Abyssal Road completed.

Abyssal Road complete.

Hired Help is OP meme

Octopath Traveler 2 is a p2w game

I hope they tone some of these down in the next title (they probably won't but I can still hope). There's less walking sequences compared to Remake at least. Buggy seems like a weird oversight since its much faster to start combat in it than to dismount.

FF7 Rebirth is the most AAA FF game.

- Cinematic walking/crawling sequences
- Slow movement where you slowly shimmy, go through a small hole, etc.
- Story/side content triggers that decrease your movement speed
- Slow dismounting animations (only the buggy)
- Open world towers

Lots of remakes here lol.

Not including FFT: Ivalice Chronicles since its basically the best version for one of my favourite games which also includes the problems still there (a lot of QoL stuff got fixed but others which would involve more extensive changes still exist).

Favourite games I've played in 2025

1) Romancing SaGa 2: RoTS
2) Fantasian: Neo Dimension
3) System Shock (2023)
4) Dead Space (2023)
5) Star Ocean 2nd Story R
6) Resident Evil 4 (2023)
7) Tales of Innocence R
8) Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Got my Enlightened title. #ff14blueasian

Cleared The Baldesion Arsenal #ff14blueasian

A tweet from Robin Light-Williams (@BlondRobin) stating the following: Hello to anyone reading this. I am Robin Light-Williams, formerly lead translator for Carpe Fulgur. I am very sorry to announce that my friend and business partner Andrew Dice, @SpaceDrakeCF, has passed away. Pursuant to that, Carpe Fulgur will be ceasing operations.

Absolutely devastated by this news. SpaceDrake was no doubt a huge influence in drumming up interest for Japanese indie games localized into English and pushing for them on digital distribution storefronts like steam. Huge loss. Might be time for another playthrough of Recettear in his honour.

After S+ ranking RE4R and it's DLC, it's kinda weird to feel that while it's a great game, it's basically riding on the originals amazing design. There are some great changes (mainly story-wise) but the gameplay feels very worse due to it being in the RE Engine.

It's FEs unfun feature where unless you are a thief (they have a 100% chance), you have a chance of getting a hidden item. I recall its like this until much later in the series where it's 100%. Fortunately, Binding Blade does have the desert item trick to guarantee getting the item at least.

Ah damn that sucks and is typical in Arcadia. Not sure if you wanted to play blind cause there are a few useful items in the sand which sucks. The only real tip is that rescue dropping with fliers is really useful especially in the ledge.

Fire Emblem 6: Binding Blade - Desert Item Trick YouTube video by blue asian

You probably are past it now but there are hidden items in the desert. There's a trick with soft resetting the game to guarantee you get them though in GBA FE (well at least Blazing Blade). youtu.be/j73kvx2AAd4?...

Oh fair there. Was mostly thinking about how FE6 armor bosses you usually wanna use an Armorslayer instead of a Hammer despite it having WTD due to the low hit of the Hammer.

IS definitely learned more into the WT in DS/3DS FE with high weapon ranks giving bonuses that are negated by WTD.

FE6 is the last game where playable axes aren't insanely good. They are ridiculously strong in 7-10 due to accuracy no longer being an issue (from higher hit rates for the weapons and generally lower enemy quality) so their higher MT really lets them dominate.

Cleared The Fork Tower: Blood.

Started the series with FC on the PSP after playing Ys Seven, Origin, and Oath in Felghana.

Thankfully I beat it like a year before SC's localization so I didn't have to wait as long as others back then...

Total Points: 99/130

Spelt Ronsenberg as Rosenberg.

The correct answer is Cid

Did the FF fan quiz and got 99.

I can't believe I misspelled in the 2nd question although I really like how guessing a certain recurring character worked out in my favour.

I thank Theatrhythm and lucky guessing for carrying me lmao.

I'd love for it to get a Crisis Core style remake where they update the graphics but keep the core of the game the same.

Probably will not happen though due to the series being niche.

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles features voice acting in the Enhanced version. The voice cast includes:

Joe Pitts (Ramza)
Gregg Lowe (Delita)
Hannah Melbourn (Agrias)
Timothy Watson (Cidolfus)
Harry McEntire (Mustadio)
Ben Starr (Dycedarg)

Cody Christian (Cloud)
Briana White (Aerith)

Koei Tecmo revealed Nioh 3 at the June 2025 State of Play. The new game will appear worldwide in early 2026 for not only PlayStation 5 but also PC via Steam:
www.rpgsite.net/news/17623-koei-tecmo-re...

There are a few difficulty spikes although it's mainly on Runan's route so you might wanna swap good units on his route later (there are certain notorious bosses). Game has a lot of useful missables like Thracia but is overall easier.

It's the most strict ranking system in the series so I wouldn't worry too much about it unless you wanna do future ranked runs.

Only thing rank unlocks is sound room for getting A rank (270-299 turns with full recruitment, 250-269 otherwise) and some CG in the epilogue.

Ranks in Thracia are really strict. For max SSS rank, you need to beat it in 179 turns or lower with full recruitment which is 47 units alive. Basically doesn't allow for deaths except for Olwen if you recruit her replacement.

Thankfully I was just trying to get him to kill all his generals so I had a savestate but I'm pretty confused at why his AI decided to capture one of them and then escape.

Fire Emblem 5: Thracia 776 - Xavier AI confuses me YouTube video by blue asian

Unfortunate although the game was meant to sell guides so they made it extra hard and he's not even worth it.

I just remembered that I recorded a video where he just captured one of them and then escaped so the last part where I said he beelines towards Leif is wrong. youtu.be/q6QdvMGDmu8?...

Gotta use the Sleep Sword for it. Although the real funny thing is that Xavier can straight up kill his generals that defected if you did it right (probably to prevent him from getting stuck cause he beelines straight to Leif after all have defected).

It's honestly the best attempt at balancing mounted units (it even lowers their stats being dismounted, some pretty harshly) but you'll only see it in Kaga games post FE5 and 3H where its a buff. That being said it is funny and dumb that they all use swords dismounted instead of their main weapon.

Oh yeah FE5 uses the same dismount mechanic from FE3 where mounted characters use different weapons on a mount (uses lances in 3) and dismounted (uses swords universally) so it's not exclusive to 5. It's mostly noticeable in 5 with weapon ranks where most unmounted characters can't use good swords.