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Ah yeah I got some 5-star craft essences too but I also don't mention them unless they're particularly noteworthy. Congrats on pulling Yang, that craft essence art of her is great.

That's fair, Britomart would be a pretty sweet freebie to get as well.
Tyvm, annoyingly tho I'm totally out of Forbidden Pages so I haven't been able to max out her skills straight away like I would've wanted. Thankfully one of the daily materials they're offering this month are the Forbidden Pages so I'll have enough by the end of the month at least, but it'll be slow going. And yeah that's true, I've been very fortunate so far in that regard. Awesome to hear, glad I won't have to wait too long for another shot at her.
Great choice, she would've been the easy pick for me if I didn't already have her. Agreed, one of my fav outfits of the game, feels good to have her and Jalter in their matching outfits at long last. Feel like Artoria Alter Rider will be one I try for too depending on how my quartz look when she's available.

For sure, the Rin aspect of her materialization mellowed her out quite a bit, and highlighted Ishtar's more positive qualities while repressing her crueller side iirc. So I think true Ishtar would be quite a bit more antagonistic, and would also be a lot more prideful similarly to how Archer Gil carries himself I imagine.

Something about the black & white with highlights of red in the design and her cold looking eyes/gaze really does it for me. But yeah that's fair, makes sense you wouldn't concern yourself with how mechanically good a character might be if you're at a point in the game where the gameplay doesn't matter all that much anymore.

I wasn't aware of it at first but I found out a few days ago too. A couple of the outfits got changed so that they were less revealing in the bust region including the bunny girl outfit which also had the sides lowered on the hips. The decision to censor them is pretty baffling tbh, there's still other outfits in the game that show just as much bust and skin in general than the ones that got changed. There's a swimsuit outfit and another that's pretty much lingerie, and the outfits that got patched were the bunny girl one and a bondage-looking outfit so y'know, they're kinda revealing by design lol Apparently the developers have come out and said that the outfits post-patch is how they were intended to look or something like that which I don't buy, because they look pretty lazily edited post-patch.
I have less issue with the blood thing because that seems like it might actually be a genuine design tweak from the developers. The game still has the same level of blood & gore, which is plenty of it at that, it just splashes on Eve a lot less now. Although it does feel like they might've over-compensated in that regard tbf.
Someone else that I've spoken to about the patch changes suspects it may be a publicity stunt from Sony where they rollback the changes so they can pull the "We listen to the players, we're good guys!" look, which I would certainly far prefer to it simply being braindead censorship on Sony's part.

Oh that didn't take long, is it not a particularly long game then? Shame to hear it didn't live up to expectations.

btw two interesting multi-pulls from Misaki banner Both of them ended up being thematically similar (x2 Christmas units and then x2 swimsuit rabbits, and also it was rabbit-1 first and then the second).

How are you doing this event? That maintenance was super long.

One might say Tohka is a high-maintenance spirit. Ironically, her own value decreases every time another girl is added to the harem since they can bring to the table the same as she but without the downsides. Although, it's obviously subjective, I'm sure there are tons of Tohka fans who are totally fine with her and prefer her over the other girls from the same series. I probably wouldn't put her in the last place either.
Seems like Log Horizon is still being published, I wonder if its anime is going to receive continuation or not. I put it on-hold on the third season during all that semi-political talk that took place in the beginning. It's been 3 years since then.
I say Fairy Tail has a weaker story compared to Naruto, One Piece and Bleach and the same boring fillers, but the character design is better. Also, while typing this I just realized that the music of older battle shounen is much more memorable. There are tons of songs in all these four series I remember years after finishing watching them, but I don't remember a single track from something like Jujutsu Kaisen or Boku no Hero Academia.

HoYo could probably make millions per skin if they decided to sell them in Genshin/HSR on regular basis (even better if it came with a short story of some kind), but what they released for Genshin looks very bland. I know for sure I wouldn't pay for that. Maybe they're afraid of making anything less than "vanilla" due to censorship/outrage reasons. The good thing about skins (for them) is that you don't even need to create new abilities and animations.

