u/KamenRiderHelix

Hey there, people of r/Tokusatsu! I'm DJ. I'm primarily a fan of Power Rangers, Kamen Rider and Ultraman!

After kicking around in the various Tokusatsu fandoms for a good while now, I decided to create a catch-all Discord community for Tokusatsu, with a primary focus on Power Rangers, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and Ultraman. I know these communities exist in isolation in various Discord servers, but I've never been able to find one for just 'Tokusatsu in general'.

The stated goal of the server, more than anything, is a celebration of fanworks. Fanfiction has a rough time of it in those fandoms, in my experience, and I wanted to create a place to push for visibility of it and other fan creations. Whether you create fan content or just like consuming it, you're welcome with us!

Hope to see some of you there! Have a great day!

https://discord.gg/yWKUhdCZ

Hey there, people of r/supersentai! I'm DJ.

After kicking around in the various Tokusatsu fandoms for a good while now, I decided to create a catch-all Discord community for Tokusatsu, with a primary focus on Power Rangers, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and Ultraman. I know these communities exist in isolation in various Discord servers, but I've never been able to find one for just 'Tokusatsu in general'.

The stated goal of the server, more than anything, is a celebration of fanworks. Fanfiction has a rough time of it in those fandoms, in my experience, and I wanted to create a place to push for visibility of it and other fan creations. Whether you create fan content or just like consuming it, you're welcome with us!

Hope to see some of you there! Have a great day!

https://discord.gg/yWKUhdCZ

Hey there, people of r/Ultraman! I'm DJ. If you're curious, my favorite Ultraman is Z!

After kicking around in the various Tokusatsu fandoms for a good while now, I decided to create a catch-all Discord community for Tokusatsu, with a primary focus on Power Rangers, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and Ultraman. I know these communities exist in isolation in various Discord servers, but I've never been able to find one for just 'Tokusatsu in general'.

The stated goal of the server, more than anything, is a celebration of fanworks. Fanfiction has a rough time of it in those fandoms, in my experience, and I wanted to create a place to push for visibility of it and other fan creations. Whether you create fan content or just like consuming it, you're welcome with us!

Hope to see some of you there! Have a great day!

https://discord.gg/yWKUhdCZ

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Let's talk about Master!

So for those not in the know, it makes enemies really strong. How strong? By the endgame, my 20-bars-in-everything Gundams (and Char) were still seeing 40-50%s from enemies AFTER I've used Disrupt. You also can't use Spirit Commands on the enemy turn, making defense that much harder.

Early game is well-balanced enough to not be that big of a hump. Compared to VTX30 where the hardest difficulty makes debuting units absolutely unusable, Y at least holds itself back from the stupidly strong enemies until you've got a chance to get all your upgrades in. Good!

Mid game is rough. With the reduced EXP gain from higher difficulties, enemy HP is, for a good while, going to massively outpace your ability to deal damage. That's where our lovely Assists come in...

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Seiji is worth the price of DLC 2 on his own. Generic access to Bravery is really good, but it's ESPECIALLY really good when most of your guys are still 20 levels away from getting their damage steroids.

You see I used Teoria a lot. Most of my battles in Chapters 6 and 7 started with me just using her 3 times to add +30 Will to all my guys and then just beelining the boss and killing them. More on that in a bit.

Despite her not cracking the top 5 in terms of how many times I clicked her, Dorothy is probably the last of the top 3 Assists in my view. When you can't pop Spirits during enemy phase, being able to put Wall on someone for only 2 on the fly is absolutely invaluable. It doesn't come up all the time, but when it does, you'll NEED it to save someone's life.

Late game was MOSTLY very easy. As mentioned, any stage which had a victory condition other than 'destroy ALL the enemies' is very easily doable in a single turn. You just abuse Press and Zeal to blitz your guys over to the objectives (and remember, Chise is generic Press access!) while having a good couple of Unity users; by the late game, a LOT of people have Unity. (And I happened to pick up Olibee, so that's one more...)

Late game was so easy, in fact, that I was worried the final stage would be very anticlimactic after nearly 100 hours of game.

Oh, how naive I was.

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The Evolvers must've seen my predominant strategy, because the first phase of the final stage on B route puts you up against 70--yeah, SEVENTY--of THESE things. Even with fully upgraded units and your best damage steroids, they're gonna take a good few hits. They can dodge, they can hit, they can hit HARD, and holy shit they just won't go down and there's so many of them.

By the time the final boss actually graced me with their presence, my team was critically low on SP. It was exceedingly rough, but not in a way that felt unfair? Brutal, but it was doable. I felt like I really had to dig to the bottom of the SP, the Assists, the EN, the ammo, all the way down.

