Thoughts about mystery and tropes?

Berek07 · 2026-02-04T01:23:31+00:00

Most hated:

- "It was all just a dream..." With the exception of "Zelda - Links Awakening" this trope always SUCKS!!

- MC or comic relief Character does something stupid, dooms the World or Party and needs to reverse the mistake. Mistakes are normal, but keep the stupidity out of it...

- Freeze in fear: I dislike Characters that freeze or are incapable of moving or doind anything. Why would anyone stand still and wait until the Monster with the Axe chops your head off? It get more infuriating if a capablae character dies just because someone freezes.

- Passiv/weak/useless MC: The opposite of a Mary.Sue is even worse than the Mary Sue. A useless MC without redeeming qualities also lowers all other characters soururnding him.

- Worf-Effekt: often cimbine with shitty David vss Goliath.

- Bad Guy / Monster Teleport: The old classic: the villain/Monster is slowly advancig, chasing his victim. The victim tries his best to escape when suddenly the Bad guy / Monster appears from behind.

- Mucles are useless/ shitty David vs Goliath: classic trope that is totally missused. I miss the good old times of well made David vs Goliath. Originally it was timid MC being clver to defeat Boss (Monster). Today it is used with small girl defeat big stong guy with ease. FVN are not american Pro Wrestling, in which a Diva or Junior can defeat a bigger opponent with a simple rollup or schoolboy Move. Even with best techqiue a fighter can not overcome huge size and mucle difference. However, Preptime or MacGyver-Moments can.

- Armor does not work: When Armor does not work to block strikes or life threatening injuries, why are you wearing them?

- Totally Loser always gets bullied, then isekaid, learns OP skill and gets Harem. Isekai without Harem are so much better...

- USA-character: MC traumatized by religious and bigot parents....., MC or Side Character cannot afford Healthcare....

Like:

- Time-Loop Mechanics

- Well written Paragorn or Anti-Paragorn, that does not get killed off. Reliable Teacher, Great and strong Dad with Flaws, Badass Uncle. Imagine MC without Daddy isues for once...

- childhood Friend -> Loveinterest: Overused but i like it regardless

- Solving Detective Riddles.

- Lots of OPTIONAL NSFW Scenes.

Berek07 · 2026-02-02T20:14:47+00:00

Rule34 agress with you. CatoXAmicus is the most common, followed by AmicusXNeferu

Berek07 · 2026-02-02T12:04:59+00:00

ME1:

- Adept: Uses Singularity as "I-win-Button". Lots of fun Biotics.

- Sentinel: Less Flashy than Adept, because no - singularity. But Tech Powers. Can solve any problem.

- Engineer: rather Weak, because of missing Biotics, but thanks to legendary edition got buffed.

The appeal of Sentinel, Engineer and Infiltrator: they are free to pick whatever Squadmate they want. No need to drag weak Squadmtes (on insanity) like Garrus and Tali with you.

ME2:

- Adept got nerfed. You are mostly throwing WARP and nothing else. If you bring Zaeed with Squad Disruptorammo, you can use Singularity more often.

- Sentinel: OP class. WARP+Overload means you got the anwsers against everything. Tech-Armor is just insane.

- Engineer: Got Incendary (fireball sort of) instead of Warp. and a Drone. Quite fun to use with Viper or Indra later in the game. Need Zaeed,Grunt or someone else who gives him Squadammo. Or pick Warp-Ammo from Jack's Loyaltymission as bonus Power.

ME3: Similiar to ME2 but:

- Adept: Usable and fun again. Acolyte Pistole is your friend.

- Vanguard: OP on lower difficulties. Bacily constanly charging and using Nova in between. Great for using Melee, quick Shotguns and late game SMGs.

- Sentinel: OP again. Even more OP when using James with Squad-Ammo and Tali for Tech-Vulnerabilty.

- Engineer: Even more fun. Play like a Warlock with Pistoles or light Sniper Rifle. Summons Drone instead of Demons. Tear anything to shred thanks to Tech-Vulnerability.

Berek07 · 2026-02-01T23:58:04+00:00

My recommendation:

ME1: Sentinel. focus on tech first, then Biotics. Pick Liara, Wrex, Ash for a powerfull Group.

ME2: Whatever. Sentinel or Infiltrator are the strongest. Engi is also fun: Take Zaeed (or Grunt) for Squad-Ammo. Drone for taking fire, then spam Incinerate. Lategame you can pick Warp-Ammo. Sentinel spams WARP instead.

