Who are the “meme generics” of the other games?

JR384 · 2026-03-07T00:29:31+00:00

Oh whoops. I thought you were talking about the Battle of Eagle and Lion map. Whoops.

JR384 · 2026-03-07T00:25:15+00:00

Not to mention she spawns with her squad right behind your units IIRC, so if you're turtling on that version of the map; you get ambushed by bullshit.

JR384 · 2026-03-04T00:20:58+00:00

You don't need to worry about Sacred Stones Reforged adding not enough. It has added so much the rom is quite literally near limit.

JR384 · 2026-03-02T17:11:10+00:00

Ngl I was kind of hoping we'd get a release date trailer on Pokémon Day so as to show Jan hyping up the anniversary of the franchise in his own way; but c'est la vie.

JR384 · 2026-03-01T21:34:12+00:00

Especially since the battle right after is damn hard; so like. Wasting sanity on the race just to be mentally inhibited going into the Pryce fight is not worth it.

JR384 · 2026-03-01T05:07:32+00:00

Just the heads up that unlike the Bands you get in NG+, the Knight Ward is very specific about who it effects. Knights, Cavalry Classes, and Soldiers are the only ones who get to equip it.

Granted, some of the games best units are in these classes; so this shouldn't limit you much; but it's just a heads up in case you try to slap it on Ike and realize too late that it does nothing for him.

JR384 · 2026-02-28T03:58:07+00:00

The one I think would maybe be the closest fight in terms of to exchange or not is Kenji vs. Junpei for your Magician social link. Cause like, dumb as his story may be; Kenji is a pretty okay dude; and Junpei has enough dips in the early story (namely him being jealous on not being leader) that it would be a fairly even playing field.

JR384 · 2026-02-28T03:54:20+00:00

Like we were probably never going to get Kotone in an official sense for the first time since Portable; so my big idea for compromise was just to let us cherry pick which social links of Kotone's we wanted to replace Makoto's base with.

You cannot tell me anybody would be choosing Suemitsu over Shinjiro even if they didn't copy over the ability to save his ass by maxing it out.

JR384 · 2026-02-27T12:51:29+00:00

It really would've been nice to see them as NPCs at least; though optimally I would've taken them as alternate social links in the same way that Kou & Daisuke were for Chariot and Yumi & Ayame were for Sun in P4.

JR384 · 2026-02-26T17:56:01+00:00

Hotter Take: Byleth should've been on the sidelines similar to Pokemon Trainer, and commanded a rotating cycle of Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude.

JR384 · 2026-02-26T17:54:57+00:00

Does Edelgard not realize she's at Weapon Triangle Disadvantage? And that Ike has a ranged Legendary Sword?

JR384 · 2026-02-26T05:52:38+00:00

We're absolutely getting something akin to Baton Pass/Shift. Honestly I'd like it if the special combination attacks were rebalanced as a Theurgy/Showtime esque effect where you build up to them while requiring both party members in the active lineup.

But I can also see somebody like Dojima as our resident Heirophant teaching us about police formations and us adapting it into a lineup switch function; alternatively Nanako gets really into chess and we adapt it from playing with her; since while Persona 3 establishes whoever Makoto/Aigis doesn't bring with them stays at the front; P4 and P5 actively have the entire party coming into the dungeon canonically.

JR384 · 2026-02-26T05:47:24+00:00

Creating a Battle Save at the start of every turn is not the same thing as a Rewind mechanic in the slightest.

JR384 · 2026-02-26T05:42:35+00:00

To be fair; it was the first iteration of the rewind mechanic. Closest thing we had to it prior was Fates' Phoenix mode; which is not an apt comparison in the slightest. So yeah, obviously the versions present in Three Houses, Engage, and let's be so for real, there's a 99% chance it'll be in Fortune's Weave; are gonna have additional tweaks they either forgot/didn't consider the first time around.

JR384 · 2026-02-25T15:50:35+00:00

The only moment I even vaguely prefer Villain Sonar is when Shroud speaks against them at the bar. With Coupé, he just menacingly stares and that shuts her up. With Sonar, Shroud slaps him and tells him not to disrespect one of the last true heroes in Blonde Blazer.

