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miitopia part 21: wetland way + duke the warrior

i hate moles. let's go for the treasure

THIS ISN'T TREASURE

a swarm of new monsters! ...and we can already finish them off in one hit. next

gee, cat, how come your mom let you have TWO charge skills?

back at the inn, the doorbell rings again...

DANCE PARTY

alright... SIGH... time to fight some moles...

ugh

uggggghhhhhh

cool miis can occasionally dodge single-target attacks

look at that fucker on the right. he's fucking giggling at us. moles fucking giggle when you miss hitting them

oh, and fyi? these moles?

theyre kicking our asses

look at this bullshit

here comes an EVIL MOLE like the others werent evil enough

then we found this in a chest after mole hell. amazing how it hasn’t melted

now, i cant place why, but i feel oddly compelled to talk to the nintendo fan again...

IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE YOU’RE THE EEEEEXPERT, MARK

OH HI MARK

...no, actually. why did i come back here, again?

now let's talk to this pink-hatted guy again. did he always have red hair? guess i didnt notice last time

it's the same game as last time. i say yes because prizes and also this game is hilarious to me

glorious

"you have completed a great game!"

TREASUUUURE

all man murals are assholes

duke's regular attack is just hitting things with his sword. i feel obligated to show it

then we won some 2-star food from the roulette

it's basically a tanking move. not to be confused with-- well, we'll get to that

TREASURE

could it be...? is another party match coming up...?

miis level up pretty fast early on. maxing them out, though... welcome to hell

tricky accepts her impending demise

the default color is yellow, like a bee...

...but you can also make it colors like green and brown, which sort of defeats the purpose

more snurps!

we kill them again

ok let's head east now

cat gets equipped with pink oven mitts that have little bows on them

"ice cream"

more ragged shit

we COULD go talk to sonic, but let's check out this giant rock first

NOW let's talk to great sage sonic

nyoom

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pokemon reborn part 1: go in with a bang

Please be advised that this game contains some light screen-flashing sequences, and mature content that may be unsettling to some individuals. Please stay safe when playing!

hoo boy, "stay safe everyone" is always a great sign

there was some sort of warning at the start but it went by way too fast for me to read it

oh. whoops. that looks kinda nice though...

i'll live

the most important part of any pokemon game: choosing a hideous frame. this game even lets you choose two!

ok enough fucking around, let's do this shit

then youre asked to choose from six character portraits (and you choose your gender separately, which is kinda neat)

uh... this spriting is... uh... hm.

there's even a nonbinary gender option. Good Shit

i'm going with edgy cynthia for now (so i have something to do until my tablet pen charges)

the station guy talks to you about how much reborn city fucking sucks for some reason

hey, it's all the other player characters

apparently this character is named after the game's creator, amethyst. ...baro 2.0?

ah, yes... of course... the incident

?!

i think this train is haunted

AND THEN THE FUCKING TRAIN EXPLODES

GHOST HAT DUDE BLEW UP THE TRAIN I GUESS???

so i guess "choose your player character" here means "choose who lives and who dies in a fucking explosion". pokemon!

then another character shows up and baro immediately accuses her of terrorism

i think i hate her

PEOPLE DIED, JULIA

so baro 2.0 confirms it was a terrorist attack, then leaves because the perp might still be nearby then we have to talk to... SIGH...

yeah, i noticed

certain yes/no questions apparently have some actual bearing on the plot later on, and this is one of them so, uh... audience participation time...?

oh... great...

you can actually switch between emerald, r/s, fr/lg, and d/p/p fonts. ...i can barely read that blue text

btw, maybe it's just my computer, but this is laggy as fuck. "quick walk" my ass

the cops nearby are loudly discussing the attack. anyway...

watch your fucking language

watch your-- yeah there's gonna be a lot of this

oh...

oh, the music suddenly changed

COME ON DOWN TO REBORN TOWN EVERYONE

this is the douchiest roadblock ive ever seen

i thought this was a path because it looks the same as the ground, but it's a wall

but i-- wh--

where the fuck am i supposed to go then???

i walked all the way back and forth before realizing im supposed to go up here

i thought THIS was a wall...

not yet, but im working on it

the girl introduces herself as victoria and says she's a friend of ame's. she takes you inside, and suddenly the game isnt lagging anymore

so it was the rain effects my computer doesnt like, i guess

edgy cynthia took so long to trudge over here that theyve already caught the terrorist

and here we are at last

there are TWENTY-ONE starters to choose from in this game

theyre arranged on color-coded tables according to type, and from left to right in "the order they were discovered" (meaning g1 -> g7)

victoria's a little disappointed because she wanted a litten too (good taste!), but fortunately ame has extras

she heads upstairs, and...

oh sweet jesus it's j.akira 2.0 to match baro 2.0

then he challenges you to a battle

"pretty"

he sends out a nidoran. let's set it on fire

:|

at least he has the courtesy of showing us where the pokemon center is

oh right, we were supposed to be waiting for her

:|

NO

then ame tells Pretty Boy Cain to go with her to get registered, and--

STOP

so now we're battling victoria, who uses the same battle theme. two rivals!

she really did choose a litten too, but ours has intimidate >:3c

it takes longer since we couldnt use ember spam, but we win again

cain comes back, leaves, and we get a pokedex, pokegear, and running shoes

oh right, of course, the bombing

victoria gives us some pokeballs. i like victoria

she gives us some advice too, then takes off

so now that we can use the running shoes, i can say... the controls are kind of ass

you have to hold space to run, but if youre facing a person, hitting space talks to them instead

so you have to either MAKE SURE youre not facing anything interactable, THEN press space, or press the arrows first. it's kind of a nitpick but it's annoying

also: the running animation just looks like she's walking fast while leaning forward. ...i'll have to fix that

oh wait, you can press S to autorun (auto fast walk). i guess that works.

