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"But Kenri, what about Earthbound?"
Earth-what?
"Earthbound!"
What-bound?
"Earthbound!"
What-what?
"...Never mind."
So anyway, DoR...
[Spoiler for AW:DoR missions 14-16... I think, click to show]The time for writeups is later. The time for summaries is now!
Brenner: Okay, our enemy is Forsythe. He's an honorable man, a great general, and a hero.
Will: Wow. Sucks that this mission is called "A Hero's Farewell", then.
Forsythe: wtf I lost?
Brenner: What can I say? We rock.
Greyfield: *bang*
Forsythe: *die*
Brenner: ...dude, what the CRAP?
Greyfield: Surprise! I was evil all along!
Players: ...WE KNEW THAT!
Brenner: All Lazurians! Retreat! I'll buy you some time!
Greyfield: You're a single man. What can you do?
Brenner: I'm goddamn Holland Novak meets Sanger Zonvolt. You'll need more than deadly, deadly Wartanks to defeat me!
Brenner: ...wait, crap, why can't I move or attack?
Greyfield: That part of this mission makes no sense, but I like it.
Lazurians: Too bad! We escaped already!
Greyfield: Curses! Well, at least we can kill Brenner.
Will: This is very traumatic for me! I think I'll shut down completely for a while.
Lin: ...well, crap. Guess I need to handle the next mission alone.
Lin: ...Wait, is this our map? This map is AWESOME. We can do all sorts of shenanigans here!
Lin: Our whole area is surrounded by mountains, with only a single square opening. Wartank, go there. Artillery, blow away anything that tries to attack.
Greyfield: This map is highly unbalanced! We don't even have an airport!
Lin: But we do. Well, NOW we do. Too slow.
Lin: All right. All units, forward attack!
Will: I... CAN... FLYYYYYYY!
Lin: ...what.
Will: I HAVE OVERCOME MY CRISIS AND AM HERE TO HELP! CO POWERS, ACTIVATE!
Lin: I really don't need your help, but okay.
Will & Lin: WARTANKS, ATTACK!
Greyfield: You win this round, but I'll get you next time, Brenner's Wolves! Mwahahahaha!
(Seriously, best goddamn map ever.)
PS: I'll get to Earthbound eventually, I haven't abandoned it completely.
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Lin: They have a giant cannon.
Isabella: I know its weakpoint! It's a single square, one that's fortified by two Anti-Tanks, a Missiles, and a Wartank.
Will: ...We're screwed.
Tasha: I can hold them at our two bases for a while, but we need a strategy.
Will: Lin?
Lin: Don't look at me, you're the Commander now.
Will: ****.
Tasha: Oh screw this. MASS BOMBERS = INSTANT WIN.
It's remarkable how quickly enemies start dying when you have about 7 Bombers attacking them. Even if two or three of your Bombers get shot down, it just doesn't matter. Your enemy is completely screwed regardless.
'Nother mission, 'nother S-rank. Lalala...
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Will: Okay, well, this doesn't look too bad. We've got two teams, and they're split up into two groups. Let's get 'em.
Lin: Blue team is panicking and not fighting.
Will: ...Gee. Wonderful.
Lin: If we take that Com Tower, we might be able to talk to them.
Will: Okay, I'll send an Infantry there and take it.
Lin: No, I meant, if you, the CO, goes there.
Will: ...Dammit Lin! *reset*
Will: Okay, AGAIN.
Will: HEY IDIOTS, STOP ACTING LIKE IDIOTS.
Blue team: ...k
Lin: We've defeated their first line. Their reinforcements will arrive in 30 seconds.
Will: WHAT.
Lin: Wait, their troops are rebelling too! They're pulling back!
Will: Awesome. That HORRIBLE DEADLY VIRUS must have gotten them too.
Will: ...Crap, I made myself sad.
Morris: Magic isn't real. But let's check out this magic cure in a city called Salvation anyway.
Gage: Fanatics are attacking us. Who could have predicted that?
Will: But we have MISSILE SILOS!
Gage: But they-
Will: MISSILE SILOS!
Gage: But-
Will: MISSILE SILOS!
Gage: ...
Will: ...
Gage: We'reoutofmissilesilos.
Will: MISSILE SI-aw, crap. Well, it's fine, our Tank and Recon can handle them.
Morris: Spoiler alert: The cure was a hoax.
