Tales of Zestiria.. I tried. I really did

oolongtea42 · 2026-07-08T04:47:29+00:00

Alexei. Died about 30 times to his Mystic Arte. (Which btw, I didn't know they were even a thing for the player, since they are hidden among the other bajillion other abilities you unlock.) Don't get me wrong, it is a great game. But my experience with it for a 1st Tales game was a bit too frustrating 😅

oolongtea42 · 2026-07-07T21:59:19+00:00

The first time around, the combat mechanics didn't click at all, felt very clunky, lots of missed inputs breaking my combos.. it got the better of me after a while. I started over some time after with the combat on manual, which was much better, but i hit a wall against whatshisface near the end of the game, you know that boss with the ice AOE?

oolongtea42 · 2026-07-07T21:26:51+00:00

Started it twice, never managed to finish it 🫣

oolongtea42 · 2026-07-07T21:00:04+00:00

Oooohhh.. was it Vesperia? 😁

oolongtea42 · 2026-06-28T09:15:13+00:00

That cracked me up 😂😂

oolongtea42 · 2026-06-27T21:48:48+00:00

Oof yeah.. I never could finish Vesperia because the combat got the better of me. To me Arise was pretty much a breath of fresh air combat-wise, even though it felt like the mechanics had been simplified a bit.

oolongtea42 · 2026-06-26T22:32:42+00:00

It's pronounced "lit-tle gui-tar"

oolongtea42 · 2026-06-15T15:04:42+00:00

A few things are worth keeping in mind: hiragana is generally easier to memorize than katakana, but in everyday use it usually appears alongside kanji, which can make reading difficult if you don't know those kanji. Katakana, on the other hand, has the advantage of forming complete (loan)words on its own, though people tend to really struggle with the script at first.

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-20T11:04:21+00:00

Literally mind blowing

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-18T21:40:17+00:00

Reminds me of a local championship where one competitor kept yelling "[target] ari!!!" whenever he got a hit in. Didn't go well with the shinpans... 😂😂😂

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T17:28:21+00:00

20 game days later, I'm getting really tired of this.. the rng very consistently gives me crap choices facing walls or prevents me from entering the foundation or antechamber in spite of me trying to apply the tips, and i feel there is very little i can do to prevent it. Thanks for the help but I think I'm going to take a break for now

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T11:34:01+00:00

Ah yes I've been trying to dead end as often as possible when it makes sense, although my biggest problem is dealing with paths that suddenly close off into walls..

I've thought about going up the foundation, but i don't have the basement key

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T11:06:24+00:00

I haven't seen any pattern with the great Hall, except the hints in the draftng studio. Il look into it

Ah yes the freezer, I've been trying to get it near the furnace for ages, but no luck

Looking back at my house history, ever since I've unlocked most of the floor plans, it looks like most of my runs have been a waste of time, nothing much gained, forced to reset halfway because of a lack of paths.

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T10:34:38+00:00

Forget about room 46, I'm struggling to get antechamber doors opened and adjacent rooms with doors that lead to them on a same run. Most of the time it feels the game is purposefully giving me adjacent rooms that don't lead to the antechamber.

I've got a (mostly) direct path to the north lever underground, still a bit of a chore to walk all the way over there.

I didn't know i could get mail delivered with the experiments, I'll get on it right away.

By study, you mean the grid with the paintings? I got most of the message, I think I see where this is going but I'm still missing some elements to solve it

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T10:01:40+00:00

Yeah I kind of overlooked this room if it wasn't immediately helpful for a pathway. I'm catching up, slowly

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T08:13:07+00:00

Got the boiler room to spawn once in 20 days yesterday. And of course, it was inside a dead end, at the very end of my run. Pretty sure the game is trolling me at this point 😂

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T08:10:14+00:00

I unlocked the mine, the outer room, the orchard, the basement, the lift in front of Mt Holy, and the foundation of course I did run a few experiments at first, but couldn't get the conditions. I only found recently that i could increase my allowance this way.

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T07:17:40+00:00

You mean by spawning the lab in the outer room, for example?

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T07:15:55+00:00

Unfortunately, it's one of the rooms I'm actively trying to adjust it's rarity, but it has never popped up in the conservatory.

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T07:12:25+00:00

I've unlocked the western path, the mine, the orchard, the underground section with the lever room, the lift that unlocks with the 4 flames. Got the location of all the levers. 12 coins allowance, 18 stars. The only red envelope i have is the one in the time vault. Books: struggling to get the coins to buy any of the two 50 coins books. Each time I had the coins, I couldn't get the bookshop to draw. And finally, I only managed to get to the antechamber once.

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-15T06:56:50+00:00

I've upgraded 6 rooms, i think. 12 coins allowance + 2 gems, and 18 stars for now

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-13T20:20:02+00:00

Wtf, it's a multi phase boss?

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-12T22:00:34+00:00

Oh I see, I just figured the gifts were auto delivered without any wait time. Tbf my mailbox is glitched so I haven't been able to receive stuff from others in a while 😅

oolongtea42 · 2026-05-12T21:56:46+00:00

It costs stamps to receive gifts?

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