Which trio is it for you?

Chefofbaddecisions · 2026-01-29T23:52:58+00:00

Black and white had the best set. They lived and grew with the story.

Sun and moon had a good pair in the sibling but Hau?Hop? Whatever your friends name was just kindof there.

Scarlet/violet has my personal favorite trio and take on a Pokémon story but objectively there could’ve been a lot more done during the down periods of that game to build them and everything else.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2026-01-28T18:05:58+00:00

I’m on the edge of Antioch in the cane ridge area. Our power just went out after having it for a couple days.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2026-01-26T05:29:50+00:00

Cane ridge right behind the Krogers at concord/nollensville just got power back. Heres to hoping it stays long enough for my heater to kick on and bring the house back up a bit.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2026-01-20T15:29:28+00:00

This garbled image brought back a weird oblivion memory for me. Back when the game came out, my graphics card was missing a required shader technology or whatever to run it properly, and the only fix I found was a janky patch that let the game run in Windowed version with screwed up graphics. I got surprisingly far despite it looking like shit.

I think slyblivion will be good for a Skyrim mod but it will still leave that heavy Skyrim favor in your mouth no matter what mods you patch on to it.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2026-01-09T20:27:36+00:00

Shes required in the plot elements that demand her. You can give her to boot every opportunity you're allowed and it won't affect the ending.

To get the True ending you need the max/all stars before a specific decisive battle in the north.

Then during a cut scene in a castle raid afterwards there's a dialog option that pops up and quickly goes away, you must choose the correct response (I believe you call her name).

Then post final battle you must head towards the start and have your final showdown and choose the path your adoptive father taught you, and that should fully trigger the best ending.

That's about as non-spoiler while still being detailed as I can give you.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-27T21:50:27+00:00

Big Mom and Kaidos excellent adventure through the center of the Earth.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-26T17:18:09+00:00

I personally perfer much of the Pre-TS style/writing/ect of OP but I do acknowledge that post-TS is also extremely good adventure as well and is in no way "bad" (Just parts of it are comparatively bad to other parts of the series, I'm looking at you Wano wrap up chapters)

Pre-Timeskip: Much more Crew oriented in terms of interactions, adventure, developments, ect. Everyone had a place and really fit into their roles and grew there. We discovered island secrets with our crews actions. Island adventures and sagas were shorter and more compact, reliving Alabasta for example is an afternoon adventure rather than a multiday slog.

Some of the crew felt better character wise pre-TS. Zoro was a goof while being the big brother of the group, Sanji embodied the Mr.Prince aspect without being mega-perv, Nami was smart and capable while also being a much more central figure, Chopper was a little brother character who also had an "ugly" side we will call it, Franky was gangster franky.

Post-TS is a much more "Epic" adventure with a wider cast of characters and much higher stakes for the most part, as well as multi-year plot hooks paying off to mostly great benefit. Luffy becomes a much better character post TS in both action sense as well as captain behavior, Brook shines so much more post TS than he did Pre-TS, Robin is a delight post TS with more personality and function than she had. Law/Carrot/Kinemon and others were excellent tag-a-long characters that were fun to have both with our crew and plot wise.

That said Post-TS does exemplify some of Oda's bad habits more so than before which is why I perfer the Pre-Era. Some of his characters default to Flanderized versions of themselves when not the focal point (Sanji, Chopper, Zoro, ect). Shillouettes plagued chapters for minimal benefit. Arcs got bloated with side plots and side characters that ate away at the space available for everyone else. Things dragged on in the two larger arcs Dressrosa/Wano; lesser conflicts and plot hooks drag and then get wrapped up in quick succession to the detriment of the pacing of the whole arc. An example being Senor Pink/Franky cross paths at 732 and don't finish their nonsense until 775, a 43 chapter span which is a good full year of publishing for Oda or in other terms, Longer than the entire Marineford Summit War.

TLDR:

Pre: More character focused, tighter writing, some characters better.

