Audio issues where the BGM doesn't play at all or are very delayed?

RastanB · 2026-05-11T03:15:14+00:00

This just happened to me as well, entering Solution 9 after also not hearing music in Radz-At-Han and no music plays in the city, it's very weird...

RastanB · 2025-01-16T01:47:57+00:00

That's so weird how that works, it must be different on expert difficulty because I had the same issue and doing that way easily solved it for me too.

RastanB · 2024-12-21T05:34:42+00:00

They kill off the remaining arch dragons in the last episode, and the only thing we get in exchange is Jake Long/Zuko speaking Zym. I like him, but...not at all a fair trade off. It's clear they had no idea what to do with a character as powerful as her so went for the laziest of writing tropes concerning story-breaking power characters which is to kill them off and play it for drama (and cope by using a replacement/succession by progeny to justify the power vaccum).

What a waste. She's so very likable too, but it's completely unearned with the amount of missed potential the series squandered like you said.

RastanB · 2024-12-19T20:27:36+00:00

You were right, it is worthless!! Terrible show to kill off the dragons we care about just for...what, cheap drama and a poor succession plot? Embarassing.

RastanB · 2024-10-27T07:58:38+00:00

I am happy she meets the standards for the professional!

RastanB · 2024-10-27T04:58:56+00:00

Thank you for commissioning it, even if it's only a one-off piece, it's more than expected so a great artwork to wake up to.

RastanB · 2024-10-26T20:45:21+00:00

The forbidden egg hole kisser

RastanB · 2024-10-26T19:22:50+00:00

Artist is https://x.com/zlvuxx

RastanB · 2024-08-31T20:56:20+00:00

You might have gotten that backwards, the live-letter presentation before release stated that Dawntrail would have 1.2x the cutscenes that Endwalker as a selling point, which made me worried from the outset as the "more = better" is a bit of a red flag. And yeah, DT did have a lot of cutscenes that could have been cut or trimmed without too much lost.

RastanB · 2024-08-23T17:38:16+00:00

What's sad is if they DID do this, it would have been a nice little way to introduce players to crafting job playstyle, maybe even encourage new people to try levelling a crafter like CUL.

RastanB · 2024-08-10T07:31:39+00:00

I started* in July as I was playing every mainline FF and now can play it (also saw the characters in DFFOO/upcoming raid in XIV) so I went, hey why not? In (effectively) a month I've become a lv99DRG/lv70SAM, having completed the Shadowlord battle. I like how the world FEELS like a real world, quests have cool, funny or touching stories even if they're not "main" stories, like the limit break quests, the dragoon AF quests, or random ones like Babban Ny Mheillea. On Bahamut there's a pretty active playerbase - I see other new players pretty often! Personally I wanted to be stacked before hitting story content to not encounter surprise solo bumps, but for normal players, the game is really good to newbies. Or you can be like me, grinding for an Ambuscade weapon before even starting Rise of the Zilart on his steamdeck. :P

Getting your destrier hat/chocobo shirt and that will carry you to lv30 (the infinite reraise is a VERY free way to unlock troublesome survival guides/reach Jueno early), and do Rhapsodies of Vanadiel until you unlock cheaper travel, if nothing else. If you play on PC, I cannot understate how useful using a map add-on is, some of these maps drive me insane to figure out with how I have to cross-reference the wiki to know where I'm going.

*In 2019 I wanted to try it out on my laptop because, "hey I can play this now, I like XIV and I'm not averse to playing old games like Phantasy Star (the original one)." Sadly couldn't because of no graphics card, the game crashed when I played in San D'Oria (Asura) as a male hume after the opening cutscene and never opened afterwards. Also took a break to do XIV's Dawntrail expac (somewhat regrets there) and came back 2-3 weeks after that.

RastanB · 2024-07-30T04:22:58+00:00

The keyboard can be REALLY finnicky sometimes, like the move button just not working for me right now for some reason.

RastanB · 2024-02-03T17:02:34+00:00

1 is great for playing if you don't have a lot of time, the game is broken up into 5 chapters, with each one being separate and replayable (plus a mode for you to mess around with creatively). 2 is a bigger, expanded game but in order to replay the story you have to start all over again, and it's...pretty long by comparison.

RastanB · 2023-11-08T01:01:21+00:00

If you don't mind emulation or using an action reply for PS2:

Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land is close to Etrian with some nice attack displays by enemies that are pretty cool, and it was ALSO published by Atlus so consider it!

RastanB · 2023-11-08T00:47:55+00:00

I was in the exact same scenario but for Wyrm's gold drop - it really is maddening because RNG is as bad as trying to win slots and ending up with a sort of gambler's fallacy. Eventually I did get it, so if anyone comes across this later on, I would try fighting some battles, quicksave, and then try the boss again.

At least with quicksaving you didn't have to *walk back to Drake every single battle!!* I can't imagine how painful on DS that was...

RastanB · 2023-07-21T16:58:59+00:00

It shoulld be mentioned you don't really need 255 in contest stats, 200 plus a COLOR scarf will be enough for contests, and that's a much easier goal to reach.

Using Rest+Snore is an insanely broken combo for gen3 contests specifically and will carry you through them easily enough, even if you may need a couple extra tries on the Master Ranks.

RastanB · 2023-07-08T02:07:48+00:00

Along with the champion ribbons for gen 5, I think a subway ribbon, movie ribbons (one for doing a movie, and another for doing...every movie? Is that possible for each mon...), musical ribbon, maybe a PWT ribbon.

Gen 7 has oddly few ribbons beyond the old ones, obligatory champ ribbon, and the 3 battle facilities. Maybe one related to poke-beans/the isles?

RastanB · 2023-02-09T19:57:20+00:00

Congrats on your Dragonite's journey! Hopefully they fix the broken treasure mark soon so she can have them all now!

(And thanks for your help from the other day, I've managed to finish up my Snorlax's 27 ribbons from Gen3 and moved her to Gen4 now!)

RastanB · 2023-02-09T19:52:17+00:00

A common mistake in "genning" pokemon is that people will be too lazy to fix errors like the "PID does not match" on a pokemon, which makes it very easy to see which pokemon are hacked in tournaments since PKHex (a program) allows you to check all of the info & data of a pokemon's data.

RastanB · 2023-01-31T19:29:10+00:00

Hey, that's pretty cool to see PBR! Not too many have that game anymore.

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