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you have terra in your stats in your pfp! yap mode activated. terra first appeared in the new teen titans #23 in nineteen eighty [gets shot]

It's actually Terra Branford from FFVI because that's where those stats are from

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you cant just leave holes where a bossfight against a secret religious leader occured without handrails

Osha would shut this down in a second

I know it's probably because the devs were reusing assets from ffx but i find it funny that Cid didn't do anything when he turned Zanarkand into a tourist attraction.

no alterations at all just let people wonder around this ruined city.

getting attacked by fiends is part of the experience.

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I know it's probably because the devs were reusing assets from ffx but i find it funny that Cid didn't do anything when he turned Zanarkand into a tourist attraction.

no alterations at all just let people wonder around this ruined city.

getting attacked by fiends is part of the experience.

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Starting final fantasy x2

Im only an hour in but I like it so far

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What is the criteria for posting on this blog instead of the other one

has to be about turn based rpgs

this is mainly a reviewing blog but i can do funny rpg posts with it too

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My review of Tactical breach wizards

this game is really good.

The story is interesting in the way that it involves a lot of very political topics but it also has a lot of charm and comedy to it without those two melding together or clashing against each other.

All the characters are really fun with my personal favorite being Dessa Banks.

The gameplay is a really fun type of tactical rpg but I dont have much to say about it other than that it's good and that i love the defenestration mechanics

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idk i think original stern is right and has a six pack

discovered.

you have found the evil clone that reviews rpg's

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Review of TMNT: Tactical Takedown

this was a really fun short game, took me 7.7 hours to beat and 8.9 to go back and 100% it. the plot feels like the first season of a fourth season of a preexisting TMNT show and for a short game like this that vibe works greatly.

The gameplay is an interesting mix of turn based rpg and beat em up.

this works by each level only letting you control one turtle but you can do multiple actions per turn, this combined with the hoards of enemies that appear at the start of each turn and the rapidly changing levels makes for a kind of combat that you have to think about ways to kill enemies with as little moves as possible otherwise the enemies will gang up on you and kill you in one turn, while having to keep yourself on the move to not fall off the map.

my personal favorite method to kill the enemies was by using knock to push them off the map.

overall this was a fun short game.

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discovered.

you have found the evil clone that reviews rpg's

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this is the soundtrack that plays every time you fight a mime in expedition 33

Want to know what the mime fighting music in question is?

Sure!

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Crime fighting music? I'm afraid you misheard me.

This is my mime fighting music

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I'm not convinced

id be zo good at being a torturer in the good place.

pull nailz out, ztick handz in a bowl of lemon juice and or/vinegar

make them lick cheeze graterz

do zcarification but inztead of putting dirt in there ztuff zome pop rocketz in and zince id have bad place magic powerz i can make it zo they never ztop popping

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Turn based rpg cheese: it doesn't matter if the developers considered the ramifications of giving these specific abilities to the player or not, but you did and by combining them you essentially trivialized the entire game

Metroidvania cheese: If you stand in this one specific spot and crouch the boss can’t hit you so you can spam weak projectiles until it dies

Fighting game cheese: There’s actually a way to beat this setup but it’s unintuitive so players who haven’t seen it before don’t know how, you can just do it over and over and unless they figure it out you win

MOBA cheese: This build and strategy is terrible at teamfighting and provides basically no utility for your team, but it makes you automatically win against a specific opponent and/or lets you one-shot squishy targets for your YouTube montage

Soulslike cheese: This is a mechanic the devs intentionally put in the game for you to use to make things easier and/or more fun, if you use it that clearly makes you a scrub

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I think all the people who played clair obscur and really liked the parrying system should play worldless

similar parrying system but it's much more complex and intense

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My review of 13 sentinels: aegis rim

this is my first review of an rpg that i didn't beat recently.

so it's fitting that i go into it with maximum bias by reviewing one of my favorite rpg's of all time.

13 sentinels: Aegis rim is a real time tactical rpg about 13 high schoolers who pilot a mech known as a sentinel to fight an invasion of robotic kaiju aliens.

or at least that's what the game tells you.

Now due to the plot of this game being of the kind that cant be discussed due to everything being a spoiler I will talk about the gameplay first.

The gameplay of 13 sentinels is a really interesting mix of real time tactical rpg and tower defense.

essentially every fight you can bring 6 characters with you with the other 7 providing buffs you never notice.

the sentinels are seperated into generations 1 through 4 and these are essentially the classes of the game.

it's pretty easy until the final section of fights, in almost all battles your objective is to either kill all enemies or defend the Terminal (tower defense thing essentially) long enough that the timer runs out and you win.

that might sound like it's too easy but due to time stopping to let you menu and pick abilities that has never happened throughout both of my playthrough's of this game.

The gameplay is pretty good but it's the story where the meat of this game really is.

Now for the story, what i said earlier about the story being about defending the world from an alien robot kaiju invasion.

not even a little true.

what's actually going on is that humanity died millions of years ago and the last fifteen people in the world created a plan to recreate humanity by creating a simulation that teaches clones of them about human culture and history and how to rebuild society on the terraformed planet that they are actually in

and the kaiju are only there because one of those 15 people gave up on humanity and sabotaged the code.

and this is just a rough explanation of what gets revealed in the end.

this is just the answer to the mysteries of this game.

the best thing about it is how it builds it up from each characters perspective giving you an answer to one question but never getting the full answer until the end.

one of the first twists i got in the game could be the final piece of the puzzle that solves something huge.

now the game is not completely sandbox in how it lets the player experience the story, there are a lot of events that are locked behind seeing a specific scenario such as almost half the characters being locked behind Natsuno Minami's extermination event. but overall the story is just really good in how it tells a theme of legacy and what you leave behind.

unfortunately in terms of the protagonists there are definetly some that are more interesting than others.

but overall i will always love this game

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I didn't shit on it enough because it's just bad

there's no reason for me to care about the story

Pieces of cardboard with a single speck of character have drastically more personality than the protagonists

It's got the lamest case of a prophecy ever

There's one likable character (not a single interesting character though) in the entire game and he died but you can save him, you just need to find every single coral shell, build the entire town, and do other bullshit

i don't really see the point in shitting on the story because I just don't care about it

And I suppose that might be worse than me hating it

Tell me your take on Sea of Stars!

What did it do well? What did it do uh not very well?

The thing sea of stars didn't do well is anything that could have given it substance

The story and characters are hot garbage, the gameplay is ok at best and bad at worst

There's a horrible lack of ability variety and the combo moves are treated like they're special attacks.

The true ending is just trying to do what Chrono trigger did but worse a

What sea of stars did well are two things, the graphics and the music.

I played sea of stars for about 78 hours and it's mid

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I agree with that statement

Chained echoes is literally my favorite game of all time

Tell me your take on Sea of Stars!

What did it do well? What did it do uh not very well?

The thing sea of stars didn't do well is anything that could have given it substance

The story and characters are hot garbage, the gameplay is ok at best and bad at worst

There's a horrible lack of ability variety and the combo moves are treated like they're special attacks.

The true ending is just trying to do what Chrono trigger did but worse a

What sea of stars did well are two things, the graphics and the music.

I played sea of stars for about 78 hours and it's mid