At this point you might as well go for the next big milestone and amass 100000 pyro. When I decided to re-install Genshin I was actually a bit surprised Clorinde isn't playable yet considering how much of her fanart I have seen before.

Yeah, OG Class VII got the short end of the stick. Laura, for example, had a lot going on with her connection to the Steel Maiden and Le Guin, that whole situation with her father, friendly rivalry with Rean in regards to sword mastery and much more, but all this ended up leading to nowhere. And, well, at the very least if they didn't make Shizuna I wouldn't end up being unfaithful to Laura... Any characters in particular you want to see in the next game?
Yeah, I miss the times when games and anime were discussed in the context of being fun rather than whether they conform to some schizo political points or not.

Grats, I suppose (depends on how much you spent on her banner)? Hm-m, how would your Saberface ranking look like if you decided to make one?

Yep, you're the first one who mentioned this game to me. Did it end up being to your liking?
I'm currently trying to read Unionism Quartet in Japanese. It's been on my mind for a long time because I really like the art style and I liked this girl's design in particular .

Congrats on getting her, sucks you didn't get anything extra with that many quartz. Oh wow, I hadn't checked beforehand how ridiculous the drop-rate for that banner is. Well my good news is I'm also now a proud owner of Castoria, used all 24 tickets or so and then took 5 or 6 ten-pulls iirc. The bad news is that I've unfortunately been unable to get Shuten, used 303 quartz and all I have to show for it is Prince of Lan Ling. Think this might be the most quartz I've ever used on a servant without getting them. But well I suppose its something you have to be prepared for when you rely on luck instead of the pity system. At least I got the god tier support waifu, it was wholly possible that I could've gotten criminally unlucky and received neither of them. Think I'll be able to use the monthly summon tickets on it later as well before its gone but I'm not holding out much hope for it now.
How did your Yang rolls go btw? A lot better than my Shuten attempt I hope. And which of the 4-stars did you end up going with? I was between Gorgon, Zenobia and Hephaestion, but ended up going with Gorgon. Would've chose Hephaestion if I didn't already have a great Pretender.

Well we do sort of know how true Ishtar might look at least. PFALZ is the character/monster designer of Gugalanna and he first designed & used it in a 2012 doujin, which also showcased a design for true Ishtar. So since the artist has been a long-time contributor to Type-Moon and his Gugalanna design was later officially incorporated into Fate, people pretty much think of that as her legit original design. I certainly hope it ends up being used in FGO down the line because it's cool af:

I've certainly heard that it ends up getting quite messy narratively. From what I know, Jeanne and Sieg were written fairly badly with an unnecessary romance plot and it just generally seems like it had too many servants in too compact of a story for the author to handle them all well.

It was so odd that they put her back on another banner so soon, it did you so dirty with that lol
Yeah I have to agree with you on that, Daikokuten was interesting at least but I didn't get all that invested with this one. Think I recall hearing that Japanese players who had played this one in the past apologised to English players for getting this event while they had something a lot more interesting in the JP version at the same time lol

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if that was the reason why.
Funny you should mention it, I had actually seen it and was going to bring it up the last time I messaged you but it slipped my mind. Had some damn good animation and Arlecchino's design is so cool. She was likely already my fav Genshin girl design wise, but that animated short made me like her a good deal more on top of that. She would definitely be my main target if I was playing it.

It came out on Sunday if I'm not mistaken but I didn't get to play it till the day after on Monday. I'm really enjoying it so far, visually the game looks spectacular and the characters so far have been beautiful af, especially the protag Eve. The quality of the cosmetics has been a pleasant surprise as well, she has a bunch of really appealing and well-designed outfits that you can craft. Mechanically its pretty difficult, the timing on perfect parries and dodges is quite demanding and the enemies don't fuck around. Overall I'd say it definitely has Souls-like elements and difficulty to it but it also shares a lot of similarities with Automata and other PlatinumGames.
Ohhh yeah that's right, small world indeed. They did a damn good job for their first AAA game.

By main girl do you mean Tohka? I like her voice and appearance, but personality not so much. I don't remember this Kode guy even though I've watched Log Horizon, but what I find strange is that I never thought of Natsu when I've been hearing Lloyd. He was a protagonist of a 300+ episodes anime after all.

