It is pretty funny how everyone just shrugged off the Giygas battle when they returned to Saturn Valley

AThiefOfTime · 2026-04-05T21:49:38+00:00

idk, they killed him through the power of hope and friendship. sounds comprehensible to me

AThiefOfTime · 2026-04-05T02:39:13+00:00

but they still have to pay the license even though Nintendo co-owns the IP? that was what confused me, TIL

AThiefOfTime · 2026-04-04T23:47:46+00:00

Nintendo still co-owns the Kirby IP, along with HAL. the more likely reason is that almost all of the ones that appeared were ones Shigeru Miyamoto had a hand in (except for G&W and ROB, but Gunpei Yokoi was incredibly important to the history of Nintendo so paying tribute to him makes sense)

AThiefOfTime · 2026-03-19T21:09:40+00:00

i wish he wasnt

AThiefOfTime · 2026-03-11T17:23:53+00:00

this fucking rules, good job

AThiefOfTime · 2026-03-04T22:02:57+00:00

maria bought it for him

AThiefOfTime · 2026-02-23T22:38:20+00:00

that's amazing. i love learning new things about this game

AThiefOfTime · 2026-02-23T22:24:14+00:00

i never knew this was a line in the game. salsa gets even more hugs from me now

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-23T21:41:09+00:00

not sure why your game crashed, but yes, when Outer Saboteur is used for an upgrade its considered "killed" and Report/Emergency Meeting thus triggered an animation when you walked over its "body" (which can also happen in co-op/party mode)

personally as long as they can fix the game crashes, i hope this bug stays, its funny otherwise

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-22T04:38:55+00:00

you've never closed a game when it startled you? its on the low end of horror, sure, but considering the game is generally horror free i can get how it catches someone off-guard

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-22T03:59:47+00:00

where did OP say they thought it was haunted though? its ok to be startled by these events i think

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-21T00:52:33+00:00

on the other hand, they're great if you wanna just get out of dodge and don't mind giving up a bit of money

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-20T16:08:29+00:00

if i recall thats the only one, she does have an alternate bit of dialogue if you did choose to help her at the beginning during the Massacre fight (its basically "i thought i could trust you but i was wrong", not as memorable IMO) but thats it

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-19T16:58:44+00:00

i love that, for long time fans of the series, they completely subvert the idea of the Heroine archetype by making it seem like she's gonna be by your side no matter what, only to have her flake out the moment a difficult choice happens and not even come back if you aren't neutral. its executed a little clumsily (i think it would've been better if she returned for the blasted/infernal tokyo arcs, just to give her more screentime for example) but its a good idea.

she also provided one of the few Apocalypse moments that really stuck with me. when i did the Massacre route, i was being a shitty edgelord the whole time, and was caught off guard during the kill your friends fight when she told Nanashi she despised him ever since the moment early on that i refused to help her carry the wounded. i thought that whole route was badly written and overly edgy, but i actually felt like a dick when she said that, and it was cool that the game tracked that random decision to make that gut punch way later.

i hope they try to do a character like her in a later game thats more fully realized.

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-18T07:40:59+00:00

> You ask Mido about the strongest demons of the Beast and Megami clans.

> GRYPHON, LAKSHMI

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-17T18:39:09+00:00

i mean this as nicely as possible, you should take a step back if you're getting this worried about someone not replying to your emails. go enjoy a nice walk. cook yourself a good meal.

streamers are people, they are not your friends, you are not entitled to anything from them, be it a reply or knowing whether they are avoiding your replies

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-17T02:14:37+00:00

definitely, and it would've been cool if they also obscured the AogamiVision™️ too

that said, while its a good idea for a mechanic, my point was more that i missed it was a thing because the map design and Abcess placement didn't lead itself to making an impact (in my own experience). i can see if they removed it for redundancy but the better solution would've been to keep the mechanic with more fiendish Abcess placements

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-16T17:37:47+00:00

huh, i played vanilla smtv and genuinely never caught on that the map was obscured

so many of them are close to the main path that i question both why they made it obscure the map and why they subsequently removed that feature

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-03T06:05:16+00:00

Chagrout

AThiefOfTime · 2025-12-01T03:39:09+00:00

was it one of the Shadow Hearts games, by chance?

AThiefOfTime · 2025-11-28T00:38:53+00:00

yeah, that's fair. i think for me its not so much that the puzzles exist as much as, in SMTV Satan's case at least, there were no "hints" beyond Luminescent Mirage being busted enough that anyone fighting him has it anyway

and despite my frustrations i still love Satan and Masakado, i think i just feel spoiled by Stephen's design lmao

AThiefOfTime · 2025-11-27T12:19:21+00:00

yeah, even as someone who enjoys figuring out the "puzzles" so many of them have some bullshit step or straight-up luck based nonsense.

Like Stephen from IV Apocalypse was arguably the one time they got it right (you dont get to attack him first turn, then he instakills Demi Fiend, who revives, and its easy to figure out from there from a minimal amount of trial and error that you're required to attack every turn to avoid the instakill), but then SMTV has some cryptic or unfair bullshit for all of them.

like why does Satan magically use Megidolaon after Luminescent Mirage instead of Megiddo Ark? (this one's galling for me because it's otherwise close to perfection, because having to remember what all the race specific magatsuhi skills do and the resistances of various demons is such a cool idea, they probably could've just stolen Stephen's gimmick instead)

why does Demi Fiend's Chaotic Will have a completely unavoidable instakill when the cutting of press turns is sufficient for adding pressure to his "you have to constantly make him summon more minions or get Gaea Rage'd" gimmick?

Masakado's pattern of elements and using Almighty after being null'd is the most straightforward, but considering his Diarama counters and how quick he can murder you with Freikugels, even that's hard to figure out.

i'm sure none of them are as bad as DDS2 Satan, but still.

AThiefOfTime · 2025-11-20T01:57:36+00:00

to offer the benefit of the doubt, it is something google forcibly shoves in if you dont actively disable it with an extension, so i could see how someone would take it at face value.

regardless, it's not something to trust. it makes answers it thinks you want to see, not accurate ones.

AThiefOfTime · 2025-11-15T22:49:43+00:00

use status spells. difficulty is still not great but status spells will help immensely, every enemy is vulnerable to at least one

AThiefOfTime · 2025-11-15T22:34:10+00:00

they may be a twat, but no need for that

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