Manic Emo Dream GhoulI 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
Anyone else feel like, all Persona somehow made mobs way more fun than all bosses, from strategic perspective? Mobs are all about finding out weaknesses and work on that. Bosses are like that too but an hour long cycling through the same three commands once you know the elementals.
Leon Strohl has all the characteristics of someone I'd deeply respect and admire, and I sort of do, I just don't _like_ him which makes me feel guilty.
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.
Hoooo boy. The three turns against individual commanders on Louis's boat is by far the best battles. Snappy. Strategy. Boom boom.
Oh Bardon, he got voluntold as the mayor and now is imposter syndrome hard. Which tbh, I think he'd make a terrible large city mayor, but that village has like seven people. Fence up the cliff and he's do fine.
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.
We all know Neuras is my long lost brother, when we see him with his wings tied around his waist like a mildly inconvenient jacket.
I see why Gallica is meant to be protagonist's lifelong best friend but you are not allowed to soul link with her until the plot progresses. Mages are already broken as it is. Just turn up with a bunch of mages and burn everything down, basically.
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
I really don't know how will Metaphor handle later phase added team members. Re-levelling their Archetypes feels like a special grind hell. I also don't really like any of my current team members to want to be stuck with them.
I swear to fuck I just turn up to every location with worst possible weather. As if I'm not already doing that irl.
Oh no protagonist accid made Lina quit. And she's the only person I super like.
Gallica is weirdly chill about returning to ruined Gracia Forest where her people were force displaced. Meanwhile Heismay considers this is his perfect platform to Well Actually It's Kinda Close to My Village like read the room.
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 now wondering if Gallica is trying to secretly fuck everyone over. She's always selectively helpful, weirdly indifferent about everything, and honestly most camel herders treat her camels with more genuine friendship than the protagonist with her.
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH THAT WING SURFING SEGMENT HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH I don't know if this is meant as slapstick comedy, but I'm convinced everyone learnt the mechanics by falling into their death within five seconds on first attempt.
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
No like seriously something is not right with Gallica. She's not livetweeting all the confidential stuff only because there are no internet in that verse.
I cannot believe this party. If they had any spare cash they would've hired bards to sing about how they want to assassinate Louis. While pretending to be working for Louis during the most sensitive election cycle.
I'm so proud of protagonist, who washed for the first time on 13th August. I think the game started on 1st of June.
It just occurred to me. Geographically the three country kingdom is Australia shaped. Virgas Island is Tasmania.
Masked Dancer will either turn out to be a super interesting class, or will just need re-equip between every encounter and becomes too tedious to use.
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.
Turn based JRPG folks
Just arrived to Virgas Island as invading imperialists. It's 41C. I hope the party dies of exposure.
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.
Ok fine I am a little sad that a certain lordling didn't turn up with full scale circa 2000s Mockney, mostly because how jarring it would be in the sense of, drill it in this isn't fantasy UK.
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.
Are we not gonna address this whole, the Metaphor verse's instability may have something to do with their cost of living with food? An ingredient that costs 10000 coins in the context that a starter sword costs like 1000? And that's one ingredient you can't even eat.
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.
Junah is alright. Pleasant enough person. Useful skills. But every time Protagonist hangs out with her, she just... Sings. Which leaves me no choice but to throw myself overboard.
They found this in the underground ?trainstation of post apocalyptic Shinjuku. Anyone have the heart to tell them it's a disposable vape?
I'm not sure if I'm having a super bad run, or Shinjuku station has a particular shit design. There are absolutely no magla hollows past the one in entrance, as in nothing for hours at a time. It got so stupid that the best strategy now is intentionally run into all humans, escape the battle; and if any accidental mimicks shut the game and reload.
Uncool mouse@BigShellEvent definitely not just you. It's the one dungeon I vividly remember for being extremely annoying, and it also drags forever! And it feels worse because the Shinjuku reveal was one of the plot highlights but they drop in the middle of this awful dungeon
@uncoolmouse As in, I'm so fascinated by the plot and I also extremely cannot be bothered