector.
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Estelle always gets priority on the high end Stregas even if she's not going to be in the party much.
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I thought I recognized these characters in Kuro from somewhere, and sure enough they were from one of the book series from (apparently) Sky SC. Stuff like this makes me think that maybe this series has a coherent long-term plan, because jeez. Also just the fact that this game is way better than I expected it to be and is almost like the developers sat down with me personally and took all my advice about things I want them to do. Edit: Yeesh, this game has some pretty hosed up stuff happen sometimes. I think this is the most bad stuff villains have done during a Trails game (as opposed to just being told about stuff they did in the past - or, more commonly, just preventing their actions from having serious consequences so they can become friends with the party later). Nice to have actual villains, though. Mr. Fortitude posted:I like seeing Van get really passionate about sweet desserts, his car and motorsports in general. Not to mention he likes seeing a movie every so often with the rest of the cast. You get a good sense of what Van likes to do in his downtime, which you don’t really get quite as much of with Rean or Lloyd. I like Van's truck. There was a funny gag recently where Van is getting very defensive about someone "laying a hand on her" and Agnes thinks he's talking about her, but no - he's talking about the truck. Also the one where (late chapter 1)Walter shows up, and you think there's going to be some reveal about serious past drama between him and Van, but it turns out that Van is just pissed off that Walter totaled his old truck. I also like the vibe of Van chaperoning these kids around in his truck. Curious how this is going to work with more party members - will the next party member get to sit up front with Van, or will they somehow squeeze into the back? Will party members after that have their own transportation, or will we end up with 7-8 (or however many) people all crammed into Van's pickup truck? That being said, the other protagonists also have their own hobbies (as some others mentioned). Rean grew on me, and I think he has a pretty distinct personality from Lloyd (and more obviously Estelle). Van just works a bit better because you get an understanding about the life he had already established prior to the beginning of the games. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Aug 29, 2023 20:47
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You know what. I give up on power levels. S breaks are god drat loving canon, nothing in this world makes sense anymore. Gaius can truly just summon a building sized spear powered by God whenever he pleases and people can apparently just deal with that.
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Aug 30, 2023 20:05
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MythosDragon posted:You know what. Isn't that basically the entire point? Dude is literally one of a small group of people literally gifted by God with absurd power.
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Aug 30, 2023 20:24
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Kuro explicitly reveals that it's possible for a human to carry (and toss) an entire truck with one arm with training and/or orbments
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ImpAtom posted:Isn't that basically the entire point? Dude is literally one of a small group of people literally gifted by God with absurd power. But where do they draw the line? Does Tita truly have an Orbalital Space Laser she is constantly choosing to not use?
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Aug 30, 2023 21:00
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technically it's just a high altitude laser
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MythosDragon posted:But where do they draw the line? For most of those things the assumption is that the Big Fuckoff Super Weapon is something that takes a lot out of you or takes a while to charge or whatnot. You can't use it regularly, it is the big fuckoff gun you pull out when everything else goes to hell.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:10
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MythosDragon posted:You know what. Didn't Sky SC already drop this little nugget when they revealed that yes, Tita was carrying a gattling gun and several hundreds of rounds of ballistic ammo on her tiny 12-year old person all this time? :P
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Erpy posted:Didn't Sky SC already drop this little nugget when they revealed that yes, Tita was carrying a gattling gun and several hundreds of rounds of ballistic ammo on her tiny 12-year old person all this time? :P Yeah, in Chapter 8, during the Orbal Shutdown Phenomenon.
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Aug 30, 2023 22:15
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I am at the point where Estelle joins and I am surprised how much I am liking Sky 3rd.
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MythosDragon posted:You know what. It's charmingly quaint to consider how Estelle's S-Crafts are 1) Hit thing with stick a million times 2) Hit thing with stick a million times while spinning around it. Sometimes you just gotta keep things simple 
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Aug 30, 2023 23:54
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Unlucky7 posted:I am at the point where Estelle joins and I am surprised how much I am liking Sky 3rd. Why are you surprised?
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Why are you surprised? Mostly in how focused everything feels, though I want to finish or mostly finish the game first to see if my thoughts still hold before I elaborate if that makes sense.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:21
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Sky 3rd is one of the best ones and nobody should be surprised that they are liking it.
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Based on the fact that half the fandom says "it's completely skippable" and the fact that its structure is vastly different from all the other Trails games, I can understand being surprised by how good it is.
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Calling 3rd skippable is entirely cope from when people were convinced SC was going to maybe someday come out and that's be the last Trails game to get an official English release.
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Motto posted:Calling 3rd skippable is entirely cope from when people were convinced SC was going to maybe someday come out and that's be the last Trails game to get an official English release. Can confirm. Thanks again SpaceDrake, I will never forget how much you did for us.
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I mean it is entirely skippable…the same way Sky FC/SC are. poo poo, I feel like if you’re playing Zero you get significantly more out of just playing/reading an LP of Third than the first two games.
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I mean anything is skippable. My fiirst game was CS1, I'd skipped 5 games and its ok. But I don't think that's what people mean when talking about TC. However, from my perspective 3rd is a really good game and everyone playing through the series should go through it because its one of the best in the series.
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Yeah you can still jump into whatever arc of course, I just mean in the sense that people still get the idea that it's a nothing game or an outright spinoff due to what were just reassurances that SC doesn't have a big cliffhanger.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I mean anything is skippable. My fiirst game was CS1, I'd skipped 5 games and its ok. But I don't think that's what people mean when talking about TC. To be fair CS1 was basically designed as an alternate entry into the series. So that's not that surprising.