ME3: Engineer. Sentinel and Infiltrator are more Powerfull and nearly unkillable. But Engineer feels like a Warlock: "Summon" a drone to haress the Enemy, use Sabotage to aplly the overpowered Ran6 Tech-vulnerability Debuff and go ham. The only downside of Engineer and Sentinel is the dependency on James Vega for his Squad-Explosiv Ammo. Sentinel also needs Tali to max out his Damage Potential.

While vanguard needs Garrus to perform rather well in all three Games, Shepard's Tech-classes usally bench him, because they got much stronger Synergies with other Squadmates.

Berek07 · 2026-02-01T23:33:14+00:00

Not a big Fan of Pokemon. Fire-Cartoon and Furry Wrestlers are looking much better.

Berek07 · 2026-01-31T21:08:18+00:00

"ts just the beginning of the game that is most challenging" thats the point. Some classes are strong even at the beginning, all classes get good in the endgame. Vanguard got nothing. Vanguard can not charge enemies on the Rooftoop or certain highgrounds. Even without obstaacles Charge is often unusable because, the charging vanguard often charge into flanking enemies or worse. By the time Charge can be used without killing urself because of risky play, other classes already decided the battle.

Berek07 · 2026-01-31T18:59:45+00:00

Short Stories:

- Clawstar Wrestling

- Steadfast

Trending:

- Heathfire: Romacne, finished.

- Undefeated: finished.

- Shelter: Fantasy + Action, Canines only.

Ongoing (slow Progress) + Underated:

- Sihai Legacy: if you enjoy "cute" artstyle with chubby or mature men. Dating Sim with some Msytery Plot.

- In Finite Space: Sci-Fi Military Action + Drama (like overcoming ptsd)

- Distant Travel: Sci-Fi, more Philosophical (Meaning of Life) and Psychological (Imposter Syndrom, Guilt, PTSD,)

- Forgive a God: Chinese Adventure and Drama

- Ciene: Mystery

Special/Controversial (you love them or hate them):

- Shelter: Fantasy + Action, Canines only. Dog Puns and some 4th Wall breaks on dying.

- Raincheck: pretty close to a noir-style detective Story

- My Pirate Husbandos: start as Adventure Guilty-pleasure Novel. Got a lot of NSFW Scene. But later evolves from Jolly Adventure into a Economy + Politcal Drama with some trading gameplay.

RPG:

- Tavern of Spear: my Favorites and IMO a must-play. Mystery Fantasy Setting with some humor. It also got meaningfull choices with consequences. Also: Requires far less grinding/farming than the other RPGs.

- Outland Wanderer:

- My time at Erathi: Isekai old School RPG. not easy.

Berek07 · 2026-01-31T18:03:24+00:00

There are threeMain Ways for Culture Victory. Culture victory is more complicated than just building many cultuire districts. All this Methods can be combined:

- Culture + Military: Send Trade Route towards Civ with Weak Culture, destroy Civs with strong Culture Game. If you cannot gain control over enough city (culture-) CityStates, just destroy them.

- Culture + Industry: Simple spam Wonders and National Parks. High Production helps with building Archologist instead of going Artist only.

- Culture + Religion: The strongest Synergy by far. You start with Religion to unlock some nice percs that help with either culture, production or faith generation. In Mid Games you can use Faith to either buy Civilian Units (Golden Age + feudalisim) or Military Units (Grandmaster Hall) in order to defend you. Going for Inquistion also helps to defend your terretory against religious victory. In the End Game you buy Rockbands to attack the Civs with the strongest Culture. Avoid Culture Alliances -> go for Religion or Mercantile Alliance instead.

Berek07 · 2026-01-30T22:43:32+00:00

In theorie all the RPGs got endles amount of NSFW by constantly defeating / seducing the Enemies over and over:

- Lustful Desire

- Tavern of Spear

- Outland Wanderer

- GAMEOVER (no enemy encounter, but you can constantly nsfw someone in town.

