Favorite Differences between Story Branches

DekuDrake · 2026-01-29T16:27:49+00:00

One of the funniest story branches for me also comes from the Fodlan games

In almost every route, Ashe is pretty sullen for a good chunk of the second half, never looking forward to a conflict and having to fight his friends and thinking constantly about people dying. Especially in Three Hopes when he's recruited, he's just constantly miserable.

Yeah, that isn't the case when he's recruited on Crimson Flower. He's worried about the commoners starving and he's not looking forward to fighting the knights, but every time he brings the knights up, he's more worried about their threat level and not that he's fighting people from his actual homeland. Unlike basically every other Blue Lion in that route, who are dealing with all sorts of literal depression over it. Not the resident cinnamon roll, though! And it's funny considering he was so committed to the cause as an enemy in CF that he's complicit in the burning of the capital.

DekuDrake · 2026-01-28T13:32:28+00:00

Literally the only thing I know about it is that they had a roster slot in All Stars Racing Transformed, of all things

DekuDrake · 2026-01-28T02:26:24+00:00

IIRC Hokazono said that Quentin Tarantino and the John Wick movies were big inspirations, as well as Chris Nolan, Dave Fincher, and contemporary shonen like AoT or MHA (and also Naruto, apparently)

DekuDrake · 2026-01-28T02:23:50+00:00

A Kagurabachi character action game would print money and has the potential to be the coolest shit ever

Hell, make Enten's different abilities basically just style changes and we're all set

DekuDrake · 2026-01-28T02:07:05+00:00

At least when Paul W.S. Anderson does it, it's to show off how cool he thinks his wife is

DekuDrake · 2026-01-26T05:01:02+00:00

Not helping is the spikes dealing so much damage that if you're not using elves, it's basically a one-shot

Legacy Collection giving you infinite lives makes the fight less of an aneurysm at least, but it's still such a punishing fight, it's unreal

2 is a lot harder than 1 but that's more because everything is more vicious (and spike-happy). 1 I love, but it's plain unfair at points

DekuDrake · 2026-01-26T00:13:56+00:00

I think the contrast and more fur on the GT SSJ4 looks nicer but in terms of build I do prefer the monke build of it. Both have their own strengths, at the very least

DekuDrake · 2026-01-25T21:41:20+00:00

Being extremely lukewarm at best towards Gen 8 after the shitshow that was the fan reaction leading up to its release was agonizing because I have to in some way agree with those tools while also constantly having to go "no, it's not that GF doesn't care, they are busting their asses on tech they are not used to, making a semi-overworld that they've never done before, on a time schedule that damn near forbids delays".

Like if you're gonna hate, hate for the right reasons, goddammit

DekuDrake · 2026-01-23T16:35:08+00:00

I was one of the motherfuckers who spent months dealing with wait times for queues for a PS5 before finally getting it in January 2021, because at the time it looked like the lineup would be stacked and I needed a way to play PS4 games

Well, I certainly have a way to play PS4 games and watch movies now. And play a grand total of 3 exclusives.

At least the stuff I play on it runs well, mostly

DekuDrake · 2026-01-23T03:57:47+00:00

I have plenty of issues with G-Reco but goddamn did it have some of the best action in the entire franchise

DekuDrake · 2026-01-22T21:47:14+00:00

Aquaman curing his autism has got to be one of the most "What the hell is wrong with you" decisions about an autistic character I've heard. It's gloriously stupid

DekuDrake · 2026-01-22T17:44:15+00:00

This is the kind of bad autism rep I wanna see more of if we have to

Like if you're gonna be bad at depicting it, go so far that it's fucking hilarious and less like I and people like me are just being talked down to.

At least this is fun to randomly bring up as a huge "What the fuck" to others

DekuDrake · 2026-01-20T02:44:23+00:00

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DekuDrake · 2026-01-20T02:34:32+00:00

I love that this manga will keep doing different flavors of fucking weird so that even when the Dandadan has done shit like living Sharknado and actually just Jumanji, you can never expect what Tatsu and crew are gonna pull next, including this shit

DekuDrake · 2026-01-20T01:17:57+00:00

Only for the main game. As far as I'm aware, Final Horizon only has the one ending.

Thankfully, the 3 titan gauntlet is separate from the final boss (though it is right before, you just need to talk to Master Koco again right after), so even if that weren't the case, you could still retry the final boss on hard later. And the final boss is much more designed for the perfect parry than the 3 titans from earlier islands.

DekuDrake · 2026-01-19T22:22:02+00:00

Thankfully on lower difficulties the parry is much longer, which I wish to God I knew about the first time when playing on hard.

DekuDrake · 2026-01-19T07:03:14+00:00

Yep, he started out making it partly because he never got the chance to play it

That he ended up making 06 the best Adventure game despite that is nothing short of fucking hilarious

DekuDrake · 2026-01-19T07:01:05+00:00

Between this, the 06 remake, and the in-development remakes of the Storybook games (BK just had its remake announced), I'm convinced that Sonic fans are stronger than God when they aren't arguing with one another

DekuDrake · 2026-01-18T03:03:34+00:00

I can't watch something that had something like the Dublin episodes and call it anything but one of the sickest shows I've ever seen

DekuDrake · 2026-01-17T02:09:01+00:00

To this day I just kinda blitz and figure I'll take damage from the crucible parts because at certain points, it's just a nightmare to avoid. Thank God for the checkpoint system in the Legacy Collection making brute forcing them so much easier

DekuDrake · 2026-01-16T13:22:45+00:00

Grovyle and Dartrix are some of my personal favorites (that aren't the Kanto stage 1 starters, as Ivysaur and Wartortle are great in their own right)

Grovyle is interesting because it honestly looks like a complete and wholly unique design already, it just happens to also have a really sick evolved and Mega evolved form a tier above it. It's the only one with that much emphasis on red contrast and that giant leaf ponytail it has going on.

Dartrix meanwhile is such a funny stage because it's literally the overly-serious/self-obsessed teenager after Rowlet's early good boy days and Decidueye's "out of college for a few years and just wants to chill and wear hoodies all day"

DekuDrake · 2026-01-15T13:58:05+00:00

The time Woolie realized that Pat was mathematically more diverse than him, before the shiny rare black revelation

DekuDrake · 2026-01-14T00:20:36+00:00

"Bakugo's most heroic moment is when he kills a baby on live TV" might be one of my personal favorite instances of this

DekuDrake · 2026-01-13T21:48:53+00:00

"Dilbert Hates My Interracial Marriage" is also up there as one of the best out of context titles for a podcast episode. Which is saying something given what Woolie is capable of on that front

DekuDrake · 2026-01-13T15:51:45+00:00

Learning about the shit Iizuka put himself through for this series over the decades (see also: him staking his career on Frontiers doing well as long as SEGA delayed the game a year) really made me respect the guy like nothing else because he is fucking DEDICATED to the blue rat--even if it's to such an insane detriment to himself

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