u/jethawkings

Picked this up after Heilwald Loophole which I assume is a more traditional Brainia gave me the jeebies (Genuinely my heart is pounding on that first freaking voice clip) and I was hooked.

Yes this not really a Brainia, no I have no idea where else is a suitable sub for this.

I didn't realize this game had no auto-save so uhhh it was kinda anti-climactic ending but it was definitely a unique experiencing realizing that I was playing this game with an implied time limit without manually saving the entire time.

So uhhh... in hindsight, it's been almost 4 hours and my brain was running on fumes and kinda fumbled after realizing that The Adjucator is old enough to be present during the burnings of the Library of Alexandria and I chose >!FUCKING LEONARDO DAVINCI, SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN SOMEONE SIGNIFICANTLY OLDER.... honestly my brain was tapping out and asking maybe it's either Zeus or Leo and Leo's sorta in that anagram space!<

In hindsight, there's some moments where I feel it kinda just gives you gimmes and some moments where it was pointlessly stalling you like with the Laborer just not letting you rotate your evidence making matching significantly harder or focus on more than one piece of Evidence.

I also wonder if there's like a point to not just skip to the last day... unless like Biblios loses confidence in you if you don't give him any new nuggets of information. Stuff I'm also curious about are people's answers to the Revenant's and the Dreamer's questions.

I still heavily enjoyed it, it has that same feel to Paranormasight where it feels like you're a Stand User trying to figure out Enemy Stands... well except you have an encyclopaedia of Enemy Stands and you're trying to figure out which one is their's...

In terms of satisfaction sans the fumble I think it's up there but definitely not one of my favorites but I would be interested to play a similar premise again. I am curious how the flexible the actual problem solving is, I think there's definitely a couple of ways some of them could have been solved. The UI is also like janky enough that it feels like it makes you work for solving stuff it doesn't just hand to you... but yeah there are definitely a number of answers where it just hands them to you.

This seems like it was filmed like a considerable time ago?

SPOILERS

Or are the ages just being fictionalized further? Kiray and Janine are like... 10~ years younger in their given age here.

Karylle also seems way younger here.

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Unrelated to the above it's fine

IDK it's not as hard hitting as On The Job but I guess from someone who doesn't watch a lot of local series (I do watch local productions tho!) it does seem... unique?

IDK I don't find Erik Matti has good comedy legs, some of the jokes seem to fall flat for me but I am liking it overall tho

I... don't think I'd ever play Wolverine, I don't own a PS5 lol

I am curious now on people here who have been able to play both on why GoTG got way more favorable reviews~ I enjoyed GoTG a lot granted it's like the only AAA Action Game I've ever played but there's a neat variety of sections and some levels do have gimmicks and IIRC there were puzzles to them and some cleverly hidden collectables.

I desperately wish it got a Roguelike Battle Arena Survival Mode that most games of this era seem to be getting now (RE9 and Bananza [sorta] comes to mind)

I also vaguely recall people telling me that if I enjoyed this I might enjoy FFXV? (Which I am hoping gets a Switch 2 port eventually like GoTG did so I can try it out)

Yes part of this is me reveling that Wolverine has been received kinda mid~

Right now it's kinda just Zanki Zero for me personally but I'm curious what other games are there...

I understand if I say PC that opens up waaaay more but I want something I can play portably.

I feel I ask this every 3 months since I'm not as consistent with looking up new releases.

Again the closest I can think of is something like The Spirit Lift

Both have card types that act as permanent buffs / effects for the duration of the battle/scenario,

A team system where you build synergies off characters of different classes that have different specialization (IE; One is really good with dodging, someone is really good at hitting things, someone is really good at dealing with curses/sanity lost ~ meanwhile AH adds another layer of having some people being really good investigation... which is like an action to gather a requirement to advance the game state that does not have to do with eliminating an adversary... it's a skill check.)

This takes much later to be relevant but branching paths that affect the ending of the run / scenario / campaign (Much much later, the grinding related to this for The Spirit Lift turned me off a LOT)

Lastly, of course the horror-based theming.

I just got back into Pokemon.

Okay din pala yung competitive scene, coming from Magic the Gathering there's way more similarity in how strategies and builds come together.

I looked at Facebook and IDK which one to join.

Returning player, I don't have a 3DS but I have a Switch so I'm wondering if people would recommend this. Haven't played Black 2 yet but I guess I'm looking out for this one as my follow-up to Gen V.

I would say I like the battling and team configuration aspect of Black, I love the Battle Sub as a mini Alternate Gauntlet Mode (Even if it meant I basically had an entirely separate team of mons that I built up specifically for it). I thought the story itself is nice too.

I heard Scarlet and Violet kinda regress on how to handle difficulty... but I haven't really played a Pokemon game while it was still 'active' so I'm curious how the experience is.

Coming back to Pokemon after like... a decade? Started with this one because the region focusing on its own Pokemons instead of revisiting existing ones.

Mostly wondering if there's non-obvious QoL I should probably appreciate more.

I like that Ability Triggers show-off but I kinda wish they also did some explanation of what they do instead of me taking a second to look up what some of these do in terms of actual values.

Not having to go back to the item screen each use of a consumable is great too but IDK if thay's a Gen V thing.

