My favorite JRPGs from the past couple of years not named Pokemon are probably Radiant Historia and Ar Tonelico 2.
I'm not sure what this says about me.
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Winter 2014 Anime |OT2| Waiting for Sakamoto
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My favorite JRPGs from the past couple of years not named Pokemon are probably Radiant Historia and Ar Tonelico 2.
I'm not sure what this says about me.
Admiral Woofington
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Huh. Weird, I'm so used to so many anime making their dubbed debut in Adult Swim/toonami
MGS2 doesn't matter anyway. You need MGS1 and MGS3. And MGR. Everybody needs MGR
GaoGaiGar Final - 3
YESSSSSSSS.
President Dan Green is back to help stop the Spiral Nemesis! Man, I really wish the rest of this show was dubbed. Dan Green would have been amazing in this scene.
YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW YET
Pretty sure Persona 4 came out after that so nope.
GaoGaiGar Final - 4
Holy shit. This is like a completely different show from before.
Papillion reveals to be still alive as a replica, and everyone's happy. Very happy, so happy that they decide there's no reason to fight and that all the robots should shut dow-wait wat.
I forgot to mention my surprise at HyoRyu and EnRyu still being alive last episode. Yeesh, these guys sure come back from the dead a lot. I didn't see GoldyMarg anywhere though
What the hell was up with that bondage scene? Did SDBurton sneak in some of his fantasies in this show while drunk?
Wait a second-CAIN?!? No. He's a duplicate right? He has to be. No way the Cain who was practically the key that saved everyone in the series is part of the 11 soul masters...right?
My mind is full of so much what from this episode. There's so much shit going down right now.
Whether you're me and loved GGG in spite of it being MOTW or you're Jarmel and you only tolerated it, everyone agrees that, insane fetishes aside, Final is where it's at.
Thursday unless you live in reality and then Friday.
R_thanatos
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All of this was in the manga . they added One scene that wasn't here but that's it.
Radiant historia was excellent ...dat soundtrack , dat protagonist that GET SHIT DONE
I loved it.
Tonelico 1 is good but nothing exceptionnal.
Tonelico 2 is really great , if not awesome ( especially if you've played the first game )
Tonelico 3 should be played ONLY and ONLY if you wish to know how the saga ends even i who finished tonelico 3 at least 10 times ( platinium get ) cannot recommand it to "normal" players
Ice Lightning
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I hope the voice cast gets announced soon.
Yen Press announced the license for the manga, so I will be picking that up come later this year.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Futari wa Precure 1-3
Suite Precure 1-4
ALSO OH MY GOD THE ED IS THE MOST BALLER THING EVER AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.
And so my easily-being-influenced by fanart continues. After going through Heartcatch and most of Smile just before it feels odd to have a villain that's all evil and no comedic relief via his main general leader guys, this Pissard guy is a scary fucker! Though that means it's up to the mascots to provide the comic relief and they're sort of aggravating so far-mepo. The dynamic between Nagisa and Honoka hasn't really done much for me yet, but they (especially Nagisa, ALL OF MY HNNNNNNG) are adorable anyhow and have 40+ episodes to bond and make me feel warm feelings. The fights are what I assume is standard for a good amount of Cure series: get beat up a bit > YOU CAN'T DO THAT I WON'T LET YOU > super move and I've mostly grown to accept it, though I do hope there are some good ones even if I have to wait til the end.
I recognize this madp avatar (now in not a weird res)
Suite Precure 1-4
Oh no another one! I find it hilarious how Hibiki and Kanade will just fucking go at each other at the drop of a hat and how the villains use that to their advantage. I'm a bit disappointed because I thought every MOTW was going to be music related but then we got a cake monster, missed opportunity. Some pretty decent fights so far too but I don't expect that to last too long! Hummy makes me laugh for unknown reasons, she's also adorable so that's good too. MadP tells me this becomes a train wreck so I guess I'm looking forward to that, I'll have AmiKoshi to comfort me.
ALSO OH MY GOD THE ED IS THE MOST BALLER THING EVER AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.
nintendoman58
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I'm honestly a bit in the middle when it comes to the MOTW aspects in GGG. It had some dull episodes, but for the most part there was so much energy put into the fights and the characters even during the MOTW episodes.
