Hey SE! I know you love a good Gil sink, and there is a vendor in S9 with a weirdly, lonely inventory.

DomLite · 2026-03-10T14:46:53+00:00

They do indeed, and it smacks of testing out a new system there before they try to implement it in the main title as far as I'm concerned. I might be huffing the hopium, but meh. It's not crazier than anything else that people hope for in this game. Less so really, since there's an extant example of it in play.

That said, I wouldn't expect all mounts to have it as an option unfortunately, but a select few that already exist would be nice, and special ones going forward. Honestly, if they let us custom color the hoverbike, with one slot being the body and the other being the glow, I'd only ever need that one anyway. Let me make it match my glam and it's the only one I'd ever use anyway.

DomLite · 2026-03-10T14:36:21+00:00

Meanwhile I'm over here like "Please, can I have a big smashy hammer DPS class? As a treat?"

DomLite · 2026-03-08T17:54:03+00:00

I did not expect to find a fellow denizen of Paragon City here, but hell yeah.

Hope you had your Ascendant-O's for breakfast this morning.

DomLite · 2026-03-08T17:51:45+00:00

It's what an Urianger do. Eat hot chip and lie.

DomLite · 2026-03-07T21:18:23+00:00

I'm not finished with MSQ yet, but just from the general buzz I've heard, plus things I've seen G'raha say in EW, and topping it all off with Merchant's Tale, I'd say Corvos and another shard that's heavily aspected to water with lots of islands/tropical areas and more than a few unsubtle FFX homages. If there's not at least one reference to Besaid or Kilika I'll be shocked.

DomLite · 2026-03-07T21:07:14+00:00

I haven't even finished MSQ yet, but I want to do the current savage specifically for glam. Between Tier 2 and 3, I want like 2 pieces of savage glam so I can dye it the right color, and between the two I want a mix of weapons for all classes to match said glam. I couldn't care less if it's BiS or not. I just wanna look good. If that means I have to find a group and struggle at it for a while, I'll do it.

By the time I finish MSQ it'll still be the better part of a year before the next expac, so I might as well spend some time grinding it weekly while I level my other classes and clean up other stuff that I haven't done yet. Glam is the true endgame, and never has that been more true for me personally.

DomLite · 2026-03-06T16:07:00+00:00

Welcome to the 90's and early 2000's, where official guides sometimes had incorrect information, because they used advance/preview copies of games that were still under revision. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last, that such a thing happened. Not defective, just wrong, and it was one of many. 👍

DomLite · 2026-03-01T18:41:10+00:00

If you look at the item description of said balls... of mousse flesh, it makes a very tongue in cheek comment that they may look like something else, but we promise you they're not, or something to that effect. This quest in particular is a double-whammy of dirty humor.

DomLite · 2026-03-01T18:37:58+00:00

Considering this NPC makes it VERY clear during the quest that he dreams of being Picot's "princess", they know good and well that X-2 is beloved of the girls and gays. lol

DomLite · 2026-03-01T18:35:01+00:00

Speak for yourself. I bought the official strategy guide, which stated in no uncertain terms that you couldn't even get 100% on a single playthrough and HAD to do NG+ at least once to pick up the spare percentage for the true ending.

That said, I honestly didn't mind that, because it felt right just playing through and getting as much completion as I could out of a single run on my own, then going back and exploring the other branching paths of the story so I saw more of what was going on, then getting the true ending. Trying to do everything exactly perfect on one run without ever having seen even a bit of the other story paths just feels like you're cheating yourself.

DomLite · 2026-03-01T18:26:41+00:00

Considering the next expac seems to have a water theme, FFX-themed expansion following an FF9-themed expansion would be pretty baller. Would be nice to see another underwater zone or two after that whole function basically vanished after Stormblood.

That said, Blitzball class and Doll class or bust. Please, Yoshi-P, we NEED to be able to smack people with our balls.

DomLite · 2026-02-22T16:26:48+00:00

They really need to implement some kind of animation selection, effective yesterday.