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moemon firered (ver.1.95) part 11: the H stands for Heartbreak

ok i think last time we got the third badge and we were just about to pick up the old amber

but i just did

"youre my only hope, trespassing 11-year-old child"

we can use this later in the game to get an aerodactyl, or perhaps something shitty like a nidoran instead

annnd on to the next route!

is he hitting on me or mister h

GOOD SHIT

the ol razzle dazzle

SHE'S!!! SO!!!! TINY!!!!!!

we've already almost filled up two boxes, holy fuck

:/

tfw we dont have any ice or dragon moves... we're REALLY gonna have to work on this team

also i think i maxed tong's friendship

[this never happened]

alright who's ready to name MORE MOEMON

...I was kinda hoping for something not terrible but it's a start

im not sure if those are leaves or a spiky green ponytail but either way this is a good oddish

whoa

WHO'S THAT MOEMON

not... really sure what's going on with its neck/chin, but still cute

thank fuck kanto has a move deleter this time

YOOOOO

OH SHIT

:'-)

IM YELLING LOOK AT THIS MOE WOOP

magikarp's pokedex entries are hidoi as hell

plan B: throwing caution (and grammar) to the wind

so im looking at this team, and right now we have no counters to electric or dragon types once we're out of this cave I'm gonna have to.... do more team organization

"my furaffinity has 1000 hits"

Oh No

.........is that what sousou's gonna evolve into........?

im... im gonna miss you, buddy

moemon is hard because not only do you have to consider defenses and counters, but also which sprites arent horrible

wow, onetesticl sure looks different from what i remember

ok that's just RIDICULOUSLY adorable (too bad it's a trainer's moemon)

i feel like i oughta tell this trainer the bad news...

and we're out!

uh-oh, it's the Laugh Mushroom guy

It's Time

Every memory of looking out the back door I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor It's hard to say it time to say it Goodbye, g

its head doesn't look attached. it still has three fingers. WHY DOES IT STILL HAVE THREE FINGERS

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miitopia part 20: genie of the lamp chris-R + neksdor town

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got some shitty ragged gear for tricky

TREASUUUUURE and... denny?! eh, he can wait

airheaded miis, like energetic miis, will just chug weird bottles off the ground without question

sometimes these bottles are filled with poison that bring you down to 1 HP

...but tricky got lucky this time

(per tricky's request)

oh jesus this had better not be a macho imp costume or somethi--

oh my god

it's ADORABLE

gciio gets a new look too

friendzoned again...

seems legit

(i couldnt cap it very well, but before prince denny can answer, the lamp jumps into his hands)

[rub rub rub]

[rubrubrubrubrub] haha wow that looks like "bru bru bru"

then youre sent back to the map. but if you go back to this area...

500g for an mp candy?! that's outrageous!

ok ok fine, dont cry, geez

n-...nice...?

i dunno... i mean, without my trusty battle fedora...

oh FUCK no, i aint afraid of no ghost! ...or... genie...

so i googled it and found out what scanning amiibos does in this game--it gives you various new costumes to wear! i have a k.k.slider amiibo card somewhere, and i thought i knew where it was... but it vanished into the ether again

maybe next time............

<- part 19 | ^ index ^ | part 21 ->

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miitopia part 19: cat the cat + quizmaster metaknight

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when "oops" activates, the airheaded mii forgets which enemy they were going to attack, which leads to them unexpectedly attacking the wrong one, but doing more damage

and here's tricky's status screen

"frolic" causes an enemy to spend their turn... playing.

leaving them open for MURDER (incidentally, thieves, like pop stars, have AOE attacks)

DANCE PARTY

ok who's this douchebag

the quizmaster comes by every now and again to play little minigames with you

as you can see, they're incredibly difficult 

phew... that was a tough one...

they don't take too long, so it's worth indulging the guy just for the prizes

now someone please change the mii, im begging you

who could that be over there? they look strangely familiar...

cats walk on all fours during these screens. theyre literal cats

oh god, cats digging is never a good si--

oh

(i dont know why miis say "boo" when they get butt jabbed. probably a mistranslation)

miis with AOE attacks are the best to use butt jab on when youre up against multiple foes.

...so ive been kind of forking tricky's ass during nearly every battle.

sharpen claws is another charge move that increases the power of the user's next damaging attack

character limit is suffering

and because i still havent shown off (the) cat's regular attack:

friends 5ever...

NICE cat broke that tablet thing right the fuck in half

and it's funny that tricky called it "toast" earlier...

