What game are you playing?

[rusty_shackleford]

S3 is mechanically the best of the three

[Tinky Winky]

S3 is mechanically the best of the three

It has the most responsive control out of three, at least for those who plays on mouse and keyboard like I do, it's an action game so control is the most important thing for such a genre.

[rusty_shackleford]

S3 is mechanically the best of the three

It has the most responsive control out of three, at least for those who plays on mouse and keyboard like I do, it's an action game so control is the most important thing for such a genre.

All of the games have absurd input lag, when I looked into it I was told that this is just normal for console games(??)

I was more referring to enemy design

[Tinky Winky]

It has the most responsive control out of three, at least for those who plays on mouse and keyboard like I do, it's an action game so control is the most important thing for such a genre.

All of the games have absurd input lag, when I looked into it I was told that this is just normal for console games(??)

I was more referring to enemy design

They all controls like **** with absurdly ****** camera work that intentionally designed to **** you up which is the main reason I don't recommend any of them, the other reason is the enemy placement which is as designed to **** with the player as cheap as possible. Made it into the Ringed City DLC which is absolutely horrible for both maps.

[Tinky Winky]

Anyway I'm done with this ****** crap, think I should play Elden Ring next for more automasochistic experience o algo.

[spookyheart]

Trails Cold Steel IV.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Trails Cold Steel IV.

Thoughts on it so far? Favorite characters and locations? Things you like? Things you wish could have been changed or improved?

[spookyheart]

Trails Cold Steel IV.

Thoughts on it so far? Favorite characters and locations? Things you like? Things you wish could have been changed or improved?

1)Laura Ellie Tio

2)The shrines i guess.

3)Art and music and combat.

4)Get rid of the ******* filler and stop having terroists like ouroborus and the politicians get away with so much **** and the lolcowlization of it too.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Chapter 5

Vacation time. The Confederate States of America gets an unexpected namedrop. Some technical lore in the Koubus. A pleasant nighttime visit. Our smart heroes inexplicably can't single out the obvious suspect.

► Show Spoiler

I like how the characters come and go. It makes the world feel more alive, rather than everyone is just there 24/7 for months on end.










Suits are cool. I'd wear my sportcoat every day if it wasn't out of vogue and made me look out of place. Sadly most people here just wear T-shirts and jeans, so a cardigan is the furthest you can push it.






I usually don't visit the girls' rooms, but I didn't find anyone downstairs. Turns out they needed to be woken up.






Is she trying to pick a hair ribbon?






Interesting. The Confederates had magic users? I wonder if they looked like Salem witches or Jamaican Voodoo users, or Gone With the Wind aristocratic mages. I wonder if Celesteel suits of armor (like for knights, not mechs) would have been useful against the demons.






Good thing I went back to my room and brought the radio. I wonder if it could be possible to leave for vacation without the radio.






At 9:50, I could have still gone to another room, but I decided to go to the entrance hall early. Apparently turned out to be a good thing too since everyone else arrived 10 minutes early as well.

What on earth?






Why does it look like he has breasts? Why is he in the Japanese army?




Shut up Saki. The latter two guys need a slap on the face. And don't try to pin this on us Orihime.















We didn't get to smash water melons


















It's a vacation lodge pillow fight. What's the big deal? Is this verboten in Japan?




Mountains out of molehills.






I was worried this was going to be Saki again, but this turned out to be a pleasant surprise.








Darn it








Reni sitting there in the back. We should toss her into the water.














The new hire Saki obviously took it.




I beeline for Saki's room, but in retrospect it was pointless given that no spy would keep incriminating evidence there. The real question is how she could have carried a suitcase sized object with 10 other people around + the inn staff and nobody witnessed it. Even if she did it while we were out yesterday hiking and going to the beach, surely the hotel staff might have noticed someone walking away carrying something.





It's Saki you idiots! You are the only people lodging at this inn. If anybody else had come, we would have known. The hotel staff would have known what the radio is or taken it. The only people who would have known about the radio and touched it would have been people inside the troupe. Everyone except Saki has fought alongside each other for over a year, has bunked together, ate together, cried together, etc. They wouldn't betray each other. And if anyone took it to make a call, they wouldn't have kept quiet about borrowing it. IT'S THE NEW HIRE!














Pretty neat that you can impersonate an enemy spy and manipulate the enemy so you can decide how to begin the mission.






We use the radio we found to call the base to have our mechs brought in on the airship. I doubt Saki would have been able to predict that Yoneda was going to send us off on vacation the very next day right after he came back, so she couldn't have had the radio here set up before hand. She would have had to have packed it in a suitcase she brought with her. Again people should have seen her walking out of the inn with a suitcase shaped object.