Infinite TMs is amazing. As someone who likes tweaking movesets it's just great, the Learn It or Lose It part of Pokemon genuinely bums me... I wish I can experiment more with stuff in terms of curating moves (Coming from someone who was playing SMT beforehand)... though I hear Gen 8 onwards addresses this

Mostly because well.. stuff's more expensive in the other tiers

I keep seeing people post about this broken strat and I keep trying to make it work and... I just don't have enough survivability to get to critical mass for Fedora to work.

My other dudes are Paladin Dude, Quantum Dude, and Samurai Dude

This is my first flagship phone so genuinely surprised how quickly this gave up in contrast to my old A30 which took like... 5? around 5 years before the Lock Button gave up and the Battery busted out... I guess granted that one the casing also gave out.

Is this just how phones are?

Just finished it up... it was fine~

Well I liked it, I thought the problem solving was neat but I think it kinda lacked real brain bashers

I will say it took a good while for me to connect who's who on Cynthia's epilogue but I got there. I didn't realize they were brothers

The Bone's Room Red Herring was devious >:(

Same with hiding Charles Brooke was, who at that point while I remember the Brooke family being mentioned earlier... my brain was soup and didn't bother to check the Glossary.

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Not sure if I missed anything but I was sorta waiting for something like the other shoe to drop but the twist with the Red Pearls was fun, more grounded. It's no Type Help or What Happened to the Crew in terms of reveals though... was I the only one waiting for something to be done with the Biohazard Material?

I thought the end-end-ending on London was... ok. IDK I do enjoy these types of endings where the game bends itself to accommodate what you want to be canon.

I just learned I apparently like this genre. Would be great too if there's actual campaigns / story-lite stuff like ~ but even something similar to just WWE 2K's MyGM Mode?

Something like the below ones?

Above the Snow

The Pale Beyond

This War of Mine

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Some other stuff I sorta would include here are

Sovereign Tower's Demo

The Management Parts of Dispatch (Which I wish affected the main game more)

Not sure if I can still call myself a casual drafter~ maybe in the sense I'm only on for drafting specific sets and apparently the specific sets seem to be... specifically Universe Beyond... my last drafts were Final Fantasy, Omenpaths (With a Visual Mod to make it Spider-Man), Avatar, Turtles, and now Marvel*...* I would say it's more so just bad timing on Lorwyn and Strixhaven releasing on periods where I had other stuff I'm more interested in... and Lorwyn being a Kindred Draft Format... Edge... IDK I think I'm also not a big Space Guy so its aesthetic wasn't just for me I guess?

I've done 46 events total for MSH (5 of those being Sealed, 11 being Premier, and 30 Pick Two Drafts)

Unsure if I could go for the push to Mythic before the end of the week~

https://www.17lands.com/user_history/bdb9c0b410104b328e77a6666f38d541?start=2019-01-01

64% Win Rate~

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I will say, game knowledge / sense definitely helped was a difference maker. Knowing all the White tricks has done wonders for me. Even doing something like missing T3 damage to avoid a Red Guardian is so crucial... as well as missing damage to enable Spider-Man's protection has been crucial too.

There's lots of neat micro decisions during gameplay that I feel does get rewarded...

But of course the elephant in the room, The Deck... is really fucking good. White and Blue are the best colors in the format it's no contest. It has the best removal and best 2 for 1s and has the most evasive creatures... but it's actually pretty wild how often I still see either White or Blue open during Premier Draft (Which is like why I moved on to it once I got to Plat... mediocre decks can only get you so far in Pick 2)

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I think my favorite colors has to be Green, G is the color I've trophied with the most followed by U then tied between R and W with B being the color I've done the worse with unless it's paired with U, UB I've done fairly well in, it's xB anything else I've done bad in... GW is also color I've sucked at to the point I don't thnk I want to ever be in that seat... even more than RB because RB I've only flopped at once, GW I've thrown MULTIPLE TIMES.

I revisited it after being underwhelmed by Ziglar's opening arc.

I'm still v salty how this run went... I will say I drank the kool aid then and thought this run blew without giving it a real chance... because years later I reallllly like it.

It gives Wade that edge early on in the run that I hoped would be properly explored post-Duggan's run. That brief exchange with Cap was everything I wanted, post-Stevil. Wade giving Cap another one-two over Cap feeling morally righteous felt nice.

I think the Monster Island of Staten was a unique contrast to the Mutant Nation of Krakoa.

Thompson acknolwedging Roguepool was nice (Even having Rogue bat for him)

Fuck I really wish this run ran a bit longer.

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Not that there aren't odd creative choices.

Gerard Sandoval drew Jeff with FIN APPENDAGES and not legs. It was harrowing.

Elsa X Wade is a ship that is only slightly less cursed than RoguePool.

And yes, this was Thompson using a Deadpool book to write an Elsa Bloodstone ongoing (Subtly lampshaded with Gwenpool leaving Jeff with Wade as an acknowledgement that maybe with Wade headlining the book

But still I learned to like the stupid characters in the book like Nightwolf and the other monsters... like idk... I miss Bellus even if he only was in that one issue. It just seems like a neat new direction to take Wade.

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So IDK it kinda sucks jumping to Wong's run then Ziglar's run after all these years and seeing no they never really re-explored this. Wade kinda just... is back to being buds with everyone again and has no real complications with his relationship with Preston and Ellie... it's... kinda unearned?

Like IDK I do not believe they ever really reconciled in a way that rehabs their relationship to that level of teaming up.