Lin: Remember that HORRIBLE DEADLY ILLNESS? I'm about to die or something. Instead of investigating any more obviously fake cures, can we start doing something medical-sounding? Thanks.
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I start up AW:DoR to try to beat mission 20, which is absolute torture. And I see that I have Quick Save data for my last attempt. And I think: okay, I'm going to restart this. I'll hit the "delete data" button.
...
Time to do 19 campaign missions and 2 non-campaign missions all over again.
Hahaha I'm gonna go kill myself.
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It says a lot about how much I like this game that it didn't go right into a pile with other games that somehow pissed me off and I never finished. (Hi there HALF THE GAMES I OWN.)
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I have no idea how I S-ranked 10 and 12 before, since I can't seem to do it again. In fact, I can only get 270 points on 12. You need 300 points to get an S-rank. So yeah.
wtf.
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I thought I had found the perfect strategy for the first turn, since it involved destroying one of their Cruisers*. But if you ignore the Cruiser, several of your units also avoid being hurt/killed. Even the unexpected and untimely destruction of one of my Cruisers and the Accursed Submarine of Doom** couldn't stop me from getting an S-rank.
*Cruisers are broken. ...Well, not really, but they are stupidly hard to kill. They get murder Subs, they murder Bombers and Helicopters... Which means the best ways to kill them? Battleships. -_- If you can't use Battleships, you can also use two Cruisers, or two Gunboats and a Cruiser, or three Gunboats. See why I hate Cruisers yet? The battle can be all but won, but if the enemy has just ONE Cruiser, BAM, expect 3 more turns trying to kill it. (Or you can get the drop on it with a Bomber and wound it before it kills you, but I don't have any Bombers in C12. >_>)
**The Accursed Submarine of Doom dives at the beginning of Mission 12 and then lies in wait. And when you least expect it, when your victory is assured... It shows itself and sinks one of your vital units. And "adds" one more unit that you'll have to destroy. There's no use trying to remember that it's there. It will bide its time, waiting for you to forget... And you WILL forget eventually, and that, THAT... is when it will strike.
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Mission 9Ep. The ways I manage to lose seem to get dumber and dumber as I keep trying.
One time, I break my Fire tomes and Hand-Axes, and am forced to send Seth with an Axereaver to kill Gheb, the boss. But whoops, I forgot to heal Seth, and he gets hit on a 20% chance and killed.
Another time, I send Garcia with a Poleax (or whatever kills horses) to handle the 28239742 billion horsemen reinforcements. But they continue to send them at Garcia to get one-shotted instead of attacking more vulnerable units. And ALL OF THEM MANAGE TO HIT GARCIA. With like a 30% chance. Which isn't so unlikely, except that ALL OF THEM HIT. You'd think at least A FEW would miss.
RAAAAAAAAAAAGE
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The ghost ship level.
There is no emoticon for what I felt.
Hardest level in any Fire Emblem game I've ever played.
There's fog of war. There are a million enemies. And a million reinforcements. Reinforcements that fly. And use dark magic. And the boss moves. And L'Arachel and Dozla appear a few turns in as green units that you have to talk to with Ephraim and then protect or else they'll get themselves killed. Also, the win condition was "kill all enemies", but it doesn't tell you how many enemies are left (because of the fog of war or something, I don't know).
WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THIS LEVEL WAS A GOOD IDEA
Eventually I just gave up and sent in Duessel and Ephraim ONLY, gave them both Pure Water (boosts RES), and let Duessel handle all the reinforcements and the boss while Ephraim protected L'Arachel.
After several attempts trying this, it FINALLY worked.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE
Mission 12Ep was easy.
Mission 13Ep was easy, but highlighted one of the few things I hate about Fire Emblem.
Eliwood: Hey psychotic amoral assassin, want to join our side for some reason?
Jaffar: ABSOLUTELY
Ephraim: Hey, you're a good person who realizes that your side is in the wrong, and you've bonded with my adorable adoptive daughter, and one of your friends is already on my side, want to join us and help us fix everything?
Selena: NEVAR
It was supposed to make a point about how during a war, good people die on both sides, but really it just made me think that Selena is an idiot.
Mission 14Ep.
Hard level. Stupid **** kept going wrong. It's easy for this to happen when there are TWO Berserker Druids trying to screw you over.
