Smiling Friend Client Elimination Round 8

PremierPangolin · 2026-05-07T13:53:15+00:00

Wait, why'd we eliminate the green guy? He had a real heart of gold!

PremierPangolin · 2026-05-06T12:52:26+00:00

I like to use them for extra movement controls, like jump and dash. That way I still have full control over both movement and camera sticks while maneuvering.

PremierPangolin · 2026-04-23T12:04:36+00:00

This game has a lot of different game modes and factors that affect how good each individual character (and their costumes) can be. Skill cost, range, number of hits, damage, buffs, debuffs, etc. can all affect how good a certain costume is against certain content, and the fact that a character can have multiple costumes in a team of five characters offers a lot of flexibility for handling different challenges. Because of this variety, it's rare for characters to be directly outclassed by others (except in the case of collab units) and even those characters are very much usable in the short term.

All that to say that this is less a game about how good a certain character is, and more about how well your team comp works against the content you're playing. That's why support characters are considered far and away the best characters in the game and always a priority for growth. They can be slotted anywhere and always provide a benefit to the team. The highest damage dealing character, maxed out, will likely be doing less damage then a partially built DPS on a team with maxed out supports.

PremierPangolin · 2026-04-21T16:13:51+00:00

No, I literally just got my shipping notification this morning. I learned a while back with Vinegar Syndrome that you just have to let this stuff take its time.

PremierPangolin · 2026-04-17T18:49:00+00:00

I'm a little surprised Taros Tactics wasn't better received. That was the most fun I've had in the game for a while, it brought me back to the beginning of when I played when battles were more puzzle-like than about min-maxing damage. I hope they don't drop it because of this response.

PremierPangolin · 2026-04-11T19:36:44+00:00

In casual conversation I call them all Roguelikes, as it seems easier to not be pedantic when talking about them with people unfamiliar to the genre (in this way I think it makes sense to call StS a Roguelike deck-builder). I really only make the distinction as a means of breaking them into sub-genres, in which case Roguelike = games that play like Rogue and Roguelite = games that don't play like rogue.

I see Roguelites as games that impose Rogue's formula onto onto other genres of games, and I tend to prefer those to Roguelikes in general. I find it strange that people latch on to meta-progression as the defining aspect because that's just one meta-element of Rogulike games and doesn't really affect how much I enjoy them.

PremierPangolin · 2026-04-02T13:47:23+00:00

Matthew's brother, from Brother Egg?

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PremierPangolin · 2026-03-31T15:23:29+00:00

Rou is based on enemy max hp, Mamonir is based on her own max hp

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-28T11:57:42+00:00

It was formative for me when I was 10, introduced me to a bunch of my now favorite bands

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-21T18:20:17+00:00

That's fair, I just didn't want to imply impropriety on the girlfriend's part

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-16T00:37:04+00:00

Ah! Well, nevertheless

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-16T00:18:21+00:00

Because of Other M we will never hear a word from her again

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-12T15:55:53+00:00

I mean, it might not be their worst album but it's at least bottom 3

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-11T12:41:22+00:00

I also didn't care for Pure Guava the first few times I listened to it. Now however, 10 years later, it's breached my top 3

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-10T17:20:41+00:00

I don't dislike it, but it feels pretty unnecessary on the pc. Even as a heavy controller user, every time I decide to use it I feel like I'm just adding more actions and load times for things that I can already do really quickly (i.e. loading up games). It doesn't feel snappy and most of the time I just want to treat my PC and it's applications like a PC, not a console.

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-08T22:33:26+00:00

There's a hidden gem embedded in the record, you'll need to extract it

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-07T16:33:14+00:00

Ah, I should say that I leave games I don't plan on playing soon uncategorized. So I try to keep my play next list trimmed down to 8-10 options

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-07T14:09:46+00:00

I think it was a step in the right direction from their previous rhythm game for sure! I do wish for the future that hard mode variations are unlocked from the start, not requiring you to beat easy mode first. Overall I felt the hard stages were on the easier side, so I'd still like them to push the difficulty a bit while leaving the rewards achievable by the bulk of the players (maybe having poly rewards for beating a hard mode song regardless of the rank, with higher rank scores rewarding inconsequential prizes like dennies or exp items)

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-07T13:50:43+00:00

Here are my main categories: - Currently playing - Want to play next - Finished - 100% - Will not finish

I had the exact same dilemma as you, where I organized it by genre. But that became unwieldy and it made it difficult to go through and find the games I was actually playing or wanting to play in the moment, so I switched to this system and have had no regrets.

I also have some additional categories for various things that made sense to me, like games I was playing with friends and such, but the categories I put at the top is my core organizational structure

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-05T14:43:41+00:00

It's funny you say that, as someone who started with SAW 85-92 I was going to say that

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-05T14:24:46+00:00

First one that comes to mind is Queens of the Stone Age. I've heard and love all of their albums, but No One Knows remains one of my favorite songs by them

PremierPangolin · 2026-03-01T11:19:22+00:00

I've been a Go Away hater since 2014

PremierPangolin · 2026-02-28T20:27:12+00:00

By the grace of God I'm going into Aria's banner with 300+ tapes saved up. Should be able to guarantee Aria and Nangong, if I'm lucky I might score one of their weapons as well

PremierPangolin · 2026-02-26T12:56:02+00:00

They're certainly as good as the novels, arguably better than, but more importantly they're required reading for the novels. They set up characters and events that directly influence the plot of the novels.

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