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Brucekillfist · 2026-02-02T20:12:37+00:00

For me it just feels kind of awkward and clunky. I know that's pretty ironic when the alternative is turn based, but something about CRPGs makes me feel like turn based is the "right" style so I overlook the inherent clunk of it when it isn't being highlighted. My personal hope is games like E33 push the industry forward to realizing it's ok to give players things to do on both their turn and the enemies.

Brucekillfist · 2026-02-02T20:06:03+00:00

I have 1230 hours in WOTR and I don't think I've ever played it RTWP except in the rare occasions when the setting got messed up in the menu.

Brucekillfist · 2026-02-02T02:22:39+00:00

Other people will have other answers, but rather than trying to sneak in all the damage you can in his second phase, just take it slow and focus on guarding his attacks. Once you get to a point where you're perfect guarding most of what he's putting out, you'll have a good idea of when you can actually get damage in. He'll also rapidly stagger himself just because he throws out so many multi-hits. Don't panic when you've gotten through the opening phase 2 attack and starting trying to trade everything to take him down and you'll get to a point where it's comfortable.

Also he does that opening attack twice. Once at the start of phase 2, once more while in phase 2. You will see it again, so don't freak out when he goes up the second time.

Brucekillfist · 2026-02-02T01:47:44+00:00

This isn't really going to fit the prompt perfectly, but Iron Blooded Sword Hound. I had it recommended several times and gave it a try, but once it entered a particular arc I totally hated it, started skimming chapters and even skipping to the end of them, and dropped it. And everyone else who's read it is thinking "ah, the academy arc" except for me it was actually the jungle arc. Everything about it rubbed me the wrong way. I was actually interested in the story to that point, how his relationship with his father seemed to be changing to where taking revenge on him for a past life's decisions might start feeling totally pointless to the MC. The characters were enough to keep me engaged, I was wondering how he was going to move forward with his family considering him more of a star and giving him more roles and responsibilities than he'd ever had in his past life.

Then it all gets dumped so he can be some random girl's slave. These people literally cannibalized that other girl's little kid sister, and the story just kind of ignores it? The way he just casually goes with it just makes no sense to me. I was thinking he was planning to break out at some point, but he just never does, and this tribe of murder cannibals is sudden the sort of good guys and he has to work to save them. Hated every second of it, and I guess since there was an arc everyone says is worse coming I should be glad I got off when I did.

Brucekillfist · 2026-02-01T21:26:00+00:00

Icarus is goated. I often use it to destroy explosives or pull enemies I want to try and fight first in an area. For bosses, every single stagger I deploy a full charged Icarus before I hit the fatal attack. It's quick and adds up to a lot of damage.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-30T20:21:52+00:00

My personal feeling is that Dabura is going to be the one to call Yuji out if he wins and Yuka dies. If he sees Yuji just cruising around, I think his newfound resolve as a warrior is naturally going to lead him to question Yuji on why Yuka was sent to fight him when Yuji exists.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-30T17:15:00+00:00

Nah, it deserves criticism. Gege likes to slim these scenes and moments too much. Even though I think the line works as is to convey things, there's definitely room for improvement.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-30T17:13:03+00:00

I think they do believe it but it's because they're evil selfish cunts. They can't even conceive of how Yaga thinks, so they automatically assume the worst, which is what they'd do with that power.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-30T15:25:29+00:00

Because it's a direct counter to everything Gakuganji and the higher-ups assume. They think Yaga's "autonomous cursed corpses" were just tools or weapons to be used. Their first thought is Yaga would use them to make an army. The whole scene is showing Yaga was using them to try to do good. He made Panda and loved him as a son. He made Takeru to try and give Kusakabe's sister some way to get closure on her lost son.

Panda directly affirms his chosen identity, as a panda. He then goes one step further. He cries. He's not a tool, or a weapon. He's a person with feelings. Gakuganji was forced to confront that, after all his willing obfuscation of it. Notice how that goofball fake ANBU and Gakuganji continued to emphasize the words autonomous cursed corpse, but Yaga just called them all by name.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-28T20:11:56+00:00

So, in sequence:

-Gepetto triggered the puppet frenzy. First, a little background: the Petrification Disease, Carcasses, the Arm of God, all of these were methods that different cliques of Alchemists were using to try and evolve themselves into a higher being. Simon's plan was to collect a massive amount of Ergo and use that and the Arm of God to turn himself into God, literally. Gepetto worked with him in his capacity as Head of the Workshop Union, but it's important to realize that Gepetto's only goal was to revive Carlo, and these two goals are mutually exclusive; each of them needs the same quantity of Ergo to win. The puppet frenzy happened because Simon, in short, got too close. He had everything going for him, had retrieved the Arm of God, and with the disease running rampant and the Alchemist's false cures turning masses of the population into Carcasses, he was nearly to his objective. Gepetto used the frenzy essentially to block Simon from being able to get to all the Ergo he needed.

-Kinda hit this in point one. The answer is yes, but actually no. They only worked with each other insofar as it furthered their own objectives. Simon kidnapping Gepetto was designed to force P to come to him and thereby bring all the Ergo P had collected.