...because that's exactly what its drop item is

and then we found this in a chest

by the way, spamming butt jab on tricky means she's attacking twice as often, which leads to...

Now I'm shittin' in a box 'Cuz I don't give a fuck And the guy throws it out for me

congratulations, you look like an old-timey cartoon character

<- part 18 | ^ index ^ | part 20 ->

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miitopia part 18: neksdor desert + tricky the thief

<- part 17 | ^ index ^ | part 19 ->

"aww! now you're a little green satan!" -mump

so here's gciio... all alone

right back at level 1...

eating alone...

...and setting out alone.

...well, better than nothing

a new area means new monsters... and new random encounter music!

[BGM: Battle: Neksdor]

being level 1, gcio (once again) has no skills to use yet

"...right, guys? guys...?"

hey, wait, look at that screenshot of gciio attacking the scorpion... 8 damage? damn, that's a LOT compared to what gciio was doing way back when they fought mini hana slime

[/flashback]

that's thanks to all the buffs gciio still has from eating THE FLESH OF THEIR ENEMIES-- uh i mean food

WHY DO I KEEP GETTING STABBED TODAY

doesnt cactus juice make you hallucinate

the doorbell rings...

obligatory dance party

--oh. it's a giant fork

hoo boy, ragged clothes...

these are rare clothes that are only available from the roulette. they only occasionally show up as prizes, so if you see one, you should go for it, no matter how many tickets it takes.

now, with such a rare piece of equipment, you think it'd give you a hella stat boost, right? like, it's gotta be worth the effort, right?

guess what? ragged clothing? it's SHIT.  it gives even LESS of a defense boost than the starting equipment. it only exists to make life miserable for anyone trying to get 100% completion

also this happened while i was trying to get the ragged costume

well, im sure that won't be at all relevant ever again. back to adventuring!

hey, kids, wanna get your ass kicked?!

head on down the Risky Shortcut!

remember the griffin? the boss we fought before, with a party of four level 10 miis? here are two of them! have fun!

do NOT go down the risky shortcut before youre ready

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miitopia part 17: general madoka

<- part 16 | ^ index ^ | part 18 ->

this is another event with at least four possible endings

a delayed party heal. it's Okay

THANK GOD... THE CURSE IS BROKEN... I CAN FINALLY GO BACK

and that was the "budget" jolly jaunt. now i can finally stop showing these...

[BGM: Boss Battle III]

the love song animation shows four hearts even though there are only three other party members... what could it mean

general madoka cant inflict any ailments, but he makes up for it with powerful physical attacks. fortunately gciio's brace for impact skill kicked in here. not fortunately, he can attack twice per turn...

did i mention he's strong

just keep your hp topped off however you can and you should be fine

sounds like something tommii would like... i’ll have to give this to him later

well, im glad that's settled OH SHIT

looks like we know where we're going next

seems like the border's finally opened back up!

...but first, a quick pit stop back here because i forgot to talk to these two again

yes, it's actually called that

just one more stage and we'll be on our way to the second act of the game!

of course, it's still quite a long journey, and before we know it...

eventually, we finally reach the end...

--or, well, the inn--

--and rest up for the long journey ahead. next stop: the kingdom of neksdor!

so, once again, we're given the task of assigning gciio a class... only now we're locked out of choosing pop star. but to make up for it, we now have access to three new classes:

aside from the classes we've already used in our party, that leaves us with...

<- part 16 | ^ index ^ | part 18 ->

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miitopia part 16: nightmare tower

<- part 15 | ^ index ^ | part 17 ->

well, this is strange. maybe that gentleman over there knows what happened

OH FUCK

there are two of these lurking around, but...

...nio and tommii wiped them out before they could do anything

but what about the princess?!

okay FINE

whoa, what does that do?

guess we'll never know, because we kill it before we find out. damn, team clusterfuck's really gotten its shit together

WHY DIDNT YOU SAY SO EARLIER

fuck. i just hope we're not too late

WE'RE TOO LATE

obviously the way forward is up... which means we have to go the dead end first, because dead ends mean TREASURE

imps show up in here, too. they can also "dip your heart in darkness", but...

...well, you get the picture

just like the hp and mp sprinkles, the safe spot also upgrades as you rescue more people

and, because i havent shown these in a while...

everyone's status screens!

YES

YESSSSSSS

and here's another new monster! the mage goblin can--

oh for fuck's sake

yes, there are inns inside a castle. many, many inns.

cheer on is a useful skill that recovers most of the party's mp--that is, every party member except the user

oh. oh no

there's no escape............

god has left us

ok NOW we can head up

enlarge weapon is another beefed-up regular attack. it activates automatically, so you cant choose who to use it on. like, say, an actual physical attacker instead of a healer...

slorp

no, no, oh god, please--

THANK FUCK

ok nevermind here it is [tommy voice] look at all those muscles

well, tricky said she wanted us to match, so...

th-the gang's all here...

ok here we go. mage goblins! you know theyre smarter than regular goblins because they wear glasses

they use magic attacks instead of physical attacks. that's really all there is to say on the matter

REALLY? REALLY???

