Manic Emo Dream GhoulI'm only partially joking when I say that I'm so fucked in life that I'm thinking about just do a hyperspecialised degree in videogames monster aesthetics design*.
The monster designs here. This is the level I want to eventually achieve.
(*Yes it's a thing. Yes I know you don't need a degree for that shit. I have this formative-years acquired mental illness called raised as Traditional Asian, and all my rebellion went to the oppositional defiant queer with lifestyle of an ibis going through trash cans thing. Academic external validation is something I lost my battle on not giving a shit over, normal people don't even need to have this issue)
I get that Bardon is a really nice bro who genuinely cares, and as a command he kept on closing wall holes instead of commanding, which in a village of like four people it works, and I love him for it and all
But I was not expecting how literal the supportive Commander weapon is a floor mop
I support you with my mop!
That is the real deal, folks. None of that hero fantasy shit. Don't fight for me I can fight for myself. Please mop for me, you have no idea how incompetent I am at mopping
It's worrying that I like Louis more than just about anyone else going after the throne at this moment. Especially way more than any of the hereditary royals.
Catherina is cool. Clueless but cool
I have to Guide Dammit here more than any other games, specifically because the game doesn't know how to communicate anything well, and punishes you for it.
Is "Mausoleum" the same as "Catacomb"? Not telling. You can enter and find out. Congrats you lost a full day. Now try a different location that may or may not be "Mausoleum" as I've unlocked multiple tombs already. Congratulations you have timed out, game over.
The team I want: Neuras, Catherina, that super helpful decaying Tooth.
The team I got: Strohl, Hulkenberg, Heismay.
I don't really dislike anyone in my party. I wish them the best, just I don't vibe with any of them either.
I'm worried that my team won't make it to the next destination after this food poisoning.
Especially considering this is kinda you know, Heismay's sons state.
Your elf: tall thin long eared waify fragile mages, who only drink the most vegan dews
Our elf: tall thin long eared brutes leaving elf shaped holes on walls, currently eating chunks of dry wall between bites of rotten possum remains
Brigitta is such a miserable lonely git, but also she's by far the easiest to bond with for that reason. But also her class is essentially useless. And she's just so so punchable. The peak Elon Musk who camps on Reddit kind of punchable.
Metaphor needs an option of doing whatever the NPCs want to do to others back to them. She's not even useful to me lol.
I'm at the Soiree and it's suddenly becoming quite interesting.
Junah is implied will be a party member. So we have a One Race Per Character party most likely. We are a fox missing and a third eye person missing so far. Hope it's Catherina.
Speculation:
Elda: lol there's only one
Clemar: Leon
Roussainte: Hulkenberg wait does she have a first name
Eugief: Heismay
Nidia: Junah???
Paripus: Catherina???
Ishkia: My precious brother in spirit Neuras
Rhoag: ???
Mustari: ???
Fairy: Gallica
They are all pretty shit to goblins and ogres tbh
Metaphor is doing that ridiculous thing like Clair Obscur where the "difficulty" is it gives you turn icons then refuse to respect it.
This is so old. Try something more inter, like every time the players almost won a fight, delete the game off the console mid battle. Also irritating and petty shit over fairness, but at least interesting.
That octopus fight is the worst of going out of turn I've ever seen.
Enemy starts with two turns. It howls and gains four. Then between each it gets a free AoE raid wide without using a turn icon. Then because it's series of random hits there will be one Crit, which generates another free turn icon. So each "two turn icons" is really 15 back to back turns from the enemy, that's completely not communicated, that no one can survive through.
Just remove turn icons completely if games don't want to honour this shit.
Something I'm super glad about Metaphor, is it uses regional accents, but not assigning them with an assumed real world culture with weird stereotypes.
FFXIV was doing well until it decided that it needed fantasy Mongolia and fantasy South America etc. The fantasy Poland in 2.0 that's mostly Arab aesthetics felt way less pointed.