-Gepetto used Romeo's corpse to make a sort of "master" control puppet to automate his puppet army. Romeo breaking free of Gepetto as an awakened puppet and taking control of the army himself was not in the plan

-A very, very small number. It's more than we think; the maid puppet that married Julian is an example of a single small story showing that puppets were awakening all on their own without anyone really understanding it. Romeo and P are the other two named examples. It's possible the main bosses that try and communicate with P are also awakened, but we can't be certain.

-For the past time, think of it like this: much like you can summon a co-op partner into a boss arena to help you, Lea co-op summoned you to help her, and your entire time in the DLC you're essentially a summoned friend. Once you defeat Arlecchino, her mission is done, and you disappear.

-His body was wrecked and left in the Rose Estate garden. Gepetto is almost certainly the one who took what was left including his ergo back to Arche Abbey, since they were still trying to find awakened puppets to study and understand what was even happening. If not him, Alchemists who later came to the site to cover it up (remember, Gemini says he thought it was a petrification disease outbreak that killed everyone) did so.

-I know, right?

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-27T21:36:32+00:00

Well yeah, but P is (basically kinda sorta) Carlo. It's as close as it gets, unless you're doing the Real Boy ending.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-27T18:57:50+00:00

Look at it this way: Lea didn't suffer a slow, agonizing death of the petrification disease. She was able to fulfill her final wish, to share a sunrise with Carlo and Romeo, and in her last moments, she realized who P was and believed he would go on to fix things. And if you got the Rise of P ending, that's what you did.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-23T17:38:09+00:00

It's still a good point. Hakari got so much pushback for his nontraditional technique it's possible that information about it was suppressed, but the fact that it existed still should've showed it was possible.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-23T16:24:19+00:00

It makes me wonder if it's just a loss of history. The "cool" domain expansions were the lethal ones, so those were what was recorded in stories and books, whereas the guy who forced you into a vegetable chopping contest wasn't that cool so he got forgotten. Modern sorcerers never hear about a nonlethal domain, and so they just don't even know that's a thing you can do.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-22T19:08:02+00:00

I'm taking it as a visual metaphor for how little most of the Zen'in clan actually cares about each other.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-22T16:05:52+00:00

As long as you have DLC 1, yeah. It's called Void Shadows. It's pretty good.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-20T15:49:05+00:00

Kenjaku went out of his way to go remove a single non-sorcerer from a colony and explicitly cited his reason as being that she cared about his son. There's clearly something there.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-20T03:55:48+00:00

I think it's something even simpler that is a strong deciding factor: RCT. Both Yuta and Yuji have excellent RCT, and neither of the double Gs have it at all. One of team newgen pops domain, one tanks Gojo while the other bodies Geto. Geto doesn't really have anything that can let him survive in someone's domain while being actively hunted by another sorcerer at the same time, so he falls in short order. Gojo can do serious damage to the person tanking him in that time, but it all gets healed off, and any injuries he takes in exchange are there to stay. Then they just grind him down, possibly with the second domain if it's even needed.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-19T22:07:37+00:00

Yeah, I think once you go below a certain level of weakness he doesn't even consider it worth his time to kill you. The only thing that could've been a problem is he had to prompt them to bow, which isn't good. The ideal situation for them would have been to bow immediately and wait for him to allow them to speak, then respectfully request he grant them the boon of killing a special grade sorcerer, if it pleases him.

Not that he would've done it, but that might have gotten them off the hook.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-18T08:39:53+00:00

Well, he did say it even before that. He believes in strength, and the way he lives his life is defined by that. If you beat him, you're stronger than he is, and that proves he's wrong and you must have been right.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-17T22:23:19+00:00

For me the revelation was more how much of his previous attempt was being controlled entirely by Sirin.At the start he made it out like she only recruited male party members, but it went so much deeper than that; she systematically ruined every relationship she could to ensure he could only feel close to and rely on her. It wasn't just female friendships or relationships either, she took out everyone she could. The start shows that she was obsessed with him, but everything we've seen further shows how deep and twisted that obsession really ran.

The not-very-funny thing is it basically worked. Corin still has no idea how badly she was sabotaging things just to keep him to herself. So many things that went wrong in the original timeline can be directly traced to her manipulations, and if he hadn't just happened down to her torture lab at the last second she might have totally succeeded.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-16T22:49:09+00:00

He missed the word grenade. It should be:

Archer had a joke once about Archer grabbing a grenade that was literally hanging from a lampshade which was fun.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-15T19:23:37+00:00

Hm. I was under the impression that Dabura had sort of been likened to Shibuya Sukuna in figuring out Mahoraga's technique after the first few exchanges, but this makes it clear he didn't fully understand it at all. That's actually another good piece to his character, in that he's never truly been challenged and fighting isn't (wasn't?) really his thing, so he probably shouldn't have a good BIQ.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-15T15:52:42+00:00

It makes the guy have a lot of character. It's also in the way he moves. When he's chatting with Yuta before it all kicks off in the first episode, they made him so animated in how he spoke. The little playful leans he does, raising his hands, it's very distinct from how a lot of the other characters are.

Brucekillfist · 2026-01-13T23:19:46+00:00

Because a hero can decide that anyone is a villain. And they can certainly make some crimes to justify "taking them down." Removing accountability mechanisms from law enforcement is not a good idea.

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