god this is just so unspeakably fucking horrible

this event actually has FOUR different outcomes depending on your choice--two good and two bad

god damn, took long enough for this ailment to finally land

the "getting mean" ailment can be pretty dangerous. not only does it stop your mii from acting, but it can cause them to prevent other miis from acting too

you cant see it because gciio's eyes are tiny and beady, but miis affected by this ailment will get black and red eyes like the imp does when inflicting it

up until now, we've been learning friendship skills every level, but starting with level 11, that stops. there are still quite a few other friendship skills to learn, of course, but you'll have to work harder for them

even when you cant select your own mii's next action, the game still gives you a chance to put them in the safe spot. how considerate!

nio is surprisingly unconcerned

"what does gracie have on her head...? a garbage can...?" -mump

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miitopia part 15: search for the calming fruit

<- part 14 | ^ index ^ | part 16 ->

okay, that opened up a new-- hm?

well, they certainly LOOK tasty

tasty snurps are another rare variety of snurp that, instead of gold, drop rare food. i’ll show off what makes snurp radishes special in a bit

i dunno, those slurps went down pretty easily-- oh wait

this event is a bit like the forks in the road w/ maps, in that it opens up a different area depending on your choice

unfortunately, this secret path doesnt lead to the calming fruit

are we all gonna match again...?!

cronch cronch cronch mmm delicious boss

one look should tell you what makes snurp radishes special: they boost EVERY stat! just hope your mii actually likes them...

great, THESE things

OH FUCK HERE WE GO

:|

mars mii traps are, well, exactly what it says on the tin

long story short: they vore your miis. this, obviously, incapacitates them for a few turns. and, obviously again, you can't safe spot your way out of this one. you have to either wait until the mars mii trap spits your mii back out, or just kill it

BEGONE THOT yeah, here's righteous anger in action. that's right, it's our first instakill attack. tommii can instakill things now

it doesnt always work (as you saw), but it can be quite handy. unfortunately, it doesnt work on bosses at all

oh. uh. guess we're not gonna all match then...

YESSSSSSS

remember, kids: always hoard your game tickets

damn, that silk robe sure didnt last long

NIO WHAT THE FUCK

that's what you get for running around in my ceiling, bitch

sorry, nio, it's too late for another party-wide outfit match

ok, let's try this again

to advance the story, you have to ignore the hidden path, tempting as it may be

NOW we can go find the magic sedatives

"lend a hand" can activate when a mii uses a skill, too. look, nio's singing along!

...and getting hurt by her own voice

yes, she really did just chug something right off the ground

miis get different lines for when a monster's swallowed them depending on their personality

oh fuck

OH FUCK

they also have different lines for when theyre freed. (damn, nobody fucks with nio's secret long-lost gcio)

NEXT TIME: we deliver the calming fruit! i sure hope nothing went horribly wrong while we were away!

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miitopia part 14: griffin feat. prince denny

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they swallowed it whole, apparently

tommii continues to dance

there are also a few kinds of snurps that show up as regular enemies. they suck and dont drop anything. more importantly...

TREASUUUURE

...wait, what the...?

oh. oh no. oh no no no nO

NOOOOOOOOOO

WHAT IN GOD'S UNHOLY EARTH IS THIS

for what purpose

oh? what's up here?

a place we wont be able to explore for a LONG time. thanks, miitopia

shoulda brought your crocs, gciio

goodbye, penguin tommii...

just a little bit further

NAMA KURIIMU NAMA CHOKO NAMA TAMAGO

hooooo boy

we're FINALLY here

man, what kind of drugs DID he take

wait, what's prince denny doing here? yup, he's joining the battle as our first guest party member

the griffin's pretty tough and can act (iirc) THREE times per turn, so we could definitely use some extra help to take him down

denny can... uh...

the griffin can inflict the crying ailment, so be sure to put any affected party members in the safe spot asap

fortunately, denny can... um...

yeah, he doesnt actually do jack shit. every time his turn rolls around he just says shit like this. our first guest party member is completely useless

i didnt put tommii into the safe spot right away because i figured a healer wouldnt really be bothered by an accuracy penalty, but it turns out his healing power took a hit too

FEAST

well, we got denny to the castle, just as we were asked. but i wonder what's beyond that area we found him at? we seem to have cleared the arid frontier, so let's check it out

ffs, denny, what is it now--

oh, it's just serious soldier caillou

looks like we've got no choice but to go back to the castle ourselves

wow, good thing we came back here

i wonder what princess madoka really thinks of this prince denny guy? maybe we should go check on her

another fetch quest? sure, i guess

oh FUCK yes im gonna fetch the SHIT outta that calming fruit

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miitopia part 13: arid frontier + appearance customization

<- part 12 | ^ index ^ | part 14 ->

trash mob.

splat.

screencaps cannot properly capture how fucking weird that animation is. it's like this bizarre... gyration...

awwww yeahhhhhh

here's what i meant when i said miis "usually" buy what you gave them money for: sometimes theyll just come back with hp bananas or mp candy instead

fortunately, they give you back the leftover gold

when i got this item i thought, "this might actually be worse than the one we started with" but guess what? this is nothing compared to what gciio wears later on. it gets worse. MUCH worse.

once a day in the full version, youre asked to fill out a short questionnaire to help pick out miis that get put into people's games through spotpass

