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Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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this game is an actual tragedy and it's also really funny

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Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Duelist is my favorite class in this game, and my second-favorite in the whole series (my favorite is Idol from 2020-2 (i'll get to it)). It's fun, flexible, and goofy and gimmicky without sacrificing skill in using it. You do have to try to set up the combos inherent, and there's a lot of different ways you can build about it, but it's also a class with an obvious downside that you need to work around. It's incredibly powerful if you use it right.

Duelist is the worst class in this game because it's the only class that needs to expend a modicum of effort to utterly crumple every enemy in its path. That's VFD, babyyyyy

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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as the resident 7th dragon loremaster i can tell you it actually stands for Volunteers Fighting Disease

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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7th dragon ds and 7th dragon 2020 are two very different types of cool thing that are much more similar to each other than code vfd *drops mic* *ollies out* *shoots a dragon*

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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EclecticTastes posted:

I'll admit that it's been a few years, but my recollection is that the final boss of 2020 was the boss lady of Murakumo as Human Dragon Mizuchi. If I'm mistaken, then, my other guess would be that Nyala survived being fought in 2020, whereas Fomalhaut, I believe, totally bites it.

my lp is right over there chief

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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we're going to have this exact same conversation on every single page aren't we

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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THERE HE IS THATS MY BOY RIGHT THERE RIGHT THERE THATS MY BOY ITS HIM ITS MY BOY THATS MY BOY

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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i loving love allie she's so goddamn weird

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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lol

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Come to think of it I've never had to post this on SA before but nah, Sympathy specifically can't lead to Code VFD in the state it currently exists in, for any number of reasons. I have lovingly constructed insulation against retcons.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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lmao get good

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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there's nothing wrong with that, and i did too, it was also my first, for obvious reasons. but boy is it a silly video game that doesn't make much sense.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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man it's really funny that the exit skill goes from something you mandatorily get in the prologue of 2020-2 to being something you get from an unmarked conversation halfway through VFD

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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you should make a male banisher a-2 and his name should be GEORGE! written like that imo

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Omobono posted:

Sorry, who is George? Or rather, GEORGE!?

the hero of mylos

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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you know i've been really embroiled in 7th dragon lore for like the past two years for obvious reasons and sometimes this game makes me morb the gently caress out.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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puts on my shitpost cap

quote:

Blazing GEORGE! (TV Size)

Description: 1st OP Theme
Singer: Akira Kushida
Composition: Hiroaki Ashizawa
Arrangement: Keiichi Oku

B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
3, 2, 1... FIRE!

Burning hot inside my heart, my soul chars the earth!
My battle today is on another stage!
Evil comes, powerful, threatening to steal our world—
but I leap into the sky, never to give in!

Bonds with my loyal friends keep me in the fight!
I fight for all of us, gathering all our hopes, into a mighty bomblance blast!

(Quake!) Now, you evil dragons, (Jump!) breaking our daily lives—
Your games of fear and death, I will bring to end!
(Attack!) At the last moment, (Fire!) bringing a turnabout—
The hero of mankind, Banisher GEORGE!!

B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
3, 2, 1... FIRE!

Burning hot in my heart, my will to fight forms a blade—
Your devilish techniques shall be crushed beneath!
Even if I'm on my knees, thrown around into the ropes,
I'll leap into the air and strike a mighty pose!

The souls of my loyal friends warn me of your traps—
Break through the darkness, charging up energy, into a massive bomblance blast!

(Quake!) Now, you evil dragons, (Jump!) who show no mercy,
Like lightning from the sky, I will strike you down!
(Attack!) Prepare your final words, (Fire!) for this storm of mighty blows!
The hero of mankind, Banisher GEORGE!!

B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
(Quake!) Now, you evil dragons, (Jump!) breaking our daily lives—
Your games of fear and death, I will bring to end!
(Attack!) At the last moment, (Fire!) bringing a turnabout—
The hero of mankind, Banisher GEORGE!!

B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
B-A-N-I-S-H, Banish!
3, 2, 1... FIRE!!!

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

SICK LOOT!
You want me to help you do what?

There's nobody else I can trust with this. Richter, I need you to make me badass.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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see, kirino's biggest mistake was thinking that becoming a henshin hero would make him badass, when in fact it made him bad and it made him rear end

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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yeah this is theoretically the future

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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oh sure, yeah, why don't you just go take a break, have a nice day off. buncha lousy ungrateful kids from their atlantises and their edens, i'm over here busting my rear end getting slapped to death by a big purple man and you're here taking a day off and flirting with the hired help. rassafrassin' grumble mumble.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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yeah there was a chest in that room with some healing aloe 4s

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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GiantRockFromSpace posted:

Don't think it really counts because Kinu's LP did spoil the VDF twist in retrospect :v: (And Nodens in a recent update, since I never finished the DS LP and they were referred as ND ingame I think?)

