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Stratelier

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Soloed G-rank Chameleos (the online version) last night, a full 30 minutes but we did it.

Then I tried fighting G-rank Teostra solo -- emphasis on "tried". After that went south and fast, I remembered I still need Rathian Mantles for various armor pieces and upgrades. Or maybe I should gem Rec Level into my Brute Tigrex set, because speed eating is a huge perk in solo hunts.
 

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Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - Just started this today, and I'm having a blast already! I'm not very far yet, but I did promote all the villagers' (Alm's friends) classes in the first dungeon. Gotta say, the dungeon-crawling is shaping up to be a welcome addition, and the fatigue mechanic is neat. I'm sure later dungeons will get more complex.

Divinity: Original Sin (EE) - It's been a slow progress, due to how many areas outside the first city have high-level monsters that restrict where I can go at any given time, but I'm slowing inching my way up by completing side quests and finding the appropriate area to navigate first. I do hope the pace picks up afterward. It's been a solid ride so far, anyhow.
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, started on the Blue Lions house this time and playing as female Byleth, since I'm not creative with names and don't want to use Byleth as a name again, I just gave her my name. Not gonna bother putting any of this into spoilers since there are few differences so far compared to Golden Deer route in part 1, mainly dialogue differences (both story and for Fem!Byleth) and character reactions to some story elements. Just defeated Lonato not too long ago, now just doing quests and supports again. For this route, I'm gonna recruit Linhardt again (of course, but not romance him this time), Ferdinand, and Lorenz since I only recruited the first on my last playthrough. I'm thinking of using the B support/gifting/tea party methods to recruit the latter two, Linhardt's isn't hard as raising magic/reason is brain dead easy early on, but I just want to see if those other methods are faster or not.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - Just started this today, and I'm having a blast already! I'm not very far yet, but I did promote all the villagers' (Alm's friends) classes in the first dungeon. Gotta say, the dungeon-crawling is shaping up to be a welcome addition, and the fatigue mechanic is neat. I'm sure later dungeons will get more complex.
It's always best to promote your units ASAP, especially for a first time playthrough.

As for dungeons, Thabes Labyrinth is the final one post-game and it's stupid difficult. So if you want to try this on your first run, wait until your units are at level 20 to promote and max them out then instead, and maybe Overclass them as well (as they have to be at level 20 to do this). Make sure you are absolutely prepared and have better food/beverages with you.
 

ShinyRockruff204

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Pokemon Diamond:

Currently at Fantina, I don't have any dark-types to defeat her, my only hope is my Floatzel, Mina, because she knows Pursuit.
 

Lylian

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Stardew Valley. Upgraded to the deluxe coop. Now I have blue chickens, void chickens, white chickens, and a rabbit. Just waiting for the dinosaur egg to hatch. Might have to build another coop soon.
 

Juliko

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Stardew Valley again. Trying to raise a bunch of money so I can finish the bundle that fixes the bus. Really need to grow some apples on top of that, too.
 

Scarlet Sky

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Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. It's been my main game since its launch about a month ago.
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route. Still on part 1, will be facing the Death Knight tonight in the chapter where you have to rescue Flayn and "Monica". Got Linhardt recruited again, now I'm still working on Ferdinand and Lorenz, though I should be able to get them soon. Been using a mixture of methods mentioned to recruit them, it works just as well and I think a bit faster too, since apparently it lowers the main requirements after supporting them. Also got Shamir recruited too, I actually forgot you can recruit other faculty members, since in my last playthrough for Golden Deer I only got Hanneman, Manuela, and Seteth. Though I think for those three they join automatically after you're at a high level, from what I've read (not sure if it's specifically high professor level or actual level, as by the timeskip both were already pretty high for me).
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route part 1. Got Ferdinand recruited finally and even got Cyril recruited as well. Now I just need Lorenz, hopefully I'll be able to get him in time since the deadline for part 2 rolling around is coming. Though I have been reading that apparently Lorenz can be recruited post-timeskip, as somebody mentioned that during a battle the option to recruit him popped up. Can't confirm if that's true though obviously, so if I can't pre-timeskip then I'll try it out I guess.
Putting this part in spoilers though minor. Just finished the Remire Village mission and we see Dimitri get lost to his darkness in his mind, went from concerned to bloodthirsty real quick. Of course it's obvious why he gets like that pre-timeskip, but still interesting to see actually happen (though it's mentioned before this too, by Dimitri himself and others).
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route part 1. Just received Sothis' powers/blessings and killed Solon. Also before all that, after the ball got the Goddess Tower cutscene with Dimitri, since I'll be romancing him this time. Anyway, by this point Dimitri knows who the Flame Emperor is by the dagger "he" dropped while listening in on Solon's and Kronya's conversation. Tonight I'll be doing the Holy Tomb mission.

