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Bon-Bon: … What’s an angel?
CYBER CUPID CRUSADERS GO
they fight for love with a giant horse robot for the celestial star mare
Pilots: Frau, Lightking, Heartstrings, Pac, Rhythmpixel
Mascot: PWmoddy
Celestial Star Mare: Wavemaster
Happy Hearts and Hooves Day~
All displays green! Who’s ready to have an epic space opera with drama and feels disguised as robot-fighting action?!
Cyber Cupid Crusaders! Love to fight a~nd-!
FIGHT!
FOR!
LOVE!
Heartstrings: Well, looks like Pac and I have gotten into another argument.
Lightking: Shocking.
Heartstrings: And at first I thought Frau was on my side, but then I overheard her agreeing with Pac! I don’t know what to believe! But there’s no time to worry about that now!
PWmoddy: Wee-woo! Wee-woo!
Rhythmpixel: We’re under attack!
Heartstrings: Oh no! I hope I can still focus on the battle! All that and more, next time on…
Everybody: Cyber Cupid Crusaders GO!
Heartstrings: Two Steps Frauward, One Step Pac! You don’t wanna miss this one!
Hi, friend! The SMT main series does have connections, but fortunately those connections are explained in the third game, which is Nocturne! So Nocturne is actually the best game to start with, and it’s a self-contained narrative!
There are so many things I could say about Nocturne (I’ve already deleted two and a half full paragraphs), but I’ll try to be brief.
The game has two modes- normal and hard. Normal is hard. Hard is r̤͎͎u̠͇̬̝̲ṱ͖̮̪͍͎ͅh̝͉l̞͞e͏̫s̶̭͍s̸̺̗͎̝͖͚̖. Play on normal. Hard is for after you’ve already won once.
Save often, heal between fights, load if something stupid happens (like a demon just replaced Debilitate with Bufu).
Status effects will become useless eventually. They’re super good for like half of the game, even against some bosses (just not Fiends).
Once your Demi-Fiend removes a skill, you can’t get it back. Be careful what you replace. To that end (and this is kinda build specific), if you want your Demi-Fiend to be a mage, hold on to Tornado/Force Boost. If you lose those, your magic damage will be a lot less all the way until you can get Almighty spells.
Mana Drain is super strong. All enemies have Mp, and their skills cost Mp. If they run out, they can’t cast. Only two notable bosses can ignore this mechanic, and one of them is the final boss of the True Demon ending.
You’ll always get the best result from opening a Mythical Chest on a FULL phase. Highly recommend walking around to force the passage of time. Same goes for Ticket turn-ins.
Buffs and debuffs are super good, but some bosses can remove one or the other. Make sure your team has both!
If you want the True Demon Ending, you have to complete the Fifth Kalpa before you enter the end-of-the-game tower (you’ll know when you get there, the world map music changes). If you want any of the other endings, skip the Fifth Kalpa entirely (it’s… not fun).
If you want Dante, you have to reach the Forth Kalpa before you enter the tower. Once you enter the tower, no new Kalpas will open.
All of the regular battle tracks are like 10 minutes long. Multiple looping sections, but with variation. Take a moment and dig those crazy solos, yo!
CYBER CUPID CRUSADERS GO
they fight for love with a giant horse robot for the celestial star mare
Pilots: Frau, Lightking, Heartstrings, Pac, Rhythmpixel
Mascot: PWmoddy
Celestial Star Mare: Wavemaster
Happy Hearts and Hooves Day~
All displays green! Who’s ready to have an epic space opera with drama and feels disguised as robot-fighting action?!
Cyber Cupid Crusaders! Love to fight a~nd-!
FIGHT!
FOR!
LOVE!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Thanks! Hold on! I found a really good one last night! I gotta reblog it instead of submitting it because I don’t want to separate it from the artist that drew it.
Epic Cosplay of “Horizon Zero Dawn”
Practical effects are advancing in the cosplay world while Hollywood atrophies itself with an overabundance of CGI.
BOOOOOOOOOI!
While this is coming in ahead of my (evidently?) annual end-of-the-year video game post, I’ll spoil part of it here. It’s Nier: Automata.
Automata didn’t have the best gameplay or variety. The sound design had some truly high highs, but some lows that drug it down. I’ve certainly seen better stories with more surprising twists (but Deadly Premonition alone set a possibly insurmountable bar). The characters and their progression were good, but not great. The difficulty was fair overall, but there were some hurdles placed a little too high if you accidentally broke sequence. It had a new game-ish mechanic, but there was nothing for a max level character to do (maybe the DLC changed that). The post-game was welcome, but that 95% bestiary objective was needlessly frustrating. And while it had some exceptional spectacle, this last decade or so there has been a ton of games that live off of spectacle.
But (and while there will never be a perfect game), if someone were to try and make a perfect game, more so than any other I have ever played, Nier: Automata would be the model to follow. It may have done very little truly great, but it hit a solid B+ minimum in every applicable category.
Perhaps the most noteworthy accolade this game carries, is that as long as you have a passing skill-level in space shooters like Asteroids or Galaga, you can beat this game using easy mode and auto-mods. And I don’t mean just coasting through the main story; you can do everything. And while I have some reservations about allowing a player to get all the achievements I spent twenty extra hours on by just accepting them from a menu inside of two minutes (completely separate mechanic), there’s really no downside to making your game more accessible. And without compromising gameplay.
Now, all that said I haven’t played Horizon: Zero Dawn. It may be the superior game- I don’t know. But based on what I did play (and I played Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey), yes. Nier: Automata game of the year. Nothing else even came close.
@allgreymatters sent me a holiday package with a handwritten letter! I was very surprised because there’s a fair deal more here than there was last time (which was already a lot)! I got some radical Robot stickers and some dynamo Dinosaurs!
I also got a Vanilla Visa gift card! Thanks Grey! This all means a lot!
I also also got a digital copy of Night in the Woods from @mikedaws0n that I already have installed and hope to play soon! Thanks again!
