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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux

I love how the person that made a walkthrough I'm following doesn't know why this game is rated M, considering how risque some demons look. Hell, both cubus are in the game, that's enough reason for me to be M.

Also, since I was playing late at night, I could only do the intro of the game. Now I'm actually playing it.
 
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I love how the person that made a walkthrough I'm following doesn't know why this game is rated M, considering how risque some demons look. Hell, both cubus are in the game, that's enough reason for me to be M.
lol isn't Mara in Redux as well? It's been a while since I've played it so I don't remember if he is or not, but yeah quite a few demons in the MegaTen series are pretty risqué so I don't know what that person is on about. Unless this is their first SMT game.
 

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lol isn't Mara in Redux as well? It's been a while since I've played it so I don't remember if he is or not, but yeah quite a few demons in the MegaTen series are pretty risqué so I don't know what that person is on about. Unless this is their first SMT game.
Yes. Mara is in Redux. It is even the demon they gave away as "thanks" to the Megami Tensei Reddit. Seriously.
 

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Just finished Fire Emblem Three Houses on the Blue Lions Path. Starting the Golden Deer. Just finished Chapter 6. ( I think. Can't which chapter number exactly though. )

We are sent to this tower to retrieve the Lance of Ruin from a disowned son ( Due to lacking a crest. ) Before I begin, I pointed out that I recruited Annette, Felix, Ingrid, Mercedes, by buying their supports via reown through New Game +. Anyway, after we get through a swarm of ruffians, we defeat the leader, but the lance's power turns him into a monster, one of many we will face. We kill the monster after defeating it three times, who returns to corpse of same the same ruffian, with the Lance unscathed. It is returned to the owners. Archbishop Rhea warns Byleth and their students not tell about the events, for they could wreck havoc if relics's ability of turning people into monster was known. As Claude and Byleth discussing the Secrecy of the Church, Tomas reveals that there has been several records of people turning into monsters because of relics, and the church destroyed all of them. This leads Claude to believe the church is hiding something. Edelgard joins us, questioning how Claude managed to be accepted into the Monastery and how he's the heir to the Alliance despite Duke Reigan's Eldest son's death. Claude mentions he has "noble dreams" for the future, and Edelgard hopes her dreams doesn't conflicts with Claude's. This is the big difference in Golden Deer when compared to Blue Lions: Dimitri takes pity on the ruffian, saying that he didn't deserve to be disowned and the conversation ends; but in Golden Deer there is much more emphasis on the church hiding something.
 

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I finished Titanfall 2 last night so I'm planning on starting Final Fantasy X-2 next.... we'll see how it goes. I've always said that I despise this game but I've never given it a fair shot so I'm going to try!
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, Blue Lions route part2,
Completed ch.17 last night. I'm at ch.18 right now but haven't had time at all to start it yet, will tonight though. Anyway, for ch.17 I wiped out Edelgard's army first then Claude's; also thank you Claude for sweeping one of the beasts for me lol. I noticed since the timeskip for Blue Lions, enemy hit rates have been low but still hit me; I mean my units can tank them but I'm dreading from ch.18 on it's gonna be like Thracia's enemies RNG hit rates. I love FE5 but having enemies with very low hit rates still hitting me, but my 90-100% hit rate doesn't land is frustrating; seriously when fighting one of Edelgard's units, he had a 4% hit rate compared to Ingrid's 99% and the enemy still hit! Didn't do a lot at all (only 1% damage) but it still stings when the RNG hates you for letting enemies low hit rates still land. Well, at least my Felix is a speedy dodge-bot, so he's the only one of my units enemies won't be hitting lol. Got off track, anyway we killed Randolph's sister after she killed Rodrigue (RIP best daddy), I disagree with others for the opinion in that Byleth should have turned back time to save him; I really like him too but his death is crucial for Dimitri's character development, serves as a big wake up call to him for how he's been acting.

