#eo1-3 hd

[maltessa]

I was bored waiting for a meeting to start at work so I made a list of the Etrian Odyssey towns rated by how much I'd enjoy living there.

EO1 (Etria)

Pros:

+ Small town feel

+ Probably has good maple syrup

+ Temperate climate

Cons:

-Tourist Town.

-Leadership are clowns

-Kind of boring

Rating: 5/10

EO2 (High Lagaard)

Pros:

+Cool summers

+Best food in the world

+Most fun to talk to bartender around

+Great views

Cons:

-Blisteringly cold winters

-I hope you like stairs

-I hope erosion isn't a problem.

Rating: 9/10

EO3 (Armoroad)

Pros:

+Tropical Climate

+People are really friendly

+Fun if you like sailing

+That bartender 👀

Cons:

-Probably rains a lot

-Pretty isolated from the rest of the world

-Napier price gouging you

Rating: 8/10

EO4 (Tharsis)

Pros:

+Travel Hub

+Sunny all year round

+Could hang out at the blacksmith

Cons:

-I forget the other townspeople

-Jesus christ it's probably so hot there

-I hope you like stairs again

-Fantasy australia pest problems and giant kangaroos

Rating: 6/10

EO5 (Iorys)

Pros:

+Cultural melting pot

+Every townsperson is really cool

+Bunny inkeeper

?Home of the saxophone

Cons:

?Home of the saxophone

-Location is kinda mid

-You have to avoid stepping on Brounies

Rating: 7/10

EON (Magnia)

Pros:

+Cultural melting pot

+You get to see the world

+Gorgeous views

Cons:

-Bartender is a massive creep

-Have to buy an airship ticket any time you want to leave probably

-Napier is price gouging here too...

Rating: 7/10

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old eo2 guildmaster because etrian odyssey fans are WINNING

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Tagged by: @thorneyes

(Yes I'm skipping tagging others but if you want to do it, consider yourself tagged. I'm a little sleep deprived atm to try an think of who to tag an who has already done it. Sorry. XD)

Last song: According to Spotify the last one to play on my phone at work while stocking the cooler was Take It Out On Me by Thousand Foot Krutch. I just tossed on a 2000s Rock playlist because I need something that is Mostly Work Safe.

Currently reading: The Struggle by Jennifer L. Armentrout from her Titans Series which was the next story set after the Covenant Series. I like stories about Mythological beings.

Currently watching: The Suite Life On Deck. I have seen it before but I am mostly playing it as background noise because I'm too tired to focus on anything I haven't seen before and actually want to watch.

Current obsession: Etrian Odyssey 1. I beat the EO1 Untold on 3DS ages ago but they just released EO1 HD on the Switch. I find dungeon crawler and having to draw the map myself to be somewhat soothing. An yes I'm playing on easy mode cause I played the story once even if it was with the Untold cast of characters made specifically for Untold. I named the team after my FFXIV characters. My Landsknecht lady is Destiney, the Dark Hunter is Ronove, the Medic is Aryn, the Survivalist is Nebula, and the Alchemist is Stefan. My secondary party the Protector is Lancefer, the Troubadour is Valentin, the Hexer is Cedrik, the Ronin is Keaira, and the second Medic is Adelena. I'll probably work on 2 & 3 after since they also got the HD Switch treatment.

[kieuecaprie]

KieueCaprie's List of Games Finished in 2023: Entry 10

tfw Tumblr still doesn't have spoiler tags because there's a bunch of games in this entry that I want to talk about in full.

#26: Etrian Odyssey 1 HD

Finished When? 11/7/23

What's Finished? Main Story

Platform? PC

I didn't get into the Etrian Odyssey franchise until the 3DS era with Etrian Odyssey 4, which was pretty good by the way. I enjoyed creating my own party of adventurers and going out into the world to slay monsters and solve the mysteries of Yggdrasil (or whatever World Tree they explore through).

