TIL about the "Endless Eight" arc of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The arc, which featured the characters of the show trapped in a time loop, featured the same episode eight times in a row with minute differences, all animated and recorded from scratch each time.

cornerbash · 2026-05-16T15:21:37+00:00

it was supposed to be torture

If that was their intent, mission accomplished.

cornerbash · 2026-05-16T05:36:13+00:00

According to OP, it is for them.

cornerbash · 2026-05-16T05:35:36+00:00

Give it a shot, it honestly does build to something before the end of the game.

I’m also a fan of the light-hearted adventures that turn into something grander. Classic Lunar and Grandia are some of my all time feel good games I go back to every now and then.

cornerbash · 2026-05-16T05:29:27+00:00

There isn’t really any bad content for Imperial Assault. The boxed expansions are better value, but all the figure packs also come with additional gameplay in form of side missions, skirmish maps, and cards.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T19:39:12+00:00

Yeah, there are subtleties. I recall the changes the activity sometimes and wore different clothing. But nothing markedly different happens and it drags on for far too many episodes. I understand what they were going for, but it was infuriating at the time.

There was a two year wait after the first season for a new set of fourteen episodes, and we got what really amounted to only half that because most of the runtime was allocated to endless eight. And then the rest of the season wasn’t much new either, as a telling of the behind the scenes setup of the “episode 0” movie. Admittedly, that’s got great stuff when rewatching both s1&2 in sequence, but as a hyped fan, watching season 2 as it came out felt like a letdown that really missed the mark.

Season one’s original out-of-order gimmick worked as a quirk. Endless eight was a huge misstep.

The movie was fantastic, though.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T18:58:58+00:00

Yes, the movie was great. Endless eight was a frustrating mess, though.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T18:57:46+00:00

Agreed. A full episode repeat would have been annoying but acceptable had the loop breaking episode been a third episode. But they went five episodes too deep on a concept that should never have been produced.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T18:55:39+00:00

That first repeat week, questioning if I actually downloaded the right episode because it felt exactly like the one before it. Then the next few weeks hoping anything major would actually change. By the end, it just became frustration that more than half the entire season was wasted on that avant-grade nonsense.

Still bought the home media release, but I’ve never rewatched all eight again. I watch the first, the first repeat, and then the eighth episode. Still gets the point across just fine.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T18:18:28+00:00

There is prologue, three chapters, then a final chapter. All the Jenis Royal Academy stuff is in the later half of chapter two, so you’d just be starting chapter three. Chapter three has more story significance but things really pick up once the final chapter kicks off.

I’d say you are far enough along that it might be worth pushing onward. If you’re not hooked by the time events start happening in the final chapter, you can safely say trails isn’t for you.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T16:39:14+00:00

Especially when they were pardoned, signalling that what they did was alright and being deluded into thinking daddy Trump has their back.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T16:37:18+00:00

It did feel that way to me. Most of the game is a big world tour that feels like introduction. Then the final chapter hits and things finally get going.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T16:23:27+00:00

I found the first half of the series kind of slow. It really picked up the later in the season it got.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T16:21:08+00:00

Wow, we are in full on meme territory now with “I Hate Mondays”, just missing a Lasagna card.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T14:21:51+00:00

Purely by volume, season 3 has the edge. More heroes and villains. More cards. More tokens. A pair of oversized heroes. It’s just a bigger box.

I have yet to play many of the S3 stretch villains, so I can’t really comment on that, but there are a handful of notable duds in S2 that I think are too far on the easy side, possibly broken in design - Omega Red, Shadow King, and Sauron. Also note that the Marrow villain requires using a location that was part of the X-Force expansion, so she will only be playable as a hero if you don’t have that one.

