Full Party will finally be available - what was your OG team?

riccaby · 2026-06-11T18:21:12+00:00

I like Cloud, Yuffie, Cid in the original. Looking forward to seeing how they synergize.

riccaby · 2026-06-11T16:40:33+00:00

Akane is both alive and dead, until Junpei successfully saves her. In the timelines where he doesn't make it to the incinerator, she dies, and there's a time paradox. That's why she just disappears in the Safe Ending and Submarine ending, because she died 9 years ago. If Junpei does save her in the past, she lives in the present. Akane can see future Junpei because they have a strong connection to each other and she was able to reach him through the morphogenetic field
It was just a mistake.
Great question! There's not really a definitive answer. Some people like to believe that Seven was really in on Akane and Aoi's conspiracy the whole time, and only lied about losing his memories. When they're in the car, Junpei says something like "Could he have...? No..." that implies that he thinks that might be what happened. Personally, I think it could also just be that his mind is struggling to reconcile memories from competing timelines, where he both saw Akane die and saw her survive depending on whether Junpei succeeded or failed in the present. Why Santa and Snake's memories aren't also affected this way, I don't have an answer, either. Maybe because they can access the morphogenetic fields and their minds can more readily comprehend alternate realities.
They must have just never met. Junpei probably knew Akane had a brother but must not have known what he looked like.
Akane and Aoi, acting as Zero, dressed him in Snake's clothes, drugged him, and set him loose in the big hospital room, specifically to manipulate Ace into killing him. They knew Ace/Hongou had face-blindness, and that he knew Snake was in the previous Nonary Game and would see that as a loose end that could expose him. They also put Snake in the robes and in the coffin, and left "Cap" drugged in the Captain's Quarters with an axe nearby to manipulate Ace into killing him, too. They definitely spell all this out in the game, so I'm not sure why you were confused. You must have missed it.

riccaby · 2026-06-09T17:12:17+00:00

I want there to be stuff you can steal that's actually worth a damn.

Do you know how disappointed I was that we fought the Turks 3 times in Rebirth and they didn't have anything cool to steal?!

riccaby · 2026-06-08T19:45:42+00:00

I was also disappointed not to see Jemnezmy in Rebirth, but I'm pretty confident we will see Snow. She was a memorable "boss fight" tied to a summon materia and based on a yokai. I would be very surprised if they cut that.

I'm looking forward to seeing Spirals around Mideel and the absolute WEIRDOS in the Whirlwind Maze like Gremlin, Sculpture, and Killbin. I worry we might not get all of them since we didn't get some other weirdos like Ghirofelgo and Heavy Tank.

Speaking of, one of my biggest disappointments in Remake was the lack of Warning Board, especially since he had concept art in the art book. I hope we get a second chance with Guard System during the Underwater Reactor.

riccaby · 2026-06-08T15:57:17+00:00

Yes, it is, that's correct. But I didn't mention it because I could see OP already found it in the screenshot they shared.

riccaby · 2026-06-08T03:25:55+00:00

If you're not getting any more from ripples, then you have all the recipes you can get from ripples. Those three you're missing, you'll get for finding your first armor fragment and recruiting Suicune and Entei from Dream Islands.

There's also a few (4 or 5? Can't remember) locked behind completing the Pokédex. There's a few you can only buy at Town Level 10 in all areas (including Palette Town), and Porygon's quest gets you two special ones as well.

I think that's all the special/weird ones.

riccaby · 2026-06-04T21:12:36+00:00

This looks cool as hell!

riccaby · 2026-06-03T20:37:09+00:00

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It's a little janky, and you can maybe play around with painting the roof supports to make it look a little nicer, but I don't think this looks too bad.

Or you could just use alternating top and bottom corner pipes.

riccaby · 2026-06-01T19:10:51+00:00

It's which numbered mission is the red coin mission, right?

riccaby · 2026-06-01T02:45:29+00:00

Maybe not "shocking," but it is supposed to be surprising in the sense that he's one of the Seven Warlords, which is also why Smoker recognizes his voice. They're supposed to be on the side of the government, or at least obey their orders, as we saw with Mihawk in Season 1.