Tomorrow
night, if there's another delay >_<
GaoGaiGar Final - 5
That flashback torture scene at the beginning. It was only for a few seconds, but...holy shit! I....I have no words!
Mikoto was awesome in this episode. After spending the entire previous series crying and screaming and just pressing the Program Drive button, she finally gets up on her feet and decides to kick some ass!
Speaking of ass-kicking, we got the return of good ol' J and the King J-Der! Surely things will be better now right?
NNNNOPE. Now our heroes are even more screwed in the ass because all of the autobots have been duplicated into evil terminators and Guy is now being forced to fight against his will apparently.
...UGGGGGH. The fact that both Cain and Abel are both part of the 11 Soul Masters and are causing all this madness is like learning that the three goddess that created Hyrule were actually the ones that killed Link's parents."
Mikoto was awesome in this episode. After spending the entire previous series crying and screaming and just pressing the Program Drive button, she finally gets up on her feet and decides to kick some ass!
Speaking of ass-kicking, we got the return of good ol' J and the King J-Der! Surely things will be better now right?
NNNNOPE. Now our heroes are even more screwed in the ass because all of the autobots have been duplicated into evil terminators and Guy is now being forced to fight against his will apparently.
...UGGGGGH. The fact that both Cain and Abel are both part of the 11 Soul Masters and are causing all this madness is like learning that the three goddess that created Hyrule were actually the ones that killed Link's parents."
And The World Ends With You.
I really liked Stocke and company. My sole complaint with Radiant Historia was that I HATED the way time travel was implemented as mechanic. Like, within the plot, no prob, but I hated that I sometimes had to redo long story scenes to finish item delivery quests. That doesn't ruin my opinion of the game as a whole, though, which is why I hope I can weather BD's storm unscathed.
I'm honestly a bit in the middle when it comes to the MOTW aspects in GGG. It had some dull episodes, but for the most part there was so much energy put into the fights and the characters even during the MOTW episodes.
Tomorrownight, if there's another delay >_<
GaoGaiGar Final - 5
That flashback torture scene at the beginning. It was only for a few seconds, but...holy shit! I....I have no words!
Mikoto was awesome in this episode. After spending the entire previous series crying and screaming and just pressing the Program Drive button, she finally gets up on her feet and decides to kick some ass!
Speaking of ass-kicking, we got the return of good ol' J and the King J-Der! Surely things will be better now right?
NNNNOPE. Now our heroes are even more screwed in the ass because all of the autobots have been duplicated into evil terminators and Guy is now being forced to fight against his will apparently.
...UGGGGGH. The fact that both Cain and Abel are both part of the 11 Soul Masters and are causing all this madness is like learning that the three goddess that created Hyrule were actually the ones that killed Link's parents."
To be perfectly honest I'm pretty sure that the Goddess Din is not Link's ally. Her Triforce appearing to Ganon in
Twilight Princess' backstory
Hey instead of sending a new hero let's just drown Hyrule!
Save 'N Quit
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Crash Station
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Hey now, DR art is great! Even ignoring how awesome the character designs are, whoever did it has the spiral eyes down perfectly.
My problem with the time travelling mechanic is that they had an opportunity to do some interesting alternate timeline shenanigans but in the end it was essentially distilled into "here's two different stories to play with the ability to jump between the two at will when you run into arbitrary plot locks." Don't get me wrong, I didn't really mind it all that much, but I think it was a bit of a missed opportunity.
Stocke owns and would probably end half of this season's anime in three episodes max because he'd figure out what to do and cut the BS.
cj_iwakura
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Fate/Zero's dub sure is a mixed bag. Runs the gamut from great(Rider) to passable(Saber) to blech(Archer).
nintendoman58
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While I agree with you on the
Din point (completely forgot about Twilight Princess), on the point on drowning Hyrule, at that point in time, Ganon had already done too much damage to the world for a hero to fix IIRC. I think the Goddesses at that point just wanted to put everybody out of their misery.
Or maybe I used a bad example. It's like...wait you know what this is like actually? This is like Xenoblade.
