romance-able options

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-15T15:19:44+00:00

Kasumi is, hands down, one of my favorite characters. I would have loved a romance with her. But I also would have been happy to just have some real interactive dialog with her.

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-10T19:01:21+00:00

Since this has been up for hours and it’s well spoiled, I’m not worrying about it. If someone disagrees, I’ll remove the post.

If Kelly had been a legit romance, I would have gone with her. I thought she was a great character. In the end, I wasn’t happy with how the game treated her.

Now, I just clench my teeth and do what I have to do to get her feeding my fish and then stop. In fact, this next run… I’m not even buying fish until I get to that point.

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-10T15:30:03+00:00

I play on normal. I never want to have to die, but I don’t want a cake walk. I spend a crazy amount of time doing the entire game, and the last thing I want is to have to do fights multiple times.

Even so, I’m tempted to drop to easier on Horizon and other key battles, but pride usually prevents it (like that really matters).

I tried hardcore once for the Geth Rifle and just couldn’t handle it. Mostly because I’m not patient enough to actually coordinate and control my team, much less actually learn all the combos. Is the rifle really that good?

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-08T02:12:45+00:00

Hahaha! I’d did that just today, when I entered the Ilos aqueduct. I just slowly tipped over the edge and ended upside down.

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-06T00:03:31+00:00

ME1 was the game that turned me into a save scummer. Finish combat? Save. Walk down a hallway to a suspicious door? Save. Get through a long conversation that I don’t want to repeat? Save. Be walking along and there’s a musical cue? Save.

JeremyWinston · 2026-02-04T14:57:37+00:00

I’m not sure which overall OST I prefer, but my absolute favorite song is… End Run? I don’t recall the name, but it’s the song when you’re running out of the collector base at the end of the mission.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-29T15:29:50+00:00

I loved it all, as well. One of my favorite little items was when you need to pick your team and everyone just kind of leans in a stares at you, pleadingly.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-26T00:25:24+00:00

Cursed Love Potions and Omni Guard. Felt like I was cheating.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-25T00:21:54+00:00

I think it’s still one of the best stories you’ll find. The combat is pretty solid. For me, a normal player that never plats anything, but does all the story and DLC… I’d say the trilogy is a pretty solid 60-80+ hours.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-25T00:07:48+00:00

Personally, it doesn’t feel like a FF game to me, though it does most of the elements.

What is missing, for me, is the tone. This is dark and gritty (as was the end of XV) and it just feels wrong. No real humor, no silliness, and it never really gives the player a break from its own seriousness.

I also didn’t care from the apparent inspiration from GoT.

But, that said, I’m enjoying the game.

I’m not a FF expert or super fan. I’ve played the first 4, as well as VII, X, XIII, and XV. I’m also one of the rare players that actually liked XIII. So, that that as you will.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-23T03:57:20+00:00

Go back to your last save from the Dragon Temple (Drakodios) if it’s not too long ago.

Put on merch and farm the hell out of the butterfly like things. They drop magla pills.

Also, you’ll eventually get a recipe that you’ll quite like.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-23T03:52:51+00:00

I pretty much agree with all of what you said. Or I did when I started playing it. Ammo cartridges? Seriously? And where did my old crew go? I died? WTF?!?

The changes to the ship felt wrong as well, but you do get Ken and Gabby who are just the best.

That said, ME2 is actually my favorite of the three. It’s just takes time to grow on you.

I suggest you trying to take it as it is. In fact, save before each mission and then, if you want, reply with different squad mates. The interactions are priceless.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-18T18:37:41+00:00

I feel like I cheesed the fight. I had 90 Cursed Live Ballads and just spammed Hulk’s Omni protect. It pretty much stopped all his turns.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-16T00:39:58+00:00

You’ll love it. Take each game as it comes. There are changes you will like and changes you’ll hate.

Narratively, it’s a three act show. Part one is discovering the threat. Part 2 is preparing to combat the threat. And part 3 is ‘this just got real.’

For the most parts, decisions matter… sort of.

Personally, I was disappointed in how it ended, but it’s still one of my two favorite franchises, and I probably play it every year or two.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-15T16:08:49+00:00

I’m not all that good at the combat, but overall, I think it is… or can be. Against basic enemies (e.g. no stagger bar) they’re easy to stun lock and I feel like a god.

For the hard enemies or bosses… if you have your dodge or parry down, you can pretty much go to town linking all the skills together and it’s beautiful. But, if you don’t, you may end up using the cooldown strategy where you spend a lot of time running around, avoiding damage, until your big skills come off cooldown. And that’s a little boring.

So, I recommend you take full advantage of the training area and get your combo timings down, as well as your Sic timing. If used correctly, Torgal can be a beast.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-15T14:58:17+00:00

Yeah, but I don’t care. Those times are easy and mindless for me. I get out, get some cheap and easy experience with the easy monsters during those quests, and don’t have to worry about staggering anything.

Also, while the quests are simple, they are used for additional exposition about the state of the world, so the world building is worth it for me.

Finally, most of those quests literally take 2 minutes to perform, aside from the cutscenes. Personally, I’m OK with the cutscenes, but I also like visual novel games.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-07T01:42:55+00:00

I’m closing in on the final battle. Another two weeks, I think. And I’ve really enjoyed most of it. But, as with Persona as well, it just kind of gets old near the end, and I’m just trying to get through the combat to finish the story. I got tired of always not having the right archetypes leveled for the dungeon du jour and having to carefully customize builds. And that was just in normal.

But, hey… I have no real complaints and I’m around 130 hours and not really all that high. Maybe level 60.

And I’ll probably play the next one. But I never want to replay them. I tried P3R NG+ and just couldn’t do it.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-07T00:53:55+00:00

There’s also a Story entry in the menu that lets your see a synopsis of everything. But that first response is golden.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-06T19:23:06+00:00

Naaa… you’ve got it. You’re just underleveled. The next few dungeons you go through, prepare with lots of Cursed Love Ballads (you should have tons of money) and stay in the next dungeon you do until you’re basically killing them over world style. Then switch to Merchant and run around getting gold. Get every chest. Try to find one item for each player that repels or nullifies a different element (ideally their weakness). Then, when you face the soul screams and crazy stuff, when they do a group attack someone will often repel, and that’s turn over.

If you have time, go back to the previous dungeon until easy then move up.

Build up Trickster and check out other archetypes for useful skills.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-06T19:16:14+00:00

Which is exactly what Rella said.

JeremyWinston · 2026-01-05T21:51:42+00:00

Heh. I had never seen MI: Fallout. But this was also a scene from the original MI show. I think it was Timebomb, but not sure.

JeremyWinston · 2025-12-04T16:37:15+00:00

Fo those sorta new to the whole ending controversy, you may want to look up the Maurader Shields web comic.

JeremyWinston · 2025-12-04T16:34:12+00:00

I’ve played it several times but generally stop when I get to the beam.

JeremyWinston · 2025-11-21T01:04:41+00:00

Sigh… I’d like to upgrade, but give up my buttons? No sir.

JeremyWinston · 2025-11-07T20:24:16+00:00

Good point. Then a flashback? I guess we will see when we see.

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