(unfortunately i couldnt answer this one honestly, not wanting to curse future gamers with sassy child trump) once youre done (it's only two questions) you get three game tickets. i forgot to cap this because im a dumbass

oh. right. ugh

love & peace costs 12mp, which is a LOT early on, but it's worth it for such an OP move. it even has a 100% success rate (but can still be refused by a stubborn mii)

gciommy is officially sunk

and this is why i hate moles. expect to see this a lot if you dont have many attack skills

(unfortunately(?), the "new look" isnt permanent. of course, nothing's stopping you from editing the mii...)

another snurp over here

correction: TWO snurps

a nice little touch this game has: miis' eyes can actually point in different directions ...though it can be a bit unsettling if youre not used to it

anyway, we take out both gold slorps without much trouble

we've still got quite a ways to go...

usually, at this point, you're asked if you want to give up or continue digging. however...

...stubborn miis dont give a fuck what you want. theyll keep digging (and losing hp) until they find something

(nice!)

youd think lightning wouldnt have that much effect on lightning clouds, but the game doesnt actually take stuff like elemental typing into account, just magic stats

blue lightning is good, yellow lightning is evil

dude, i just did

TREASURE! i bet it's something AWESOME

explosion is an AOE move, meaning it hits every enemy on the field. lightning can only hit up to three enemies at once, so this is a very nice upgrade

here's something really neat you can do that i didnt find out about until after starting this lp (over a year after first beating the game...)

first, tap the "stuff" icon

choose a mii

then tap "edit appearance". all this time i'd assumed this was for editing the mii itself, but i was SO WRONG

this way, you can keep the stat boosts from the strongest clothes/weapons you have equipped, but also keep the appearance of earlier items

you can even mix and match!! MIND = BLOWN.

maybe this was obvious to other players, but i honestly went through the whole game without realizing you could do this. that said, i won't be using this option during the lp--that is, unless someone specifically requests a mii return to an earlier outfit/weapon

for example, if you wanted tommii to wear the frilly vestments again. or, god forbid, you wanted gciio to TAKE OFF THEIR SHITTY FEDORA? or maybe you miss nio's old donut frying pan! the possibilities are endless. ENDLESS.

of course, equipping new clothes/weapons overwrites any custom appearances youve set (which can be kind of a pain), so gciio would just be putting on a different shitty fedora later. 

but it's still something to keep in mind. say a mii ends up wearing something particularly heinous. will you let them put on something less visually offensive? or will you let them walk around looking like a dumbass until their next upgrade?

THEIR FATE... IS IN YOUR HANDS

THEIR FATE, AS WELL AS THEIR DIGNITY

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miitopia part 12: hyrule golem + snurps

<- part 11 | ^ index ^ | part 13 ->

soon the whole party will match... (oh god. oh fuck. oh sweet jesus. those are jorts)

there's another effect that being in a bad mood can have on a mii...

...they might lash out and do MORE damage. jesus fuck

oh god here we go

man what's with all the food weapons all of a sudden

here's lend a hand in action:

basically you and your pal gang up on an enemy

interrupt essentially just acts as an extra turn tbh

NOW everyone matches

time to finally save the king

[BGM: Boss Battle II]

(listen to this, it's rad)

everyone's friendship level toward gciio has been temporarily boosted to 6

iirc the upgraded version of this move feeds spicy food to the entire rest of the party but, with both versions, there's also a chance that the mii who ate the food will get angry at the chef

I GAVE TOMMII AN EXTRA TURN SO HE'D HEAL ME BUT THEN GCIIO REFUSED IT???

AND THEN HE GOT MAD AT ME (no, i don’t know why “straw” is all scrunched up here)

rare steak... delicious

yes, you can win medals just for hearing background music

annnd there it goes

NICE

then we're finally allowed into this room

[BGM: The Princess’s Theme]

exposition

then we head back to greenhorne and... hm?

[BGM: Battle: Now’s Our Chance!]

snurps are--

gdi i forgot tommii was mad at me

--snurps are rare monsters that give various rewards upon defeating them. for example...

...defeating a gold snurp gets you a lot of gold

(yeah, i really have no idea who or what this guy is)

saitou is strangely absent... and so is a certain other townsperson

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miitopia part 11: greenhorne castle + wayward woods + quarrels

<- part 10 | ^ index ^ | part 12 ->

as soon as you enter the castle youre asked to assign four roles... though i'll keep my choices a surprise for now

ok thank you tricky

...how did he get all the way back here so fast?

and now... it's time to meet the man himself

...or we could talk to everyone first

there's a room off to the side, but...

random hp banana commercial...?

moles are assholes

just take them out quickly

moles do, however, drop the BEST item

oh, and here's the cheesecake description that i forgot to cap before

alternate version of the potion bottle event:

i actually forgot about the war cries you fuckers my darling friends came up with so this startled me

and now, the single most shocking part of the lp yet:

gciio puts a shirt on

b-but gciio... you LOVE strata...

new weapon for tommii

MULTIPLE FORKS per area? NOW we're getting to the real advanced shit

current friendship chart

gonna be honest: areas w/ multiple forks like this can be kind of a pain in the ass to complete

"concern" boosts the friendship meter a little bit

and here's another version of this event:

there arent any actual mimic monsters in this game, but sometimes opening a treasure chest can get you ambushed and start a battle

tfw you need to go through here four times to finish the map (tfw there are maps later on that make you go through SIX times)

then i did something really stupid

...i went non-linear

you know how when you play a video game and want to go everywhere but your actual destination? "oh, the boss is that way, better check out every single other room first"?

yeah. that's great for when youre actually playing normally. but when youre doing an lp that youll have to archive...