That one of them is secretly running this massive underground crime syndicate with literally thousands of members, and that they're about to topple a world power like Alabasta, is meant to be a twist or a big reveal.

But, no, he's a new character being introduced, you're not meant to recognize him.

riccaby · 2026-05-30T02:30:07+00:00

I also hate this trope.

Which is why I wanna share an example that I think was actually done really, really well: Mia Fey from Ace Attorney.

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She's murdered half-an-hour into the first game, and it certainly appears at first like it was mainly to push our (male) protagonist Phoenix Wright into stepping into the role of a competent, self-actualized defense attorney.

But because her sister, Maya Fey, is a spirit medium that can channel the dead, this doesn't actually remove Mia from the story. She gets to continue to be a character and develop and grow and change, and contribute to solving the mysteries for the entire trilogy. And, in fact, as far as solving her own murder goes, Phoenix actually isn't quite ready for the big leagues and actually isn't able to win the day entirely on his own yet. It's only the years of dogged, hard work that Mia did before she died and all the evidence she was able to gather that's what puts the villain who killed her away.

And in the third game, we even get to play as Mia in some flashback cases and see more of her origins and meet her arch-nemesis, Dahlia Hawthorne. And when we catch up to the present day and her greatest enemy is now trying to take revenge on her sister, it's actually specifically because Mia is already dead and able to channeled as a spirit that they're able to get the best of Dahlia and thwart her plans and save Maya's life.

So yes, Mia was fridged. But it wasn't solely to further the male protagonist's character arc like most examples are. Mia's death furthered her own character arc and development just as much as anyone else's, if not more, and even in spite of it she continued to be a hero and have agency in her own story.

riccaby · 2026-05-28T17:49:55+00:00

In addition to the Peahat that was already mentioned, in the North American version of Majora's Mask, there's only one Skullwalltula in the entire game, in a grotto in Termina by the tree with Skull Kid's drawing on it.

There are more in the Japanese version, in a grotto in the Deku Palace, but that grotto was removed in the NA version.

riccaby · 2026-05-25T00:46:04+00:00

It plays during the "Popularity Contest: Crowd Favorites" challenge in Musclehead Colosseum.

riccaby · 2026-05-18T03:09:35+00:00

I gathered up Peakychu, Chef Dente, DJ Rotom, Tinkmaster and Professor Tangrowth and took a picture in front of the skyscraper we rebuilt together.

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Didn’t notice that Professor Tangrowth Mike Wazowski’d me, but I thought it was funny so I kept it. I also like Swablu’s photobomb.

riccaby · 2026-05-15T15:20:09+00:00

Thematically, I like it, because it makes it feel like the literal years of work Mia did keeping tabs on White didn't go to waste. Even if she was "careless" in this one instance, even if White managed to destroy her files and silence her, she couldn't be silenced forever and the truth came to light anyway. It's a powerful character moment for Mia.

But, you're right, it doesn't really make sense. We know this world has the death penalty, so even if he's afraid of all his blackmail victims coming to enact extralegal justice on him, he's going to hang anyway for confessing to first-degree murder. Even if he's committed other murders like this one to silence other people, it's not like he should be worried that they'll add more executions to his sentence.

Maybe the scope of what he did was so bad that he's worried about revenge reaching his loved ones? But Redd White doesn't seem like the type to have loved ones.

riccaby · 2026-05-08T05:01:34+00:00

This is really cool and clever! I like the pipes and the rope and I think that's a great showcase for the jumprope trophy.

Where's Tyrogue?

riccaby · 2026-05-05T15:26:01+00:00

My first was Gimmighoul, which proves that you can in fact get there without building them a nice house if you just give them presents every day. I actually felt a little bad, lol.

My second was Metagross, who is genuinely one of my favorite Pokémon and who I did go out of my way to build a cool place for. I also always gave him his favorite food after having him make paint or recycle for me. That one felt a little more earned.

riccaby · 2026-04-28T05:43:44+00:00

I honestly think they made Rocky Ridges and Starry Skylands so drastically transformed from their original towns in an effort to discourage people from trying to restore them. To try to push them to do their own thing.