I referenced Nodens by name like, over fifty updates ago, I just got blunter about it by having Allie literally appear in person in 2019 completely unchanged. :v:

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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niara namedrops her in update 46, iod mentions her by name in the year between part 2, she appears personally in sumie's reminiscence parts 2 and 3 (initially under a screen name as 'NDni' but in person as Allie later on), and while she isn't mentioned by name at that point specifically in update 80 a joke is made about her cat food company, which is named meowden's, in reference to the cat cafe, and thus her. i would describe this as not being particularly subtle, but one of these references was in an update posted before bisby even started this lp, so the spoiler warning in the op remains apt in this case too.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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i think it's fairly worth mentioning that under 'scenario writing' there were four separate writers credited and under 'npc dialogue' there were nine. i think the fact that a lot of parts of this game feel really disjointed with each other, like the dates feeling... weirdly inconsistent with how old you're 'supposed' to be, can be chalked up to that at least partially.

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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they haven't replaced inuzuka's ugly-rear end carpet in eighty years

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Dirk the Average posted:

There's one boss left in the game, one random dragon in Parliament, and then what appears to be 40 remaining dragons in what I can only hope is the final dungeon? That sounds more tedious than anything else. There's also nothing to spend dz on, and the cast of NPCs is now down to one, apparently.

I'm surprised they felt the need to add that much padding. Part of the fun of an RPG is the progress you make between dungeon story beats, and there's no progress, just what appears to be more of the same stretched as thinly as possible.

Edit: Also, what do the navigators actually do? I kind of doubt they would change the mechanics to reflect not having someone sitting at a console.

The Navigators are a story holdover from 2020 and 2020-2, where there were two Navigators, a pair of twins named Miroku and Mina, who largely spoke for the protagonists in the cutscenes, and you got the chance to pick which one you wanted to do your primary navigation. It was technically cosmetic but the two of them were significantly more present in the narrative than Mio and Nagamimi were in here, solving a number of problems in the field and chipping in at important moments with their own characters going on. You even got the chance to give your Navigator of choice a name that wasn't just, uh, their number (3.6 and 3.7). The role's become very extraneous by VFD.

Also, just to correct you, the dragon remaining in the Diet Building area is actually Nodens, the bosses do count towards the counter. :v:

Edit: This is also a problem unique to VFD—in the 2020s, you continue rescuing new NPCs and getting new sidequests all the way up to the final dungeon. VFD's pacing is bonkers.

Kinu Nishimura fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Apr 25, 2023

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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Re:Vanishment
(sung by Annabel, theme of the Tokyo storyline)

Tokihanatareta uchinaru shoudou
(An impulse within me has awakened)
Ugokihajimeta sekai ga kousaku suru PHASE
(As the worlds blur together, a new phase begins)
Dareka oshiete koboreru kanshou
(Someone, tell me how to control my overflowing emotions)
Sora wo tobetara nante awai yume wo miteita no
(I had a fleeting dream, where I could fly.)

Hoshi ga furu yoru sarasara
(The shooting stars danced across the night sky,)
Kieteyuku chiisana hi wo
(and I just stood, transfixed, watching)
Tada ikuate mo naku mitsumeteita―
(as those tiny lights slowly faded away—[/b]

Kimi to kawashita kotoba mo chigirete
(All the words I said to you are being torn apart,)
Itsuka hakanaku kieteshimau no deshou ka
(and I wonder if they'll disappear entirely)
Kizuita yureru negai mo omoi mo
(But I know now that these wishes and uncertain feelings of mine)
Kimi wo mamoru tate to nareru koto wo
(Can be a shield to protect you)

Koboreta namida fuite douka
(Wipe away those falling tears,)
Itsuka hakanaku kieteshimau naraba
(if they're doomed to disappear without a trace.)
Kizutsuita yureru negai mo omoi mo
(I'll take on this pain so my wishes and uncertain feelings)
Kimi wo mamoru tate to narimasu you ni
(can become a shield to protect you)

realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching
realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching


Kimi to onaji da kizuato
(I bear the same wounds that you do,)
Ushirosugata ni kanjou rensa
(emotional chains which scar my back,)
Aragau ishi sae wasureteita kara―
(and I've forgotten how to resist anymore—)

realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching
realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching


Kimi to kawashita kotoba mo chigirete
(All the words I said to you are being torn apart,)
Itsuka hakanaku kieteshimau no deshou ka
(and I wonder if they'll disappear entirely)
Kizuita yureru negai mo omoi mo
(But I know now that these wishes and uncertain feelings of mine)
Kimi wo mamoru tate to nareru koto wo
(Can be a shield to protect you)

Koboreta namida furimukanai de
(Don't turn away from your falling tears)
UNISON kasanete asu wo kirihiraku no
(Let them unite and form a new future)
Kizutsuita yureru negai mo omoi mo
(I've taken this pain, so my feelings and wishes)
Kimi to aruku michi to narimasu you ni
(can become the path we'll all walk together)

Kimi to aruku michi to narimasu you ni
(can become the path we'll all walk together)

Kimi to aruku michi to narimasu you ni
(can become the path we'll all walk together)

realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching
realize, feeling, the past, recollection
tearing, progress, unplugged, searching

Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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GEORGE! returned to his home planet, planet muscle. he'll be back in like a week

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Kinu Nishimura
Apr 24, 2008

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brb deleting my thread

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