...you just end up making things harder for future-you. oh well. let's hope i dont fuck up like this again

i would fix this, but i still havent shown off quarrels yet. so i'll have to let nature take its course this time...

TREASURE TREASURE TREASURE

praising a party member puts them in a good mood, which gives a considerable boost to their stats for a few turns

and, on the other hand...

ngl nio looks pretty cute with that expression-- oh, right. uh. when a mii is in a bad mood like this, their attacks have a chance of doing way less damage

oh god not this too

dont worry... tommii's got this

jk lol

resurrection, unfortunately, isnt guaranteed to work.

the good news is that unconscious miis still get exp at the end of the battle. and they even get revived, too, with 1 hp

love song boosts your party members' friendship levels with you to match the highest friendship level in the party

for example, if two party members have a level 10 friendship, but every other friendship is lower... using love song would give you a level 10 friendship with everyone. temporarily, of course. it's a nice little buff, cuz it can give miis assists that they normally wouldnt have access to

(the messages that pop up when you use it and when it wears off are really great too)

so when you get back to the inn with at least one quarreling party member...

so, like it says, one of the ways you can end quarrels is to put the two miis in a room together for a few in-game nights. eventually it'll pass, but sometimes one of the miis will decide to apologize instead. of course, nothing is ever easy, so that's not how it happens this time. figures.

are you sure gciio isnt just hungry

nope, it's an actual weapon! gciio's gonna throw that at enemies for a while

now for some actual food:

this is where i remember im capping an lp and get back to what im supposed to be doing (saving the king? yknow, that guy? remember?)

daaamn, fm's a sarcastic little fucker

YOU

turns out tommii can heal bad moods caused by quarrels

...he cannot heal actual quarrels, however. (gciio can. but i wanted to show off the sort of shit that happens when miis get mad at each other)

when a mii is sulking, their attacks do less damage

i kept capping the not-venomfly's attack expecting it to cause an ailment, but nope

please... just let it fucking end...

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miitopia part 10: castle view + roaming gourmet flowey

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remember, kids: eating tons of candy is good for you

oh FUCK yes

ah...

jolly jaunts let you pick a mii to set off on a vacation with whoever their current roommate is to boost their friendship meter by a varying amount. there are “budget”, “fancy”, and “luxury” tickets, which boost friendship by small, medium, and large amounts, respectively.

"wait, weren't we supposed to be saving the king from imminent danger?" "look, don' worry boudit"

i have no idea how it took me so long just to get gciio's and tommii's friendship to level 2

and then, despite half the roulette wheel being gold, i end up winning the blue prize twice in a row with the rest of my tickets. that's fine, though, because 2-star foods are REALLY good, especially at this point in the game

(the rarer a food is, the more it boosts your stats. did i mention that already?)

okay, enough fucking around. time to reunite undyne with her face

and with that, greenhorne has finally been restored!

(see, i TOLD you it was just the lighting)

we may have saved greenhorne, but the incompetent adventures of team clusterfuck arent over yet

now that we have the mayor's introduction, this guy will let us into the castle

...and so is this let's play

then it gives you the option of going to miitopia's eshop page or continuing the demo. but there's nothing left in the demo, so...

welcome to let's play miitopia: "now the title screen doesnt have 'demo' on it" edition

huh, why am i getting this strange sense of deja vu?

and then, at last, our path forward is opened up

game tickets are nice. i like those

trash mobs are less nice

we can ohko them all at this point

hi doggy...

new friendship skill

new food

AND a new medal!

levers are nice too

(suddenly, we hear a strange rumbling sound!)

th-those arent tears....

DEFINITELY NOT TEARS

oh,

HELL yes

UPGRADES EVERYWHERE

oh... but i...

b-but i... i just... okay...

youve collected 1 different type of fedora, the preferred clothing of the douchebag

fun fact: you get the final perk/upgrade at 2500 people, but the "rescued" counter caps at 9999

WHY? WHY? (GCIIO) WHY? WHY? (GCIIO)

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE WEAR LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE

that looks really scratchy and uncomfortable

i have a bad feeling about this

tommy wiseau can now raise the dead

hoooo boy

the roving roaming gourmet will give you very rare food whenever you find him

...you'll be happy to know that ive already received a suggestion for which mii to give this role to, so that's something to look forward to

are they... doing sit-ups?

theyre doing sit-ups

just put a fucking shirt on, i am begging you

how about sommme... cheesecake? it's real goood... (i forgot to cap the description because im a dumbass)

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miitopia part 9: riverdeep cavern + imp undyne

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look at that sweet, sweet damage

ok fuck theyre still really strong

we dont exactly have a choice but to go all the way through here this time, though... we'll just have to tough it out

hey, earworm worked on them this time! that's a good sign ...i wonder what stats earworm uses

out of tune is an AOE that hits both the enemies and your party. the damage done to the latter is totally negligible, though

TREASURE TREASURE TREASURE

the damage done to the party by out of tune never goes above single digits, even with the upgraded version

oh, and here's a downside of using stubborn miis...

yes, sometimes they'll refuse healing. this actually happened twice in a row

oh, but you accept NIO's healing? i see how it is :/

....man, i dont even know

g-go get 'em, tiger...?