I thought that these were decorative lamps, but it turns out that they are beacons you can destroy to prevent reinforcements from landing. But I used the Wind command to give everyone a movement speed boost and we eliminated all of the initial enemies on the map, which then caused the mission to skip to the next boss fight. The enemies coming from the sea never arrived.






The heroes inexplicably don't recognize Saki.




Again using the Wind command, my team is able to surround Saki's mech and kill her destroy it before she even got a turn. Before I had even finished moving all of my units.

I am overall enjoying SW2 more than SW1. The story is more engaging as the demons try to use more subtle means by targeting their sponsors, trying to give them a bad rap with the rest of the Japanese military, trying to isolate and disarm them, etc. Rather than just popping up somewhere and causing a catastrophe for no real reason like in the first game. The writing has more verisimilitude. Reni and Orihime round out the team more, though gameplay wise having 10 people on the map is too powerful and the scenarios are overall not balanced with enough objectives, enemy forces (that aren't one shotted), or a tight enough time limit to make you really consider how to spread your team. I don't like the new battle tracks as much as SW1's. If you are a Kohran fan then she doesn't get much favorable attention compared to the others, but I am still on disc 1 so that might change.

[Capybara]

Done with Resident Evil: Revelations. Time to play some eroge.

[traxtan]

Done with Resident Evil: Revelations. Time to play some eroge.

Trying to play this on my 3DS last year was a nightmare, I will never get used to aiming with the left stick.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Chapter 6

On disc 2 now. A stock storyline this time. The freakshows are here to stay. Did the Treaty of Versailles happen in this timeline? We finally get to kill a bad guy.

► Show Spoiler

On disc 2 now. I couldn't get the disc change operation to work inside mednafen, as I would press the F6 key to open the disc tray and press F8 to change disc, only for it to not change discs. So I had to close mednafen, launch disc 2 so that mednafen would generate save files for it, close mednafen again, open up the save folder, duplicate my disc 1 save files, and paste the disc 2 save file names onto them, and then launch disc 2 again. From what I have heard, this is apparently how you are supposed to transfer save data from game to game too SW1 > 2 > 3 > 4.












You are all actors. You guys flub your lines, but here you are freaking out because Reni flubbed one? Feels petty.






Uh oh, the voice and cadence sounds a little deep. Is that a boy dressed like a girl?




"Training school" I could hear the hesitation in your voice. What is that supposed to mean?





If I were walking down a hallway and got accosted by these freaks, I would get ready to fight for my soul.







Oh... oh dear, they will be staying...




You are going to have the other mech squads also be female only theater performers? Sounds like you are going to hit market saturation pretty quickly. Wouldn't it be better to try to find another day job for them? Like... a restaurant, or horse riding, or running an aquarium/zoo, or something.




"Unique personalities" what a fancy way to dress up their degenerate behavior. Are they on payroll? Are they just glorified extra hands to scrub the mechs or repair the roof? Are we really going to have these guys as ushers for the theater service? I suppose the responsibility of reeducating them falls to us...










You have been here for at least two weeks, and you have still left your room like this?






This isn't like fighting one of those cynical 20th century wars in which every side is corrupt and innocents are being drafted and forced to kill each other. We are fighting DEMONS THAT ERUPT IN THE CAPITAL AND WIPE OUT CITY BLOCKS FOR LAUGHS! There is nothing to agonize about her. This is an open and shut case.








Shouldn't he be soaking wet?






Now that I think about it, this is really just another Rei Ayanami story about the emotionless girl who opens up. But Reni looks like a tomboy so that threw me off.
















We should have detained Saki as soon as the radio was smashed.




Eerie segment where you do your night watch at 11 PM, everyone is asleep, and there is no relaxing night theme playing. Only the sound of the wind.




Upon receiving even more incriminating evidence as to Saki's treachery from the Moon Division operative, deputy commander Kaede inexplicably does not tell commander Yoneda or captain Ogami that Saki is very likely an enemy. She leaves Yoneda sleeping in his office, and continues wandering around the theater looking for Saki by herself. We should be waking up those Rose Division guys downstairs and having them help search the building for Saki and detain her.
















Was Germany ruined in this timeline too? Was Reni "found"/taken from her homeland by the Allies, and then eventually redistributed to Japan's Koubu project? How was Japan able to acquire this psychic spoil of war? Did they claim her as their share, or is the Koubu actually part of some sort of shared weapons development program for the Allies? We have a couple other pilots from "adversary" countries like Kohran from post Qing dynasty China and Maria from post revolution Russia, but they are political fugitives. I don't think Japan is sharing Koubu tech with China and Russia, and from the sound of this, maybe Germany too.


