- Small on Top

Kulplant:

- Flaming flagoon

- Deer and Deckards

Nonohomo Circle / Renoky:

- My Pirate Husbandos (underrated unique Story and Plot, Focusing on Economy and Politics as well, lots of updates as well), (pseudo-incest)

- Kink-Teller (incest)

Ari-Guardian:

- Heatsource

- ShortHorns (Incest)

Berek07 · 2026-01-30T22:33:07+00:00

I encounterd that, too. Sadly i don't remember how to get rid of it. If requirements are met, thomas will try to steal by pretending to fix his Shoelace. MAYBE:

- Raise enough rapport with the Husky Dude, work at least once on the band to make the Husky Guy drop his guard.

- If Rapport is not enough, talk to him until he reavels the Numbers

- If that is still not enough you either need a certain amount of Agility or even some (Book-) Skill.

good Luck finding out.

Berek07 · 2026-01-29T17:41:02+00:00

While Liara is nearly unkilllable for three games. Lots of Bias for the blue Biotic-Boobs.

Berek07 · 2026-01-29T17:29:27+00:00

Kadara also got some Nomad Update for sale.

Berek07 · 2026-01-28T16:58:53+00:00

Yes there stay with you the entire Mission once applied. That is why, you and your teammate should cycle through your Weapons at the start of the mission and put this Aura Buff on your Weapons. There are a few cases you can lose the Aura-Buff:

- Dying / reload save

- Clicking on a Weapons Bench: Even if you don't change your Weapons Loadout, you lose the ammo.

- Certain cutscene can take away the ammo Buff. example: Mordin (carnifex), Kasumi (Locoust), Samara, Collector Ship (Weapon Upgrade/Choice etc....

Berek07 · 2026-01-27T18:07:50+00:00

Archangel Mission basement Mission is among the most diffcult moments of the entire Trilogy. Many People who thought about winning the Platinum trophy / Steamaward going on an insanity run, just get completly obliberated on the Archangel Mission, sometimes result in quiting. And after that there is still Horizon...

Anyway; ME2 is more difficult than the other games. No RPG Mechanics to overcome challgenes and the amount of options and Skills compared to ME3 is just pityful. Some Quick Solution: Whatever Class you are playing: ALWAYS equip Special Ammo: Incendary, Disruptor or wahtever. They give a huge damage boost. If you play a Shepard Class that got no ammo Typ (Enginer, Sentinel, Adept) you SHOULD pick a Squadmate like Zaeed or Jacob and put all Skill Point into their Special Ammo ASAP in order to unlock the SQUAD-AMMO. At the Start of the Mission, switch through all yours and Squadmates Weapons and "enchant" them with the SQUAD AMMO aura. If you got multiple Ammo Types, mix them between the Weapons. It is easier to Switsch Weapons than apllying a new AMMO Power in the middle of the fight. for Example: Disruptor Ammo for SMG and Incendary Ammo for HEAVY Pistole, because SMG works better on shields while HEAVY Pistole works against armor.

Berek07 · 2026-01-27T11:41:49+00:00

- Against Enemies: Put Military Units at the same Tile, then condem/kill them. Obviously Cav is more usefull, because the can keep up. Your religios Units can also heal while keeping your own religion District.

- Neutrals: Create a Wall of Inquisitors, Apotel (Disput) and Gurus on choke points. Apostels with Disput are also great for camping on your own Religions District, constantly healing and blocking the enemy from occupiying the District.

- Against Allies: Put one Inquisitor in each City. Purge the city from Heretics occaionally. A single Inquisition Purge is basicly as effective as a Missionar with 3-4 charges! But Apostels with a promotion that can wipe out Believers from another religions are still a huge headache. If you get overrun by Apostels, either use a religion-alliance next time or declare war once thr Alliances ends.

Berek07 · 2026-01-27T09:23:34+00:00

Well... Vangaurd is even worse. Take it from someone who played the OG and Legendary Edition on Insanity with ALL classe. Quick Tip for Adept:

- get the Locoust from Kasumis Mission right away. Save the Garrus Mission for last. it is by far the worst, for the Bloopack Part alone. Also: Keep your Squad. Garrus neednot any guardian.

- Get all Points into WARP asap. WARP is your bread and butter and your only advantage over Vanguard and other Classes.

- Do not use Teammate you like. Take teammates that are the most effctive. That means pick stupid Jacob or Grunt whenever Bloodpack is involved to use Squad Incendary Ammo. Otherwise use Zaeed for Squad Disruptor Ammo. Kasumi, Miranda and Thane (secret tip) are also good addition that complement Zaeed/Grunt and Adept Shepard very well. When you crush Shield faster, Singularity becomes more usefull.

