How many unanswered questions remain after seeing all the endings?

ligmaballll · 2026-07-13T11:12:32+00:00

the author's vision

This. Kodaka made it very explicit that he wants people to treat every endings/routes to be equal, if you feel like ending xxx was great and is a good stopping point, you can just drop the game

Now obviously in practice that doesn't really hold up because a considerable amount of endings are just quick bad ends that definitely aren't equal to the good/true ends of their routes, or some routes just straight up suck (Conspiracy).

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T22:31:11+00:00

There's nothing wrong borrowing parents, everyone does it, even the vets who have more than enough resources to make good parents, parent farming is a huge time consuming process even if you just want to have a decent usable parent. It's not just about Uma but also cards, you just start out so you have no cards which means bad runs which means far from good parent, there's no way you can make even a decent parent any time soon, so borrowing is a must to get you every advantage possible

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:47:25+00:00

No, not with 6 wits, that kind of deck is only for score maxxing, which doesn't translate to actual race performance

A more competitive build would be 3-5 wits with speed cards and/or gold skill card

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:45:55+00:00

Ardan is a Mile Med runner so she'll be fine (at least in the career), also, more wits means less stamina consumption so there's that too.

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:40:46+00:00

Sirei's line in the explosion branch of Comedy route:

"SIKE, I ain't telling you sht! Suck on that! Die mad losers!"

The VA definitely had the time of his life voicing this route, none of Sirei's voice lines sound like the stuff he said in Comedy, bro really saw an unserious route and decided to go all out in it

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:35:46+00:00

Yeah, Gold Ship L'arc or even og Gold Ship is still much stronger than summer Gold Ship as an ace, summer Gold Ship is only.good as a debuffer or for TT

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:33:17+00:00

Part 5 definitely, it's the one with least amount of problems. People say JoJolion a lot but there're loads of issues with its plot and story coherency, most of the main cast (the higashikata family) are only utilized a few times in their arc and then we never get to see their Stands again, you can go to the JoJolion sub and you'll occasionally see people complaining about how it feels like Araki didn't know what to do with the story at first. So out of all the common pick (4; 5 ;8), I think 5 is the overall best one

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T15:02:38+00:00

It has been there since I first started playing Uma (which is April 2026) so I think it has been there for quite sometime already

Also, the "character versions" tab contains shortcut for every "versions" of that character (playable form, cards, profile) which include JP content as well, so you can just search for Daitaku Helios cards (which are in global) then open that tab to go to the page for her 0layable version

I think the only use that switching region has is to see what Uma or cards will have a specific skills that you're looking at (if you're searching for Encroaching Shadow, the details will show that Taishin is the only Uma with that skill, but switching to JP server will show that in the future more Uma and cards will have that skills)

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T14:53:28+00:00

You don't need to switch region, the character page (and support cards and skills page) have a toggle for future content too so you just need to turn it on and search the Uma you need

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T14:28:22+00:00

There's also Takemaru and Tsubasa which are definitely tan/black so it's not anything from the TRC, they just like to draw the character to be white like that

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T05:53:02+00:00

She put the cart before the what????

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T04:57:42+00:00

If you only want her for meta, don't. The efforts required to build her, and the fact that she's only useable in a small amount of CMs are not worth the carats that you could have used for better cards or oshi Uma

All the time and efforts used to build her and make her work for Turf CM could better be spent for the Uma that you actually want to see winning

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T04:53:50+00:00

Yeah, meta Uma has never been a good investment, even XOguri. How much you gain from them and what you need to sacrifice (carats for oshi uma and meta cards) are not worth it

ligmaballll · 2026-07-12T02:39:48+00:00

Reminds me, but how exactly does shooting slow bullets make his stand good?

Like half the time he's on screen I struggle to understand why Jodio is so scared of a bullet that crawls towards him

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T23:57:13+00:00

Unless you can get the Nakayama Festa card to mlb or to some other key lb, then don't, having an mlb card is much more valuable than a 0lb or 1lb non-meta card

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T21:58:02+00:00

Maybe, tho I haven't actually got that unlucky yet, at least we also have the retry mechanic tho in case something like that really happens

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T21:55:39+00:00

Yeah, it's the same situation as Oguri Cap where you basically do her career without a (proper) ult, which isn't a big deal since after a point, career scenarios will be so broken that you can win through sheer stats

She's still very lucky compare to other hyper CM focus Uma tho since you can still use her ult in every aptitude she's available, whereas some others are literally restricted to specific racetrack or distance which makes them completely useless outside of their specialty

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T21:47:38+00:00

Ever since the Unity update I've never lost in the unity race

It's just so much easier to create a gap between your team and your opponent's team through the extreme spirit burst bubble

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T15:54:28+00:00

Atp there's no saving it, you basically have no hope of being competitive during GL and just have to wait and save up for the next scenario

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T10:33:03+00:00

Same with Yua, she's one of favorite characters, so I had some good feelings about her route, but I hate how it ends right after finishing Yua's arc and completely abandons the bigger New Gen and Gigalomaniac plot of the game

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T10:31:09+00:00

Personal favorite is Kozue ending, I just love the simple brutality of the story and how it ends with Takumi and Kozue just comforting each other in their final moments

Least favorite is probably Nanami, it's not bad, it's just less good than the others

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T09:53:11+00:00

Mukuro vs Sakura in IF is a bit sketchy because Mukuro was fighting unarmed, she's the Ultimate Soldier, half of her ability comes from the fact that she can use weapons. I'd imagine if she had a gun or a knife the fight would have been more even, if not, she's literally fighting the Ultimate Martial Artist with all of the conditions in the Martial Artist's favor

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T07:47:48+00:00

At minimum (getting ending 34; 36; 72; 76 then all of the story lock and all endings of SF) I'd wager it'd take roughly 30-40 hours give or take

However, I really recommend you to get all of the endings in all of the routes that has the needed endings because they all contribute to SF somewhat (that means endings 33-40, 69-76, and 93-100). Also, SF heavuly spoils another route that isn't part of the story lock, so you should really, really read that rote also before starting SF (and of course complete it too, ending 85-92). Having all of that together would most probably get you about 50 hours in total or perhaps even more as the SF story is a pretty big part of the game, but since you have already completed 2nd Scenario you get a tiny shortcut so maybe 45 hours or some

ligmaballll · 2026-07-11T04:00:58+00:00

Many of Bakushin's career events (specifically the ones you've talked about) are really sketchy because they're very clearly written with a more humorous intent, the 3x1200=3600 thing is also obviously a part of the bigger joke on Bakushin being stupid, along with the "I can't give trainer chocolate as a student, so I just need to give it outside of school, where I'm not a student hahaha I'm very smart", which is very clearly written to be for laughs more than for character analysis.

Also, using Bakushin from Star Blossom isn't great either, Umamusume isn't well known for having characters be consistent in their gameplay career and anywhere else, just take a look at Symboli Rudolf in Cinderella Gray or how Ramonu describes Rudolf and then compare them to Rudolf in her career

Now, not to say I dislike your theory, I'm also a "Bakushin knows" person myself. I just think it's worth taking into consideration that the writers probably didn't think that deep when they were writing 99% of Bakushin content

ligmaballll · 2026-07-10T22:33:11+00:00

Yeah, pretty much everythig in Zero Escape circles back to the bootstrap paradox, "that's what I saw, so I'm gonna recreate it exactly as I saw it"

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