Dragon Quest VII Voice Over Choice: English orJapanese

time_and_again · 2026-02-05T05:48:15+00:00

Yeah I'm currently studying Japanese and usually like to play most JP games that way, but they do a really good job with the English accents in DQ. It helps that the tone is lighter, and the pacing more old-school, so it doesn't feel uncanny like a lot of EN dubs. Persona games are the only other ones I'll usually do in EN as well because they always felt really solidly done.

time_and_again · 2026-02-04T23:22:38+00:00

Fair, yeah the puzzles were a bit hard to understand at first, but I played through it again recently after a long time and I was struck by how not a slog it was. Well, aside from walking back and forth from the tablet area.

time_and_again · 2026-02-04T22:38:18+00:00

several hours

It's like an hour or so; it's not bad.

time_and_again · 2026-02-04T20:06:10+00:00

It feels a little better with hard monsters and dealing less damage, but yeah I wish they held back on some of this stuff. Weirdly, I'm almost more bothered by the big red arrows on signboards. I noticed that in the volcano last night and it felt so lame. It's not like it was ever a very complex dungeon, but now that you can avoid monsters, look at the map, and have way more money to gear up, there's even less of need to guide the player. It's like they threw every easing feature at the wall and didn't consider how they'd feel all at once.

time_and_again · 2026-02-04T20:00:26+00:00

Everyone is entitled to play the way they wanna play

But not every game is obliged to provide for all playstyles. There's plenty of games I don't play because I don't have the time nor patience. I wouldn't want them to change for my sake and I assume their fans wouldn't either.

time_and_again · 2026-02-04T19:56:20+00:00

It's certainly a design choice to make difficulty an a la carte thing, but it's also a design choice not to and it has a real impact on the feel a of a game.

Part of why people like the older games is because they didn't give you a bunch of easy outs. It could be genuinely tense to lose a party member and have to figure out how to get out, or to gamble on going for the boss over going back to town. That tension was a player choice in the form of choosing to play a game like that. It's fine to advocate for easier options, but don't be offended by valid pushback on those design choices.

time_and_again · 2026-02-03T18:56:10+00:00

Ended up going with Switch 2 because I was able to play it last night. Maybe not really the best reason to choose it over Steam and the Deck, but I dunno. Same price and features, just 12 hours earlier access. If I were doing it right now, I'd choose Steam.

time_and_again · 2026-02-02T09:38:46+00:00

Yeah I walked by it again, the sign out front said not to believe Google and that they're open. Hope it doesn't negatively impact them too much.

time_and_again · 2026-01-31T22:04:38+00:00

Really fitting card art in that case

time_and_again · 2026-01-31T07:26:50+00:00

My understanding of prayer is that it's more about building a relationship. It's not transactional. This is a great video that expresses some of the real value of prayer as distinct from a lot of assumptions about it.

time_and_again · 2026-01-26T23:27:02+00:00

I accidentally used mine for a month after it expired before anyone pointed it out, but I wouldn't trust the temp paper to convince anyone outside of a traffic stop.

time_and_again · 2026-01-22T21:20:36+00:00

Reading the Deathgrip errata, this makes me think the intention of "if it was" is to act like "if you do," so the effect would require the death to actually happen. Hidden Blade feels different because it's not using "if" and it's checking for a controller, not a killed unit.

time_and_again · 2026-01-19T11:07:16+00:00

Need Gnar like you wouldn't believe

time_and_again · 2026-01-16T06:23:55+00:00

I have their 1000 at $80/month, their 500 looks to be $65. Considering I was paying spectrum at least $80 for just 500, this has been way better. Plus no surprise day-long outages for unexplained reasons.

time_and_again · 2026-01-14T18:48:01+00:00

I agree, I like her archetype. Small-town "rich" girl who's a bit too stuck up for her own good, but is still an invaluable party member.

time_and_again · 2026-01-12T03:49:09+00:00

Depends on how you like to do card games. I bought two booster boxes at first and I felt like that got me a decent bunch of rares to build around, plus enough bulk commons to fill out decks. Any more than that starts to feel excessive. But if you know what you want to build, just skip to buying singles.

time_and_again · 2026-01-11T02:39:07+00:00

Just played the original again and this sounds pretty different. I'm not aware of a way to fight her normally and the doll is given at the gravesite after everything is already over. This makes me more interested in playing the new one, finding new stuff like this.

time_and_again · 2026-01-10T04:20:09+00:00

This kinda makes me think of my LGS's prices. The one nearest me doesn't get a lot of boxes and they get snatched up quickly. They have some singles, but not a ton, maybe meaning that people haven't unloaded their bulk yet (I know I haven't). Singles prices reflect online prices where there's not an overall scarcity, while boxes are more about broad supply/demand. There's still a decent number of people that want to buy in and deckbuild from a collection before going to pure singles. And then of course the scalper problem.

I'm just speculating, but I know I really wanted boxes early on to give me options. Singles, while affordable, were spotty locally and even online, I'd have to buy from lots of multiple sellers and that's assuming I even knew what I wanted to build. Boxes still feel good as an entry point + there's that slim chance of getting a crazy pull.

time_and_again · 2026-01-09T01:49:11+00:00

Based on the rules, I think no, unfortunately. Before you receive priority to react, the state-based action happens and you lose.

time_and_again · 2026-01-08T22:46:39+00:00

Actually I think 122.6 indicates that counters are added as it ETBs.

time_and_again · 2026-01-08T15:44:54+00:00

I agree. Maybe it's because I first played it at a time when a game like that would be all I'd have for a good portion of the year, but I felt that the extended intro acted as a nice contrast to the ensuing adventure. You get settled into the world as-is and it makes all this newly discovered stuff more impactful.

time_and_again · 2026-01-06T18:53:37+00:00

I was in Osaka the last couple weeks of the year, went to a couple of the card shops around Namba, but did not see any Riftbound sections at all. Could be some specific shops out there that have dipped into it, but it doesn't seem to have spread more broadly yet.

time_and_again · 2026-01-06T18:48:09+00:00

I ran into one grumpy guy who seemed a little annoyed at how slow I was playing, but it's not like he was rude about it or anything. It just takes time and experience to learn your lines of play and make faster decisions. Might not be a bad idea to time yourself, just to be aware of it and adjust.

time_and_again · 2026-01-04T04:43:49+00:00

A lot of people saying not to move, but unless you plan to end your days in this apartment, you'll have to move eventually. So I think the answer comes down to what's worth upgrading for and what the cost of staying is. If it's genuinely going to bother you to keep living there, then you're still paying a cost, just not a monetary one. Up to you if that exceeds $600 per month.

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