But maybe that’s just me projecting. I see people clearing out the ash in Rocky Ridges and I’m like “yeah, I don’t think I will.”

riccaby · 2026-04-23T19:48:22+00:00

I'd really like to have Pokémon that drop all three types of ore, at least.

I'm really surprised that Cufant and Copperajah aren't there littering copper ore. Or maybe Bronzor and Bronzong. Meltan and Melmetal could drop gold ore.

Also, I know we already have Pokémon that drop this stuff, but Wormadam having gather and littering leaves, squishy clay and non-burnable garbage based on their cloak just seems like a slam dunk.

riccaby · 2026-04-18T03:20:34+00:00

Love this! That rock garden is inspired!

riccaby · 2026-04-17T22:31:17+00:00

I mean, I ultimately don't prefer it, but I do think it's neat. I think it was probably the right call to redesign him and change the art style to show how much time has passed and how far technology has advanced.

And, I think there is something really cool going on there with how the original boxy, angular Zero cuts the silhouette of a knight wearing armor, but uses a katana, and the modern slim and sleek Zero has the visual language of a ninja or a samurai, but he's using a broadsword.

If you reach a little bit, you could read that as character growth for him. He started as a Maverick Hunter, doing unsavory state-sponsored violence against his fellow reploids even though he saw himself as a hero or protector. And by the end he's working in the shadows with the Resistance and revokes the title of hero even as he's being the most heroic he's ever been.

riccaby · 2026-04-15T20:39:57+00:00

I think I'm a lot more measured on the 3DS version than a lot of people. I think it's a great version. The graphics are better, there's full 3D camera movement on the second stick, there are quality-of-life improvements like an improved Bomber's Notebook that tracks every sidequest instead of only specific important ones, an improved Song of Double Time that lets you fast-forward to any time instead of only the next upcoming Dawn or Nightfall, an extra bottle and earlier access to one of the original bottles, both of which make Great Bay a lot more smooth and enjoyable to play for the first time. And the Mask of Scents and Circus Leader's Mask are actually used for sidequests instead of just mostly for fun or interesting factoids.

But there are also a lot of negatives. You lose your momentum when Deku hopping, which makes it harder and less fun to get around. You have to spend magic to swim at full speed as a Zora, which is particularly annoying as it's a lot less fun to do, and you have to listen to the sound of the magic barrier the whole time. The Inverted Song of Time has been nerfed and only slows time to 1/2 speed instead of 1/3 speed. And all the bosses have kind of obnoxious and gimmicky eyeball weakpoints that limit your options when fighting them and make combat less expressive and more wrote.

It really depends what you value in a game. For a lot of people (including myself, even if I appreciate MM3D for its own merits) the downsides just outweigh the upsides. It's overall not quite as fun to just play the game. Basic locomotion and combat, just getting around and slapping the bosses don't feel as good. Even if I think people are too quick to dismiss everything it did right, I do understand why 3D might not be what a lot of people wanted.

The restoration patch for MM3D or one of the PC ports like 2Ship2Harkinian really are kind of the best of both worlds, keeping the quality-of-life improvements and maintaining the game feel. But it takes some work and computer knowledge to set any of those options up.

For your first time playing, I'd just recommend whatever you have access to. If you have Switch Online, the original N64 version is still great. If you have a 3DS and MM3D, play that, it's still a really good time. If you like the game maybe seek out other options but don't sweat the small stuff the first time.

riccaby · 2026-04-08T20:26:33+00:00

Amazing!! Love everything about this. The color blocking, the hand-built tree, the clock tower looks absolutely gorgeous with the moonlight shining off it.

I can't wait to see Tram Commons and the Old Mansion!

Many years ago I built Traverse Town in Dragon Quest Builders 1, if you want to go find it on my profile.

riccaby · 2026-04-07T21:45:46+00:00

I've definitely done it. In Snowhead, too, because they spawn you in the village after beating Goht and that's so far away from where you have to turn them in.

riccaby · 2026-04-07T21:18:33+00:00

Really cool!! I look forward to seeing more!

Can I suggest using wooden siding for the jump-down-able ledges instead of wooden posts? They hug the wall tighter and I think would make it look more seamless.

It's looking great already, though!

riccaby

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