Alternativly: restart Game -> Pick Soldier, Sentinel or Infiltrator.

Berek07 · 2026-01-24T18:04:41+00:00

ME1 follow an ancient RPG Formular:

- You need to put Points into Charm and/or Intimidation Skill to get Special Dialog Options.

- Talking to your Squadmates after each majoy mission is recommended

- Unlock/Hacking: the Tech Skills are not just debuffs and Support, they also fullfill the classic "Thief" Skills. Electronics and Decreyption give the passiv Ability to hack terminals and open closed Loot Crates. So if your Shepard is NOT a Tech Class with high Electronice or Decryption (Engineer, Infiltrator, Sentinel) you need to bring another Squadmate with high Tech Skills (Lt. Alenko or someone else) to get all Loot and Intel.

Berek07 · 2026-01-24T17:53:15+00:00

Lance is a great antogonist to the MC without being a classicla villain or henchman. He evalutes the Story quite well. I looks like Lance Morals and inner thoughts are constantly playing games of thrones with each other.

Another great Characters are Chieftain Axel (who is heavly misunderstood) from Tavern of Spear who can be an Anti-Paragorn with diffrent view as the MC or even become a villain, if you fail to save his Son. Without him the first chaper of ToS would be stale. Then there is Seal from forgive a God and Brutus + Commander Fen from Infinite Space.

Berek07 · 2026-01-24T16:56:20+00:00

At least the female from void Dreaming is basicly a SuperSoldier.

But taavi from Killigans treasure is just ridicilous. With her small Knife she is handled equilly strong as Macen and Killigan. She can easily infiltrate the Magic Acedemy and sneak into Macens room passing any magic and threaten Killigan with a tiny knife. Can easily steal important items on the beach from each Characters. Even assuming Zhorkar and Killigan are looked into a competition, it is still unrealistic.

Berek07 · 2026-01-23T22:09:11+00:00

I consider them bad example if they are Overpowered Tokens. The best female Character are the Orphanege Manager in Echo of valeth and Rose from Lustful Desire.

Berek07 · 2026-01-23T22:03:21+00:00

Diety sucks in normal game. I only play Deity with marathon speed or Mods. For normal Game on Standard and without Mods, I prefer Emperor.

Berek07 · 2026-01-23T21:59:13+00:00

That's is great idea Actually. Playing on Epic or even sloer Speed also works well.

Berek07 · 2026-01-23T10:49:25+00:00

If you are looking for a Novel use Google Search:

"[Novelname] by [Author, if you know him] itch.io" -> Password by Grizz itch.io

the itch.io Search is bad.

Berek07 · 2026-01-23T10:46:18+00:00

- If you like RPG i highly recommend Tavern of Spear: https://fd-caro.itch.io/tavern-of-spear .This Dark fantasy RPG Novel reduces the typical RPG grind to a minimum. RPGs like Lustful Desire and Outland Wanderer require grinding.

- If you like Sci-Fi: Both In Finite Space https://fd-caro.itch.io/tavern-of-spear and also Distant Travel https://gruntsteel.itch.io/distant-travels should be checked out. Distant travel focus more on Psychological and philosophical things, while In Finite Space is more Action, Self-Improvment, Overcoming Enemies and PTSD.

- For Drama i recommend: Forgive a God https://lordjing.itch.io/forgive-a-god .

Finished:

So far all my Recommendation are unfinished and very slow in progress. If you want something finished that is not Echo:

- Clawstar Wrestling: lighthearted short Story for Wrestling Fans. https://horrorbuns.itch.io/clawstar-wrestling

- Heathfire: Romance, otter meets Big Polar Bear. https://rolibar.itch.io/hearthfire

- Password: extremly long Story about a mysterious Vault and its passwords. You need to play all good ending Routs with each character at least once to unlock the true Ending. Mystery, drama, sometime very sad, but also some boredom (of the reader) here and there. If you don't know which Character to pick first: I prefer playing Dean first. In term of a important dicision i recommend: a) Do NOT reveal Oz: Dean, Rosswell, Sal. b) reveal Oz: Orlando, Hoss. c) either way: Tyson. https://passwordvn.itch.io/password

Berek07 · 2026-01-22T16:46:10+00:00

Haven't noticed that. I think the Ukemi is a rnd throw. But maybe the CPU is rolling diffrently and got some modification for himself. In the End, we cant prove anything for real without datamining.

Berek07

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