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A grizzled noir bracer detective man, hellbent on finding out who's been putting the cats in the trees in the first place
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SyntheticPolygon posted:They already made Sky 3rd though.
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Mar 22, 2021 11:02
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Yeah I somehow misread your post as wanting a game without filler quests.
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Mar 22, 2021 11:07
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I mean that basically was 85% of sky 1 and thats why I liked it so much. just exploring this world helping people out. very relaxed. even the big plot stuff at the end isnt that big of a deal for the world.
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Mar 22, 2021 11:54
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Atlas Hugged posted:A game where you play a custom Bracer with no real connection to the larger story and you're just dealing with Bracer stuff and raising your rank to unlock more difficult quests while enjoying the locales in one of the countries of Zemuria would be fine by me. Yes please. At least one of the Pokemon Ranger games was pretty much this and I loved it.
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Mar 22, 2021 15:08
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still playing Ys 8, just found Silvia and I am very mad that she's apparently not a playable character. optional boss is okay but goddammit i want to play as gladiator grandma
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Mar 24, 2021 01:44
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playable old women in a video game?? haha, you must be crazy
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Mar 24, 2021 14:39
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Amppelix posted:playable old women in a video game?? haha, you must be crazy And by old of course we mean '30+.'
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Mar 24, 2021 20:10
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If I didn't enjoy CS3, is it worth bothering with CS4? I want to see Estelle and Lloyd again and I want more Ouroboros closure, but I'm so sick of Rean.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:00
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Mar 24, 2021 22:05
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Some Numbers posted:If I didn't enjoy CS3, is it worth bothering with CS4? I want to see Estelle and Lloyd again and I want more Ouroboros closure, but I'm so sick of Rean. No
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Mar 24, 2021 22:12
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I don't know why you're all so down on CS4. I enjoyed it. It tied up a bunch of loose ends, some of them not very satisfyingly. I admit I basically inject anything Falcom does into my veins so I'm not objective, but I liked it.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:17
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Oh no I liked CS4 but I also liked C3 and Rean.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:22
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Tesseraction posted:I don't know why you're all so down on CS4. I enjoyed it. It tied up a bunch of loose ends, some of them not very satisfyingly. I admit I basically inject anything Falcom does into my veins so I'm not objective, but I liked it.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:38
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I mean, Rean is missing for like half of CS4 and it has a decent chunk of Estelle and Lloyd content so maybe you’d like it
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Mar 24, 2021 22:43
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Scrap Dragon posted:I mean, Rean is missing for like half of CS4 and it has a decent chunk of Estelle and Lloyd content so maybe you’d like it This give me hope.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:44
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It's not half the game it's the first of four acts and his return brings with it all the same baggage that bogs down the rest of the CS series. I know I'm in the minority in this thread for my dislike of 4 but if you're coming in from the position of disliking 3 then you've probably got more in common with me than most others here.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:56
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Some Numbers posted:This give me hope. The whole time Rean isn't on screen everyone is asking where Rean is. I really like Rean, but if you don't you will not enjoy the game.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:57
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CS4 is a lot of Falcom's extremes. It spends a little bit of time with nearly all of the characters they've introduced across the series so far, so if you're here for just running around town talking to NPCs and want another chance to hang out with Randy, it's got that for you. It's also got so much great quality of life stuff that it's hard to believe how far they've come after what felt like a long period of mechanical stagnation. It's tied to the dumbest loving story they've ever written, wherein they take some elements of the world and characterization they've been building up for, like, 8 games now and slam dunk them into the trash so they can bring in a villain stupider and more left field than you'd expect from an early Final Fantasy game. And you're getting the opposite of closure about Ouroboros. That shouldn't be very surprising though, they've been a lot less the focus in Cold Steel than either of the previous arcs. In short: if you still love hanging out with Anton, play it. If you care about the story at all, run away. Personally I would be really salty if I'd gone through it myself, but watching my wife play I could be exasperated and roll my eyes from a safe enough distance to appreciate the Anton bits.