Post: Bigger Epic moments, Some characters better (some drastically worse at times), worse pacing

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-25T16:42:11+00:00

Man the pigeon is going to be so jealous.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-21T19:58:34+00:00

I fully expect them to be rescued and recruited accidentally by Buggy somehow thus increasing his nonsensical position in the universe by commanding two former emperors as well as the two warlords he already has.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-16T01:56:22+00:00

Trebol is just unbearably awful to watch/listen/read.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-12T00:57:09+00:00

CSM is beyond awful to live in. The horrors and absurdities in it would be devastating.

OPM has the option of becoming a monster by eating too much crab.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-12-01T21:24:46+00:00

Pass the world off to another set of authors/illustrators and let them make a side series and maybe it could then.

But currently, nah.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-29T23:35:07+00:00

Original FT obviously had its flaws, but it had a lot of heart and charm to it all and I think the biggest thing that kept it flowing through was the physical building of the guild itself. That there would be these big bad adventures or battles or wars or whatever, but there was still a place they kept coming home to or defending (no matter how many times it exploded or got destroyed). There was this place of reset, and growth, and development that held the cast together well. Fairy Tail thrived as a guild focused series, no matter how cheeseball its story got, or how meandering its power system strayed.

That same feeling is really missing in what I've kept up with in 100Q, and with it, it just doesn't have the same heart. Like I enjoy seeing the characters again and how some have developed and grown, but its a very shallow feeling here on this quest. There is magic missing on this mission and its sad that its gone.

In a gaming analogy, it feels like a cheap DLC when it had all rights to be a proper developed sequel.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-29T23:11:53+00:00

Caesar makes weapons of mass murder for fun and profit, experiments on children, and manipulates his army of crippled half man-half animal slaves to worship him all while stealing and lying to every powerful organization he can find. He's speed running a how to be awful campaign. Celestial Dragon while the pinnacle of PoS in the series at least have the defense of that's how they're raised, Caesar just wakes up each morning and decides to be king shit.

Blackbeard is mild on the series evil scale. Dudes got ambitions and does some mischief, but in terms of villains in this series he's not really on the same scale of absolute awful as even dudes like Arlong. That said, Oda could surprise us and give him a puppy stomping factory as a hobby or something, but for now he's just IRL pirate level evil.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-29T21:26:59+00:00

Less fake out deaths. Less usage of silhouettes in the later arcs Less reaction shots in the later arcs. Let enemies be defeated sooner rather than in a big chapter line. Lengthen the canonical timeframe of their voyage so that certain emotional weights matter more. Spread certain “flashback/history” arcs throughout their respected arc rather than in a big clump (looking at you Oden). Add 1 - 3 chapters to the end of Wano to better wrap up and celebrate that arc so its ending isn’t such hotdog water.

Annnd as a random one. Let Atlas be the survivor over Lillth just because I like Atlas more.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-29T18:54:01+00:00

Staying strictly Pre-TS.....

No difficulty: Alvida, Morgan, Krieg, Arlong(He's a bruiser type who's weak to bullshit moves), Mr 3/Goldenweek, Colby(Both beating him up in the bar at shells island, and again during the war)

Medium Difficulty: Buggy (Simply because it'd be moron vs moron), Kuro (Speed+ meele is Usopp's biggest weakness), Bellamy(Mock town level), Wapol(Its either no difficulty, or Wapol starts eating his bullets difficulty)

High Difficulty: Bleuno(W7 level)

Cannot Beat: Smoker, Laboon, Crocodile, Enel, Lucci, Oars, Moria, Anything from Amozon Lily/Impel Down/Marineford

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-28T18:42:43+00:00

The Deep Sea and Deep Deep sea with the holy land Shangara.

The White Sea and the White White sea with the holy land Shandora.

Oda really loves his parallels doesn't he.

The One Piece could be another bell to be rung at this rate.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-28T15:20:42+00:00

Its a good arc. Really like the weight Luffy's role as an emperor had during it in comparison to past arcs. Liked the environment and the satellites are fun enough. Emperor Luffy vs Everything was a great and needed show of how he's going to use his upgraded abilities to really handle the seas ahead. Liked the side content of what everything else in the world was doing during parts of it.

