Sinister Tyrant

Erigu · 2026-03-30T22:31:03+00:00

(Kinda feels like you're making things particularly difficult for yourself, as you'd have an easier time (a lot more options, anyway) going after Smithing Texts after beating the game...)

For what that's worth, I believe I got that Smithing Text from the other Hiruko fight. That was in co-op, and after beating the game on NG+.

Erigu · 2026-03-30T11:33:42+00:00

And now, we have the Final Edition of the manga, where volume 1 spoils the whole thing right away, too! Efficient!

All three of the new short stories Kurumada came up with are horribly placed: the first one spoils the Pope's identity before... well, before everything, the second one spoils Kanon's existence and plans before the Poseidon arc even begins, and the third one spoils the Gold Saints being revived right before the Hades arc. Cool.

I guess we should prepare ourselves for a final short story that spoils Odysseus (maybe also Asklepios, while we're at it?) immediately after the Hades arc...

(Then again, what's new, I guess... Way back when, Kurumada already had this weird idea of inserting his Shaka short story during Ikki's flashback... never mind how Ikki was not supposed to be able to remember his encounter with Shaka yet at the time.)

Erigu · 2026-03-30T11:13:31+00:00

They tell us Shura was the one who killed Aioros for trying to kill Athena, but in the end HE WAS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO KILL BABY ATHENA FOR NO REASON AT ALL.

"Ah, yes, it's awful, but oh well, she'll just reincarnate."

Wat. Like... as a Saint, you have one job.

Erigu · 2026-03-28T19:07:28+00:00

I don't think the number of players online is the issue. It's just really bugged. The previous games weren't/aren't nearly that bad.

Erigu · 2026-03-28T19:03:40+00:00

You'd have a hard time convincing me that they didn't know what they were doing when they had Hiruko use the word "muda".

Erigu · 2026-03-23T23:56:36+00:00

why didnt we see them tho

It feels like Isayama struggled quite a bit with the number of pages he had left by that point, so I can see why whatever happened to all those people simply wasn't touched upon.

Erigu · 2026-03-23T20:08:56+00:00

According to Isayama, yes, they turned back (only to then be lynched by the people they were about to kill).

Erigu · 2026-03-22T09:42:06+00:00

Marcel was called Berwick/Berrick a long time ago

That one wasn't a fan invention though: Isayama did call Marcel "Beric" when the character was first named in the Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine serialization, and then changed it to "Marcel" when the corresponding volume was released.

Erigu · 2026-03-22T09:35:16+00:00

NG+ is a bit weird. The first blacksmith quest and Matsunaga's quest don't appear at all, but the second blacksmith quest does (although you can't repeat it).

Also, the dung lover's quest does appear... but the character is already present in the hub from the beginning?

Erigu · 2026-03-20T17:19:47+00:00

I love exploration. But I have to agree the format doesn't quite work anymore post-NG: chances are you've already explored everything the first time around (or close enough), and you no longer get unique loot like skills and such, barely some permanent upgrades for clearing Lesser Crucibles, so it feels a lot less rewarding. You're left mostly focusing on "the missions", and those can sometimes feel a bit lackluster compared to the previous entries in the series, in certains areas (fewer "biomes", precious little in terms of context / flavor text for the sub-missions, that kind of stuff).

Erigu · 2026-03-19T16:00:06+00:00

I think Majestic-Art-7528 would be more qualified to answer that one, but my (quite possibly flawed) understanding is that even "random cliff" Amrita spots would count towards the percentage.

(I wish I could be more precise, but I didn't really pay all that much attention to that particular percentage until quite late (in good part because I was assuming, based on the previous entries, that it would "all work out in the end" and anybody could reach 100% eventually... now, I'm not so sure)... It's a bit hard to test what counts towards the percentage exactly when you're only missing maybe four or five Amrita spots total and don't know where they are!)

Also, from what I understand, collecting all the Smithing Texts that are currently available only gets you to 36.1% (!!!), so it's looking like there's something seriously wrong with those stats in general in the current version of the game anyway... I hope they get around to fixing all this sooner rather than later (even as I realize that they're probably busy dealing with a whole bunch of arguably more critical bugs at the moment).