The mission starts out pretty tense. You have just Ogami and Iris, versus a large number of enemy units. I am going along using the Mountain command to increase defense and slowly pick off the adds before the big duel with Reni, all the while being bombarded by artillery.




Then the rest of the Troupe arrives, and the mission becomes boring. Really should have just been Ogami and Iris, which was more than enough to beat the mission. Ogami and Iris both have two charges of self heal. Iris' ultimate heals both her and the surrounding characters to full. And the map designer put a steam vent in the middle of the map that allows any unit that stands on it to heal back to full. It wasn't hard.




Reni has just been standing there the whole time while the rest of the enemy Hexmechs advance towards me, so it would appear she has an aggro range. I am guessing this might be something like Cecil becoming a paladin in FF4 or the last "duel" in Suikoden 2 where you are not supposed to attack. I have everyone else wait down a step and just park Ogami next to her, which triggers a dialogue.






Okay this is starting to hurt.






Timed dialogue. The beeping, seeing the bar slowly filling up, and the timed dialogues within timed dialogues makes this really stressful.












Neat heroic remix of the theme music.










Reni has apparently skyrocketed to second place on the affection rankings, behind Sumire whose affection was carried over from the first game.






Saki created several shadow clones of herself, but it will be trivial to use the Wind movement command and my army of characters to hit each one to reveal the original.




Each of her shadow clones can cast a 20 second long cutscene ultimate haha

And she can respawn all of them after two turns too haha

It seems like the thing to do is to park every character at each shadow clone's spawn tile. Then when they are respawned, hit all of them. After enough rounds you will have eventually killed the real Saki regardless of where she teleports to.

For some reason, Saki does not teleport out at low HP like with all of the prior demon boss fights. Either the Demon King was able to remotely strip her teleportation ability or she just allowed herself to die.








Tonal whiplash. We just slew someone we had eaten with earlier today, but now we are going to pose for a picture.




Now that I think about it, it's pretty strange how the OSTs have these full lyrical songs for each of the theater girls (sung by their VAs), but you never actually get to hear those songs play ingame during the story.

[Finarfin]

Just started playing Valkyrie Profile Lenneth on my phone due to my friend having a crunchyroll sub and sharing it with me. Very nice visuals and the soundtrack is beautiful so far

[Finarfin]

This plays in Valhalla and it is just beautiful

[Capybara]

Checking out Shivarune's Dungeon Traveler's translation. I haven't worked the past week and a half so lots of free time. ****, I might do another playthrough of Resident Evil: Revelations.

Besides that, I'm tempted to play Starsector. Only did the tutorial because I know I'll get hooked.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Chapter 7

Another good chapter. There needs to be more variety in cutscene music, though. I am already humming the tone I predict will be playing for the next cutscene, and then 9 out of 10 times that track begins playing.

► Show Spoiler

Minigame where you control Iris as have to weave her through the crowds to booth to booth. This is difficult to do because the Sega Genesis controller does not have a thumbstick that allows you to vary the speed or the direction, only a D-pad with binary "stop" or "go" inupts and only 4 or 8 directions.






Got to see a performance of the Masked Red show you can listen to on the radio. Sadly the performer seems to be phoning it in, going through the motions. Maybe he has already done this countless times over the years and has more places to perform at this week. He should consider a career change.
























Oof.












Another minigame, also difficult to control. Your character will only sink/move down if you are travelling left or right. If you are stationary then Ogami will start floating up to the surface. To control your bouyancy, you are constantly making start and stop adjustments.

I like how the minigames are being spaced out across the game. IIRC in the last one they were all dumped in just one chapter, which was a lot to take in.






How would Tsubomi have seen Mr. Ogata outside? The front doors are closed unless we are welcoming in people for a performance, and you cannot see through the doors. Is there a window by the gift shop that Tsubomi was able to see through?
















Wait, why wouldn't the family allow him to marry her? The deed has been done. She has a child. The sons of other noble families will not be inclined to marry her. Are you just going to let her sit in the family house for the rest of her life? If she is the only child of the family, then why not bring the son-in-law into the fold?

Should have barged into the esstate, grabbed his wife and daughter, and hightailed it out of there.






The voice acting is very good.






I find this preferable to how Trails Through Daybreak 2 treated adultery and divorce. In that game, the tragedy was undercut by the "humor" at Maxim's expense, whereas here the story is being sincere and serious about how broken this is.

