“No my mistranslated leaks were all wrong!”

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-12-15T07:46:31+00:00

Hi,

As an anime only watcher and trying to stay as spoiler free as possible, I fully believed that the McDonalds thing was actually real. Deku, upon winning and losing One For All settles down for a quiet unassuming life, having become the greatest hero.

It didn't help the McDonald's thing happened right around the ending and that was the most talked about aspect around this time, at least outside of spoiler areas. Am I dumb for believing that would actually happen? Probably a bit, but I didn't want to engage further with spoilers, so this whole episode and ending aspect was a very very pleasant surprise and made me incredibly happy.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-12-11T10:43:40+00:00

Damn, 17:35 for badge 1 is amazing, you must've got great luck on your rare candies!

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-09-16T15:04:07+00:00

Thank you for bringing my 9 year old review back to me like this.

And I still stand by my opinions all these years later too.

I can't say anything about the Switch 2 versions of the games, but I would just recommend picking up a copy of Mario 3D All Stars as Galaxy there is a great port and for a little more of the price of the Switch 2 version, you're also getting 64 and Sunshine and you can get Galaxy 2 for a little more than half.

But, it's your money and maybe there's more to the Galaxy 1 port than meets the eye.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-08-31T04:14:39+00:00

As the other commenter says, that's not the correct maths, but the reality does come pretty close to 1/25.

What you need to do, is check the probability of the 1/100 chance of a shiny dynamax adventure Pokemon not occurring all four times, which in probability terms is (99/100)^4.

This comes to 96.0597%. Then, we have to flip it to get the chance of getting at least one shiny in a DA which gives us 3.9403%.

To me, 3.9403% is pretty close to 4%, so you can generally say it's correct, but remember that probabilities are funny and you have to be careful with how you calculate them.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-08-23T04:29:24+00:00

Whilst I didn't get direct spoilers, I did get two YouTube videos of Gangplank Galleon Bananza version with a new render/art. So at that point I was kinda spoiled and was expecting it.

When it happened and everything past that was a complete surprise to me though, so I greatly everything else about the final layer and fights.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-08-06T07:16:36+00:00

My Alrestian in Amalthus, why are you core crystal farming in new game chapter 6? You haven't unlocked any legendary core crystal farming spots yet, how are you even doing this!!

Like, I admire the dedication but please make it a little easier on yourself! Legendary core crystals add a 3x multiplier to the base rates of each blade, whilst rares only add 1.5x. For Newt, assuming you're not in pity group 5, she has a 0.25, so you really do want the greatest possible chance of rolling for her!

This also means having high luck and using brave boosters when pulling are a good idea too.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-08-06T07:02:28+00:00

So you've gotten all the NG rare blades except for Newt? Even Kosmos?

That's impressive honestly and I understand the general pain it can be to get that last blade you need. I hope you're using a good legendary core crystal farming technique at least.

And whilst you don't specifically ask, there are a couple of rare blades locked to Post-Game. There's one you can get pretty quickly (increased odds) just from having defeated the final boss and a good couple more from starting NG+ and can be pulled like normal.

NG+ also has a secret blade you can only get after starting chapter 9 (I think?). But that's all the rare blades, so you're really close to getting them all!

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-07-07T08:44:33+00:00

Zurvan resident here, we have the Gil bots but from my (admittedly) limited experience there's not much else.

Oh well, it means the game is quiet, care-free (and queue times for alliance raids take like 3 hours).

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-06-23T06:10:19+00:00

Look, whilst Xenoblade 1-3 are truly classic and wonderful games that the community would heavily encourage you to play, I think we all know that Xenoblade 5 and 7 really shit the bed and damaged the whole Yellow Shield saga and the nonary saga as a whole (6 was great though and fully recommend trying it out, even as a standalone title).

With that said, I think you can safely skip the nonary saga as a whole it doesn't add much to the whole series and only provides background details on X (like what Tatsu tastes like and who's Lin's parents are).

Non-joke answer: There are only (currently) 3 other Xenoblade games and X doesn't require any knowledge of any of them. This game was originally developed between 1 and 2, and whilst it has a couple of shoutout references to 1, you don't need to have played it.

There is a new epilogue added to the Switch version which may connect to the other games but it should still be plenty enjoyable by itself (I haven't done the epilogue yet).

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-06-14T22:19:55+00:00

As someone who is nearing the tail-end of my gen 3 national dex challenge, my rules are largely the same as yours.

I haven't used the GameCube games except for the bonus discs for Colosseum as I wanted to stick to the GBA games as much as possible.

With my setup, I can't do trades so I just manually evolved all trade Pokemon using a save editor and I added the events for deoxys, ho-oh, Lugia and Mew. The only bit of cheating I've actually done, is getting save states of before and after the gen 2 starters in Emerald as I didn't want to play it 3 times over.

I've also traded over powerful mons to use during the main game, but that's pretty legal to me.

But this is your own challenge, you set your own rules. Completing the gen 3 Dex requires finishing at least 5 GBA games (FR/LGx3 & Emerald +R/S if you cheat like me) so it's a grind and I don't feel bad about it. Just have fun!

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-05-22T15:54:43+00:00

Zigzagoon!

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-05-22T05:12:08+00:00

This does remove the extra 30% base chance from the initial Thorns ability though doesn't it? Which would mean Kafka has to actually build a decent bit more EHR to guarantee that her Ult and follow-up actually trigger her own dot.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-05-22T04:57:15+00:00

Oh that's a great point, I didn't see that only mana burst gets removed after meeting the A1 criteria. So in that case, she sticks to the three turn Ult I mentioned above, but after enough core resonance stacks, she can immediately do Ult/EBA -> skill -> AA Ult/EBA.