Fire Emblem Heroes, I made a new team full of four stars this time. The characters in question are Male!Morgan, Berkut, Picnic Leo, and Reyson. Morgan and Reyson both are lv.17 with +5, Berkut and Picnic Leo are lv.16 with no merges. Not really sure what exactly I'm gonna do with this team since for now they're doing the Training Tower. Maybe I'll switch out my current defense team with this one once they are lv.40 (and Morgan and Reyson get to +10) and have specific skills, just to see how many defense wins I pull with them.
 

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Empire Total War: Great Britain 1700-1701 - A new game and frenetic activity. First order of business is to raise tax income, so to that end I've been building governmental buildings and trying to stimulate growth in the backwaters - Scotland, the Bahamas, Rupert's Land. A sugar plantation in the Bahamas is the obvious choice. Grabbing trade deals with European powers first is a must, to try and keep a diverse trade portfolio. It required a lot of one-off payments, but I now trade with the Dutch, Sweden, the Republic of Venice, Prussia, the Ottoman Empire, Savoy, and the Maratha Confederacy.

The second objective is to seize some of the Caribbean. Antigua and Trinidad are obvious targets as pirate strongholds and potential sugar isles. Winkling pirates out is always bloody expensive, unfortunately, and waiting for better technology or more artillery rarely makes it much easier
 

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Final Fantasy X-2

So far I've completed the Besaid, Kilika and Zanarkand missions. I found Besaid's to be fairly benign if a little boring, Kilika was much of the same, but it's nice to see the new Kilika. Zanarkand, however, was a fucking total joke. Very disappointed with how they took that area of the game with the sequel.

I'm really not enjoying this game much at all yet, but I'm going to persevere. The story is boring, the characters (especially Brother) are just unbearable to listen too, but the combat is at least decent.
 

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Empire Total War: Great Britain 1701-1705 - Added Austria to the list of trade partners for a pretty stable trading profile. Swapping tech with some of the major powers has given me a slight headstart in artillery, but for technology I've been concentrating in the basics - bayonets, basic farm upgrades, basic school upgrades.

Austria went to war with France, which led to me entering the war on the side of my ally. Some skirmishing in the Channel as far as Europe is concerned, though I have landed an army in Brittany to drive the French fleet out of Brest and at least challenge them on their own soil. The real action has been in the West Indies. The Windward Islands and Cayenne were the first to fall - the spices being a welcome addition for the European trade. Taking Antigua after that was a slog, and unfortunately it looks like Trinidad is going to be even harder.

Strangely the US has spawned as a result of unrest in Albany. Usually the Iroquois destroy the nascent state immediately but they seem to be getting some traction this time round
 

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Almost done with Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia. On what seems to be the final boss. When that is done, I’ll start up either Shin Megami Tensei 4 or the second game in the Phoenix Wright trilogy on my 3DS. Leaning towards the latter because I’ve been watching a streamer play Dangonronpa v3 for about a month now and I’m feeling the whole visual novel thing.

I’m also almost done with my casual run of Pokemon Gold. Just gotta beat Red. After that I’ll play Sapphire.

Recently beat the main part of Super Mario Odyssey (i’m at the Mushroom Kingdom). When I’m done looking through the Mushroom Kingdom and the far side of the moon, I’ll probably put the game away for a bit to finish Three Houses.

Lastly, I just started Paper Mario (N64) on my laptop. Excited to play this one as it’s my first ever experience with the game.
 

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I actually started playing a new video game recently, which, for me, is odd. It's called West of Loathing. It's been out for a while, but I just discovered it, and it is fantastic.
Would definitely recommend. A++
 

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Tales of Berseria: Beat the Ex Dungeon, and decided to try out the Arotorius rematch. Did ok for a while, got him to about 20%, then he pulled out the big AoE attacks at the same time and wiped the party. Figured that before I make my next attempt I'd make sure to fill up my BG first, so we're not going in half-cocked (still hate that party swapping is tied to BG btw).
 

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Pokémon Gold, Breath Of The Wild, and Xenoblade Chronicles X. I guess I'm in a collectathon adventure mood at the moment! Oh, Demon's Souls too, for my sins.

Really just passing the time until Astral Chain releases, can't wait for that one.
 

