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Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


I too want Valimar to be my dance instructor

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U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




my wife has a crush on dc douglas's voice and hell, i can't blame her


what the actual gently caress, they updated that!?

FrickenMoron
May 6, 2009

Good game!
Finished Cs4... While the game overstayed it's welcome generally I wish there was more of a personal epilogue for everyone. Does Hajimari deliver in that regard? Does it even respect your final choice regarding the ladies? I ended up going with Towa anyways, CS2 and 3 really made her much more fleshed out character and it was a bit sad she wasnt around more for this one.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

FrickenMoron posted:

Finished Cs4... While the game overstayed it's welcome generally I wish there was more of a personal epilogue for everyone. Does Hajimari deliver in that regard? Does it even respect your final choice regarding the ladies? I ended up going with Towa anyways, CS2 and 3 really made her much more fleshed out character and it was a bit sad she wasnt around more for this one.
hajimari gives individual characters more focus yes, there's some sky 3 style individual character episodes. (though in hajimari they're focused on a pair of characters, so they're closer to, say, that door where mueller and julia hang out). its not exactly a personal epilogue but it gives them more closure rather than just being a guy who was there.

Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl

... what exactly is Yick doing contaminating DC Douglas (And this thread, for that matter) with it's terribleness.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Don't worry, everyone...I promise I'll never lose control of this power again! *loses control of this power immediately*

Red Red Blue
Feb 11, 2007



Trying to beat all the opponents in pom party might just break me, I'm like halfway down the list and I just constantly lose

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

All the opponents other than like the last two can be beaten by just saving your pom energy and then sending all the blobs to their side.

Red Red Blue
Feb 11, 2007



I'm bad at getting the energy or like I'll use it and they'll instantly counter it

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

I cant remember how much you need but if you save up enough it'll just completely fill their side to the top and theres nothing they can do about it.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Red Red Blue posted:

I'm bad at getting the energy or like I'll use it and they'll instantly counter it

1) it's luck-based, you can do awesome, but if they get better combos somehow they will build their energy faster and you'll lose
2) never use energy to remove lines on your side unless you know you'll lose otherwise
3) focus on building combos to get to level 7 and either use it if they already have some stuff piled up and will lose with your attack or save one more level before going all in
4) focus on keeping the drop column as empty as possible at all times
5) repeat, it's luck-based and you won't get the combos fast every time. Also, some of the opponents halfway through are actually harder than later ones

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

Red Red Blue posted:

Trying to beat all the opponents in pom party might just break me, I'm like halfway down the list and I just constantly lose
It's just RNG IMO. I'd go from losing badly several times in a row after being unable to seal the deal to destroying them almost instantly with the first good Craft attack.

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




pom party killed any desire for me to 100% the games it appeared in

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

please stop saying Porn Party

Overbite
Jan 24, 2004


I'm a vtuber expert
How’s the fishing in CS4?

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction

Overbite posted:

How’s the fishing in CS4?

It's like CS3 but a little less so. Alisa, Machias, and Fie have learned to fish.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Oh, that one was funny to me. Fie, yeah, of course she would know how to fish, but the two desk workers of the team? Laffo

Ohtsam
Feb 5, 2010

Not this shit again.

Saoshyant posted:

Oh, that one was funny to me. Fie, yeah, of course she would know how to fish, but the two desk workers of the team? Laffo

Alisa probably picked it up hanging out with Gwyn

theblackw0lf
Apr 15, 2003

"...creating a vision of the sort of society you want to have in miniature"

Welp time to replay Zero as I’ve forgotten pretty much everything.

Also here’s a 2 hour video Geofront did for Azure a couple months back that shows the prologue and also some Q&A. (Spoilers for Zero if you haven’t played it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQKk0VMjL0

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

I am extremely here for Class VII being fed up with Ouroboros and just wishing they would gently caress off

SgtSteel91
Oct 21, 2010

Going straight from TCS1 to 2, it really reminds of a PS2 era JRPG where you have to switch disks at the halfway point.

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010
It would have been really nice if they did the thing the others did and had your CS2 starting stats basically be your endgame ones. The whole thing still works since scarcely any games let you start with all the sick moves you’ve been using most of the game like Gale and Flame Impact tho, so it feels like booting up a postgame save and not like Megaman Battle Network sequels.

SgtSteel91
Oct 21, 2010

Last Celebration posted:

It would have been really nice if they did the thing the others did and had your CS2 starting stats basically be your endgame ones. The whole thing still works since scarcely any games let you start with all the sick moves you’ve been using most of the game like Gale and Flame Impact tho, so it feels like booting up a postgame save and not like Megaman Battle Network sequels.

That would have been really cool, but I appreciate that at least everyone kept their Crafts from TCS1, and now those crafts are getting upgraded versions as I'm leveling them up.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

so they really did just take all their old games & mash them together for CS4, huh

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction

Saoshyant posted:

Oh, that one was funny to me. Fie, yeah, of course she would know how to fish, but the two desk workers of the team? Laffo

To be fair, Machias explicitly picked it up because someone told him it might help him chill the gently caress out and help with his temper, impatience, and workaholic nature.