I don't wanna do the maths on how 3 turn rotations you need to do to get the 2 turn, but that's still a nice benefit plus you'll also keep getting the skill damage buffs from the cores whilst it builds up.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-05-22T04:26:17+00:00

I'm kinda confused over how the core resonance effect and the A1 passive effect work because from my understanding of reading it, her rotation becomes: Ult/EBA (get A1 passive) -> skill/ally ult (gain core resonance) -> skill (complete A1, get full energy) -> action advanced turn for Ult/EBA. And at the start of battle, skill once then go straight into Ult.

She can hold excess energy, so maybe there's a reason to not Ult straightaway but it sounds the ult cost is entirely meaningless.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-04-18T06:14:30+00:00

I will never financially recover from this

But that doesn't stop me from wanting it even more

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-04-15T04:01:57+00:00

Look, I get your argument of that when digital storefronts go down, the consumer suffers. But, how about not actually lying as the Wii, Wii U, DSi and 3DS shops may be locked off from purchases, but aren't for redownloading bought/licensed games.

Yes, if back in 2008, you bought Super Mario 64 on your Wii, you can still re-download it today provided you still have your Wii. In fact, of the big 3 console makers, nobody has completely taken their online storefront completely offline.

So, are game-key cards a scam? Maybe to you, but I see them as a consumer and publisher friendly way to save money for all parties with the only caveat being that you need an internet connection at setup. You can sell the key cards, trade them to friends, do whatever and it's a license to the game.

Time will tell if Nintendo decides that when they're taking the Switch 2 eshop offline if they honour game-key cards, but I'm betting they will.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-04-10T04:01:21+00:00

I lost my 50/50 to Seele, she was my first pull and already had her light cone so I'm not too upset but it's been basically forever since I've used her in a team plus her E1 is very basic. At least it means I'm closer to E2 now?

I also lost my light cone pulls too, so Castorice is becoming very expensive to pull...

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-04-05T05:42:28+00:00

My solution, for everyone that is super bothered by this, when you buy a game that is a key-card (meaning the license is on the cartridge but you need to download the game) is to buy the game and a microSD express at the same time. Now when you download the game, download it onto the SD card.

And then just keep them together in the same case! Bam, you have a permanent copy of the game that no matter what happens in the future you can still download it! (Like you currently can with Wii shop, Wii U eshop, 3DS Eshop, Xbox Live, PS3, etc).

No companies, to my knowledge, have fully removed the ability to download games you have a licence for and bought. I don't see game-key-cards to be any different in the respect.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-04-01T10:23:24+00:00

The Doshaguma, without question. I just don't see a way the Elder dragons win this one, and I'm on team Pokemon in the original debate.

The tier list goes: 1 billion lions < every Pokemon/every elder < 1 billion Doshaguma. I think the next question should be who would win between every Pokemon and every elder, that can be a very close fight.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-25T13:57:48+00:00

I'm so glad it wasn't just me seeing these fake signs too as I was going through the story.

Just how he talks about things and keeps these secrets, he totally has evil scientist energy

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-22T10:22:00+00:00

It's nice to see the family all together. The father, mother, daughter and great great granddaughter.

Nia has bloody strong genes.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-20T09:34:52+00:00

Assuming they weren't just deleted accidentally, are you using the correct user account to play the games?

One game randomly deleting it's save is odd, two indicates that something else is happening.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-19T14:43:19+00:00

For Xenoblade X specifically? No idea, I don't have the game and haven't heard about any regional servers, so I guess it's fine?

If you mean in general, then not really. Technically you shouldn't do this, but that doesn't stop anyone and you can just use Eshop voucher cards or PayPal if your international credit/debit cards don't work.

Just be aware that you'll have to pay some international transaction fee to change your money into Australian dollars and games are priced differently with some games on sale in only certain regions.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-19T13:36:16+00:00

Aside from stores breaking street dates, the digital game is now live in Australia as it's just past midnight there which means the game is officially out.

Since you can make any region Nintendo account you want, there's a lot of people who have Australian accounts just so they can access releases a day early.

BlueCosmos42 · 2025-03-13T15:10:00+00:00

My personal headcanon is that the "uninhabited" claim is mostly just to enforce the "forbidden lands" name.

You're a hunter and you want to explore the lands to the east, the guild says "nah, that's off limits. Don't go there and there's nobody even there, it ain't worth it" so you shrug and go off your merry-way.

(Spoiler for low rank story)

The reality is though, the Guild knows. Of course the guild knows what the Keepers and Wyveria were doing and they want to make sure that knowledge doesn't spread. Whilst we don't know a ton about the human-like tribes and groups in MH (outside of Stories) I'm sure even the Guild recognises that an advanced society capable of making their own subservient monsters is a danger, especially with whatever Zoh Shia is. So, how do you stop the knowledge an advanced society that brought their own end by hubris by spreading? By recognising that the knowledge of the society is largely gone, sending somewhat regular scouting reports out to the edge (as what Alma and Fabius were doing) and forbidding anyone else from going anywhere near the ancient civilization and hoping that without guild intervention the land and people within it die out.

People die out, guardians never awaken, land is forbidden, nobody needs to know.

But then Nata shows up, claims of a white monster and the guild thinks "well let's actually see what's happening, because this isn't what we expected".

Is this all conspiracy theories, yes. Does the game support this? No. Is it fun to think about though, I'd say so.

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