Berserker Druids are evil. They make your units attack other units of yours. Luckily Natasha had a Restore staff, but it was still annoying.
I also had to rush through the left side of the map's defenses in order to get L'Arachel to Rennac before he left.
Luckily Lute can pretty much solo the entire upper part of the map, since they keep throwing Shamans at you and a Sage can use Light magic.
My first "good" attempt, I tried to kill Vigarde with Garcia using a Hammer. It was working well, I can 2HKO him if I hit (50% chance) and I had enough healers to fix any damage done to Garcia in the process.
Then he criticals me.
It was really my fault for not paying attention to that, so I was pissed, but not THAT pissed.
Restart.
This time, I used Lute to kill him. It was slower, but he couldn't critical against Lute, so yeah.
And that's where I am now.
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I HATE desert levels.
I hate them so much, they tend to affect my choices of who to use. They are why it's so rare for me to use Paladins. Well, that, and a Paladin's inability to travel over forests. Or mountains. Or, like, gentle inclines. What's the point of having a lot of move if you get stopped in your tracks by a damn speed bump? Plus Paladins are boring.
BUT I DIGRESS
I kept making stupid errors in this chapter. Luckily I made them within the first 2-3 turns, so it wasn't a problem to reset. One time, Saleh got attacked by the Berserker and died to a critical. Another time, Innes got attacked by that Berserker and died to a critical. A third time, I killed the Berserker, but got his Handaxe instead of his Dragon Axe because I didn't kill him correctly.
I hate that Berserker.
For my FOURTH attempt, I just ignored it until I reunited Eirika's Failure Brigade with Ephraim's ROCKIN' AWESOME ASSKICKERS* and crushed Valter. Which made the Dragon Axe somewhat unimportant. So that wasn't too well thought out on my part. Once again, Lute was my go-to girl to kill the boss. She was the only one with high enough Luck to have a 0% chance of getting criticaled. Apparently I didn't think to give Cormag the Dragonspear that Vanessa had been carrying around for like 4 chapters either. Guess I'm just stupid like that.
*As an aside, Eirika's Failure Brigade is only a Failure Brigade because I'm playing Ephraim's route.
Eirika route Eirika group > Ephraim route Ephraim group >>>>> Ephraim route Eirika group > Eirika route Ephraim group
That may be confusing, but hopefully if you've played the game you'll understand.
It's ranked that way because Innes >>> Duessel and Knoll. Even if Duessel saved my ass on the ghost ship, the moment you're compared to a guy who is essentially a fusion of Seto Kaiba and Uryu Ishida and who happens to also be banging his hot sister, you're going to fucking lose.
Getting Saleh too is really just a bonus.
So, after crushing Valter, I sent Cormag, Vanessa, Lute, and Saleh to kill the stupid Bersker, being EXCEEDINGLY CAREFUL. Then I moved on to Caellach's pathetic group, getting the rest of the buried items on the way. I hurt Caellach with Lute, then finished him with Joshua, expecting THE EPIC CONVO but apparently THE EPIC CONVO is only during Eirika's game, so instead I got something much less epic.
Joshua killed Caellach. I got some awesome items I'll never use because they might break and they're TOO AWESOME TO USE
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooAwesomeToUse
TVTropes is my favorite non-GameFAQs, non-TFN, non-utility website (dictionary.com, Wikipedia, etc).
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[Spoiler for FE8, THE EPIC CONVO, click to show](Eirika route, Joshua attacks Caellach)
Joshua: Caellach.
Caellach: Hey!
If it isn't Joshua.
It's been a long time.
Have you been well?
Joshua: I've been all right. Still working as a mercenary.
When did you get all proper and join the Grado army?
Caellach: Didn't I tell you?
I wasn't about to waste my life as a nameless soldier.
Still, I think back on those days a lot lately...
My axe and your sword...
The two of us were a deadly pair, eh?
Joshua: ......
Caellach: By the way...
I know all about you, Joshua.
Who you really are I mean.
The prince of Jehanna, huh?
When did you plan on sharing the wealth, you sneaky dog?
Joshua: Listen...
You can't reduce a nation to loot waiting to be divided.
And more importantly, I made a vow to my mother.
I'm going to succeed her as ruler of my homeland.
Hey Caellach...
You're the one who killed my mother, aren't you?
Caellach: Yeah... Sorry 'bout that.