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
finally getting to CS4. I'm pretty negative on the direction this series has taken, so mostly just finishing it out of obligation. glad to see that they have a little girl groping juna in the prologue. cool.

Is it true that Rean can romance the cat? lol.

FrickenMoron
May 6, 2009

Good game!
Nope but you can hang out with Celine

Bland
Aug 31, 2008


Winner Of The TRP I dont actually remember the contest im pretty high right now here's your venkys tag


Mirello posted:

finally getting to CS4. I'm pretty negative on the direction this series has taken, so mostly just finishing it out of obligation. glad to see that they have a little girl groping juna in the prologue. cool.

Is it true that Rean can romance the cat? lol.

Nah. His students and little sister though...

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Mirello posted:

glad to see that they have a little girl groping juna in the prologue. cool.

don't worry, she's actually 3000 years old

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Hwurmp posted:

don't worry, she's actually 3000 years old

rofl, yeah I forgot to add that in.

I mean, not to start ranting and raving (I'll wait until I'm done for that) but it's so disappointing how games that started with a fairly unique setting end up shoving in literally as many sleazy anime clichés as they can. I've played all the games from sky 1 up to here, and there's definitely some misogyny in the writing team thats been getting worse and worse. I mean I think of it like a show you used to love that gets bad but you stay along for the ride.

I'd say the worst thing is that they've clearly run out of character stereotypes and twists, so they reuse them. It was fine when the characters were separated by different series, but now that they're all together it's really glaring.

*spoilers up to the beginning of cs4*


Rean + Alisa: their unknown dad? actually he's the bad guy!

Ash and Josh: Remember how there was only 1/2 survivors from hamel? now there's 3, also they are all susceptible to being brainwashed and used by the bad guy!

Shirley and that one girl: Extremely horny lesbian that doesn't respect consent

there's more but I can't really remember right now.


ok, I'll try to wait to poo poo up the thread until I'm done, unless something extremely stupid happens and I can't keep my mouth shut. I don't think anything can top the scene from 3 or 2, I forgot, where the teacher says to rean "I love you because you remind me of my dad" and then he leaves the train and claire says "I love you because you remind me of my brother" That and all the groping have prob been the series low for me. It did make me lol though.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

The series started with a two game arc about getting negged by an international coalition into loving your brother.

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

but you see, the difference is that i played that game in 2011 or whatever and it didn't stick out to me at the time

infraboy
Aug 15, 2002

Phungshwei!!!!!!1123
The #Metoo movement hasn't exactly taken off in Japan and shockingly the age of consent can be as low as 13.

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

bringing up the supposed 13 age of consent in japan??? you didn't need to bring the discussion back to 2011 too dude

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

infraboy posted:

The #Metoo movement hasn't exactly taken off in Japan and shockingly the age of consent can be as low as 13.

What do either of those things have to do with this

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
Trails of Left Turns

Terminally Bored
Oct 31, 2011

Twenty-five dollars and a six pack to my name
I bought Ys Origins for Switch two weeks ago and can't put it down. The port is excellent - high resolution, 60fps on a Lite, new UI (kinda, they added new bonus EXP and strength counters instead of bars). Love this game so much. DotEmu used to ship minimal effort stuff but this is really good.

Mirello posted:

finally getting to CS4. I'm pretty negative on the direction this series has taken, so mostly just finishing it out of obligation.

CS1 was so boring it turned me off the series for good. I think I'll try Zero and Ao after the patch for the latter is released but can't see myself powering through Rean's Power Armor Adventures. CS1 was the first time I didn't care about any of the characters in a Falcom game.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Sounds like Switch Origins is a lot better than on Vita where it was, AFAIK, much worse than other Ys6 engine games on PSP (6 itself aside of course)

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

infraboy posted:

The #Metoo movement hasn't exactly taken off in Japan and shockingly the age of consent can be as low as 13.
There is nowhere in Japan that the age of consent is 13. In fact, there is nowhere in Japan that the age of consent is lower than 18, meaning it has a higher age of consent than the US, where over half the states have it at 16.

The national age of consent in Japan is 13, but each prefecture sets their own laws, and none has it lower than 18. The exception is if theyre in a 'sincere romantic relationship with a peer,' with parental approval, which is wording meant to make it okay for, say, a 15 year old and an 18 year old who are both in high school. While this wording occasionally is twisted to let creepy poo poo slip through the cracks, this is also true of the US, where certain states have similar laws that are similarly occasionally abused.

Tl;dr you are regurgitating a lie fed to you by pedophiles and racists

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BearDrivingTruck
Oct 15, 2011

You see the most shocking sights sometimes
I'm getting repeatedly clobbered by Elie in Pom Party in CS4, anyone got any tips? I only need to beat everyone once to get the MQ

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