Sunny Solstice day.
So wrenbow came over last night to hang out, borrow my copy of Naamah's Kiss, and stay the night so we could do a Solstice ritual today. It was exciting.
Last night I cleared my second cycle of Persona 4 with 100% compendium, all optional bosses cleared, and true ending both times. Levelling up those last 10 levels to be able to fuse Luciver was a very boring experience - I went to Magatsu Inaba 1 in search of the level-looping King trick. I was there grinding for five. fucking. levels. Not a single king in sight. :( I mean I know they're a rare spawn, but sdlfkjsdflkj. Oh well. At least everything there could be Rushed, so I just kind of ran around (I established a nice little pattern of spawn points) hitting X and then Triangle, and made sufficient money to fuse every single Persona. Including Izanagi-no-Okami. I am very pleased.
(Now to do the same thing for Persona 3, which will probably be less annoying because I just have to grind up from level 83 over the course of the whole game, not start over at 1. But not for a while.)
I debated for a while between continuing Infinite Undiscovery or trying to get past Kumbhanda in Digital Devil Saga 2, and instead ended up starting The Last Remnant. So far (just cleared the Galina Caves or whatever, I'm not very far), my impressions are thusly:
1) I don't know what they thought they were doing with movement animations, but Mitra walk in a very bizarre and jerky fashion not emulated by the Yama or Qsiti.
2) Emma is awesome. So is Torgal. Actually all of the Four Generals.
3) Rush annoys me. I wish to tear out his tongue and banish him from the game. So fucking sick of the whiny punky Tidus/Vaan/Marche archetype. So sick of it.
4) Irina does not irritate me as much as I assumed she would from her description in the manual. Then again I've only seen her on screen for about four minutes. But she didn't make me want to strangle her in that span of time, so that's a plus.
5) The combat system is not as terrifying as I thought it was going to be - I was picturing, like, some horrifying RTS monstrosity that would make me cry sad, sad tears as I struggled through it very painfully, but actually it's...more like a standard turn-based RPG, only I don't always know what options I'll get every turn.
So we'll see how I think of that. I am annoyed that the strategy guide does not appear to list achievements. However, I have already managed a battle chain of 17 (by the end of the Galina Caves), so I am pleased with myself. Persona 3 & 4 have given me a reasonably quick reaction time to "OH SHIT ENEMY!!"
And now, I have some fic to post. Fic pointers to follow.
Last night I cleared my second cycle of Persona 4 with 100% compendium, all optional bosses cleared, and true ending both times. Levelling up those last 10 levels to be able to fuse Luciver was a very boring experience - I went to Magatsu Inaba 1 in search of the level-looping King trick. I was there grinding for five. fucking. levels. Not a single king in sight. :( I mean I know they're a rare spawn, but sdlfkjsdflkj. Oh well. At least everything there could be Rushed, so I just kind of ran around (I established a nice little pattern of spawn points) hitting X and then Triangle, and made sufficient money to fuse every single Persona. Including Izanagi-no-Okami. I am very pleased.
(Now to do the same thing for Persona 3, which will probably be less annoying because I just have to grind up from level 83 over the course of the whole game, not start over at 1. But not for a while.)
I debated for a while between continuing Infinite Undiscovery or trying to get past Kumbhanda in Digital Devil Saga 2, and instead ended up starting The Last Remnant. So far (just cleared the Galina Caves or whatever, I'm not very far), my impressions are thusly:
1) I don't know what they thought they were doing with movement animations, but Mitra walk in a very bizarre and jerky fashion not emulated by the Yama or Qsiti.
2) Emma is awesome. So is Torgal. Actually all of the Four Generals.
3) Rush annoys me. I wish to tear out his tongue and banish him from the game. So fucking sick of the whiny punky Tidus/Vaan/Marche archetype. So sick of it.
4) Irina does not irritate me as much as I assumed she would from her description in the manual. Then again I've only seen her on screen for about four minutes. But she didn't make me want to strangle her in that span of time, so that's a plus.
5) The combat system is not as terrifying as I thought it was going to be - I was picturing, like, some horrifying RTS monstrosity that would make me cry sad, sad tears as I struggled through it very painfully, but actually it's...more like a standard turn-based RPG, only I don't always know what options I'll get every turn.
So we'll see how I think of that. I am annoyed that the strategy guide does not appear to list achievements. However, I have already managed a battle chain of 17 (by the end of the Galina Caves), so I am pleased with myself. Persona 3 & 4 have given me a reasonably quick reaction time to "OH SHIT ENEMY!!"
And now, I have some fic to post. Fic pointers to follow.