Things happen, you know?
C'mon, Joshua,
don't hate me.
This is war. There's nothing you can do about it.
Besides, grudges get in the way of work, right?
Joshua: That's true.
It's as you say.
Listen Caellach...
I've got to kill you now.
Don't hold it against me.
Caellach: You arrogant...
You haven't changed a bit!
I've always wanted to show you who's better, Joshua.
And I'm even stronger than I used to be.
I'm gonna wipe that smug look off your face for good!
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[Spoiler for FE8, THE NOT EPIC CONVO, click to show](Ephraim route, Joshua attacks Caellach)
Joshua: It's been a long time, Caellach.
Caellach: Is that really you, Joshua?
How's long's it been?
Joshua: About two years...
What've you been doing?
You know, that innkeeper's
still mad you stiffed him.
Caellach: Oh, please...
You're telling me that old
dog's still alive?
...How's the rest of the
troop doing?
Joshua: They're getting by.
Some of them ended up
feeding the crows, though...
Caellach: Is that so?
Those were good times,
weren't they, Joshua?
We were terrors on the
battlefield and worse off it.
Joshua: Yeah, we were.
You'd get carried away and
pick fights with me...
You always said the same
thing: "I will be king!"
Caellach: Yeah. That's my dream.
And I'll do anything to
make it come true.
What do you say, Joshua?
Let's team up again?
Leave those losers you're
with and work for me.
Joshua: Sorry, can't do it.
I'm not going to let
you use me for anything.
Caellach: Bah... You're a cold
fish, arne't you.
That's the one thing that hasn't
changed about you.
Joshua: You havnen't changed
much either.
You're still as
shameless as ever.
Caellach: Ha ha! That's the truth.
Well...
You want to get started?
Josua: Mm... Sure.
Caellach: I'm stronger then I used
to be.
No offense, but you're not
in my league anymore.
Don't hate me, Joshua.
Joshua: Same to you.
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Chapter 16, I sent my team of awesome dude through the castle as fast as possible, crushing everything in my path. Took a quick breather to regroup, grab some treasure, and let the Druids waste their Eclipse tomes on Lute.
Cormag ALMOST died. I made a very stupid mistake and forgot to move him, and an enemy Mage Knight attacked him. I then couldn't move him out of range, and another hit would kill him, and I didn't have any healing items or healers nearby. Whoops? Some I attacked, using a Killer Lance, but didn't critical... but the enemy missed, and I killed them with my second attack.
Too close for comfort.
I crushed Orson with Lute and Natasha and took the throne. Promoted Ephraim and sent Eirika for a quick run at the Tower of Valni to get her to 20, then promoted her as well.
As an aside: Before this chapter, I spent a loooong time at the Tower of Valni with Natasha, my primary healer. Why? She almost had an S in staves, and that wouldn't do. So I leveled her Light magic from low D to S.
She also leveled her actual level from about 2 to 14.
So she is now NATASHA, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Chapter 17. Easy chapter. I saved Syrene and recruited her, sent Natasha to deal with the Druids, had Vanessa and Cormag hold off the Wyvern Riders, Ephraim and Gilliam took care of the horsemen, Joshua dealt with the Heroes, and Lute massacred the mages/sage. Then Lute moved to help Gilliam and Ephraim (who were getting overwhelmed). Once I had destroyed the Mage Knights and most of the Cavaliers, Lute joined Natasha, and the two of them slaughtered Lyon with Light magic and ended the chapter.
Easy easy easy.
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I tried to pull some stupid speedrun-esque stunts here, like sending Vanessa and Cormag to solo a third of the map (each) while my main team pressed onward.
As I expected, it failed miserab-
Wait, what?
It WORKED?
And I beat the level easily and quickly?
What the hell.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRE EMBLEM I KNOW
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Easy, Normal, and Hard.
However!
In Japan, I understand that it had 4 difficulty settings, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Maniac.
Now, what mode was dropped? Not Maniac mode, surprisingly. In fact, Easy was dropped, and everything was shifted down one, so USNormal is equivalent to JPHard.
I started FE10 with USNormal/JPHard and found it difficult but not stupidly so.
Some of the chapters in Hard Mode FE8 ARE stupidly hard.
The ghost ship chapter was stupidly hard. And this chapter is stupidly hard. What do these chapters have in common? They're both fog of war chapters where a billion enemies attack you from every direction and you have to protect some NPCs.