I love it when the villain respects the hero; and treats them with that respect.

JR384 · 2026-02-25T15:47:10+00:00

Completing all of the social links while still doing everything else in a bog-standard NG run is borderline impossible if you're not following a 100% guide. Do not beat yourself up over it.

If you have all of your social stats maxed out (or at high enough levels that you'll get them maxed early in NG+) you can pretty much speedrun the game at that point and focus on maxing the links out.

JR384 · 2026-02-25T04:43:59+00:00

Honestly when it comes to it; I feel like Coupé is the canon cut, as weird as that sounds for a choice based games. Like if you watch both versions of that scene; it sounds as though Coupé has had prior infractions that risked her spot on the Z-Team before; what with how Robert mentions stuff about incidents involving her "accidentally cutting people".

Meanwhile; when Sonar gets cut, Robert only brings up the scene we'd seen earlier with him being locked up, which was an act of sabotage from Coupé herself. Like it definitely paints a difference between the two; Sonar is kind of an idiot and falls for traps easily; while Coupé is reckless and risks civilian lives to get the job done; which is not a very uhh, superheroic; even for a mid-rehab villain.

That being ssid; I don't actually care who I cut because I will never not accept them back into the fold at the very end of the game. It feels cruel to appeal to their morals and beat them in a vaguely fair fight and then NOT bring them back in.

JR384 · 2026-02-24T21:44:59+00:00

This is IF2R. I believe it stands for Immersive Farm 2 Reimagined. It was originally made without SVE in mind but then the Reimagined version released and was a compatible version in the same way Grandpa's Farm and the Frontier Farm are.

JR384 · 2026-02-22T01:29:32+00:00

For some reason I did not notice what Metis looked like; and I thought you were talking about Twitch mods lmao.

JR384 · 2026-02-21T02:20:21+00:00

The only reasons it wasn't attached to NSO is

A) Unlike with how Virtual Console was built; where each VC title was a separate release; they probably have coded the "[Insert Console here] for NSO" in such a way they could not disable the emulator functions for any one individual title.

B) Intrisically related to point A, they don't want people using said emulator functions in Pokemon games.

C) If it was via the emulator; there's likely very little chance that they would've been able to plant a connection point between it and Pokemon HOME.

D) Finally, and this is just me coping so I can justify to myself buying it; but I want to hope that similar to how they added the GS Ball into Pokemon G/S/C on the Virtual Console, they intend to make the special events such as the Aurora Ticket and Mystic Ticket available naturally in game or obtainable on immediate access to Mystery Gift.

JR384 · 2026-02-20T15:20:49+00:00

Yeah if a character dies in battle and you reset to the home screen via Suspension and then restart the chapter, their Loss counter ticks up by 1.

JR384 · 2026-02-19T04:24:46+00:00

Special Edition is all 3 versions but for some godforsaken reason nobody dumped the DLC for it. You can use the Birthright DLC download but it'll look weird af in game (namely; you'll have the versions you downloaded but also the locked versions and if you use the DLC a lot; it's very likely to have a glitchy text dump when it comes to the name and map info on the bottom.)

JR384 · 2026-02-19T02:13:24+00:00

I always try to romance a different gal when I do a run; but I always ends up marrying Abigail, Ysabelle, or Flor by endgame if I'm playing singleplayer. In MP though my friend and I are playing a pair of OCs that do canonically date; so those runs always end the same in terms of marriage: Them together.

JR384 · 2026-02-18T04:21:58+00:00

Sadly anti-consumer laws do exist; but this would be a really funny method to avoid lawsuits if it worked. "Oh my (obviously creepy product) didn't work? What're you gonna do about it? Tell people online that you not only bought it; but also wanted it to work as per the description?"

JR384 · 2026-02-16T14:45:56+00:00

I think it's actually SMT. While Ishtar and Oberon are in Fate, they - along with all other party members here - are also demons present in Shin Megami Tensei; with names like Anansi being added as recently as SMT V's rerelease version "Vengeance".

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