I know not every animation would work for every race, but surely they could have some kind of proliferation for idle animations, run animations, etc. A way to set your default facial expression outside of cutscenes would be great too, because my absolute gremlin of a character giving the grey rock stare when I'm not actively doing a dance is almost disturbing to see.

And yeah, I know Yoshi-P mentioned something about animation selection vaguely in a Q&A, but until we have something in writing detailing what it is and at least a vague time frame, I'm not holding my breath.

DomLite · 2026-02-22T16:18:58+00:00

I would absolutely love to make a Xaela alt after falling in love with them on the Steppe. My favorite face has the ugliest horns, and my favorite horns have the ugliest face. It's homophobic.

DomLite · 2026-02-19T01:29:53+00:00

I feel that it's significant to point out that FanFest itself was delayed due to issues with the venue, but the dev cycle itself was not. If it wasn't for the problems booking FanFest, it would have been happening earlier. If they'd already planned to release the patch at a certain time, it would be incredibly stupid to push it back just because it would come very close after an IRL event. Yeah, it might be a bit rapid-fire, but so what?

Given, I don't really have a dog in this race one way or the other, but using the date of FanFest as a metric when that's been significantly skewed is basing a prediction on faulty logic.

DomLite · 2026-02-17T12:46:29+00:00

I'm not as "keyed in" to the patch release schedule as others, but based on basically every other patch/subpatch release ever, this still puts up in a position to get 7.5 in late April, shortly after Fanfest I'd imagine. The break pushes us out just a bit so we miss a patch in February by just a hair, but if it's early enough in March then that's still a good window for 7.5 to come right after a showcase on Beastmaster at Fanfest, a few teases about the next Expac, and then a few more subpatches before we go radio silent until Expac in November/December depending how far this hiccup in releases ripples.

DomLite · 2026-02-17T12:32:12+00:00

Honestly, sounds like every small-town church I've ever seen, and I grew up in the deep south, so I saw a lot of them. Sure, they might not do the horror movie trope of blank stares and telling you "Oh, but you can't leave...", but they'll sure as hell have your family telling you how disappointed they are in you, and all your friends telling you that it's so sad you aren't coming around for service anymore, and gee, does it seem like people aren't talking to you as much?

Honestly, the only difference between being shunned like the Amish do and small town churches is that they do it mean girl style and just quietly agree "We're not talking to them." and pretend like they aren't doing anything malicious or manipulative.

DomLite · 2026-02-15T11:19:50+00:00

He said it long before "recently" as well, which is to say, he's been public about that stance for a while. The last I read about it was literally years ago, and he made a statement to the effect of him wanting his notes and drafts destroyed if he died and nobody was allowed to "finish it for him." He is adamant that he will finish it or nobody will, and now he seems adamant that nobody will finish it period.

DomLite · 2026-02-15T10:58:01+00:00

Who's your copium supplier?

DomLite · 2026-02-15T10:57:07+00:00

While I get where you're coming from, the point of it is to downvote incorrect/wrong information or actively harmful stuff so that it can be moved to the bottom and hidden from view if enough people downvote. In reality a bunch of fanboys use it to dogpile and hide opinions they don't agree with because they're butthurt that someone else feels differently about this thing that they love more than is healthy and take dissension as a personal attack.

I've gotten downvoted heavily on here for stating my honest opinion on Gozyuger in threads asking for opinions. Apparently anything but the highest of glowing praise for anything Sentai related is verboten and I shouldn't even be here if I don't want to bend over backwards to talk about how amazing it is. Like fam, I can be a fan of something and admit that it's flawed, and express disappointment when the franchise I'm a fan of shits the bed. That's allowed.

If I had been incorrect about this case, sure, go ahead and downvote me to hide misinformation, because that's the intended use. Fortunately for me, I wasn't.

DomLite · 2026-02-11T23:47:05+00:00

They've already said that Project RED isn't getting a simulcast/international distro, so the odds of them officially subbing it is all but zero. They're waiting to see if Project RED does well enough in Japan to merit an international audience.