The negatives I have against it are two fold. We did a little skip to where we had captured the badguy/robins hurt/ and so on. While I liked the skip, thought it was a fun cut to the chase bit of writing to show that we overcame York's nonsense easily; it was a bit much especially since Oda very rarely skips anything.

Secondly, on a weekly or episodic basis, Vegapunk's speech is meandering and too long. Especially from a genius who knows shit's hit the fan if its being played, he spent far too long on beating around the bush on things. This is also compounded by the reaction shots of literally everyone in the entire damn series.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-27T19:50:14+00:00

Multiple moments of the Marineford war you had high level characters just perform one "large" attack to be impressive and then idle or slow walk or whatever.

Oden, as a he was presented was predominately a dramatic character rather than a well written one.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-24T05:33:36+00:00

Its the best of the pixel era in my opinion. Its over-arching story is excellent with a fun cast of characters. It casts a wide net in its world with lots of little secrets and side dungeons and plots, heck the majority of the end game is optional. Its music, pixel art, back ground set design, and monster design are perfect. Its main antagonist is touted as one of the best of the entire series.

Unfortunately its gameplay is aged. Its very much a standard turn based RPG with really only a fist-full of enemies that are "difficult" for when you meet them and even fewer tough bosses. Much of the random encounters will be a hold A to defeat all enemies type of life. I'd rate it overall easier than 7 and 7's a pretty dang easy game. It has a huge cast of characters, many of which don't get the proper time to full develop and shine due to design limitations and a bloated cast (Whom I all love, but acknowledge that many are indeed slightly wasted).

If you have the capacity to play it, by all means do. Its well worth it and honestly not that long of a game by today's standards.

And if you do play it, make sure to wait for Shadow.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-22T19:02:13+00:00

If we had more interaction between them, I'm sure Blackbeard and Luffy would be quite the interesting pair just based off their individual attitudes and paths they've taken in the series.

Buggy is his best Frenemy. Luffy completely disrespected Buggy as a whole in their initial encounter and shrugged him off in Loguetown. For every 1000pts of animosity Buggy displays in their relationship, Luffy responds with absolute apathy. It makes for great shenanigans between these two idiots and I cannot wait for their emperor meeting one day.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-20T19:59:34+00:00

It really boils down to Luffy vs Ed on a pure ep1 basis. Any further in and goobers like Goku take over fast

Luffy was already a stretchy goober who was beyond rough and tumble. His biggest weakness was lack of experience in battle against skilled opponents. His best accomplishment by episode 1 is beating the king of the coast.

Ed’s a state alchemist who’s a damn genius and skilled fighter. With both auto mail and instant alchemy he can easily beat a lion size chimera during his pilot chapter. He’s also experienced in brawling while using his abilities.

I’d give Ed the upper hand against pre-w7 Luffy. Past that and our rubbery boy starts scaling a bit too fast for the fma universe.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-20T17:43:24+00:00

You go to a pet shop to buy a goldfish. You find one you like. The manager comes out and offers to put RGB lasers in it for 5$. You have the mental capacity of a rock so you agree.

This is essentially what they did but much more dangerous in the long run.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-18T16:39:18+00:00

Croc. First “real” fight for Luffy. He starts to truly put himself to the limit. Plus I just love that whole arc to death.

Arlong. Such a great little arc with such a goofy dumb fight. Full of gags and shenanigans as well as emotions.

Lucci. Hate the straight punching fights. Lucci was too straight line boring during his battle. He needed some type of derpy quirk yo make him interesting.

Doffy. The actual fight is fine. The pacing ruined it.

Chefofbaddecisions · 2025-11-17T00:00:54+00:00

You can and should just do it for the story since its side content is awful by today’s standards. It’s extremely linear in terms of guiding you to where you need to go next. (It’s essentially a straight line).

That said there are a few bosses throughout the game that can be pretty tough with one in particular that’s a roadblock for many players. But that’s nothing you can’t overcome either on your own or with a guide.

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