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Played some of my “comfort food” game, Persona 3 Portable last night. I’m in the extreme late game so I’m taking on the toughest challenges in the game. I only have one of the boss rematches left to do (the last one, fittingly), and I beat the Reaper! Yayyyyy! The feeling of dread was palpable, but I think he was easier this time compared to when I beat him the first time on PS2 (he wasted a lot of his turns throwing up Ice Breaks and Elec Breaks, not a worthwhile investment if I were him). Anyway, now I can go to the Monad Depths and take on the toughest random encounters in the game so I can get some real grinding in for the last rematch boss (which is probably gonna be tougher than the final boss to be honest). I feel slightly deflated though, because I was hoping to do every side quest in the game, and I unlocked the last two quests after beating the Reaper, and one of them I know I’m not gonna do...

It’s the fight with Elizabeth... I know what that fight entails. She instantly kills you if you nullify, reflect, or absorb anything. The only realistic way to beat her is to max out every Social Link in one play-through so you can unlock a special Persona that resists everything but doesn’t go too far to where Liz will one-shot you. And that’s not happening on this play-through... At least I can say I did every side quest except that one.
 
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, completed the Blue Lions route,
That final boss fight with Edelgard was actually pretty difficult. This is the first time where I actually had to turn back time and even restart a few times, haven't had to restart in a FE game since FE4 & 5! Sure I've had close calls in other games of the series, but this one was tough (this is hard/classic mode I've been running in). But I finally beat her, she has 4 HP pools and tanks very well; used my mages and archer units to help chip away damage, Byleth and Dimitri were used to deal majority of damage though. (also her monstrous form is kind of cool looking) After that got the S support with Dimitri, also got a paired ending with Annette and Ashe together.
Now I'm on the Black Eagles route, still in the early chapters of part 1 of course.
 

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So in MH4U I have my invitation to fight Gogmazios, and I certainly don't need directions. This is approximately the point at which I lost my old MH4U save file, but in half the total playtime and with a wider variety of armor sets in tow. (I plan to face down Gog with the Teostra X set, soon as I gem in Sticky Res...)

Last night we just did some assorted low-rank hunts with randoms. Gave me an excuse to try out some new weapons, like the ridiculous shark lance, and that cute Kecha Wacha hunting horn.
 

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FE Three Houses

I'm stuck in a loop for the Black Eagle Dimitri Fight even with several different attack plans/tactics it's not an easy fight to deal with
 

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Still doing three houses. Just started the Golden Deer route after beating Blue Lions, and Black Eagles before that.

I really really don’t like Leonie. I haven’t liked her in the teeth two routes, and so far I still don’t like her. In fact she’s more annoying than when I don’t have her in my class.

Other than that Golden Deer is meh. None of the characters are that interesting yet, and I’ve already inferred Claude’s secret. Nothing has me hooked on them.

Fire Emblem Three Houses, completed the Blue Lions route,
That final boss fight with Edelgard was actually pretty difficult. This is the first time where I actually had to turn back time and even restart a few times, haven't had to restart in a FE game since FE4 & 5! Sure I've had close calls in other games of the series, but this one was tough (this is hard/classic mode I've been running in). But I finally beat her, she has 4 HP pools and tanks very well; used my mages and archer units to help chip away damage, Byleth and Dimitri were used to deal majority of damage though. (also her monstrous form is kind of cool looking) After that got the S support with Dimitri, also got a paired ending with Annette and Ashe together.
Now I'm on the Black Eagles route, still in the early chapters of part 1 of course.
Edelgard was the easy part for me on that. In fact I was disappointed that she was so easy. Everyone else before her is what was hard. I used almost all of my time things getting to her, and then I took her down disturbingly easy.
FE Three Houses

I'm stuck in a loop for the Black Eagle Dimitri Fight even with several different attack plans/tactics it's not an easy fight to deal with
The mage using bolting is what makes it truly annoying. I think I kept my units together and just made sure to keep those that the bolting would kill out of the range, and had units who could dodge and take hits be the ones to lure the enemies. Ultimately the level takes a lot of patience. Especially since the black eagles route loves its evil Pegasus rider reinforcements.Make sure everyone has battalions to help stun the beasts. I would ignore trying to break all four for the ore since there is no after game to really use them for. Just go for one or two and then hit them in those spots to take them down quickly.
 