Meanwhile, an army minister is finishing organizing his scheme. I don't understand why he is going with the slogan of "Taisho Restoration". Isn't Emperor Taisho still emperor? Why would he need to be restored? Unless by this point in this timeline, the emperor has become a puppet and the military are really in control (if the popular narrative is to be believed), in which case is this guy going to overthrow the rest of the military to restore Emperor Taisho's power? Or is this just a lie and he is going to pretend he is the righteous rebel fighting against the military to restore the emperor, only to actually be a shadow dictator?












This minigame is significantly easier to do with the D-pad. You don't need to make a lot of micro-adjustments to dodge stuff, and the character doesn't move that fast.








It's another one of those stressful long timed dialogues.






I can't be bothered to fence words with her anymore. I am just going to stand there and let the timer expire.














Shut up woman




Haha

RIP Ogata














The scenario starts off as pretty scary, but then it quickly becomes apparent that you are not in any danger. Presumably it would take at least two more red Hexmechs reaching the warehouse to cause the bomb to go off, but I used the wind command to increase everyone's move distance and then by the second turn I had intercepted the two red Hexmechs nearby. More red Hexmechs began spawning in but by that point my people were in the center of the map and could intercept any mechs spawning anywhere before they reached the warehouse.






I have eliminated all of the enemy demons including the Wakijis that Kasha was sending to the warehouse to arm the bomb. But the mission is still going. Either more Wakijis are going to spawn, or I need to eliminate these stationary turrets too.

Ah, I gotta move Ogami over to the warehouse.




The music cuts out, and you hear a drum or heartbeat, which heightens the tension. You get a white flash for each choice you make, so I keep wondering if I had just blown up.














We surge through the corridor towards the boss. He AoEs us three times but his damage is not enough to down anyone before we zerg him.








I liked hearing his death scream.




The city block has been razed and hundreds of people visiting the festival have been incinerated or shredded by shrapnel or crushed by hexmechs, but we are going to pose and take a picture and play happy music!

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Chapter 8

It's military coup time! They're breaking in! We get new mechs. Some wonky writing. Three villains die. The heroes call it the day even though there is a lackey left?

► Show Spoiler

Wow, that's hundreds or even thousands of soldiers involved. How did the Imperial government not catch wind of this? All it would have taken is for one of these soldiers to have heard about a coup plan and to report it to the government. Unless the government higher ups allowed this to happen for some reason?

The theater isn't that big, and the enemy has already taken over the lobby and the second floor. They are almost certainly running down the corridor towards the kitchen, and then they are going to turn around the corner and see us. The commander has given us the instructions we need. It would be nice to learn more, but right now we should be heading downstairs to the basement. We could talk more on the train.

It is strange that we are getting another Sakura centric arc, after the final chapter of the first game, and also about her special powers IIRC.






If these were from the first game then I have completely forgotten about them.




The theater is encircled by what might be 100+ soldiers, and they are shooting at you. At this point you have no choice but to run into the basement and hop into the mechs and bust out, or die.






If this was Rose Division's actual purpose, then why didn't Commander Yoneda say so to Ogami when I asked a couple chapters ago? If I did recover it from the final dungeon of the last game then it's not a secret Ogami is unaware of. It would also be good to know that the people with suspicious behavior are actually here with a real purpose rather than possibly hanging out in a women's theater troupe for other reasons.








If the rebel army brought explosives to break into the basement then they are just going to use those explosives to blow up the command room and shred everyone inside. RIP. You guys should have gone to the hangar and hopped into the mechs!










A new Koubu model? Neat.




It looks kinda weird to have two cyclops eyes on top of each other.






I wonder what would happen if you tried radioing his number before this point in the game. Too bad I have overwritten my earlier chapter saves due to the low number of save slots.




Hm another good navy guy vs the evil imperial/incompetent army! Well now that I think about it, I guess Yoneda and Kaede are army too since they wear those green uniforms, so the army isn't being totally shat on.

I knew from SW5 that Kayama was Japan's representative somehow involved in the Koubu project and the now international alliance against the demon threat, appearing in New York when the US got their batch of Koubus. But I didn't know that Kayama was a Japanese intelligence operative or spy. So does that mean in SW5, Japan was having one of their spies walking around also acting as a representative of Japan when IIRC he talked to Mr. Sunnyside?




Well so far there has been no threat in this game, so I don't need to make the game easier by reducing the number of enemies. I will have the wall taken down so I can just beeline to the boss, maybe it will be more engaging with adds bearing down on me too.




Oh wow, we can skate and go fast now!

Finally, the "harder" mission content I have wanted. You just get two people to battle through several mechs, three turrets, and then a boss. I used the Mountain command to reduce incoming damage and used up both of Ogami's heal charges, but I still had all 2x of Sakura's heal charges left and was about to have her heal Ogami when he dealt the killing blow.

After a couple turns, Kayama brings down the wall.