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EDIT: actually nevermind, this does not seem as bad as I thought
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I think I'm near the end of Chapter 2 of Kuro now. This is the best chapter yet, such a good game. One really nice feature in this is that NPCs only show up on the minimap if you haven't exhausted their dialogue. Makes it really easy to talk to everyone (which isn't something I did consistently in past games). I also feel like the NPC dialogue is generally better. There are fewer NPCs, but it's easier to keep track of them (and the chapters are structured such that time is passing over a couple days, so you can follow the NPCs over that time).
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And I am back to thinking the Sky 3rd fishing door is pure bullshit EDIT: this loving baron cheats Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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TC fishing is just very bad
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I feel like you could broadly apply that to fishing as a whole, I’m gonna do all the fishing in Azure because Lakelord can bite a big one but the battle system design people and the fishing game people really need to be on the same page and make it so A: drops aren’t mutually exclusive and B: make the baits drop at like 75% minimum. I do like how the “rank down, start from the beginning again” thing was done narratively at least, ”one of our members was a devil worshipper who tortured children and condoned the sexual abuse of prepubescent children for blackmail money, also he pretty much caused one of the top 20 most infamous days in Zemuria’s history, we should take a sabbatical” even if maybe they shouldn’t feel complicit, it’s realistic to feel guilty about it.
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Cold Steel fishing is good. Another reason why CS is the best
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Finally beat the Baron, and even then he managed to get a big fish on round 15 and the only reason I won was because I already lucked into a substantial lead at that point.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Cold Steel fishing is good. Probably should have clarified pre-CS fishing yeah.
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Ytlaya posted:I think I'm near the end of Chapter 2 of Kuro now. This is the best chapter yet, such a good game. Don't worry, Chapter 3 will sour your opinion of the game. Thankfully it gets better after that but yeah, Tharbad sucks.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Don't worry, Chapter 3 will sour your opinion of the game. Thankfully it gets better after that but yeah, Tharbad sucks. From a story perspective or a gameplay one? At least the first third of the chapter will be the stuff in the capital that's always fun. BTW, gameplay question - what fills up the S-Boost meter? I can't figure out what makes it increase the most. Sometimes it'll suddenly gain like 2-3 bars, and I always miss why. Offensive arts also seem worse in this, maybe compensating for how OP they were in the later Cold Steel games. The new Earth Guard Art is pretty ridiculous, though. Free 1000hp party-wide shield with an almost-instant cast time. Whoever has that equipped can become a mini-Jusis.
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Ytlaya posted:BTW, gameplay question - what fills up the S-Boost meter? I can't figure out what makes it increase the most. Sometimes it'll suddenly gain like 2-3 bars, and I always miss why. Ytlaya posted:Offensive arts also seem worse in this, maybe compensating for how OP they were in the later Cold Steel games. The new Earth Guard Art is pretty ridiculous, though. Free 1000hp party-wide shield with an almost-instant cast time. Whoever has that equipped can become a mini-Jusis.
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Unlucky7 posted:Finally beat the Baron, and even then he managed to get a big fish on round 15 and the only reason I won was because I already lucked into a substantial lead at that point. I always found the Baron cheated out bigger fish if I was doing well, so my strategy ended up being to save all my bait fishes until the end.
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Ytlaya posted:BTW, gameplay question - what fills up the S-Boost meter? I can't figure out what makes it increase the most. Sometimes it'll suddenly gain like 2-3 bars, and I always miss why. There are AT-bonuses that restore 2 S-Boost charges and they tend to appear pretty often. Aside from that it's just hitting/killing enemies and breaking stuff on the overworld.
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Cyouni posted:I always found the Baron cheated out bigger fish if I was doing well, so my strategy ended up being to save all my bait fishes until the end. This might track with my experience? It only took me a couple of tries, and I think all I did was reverse the order I used my stuff.
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If I need specific bait/rod combinations for fishing, I use guides. Especially when bait is hard to acquire (monster drops). In this case, the guide for Second Chapter's fishing works for Sky the 3rd as well because they're the same spots. With that guide, it's not difficult to know what fish are available and how to make the most of your bait.
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Some Numbers posted:Hitting and being hit. You're probably missing the AT Bonus that gives you two free gauges? Oh, that's what that thing is! I've been wondering what that bonus does, but it's kind of obvious now that you mention it. Edit: This does raise the question of how to reasonably take advantage of the S-Boost slot increase over the course of a battle. The game says "you can now use a bunch of S-Crafts back to back!" but in practice it doesn't seem practical to fill up 5+ bars unless you get lucky with the AT Bonuses. I feel like it would take like 6-7 turns just to fill up a single bar; they barely increase when I attack. Also, why would I care about using S-Crafts back-to-back? Why not just use one as soon as I get enough S-Boost slots? Edit: I also hear they fix this in Kuro 2, but the AT bar is so loving bad and confusing in this. You'd need to go up to your TV with a ruler to figure out the actual turn-order from that thing, beyond just the next turn (which is marked). Not a big deal since the game isn't too hard (I'm on Hard - I kind of recommend this difficulty because Normal must be extremely easy, since I've only lost one fight due to a dumb mistake). I think this is partly because S-Crafts seem much better and can be used more often. Van's S-Craft (which is always only 100CP in this) hits at least twice as hard as any other Arts/Crafts, and his CP fills pretty fast. I actually frequently use his S-Craft in larger trash mobs fights, since it's far more efficient than dealing with them in any other way (and this game throws CP-restoring food at you constantly + you can buy them for cheap at stores). Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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