Then I moved onto Etrian Odyssey Untold, which was a remake of EO1 with a more story-focused cast of characters but with an option to play the game in Classic Mode. I also liked the it.

And then I fell off. Not because I hated the series but because other things took my attention and it fell by the wayside.

Then cue Atlus saying they're porting Etrain Odyssey 1, 2, and 3 to PC and now it caught my interest again, especially due to the fact that there's a potential for modding in there! So I picked up the bundle and started playing with EO1HD.

I will say that it was fine, I was treading old ground so nothing was really new to me and while I still like it, I feel like it has parts where it overstays its welcome, especially towards the end, and, of course, the music was just the classic music, not Untold, which kinda sucks but whatever.

It's fine for what it is and I can now say I've completed a version of classic EO1.

Now, I just wish Picnic mode wasn't super heavy-handed in its changes to enemies because taking 20% damage from them seems too much. Atlus REALLY loves making their beginner modes SUPER easy for some reason and I don't know why they do this.

#27: My Friendly Neighborhood

Finished When? 19/7/23

What's Finished? Story

Platform? PC, Steam

This game was on my radar for quite a while ever since that one Steam Next Fest (I think?) had a demo for it, on top of seeing tweets (sorry, X-cretes) of it on my feed of the developer working on bits and pieces of it.

When it finally came out, I went to go pick it up and while the price was a little higher than I initially expected, I'm glad to have paid the price of admission for it! The characters are memorable (I mean, they are when you have to listen to them prattle on about the mail for the entire playthrough), the gameplay feels like I'm playing a Resident Evil (not the super action-packed ones) except with puppets and the fact that there are cheats in a game in 2023 is something that I never thought I'd see.

On top of that, I enjoyed how it essentially deconstructs the whole mascot horror formula and makes its own where the mascots in question aren't out to kill you, at least, it seems that way, and aren't trying to eat your pancreas or whatever.

This game is great and would definitely sit on my list of favorite games this year.

#28: Pikmin 4

Finished When? 22/7/23 (First completion), 24/7/23 (True 100%)

What's Finished? Game complete, True 100%

Pikmin is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises that I wished did not get shot in the head by a game that just feels tedious. Fortunately, Nintendo finally dug up the grave and brought it back to life (Now do it for Chibi-Robo, PLEASE.) for Pikmin 4, something that took 10 years to add a dog.

I played the demo and loved it, even went out of my way to not meet the 1500 sparklium limit just so I could experience all the caves, the controls feel great, Oatchi is baby and I love himb, and the levels you have to go through are quite beautiful to see on the Switch, all of this running on Unreal Engine too.

I have quite a bit more to say about this game so I'm gonna have to say that there's a Read More below that will spoil Pikmin 4 for you if you click on it. (EDIT: lmao nevermind, clicking expand on the post in the feed also expands the read more so now I have to make a separate post)

#29: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Finished When? 1/8/23

What's Finished? Normal Mode Story

Platform? PC, Steam

When I first heard this game was only coming to PS5, I unanimously decided to just.. not. Just not. This was because I could not get my hands on a PS5 and that it was terribly expensive and getting a console for one singular game these days feels like a waste, so I decided to just not talk about this game so as to avoid the algorithm.

This was so I wouldn't get spoiled on anything beyond what was shown in trailers and also so I wouldn't get an ALL BOSSES & ENDING (NO DAMAGE) video on my Youtube feed by some jerk who decided to plaster the face of the final boss in the middle circle and call it a day. Surprisingly, this actually worked and I never heard about this game again.

Then Sony decided to port it to PC and I jumped on it because now I can actually play it. Of course, I decided to wait until I was done with Pikmin 4 first before I moved on and I'm glad I did.

I'm really glad that I was lucky enough to have a PC that could just power through some of the issues the game had, although it still had a few issues such as geometry not loading in and the occasional time where I would clip through the ground and die for no good reason, but I was able to play through the game from start to finish.