Is there even any commercial reason for HoYo to feature the characters they've already sold to the players in the new stuff? HSR has the same issue - the character has some screen time, then there's his or her banner, and then they're either completely forgotten or if you're lucky devs will throw you a bone from time to time. But yes, many characters in Kiseki don't have as much screen time as I'd like. I still remember feeling butthurt in CSIII when there was so little of the OG Class VII XD. To be honest I'm starting to think that Falcom needs to stop introducing new characters and focus on those which already exist.

That's exactly what annoys me about those crazies. Let's say it is depicted that Rean x Altina and Tita x Agate are in a happy relationship, they'd still screech at how disgusting it is because their brains can't comprehend anything past some political checkboxes in their mental notebook.
Yeah, exploring different "routes" is one of the fun parts of CS/Crossbell games, even if they don't provide much of content. For Shizuna it's easy - they could just add some new romantic scenes in the next game, she's already involved in Van's group life anyway. But again, I'd be fine even with some Rean development. They don't even properly know each other, but there is a solid foundation for that kind of thing given their backgrounds. It really only depends on what Falcom wants to do.

I wonder if the players will continue to play Pokemon GO despite the changes or stop playing it altogether. If it were me, I'd drop it instantly.

Apparently the president of the studio which makes Naruto and Bleach said that Japanese animation needs to reject western standards to stay relevant, so maybe there's some light and the end of the tunnel, although it could also be just lip service. Well, older Bleach fans used to discuss its story and some silly stuff like power scaling, but newcomers are more concerned with what race Yoruichi is or some other BS like that.

In Kuro 3D models look even better than 2D character art we see in the menu, so yeah... I have 1446 screenshots saved from my Kuro II playthough and at least a quarter of them is just me appreciating Shizuna lol.

So did you roll for Arlecchino after all?

It wouldn't be MAL if they made an useful update. They only make shitty one like forced horizontal favs instead of letting people choose so I have to have a script that restores the old favs...

ANd that makes much more sense

Yee it's usually that but in Pointdevice u can just keep trying over and over again until u somehow manage get through. U don't loose your progress so u can keep smashing your against the wall until u somehow get through. And yee Normal pointdevice was my first clear all those years ago.
Soo 15 - pointdevice (very long ago),7,8,10,6,4,13 smth like that.
Yee I know the patch tho I wanted to beat it as ZUN intended.
Played 17 for the first time recently. It feels sooo easy esp with otter types but at the same time theres just too much noise on screen compared to the older ones (even pc-98 ones), faires feels just a tiny bit too tanky to be fun to deal with. I do like the concept but it's just the worst one to play yet. Just soo annoying

Shogun Total War 2 is by far the most optimized total war in history (on the new Total War ending they still use). And the one with possibly the smartest ai. And legendary difficulty gives AI soo much money and other buffs that it's one of the hardest challenge of the series + it's ironman - ur unable to save.

I was thinking the same in regards to duo servants, the kind where its a main servant that's being accompanied by a mascot-type character tend to work a lot better than when its two full servants together. Artemis and Hokusai fall under that category also and they work pretty well too imo.
Yeah I understand the purpose of pseudo-servants and I'm not against it as a concept, there's quite a few that I like as well and I get that its an excuse to incorporate already established characters that wouldn't ordinarily be servants. I guess its just that I'm sometimes curious what certain servants really look like, so I find it a shame at times when we don't get to see.

Well I realised something that will probably leave you even more baffled in regards to how Jack was handled in that singularity, the person that wrote it is the same person that wrote Apocrypha lol So they really had no excuse with how poorly she was handled.
Ah yeah I do recall, that really sucks. But hey, you can't plan for things you aren't aware of.
Been getting up to date with the new event and I don't know if they always do this for the Riyo/Learning with Manga events but I like that they play the Learning with Manga FGO ending tune on the victory screen.