I've never been so glad to hear a Jam Project song kick in in my entire life.

There's a few things that probably disqualify this from being called 'the best SRW game', like the absolute waste of G-Witch essentially not being used in any way that matters or various problems with the DLC...

...but for the most part I'm still confident calling it the best written, as far as the launch story goes. Cross/Forte and Echika are miles above the typical fare, and it's a rare Banpresto Original that feels like it has a fully complete story arc with a beginning, middle and end rather than them just kinda tagging along as the haha funny OC of the group. The Ardyguns in W have it, and an argument could be made for Touya/Calvina in J, but it has been a hot minute since we'd had original protagonists this good.

Not to say I dislike all of the VTX30 protags; I actually love all of VTX's heroes as characters! But they are certainly missing some pieces from their arcs to qualify as that.

The crossover elements are also insane at points. SRW is doing a great job when you start having trouble telling what plot beats are from what show, and I ran into that a good few times in this one. Also surprised it took us this long to have original badguys who team up with most of the canon bad guys! It was great.

If they can keep up this level of NARRATIVE quality going forward, I'm a happy guy. We gotta work on that DLC quality, though. The stories were mostly fine, but the units leave a lot to be desired at points. There's not really any excuse for Double not to have CycloneJokerXtreme, and you should've seen the face I made when I found out that Eureka's upgraded unit has only two attacks.

Anyway, I'm overall really happy with the high difficulty options this time around! Compared to VTX30's high difficulties being 'debut stages are awful and near-impossible, and then once you get upgrades you still steamroll', I felt like I was at least putting in conscious efforts to cheese stages in this one, rather than it being handed to me just because my guys were upgraded.

That's all, I think. Take it easy!

A list of fandoms for the fic, reading: The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, Code Lyoko, Cybersix, Danny Phantom, Generator Rex, Invader Zim, Kid Cosmic, Mystery Skulls Animated, Secret Saturdays, Steven Universe, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Xiaolin Showdown

Hi there! I write big action-y cartoon crossovers, and I've got one that just finished its first major arc, for anyone who might be interested to check it out. If you haven't seen the more obscure shows on the list, don't worry, you aren't expected to've! I'd say the only shows it outright expects you to have a strong concept of are Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10 (particularly OV) and maybe Danny Phantom.

It's a Super Robot Wars style crossover, which means it does have an 'Original Generation' protagonist and its own central plot added on top of the existing canon stuff crossing over. Also means it is REALLY action-y, I cannot stress this enough, if you're a huge fight scenes person, you're looking for me, I'm your guy.

I was huuuge huge huge into PPGD in Highschool, but ultimately became very dissatisfied with its abysmal pace and constant scope creep introducing new series left and right, whether just for one-off cameos or not, and decided to make something a little more concrete. Accordingly, I put out about 60,000 words for this fic within the last 3 weeks.

Right now, this first story arc is basically acting as an interest check to see if people actually want to read something like that, so I figured the people here on r/CARTOON of all places might like to hear about it!

Thanks for your time! Have a lovely day, and here's the link. <3

A list of tags, reading: The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10 Series, Code Lyoko, CyberSix, Danny Phantom, Generator Rex, Invader Zim, Kid Cosmic, Mystery Skulls Animated, The Secret Saturdays, Steven Universe, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Xiaolin Showdown

Told in a 'Super Robot Wars' style, it follows both Blossom as the central female protagonist and an original central male protagonist in action-heavy crossover nonsense, both against the villains of the various series and against an original antagonist force.

Was a big fan of PPGD, cuz I really like the idea of seeing the slightly older Powerpuffs team up with other heroes, but I ended up disappointed by its abysmal pace and overall scope creep with constantly introducing new show after new show into the story's world.

All that aside, though, crossovers are my life's blood. There's just nothing I like more!

I hope you'll give it a try, link right here!

It was one thing to write massive fics that nobody actually reads and comments on past the first few chapters, but seeing a comment notification or, as happened to me this morning, multiple comment notifications and having them all be bots is just too much, man.

I've always gotten them every now and then, but lately it just feels so incessant on AO3. I've published only 5 chapters of this fic, in the last week or so, and gotten something like thrice that number of bot comments.

And you know what? At least if it's a comment trying to scam me in some way, I understand why the bot was made, like hey, assholes gotta try to hustle people. What's even the point of bots that leave non-negative, non-scammy comments, though? Who does this benefit. What's the point.

My stuff already inherently doesn't attract much readership. I write for fandoms that don't really read fics, or as is the case in my current fic, multi-fandom crossovers that are going to lose a lot of people just because it has some stuff in the list that they haven't seen. I really don't need this, man, I'm fumbling just fine without bots.

S'just frustrating.