Also I noticed for a while, but the students in Blue Lions are actually better battle wise than the Golden Deer students for this run. Dimitri and Claude are both equal in being beasts though, I kind of figured they would anyway and I'm sure Edelgard will be similar when I do her route for the Black Eagles first. And while I like these two characters, I'm dropping Dedue and Mercedes for Ferdinand and Linhardt respectively. They are great for what they do, but I seem to have gotten lucky in having Ferdinand be a better tank than Dedue, and while Linhardt was great in my GD run he's actually a better healer unit this time compared to Mercedes. Overall though, students this playthrough are getting better growths than my last playthrough, and they level up faster compared to my GD students (except Claude, he got them level ups like it's nobody's business).
 

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Nier Automata. Picked it up because Judgment was disappointing imo. Haven't been playing for long - I've just arrived at the resistance camp and completed two sidequests. Apparently 2B and 9S are off to a desert to meet up with someone? Can't wait to see where that goes.

P.S. The music is amazing, haven't liked a game's soundtrack this much since Xenoblade Chronicles.
 
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Ultra Street Fighter IV

Just unlocking the palettes I'm missing and listening to the characters' themes.
 

Beth Pavell

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Medieval II Total War: England. Feeling somewhat smug now - a skirmish in Brittany led to the French King Louis marching up from Touraine. My army retreated further into Brittany, while a Norman force descended on the French from Caen and routed them. King Louis barely escaped, and mercenary knights turned the victory into a decisive rout.

Apparently the French had had enough after that and sued for peace. Fine by me, it gives me space to continue to consolidate and organise armies. This being the case I've sent the Midlands army north to besiege Edinburgh. Strategically it's irrelevant, but conquering Scotland is one of the campaign objectives
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route now on part 2,
Got back to the monastery and had a cutscene where Byleth reunites with a now deranged Dimitri. Defeated some thieves and the other students came back as well, also got Gilbert in our team now. Had a conversation with Ferdinand about him deflecting from the Empire. Lorenz didn't return after the timeskip though, apparently certain characters will leave after the timeskip depending on the route you recruit them in, the same goes for Ashe in GD and Lysithea in BE apparently. So I have to recruit him again in a future battle, it makes sense why after playing Golden Deer last playthrough but still kinda sucks. Anyway, can't level up Dimitri's support just yet since text shows he's not ready to speak with anyone (most likely still thinking everyone around him are ghosts haunting him for their "deaths").

Fire Emblem Heroes, pulled Hubert! First summon too, got really lucky with that for sure. Now I'm gonna try for Hilda later tonight or maybe tomorrow.
 

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I'm going to start Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux. Hopefully I will remember how to play this. Judging by what I have read online, I'll get the Law ending first since Law endings are apparently the worst ones, and I like to get the worst endings first and then get progressively better endings.

Also, the South American part of the intro is harsher in hindsight now, considering what has been happening in Venezuela. Ouch.
 

Cap'n Jack

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Currently I’m going through Nier: Automata with a friend because we made a pact to help other Platinum the game. Last night I fully upgraded every weapon and fought a certain secret boss, which was actually fun at a point in the game where I’m disgustingly overleveled for everything else. Some day I’ll do a third play-through of this game purely for fun, to see if I can finally get the most out of the game’s combat.

I also finally started up Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. It is very different from the normal Metal Gear game with its level select and the weird PMC Tycoon side thing you have to do. Also you can’t crawl?! I’m having fun though, actually I’m managing to do most of the missions with perfect stealth and no kills, just the way I’d like to say I beat every other game (but I didn’t >_>).
 

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Fire Emblem Three Houses

So I'd just reached a point in the game now where I made a second save state so I can go back later, select a different choice somewhere and play things out from there instead of starting fresh for just a choice.

I gotta say though once I'm done with my first house playthrough I don't think I'm gonna have the heart to do another playthrough in another house. At least for a little while.
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route part 2,
Just finished ch.16, The Rose-Colored River. Defeated the commanders this chapter and recruited Lorenz again, yes you do have to fight him then a dialogue box will prompt you to choose between recruiting him or no if you've already recruited him pre-timeskip. So I got him back now, after I completed the mission we had a moment were a girl wants to join the Kingdom's army. Take note that this girl is actually Fleche, Randolph's younger sister, her older brother is the one you personally kill during Dimitri's mocking conversation to him. She wants revenge for the death of her older brother, it's obvious that she's infiltrating our army but the characters don't know that yet. Anyway, will start on ch.17, Blood of the Eagle and Lion tonight. This will certainly be interesting from Dimitri's POV this time.

Fire Emblem Heroes, training Hubert currently. I conferred the Dark Blessing on him simply cause it fits so well with him, I also just decided to confer the Water Blessing on Dimitri and the Earth Blessing on Male!Byleth. If/when Felix and Linhardt are in a future banner, I might give Felix either the Dark or Fire Blessing and Linhardt Wind or Light Blessing, but of course that might change. (and no I don't use Blessings for competitive and whatever else that much, majority of the time it's aesthetic and thematic reasons for me regardless of what others say)
 
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