It’s been a fun episode, like always. However, I think we’ve had enough setup episodes at this point. The next one will probably introduce the new girl properly and after that I’m ready to get the plot rolling.

That being said, there is still a lot of interesting stuff in there. I’m most curious about the fusion bugs - I hope we get some wacky combinations. Also, is it a third kind of fusion with new designs or would e.g. Goku + Vegeta result in either Vegitto or Gogeta?

Unabhängig von den scheinbar kontroversen Figuren würde mich interessieren ob und wenn ja warum Kappen in der Altersklasse so beliebt sind. In meiner Blase, geschätzt ähnliches Alter, trägt niemand Hüte.

Honestly, the anime isn’t even good. Like, I’m still reading the manga, but I had to stop watching the anime something like 10 years ago.

I’ve heard it has gotten better since then, but watching the whole thing still includes years worth of episodes so thinly streched you could probably watch every third one without missing anything. And that’s on top of arcs so long, they are even a slog to read through (Dressrosa and Wano).

That should not stop you from trying. You, and everyone else in this thread for that matter, just drop excuses. Either you guys finally start removing some billionaires, I’m all for that, or you start doing the little things. Ideally, just do both.

Performance problems aside (menus take ages to load in), I like the game quite a bit. There is just so much stuff: 120 characters, two additional fighting systems for special events, a card game, a bayblade minigame, a castle/town upgrade system and probably much more - I’m not even halfway done. The combat is quite auto-attack heavy and therefore simple, but keep in mind I’m olaying with double MP cost for all abilities (one of the additional challanges to tweak your own difficulty, like the ones in Dragon Quest XI).

As for the EXP thing, there are a few things that happened to align for me. EXP works like this:

• Each level requires 1000 EXP.
• You get EXP based on level difference between you and your enemies. There is a maximum value of EXP a single enemy can give to usually prevent what happened to me - I think it’s about 1000 for most enemies.
• If you get say 3000 EXP, that’s 3 level ups. Remaining EXP does not get adjusted upon each level up. That’s great since you can recruit 120 characters and if you miss someone at first, it does not take long to catch up if you want to use them.
• You fight with 6 charaters. EXP is split between them, meaning you get more EXP per character if only e.g. 2 of them survive.

Now, what actually happened to me is: I fought a unique mini-boss encounter with 5 enemies. I was overall underleveled and got wiped twice. The third time however, I won with only my weakest character still standing - he was 8 level below my team average. He got about 1200 EXP for the level difference * 5 enemies * 6, since only he survived, resulting in about 35 level ups.

You might want to know that FF Tactics and FF Tactics Advance are different games entirely, unlike FF V and FF V Advance for example. They couldn’t even keep a consistent naming scheme for ports/new games within the FF franchise.

Now, depending on who you ask, only one of these two is good. I firmly believe FF Tactics Advance is the better game, most ofher people will sing the praise of FF Tactics.

Having played both, just between you and me: FF Tactics has so much jank, I couldn’t finish it despite FF Tactics Advance remaining in my Top 10 since release. It has an awesome story, but there are just so many battles you simply have to restart over and over because the NPC you should be protecting dies before you get a single turn in. And don’t even get me started on the two occasions you get prompted to save your game inbetween two missions - soft-locking your game if you cannot win the second one.

And, SRPG fans are firmly separated by perma-death. Some think the genre needs it and FF Tactics has it. Others, including me, dislike perma-death and FF Tactics Advance doesn’t have it (with few exceptions).

Eiyuden Chronicles

Despite playing on the highest difficulty with all extra challanges, it’s quite chill right now. Due to some quirks in how EXP works, one of my characters shot up 35 levels in a single fight. While he is lvl 55, everyone else - including my enemies - are around lvl 28.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, I’m a sucker for SRPGs. But Golden Sun is up there for sure.

I don’t think this ever happend to me. I started on the GBA and to this day every single RPG I played on there holds up - might be specific to the genre. I never played much else.

that way thinking is problematic because if we thought that way about every issue nothing would improve because small improvements would be relentlessly attacked because they don’t fix everything.

That actually is a big problem in politics. Half-measures are often attacked and stopped because improving something isn’t enough. It has to be perfect.

Even worse, there are tons of people applying this kind of logic to themselves as an easy out to not do something:

“Oh, there is no candidate perfect for you? Why vote at all.”

“Oh, you cannot become fully carbon-neutral? Just continue polluting at your hearts content.”

“Oh, you cannot retire at 30? Just don’t save at all.”

“Oh, you are past your physical prime? Why workout at all.”

Maybe some day I’ll find an example so stupid even these people understand the flaw in their ways.

Think of them as MCU movies. They all work independently, but they reference each other and share a universe. Each game is fun on its own, but I think they get better if you play them all in order.

There are a few exceptions:

• The Xenoblade 3 DLC is a 20-30h game on its own that only works with the context of all three games. It’s your Avengers movie to keep the metaphor.
• Xenoblade X has no connections to any other game as of yet. This might change with the new story content.
• Xenogears and Xenosaga are not connected to any Xenoblade games. You might miss about 10 minutes of references across hundreds of hours across the series.

I’m excited - X is a great game and the bonus content may finally give closure its story. I’ve waited years for this.

I’m also just happy to replay it. It’s the only WiiU game I have ever bought and I don’t even own the console - I just borrowed one from a friend.

Die Innere zum Beispiel.

I think it was a fun episode. The animation is still great and the world building is interesting. I wonder why demons were choosen to rule over the universe - does the demon realm have something like Kais choosen from the ‘normal’ realm?

Given that the goldfish doesn’t like to let people through, I also wonder how long we will be stuck with the current squad. A few more episodes would be fine to give Glorio and the new girl from the opening some time to establish themselves, but I’m still not invested in them - or Shin for that matter. Shin and Glorio are both too serious, but I guess Piccolo, Vegeta and Bulma aren’t helping with that.

It would be hilarious if Vegeta and the others find another way in and we cut to Kibito still trying different PINs for the remainder of the series. I don’t think I’ve seen him with the others during the opening, but I could be wrong.

I’m still interested in seeing some stuff about the old cast - I hope we get some B plot episodes with them. I’d also love a few episodes about Babidi coming in and capturing Dabura.

Nah’, half my biblical knowledge comes from the ‘Shin Megami Tensei’ games. It just holds true in fiction - an evil empire usually sells itself as benevolent after all.

Overthrow god. After all, history is written by the victors and god would be known as the bad guy had he lost.

Except for the rune bears, I don’t think I fought any of them enough to remember. I’m not even sure what the cray fish does to be honest.

Die ganze Welt geht im Namen des Kapitalismus den Bach runter und die Profiteure fragen sich, warum wir nicht alle freudestrahlend mehr Arbeitsdrohnen produzieren. Es ist und bleibt ein Rätsel.

10 years ago people told me the same thing about getting 30, yet it still hasn’t happened. Whether that day may come or not, I can just appreciate that I still get “Once you’re old…” kinda stuff after 30. Feels good, actually.

Sie ist sogar noch ein gutes Stück jünger als Trump oder Biden - dort drüben wäre sie noch voll wählbar!