Pretty dangerous to exit our mechs. It just takes one soldier being nearby to gun us down. We should radio the people inside first.










Still don't understand what this "Taishio Restoration" schtick is. And why are you here to gloat to one mech squad? Don't you have a huge campaign to run from an HQ with dozens of units to be issuing orders to across the capital? What about across Japan like other major cities and military bases?




Hrm, older man, same blue hair as Sakura, wields a sword. I wonder if he is Sakura's dead father, raised by necromancy just like Yamazaki was. Seems like everyone in Yoneda's old squad got possessed by evil.










How is the navy supposed to be the land specialized branch on land?



















That's a cool mech.






Unfortunately, you spend all of this time clearing out the adds and advancing across the first half of the map, only for the mission to end before you ever reach and fight the boss.






Sakura is being very dramatic. The Regalia came out of nowhere. I don't even remember if it was in the last game. I feel it doesn't matter at all. The big bad super mech of SW5 was the strongest adversary I have seen yet and that was just blown up with good old fashioned sword wielding mechas, missiles, and some spirit power. And I don't see why Sakura is so distraught. Absolutely nobody said or insinuated that a Ritual of Purification sacrifice would be necessary. We are not in the middle of an apocalypse. Yoneda just gave us a rundown on the effects of the Regalia as evidenced by its recent use, and now you're jumping to "I am being pressured to use this!".




Knock it off with the drama, Sakura. And what "suffering"? You live a cushy life! You are young, healthy, and beautiful. You are a famous and popular actress who gets hundreds or thousands of people in the seats to watch you on stage. You live at an upscale theater and get free meals prepared by a chef and wear nice dresses. You are the daughter of a prestigious noble family with a proud history of warriors who protected your country from demons. You have psychic powers most people don't have that allows you to be a mech pilot. In fact, you have amongst the most power of psychics. You get called to pilot a mech for a couple hours once every week or two, only do rehearsals/practice for a few hours per day, and spend the rest of your time each day doing whatever you want. And you are surrounded by many true friends. If you want to play the pity game, then get in line behind Maria, who was a loyalist in the Russian revolution enduring sordid conditions for years, saw her dad die, lost the war and became an exile now having to live in a foreign land.


What suffering? And why smash the Regalia? It could be useful one day. Maybe it could be installed into your mech to make super powerful. Why not just keep it in storage?








Goodness gracious




Well glad that's over. Moving on.




Is there any logical reason to pick the frontal assault option over inserting from the rear? Can you beeline to the boss faster with the frontal assault option?




I picked frontal assault, which turned out to be really boring. You are running around on a descending elevator platform just destroying waves and waves of nonthreatening fodder, and goes on for quite a while. At least the level is a little visually interesting as the background is scrolling up.




Kongou appears. I ignore his adds and concentrate on the boss. I pop everyone's ultimate abilities and their AoEs incidentally kill the adds.
















Again, that is a cool mech.




Uh, it is?




There are several grotesque statues here, and they are targetable. I am guessing they are going to get infused with magic during the mission and become adds, or they are turrets. Mind as well destroy them first.




I was right. They have begun transforming into Hexmech adds.

A closer look at the Demon King's cool mech.

The Demon King's ultimate was unexpectedly dangerous. It is a rectangular AoE three spaces wide with infinite length. I was using the wind command to increase my team's movement speed, and no one had used the defend ability to halve incoming damage. Four of my characters were hit and went from 100% HP to around 40% HP. So I had to spend a couple turns healing people up, but then we got back to the usual business of zerging down the boss. He filled his gauge back up and I used the Mountain command to increase the team's defense, but then we managed to just kill him before his turn came and he got to get a second ultimate off while we were bunched up.




He causes a cave-in trying to kill us, but we just run into the corridor behind him.




But the spider boss lady is still alive. Is she fought in the other route if you go through the back? Where is she right now? Did she die in the cave in? Also, we spent 20 minutes descending that elevator to reach the Demon King's cavern, but we just ran through a corridor in that same cavern to emerge on the surface. So did we enter the top of a mountain and just exit out the side of a mountain further down?




No no don't start changing out of your uniforms yet. Spider lady is still out there, we gotta go track her down and kill her. And then there will be no outstanding threats. Earlier today we apparently had some sort of radar that could detect spirit energy coming from the Regalia and that's how we found the Demon King, and then two chapters ago Iris was able to track spirit energy coming from Reni and that's how we found her. Can't we scan for more spirit energy presences and check out the blips that aren't our allies? Surely that demoness' mech will stand out?








