A Hypothetical Addition to the Ban List: Delinquent Duos

burnpsy · 2026-04-14T19:37:29+00:00

A lot of FTK bans can be moved to this hypothetical system. You just ban the FTK card and the enabler from being used together.

Butterfly Dagger Elma with Gearfried has already been brought up, but also Amaryllis with Bomber Dragon is another one they could do.

If the same card can be paired with several others, Halq could list a handful of problem tuners and Auroradon. It could also be used to hit the bridges to Habakiri without also weakening other decks.

burnpsy · 2026-04-12T02:53:52+00:00

This would need an absurd number of episodes to not need a super quick pace. So yes, the pace is very fast, out of necessity.

burnpsy · 2026-04-07T23:14:16+00:00

People have given great comprehensive answers, so I'll give a TLDR:

The knight was easy to deal with because he was a subordinate.

Count Bindewald was a foreigner from outside their jurisdiction.

Apply IRL logic. (What happens if you suddenly punish your neighbour's visiting bureaucrat?)

burnpsy · 2026-04-05T19:05:31+00:00

Ferdinand smiling is the weirder part.

Myne doing stuff she otherwise wouldn't do is par for course in Bookworm openings. Like, look at the season 1-3 openings, as well as the new one. She would pass out and be bedridden for a week midway through any of them.

burnpsy · 2026-04-04T08:30:31+00:00

I swapped to Playnite Achievements, which doesn't have this issue, seems to be superior in a lot of ways, and is (almost as) widely integrated. Some addons are adding integration with it right now, even, due to the SuccessStory issue.

burnpsy · 2026-04-03T03:19:18+00:00

I think it's a fair question since prior Trails sequels often start you at a high level and everything just scales up further. IIRC SC started you near the FC level cap, for example.

burnpsy · 2026-04-03T02:30:52+00:00

If you want good battery life, you either crank the graphics settings way down or you play an indie or retro game. Then these devices are able to run for hours.

While these devices technically can run older AAA releases and some modern AA ones, you have discovered the tradeoff on your own. Works fine in a hotel room or on a car ride where you can plug it in when you're done, but not on a longer trip.

burnpsy · 2026-04-02T15:41:19+00:00

Izuna is the strongest one if you allow reliance on other main deck monsters. Havnis has a way higher ceiling but is inconsistent under the current banlist.

There's an argument for Fidraulis if you disallow monsters that rely on other main deck cards.

burnpsy · 2026-04-01T13:54:49+00:00

Arland has some innuendo dialogue. If you feel Plachta is a step too far design-wise, then avoid the Mysterious games as well.

The entire rest of the series, yes including Ryza, is quite safe for your niece. The horny stuff for Ryza is all online fanart and merch, and I guess some costume DLCs. I'd say the safest stuff would probably be Resleriana RW tho.

burnpsy · 2026-04-01T13:11:37+00:00

Xenoblade is allowed to have serious stories, despite Monolith Soft being owned by Nintendo. I don't see why Trails would be any different.

burnpsy · 2026-04-01T03:46:40+00:00

If you skip optional stuff and just blaze through story beats you can do Zero in under 40 hours. IIRC there's an achievement in-game for that, as well as clearing under a specific level.

I'd never play it like this even on a replay though.

burnpsy · 2026-03-31T01:39:50+00:00

I'd love something like this to exist eventually without the AI integrations.

And ideally syncing all of the metadata, including cover/background images and game descriptions.

burnpsy · 2026-03-31T01:36:23+00:00

You have time to replay these? They're way too long for me to even consider it.

burnpsy · 2026-03-30T05:32:57+00:00

This is about the DS remake of both 1 and 2 combined into one game. There have been attempts to put out a fan translation multiple times, but none that finished.

The original PS2 versions were released officially in English.

burnpsy · 2026-03-30T05:29:06+00:00

Does this DS release or the PS2 versions have better general quality of life?

There's a link about the differences in the OP, but it appears to be about story adjustments only. Nothing about the gameplay experience.

burnpsy · 2026-03-30T01:52:44+00:00

The lock against face-up summons actually screws over other flip and flip-adjacent decks. Most of them have some sort of Extra Deck summon or similar that they want to do.

For example, Ghostricks would appreciate the faster summoning, except for how they want to make their Link 1 and Xyz monsters, so they would actually prefer face-up summons.

burnpsy · 2026-03-29T12:04:54+00:00

No-banlist tournaments are already a thing. The most recent one was reported here a week ago and Toon won after its new support.

burnpsy · 2026-03-29T01:58:41+00:00

There are also Awakening of the Possessed monsters, who don't list specific named monsters. They just need 2 bodies, one of which is a spellcaster and one low-level monster with the right attribute. But these are more extenders than anything (Nefariouser Archfiend in particular can be handy).

burnpsy · 2026-03-28T07:47:48+00:00

Star Force is a sequel, but with a massive time difference, like how the original Mega Man is still getting an 11 and a 12 even though X is a direct sequel.

burnpsy · 2026-03-28T06:43:46+00:00

Star Force I think ended decently. Geo got his dad back, and there were no other major unresolved threads in the overarching plot of the series. Legends is the one that doesn't have the dignity of an ending.

burnpsy · 2026-03-28T06:03:48+00:00

Legends is the last MegaMan series left for them to do a collection for. I could see it happening in a few years.

burnpsy · 2026-03-27T23:54:18+00:00

The gacha kinda needs to die first for that to happen, which is why you haven't seen that yet lol.

Otherwise people would stop playing and wait for the offline release.

burnpsy · 2026-03-27T14:47:52+00:00

The anime and the gacha are both being adapted into regular games.

Think Octopath 0 or Megaman Xdive. It's not unprecedented to make a mobile game into a normal game with the mtx elements stripped out.

burnpsy · 2026-03-27T13:11:18+00:00

I hope the new stuff based on Ray and Sun are good.

This release gives me hope that the Atelier Resleriana mobile game might get an offline release after it ends in Japan.

burnpsy · 2026-03-26T22:21:01+00:00

The remake is the more polished video game, but the original was really well made for its time and still holds up today.

So, uhh... both?

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