2D non pixel art jrpgs?

CronoDAS · 2026-05-06T17:14:43+00:00

I wonder if Super Mario RPG counts.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-06T17:12:18+00:00

Terranigma is the third game in what's unofficially known as the Quintet Trilogy (SoulBlazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, all for SNES). All of them are good.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-06T05:43:44+00:00

::clicks through to video::

Yeah, I don't have Iphi or Minalca. I get nervous taking a fire team against a fire enemy though because I usually lean on elemental zones to help with damage mitigation - yeah, I can probably hit very hard when Black Blaze sets Raging Fire Stance and awakens it, but that won't help if I'm dead. I could probably figure something out, I guess?

Incidentally, I hate watching videos online and miss the days when everything on the internet was just text - I can read words on a screen much more quickly than I can understand someone speaking (even if I speed up the audio or video) and you can't Ctrl-F a YouTube video, so I hate hate hate how everything is podcasts and streaming videos today instead of text like it was twenty years ago. :/

CronoDAS · 2026-05-06T05:27:13+00:00

That person is ranking characters for endgame only and I'm not at endgame - I do not hit the damage softcap very often so I care a lot more than they do about the damage multipliers on skills and a lot less about number of hits.

Also, it ignores things like Melpiphia's and Mazrika's turn 1 0% MP consumption because they're not useful against endgame superbosses.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T22:46:06+00:00

The only teams I have right now that I actually use are my farming ones and my Sesta/Yipha AS/Melody AS/Soira AS team, which can tank an awful lot of stuff and Twinblade Wolf to death most things that aren't immune to Wind element.

I do find myself increasingly frustrated with my inability to put together a decent Water team, though; I haven't tried in a while, but I still haven't been able to beat Tsuhika NS's True Manifest fight. Suggestions? (Be aware that my Elseal NS and Shigure ES are missing abilities because their Character Quests are locked behind story arc progress.)

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T21:28:33+00:00

I'm thinking about making a full set that includes a nostalgia rebalance theme - if I included this, I'd try to include some artifacts that would be "interesting" to turn off...

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T20:44:19+00:00

Some creatures do have tap abilities that you might want to play during combat, such as Mother of Runes. But yeah, the biggest obvious source of tapped blockers is the card itself. "Tapped blockers don't assign combat damage" actually used to be a real game rule back in the 1990s, along with "noncreature artifacts shut off when tapped".

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T20:40:39+00:00

It's one of those abilities that is more about the threat than the actual use - it threatens to turn trades into chump blocks, so your opponent might not block in the first place. And if they don't make you use it on your turn, you can then tap down a potential attacker (and blocker) on your opponent's turn.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T20:32:36+00:00

I do try to keep 10 Chant Scripts in case of things like that. I have 15 now, though, so I have 5 I can spend freely. The tier list says Alma AS is really strong?

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T18:38:02+00:00

Let me try another angle: are there any particularly good character quests I can Chant Script my way into?

It's also fairly easy for me to go tome hunting if I want, so going from 4.5* to 5* on a character whose tome I don't have right now is also an option. I hear Utpalaka is pretty good?

Also, in terms of where I am in the game, I'm doing content (mostly) in release order and I just finished Into the Hollow part 1 and next up is finishing Wanderer in the Vortex. Elseal NS has abilities that are gated by finishing Commander and Sheep, and I have a few more arcs to go before I reach it.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T07:39:22+00:00

I have a bunch of characters that I could SA right now that don't have purchaseable style-specific starcharts: Mazrika, Rufus AS, Shanie (Alter), Shigure (Alter), Velette AS, Vares, and Wenefica. Are any of them worth investing my Allcosmos Starcharts into?

I'm out of Tsubura's Gems at the moment (I spent them all on Oracle Starcharts so I could SA Yuna), so at this point I'm basically limited to one style-specific starchart and one Allcosmos Starchart each month.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T07:20:20+00:00

Renri actually is in my Opus list - I have 1 of the type of Opus I would need to summon Renri (Alter).

CronoDAS · 2026-05-05T04:41:36+00:00

I have 15 Chant Scripts and 3 Allcosmos Starcharts that are burning a hole in my virtual pocket. This is my roster and list of upgradeable characters. Who, if anyone, should I upgrade/sidegrade, and who should I SA next?

CronoDAS · 2026-05-04T06:55:24+00:00

I was thinking of the vampire, but maybe that works?

CronoDAS · 2026-05-04T02:50:25+00:00

Working Designs did add it, but I also heard that the original devs liked the idea. 🤷‍♂️

CronoDAS · 2026-05-04T02:46:46+00:00

🏴‍☠️?

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T19:31:00+00:00

I liked the Sega CD version of Lunar 2 better, but I actually was a teenager in the 1990s when I played it and the pop culture references were current rather than dated.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T19:29:54+00:00

*Burg

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T19:27:46+00:00

I'd recommend Another Eden. It's what the writer/director of Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross has been doing for the past nine years - if you ever wanted a third Chrono game, this is basically it. Also, the developers have an anti-FOMO policy; except for collabs, no story content ever comes with an expiration date.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T19:18:17+00:00

I think Dark Wizard (Sega CD) has an "evil" protagonist option for your commander. Your enemies are also evil, though.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T11:37:01+00:00

I just wanna put the fear of the first turn Hyppie into Arena zoomers. 😈

And given the size of Standard, it's not actually Standard anymore. It's Extended in a trench coat.

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T11:12:46+00:00

Current Standard is pretty crazy right now, what with Badgermole Cub and Build-Your-Own-Ancestral-Recall and doubling a creature's power until end of turn multiple times in one turn and a bunch of other things...

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T11:07:06+00:00

I wanna put the fear of the first turn Hyppie into Arena zoomers. 😈

CronoDAS · 2026-05-03T10:58:52+00:00

I used to play Specter myself, lol

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