...oh. that's...

oh.......

oh...............

TOMMY YOU JUST UPGRADED

look at poor nio. she hasnt had ANY clothing upgrades

i'll get nio what nio wants. tommii's just gonna have to look like a touhou for a while longer

here's what happens if you try and take your own mii out of the party, or change the party leader

gcio FINALLY accepts tommii's healing

oh boy here we go

a war cry is a phrase a mii will sometimes say during battle, usually after defeating an enemy. for example, my yukari mii's war cry is "nya~o"

ive already asked irl nio what she wants her war cry to be, but she couldnt think of anything. so...

[the war cries the channel ended up choosing are... interesting]

surprise, i actually took even more caps after that ...which means nio was proudly declaring "AudienceParticipationTime!" for a while

like so

gciio sure did just take out five monsters at once by singing the fresh precure theme

according to miitopia, making friends means becoming very easily distracted during battles

i'll... get into what this does when the time comes

another "keep playing?" screen, this time with 100% less dancing

(maybe they can hear tommii dancing upstairs)

more upgrades ...still no new clothes for gcio

alright, time to FINALLY attempt to befriend tommii

and time to FINALLY get out of this fucking cave

oh fuck he's after the king now??

time to genocide route these fuckers

obviously the apple jellies dont pose any threat

man, even with the balanced team i used in my first playthrough, this was still a pretty tough boss. but with THIS clusterfuck of a team?

oh fuck it went right through her frying pan's donut hole

i spend most of the battle spamming encore again, to help tommii keep up with all the damage imp undyne is dishing out

gciio this is NOT the--

oh. oh no.

TOMMII THIS IS NOT THE TIME

no. fuck this. i wanted to get into quarrels eventually, but right now is too risky. tl;dr miis can get angry at each other. this can lead to things happening that are normally just inconveniences, but could potentially lead to a game over against a boss this strong + with THIS clusterfuck team

love and peace eats up almost all of my mp...

...but it gets the job done.

AND THEN GCIIO REFUSES HEALING AGAIN ANYWAY???

you know what? im officially calling this team "Team Clusterfuck". in fact, i'll even change the channel topic

oh, and now fm's dead

imp undyne doesnt have much longer and neither do we

but, once again, team clusterfuck manages to make it through by the skin of their teeth

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miitopia part 8: strange grove + inkling mouse

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you love workouts, right?

go ahead and eat up. you deserve it after all that hard work you did--

oh

tommii this is no time for blue steel

looks like it's time for another reunion

as usual, we're rewarded with 200--

................we shouldve left him faceless

turns out if you change a role's mii midway, the game helpfully shows you an updated intro screen --oh wait i forgot i was supposed to change his hair to ugly pale blond. oopsie woopsie. let's just say it's the lighting

(exposition exposition)

:(

let's finally talk to that other mii who's been just out of our reach all this time

wait, is that...?

i head back to riverdeep cavern to see if we can handle it this time

welcome to hell

lightning is a magic skill w/ splash damage. it's a nice upgrade over fire

flambe is basically just a beefed-up regular attack. it got the job done here, at least

attacks from banshees still take out most of our miis' hp

we win a lot easier than last time

...but i get the hell out of dodge anyway. we're still not strong enough to get through more than one of those battles in a row

sometimes when you send a mii to buy snacks, theyll come back with more than one. fortunately you dont have to pay extra. they mustve given nio two free candies because she's so cute

okay, so riverdeep cavern is out. next stop...

there are at least three ways this event can end if you choose “investigate”. hopefully i'll get to show the other two at some point

and it's even one we havent seen yet!

if monsters jump out during this event, the mii who looked in the bushes will begin the battle with the fear ailment, which leaves them unable to act until theyre healed. fortunately...

...tommii knows an ailment-recovery skill now

UNfortunately, we killed the smileshroom before i could show off what it does. maybe next time

team... tommii...

there was, indeed, gold lying around

okay, perfect, TWO smileshrooms. now i can show the ailment they use

.....orrrr we can eat them. that works too

FINALLY

the laughing ailment, like the fear ailment, prevents the mii from acting on their turn. coincidentally, this is also what happens to everyone who reads my lps

fun fact: "candy" is tommy's slightly creepy term for "money"

i guess you could say... she got the last laugh B-)

...and say hello to our first achievement! (yes, this game has those. a lot of those.)

oh, and since this a nintendo game...

...these pop up now and then to gently discourage you from playing for 6 hours at a time. of course, people play it for 6 hours at a time anyway

but what's happening on the top screen?

tommy wiseau is dancing.

and dancing.

and dancing, for all eternity, or at least until you tap "continue"

miitopia is a fantastic game

gorgeous

new food items:

^w^

now, as for what happens when a mii REALLY loves a certain food...