IIRC earlier he was talking about how the coup was just a diversion and how he wants to summon "the true Tokyo" or something. So I am guessing either this guy is a body double, or like how Yamazaki died and then his body got possessed by Satan, this army minister has died and is then going to get brought back as a demon.




"Peace returned to Tokyo" didn't a lot of people just die? Hundreds of rebel and loyalist soldiers killed and maimed each other battle at several locations across the capital? And now a lot of rebel officers are getting arrested too. There should now be a lot of widows and orphans, and parents and wives and brothers and friends frustrated that their loved one is in the hospital with an amputated leg or is in jail awaiting trial and execution. A lot of people just lost their breadwinner and will be struggling to pay the bills.




Apparently there is at least another chapter left. Seems to be Christmas themed. I wonder if the rug is going to be pulled out from under and there will be a true final dungeon, but the last game also had a final chapter after the true final dungeon that was nothing but fluff so I wonder if that might be the case here too. This game has 3 discs and I am still on disc 2.

I started wondering if I had missed us killing the spider lady earlier, so I dug through my folder of 5,000 screenshots thus far. She's not dead. I can't believe the spider lady lieutenant villain we beat up in the early chapters has managed to outlive her boss the Demon King, all of the other lieutenants of the Demon King, and the evil army minister. Is she going to be the final boss?

I find it strange that they rehashed Sakura's story chapter from the last game. Was it shoved in here because the series is called "Sakura Wars"? Though with three leaving behind the Japanese mech squad, it seems that the devs might have eventually let go of that idea. The way the Sakura stuff in this chapter is written so weird and mediocre. I can't believe it would have been written by whoever else had been writing the rest of the game. Were there multiple writers divying up different parts?

[Tinky Winky]

Finished the main game of Elden Ring, From ***** has stopped caring about being (or stopped pretending to be) fair on this one - The very first mandatory boss, Margit, has all the meme moves including the infamous midair delayed attack, which he can defy the law of gravity just to troll you - so neither should I, I decided to just use guides for my pure mage build along with the most powerful spirit ashes, and the game has become significantly less painful as is the game was expecting players to look up for guides. Time for the DLC and then I can finally be done with soulslops anyway.

[Tweed]

I dunno if I like or dislike Deadzone yet. It suffers from the same problem all games of this nature do: repetition. Chunk after chunk after chunk. Actually, I shouldn't say chunk because I don't think the rooms are random.

[rusty_shackleford]

I dunno if I like or dislike Deadzone yet. It suffers from the same problem all games of this nature do: repetition. Chunk after chunk after chunk. Actually, I shouldn't say chunk because I don't think the rooms are random.

Did you get the multiplayer working?

[Tweed]

I dunno if I like or dislike Deadzone yet. It suffers from the same problem all games of this nature do: repetition. Chunk after chunk after chunk. Actually, I shouldn't say chunk because I don't think the rooms are random.

Did you get the multiplayer working?

Nope. I've done everything I can think of. I checked my firewall, cleared the Steam cache, regenerated by user and config directories, even updated Windows just in case. It doesn't work. I've never had this problem with any other game I own.

[dagal]

Octopath Traveler, for the first time. I feel dumb for spending the first few hours of the game trying to solo everything with the thief, and not recruiting anyone else. The game actually gets much more rich if you party up.

A bit frustrated by having to rotate party members to do specific field commands ("story actions") in town, wanted to see if I could reverse the game and fix it. Since there was a mod that fixed travel banter, figured I could also fix this.

Alas, after bothering to remember how to reverse UE4 games, I found out that the field commands are not similar to travel banter mechanics at all, and I would have to patch and rewrite several places, and also fix the UI after... Guess it's easier to just rotate party members when needed. Dumb design for console kids.

[Statesman]

Anyway I'm done with this ****** crap, think I should play Elden Ring next for more automasochistic experience o algo.

Finished the main game of Elden Ring, From ***** has stopped caring about being (or stopped pretending to be) fair on this one - The very first mandatory boss, Margit, has all the meme moves including the infamous midair delayed attack, which he can defy the law of gravity just to troll you - so neither should I, I decided to just use guides for my pure mage build along with the most powerful spirit ashes, and the game has become significantly less painful as is the game was expecting players to look up for guides. Time for the DLC and then I can finally be done with soulslops anyway.

You do you, but IMHO pure magic builds are the most boring builds for soulgames.

[Tinky Winky]

Anyway I'm done with this ****** crap, think I should play Elden Ring next for more automasochistic experience o algo.

Finished the main game of Elden Ring, From ***** has stopped caring about being (or stopped pretending to be) fair on this one - The very first mandatory boss, Margit, has all the meme moves including the infamous midair delayed attack, which he can defy the law of gravity just to troll you - so neither should I, I decided to just use guides for my pure mage build along with the most powerful spirit ashes, and the game has become significantly less painful as is the game was expecting players to look up for guides. Time for the DLC and then I can finally be done with soulslops anyway.

