#replay 22

[yujaemna]

This basically defines my whole personality 😅💕🥹

[moth-nocturna]

four guys, after school

[cryinginthedeep]

natalie wee, "least of all", Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

(x, x, x, x, x)

[lumpsbumpsandwhumps]

i still cant get over this fruity ass lil knife throw they made ghost do

[petit-papillion]

"It happened a couple of times, but this was pretty obvious, I think, at any moment (...) Sometimes I make a mistake, and I have the radio open, instead of closed, then obviously everyone hears me… when I wanted to keep this anger to myself!”

Charles having to live with some of his not so finest moments caught on team radio and for the world to replay over and over...

🎥 Sky Sports Italy

[sinfulapple]

n corp sinclair is a lot of things

he is strong as hell

he is hard as hell to play, like jesus you have to keep him at the border of a mental breakdown

but the most important thing

IF YOU BRING HIM TO KROMER'S FIGHT KROMER BECOMES STAGGERED

THANK YOU PROJECT MOON

THIS IS THE PERFECT

THE

PERFECT

[coridallasmultipass]

Goddddd, Dorothy is waifu for laifu, I s2g. Can't wait to see what conditional saviour bullshit she pulls from this stunt.

[questforgalas]

GhostSoap has ruined the previous CoD MWs for me. Still great gameplay, but Ghost and Soap weren't exchanging flirty banter and, I mean, what's the point

[insteading]

I was reading that post about carrying a multitool in order to help open a femme's beer (but then fucking up and smashing the bottle and slinking away in shame) and had a memory pop into my head:

It's the year after college. I'm not out at work, but I'm not exactly hiding either: I go to a barber, I don't own any shoes that aren't practical, everyone asks if I play softball / tells me I look like I play softball. Another not-out-but-not-hiding woman has asked me if I watch Xena.

Anyway: my boss's daughter is stunning, my age, and into poetry. I am also into poetry. I suggest going to a reading together. It's not a DATE-- I'm not about to test the open-mindedness of a person who pays me, though I think "He was okay with hiring me."

On the way to the reading a spider drops from the ceiling of the car. She is freaked out by spiders. I am on Team "They Eat Bugs, We Can Be Friends." So I think: This is an opportunity to be gallant, and scoop up the spider in preparation to toss it out the window...

and it falls off my hand and into her lap. I had ONE JOB.

If I ever had a chance, this is the end of it. She goes on being gorgeous but at a distance where no spiders can fall out of my hand onto her and I eventually move out of state.

[gierosajie]

Sometimes I remember Honkai's Taixuan Dream arc and go insane

[my-current-obsession]

My second playthrough of Engage is going well (just finished chapter 17) and I’m still enjoying the gameplay and have definitely had a better time getting supports with my knowledge of how to game the arena as well as having access to the new support-gaining options from the start. However I’m starting to worry about the game’s long-term replayability.

In most FE games, even if the gameplay is only so-so, I can power through several runs basically because of shipping - I’d play the game multiple times to get different paired ends. I’ve already complained about that a lot in other posts, so I won’t rehash it here beyond saying obviously that’s not possible in this case. Sure, you can get different paired endings for Alear, but honestly most of the pact ring scenes and ESPECIALLY the endings are weak. Even for the people who care more about the self-inserting and picking who they want to be with as opposed to matchmaking, I doubt this would be satisfying enough on its own to merit multiple runs of the game.

So if that aspect and reason to replay the game is gone, what’s left? Gameplay, obviously. And yes, the gameplay is good - great, even! This is the most fun I’ve ever had in an FE game when it comes to actually playing the maps. However I can already feel myself falling into complacent gaming - I KNOW from a previous run which characters are better (unless they get super RNG screwed) and which combinations of emblems/units works best, and I find myself defaulting to those rather than experimenting.

It doesn’t help that this game makes it kind of difficult/punishing to do so. There are A LOT of resources to track and use in this game, and they’re all somewhat limited. Up until chapter 17 you’re limited on how many master/second seals you can get, and even once you have unlimited access... they’re expensive! And more than ANY other FE game, this one makes it hard to get money. Even knowing NOT to spend as much money donating to the countries on a second run, you’ll probably run out of cash FAST between buying seals, weapons/staves, and forging the weapons.