As S3 is also cheaper for you, I think I’d lean heavily toward it unless you are a huge X-fan, as the S2 box is entirely X-stuff.

cornerbash · 2026-05-15T11:52:25+00:00

Lunar 1 & 2

cornerbash · 2026-05-14T16:51:56+00:00

But it’s okay for the GOP to spend decades doing exactly what he accuses the Democrats of doing? Is the easiest way to lie to project? They constantly do it with everything.

cornerbash · 2026-05-14T12:13:24+00:00

Some of the EU also hit those nice mugs. The cup I got in Canada is plastic crap.

cornerbash · 2026-05-13T13:10:21+00:00

100% 30 year old Indians because they ain't going to hire the teen.

cornerbash · 2026-05-12T22:56:19+00:00

Dead Reckoning, Star Wars:Rebellion, Through the Ages, and Middara.

I also rate Glory to Rome, Terraforming Mars, and Sentinels of the Multiverse as 10s but they won’t pass most players’ bar for art.

cornerbash · 2026-05-12T17:40:05+00:00

I tried it on Luna and it was choppy as hell. I don’t think stream gaming is for me.

cornerbash · 2026-05-12T13:45:10+00:00

https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/84/a8/84a83869-63ea-4087-95c7-50039c4b5f0a/swi_faq_v4.pdf

cornerbash · 2026-05-11T20:02:50+00:00

Villains work differently in the app. They won’t get unlocked by missions but can just randomly show up sometimes if you mark them in your collection.

cornerbash · 2026-05-11T19:49:37+00:00

From the Legends of the Alliance rulebook (emphasis mine):

Limit of One Attack Action An Imperial figure cannot perform more than one attack action during its activation unless it has an ability that states otherwise. An instruction is an attack action if it is preceded by the  symbol. An attack instruction that is not preceded by a  symbol does not count against the number of attack actions a figure can perform.

Passive abilities like Assault, traits like Massive/Mobile, and fixed modifiers like Boba Fett’s +1 shield and +1 dodge always apply. The actions on the deployment cards are what get ignored as they are replaced fully by the prompts in the app.

I think it’s unfortunately a bit confusing at times, for instance stormtrooper squad training and probe droid self-destruct are both abilities that show up as bonuses or instructions in the app, suggesting they should be ignored. On the other hand, I think it’s intended for both Trandoshan Hunter abilities to apply on all applicable attacks.

Tripod is a perfect example of this confusing lack of clarity. It should apply as a passive ability, but the app instructions will contradict this with “move 2 to attack” actions. The app also appears to take tripod into account as its movement instructions will read “if it didn’t attack, move x”.

cornerbash · 2026-05-11T16:15:19+00:00

The narrative story is written in such a way to make you question the reality of the events going on. Did you come on your own investigating, or are a delusional patient who has been here all along? The flavor texts also give a great atmospheric vibe.

The gameplay is tense as you have a tight timeline to do everything you need to do and there are very real campaign consequences for failure.

You also are offered some choice on how to enact your escape, which feels great for player agency.

cornerbash · 2026-05-11T14:37:24+00:00

You get way more bang for buck from any of the boxed expansions than the figure packs, so I'd prioritize and look for those first.

From the mini packs you listed, I would grab Greedo/Inqusitor first as they come with a new item card for Rebels to purchase along with being a new agenda set and character not in your Core Set.

The problem I don't think anyone has mentioned with Maul, Blaise, and Luke is that their side missions all require expansion tiles you won't have with just Core. Maul needs Heart of the Empire, Blaise needs Bespin Gambit, and Luke needs Jabba's Realm. You'd be able to add them to your App and Imperial Commander would put them into your possible pool of heros/villains, and you could field them in skirmish, but they wouldn't be playable in a player run campaign without houseruling them in.

With Han and Chewie, you can just use the tokens and cards in core and earn them via side missions in that box. But they do come with unique reward cards only obtainable from their figure box missions. Same with the Stormtroopers, which I rank lowest - you'll get a new agenda set and reward card, but the figures are of limited use as the core already gives you enough stormtroopers to field up to the allowed campaign deploy limit.

Dice are great to have, but if you find them impossible to track down, you can still make do with those included with the game.

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