You do you, but IMHO pure magic builds are the most boring builds for soulgames.

I view soulgames as action-adventure with stats and nes bullshitties. If I want to have melee experience I'd go play 2D action games like Megaman Zero instead since they do have better control and better visual clarity.

[mercerxiv]

Digital Combat Simulator. Learning how to JDAM and JSOW some arabs in the gulf. Flying at mach 20000 miles above ground, watching cave dwellers 50 miles away on google street view to observe the missile impact is a good time.

[TheEmptyRoad]

I’m playing Knights of the Old Republic. Second playthrough to get off Taris. My first one I sperged out and went Dark Side at the very end. I think I’ll stay a good boy this time. I should be playing Arcanum though, because it’s the current Junior Adventurers Guild Game.

[Tinky Winky]

The DLC of Elden Ring is really unhinged and I can see why it gets so much hatred. Spent hours trying to kill the final boss and ended up resorting to a "cheesing" build (basically Fingerprint Stone Shield + Antspur Rapier with Ash of War:Blood Blade) just to beat it.





Finally done with soulslops anyway, time to play a better, more enjoyable game like Gothic 2 or Megaman Zero.

[Statesman]

I view soulgames as action-adventure with stats and nes bullshitties. If I want to have melee experience I'd go play 2D action games like Megaman Zero instead since they do have better control and better visual clarity.

Acceptable and based answer.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Chapter 9 and 10

It's the Christmas episode. Everyone gets stressed out as they ask their captain to play favorites. Some Japanese trivia. Sumire tries to kill her love via heart attack. The usual suspects return. The bad guy summons the final dungeon.

Chapter 9 Christmas

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Chapter 9 Christmas




You are going to do all that work rehearsing only to do the play for one night?




It's a little weird because visiting a room in Sakura Wars advances the time by 10 minutes, not 5 minute increments. So to not be late, I would have to go to her room at 4:40 and be 5 minutes early. We all live in work in the same building, it's not like we have to take a long walk or drive to traffic and thus need to leave extra early to have leeway for delays.




Sure.




Hrm.




They all need my help? Mind as well just get started now then. Doing the receipts to clarify our immediete finances is probably the most important, then swapping out the posters to catch as many people's attention as possible for the next play, and then rearranging the merch that won't be sold for a while.




I wonder if there is any reason behind why violent things happen in Japan in the winter. Maybe the idea is that the cold and the snow might inhibit retaliation or pursuers?




Interesting trivia. But a month named after public school teachers? If this game takes place in 1920, and the Meiji Restoration ended in 1989 and public schools happened shortly after that, then the name of this month was created very recently, just within the last 30 years, no? Would the name "Shiwasu" have really caught on by 1920?




No pressure.






Near the end of SW5 and SW1, I had to pick a girl to romance for the rest of the game. I presume that this is the same thing, but it is weird that it is being bundled up with picking a lead for a theater play. Picking the best person to be the lead angel or Mary is not the same thing as picking the girl I would like to marry. I would say that perhaps Maria might be the most dignified for lead angel. I guess Kanna could also be a humorous lead angel. But for romance, I'd go for Sumire or maybe Reni. But I already went on a walk with Sumire in the last game and would feel bad about abandoning her for the new girl, so I'll probably just go with Sumire. Maybe I will reload a save to see what differences there are with Reni.




Counting receipts is the most important so I go do that. Also might be the job that the girls need the most help with. Rearranging gift shop shelves or putting up lightweight posters isn't hard.




Oh wow, Renga-Tei (meaning "Brick Restaurant") is a real restaurant in the Ginza district of Tokyo (where the SW theater is located) and was founded in 1895. Apparently the current store building was built in 1963, so perhaps the building original was firebombed.




Well as the officer a squad that fights demons every week or two, I would like to not alienate my troops because I did not give them validation. And as far as plays go, I am not a critic. I just punch the tickets, mop the floors, and occasionally help in the back.










This "the captain is going to choose someone!" thing sure is making people apprehensive. Might not have been a good idea.




I don't want to give her any false hope, so I let the timer run out and remained silent.




See? This is stressing people out. Why can't I pick someone else and then take Sumire on a walk? This is feeling like favoritism.
















Haha Reni isn't even sweating over this.








Ouch time.




There is a long, beeping timer which makes this more stressful.








But why? I am not an expert in plays.