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Mar 24, 2021 22:58
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It's just following in the grand tradition of the longrunning Shounen manga Trails has been aping from the start where the final arcs write checks that it can't cash but there are enough bits with characters you've gotten to know for 500+ chapters that it still feels like a good enough a place as any to end it all.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:03
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I do not like Rean, but I did like CS4 so ymmv
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Mar 24, 2021 23:18
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CS4 has playable Duvalie who fangirls out over meeting Cassius Bright so in conclusion it's empirically a good video game.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:20
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Ethiser posted:The whole time Rean isn't on screen everyone is asking where Rean is. I really like Rean, but if you don't you will not enjoy the game. Why do Estelle and Joshua even care about Rean? For that matter, Lloyd should still be pissed at him over the whole "I helped annex Crossbell" thing. Edit: okay I'm actually glad I clicked that spoiler.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:22
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Some Numbers posted:Why do Estelle and Joshua even care about Rean? For that matter, Lloyd should still be pissed at him over the whole "I helped annex Crossbell" thing. Because Juna and Tita care
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Mar 24, 2021 23:23
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Irony.or.Death posted:CS4 is a lot of Falcom's extremes. It spends a little bit of time with nearly all of the characters they've introduced across the series so far, so if you're here for just running around town talking to NPCs and want another chance to hang out with Randy, it's got that for you. It's also got so much great quality of life stuff that it's hard to believe how far they've come after what felt like a long period of mechanical stagnation. This is basically how I feel about CS4 but I still kinda like it. The most egregious parts of it though are some of the worst stuff to come from Falcom.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:26
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CS4 has a better ending than Bleach I liked CS4 overall more than CS3, but it still has its moments of bleh.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:27
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Some Numbers posted:Why do Estelle and Joshua even care about Rean? For that matter, Lloyd should still be pissed at him over the whole "I helped annex Crossbell" thing. Pretty much every single interaction in 4 between party members from different arcs goes like this: "I am honoured to finally meet you. I have heard so much about you, and also you are very cool." "Oh no, not at all. In fact, it is I who is honoured to meet you. You are the very cool one here." "Let us continue to express our humility and graciousness. Also Agate you should totally hook up with Tita." Very little of their actual character gets to shine through, probably because they had to write so drat many of these cookie cutter scenes. e; I suppose I should say as a disclaimer I played in Japanese, I have no idea if the English script was tidied up at all. Bland fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Mar 24, 2021 23:31
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I mean, at least in regards to Lloyd, they've already had a direct fight at the end of 2, where the end result was basically respect, and the Crossbell section of 3 where it was ended with him expressing thanks for helping the city while Operation Birdcage was in effect. Being confused about why Lloyd isn't angry at him about the "annex Crossbell thing" just implies someone haven't paid any attention to that plotline for the entire series - it's not something magically new to 4. Particularly given Rean's had heavy interaction with both Randy and Tio by that point who'd be feeding information back. It's fine to not LIKE that aspect (and it's always been present in every arc, due to the shonen-like themes running throughout), but it certainly didn't come out of left field in 4.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:40
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Bland posted:Pretty much every single interaction in 4 between party members from different arcs goes like this: No that basically sums it up. CS4 is utterly terrified of having any character have even the mildest antagonism with one another so it doesn't matter who you are they're all going to be besties and if they aren't it is just because you haven't punched best friendship into them.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:59
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CS4 is mortally terrified of any sort of interpersonal conflict whatsoever let alone between playable characters
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Mar 25, 2021 00:14
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this is partly why duvalies the best character just because shes allowed to be petty and spiteful shes comically ineffectual but its why all the funniest lines come from her
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Mar 25, 2021 00:24
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Endorph posted:this is partly why duvalies the best character just because shes allowed to be petty and spiteful 
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Mar 25, 2021 00:26
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Endorph posted:this is partly why duvalies the best character just because shes allowed to be petty and spiteful This at least I can agree with.
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Mar 25, 2021 00:27
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Endorph posted:this is partly why duvalies the best character just because shes allowed to be petty and spiteful This is very true. Though I wish we'd got to see her beat the poo poo out of Rufus.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:46
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ImpAtom posted:This is very true. Though I wish we'd got to see her beat the poo poo out of Rufus. I wish the whole cast got a chance at that
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Mar 25, 2021 01:47
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Lord Koth posted:I mean, at least in regards to Lloyd, they've already had a direct fight at the end of 2, where the end result was basically respect, and the Crossbell section of 3 where it was ended with him expressing thanks for helping the city while Operation Birdcage was in effect. Being confused about why Lloyd isn't angry at him about the "annex Crossbell thing" just implies someone haven't paid any attention to that plotline for the entire series - it's not something magically new to 4. Particularly given Rean's had heavy interaction with both Randy and Tio by that point who'd be feeding information back. I don't think it's out of left field, but tbh I was super weirded out that Tio and Randy were so cool with Rean. But then Falcom can't get enough of shoving Rean adoration down our throats.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:50
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Some Numbers posted:I don't think it's out of left field, but tbh I was super weirded out that Tio and Randy were so cool with Rean.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:52
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Yeah Rean rules, it isn't his fault that every other character in the series is written to worship the ground he walks on.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:53
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This is the same series that had Zero/Ao's cast still be mostly fine with Mariabelle at the end of Ao - I actually thing their reaction to her in CS4 is a lot better - and still has Bleublanc be a mostly positively received character after being maliciously gleeful about attempting to burn Nord to the ground in CS2. No, everyone getting along with everyone (for the most part) is not something magically unique to Rean. Hell, there's the "tragedy" of all the ILF members, despite that the only one with a real legitimate grievance we should sympathize with being S.
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Lmao https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1375108940971659268?s=20
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