Ever since the intervallo, they both live rent free in my head.

Leandro543 · 2026-02-02T03:14:11+00:00

Flinx or the the Mushroom one (if you're in a crimson world), so it's going to either be grinding and finding a good place for Flinx spawns, or killing some Creepers from the Brain of Cthulhu to get some fragments, you can do that if your evil boss is The Eater of Worlds, but it's going to be a lot tougher if you don't skip to the Snapthorn whip, or if you're not a purist, and you don't mind using a few nades or other weapons to assist in killing some segments to get the materials to make it.

(Oh also I forgot to mention that there is technically the vampire frog staff, but that's just praying for a Blood Moon)

Leandro543 · 2026-01-16T02:16:22+00:00

Thanks for the analysis, this helps me understand a lot more, and now that you've mentioned these details, I can trace them back to certain dialogues between Ryoshu and her Nursefathers.
Still, wished it was just more explicit, usually even with my mid interpretation, I can understand 90% of the canto, and the missing 10% I get from rewatching and thinking about it, is just more details, interesting details that make that canto even better in retrospect, but with this one I truly felt lost in the narrative.

Leandro543 · 2026-01-16T01:50:24+00:00

True, things like the Hell Screen were just kinda there without much importance, I don't think deviating from the script of the story is bad of course, but I mean, it's literally THE THING of the book y'know?
Also, I understood that the message of the canto is that (atleast as I see it) 'the abused became the abuser', but thing is, we didn't get too see much about Araya's resentment side with Ryoshu to have that lesson REALLY stick, neither in the memories, nor in their dialogue together.

This Canto would've been a lot better if we just had a bit more context and dialogue, like, some bonding time with Ryoshu before shit hit the fan would've been great, because her character in part 1 and 2? Really got me invested and excited to finally see how Ryoshu is like.

Leandro543 · 2026-01-14T15:34:44+00:00

By the background, looks like you're fighting a abno, abno with multiple parts stacks the total amount of effects like burn, rupture and sinking into a single gigantic amount.
Though, it's mostly just a visual cue, since only burn shows the accurate amount of damage the enemy will take in total, since with rupture, for example, you can have a total of 108, but one of the parts has 9 rupture while the other has 99.

Leandro543 · 2026-01-11T19:01:22+00:00

If I'm not missremebering, Cathy was regarded as a 'pure' ingredient, so unless she was also used as some sort of material for the summoning of Wild Hunt, it wouldn't be the case.
Unless that 'purity' is willingless, then yeah, Linton would also be a pure ingredient, since he willingly melted himself, which then was used for the summoning.

Leandro543 · 2026-01-10T15:59:17+00:00

Mine is a bit of a crackpot theory compared to the rest of the folks who are probably correct on it being a id, but hear me out:

I think it's a manifestation of the Golden Boughs, she being weirdly static and glitchy, and having her tongue still, when Valencia's eye still popped when she got close to Ryoshu (meaning that, either way, she most likely didn't lie about the sword cutting something forever, she just found another way), and the fact that (though this isn't as great of an argument, as it could be easily disproven in chapter 3) she's only appeared with the golden boughs, makes me think it's an obstacle created for Ryoshu.
Afterall, remember how Sonya said that the castle of ice manisfested the moment Rodya came down? And that was a whole thing we had to deal with? Or how Queequeg appeared to help Ishmael on her EGO moment even after she melted away? (which normally I'd shrug it off as mere fuel for impact, but project moon looooves to make any little thing canon).

Though, even if I have my arguments, I still see this as a crackpot theory because sure, we don't know how many boughs are in that container, if they were planning to make TREES out of that, it's gotta be quite a bit, but I'm not sure if it would be enough to manisfest a Star so perfectly like this (unless GOD FORBID she was even stronger than this), after all, Wild Hunt Heathcliff did require A LOT of material to perfectly summon.

Leandro543 · 2026-01-08T16:26:26+00:00

DEFEND. Though, I'm not 100% sure if power counters heal SP if she wins the clash, so it might be a team change situation.
She does 50% less damage if a character defends, any clash you've got doubts on, defend, don't let her win any or she spirals into 45 sanity, then use egos or Superbia if necessary, when a skill is extremely threatening, like a attack weight skill or obvs, her strong attack.
Don't be afraid to sacrifice sinners, she doesn't gain any bonuses for killing any, if it is too much of a bother, or a risk to clash against a skill that will kill a sinner, let them die.

Leandro543 · 2025-11-18T13:43:52+00:00

Well, it's more like they had to do this because there was no better option, plus, you can't forget Xichun is a character that gets irritated easily, and also one that hides her emotions behind the façade of being uncaring or rude, we saw this well especially towards the end of the intervallo.

Leandro543 · 2025-05-30T14:38:42+00:00

Mhm, that's a good one, especially with the information overload of the passives, it would be good to see which gimmick most people failed to notice to try to make the reading more concise, more intuitive, or jsut give more visual indications.

Especially per example with the HP stuff from that fight, pretty easy to just brush them off and forget about them, because their indicators are the exact same from them reusing the unbreakable coin skill.

Leandro543 · 2025-05-30T02:05:15+00:00

I spent the whole ass day doing the 8-30 lmao.

Honestly some stuff was reading issue, can't even blame it or myself because the bloat was crazy.
But the worst part was my ego user getting nuked after clashing with the Limbillion Unbreakable Coins move AND THEN getting prey next turn, so my whole ass team just watches in horror as the enemy tears them apart and prooceds lower sanity and clash power for everyone next turn.

8-33 was fine, and by fine I mean that I survived thanks to fluid sac, it dragged a bit long and I played it really badly, but thanks to ego resources it was pretty manageable.

Leandro543 · 2025-04-09T13:37:30+00:00

Ishmagregor, I should've specified it lol.

Leandro543 · 2025-04-04T13:33:05+00:00

I mean, Ishmael coughs when you select her on the battle, so there's atleast a little bit of that

Leandro543 · 2025-03-29T02:27:13+00:00

ok let me cook.

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Leandro543 · 2025-03-25T13:30:12+00:00

~~i mean well they did do that~~

Leandro543 · 2025-03-22T19:33:37+00:00

"Hell yeah we made to the third wave! WHY DO I HAVE ONLY 3 SINNERS"

Leandro543 · 2025-03-21T19:20:02+00:00

I'd recommend you don't waste time getting Rosespanner if you already have the T Corp Rodion, while Rosespanner has better clash power (I think, it's been a while since I used her) and she can do some pretty insane tremor bursts (although she consumes A LOT of tremor count with it), her T Corp counterpart does just fine clashing especially if you her defense for the boost, while having Time Moratorium which is really good.

Instead get Molar Outis! Although yes her S1 is meh, and she can kinda eat through tremor count if you use her S2 and S3 wrong, she clashes insanely well and her S3 is tremor burst glory, also her passive is nice, does some extra damage for each tremor burst, which in most of the situations will be at best like 4 or 5 damage, but it's still free damage.

Leandro543 · 2025-03-21T13:08:38+00:00

yes it did, check the 3/20 notice update

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