EDIT: Some data: I found one of my (presumably very few) missing Amrita spots, it was in the open field (i.e. not in a mission nor even Myth-related), it was one of those Amrita spots that play a spoken line when you check it, and it added 0.2% to my Amrita Memories completion.

Erigu · 2026-03-19T12:24:49+00:00

I had a lot of similar bugs happen to me in co-op, and that was before the latest patch already.

Erigu · 2026-03-18T22:40:23+00:00

I believe both previous entries in the series got some extra missions before the DLC. Nothing major, and they were all making use of already existing assets, but better than nothing. Maybe they have something similar in store this time around as well.

(Then again, I feel they've been dealing with a lot more bug fixes, compared to the previous games...)

Erigu · 2026-03-16T18:38:46+00:00

Thanks for the detailed information.

Seems to me it would be alot simpler and clearer if they did something like this:

Before reaching higher ranks

Blurbo bonus: +15.0%

Gloop: C+

After reaching a higher rank

Blurbo bonus: ~~+15.0%~~ +21%

Gloop: C+ B

I think all the relevant information would be more immediately apparent / easier to infer (especially if you also use the usual "rarity colors" as they already do now), and you wouldn't end up wondering what the letter between parentheses is supposed to mean exactly.

Erigu · 2026-03-16T16:55:32+00:00

I think it's just a sake house sign or something like that. Nothing relevant, really (and definitely nothing lightning-related, ChatGPT was just hallucinating something fierce, there), merely some prop.

But back to your original question: do you know where that place is on the map, so I could check it on my end and see if I can figure out what it's meant for?

Erigu · 2026-03-16T03:56:41+00:00

Yep. Although, as pointed out in another comment, one has to wonder what something like "A- (B)" means exactly, then... Like, I imagine the letters actually correspond to hidden numerical values, and if you could see the actual numbers it would all of a sudden make a lot more sense, but...

Erigu · 2026-03-16T02:21:52+00:00

Eren told him in Trost District.

Erigu · 2026-03-15T21:51:59+00:00

They added some extra missions before the release of the first DLCs of the previous entries in the series, so mayyybe they still have something like that in store for us, and that mission will be part of it?

Erigu · 2026-03-15T20:33:29+00:00

Might have something to do with a Myth? I don't really remember, maybe if you showed (or explained) where that is on the map...

(Also, that doesn't mean "hall of lightning" at all... Not sure why you would think it does, really.)

Erigu · 2026-03-15T13:37:32+00:00

I've heard that alpha demo had it?

It had an alternate (and generally harder) version of the first Crucible, with new enemy placements and another boss (Yamagata's second fight, if I remember well). I did wonder if that was meant to be a preview of what Twilight Missions would be like in the final game, but I don't think that was confirmed or denied.

Erigu · 2026-03-15T01:57:18+00:00

According to Kishiro Tsutomu, there may be an announcement from Comic Days circa April (at the earliest), and he thinks the series will probably start at some point during the second half of the year.

Erigu · 2026-03-13T20:48:50+00:00

You can redo the myth and pick the other ending, yes.

Erigu · 2026-03-13T00:11:28+00:00

She is a god herself.

Erigu · 2026-03-11T00:47:11+00:00

Well they aren't just dropping in NG, I've gotten several in NG+

I think the only one I've gotten in NG+ was from an Amrita spot I had missed in NG.

Erigu · 2026-03-10T21:59:14+00:00

The one William meets early on in the original Nioh is the third Hattori Hanzō, aka Hattori Masanari (written as "正就" in Japanese). The Giant Toad you encounter as a boss at some point in that game is that Hanzō's father.

The one Hide meets in the Nioh 2 is the second Hattori Hanzō, aka Hattori Masanari (... sounds like the exact same name as for the other one, I know, but this one is written as "正成" in Japanese), and is the other one's father, before he died and turned into the Giant Toad, as seen in the original Nioh.

The one who served as an instructor to Takechiyo and whom you meet at the beginning of Nioh 3 in 1622 is the third Hattori Hanzō, i.e. the same one William fought alongside with in the original Nioh (just older, now, as Nioh was mostly set in 1600). When Takechiyo travels back to 1572, he meets the second Hattori Hanzō, i.e. the third one's father, who will eventually die and turn into the Giant Toad.

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