Any advantage you gain from the green NPCs in Chap19 not moving is negated when you remember that you actually have to deploy a lot of units here. You can't cheese your way through with Pure Watered Duessel and Ephraim.
Why? Because it's a defend map. You must defend for 13 turns. And for some reason that makes no sense and is never explained, four of your units start on the other side of the map, in between the paths of two huge groups of enemies.
So, to summarize, this chapter isn't crappily designed at all. No sir.
Sometimes I hate Fire Emblem.
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1. I had to deploy n-4 units, where n is the maximum number I could have deployed, so as to avoid the crappy placement of said units.
2. I couldn't go for the treasure. I only have one Rogue anyway and never got a second set of Lockpicks (wtf), so I would have missed out on one set of treasure regardless, but I also had to ignore the second set. The one on the left is completely inaccessible, as enemies are swarming all around it, and the one on the right runs into some stupid General/Warrior reinforcements that I just didn't have the patience to deal with. On a normal mode run or if I intended to play the Creature Campaign there's no way I'd have allowed myself to miss ANY of the treasure, much less all of it, but since I was just trying to finish the game here I really didn't care.
So I kept all my units inside the nice little easily defended center area. Gilliam held off about 2000 units on one side, while Ephraim, Natasha, and Amelia held off the occasional units who attacked from below, and Duessel just sort of sat around and waited just in case on the right.
You know something strange is going on in Fire Emblem when your most durable character is a healer, but my Natasha was just goddamn invincible.
Anyway, on to chapter 20, Darkling Woods. Enemy boss is a Dracozombie, and Riev is giving him backup. It's also a seize map, which is annoying because Ephraim can't keep up with Cormag/Vanessa/Myrrh since they can fly.
As an aside, I had forgotten how much of a total asshole Lyon is. You're supposed to feel sorry for him, but then you remember that he killed Myrrh's father, zombified him, and sent him off to kill Myrrh. And that's when you lose all sympathy and think "okay I really want to kill this guy right now".
On the bright side, you actually GET to kill him. Unlike the Dawn Brigade in FE10.
*SPOILERS FOR FE10 - I'm serious*
"Hey guys, as recently as 5 minutes ago, we were acting like genocidal maniacs who would rather kill off entire countries than tell our former friends the truth and ask for help, and we at one point tried to burn a little girl alive, but we're cool now, right?"
"Yeah sure why not, WANNA JOIN THE PARTY?"
ANYWAY
So this was just my "test" chapter to figure out what my real plan was. I moved Ephraim/Vanessa/Cormag/Myrrh in close to boss, then rescued Ephraim with Cormag and dropped him off near the boss, bypassing like half the map. Riev attacked Cormag - my Cormag was RES screwed, so I fully expected this to kill him, but it didn't. So I healed Cormag with Natasha using a Physic staff, and attacked the Dracozombie boss with Cormag using a Dragonspear.
I could do about 37 damage, twice, which was not QUITE enough to kill the boss. I could then finish him with Ephraim, but in that case I wouldn't be able to capture on the same turn and Cormag would probably be killed. But I tried anyway, fully expecting to restart... and Cormag ACTUALLY GOT HIS 9% CRIT AND KILLED THE BOSS.
So I finished the chapter real quick thanks to some AWESOME LUCK.
For how annoying a couple earlier chapters were, the last chapter was easy. I advanced with my guys, leaving a trail of bodies in my wake. I killed off a Dracozombie, let Natasha pretty much solo the 5 Archmogall (promoted eyeball) reinforcements, and then let Natasha pretty much solo the Gorgons surrounding Lyon and the Wight reinforcements. I waited for the reinforcements to stop coming, but they never did, so I just got pissed and killed Lyon with Myrrh. I sorta expected her to die, but I guess that was unreasonable - she had like 49 HP and 30+ DEF/RES.
Part two of the final stage, I just killed the Demon King flat out with Ephraim. 30 x2, he summons some monsters, I attacked him again for another 60 and he dies.
The end.
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So!
1. Finish Earthbound FINALLY
2. Start Xenogears
3. Restart Final Fantasy VII
4. Fire Emblem 9, then Fire Emblem 10
5. Replay Sonic Adventure 2, then Sonic Heroes, then maybe finish Shadow the Hedgehog if I don't want to kill myself after Heroes
(#5 has the most potential for hilarity, while #3 is the one to pick if you want to make me suffer.)