Ahh gotcha, yeah that's a pretty odd and unnecessary change, have there been any other name changes in Honkai or is Hanabi a weird one-off case? It's not like Hanabi is a difficult/unusual name or anything. Lol yeah Hanabi to Sparkle definitely gives off 4Kids vibes from back in the day.
Oh yeah I totally see the similarities now that you mention it, kinda surprised I didn't notice that myself.

Nah I didn't get chance to play the demo. I've actually only seen the first full-length trailer and then another short-trailer introducing another one of the characters but that's about it. Decided I already wanted to play the game from what I've seen so I've been keeping any further exposure to it to a minimum.
Ah cool. Yeah I hadn't heard of it likely in-part due to it being a PS3 exclusive. Can't fault ya for it lol cute design. Oh interesting it's by Nippon Ichi, is the gameplay similar to Disgaea? I haven't played Disgaea but I know someone who has, so I'm a lil familiar with the gameplay.
Speaking of PS3 exclusives, I'm prob gonna have to use an emulator in the future too to play the original Demon's Souls, since I've been told its pretty hard to find an affordable copy of it these days. It got a remake on PS5 but I really wanna play the original first before I touch it, since the remake was handled by a different studio and I've heard that they've made some questionable design changes. Demon's Souls is the predecessor to Dark Souls btw, basically the first game they made in that style.

I'm pretty sure I did everything I could do in BS2. Miranda and Hein both go out of their way to help you in the end. I also did know about the Victoria lore regarding her sister and I did end up getting all three allies. The last guy is Carnacki, fyi. I'm too pooped and depressed to continue BS for a while but thanks for the link. It looks like I need to register in order to download it.

Welp, I finally gotten every ending in BS2. I'm glad that I can move on to newer stuff but at the other hand, I now feel a certain emptiness from completing my binging on the series. Especially since I came from the true end (Heartbroken). I need to digest my thoughts before I pick favourites but Mabel is my current choice. A shame I couldn't enter a covenant with Griffy.

I'll take a little break before I go do the princesses covenants on BS1 like what you told me to do. After that I need to finish Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory. I took more than a long enough break from it.

I'm not a big fan of Date A Live anime because it always seemed too cluttered for my taste, i.e. too many different girls and neither gets enough screen time because of it. I guess if I could have a proper time with Kotori and Kurumi in Date A Live games, I'd love that more. The rest are either hit or miss to me. Also, like this guy, he is funny and reminds me of Kiseki Oliver (similar personalities and the same voice actor).

M-m-m, I think there is not a single gacha character I love as much as my Kiseki girls. The only ones who can compete are visual novel heroines, e.g. Meiya from Muv-Luv, Haru from G-senjou no Maou, almost all girls from Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa and some others. With Meiya it's strange because visually and personality-wise she reminds me of Laura a lot, but unlike the latter she had a proper character arc and a role in the story. Mihoyo yes, there's not much point for them to do collab with anyone unless it's something irrelevant to the video-game market to expand their reach, like a fast food restaurant chain.

Well you know what? If Falcom decided to make Altina Rean's canonical girlfriend and then bride, it could filter out all the crazy normies from the fanbase. A few days ago I accidently visited Falcom's subreddit and people there were raging over a cute Tita x Agate fanart because they absolutely hate everything about that couple because it's "problematic". Although who am I kidding? They'll continue playing these games while hating every little thing about them.
What I find interesting about my own position is that even though I absolutely want the ability to select who my protagonists end up with, I don't really have "favorite ships". I'd be fine with Lloyd being with either Rixia or Tio (Elie too, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as with the other two), Rean with Laura, Sara, Altina or maybe even Claire if Falcom remembers her, with Van it's a bit more difficult, almost anyone besides Elaine will do for me honestly, which is strange because I don't dislike her. I suppose I simply dislike the idea of her being forced on the player even more so than Alisa before her. With Shizuna, again, both Van and Rean could have interesting progression. I mostly don't want her to end up on the sidelines or with some irrelevant NPC. As you mentioned some time ago, these games are about us - the player - first and foremost.

One of the most ironic things about that Pokemon Go situation is that the devs commented this update with "Trainers, your avatar can now look even more like YOU!", which is basically implying their players are ugly abominations. Maybe it was even intentional? You never know with these people.