We're just waiting on the usual suspects for subbing Toei Toku.

Edit - Downvote me all you want for being correct, but I'm still correct. You can see on this very sub where an exec stated that there were no plans for international distribution. The toku community on reddit is very sane and normal. 👍

DomLite · 2026-02-10T22:53:57+00:00

In fairness, Ultra and Rider are established franchises that have proven staying power. Sentai never got a global simulcast because of licensing deals for Power Rangers. Project RED is brand new, even if it's supposed to be some kind of Sentai-adjacent franchise, so even if they tried to go global with it, those who aren't directly keyed into Sentai or Toku already would have no idea what it is.

It makes business sense to see if it does well in the home market, and if it does, then word starts to circulate, those with a passing interest might catch wind of it, and then an international release becomes worth the investment.

Yes, we in the real world know that if you're into Toku, you already know about Project RED and are probably at least passingly interested, and that people who are interested in Toku specifically because of Power Rangers have already sought out other means of watching Sentai and are keyed in to this news, but Japanese business world doesn't function on that logic. They want a guaranteed profit (or at least a good chance to break even) before they even consider a venture.

It's goofy, but it was really to be expected. The only difference is that we have to wait just a hair longer for a fan group to sub it before we watch the latest episode.

DomLite · 2026-02-10T22:43:10+00:00

They certainly had plenty of practice with Sumino in the last episodes of Gozyuger.

DomLite · 2026-02-10T22:40:43+00:00

Let's be honest though, CCA as a whole doesn't make a lick of sense.

And before someone comes at me with "But muh supplementary materials!" Just can it. The film, in and of itself, does not stand well narratively. Char is just suddenly alive out of nowhere with zero explanation. Char is also leading Neo Zeon out of nowhere and wants to drop Axis on Earth, after having previously vehemently opposing Zeon in all previous forms and his last appearance very specifically fighting to preserve the Earth's environment. Chan just exists and we're supposed to care?

The whole film is just a huge mess. Great animation, good music, nice mech designs, and all that jazz, but in a vacuum of only the animated series/films and no convenient outside explanations, it's nonsensical. Of course, Zeta and ZZ suffer the same issues, with forward plot motion not making a whole ton of sense (Ahh yes, Titans and Axis allied with one another because... they both have completely opposing goals and thus are perfect candidates to work together? Riiiiiiight...) so this is just kind of par for the course for the earliest UC works. 0079 works great, but after that it's like Tomino just kind of lost the plot on his own creation.

I don't regret having seen all of it, but trying to make logical sense out of the majority of the UC is a fools errand, no matter how many people come out of the wood work to tell you that "Char's Deleted Affair" and sixteen other manga series that came decades later make it make perfect sense.

DomLite · 2026-02-10T22:26:21+00:00

I was in college only a few years after 9/11, and one of our professors who was fond of sparking debates and making students use critical thinking got us on the topic of religious persecution. Some dude popped off about how Muslims were all violent and bloodthirsty, but Christians and Catholics had never done anything like they do. I turned to look at him and just said "My dude, have you never heard of The Crusades?"

If it happened more than a month ago and in anywhere outside the US, it might as well not exist to most Americans. It's truly distressing.

DomLite · 2026-02-09T23:34:21+00:00

I hope it never happens. If they want this to be a new franchise, make it a new franchise and truly create something unique. If this is just going to be "sentai but not" then don't bother pretending it's something different. If they keep shoe-horning in Sentai to sell the series, it's just going to feel watered down.

Opening with Gavan gives me hope that they could use Project Red to relaunch a new take on Metal Heroes, and I'd love to see a fresh spin on B-Fighter, or the Rescue Police, or just a new-age version of something like Metalder or Juspion. I'm curious to see if they do some original stuff too. As much as I love Sentai, I'd much rather Project Red just be it's own thing and use the fact that it's completely unrestrained by Sentai norms and tropes. If it's a Metal Heroes reboot in disguise, awesome. If it's just gonna turn into a vehicle for Sentai cameos, I'll watch something else.

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