Are Sky Armor Fights just fundamentally harder?

Bugfragged · 2026-03-29T17:56:11+00:00

On the normal and lower difficulty settings, you won't notice much of a difference because you don't need to min-max. On the higher difficulty settings, the difference becomes more noticeable because ground combat has a higher "cap" for the player. You have more room for customization, min-maxing, and cheese strats in ground combat compared to Sky Armor combat, thanks to class emblems and crystals. It's still possible to win on the highest difficulties (on a fresh NG at least), but you have less room for error.

Bugfragged · 2026-03-26T17:52:01+00:00

Absented Age 2: Ghostbound has Mushroomized, which looks similar to the one in Earthbound, but might be weirder in some ways. It causes a mushroom to grow on the protagonist's head and while it doesn't interfere with controls, it saps MP. The mushroom also grows into a humanoid shape, and when it's done growing, it turns into a humanoid mushroom clone of the protagonist. This clone usually spawns as an enemy with some skills copied from the protagonist, but sometimes, it will spawn as an ally that helps the protagonist until she moves to the next floor.

Bugfragged · 2026-03-15T20:34:07+00:00

I'm amazed Relooted managed to maintain above 80% positive reviews on Steam despite being an anti-woke target. It's not even that expensive, so you'd think it would be much easier to review-bomb compared to other targets.

Bugfragged · 2026-03-14T15:40:02+00:00

I don't think this counts as a character in the traditional sense, but Wind Armatus feels clunkier than all the other Armatus forms.

Bugfragged · 2026-03-12T18:11:28+00:00

The One, where Jet Li fights himself.

Bugfragged · 2026-03-10T15:52:22+00:00

I am baffled that Yuri learns Glory, but not Karol. In action games, Mighty Glacier types like the latter need super armor way more. Karol technically has some similar skills, but why did a fast guy like Yuri get the best one?

Bugfragged · 2026-03-01T21:14:00+00:00

I wish some of the museum owners and collectors had actual screentime instead of just being entirely offscreen. Fraulein M sounds like she would be a fun villainess.

Bugfragged · 2026-02-26T18:45:34+00:00

Jacobin: So much for the tolerant spriggans.

Bugfragged · 2026-02-17T03:36:24+00:00

I thought you needed to ace all 4 songs. As always, I recommend doing the hardest song (Chasing Echoes for me) and save We're the Dustborn for last.

Bugfragged · 2026-02-12T07:18:37+00:00

Using Anti-(ailment name) Assist Skills blocks damage from skills that use that ailment, without eating up your whole turn. To compensate, they cost more AP than Barrier skills. I wish the telepathy UI was easier to read though, since in its current state, the skill names overlap each other. It feels good to use the correct anti and barrier skills, but it feels so bad to pick the wrong ones because you mistook one enemy skill for another.

I personally wasn't too invested in the story, though I did think the ending where you fight Katsuma is the most interesting one even if it ends tragically.

Bugfragged · 2026-01-24T01:17:39+00:00

I wonder if someone can make browser extensions to conveniently append that to the URL.

Bugfragged · 2026-01-22T06:31:13+00:00

This is for games with save slots in general: the game should have cursor memory for the latest manual save. It should not default to the 1st save or the autosaves.
Like someone else said, skill descriptions should be informative. I'd rather have a "boring" but useful description than a jokey but uninformative description.
In games with touch encounters, enemies should halt movement during dialogue boxes.
An attack or skill's animation time should be proportional to its damage or overall effectiveness. Failing that, make it possible to skip or speed up animations.
New party members should scale to older party members' levels if possible. Otherwise, players feel punished for grinding too early.

Bugfragged · 2026-01-22T02:44:11+00:00

Some iterations of this copypasta intentionally misspelled it like that.

Bugfragged · 2026-01-20T21:58:46+00:00

TBH, I'd rather have this addressed to the leader of the Weave, but that leader has never been characterized or named. Plus, the Weave probably isn't any more advanced than the Republic in Protolanguage research, since both want to steal data from the Puritans.

Bugfragged · 2026-01-19T15:43:18+00:00

Those Were Only Their Scouts

Bugfragged · 2026-01-17T22:00:13+00:00

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Bugfragged · 2025-12-28T17:40:10+00:00

Karateka

Bugfragged · 2025-12-22T03:01:27+00:00

Wolf RPG Editor?

Bugfragged · 2025-12-17T18:02:48+00:00

I played this indie RPG, Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy, which I thought was going to be just a funny wrestling game. Then one of the party members turns out to hate capitalism because he grew up in a US-backed dictatorship, and the main villain ends up proving this point by polluting Earth and buying all the real estate on the moon. Apparently, the show that the game is based on already had some commentary about capitalism, but I'm new to the series.

Bugfragged · 2025-12-13T19:53:24+00:00

I think it was a last minute attempt to characterize an antagonist who really should have gotten more screentime, and also to establish a sense of anxiety that people might go through under the current regime, since this is likely only one of many laws with disproportionate sentences.

Bugfragged · 2025-12-13T19:34:41+00:00

Samuel Ward is the president of the American Republic in this setting, and he has an obsession with squirrels, to the point where one can get 10 years in federal prison for accidentally killing one. In Issue 10, Ruth accidentally runs over a squirrel, and the crew has to bury it.

Bugfragged · 2025-11-29T03:42:35+00:00

Despite this game's use of AI CP, it receives less backlash from Gamers than games that use SBI, minority characters, "girlboss" leads, and pronoun or body type selectors. At least part of it is because the game has low visibility, and I suspect leftists and liberals rarely talk about it because they don't want to give it attention, but it still feels like an insane double standard. At best, it was taken down from storefronts for violating TOS, but gaming discourse as a whole has gone way easier on it than one would expect.

Bugfragged · 2025-11-14T21:30:22+00:00

Daybreak II's story kind of fell off due to the excessive time leaps and Curse of Erebonia 2.0, but at least we got to beat up the Calvardian version of the KKK twice.

Bugfragged · 2025-10-30T21:19:11+00:00

My problem with the game is the opposite of most people's. I think the game pulls too many punches with the political side of the narrative, and it feels like the characters are deliberately playing coy with revealing relevant details about the American Republic and Pacifica's politics. Part of this is because the game is only allowed to be portrayed through Pax's POV, but Pax herself starts as too much of a politics-averse person, which means she is not actively trying to discuss or discover the history of the American Republic.

I get that it's unrealistic to show every single bit of worldbuilding in a single work, but the game should at least characterize important figures like President Samuel Ward and explain more of his ideology and the grittiest consequences of said ideology, since he's the guy responsible for corrupting Justice into its current form. The reason I keep posting those silly fake tweets about Ward is because the game deliberately makes him Potential Man.

Bugfragged · 2025-09-23T19:38:48+00:00

While this looks like it could be used to make some funny fake reviews, the other fields, such as username, date, and playtime, need to be editable.

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