#but here I am playing and grinding

[kuramirocket]

I didn't take a screenshot, but I finished playing Rayman in the Phantom Show. My game is 98% complete!

I 100 story mode and got all the memories. I need just one more weapon skin which it looks like I have to 100 the game to unlock and then to get the secret message.

So, my question is - what did I miss???

I believe I got all the sidequests because nothing appears on the maps. I wonder if I missed an item somewhere. Hmm..

I don't really feel like looking all over the place and haven't seen any guides for items. Lol. That and don't want to watch hours of gameplay to see what I could have missed. But the completionist in me is like MUST FINISH ALL.

Which speaking of that, I have Tower of Doom at 99% just missing one spark and I'm like, want to complete, but also feel meh to play again just to get a spark that I don't even know which one I'm missing. LOL

The Last Spark Hunter I have at 98%. Just missing two memories and one weapon skin.

As for SoH itself. I think it's like at 86% complete. I didn't buy the weapon skins available with the bot and probably missing some other items or something.

Again, the completionist in me is like MUST 100% IT ALL.

But getting bored of playing Mario + Rabbids. Might get some of the items I'm missing in tlsh and soh and then move on to another Mario game. And maybe in a future come back to 100% it. Want to get to a new story!

Also, if anyone has any ideas or tips on how to 100% Rayman dlc (whatever it is I'm missing) let me know ;D

[nyashykyunnie]

Okay but in a fr sense why the hell are my types so goddamn opposite of eachother? Blud it's either the cold and strict type or u cant trust that fae aa look and it makes me go🤺🤺🤺🤺 everytime I realize it

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CONSISTENCY LORD??!!!?!!????? Dear god just give me my future husband alr like man or just outright tekl me if I'm gonna die single buddy I'm in a dillemma at how my types are just pkain polar opposites spare me pls

[crescentfool]

i've been doing a bunch of tartarus runs in reload lately, and it got me thinking about how i miss certain ways FES's clunky gameplay can characterize minato… (ramble about the great clock mechanic + leveling up party members in reload vs fes under the cut)

when i got to yabbashah block in tartarus (block 3), i remember commending the developers for adding the great clock mechanic. it's a much more convenient way to keep party members at the protagonist's level- so when you think about p3 from the perspective of trying to make it easier for people to play, the mechanic succeeds in this respect.

but now that i'm in adamah block, and that i've done lots of my once-a-month tartarus runs… i think that i got a little too dependent on it, and the way that i played through reload feels like a vastly different experience from how i played FES.

in reload, my party's levels are very lopsided. minato, yukari, akihiko, mitsuru, and fuuka are all level 90+, meanwhile junpei and aigis are at level 79, and then… poor ken and koromaru are at 71 and 64 respectively. (i never got to have a great clock for them…)

meanwhile, in FES, my party's levels were much more evenly distributed and were at least level 90. i did all of this manually for every monthly tartarus run because i enjoyed having options available for the taratarus guardians and monthly operations.

with how i perceive minato, i feel that the way i played FES feels more in-line with his character than me dawdling around waiting for the great clocks in reload.

FES's gameplay loop left me with the very strong impression that minato has to work twice as hard as everyone else in SEES does. it makes sense because, yeah, he's the leader, but something about having minato run through tartarus multiple times with different groups of people just to make sure that they are adequately prepared speaks volumes about his character, to me.

and while the tired mechanic is present in reload to some degree, most notably with allowing you to freely raise your courage stat when you visit edogawa after school… the tiredness system doesn't hit the same way that FES does, i think.

the way your party members in FES will call it quits when they return to the entrance floor at tartarus when they're tired, versus minato, in spite of all his tiredness and sickness, still pushes through tartarus because it's his responsibility…. idk!!! i miss that! i feel like this really hammers home the difference between minato and the rest of SEES, how minato doesn't really see himself as a human with needs worth respecting as long as he's useful to someone.