If this play is about the birth of Christ then I would do something solemn. It's about the fulfillment of an oath that a lot of people died in despair before ever seeing it fulfilled. Our God has finally come to be seen after hundreds of years of silence. After the wise men met Herod, they would have been stressed that they were risking their lives and that the family they were about to visit would be in danger. A lot of boys are about to be killed in this village over the next couple of days, and the man being born here is destined to get tortured and die a drawn out execution. Maybe save the cheeriness for when the world is remade, after the final judgement and the tragedy of all of those people being parted from God forever and possibly ceasing to exist.




#1 is the only possible answer.








I would say restrained for the solemnity, but this is a play that needs to at a bare minimum be entertaining for the people who bought tickets to be entertained, rather than a dull reenactment, so maybe some entertaining angels might help. Maybe zany angels would contrast with the serious humans.


























It must really suck to have your birthday around Christmas. Your personal birthday is overshadowed by the King's. Everyone is in a foul mood because they are stressed out trying to return favors and being worried about whether or not the stuff they are going to get is going to be what they wanted, worried about the money running out, etc. And if you are a kid, then you only get presents once per year instead of two, so you get half the stuff.






I wonder if such a chapel existed in Tokyo and got firebombed. EDIT: actually it probably would have been destroyed in the 1923 great earthquake.




Sounds like you two should get engaged.

Chapter 10 the penultimate chapter?

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Chapter 10






Why did the grandparents finally let loose the leash 20 years after she had a child with Ogata? Because their plan of marrying her off to some young noble didn't come to fruition?







It would be neat to tour these other Flower Division installations we have. The Hanayshiki Branch and see what cool vehicles they are building there. That Maidens Academy and see what they are teaching new mech pilots, but eh might be seen as odd for Ogami to go there. Maybe we could visit the Moon Division and ask Kayama how he tracks the demons.






Now that the magical artifacts the Rose Division were guarding have been destroyed, why are they still in our basement?










Oh dear






Hold up. You have been alive for how many years, and have never cooked? Not even sneaking into the kitchen at night to make some toast real quick, or being tutored by the chef as part of your training as a noble lady?


Icecream on a lobster. I would flatly refuse. I don't want to die.




The wine is just going to kill him faster.








Is that a Kouma fossil on the wall?




We killed Kongou, and the Demon King was collapsed the cavern roof trying to bury us with him, so he probably did not escape. But now they are alive?




Why is the Demon King creating flesh and blood Kouma? I thought that the demons upgraded from fragile flesh and blood demons to producing durable, metal Hexmechs. And how does removing spirit power from a creature make it more powerful? Are you trying to make anti-spirit power weapons?




This looks to be a high rez CGI model. Is it going to appeal in a CGI cutscene later on? Kinda weird to make one for a still image.






Hm. So Sumire's family lives in a big Western styled mansion, has European-styled butlers and servants, and her parents wear Western clothes. But Sumire wears Japanese clothes like her grandfather, and was being married off to another guy wearing Western styled clothing. So is Sumire viewed as somewhat of a rebel by her parents?








The dad is going to die eating that dish.








This mission starts with everyone except you and your love having been imprisoned in crystals. You have to move a character to a tile adjacent to the crystal to free the prisoner. I should split up so we can exponentially release party members. Two party members free two more = four party members free four more = 8 party members by the end of turn 3.








The mission also debuts the Kouma Weapons, and looking at their stat screen was a little worrying as they have the highest stats of any non-boss enemy we have faced to date. They might have been threatening earlier in the game when we were still using the second generation Jinbu mechs, but now we are using Tenbus so everyone has a huge stat boost, so it's nothing to worry about. For some reason, the Kouma Weapons have wings but apparently can't fly up cliffs.






I am guessing you are about to summon the final dungeon.




Yeah that's it.








To be concluded. Probably.

[W1llus]

I beat Nine Sols made by developer red candle games who are best known for massively pissing off china. I'd give it an 8.5/10. Combat is about as tight as possible, and the animation work is stellar. Soundtrack also deserves some credit, it was shockingly good at times. The story was also a highlight and managed to be depressing, hopeful, and bittersweet. I won't lie it's hard. If you dudes aren't good at these parry timing games (like me) you're in for a ride. The final boss was a massive difficulty spike. Harder than anything else in the game. Because people care about woke **** in the game there's a single npc/boss who's this feminine looking guy called Ji. I'd post a picture for context but I'm to lazy. He's meant to be immortal who became a young (20's?) adult and just stopped aging. Eternally a twink. As for outside the game supposedly on the discord the devs confirmed a boss called lady etheral is actually a lesbian and had a relationship with one of her female colleagues. Of course never said in the game and you wouldn't possibly know this actually playing it. If I had to describe the game in three words it would be furry sekiro metroidvania