...they launch into the air

idk how i keep forgetting to cap these, but here's tommii's status screen

here's a new area we just unlocked

here's another example of the phenomenon known as "splash damage"

inkling mouse goes down a lot easier than rocky dr. strange. maybe we were supposed to fight her first...

oh boy, cheese!

nevermind, that's revolting!

nio seems to enjoy it, though

beating inkling mouse opens up a convenient shortcut back to greenhorne

this is a WAY better reward than 10g (fuck you, dr.strange/charalite)

[looks at gay couple] so who's the Lovey-Dovey Couple (Man) and who's the Lovey-Dovey Couple (Woman)?

we've got just one last face to save, and it's on the other side of riverdeep cavern i.e. banshee hell

NEXT TIME: Let's Get This Shit Over With

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miitopia part 7: a beautiful party + arcade + rocky dr. strange

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this fork in the road is a bit different from most. it shows you a map, and opens up a new area depending on which way you go.

i go in the direction of the treasure chest. obviously. if those banshees were any indication, we can use every advantage we can get

and we run into a new monster! i sure hope this one doesnt almost kill us!

THERE we go. here's what happens when earworm lands: the enemy gets so distracted by your song that it spends its turns dancing until the ailment wears off

FEAST

then we reach the inn. i keep the room assignments the same, since i still need to level up my friendship with fm--

--okay nevermind

i upgrade nio's weapon. it's nonstick, so she doesnt have to spend as much time scraping off the monster guts

new food drops

hp bananas are divided evenly among party members. at the most, each mii can carry two at once, as well as one mp candy

TREASURE TIME

HOLY SHIT THAT'S HUGE

...oh... but i just.....

....okay........

you can run during these parts of the game by either holding B or keeping your finger stylus on the touch screen

(nio is already the star of this lp tbh)

here's something i missed capping before--these monsters can actually heal themselves. it's not really a problem if you have more than one person attacking it every turn, though. or...

...if a stubborn mii's "again" skill activates, which lets them repeat their previous action. afaik it only activates after damaging attacks, though. also, if the mii repeats a skill, the second attack will still take up mp. if they dont have enough, "again" won't activate... i think

and then we FINALLY find some game tickets, which means we can check out the arcade soon!

but first...

tommii, as always, is four hours late to his own adventuring party

i still need to boost my friendship with fm, so...

...nio's gonna have to take one for the team

(the game plays the psycho theme when this happens. no, seriously.)

...and that little scribble icon there is something to watch out for. you'll see why sooner or later.

nio likes the new food!

tommii does not

so, as promised, now that we have game tickets, let's take a look at the arcade. there are two games you can play there: roulette and rock-paper-scissors

(i got lucky enough to get such good odds) the prizes you can get, as well as the size of each part of the roulette, are randomized each time you sleep at the inn.

the gold prizes are weapons and armor (mercifully, it'll only offer ones you dont have yet. though there is a very good reason to try and get doubles...) the blue prizes are grub and varying amounts of exp. orange prizes get you “jolly jaunts”. i’ll talk about those later. grey prizes are hp bananas and mp candies. i guess that’s okay.

you can give weapons to characters who cant use them, but... they cant use them. and once you give a piece of equipment to a mii, you cant take it back. so it's a total waste. dont do that

dont expect to see fm actually fly around on this

now, as for the other game...

it's shit. dont play this. 500g is a lot early on, but it falls off once weapon/armor prices rise later. plus, the risk to win nothing and waste a game ticket just isnt worth it.

you want to win gold? here's how to do it:

remember when i said there's a good reason to try and win more than one of the same weapon/armor from the roulette?

this is it. you can sell the weapons/armor you win for the FULL PRICE, which you can then use to buy more weapons/armor for another character. 140g isnt much compared to 500g, but we can win 25,000g a pop this way later on

i tried to use my third ticket to get another broomstick, but...

...well, that's fine, too (so close...)

as for the 140g i won...

...sorry, tommii. we really need those bananas.

tommii gets the mp candy this time, since he only has one hp banana

i decide to check out this area and try to level tommii up a bit

.........only to accidentally walk headfirst into a boss battle that i am in no way, shape, or form prepared for

(more like ROCKtor strange)

oh god! he doesnt even have any healing skills!

he's only level 1! he's like a newborn baby! what have i done!?

just stay here, tommii... youll be okay...

(see, earworm works SOMEtimes)

i use encore on nio so she can, hopefully, use home cooking on us both

spoiler: she totally ignores me. EVERYBODY BETRAY ME

tommii's affinity for exercise strikes again ("warm up" increases the power of the user's next attack. ...maybe not the best skill for a support character)

by the way, the mii will continue exercising all the way until their next attack

...well, you did the best you could

i'd actually forgotten about this, but even snacks get a cut-in the first time you use them

rocky dr.strange only has a third of his hp left, but...

"cover" protects a mii from a hit that would have otherwise knocked them out ...though sometimes a mii that uses this will get knocked out themselves

listen, tommii, why dont you just let us handle--

--wait what the fuck

see, even the game knows we werent remotely ready for that battle (i give the bonus exp to tommii, of course)

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