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Just finished 3 Houses- The Golden Deer after doing Blue Lions. Starting the Black Eagles with a Crimson Flower focus currently.



Pretty much the Blue Lions with more emphasis on the church, crests, Rhea, and Those who Slither into the Darkness. It did provides answers on those things, and we eventually learned the the truth behind the church, Rhea, and the Crest stones and their weapons; this makes it satisfying to play after Blue Lions, since it does not provide answers to those questions, rather it focuses on war with Dimitri and Edelgard's relationship being the main focus. Conversely, Blue Lions would be the most satisfying to play after Golden Deer since you don't know why Dimitri hates Edelgard so much; outside of Chapter 17, the Blue Lions play no role in the story. While I did overall enjoy my experience, my biggest disappointments were how similar the maps and goals were to Blue Lions. Chapter 12-16 were exactly the same as Blue Lions, 17-20 used the same maps with slightly different objectives and positioning. Only the last two chapters were very different. If it were not the emphasis on the church, you could skip this path without skipping too much.

Fire Emblem Three Houses, completed the Blue Lions route,
That final boss fight with Edelgard was actually pretty difficult. This is the first time where I actually had to turn back time and even restart a few times, haven't had to restart in a FE game since FE4 & 5! Sure I've had close calls in other games of the series, but this one was tough (this is hard/classic mode I've been running in). But I finally beat her, she has 4 HP pools and tanks very well; used my mages and archer units to help chip away damage, Byleth and Dimitri were used to deal majority of damage though. (also her monstrous form is kind of cool looking) After that got the S support with Dimitri, also got a paired ending with Annette and Ashe together.
Now I'm on the Black Eagles route, still in the early chapters of part 1 of course.
I agree with @Midorikawa Edelgard was the least of my concerns, getting through the forces ( I took the left side was the hard side ) The mages with meteor is really annoying alongside Ballistas were the worst part. I beat Edelgard with Byleth and Dimitri using aHit and Run Strategy. Though I will say: Vantage +Wrath is really annoying.
Final Boss of the Golden Deer focuses around a Swamp that damages units if they stand in it. Fliers are immune, but an Archer using a Ballista strongly discourages the use of Fliers. The map isn't that bad, just requires a lot of patience. Use full adavantage of the thickets to to effectivley lure out the first wave of enemies, then take out the mage in the middle right. That stops the reinforcement of Demonic beasts. There are no more reiforcements after that, so take your time to rout out the enemies. Before you can take on Nemsis, you must kill the 10 Elites, who are wielding Dark Versions of the Hero Relics. Once you 've taken ( 3, I think, not sure about this, ) The swamp will dry, and other enemies will start moving towards you. The main strategy of mine was too split the army into halves, and each rout the left and right sides. Then there's Nemsis. To lure him out, use a Ballista, since the bonuses from the heal tile make it very hard to hit him, and he hits very hard. Once you attack him, he starts moving, so move your squishy units from his range or he will murder them. Fortunately, I got a crit with Byleth on Nemsis, so I only needed an additional hit to finish him off.

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I haven't found 3 Houses too hard. Near the end game chapters, I had several perfect clears without 0 casualties.
 

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Might be an unpopular opinion, but I haven't found 3 Houses too hard. Near the end game chapters, I had several perfect clears without 0 casualties.
Blue lions wasn’t challenging until post timeskip due to some of the levels. And I was doing new game + with them. Black eagles only have a challenge in the long run since I didn’t plan ahead like I did with blue lions so character promotions went strange. I’m also not recruiting so I’m limited to what the game gives me So if they sick then I’m screwed lol.

Flying units are best. I had two wyverns lords and a falcon knight in blue lions. They destroyed.

Golden deer is proving challenging since I’m not doing new game plus and I swear these guys just suck Save for a few.
 
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