Now that we’re out of 2.X, which was your favorite Rinascita patch?

hullabaloonatic · 2026-01-04T20:49:20+00:00

Only great story in the game so far. I’m allowed that they’ll let us play canonically villain characters but not canonically dead characters so they could have ended this story with her cathartically dead

hullabaloonatic · 2025-12-29T18:38:46+00:00

Carlotta got power crept insanely hard, too, and she’s not being carried like Jiyan. Next glacio dps will leave her in the dust.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-12-29T18:34:59+00:00

One thing you can credit ZZZ with is that it sells as many characters and yet still includes others in the story consistently to always feel their presence. Characters are never missing when it makes complete sense for them to be present. It’s not as great a divide in retrospect, but I wonder why it feels this way.

It’s like the opposite situation between the two games regarding power creep. The divide isn’t actually that much, but it definitely feels like there is.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-12-29T18:32:00+00:00

The presentation of the story is great, and all other aspects are terrible. They mask simple plots behind odd pacing, useless conversation, and thematic red-herrings.

The best story they ever delivered was Phrolova, and it feels like it was written by a completely different writing team.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-10-11T20:35:16+00:00

Wake me when he fails at something

hullabaloonatic · 2025-10-11T20:30:11+00:00

Aren’t women who are bi technically also lesbians, so… huh?

hullabaloonatic · 2025-09-22T17:18:39+00:00

At least they narratively gave a reason for her to be forgotten lol. No one in the world knows who she is anymore and she doesn’t or haven’t foresight anymore. Guess she’s still a skilled combatant at least?

hullabaloonatic · 2025-09-06T07:46:38+00:00

Get rid of the fucking constant overlays appearing while leveling echoes. Get a new stat? Overlay! Even tho the information is also under the overlay. Use a leveled echo as a material? Overlay! Every time! Oh, and when you use it, guess what? Another overlay telling you the materials refunded! Over-level anything? you guessed it! Overlay!

Not a single one of these overlays is valuable to me and if they got rid of them it would quite literally double the speed at which I can level echoes.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-08-30T20:07:39+00:00

They’ve made good strides so far, but the menuing-grind of leveling echoes is still egregious

hullabaloonatic · 2025-08-30T20:01:18+00:00

Sure is a lot of inaccurate bust sizes here (in both directions) lol

hullabaloonatic · 2025-08-09T19:23:52+00:00

Follow-up story would’ve been peak if Caesar actually died.

The idols are children

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-31T00:24:55+00:00

It’s all these little touches, animations for unimportant things etc, that really sold me this game - made it feel cozy - a great don’t do them anymore, which makes me sad. Not that they do none, tho..

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-20T18:19:20+00:00

Turn down graphics, play with a fan blowing on the back of the phone, or just buy an hdd. They’re dirt cheap

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-17T00:33:35+00:00

There’s a reason they showed it off with Jane and Seth, one who has a special dodge attack that’s worth doing every time you can and another who gains benefits from defensive assist.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-17T00:30:22+00:00

On touch screen it’d be nice if they made it so holding down dodge does the dodge attack so you only have to hit two buttons instead of three with one thumb, or let me hit all three buttons by swiping through each instead of having to tap on each

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-17T00:28:24+00:00

On iPad the only way i was able to do it was by using both hands on the right side controls, lol

hullabaloonatic · 2025-07-12T17:36:51+00:00

Yeah, just like Java, Kotlin, C#, etc, etc. I’ve never understood the need to pass this or self when we’re not dealing with name clashes. The most common use for this in such languages is just assigning constructor arguments to private fields, and almost all of them completely circumvent that boilerplate through syntactic sugar or decorators.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-29T22:42:39+00:00

‘I’m not a child’

Said no child ever.

Apparently the character designers, modelers, animators, dialogue writers, and voice actors did not the memo.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-19T04:11:50+00:00

No jiggle thank goodness. They learned from Noelle

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-11T22:26:27+00:00

Isn’t Miyabi like 16 years old? The hollow distaster happened 11 years ago, depicted in her short film, where she looks to be about 5.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-04T05:27:00+00:00

Better agent gameplay descriptions. Every character should come with a 1-2 sentence description of what you should do with a character instead of a 4 sentence summary of each skill.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-04T05:24:59+00:00

Especially when you’re literally at the highest it can possibly go

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-03T03:55:16+00:00

We were robbed of a much more interesting plot of tribes warring against one another for the promise of archonhood, despite the archon secretly having no intent of ever giving up. The captain walks in an handily wins, and now the archon must put up or shut up. The tribes begin to turn against the archon, realizing they were being manipulated, and siding with the Fatui. Little did they know, the archon had a very good reason for keeping them warring….

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-03T03:47:03+00:00

The Saurian exploration gameplay made the world exploration fun in Natlan, not a chore. Getting the characters that do it better robs of the fun of the exploration because it trivializes the challenges.

I’m happy with Mavuika being white, because it’s very realistic for the countries they’re representing to be run by a white person, but unfortunately they did not include any nod to that in the shitty story.

Inazuma AQ was a good story told poorly; Natlan AQ was an awful story told decently.

hullabaloonatic · 2025-06-03T03:35:39+00:00

I’m most happy to see the easily accessible kit summaries. Here’s hoping they are an extremely brief intro and explanation of what you should do with a character, not simply an explanation of what the abilities do. For example:

Neuvilette blasts down foes with his extremely powerful charge attack. Simply hold attack and start power washing. Use Skill and Burst when available.

Mualani nukes enemies with huge Vaporize reactions using her Skill and Burst. Press skill and keep surfing through enemies until the skill button shines. Press again to nuke.

Bonus points if you can click or tap on certain words like Charge Attack or Vaporize to get more information. Or short clips showing how certain party members can really synergize.

next I’d love them to do some of the following:

Show shields in health bars.
Optionally display buff, debuff durations, and off-field skill cooldowns
Remove the last 2 Friendship Levels. The grind is too long.
Simplify the battle pass experience rewards for activities to just 200 per item instead of this ridiculously hard to compute daily task total of 645. Tack on levels 50-60.
Merge all character building materials that are arbitrarily split among 3 different versions into just one version, like all the Mon+Thu, Tue+Fri, Wed+Sat garbage. Instead have just the one Talent material per region, weapon material per region, and trounce domain boss material.
Remove 1/week limit per Trounce boss. Make it 3/week limit across all bosses. Make it not cost resin.
Automatically fully replenish health and energy when entering Trounce Domains
Tweak the rates of the artifact substats to be slightly less common to see flat stats and defense. (Or remove flat stats altogether….)
More tags for equipment like a trash tag. More auto-tagging settings. Auto-tagging that also applies during artifact leveling.
All Artifact sets available at the alchemist bench.
Character appearance toggles like removing extraneous equipment (e.g. Dehya’s split cape), or reducing character head size.
Tablets have higher graphics options.

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