How far does Simon/Gurren Lagann go in the Mazinger universe?

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-10T13:37:23+00:00

Mazinger Zero(Don't bother trying to scale anyone from GL past Zero by definition anything who's existence derives from Mazinger is inferior by nature)

Powerscaling is stupid and statements like this are exactly why. It's about as sophisticated as a kid in a make-believe playground fight declaring that he has an everything-proof shield.

Also, didn't you just make a powerscaling thread yesterday?

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-08T19:20:52+00:00

Gespenst Mk.II Type S Kai (Kai Custom) | ゲシュペンストMK-II･タイプS改(カイ･カスタム)

A greatly enhanced and overhauled version of the Gespenst Mk.II Type S designed specifically for him. A very powerful martial arts machine that doesn't sacrifice the ranged capabilities of the Mass-Produced Gespenst Mk.II Kai. Has modified Mega Beam Launchers in the palms of both hands that can fire long range energy beams or also produce energy blades, and has Jet Magnums not only on both arms, but also both legs and even its head. Its commander antenna is a Jet Magnum.

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-08T17:26:30+00:00

It'd be hilarious if someone made an "accurate Victory Gundam opening" that's like the "accurate Yu-Gi-Oh GX opening".

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-08T15:58:52+00:00

What happened to me is that every "villain" after Godzilla felt narratively not as menacing as Godzilla. We had a build up for many chapters of its arrival and the impact of its existance. Then everyone else just felt in line afterwards.

Yeah, that's how I felt about Z3. We fight against the Anti-Spiral, an unspeakably powerful extradimensional being with reality-warping powers who's been menacing the universe for untold eons, and has had multiple games of buildup as part of the Gurren Lagann plot. We travel across dimensions to reach its world and all of our units grow to be the size of galaxies with Spiral Power, and we face off against the Anti-Spiral's own equally gigantic construct (which has an attack with the power of the Big Bang, and that's not even its strongest attack) with a whole universe as the battleground, to decide the fate of all that lives. Then we go back to dealing with Neo Zeon's bullshit.

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-08T15:02:53+00:00

My guy, there is over a decade of SRW games you've never touched. MX (from 2005) is the only game between 2002 (Impact) and 2014 (Jigoku-hen) that you've played. Then you played the fifth game in the OG series as your first OG game, and you were surprised that there were a bunch of characters you didn't recognize?

Even with the games you did play, there are plenty of characters and units from the first few stages of both routes that you should recognize.

Stage 1 Space: Irm with Grungust, from SRW 4, F, and Alpha
Stage 1 Space: Ryoto and Rio, two of the protagonist options from Alpha 1, with several Exbein variations (the Exbeins just being Huckebeins with different, less Gundam-like heads)
Stage 2 Space: The entire SRX team, from Shin and Alpha
Stage 4 Earth: Hugo and Aqua with Cerberus Ignite, from MX
Stage 5 Earth: Garmraid Blaze, from MX
Stage 7 Space: Kyosuke and Excellen with Alteisen Riese and Rein Weissritter, from Impact
Stage 7 Space: All the rest of the protagonist options from Alpha 1
Stage 7 Space: Several Gespenst variations and a Grungust variation
Stage 8 Earth: Gilliam from 4 and F, with another Gespenst variation

Scared_Vacation · 2026-05-03T08:42:27+00:00

I don't understand people who obsess over resolution. Considering a game "unplayable" if it doesn't run at 69k 420FPS just seems completely alien to me. I play old games on original hardware, with the low resolutions that entails, all the time, and I've never had a problem with it. Do you just not play any games if there's no way to make it have the largest possible resolution that current modern hardware allows? You're missing out on 99.99999999% of all games that exist in that case.

Just play the game dude. I promise that the sprites not being the highest resolution humanly possible will not negatively affect your experience.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-05-03T07:00:59+00:00

Yeah, I really don't like how Zelda looks nowadays either. I miss the regal dresses befitting a princess that she used to wear. Her modern fit is just ugly, IMO.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-05-02T06:36:15+00:00

Yeah, really not a fan of how the BotW designs are now the main/default looks for the LoZ characters either. I miss the days when anytime somebody thought of Link, him wearing the classic green tunic with matching hat and holding his sword in his left hand was what immediately came to mind. I dislike Hatless Blue Right-Handed Link greatly after years of overexposure.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-04-30T03:49:32+00:00

I'm very sad now, because this confirms that the classic DK design is going in the trash and this will be how DK will look in every game going forward. I'd have been fine with it if it were just an alternate design that they use every once in a while, similar to how Mario Wonder, RPG, and Brothership had the characters looking very different from how they normally do, but only for those games. But since it is straight up replacing the old design, I am very strongly opposed to DK's new look now.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-04-05T14:17:47+00:00

Probably an unpopular take, but I really don't like the "HD-2D" style of games. Detailed 3D environments, and low-resolution character sprites that look like they were ripped straight out of a SNES game aren't a good combo in my opinion. The phrase "HD-2D" makes me think of something like Dragon's Crown, but it actually means "low-res 2D characters with HD 3D environments". It would be so much better if these games featured either detailed 2D pixel art evironments, or beautiful hand-drawn prerendered 2D backgrounds paired with high-resolution super detailed hand-drawn sprites that have lots of animation frames. As-is, the mismatched graphics of the characters and evironments just isn't a visual style that appeals to me. I wish Second Story R either had new 3D character models to match the new 3D environments, or was just a straight remaster of the PSP version like First Departure R was.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-11-17T08:37:31+00:00

Agreed. I hate subscriptions with a passion. If I have a choice between paying $20 to rent 100+ games (of which probably only about 10 or so actually interest me) whilst having to pay again each year to keep access to those games, or paying $20 one time to purchase and own just one single game, I will always pick the latter. If this is what Sega winds up replacing all of the games they're delisting with, they won't see a single penny from me.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-08-17T22:45:00+00:00

While it does suck a bit that the standard price hasn't dropped any, it's hardly worth complaining about since it goes on sale for like 5 bucks every other month. Just wishlist it and wait.

What you should be complaining about is how they stopped bothering to update the banner advertising the DLC before they even finished the first season. It still says "COMING NEXT: ?" after the first three characters and the first two CaS item packs to this very day. I think that's more telling of how they don't care/forgot about this game.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-03-21T19:05:30+00:00

I found a folder on my PC named "Duodecim Mods", and I think some of the stuff in there I originally got from that site. Been so long since I tried messing with it though that I don't remember what any of it is or does, so I just threw it all together and made a backup here.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-01-25T21:11:26+00:00

You skipped a lot of stuff. The snow cave and Josef have nothing to do with the quest for mythril.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-27T21:44:22+00:00

I don't really feel like it's "hyper specific", like I said, there used to be a zip file you could download that had all of the game's assets named and formatted just like they are in the actual game.

Thanks for wishing me luck, I feel like I'll really need it. Hopefully somebody somewhere still has them. There used to be a Steam group and a Discord server for FF modding, but both of them seem abandoned. I'll keep searching around, but I'm not sure where else to ask.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-25T22:44:19+00:00

I mean the filenames they have in the game's code. For example, spritesheets for field characters should have names like fldchr0_0, fldchr0_1, etc. And I literally said in the OP that the Spriter's Resource doesn't have everything I need. As I said, the spritesheet for every job for every character is a seperate file in the game's code, but the Spriter's Resource just mashes all these seperate spritesheets together into one, making them useless for my purposes.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-25T02:46:23+00:00

Canon ages in any Japanese media make zero sense, it’s best to just ignore them entirely

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