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I just downloaded that actually, I might replay it soon
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extremely awesome
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How much grinding is there?
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Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Guess not.
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There's very little grinding that I've had to do in Dragon Quest IV
Money is much more lenient than in Dragon Quest VII, which was the worst of the money grinding
Levels aren't really much of a problem
And the game moves along at a pretty quick pace when you put Battle Text speed to the fastest option. Plus, there's a casino. There's no reason NOT to get Dragon Quest IV, it's actually quite fun. <_<
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Liberal Arts Major
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(That doesn't include killing the enemies you happen to run into on your way to the plot.)
Also, any grinding is too much grinding.
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"Speed is... weight. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" ~Admiral Kizaru, One Piece
"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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Mega Sonic
Endut! Hoch Hech!
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Tearing it up with Hero/Ragnar/Alena/Meena
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Mega Sonic
Endut! Hoch Hech!
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5. Replay Sonic Adventure 2, then Sonic Heroes, then maybe finish Shadow the Hedgehog if I don't want to kill myself after Heroes
However, I'm not sure if I'll actually follow through on anything past SA2B, and SA2B is fairly short, so yeah.
ANYWAY
Thoughts after not playing this for several years:
1. Wow these graphics are pretty ugly. I did not remember this at all.
2. The mouths don't sync up to the dialogue. This bugs me for some reason. Next gen has apparently spoiled me even though I don't really care about it. Didn't see that coming.
3. Whoa these voices are weird. Sonic sounds better, Eggman sounds better, Knux is... whoa, Shadow is worse, Rouge is... ugh, and everyone else I don't care about.
4. Beat the first 10 Hero missions. Only Aquatic Mine gave me any trouble at all. Argh stupid Aquatic Mine. If it didn't have the 4th best song in the game it would be unbearable.
5. AUGH CAMERA WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME
6. The Tails vs. Eggman and Sonic vs. Shadow boss battles are essentially me attacking constantly in random directions while running around and hoping I hit something. I've owned this game pretty much since it was released (on the GCN) and I still don't have a better strategy than that. lol
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"I'm not perverted! I'm just immensely fascinated!" ~Lisa Yadomaru, Bleach
"Speed is... weight. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" ~Admiral Kizaru, One Piece
"You're not even good enough to be my-" "I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!" "-fake."
Message last edited by Kenri of the Yuri on 9/19/2008 at 02:27:58 AM
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WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO
I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG
Anyway.
-Beat the next 5 missions. Meteor Herd was surprisingly easy. Maybe I got a good emerald setup. Death Chamber was torture though. The camera refused to cooperate. Like, ever.
-Egg Golem is an annoying boss. I was never in any danger of dying, but I kept falling. Over and over and over.
-I hate sand.
-Crazy Gadget = half-awesome, half-ARGH
-The second Tails vs. Eggman fight is pathetic. He shot a slow moving laser at me repeatedly and I just... killed him. -_-
TIME TO FINISH THIS STORY eventually
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"I'm not perverted! I'm just immensely fascinated!" ~Lisa Yadomaru, Bleach
"Speed is... weight. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" ~Admiral Kizaru, One Piece
"How did YOU know the emerald was a fake?" "Tails!" "Because you just told me, fox boy!"
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Kenri: "This level looks... impossible."
Game: "Don't worry, it's pretty much on autopilot."
Kenri: "I don't have to do anything?"
Game: "Just let the rails take you to the end of the level."
Kenri: "Really?"
Game: "If you press anything, you'll die. Don't do it."
Kenri: "Okay..."
*Sonic plummets to his death*
Kenri: "..."
Game: "You were supposed to jump there."
Kenri: "......"
EVENTUALLY I beat it but yeah, I died like 12 times first.
Shadow fight was annoying, but easy, since you can collect like a million rings easily. Turns out Shadow can deflect homing attacks and roll attacks, but not normal jumps. ALL HAIL SHADOW -_-
Dark story tiem
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"I'm not perverted! I'm just immensely fascinated!" ~Lisa Yadomaru, Bleach
"Speed is... weight. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" ~Admiral Kizaru, One Piece
"It seems you're not an ordinary blue hedgehog. Just what are you?" "What you see is what you get, just a guy who loves adventure! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!"