So how is your experience re-watching Bleach? When I've been watching the new arc I noticed that I'm not really enjoying myself as much, wonder if it has anything to do with the arc itself or maybe it was simply easier to satisfy me when I was younger.

Hoyo's animated shorts always end up being waaay better than their games themselves. Have you seen this one, by the way?

It's one of their older ones. Reminds me of Highschool of the Dead.

Never played any Pokemon game, but this made me recall the reason I should have all my favorite games stored locally. Even though this is an online game, nothing stops the devs from bastardizing already owned single player games on services like Steam.

Yes, merch makers generally don't care about the "status" of a character, instead they try to make stuff that will sell better (shocking). And it turns out people are more likely to buy goods of Rem rather than Emilia. A similar case I can remember right of the bat is Tokisaki Kurumi from Date A Live. Despite appearing not as often as some other girls of the same series, she has so many expensive figures of her it would ironically suck to be her figure-collecting fan unless you have tons of money and free space.

Brave Nine had a Kiseki collab at one point. Iirc there were Rean and Lloyd and you could use Juna/Rixia as skins for them. The idea itself is nice, but given what type of a game that was, you won't be using them much anyway. Now if I had an option to use Kiseki girls in a game like HSR/Genshin... That would change things.

I remember there was a time-limited Silverwolf event some time before I dropped the game, but I don't know where to check it out, maybe somewhere on the wiki.

I'll be hoping Falcom is going to let us play through romantic routes to their conclusion in a way most players are left satisfied in some of the later games. It would suck if they simply stated in the finale game "Lloyd ends up with Elie, Rean with Alisa, Van with Elaine, GGWP suckers".

I don't even know what needs to happen for the West to revert course on these crazy things to be honest.

Haaaaaaa I wrote the entire reply and lost it by mistake...
Anyway

Yee esp since the PS2 version wasn't mentioned in the guide I got from where I got the translation patch
Yep I meant exactly that. What even is the point of this swap. It's neither being mentioned anywhere else nor that it lead to something substantial. Takano was great even better than in Matsuribayashi it's the way that they beaten her was meh, mostly copying the OG one with only a few changes.

Still not on that level, maybe except for PCB but maybe someday. Yeah that's the problem with them nothing more to add.
Well the first game I played was LOLK and it back when it was the newest one (best one to start with XD) so I might not remember it that much. Even so with enough perserverance u can just brute force pointdevice one. Legacy mode is brutal tho made me think that 2hu is harded than it actually was back then.
Would say the peak was 7-8 as 6 is missing some important QOL improvements - no hitbox, no showing where the boss is on the margin.

Just beat Shogun Total War 2 on Legendary as Oda :D

Yikes that's super unlucky, it's the worst when the event's craft essence just refuses to drop.
That's fair, being a duo servant can certainly be off-putting due to that, its handled better on some than others. How do you feel about pseudo-servants btw? I'm quite hit and miss with the concept, some I like and others I would've preferred if they just had their own design, like Muramasa.
Well the apples still seem like better value than the miniscule about of QP we'll get from trading the Con in the shop, so I might just skip through them for that.

More or less, its certainly long overdue. I guess you could say I've just been waiting for the right time to delve into it.
Yeah not all singularities were made equal, my top 3 singularities are Babylonia, Camelot and Okeanos. Babylonia & Camelot are considered the best singularities and those were written by Nasu (he also wrote Fuyuki & Solomon), while France & Okeanos were handled by another writer, and both Rome & London were written by another. So that explains the pretty drastic variance in writing quality and its safe to say who the weakest writer was lol Rome is considered the worst singularity by far and I'm fairly sure London is generally considered the second worst singularity also.
I'm super interested in Prototype, there's so much untapped potential with that.

It's a shame Re:Zero collab'd with a game you don't really enjoy.
Great designs, I can see why they're on your radar. I think Sparkle is my favorite out of them, that main art of her is gorgeous.

Finally finished Dark Souls II btw. Was a fun af ride, feels awesome to have finally completed the Dark Souls series. Just waiting for Stellar Blade to release in two weeks or so now.