With the whole Zanza and Dickson revelation.
Admiral Woofington
Member
cj_iwakura
Member
No doubt. The price is ridiculous.
I sold a rare PS1 game to help foot the bill. I love the show enough to want to own it.
RH really did have some neat variety between the functionality of the characters. Aht's traps really were the bomb.
Stocke was great. Cut out so much of the bullshit, planned ahead, and got shit done. Eruca was pretty similar. And yeah having to go through some dialogue scenes multiple times due to the time travel was a bit of a pain in the ass but it wasn't that much of an issue to me.
Mine is Persona? but even as good as those games are they don't hold a candle to the SNES-PS1-earlyPS2 golden age.
I applied a simple test. Are they better than FFVI, FFX, Chrono Trigger or Suikoden 2? No.
cj_iwakura
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Well, which Persona are we talking about here? That alone can wildly depict one's taste in games.
Yeah I dunno. I mean you actually GO to
Hyrule
They couldn't even keep Ganon sealed, let alone kill him.
Admiral Woofington
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Persona 4 Golden best waifu simulator.
Also it has a really enjoyable slice of life high school anime simulator.
I hear rumors there's an rpg mixed in there. Myth needs confirmation.
Also it has a really enjoyable slice of life high school anime simulator.
I hear rumors there's an rpg mixed in there. Myth needs confirmation.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Beta? What are they doing with Kdrama?
We were talking about the period after 2004 so its Persona 3, FES, Persona 4, Golden.
*raises hand*
I have a real issue with games that have completion counters because I always want the "complete" experience. I'm lucky I'm too lazy to even look at trophy percentages because I guarantee I'll go nuts if I started caring about them.
hipsterpants
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You missed out on the GOAT video game ending man.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
As someone who is on chapter 2, I will say that MGRGR is the best new anime girl noise. RIP Wafuu.
cj_iwakura
Member
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Crunchyroll please.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
There hasn't been a new best anime girl noise since CCS! UEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Looks good. Hope they finally found something which is good at the source to adapt. I hear it's a sort of "healing" anime, so that sound promising!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's too bad all they really do is let things happen to them even though they are an investigation team!
MGRGRGRGRGRGRRRRRRR
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
Pahee!
And? At least they're not "OH NO I AM AN ACE SNIPER BUT I CAN'T TAKE THIS SHOT." or "I BLAME YOU FOR MY MOTHER'S DEATH SO I WILL DESTROY THE WORLD 500 YEARS FROM NOW." That's my point.
I'm confused, you're trying to dissuade people from playing the game, right? Cause stuff like this is doing precisely the opposite.
nintendoman58
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GaoGaiGar Final - 6
DEAR GOD IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
DEAR GOD IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
Uh-Oh Soul Masters. You just killed the main character's girlfriend (I think, she might come back) while he was in his FINAL FORM. You shouldn't have done that.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Animal noises don't count!
Is that the dub version? lol
Hohey!
Also JRPG characters!
You'd just want them to be smarter about everything they do.
Although, Golden added in a lot more random goofy hijinks to make them even more silly as a group.
You'd just want them to be smarter about everything they do.
Although, Golden added in a lot more random goofy hijinks to make them even more silly as a group.
Nah, they're goofy teenagers. I don't think me and my friends could've hoped to solve a murder mystery as teens. But I could definitely see us fail to make curry.
EDIT:
PLEASE ENJOY THIS IMAGE OF THE MANGLED NAKED BODY OF A PROSTITUTE. WE SO EDGY.
Sleepy may be on a quest for revenge against the man who killed his number one hooker, but first he's gonna have a Coca Cola.
Admiral Woofington
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I'm not trying anything. I still think the game is worth playing, I was just disappointed with 50% of the chapters.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Hmm that's a shame. I was gonna pick it up before Ys MoC since people were saying it's so good. Ah well, to the backlog it goes.
Basileus777
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The more I reflect on this game, the less I think this is true. Out of 8+ chapters, only 1,2 and 4 are any good. And while they were enjoyable, the game wasn't anything special even then. And with the rest of the game being shit, it kind of makes it hard to recommend.
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