i don't think that tartarus being tedious (in FES especially) is not what most people would describe as fun, and i can respect people thinking it's a slog. but, regardless of how it feels to play, it doesn't change that FES's gameplay loop is a fundamental building block in how i perceive minato…

of course, i do recognize that you can just opt to NOT use the great clock in reload (and it's great when players are offered the choice to not partake in mechanics)! i definitely think that if someone really wanted to, they could manually level up party members, but i do feel that kind of playstyle isn't necessarily "incentivized" to the type of people who are into playing games for Having a Good Time. it's kind of like… "why would you do that when there's a much more convenient option available to you."

in any case! despite my woes, i do want to emphasize that i'm glad that reload has a much more smoother gameplay loop than the original P3 did, because it does make the game more accessible to people. having played both FES and reload, it feels very strongly apparent to me how the core gameplay formula of persona has really been refined in the past 18 years (to think og p3 was 2006 and reload is 2024.. time flies!). and reload has made revisiting a story that i love so dearly much, much easier because the gameplay just bops!

at the same time, due to my "i miss characterization informed by weird and dated FES gameplay quirks" woes, i still think that playing FES is worthwhile. (really, i feel this way about all iterations of p3! i think it's worthwhile to see what each version and side media has to say even if it doesn't Land™ for you.) but i also understand why people wouldn't want to play it, so i will keep writing posts about things i liked from FES's gameplay because i'm still very fond of FES (especially in respects to minato. these mechanics are so telling about him!!!) 💪

[sl33py-g4m3r]

probably late to the party; found a cute game called "slime rancher"~~

it's about exploring a planet 1,000 light years away from earth~~ and creatures known as slimes that you.... uh...... stick in corrals and farm.... hence the name~~~

should I try to be as efficient as possible? or just chill and enjoy the game?

I have this problem with cozy games like this; like sprout valley, I'll try to be efficient with it, or just go way too hard on the grinding and burn myself out~~~

which isn't what cozy style games are for I'll take it....

they're chill and supposed to be fun and relaxing~~~

so why am I like this with these games? why do I go so hard and then burn myself out? I'm not chill, but I want to be~~~ chill, calm, enjoy the slower pace of the game~~~

how would you play most efficiently anyway? I just started the game before attempting to go to bed, and ended up on tumblr instead, lol.

Is an adorably cozy game tho and the pink slime and art style are adorable~~~

is there lore? no spoilers please~~~

what happens if I just free range the chickens and don't set up a corral for them?

[hesperidia]

😑

[sarastuss]

thought about ff.xiv characters again

[kafus]

i wanted to fight the e4 and finally beat X tonight but i’m nodding off over my 3ds so here’s photos of the final team before i head in… i’m saved outside the door to the e4 and i’ll fight them after i sleep

[risingsunresistance]

i have one more clip to post but that's being saved until i feel like doing a mild edit. which means it will probably be next week i am On A Schedule right now every single day is being meticulously planned out kjgfhgk (help)

on the bright side, skyblock update. 85% TO FISHING 42 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH 💥💥💥

[hungryblackbird]

@ my old bg3 mutuals who are now also ffxiv mutuals: i love u

[shinmiyovvi]

Really wanted to draw my usual Codz and TNMN ocs but I got stuck with making my F1 oc which is pretty much eating my brain already

[oysterie]

playing so much eo luminous the last few days i tetris effecting fish swimming in the corners of my vision at all times.

[bcneheaded]

HI HELLO if anyone's wondered where I've been....... its been either work kicking my ass lately OR.... elden ring. JJFJDFSD

[j-esbian]

see the problem with all of the puzzles in bg3 is like. sometimes the player (me) is stupid. and at least in a real dnd game you might get the dm to take pity on you

[faradaykay]

wow september in persona 3 is such a fun month!!! i sure hope october is just as good

[octolingloveblog]

Splatfest day 1 complete! Total stats for the day: Times team money encountered: 2 (lol) 10x wins: 1 100x wins: 1 (the luck was not with me today) Hours played: roughly eight hours? Total rank: ruler +4 Conch shells obtained: 18

[seventh-district]

oh my god i can’t decide what to do with my time today