There are certain units that basically NEED to be reclassed in order to perform well - in particular, Anna, Etie, Lapis, and maybe Clanne would be better in classes they can’t promote to naturally. But it’s hard to justify using them and wasting TWO seals (a master AND second seal) when the rest of your army only needs one seal to do well or comes as a VERY good pre-promote. That’s not even getting into how due to the relative lack of seals and their cost, I’m less inclined to reclass units just for fun or to see how they fare in radically different roles.

3 Houses had a lot of flaws and overall the gameplay is NOT as good as Engage, but I DID appreciate being able to build my starting class however I pleased. It was a tedious process, but it was rewarding to play the same route multiple times and use most of the same units, but with VERY different classes/roles. In particular, the more balanced, well-rounded units were SO fun to teach since they could perform well in almost any class!

Meanwhile in Engage, I spend a lot of time LOOKING at the classes available to everyone and thinking it might be nice/fun to reclass some people, but ultimately, they’re doing “well enough” in their default class and I can’t justify wasting the seal(s) just for an experiment that might not pan out. If I use that seal, either one more person doesn’t get to promote/reclass or I’m wasting 2500+ gold.

That’s not even getting into the scarcity of the forging resources or how quickly you can blow through your bond fragments (and in ways that aren’t ideal) if you’re not careful. With so many resources to manage, all of which you CAN technically gain more of but only through playing extra battles (which are at best boring or difficult, and at worst DEADLY on classic), it really feels like you’re discouraged from experimenting. You want to hold onto as many resources as possible for as long as you can, so you can’t throw them around for fun to see what works.

What this game needs (as several people have pointed out already) is some kind of new game plus. There NEEDS to be a version of this game where you carry over at least SOME of the things you gained/accomplished into a new game. Personally I’d like to see it carrying over your donation levels, emblem bond levels, and MAYBE bond rings and the weapons you had/forged (though obviously removing any engravings. Also probably still erasing all the special S rank weapons).

I don’t see HOW people are expected to “complete” the game without that, honestly. Donating to the countries is too much of a money sink for one contained run, but if you had multiple playthroughs to do it, it wouldn’t be an issue. Especially since you’d get a bunch of money at specific chapters each run, and if you retain weapons too, you’d spend less of it on forging. If you don’t retain weapons... well, at least the higher donation level means you’re getting more iron/steel/silver from every map from the start, so you don’t HAVE to do skirmishes just to get resources.

Retaining bond levels means you don’t have to waste fragments getting the SAME bonds and skills and conversations with the same units. Instead you can chip away at the CBA bond level for every Emblem/unit pair. As for bond rings, I’d mainly want to see them retained so you don’t have to deal with as much gatcha hell in getting all the rings.

And of course on a new game plus, with all the extra resources at your disposal and less ways you NEED to spend it, you’d be free to experiment more with reclassing units!

I’m just disappointed because I genuinely LOVE this game but there are so many ways it could be better and give me a reason to keep playing it. A lot of the characters are great and I honestly see a ton of shipping potential in the supports... but they all go nowhere without paired endings. The gameplay is the best it’s ever been for FE, and I’d love to experiment and come at it with different units and builds... but I’m so scared of wasting valuable resources that I’m mostly unwilling to experiment and instead stick to the units that are reliable as-is.

[xenodile]

It’s so glaringly obvious that Alphinaud and Alisaie and supposed to have updated models by this point, it’s ridiculous.

[margareit]

🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼

Restarted my resi3 remake trophy hunt tonight, which I started doing 3 years ago but left 2 trophies: inferno and S rank on inferno, I’ve been holding my breath for the past 2 hours 🫠

🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼

[underthecitysky]

I do know how to hyper fixate.. I really put my shoulder into it.

I have no idea how Hi Hi Hi is my most played song tho?! Maybe I kicked off my shuffle on the wingspan album with that one a lot bc it’s nowhere near my top track (tho obv I don’t mind myself some Hi Hi Hi lol)

[vvettell]

DID THEY JUST GREEN FLAG THIS WITH MARSHALLS ON THE TRACK???

[alligaytorswamp]

Anyways on a good note i spent like whole day yesterday replaying White Heart Baekgu 3/하얀마음 백구 3/Рекс 2

And not brag i basically aced the whole thing 🙄