I'm at the cultural imperialists has to imperialism part.
But can I say that the second Voice of Cards is the best narrative regarding to this specific subject matter in video games. By a long shot. None of the weak sauce like FFX or Tales of Symphonia. Fujiko F Fujio also did really well on his soft scifi manga one shot.
I still maintain that Voice of Cards is the best Yoko Taro series.
Let's get ready to dungeon crawl!
> Arrive to dungeon
Let's enter the dungeon!
> Scottish fold's foot got infected
Let's go home!
> Never knew what the dungeon look like roflmao
I just arrived to abandoned Shinjuku and literally what the fuck
I was not expecting to be caught with the same plot twist again, given how much both Monster Hunter and SMT IV wtf'd me good.
Years ago, the place I worked at had a door issue. As in the glass door will not open. We left a fridge next to it, if there's a fire the idea is shut your eyes and smash the door with the fridge and escape.
Anyway that was how I ran through that Shinjuku stage. I had no MP left after like 3 fights.
Not that I'm projecting my real life issues into this or anything.
I usually just turn up to all the optional dungeons regardless of the weather, as at this point it kinda doesn't matter. But 47C during a heatwave? Fuck no I'm escaping back to Trad where it's 15C and gonna do... public speaking or something instead.
"Here, honoured foreign guests! Before you leave, try our culturally significant rare fruit. We won't tell you that you'd be tripping balls on them. Enjoy the immediate long trip while operating an experimental vehicle on open sea while fucked out of your head!"
That's one way to take out the invading colonists I suppose.
Junah is a technical singer who sounds like exactly why I can't listen to classic radio anymore. The vocal quality feels like my ear drums being sanded down with a dental drill.
I have no idea what happened in the cut scene of opera assassination. My ears were too tortured for that.
Ahhh, a fuck the right off battle where there's a distinctive status makes the entire fight over the top in length and irritation, but just have the plot point that prevents your team from being able to prepare for any of them.
Do I want to restart the game so I just happened to have 6 anti-frostbite gear for this one Rella battle?
Hell no.
When a fight is so absurd that immediately you just skip every scene so you can save and you never have to suffer that again.
I'm sure it's moving and plot important and blah blah blah but that was a horrible bottleneck, and at least here the scene isn't worth it
I got to my usual favourite location that's all snow, and I'm kinda just losing momentum. Like I'm 7 days away from ?final (not sure because calendar has one more month), and the grinding is so tedious and I'm not half way unlocked yet.
It felt like there's too much to get through in the context of character building, without the same amount of content to make the build worthwhile. And because I like to explore and find out the best built myself, the way the game economy works discourages that as well.
My fucking face when the plot twist is "you are someone else's creative fantasy. Now you know this you have white hair."
To be fair, I suspect Clair Obscur and Metaphor came up with this gimmick independently. It's just, it's really not a plot good enough to worth one telling.
And if you max "Tolerance" the rank you get is called "Saviour", on a particularly marginalised island that you are essentially an imperialist royal invader who took their sacred spear and using it as a daily weapon.
>:(
Metaphor has to be the worst Guide Dammit game. I'm 3 days until the end, one more ranking event, and my bottleneck is I can't physically find the person who needs a talking to, despite the game just said "talk to him during the day".
It has a teleport to whoever you need to talk to function, just it doesn't work.
Uncool mouse@uncoolmouse It continued some unfortunate traditions of Persona for sure.
I'm no longer sure if it wants to be a progressive work to start with, or the 2026 equivalent of nobles making their fortune in slave trafficking also like to pose for newspaper articles about their charity galas.
I will write a longer version later. Unless it surprises me greatly in the ending, I'd say this is the worst Persona game.
@uncoolmouse so MonHun is particularly odd, as in you discover this massive post apocalyptic hyper scifi aspect of the verse... And immediately it went back to however we act when people found out dinosaurs have feathers. Like who cares we have lives to live.
You should play MonHun. Quality cats.