I know that Luck plays a role in Item Drops (think I heard 30 - 40 Luck is the sweet spot).
But if I want to farm item drops, and get drops consistently. What Build should I use, and how should I distribute stats (Early - Mid game)?
So. This goes for both the original game and Second Light. Before going into the individual games. Gust is known in the Atelier game series for adding the Season Pass and DLCs to their package deals / DX versions of the game. They do not give the same love and service for Blue Reflection. That said.
Blue Reflection (Game #1), always wanted to play it, but didn't have a system it was on to do so. So was happy to get it here. Learned that it's a heavily censored version, which I'm glad about. But disliked having 0 OGDLC in it.
Still a heartwarming, cute, and well put together story. Definitely a game worth playing.
Ray: Not much to say. The Anime is better and more coherent, and adds not a lot but some worth / context to Second Light. A decent, semi-worthy addition to Quartet.
Sun: ALL! THE! FKING! HATE! Just all of it. Where do I even fking start on this utter train wreck? The rest of the series follows cute girls, doing social bonding and magic girl things. This has a cheap, cardboard, adds nothing to the story, cookie cutter, self insert DMPC mtherfker common in trash Power - Sxx fantasy, jerk off, harem manga. Strike 1.
Outside of battle. The character dialog was boring and didn't really do anything to draw me into the narrative. Strike 2 ... although it is "fair that a phone game to have 5h17 narrative and dialog."
Strike 3 is them taking a Dirty Sanchez all over the face of Canon Lore. In Ray and Second Light. Everyone knew Uta was a psycho bish (in this part of the timeline), and no one knowing her after the events of Ray was ... wrong but I could semi-stand it. But then they brought in Ao. Like wtf?
To those who haven't played the game yet. No massive spoilers, but it's 1000% impossible for her to show up in a Canon Game set before Second Light. The second she showed up. This game stopped being Cannon by any stretch of the imagination.
It became a 5h177y Gary Sue Fan Fic.
So the lie Gust gave on "Ray and Sun showing what happens between both game #1 and Second Light" becomes an outright lie. Fk Sun.
Second Light: If you have the Second Light game and the DLC, this entry isn't worth playing. Sure the graphics are better. But the dozens of cute outfits, the massive Quality of Life Improvements, and the fun (albeit challenging) special dungeons aren't included. So the Quality of Life is worse, the grind heavy death march to make things has nothing to lessen the burden, and it's missing too much.
But ... if you never had the Season Pass / DLC purchase of Second Light. Then it does add (non-datable, non-playable) characters. And the graphics are much better. By far. (In the original second light, they didn't know how to work shaders, deal with specularity, or lighting glare.)
Played the first dungeon before moving to my OG Copy of Second Light. And the graphics are stunning. And Ao is like 6x more adorable af looking.
But the OG game with DLC just has too much to lose without them.
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All in all:
First and last game worth having for a bundled price. Especially if you don't own the originals.
Ray adds a little back story hinted at in Second Light, but the Anime is better.
Sun is utter, fking garbage that ignores Canon Lore, has poor writing, and is a waste of your game time if you're interested in Canon. Especially since if you haven't played Second Light, you'll be left confused on how much is completely contrary to Second Light Lore (Second Light came out first), and how the events in Sun couldn't have happened in Canon Continuity.
Played Second Light before but couldn't play the first game till the Quartet came out. Just finished the Chokma battle where she does a Destructo Disk, but unlike Krillin who can't even hit a cabbage patch Raditz, much less kill anything. Hinako managed to kill a super boss and looked utterly fking fabulous while doing it.
And ngl, my first two thoughts were "Now that's how you do a Destructo Disk" and "Bwahahaha!!! Suck it Krillin! Even a Magic Girl is better than you in everything but Bulbasauring an Android."
So I have found books and websites on Dai Lui Ren, and while there is lots of data on the 12 Heavenly Gods / Spirits. The 12 Month Generals on the otherhand has almost nothing on them outside their name, placement, and animals.
Does anyone know either a good book, website, or knowledge they can post on them and what they indicate / how to use them in a reading?
The more info the better please.
Other than Mashle, Saitama (OPM), and Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World . Mostly looking for Manhwa / Manhua. But anything that's either:
* MC is in a world where magic rules. But either only has rediculous af strength, and enters a magic academy (ala Mashle).
Or
* MC is a purely physical hero (in a world with Hunters / Awakeners / Players / Mages), and still manages to be bad455 (Ala Saitama / Sword King).
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I remember reading similar stuff but I can't remember the titles anymore. So looking for anything in the "it's similar enough" category.
So can't remember the name of an otome I'm looking for and seems to have disappeared from Manga Buddy.
Anyone know any titles with at least 3 or more of the following:
Female MC reincarnating into a novel / game.
Red Haired Step Mother / Aunt who's abusive.
ML's father is Blonde and spoils the FMC with Magical Devices (extra points for Magic Recorder that records in color).
Antagonist Male who plagiarizes from ML family.
FMC enters a Fake Contract Marriage with Red Eyed, Black Haired Duke. (Extra points if the Duke Family is famous for Research.)
(Double Extra Points if. Contract Marriage is for her to cause trouble with the ML family to kill future talks about marriage. So he can focus on monster Research.)
FMC uses Magic Recorder to make Ads, to earn passive revenue stream.
FMC needs to convince the Family Elders to approve the marriage first. And she starts off with an Elder who wrote a Self Help Book that never sold in the Original. So she edits it with Modern Korean Knowledge to grab attention and make it a best seller.
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Anything resembling that. Or close to it. Or having any similar points.
Especially evil Red Head Step Mom/ Aunt. And FMC being a trouble maker / contracted to stir up trouble.