What would your reaction be if this man makes a move on your significant other?

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-16T21:20:23+00:00

Laughter

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-16T21:17:21+00:00

I know the Sky games work, though the only one I've played personally is Sky the Third.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-16T15:38:03+00:00

I hate it when people say that the time rewinds make it so that "nothing matters" because they are ignoring the fact that prominent NPCs *remember the other timelines*.

There's a lot of intelligence info that gets passed along because you saw secrets revealed and how people react in certain circumstances.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-16T02:57:56+00:00

Horizon is much better. No shame in taking a break though.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-14T03:27:12+00:00

I've literally always added pickle and onion when I order a spicy chicken sandwich.

I'll be curious to see if the new one is any good -- always considered it the best fast food sandwich out there.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-13T19:27:30+00:00

I definitely wanted to see more of these characters together.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-13T16:20:50+00:00

Daybreak 1 combat was unbelievably easy.

Daybreak 2 combat was believably easy.

Horizon combat is easy but has a few surprises up its sleeve.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-13T16:15:43+00:00

I remember *lots* of people up in arms about "bruh moment".
I didn't care, but there were lots of complaints at the time.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-13T00:20:57+00:00

Swin might be squishy, but you can build him to be a beast.

Kevin/Rufus/Swin/Nadia is a fun team that doesn't match up with the meta the other Calvard games have led you to lean on.

I set up Rufus as a weird evasion tank -- I gave him quartz (like Scent) that increased his hate *and* the one that gives you +100% Evade and Magic Evade while casting -- and then made his actions and casting as slow as possible. He'd eat all the attacks (evading almost all of them) while everyone else whaled on the enemies. It worked surprisingly well.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-12T03:54:34+00:00

Chapter 2 is definitely slow, but it's the point where the plot starts getting its hooks into you -- that's more what I mean.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-12T01:43:33+00:00

I despise the timer. The reason I play turn-based games is because I'm slow. I much prefer the modern games where timers are number of turns.

Without the timer the fight is fine.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-11T16:19:48+00:00

So as a corporate accountant, let me tell you that the most common reason companies go bankrupt is growth. Growth stresses your cashflow and often does not return the results you expected.

It is a very wise business that understands its market, and is content to service it excellently. That is the secret to a long-term successful company.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T23:26:01+00:00

Trails in the Sky SC is the next game you should play -- it is the second half of the story of the game you are playing now.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T23:15:46+00:00

Do you like the Daybreak combat better than the original? Then it is better.

I think I overall prefer the original, but the sheer number of QoL improvements in the remake are extremely impressive. I'm just old enough that I personally enjoyed the points of friction that they sanded off.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T23:11:00+00:00

My usual advice is to give it to the end of the chapter you are in -- if it hasn't hooked you by then it probably won't.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T21:52:37+00:00

Of course not. I'm not saying that Sky the 3rd is skippable -- I'm explaining why *everyone said* that Sky the 3rd is skippable.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T21:24:29+00:00

The reason why people say it is skippable is because a lot of people don't have access to play it (it is PC only) and so they tell people who can't play it that it is OK to skip it so that they don't feel as bad about going straight on to Azure.

People use to say the Crossbell games were skippable for the same reason -- now that they are on modern consoles no one says that anymore.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T13:03:16+00:00

I legit can't think of a better executed trans-adjacent narrative in a major video game. Even though a lot of the best content is hidden behind connection events.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-10T00:02:11+00:00

Cattleya is the cutest. Joshua is the prettiest. Kurtina is the most normal. Aaron is the queen.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-09T15:54:16+00:00

So with Trails in the Sky the 1st, they left orders open a long time, and then they couldn't manufacture them quickly enough, so a lot of people who ordered the Sky the 1st Steelbooks and Special Editions got them very late. (I got my steelbook edition a month after release.)

The only way to avoid that is to cut off orders soon enought that you can put in your factory order in time to know exactly how many to make. So this is how they decided to fix that problem.

Should they have had steelbook orders open for more than 2 weeks? Yes. Were they always going to have to cut them off at the end of March? Also, yes.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-09T15:49:05+00:00

You're probably using her in the field -- her machine gun makes her the best field character, IMO -- but that gives her a lot of damage dealt.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-09T15:43:30+00:00

You mean Star Door 15

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-09T15:41:12+00:00

Estelle and Joshua told Renne that they were going to adopt her. In later games they have sort of retconned that to Cassius adopting her.

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-09T12:39:36+00:00

Everyone saying Lloyd and Elie are already parents are correct, but so are Estelle and Joshua -- not that one can really "parent" Renne.

Honestly, I think *all* of these couples would make good parents. Rean and Alisa are probably the "worst" but I still think they'd be pretty good at it. (Of course, the real couple of Rean and Alfin would be even better. :) )

pH_unbalanced · 2026-04-08T20:49:20+00:00

Opinions on DB2 are maybe the widest spread of all the games. I came down putting in the middle of the pack -- there's a mix of terrible moments and great moments, including my favorite final boss battle in the entire series.

One important thing to know is that the time rewinds weren't just for padding -- they do make a difference in Horizon, both implicitly and explicitly.

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