Was it worth not spoiling myself for however many years? Probably. It was a short game but I got my money's worth. Rivet is cute, Ratchet is great as ever, and the fact that the game completely ignores the remaster of the first game is also great, mostly because that game kind of ruins Ratchet's character development that he went through.

Also, on my birthday, I was given a Dualsense controller (Lemme say that I didn't know what I wanted for my birthday, it's hard to do so these days...) and I must say the adaptive triggers did change up the gameplay quite a bit, priming a shot with a half-press and clicking it all the way in to fire. I initially thought it'd be overhyped as all hell but no, it felt pretty good to use, add to the fact that it has touchpads much like the Dualshock 4, which means that it'd be the perfect companion to my Steam Deck as well as enabling a much easier time of gyro gaming on PC (one of my issues with gyro gaming was simply not having an easy way to toggle the gyro on and off and I was not about to give up one of the face buttons for gyro-ratcheting).

All in all, game's great, was worth the wait, and I'm surprised at how well it ran and looked on the Steam Deck running at 30 FPS @ 800p. Perhaps I judged 30 FPS too harshly.

#30: Nerf Arena Blast

Finished When? 5/8/23

What's Finished? Single-player campaign

What prompted me to play this? Why did I choose to play this? Simple. Nostalgia, among other things.

This is probably one of the times where nostalgia really screwed me over.

The feel of the game is great, I loved the 90's aesthetic of there being some sort of nerf arena and playing as an up-and-coming team, the first few levels were pretty nice to play through too, but that's where everything kind of stops.

Also, this game is... well.. it's a game filled with slow-moving projectiles and bots that are dumb as bricks one minute and ultra try-hards the next is not my idea of fun. Not to mention that the game began to feel tedious as I kept pushing through the campaign.

Sure, I'm probably asking for a lot from a licensed kids game from the 90's/00's but Unreal Tournament had a lot more to offer than just deathmatch, ballhoopmatch, and speedrun, I wish they had done more than just those modes.

Speaking of the modes, I've found Ballblast to be extremely tedious to play through. It felt like it'd drag on and on and on and on and on and on until someone FINALLY finds the six dragon balls, shoots them through a hoop, and then collects the seventh one and shoots it through a hoop to FINALLY end the game. I have to ask, who the hell decided it would be a good idea to make it UNTIMED? There's a VERY good reason why objective gamemodes with the ability to disrupt those capturing has a timer, it's so that, at the end, the game can end and the winner be found.

But these games could drag on for ages, compounded by the fact that the bots, despite being masterful gods of leading projectiles, are stupid, somehow even dumber than Unreal Tournament's bots, and will take forever to go to the hoop and shoot balls into a hole.

BUT, I will give credit where credit is due, Pointblast, which is deathmatch but points, is a neat idea where you go around slaying people like normal BUT they drop points that you have to pick up BUT it can also be stolen meaning that you could get 1st place killed and steal the 1000 point drop from someone else. I like this idea, I like how it essentially changes the pace from sitting around camping to a more frantic slugfest, which I appreciate because when I played through Unreal Tournament, most of my problems could be solved with either a Flak Cannon to the face or pulling out the sniper rifle and just headshotting everyone from a safe place.

Speedblast is... interesting. I like the idea of running through the map, shooting others to stop them from capturing checkpoints, and finishing before everyone else. Maybe it's just me, really, because while I do like the idea of it, the execution was often less than stellar and the maps that had ways to disrupt without having to kill people were very few and that kind of makes me sad. Is it a stupid gamemode? Yes but I applaud the devs of the time for trying to make something new for a change.

All in all, this game is very flawed and somewhat poorly aged but it has some decent points to it and I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy my time with it at all. I really did have at least a bit of fun with it, even though I did not appreciate the game quitting on me after I finished the final level and it blasting my ears off with the ultra-loud video that plays.

And it also has a niche cult following that helpfully has a community patch that allows it to be played on modern systems, so clearly it has something going for it that I may not have found for myself. And that's okay, you know?

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[beardedhandstoadshark]

What Jrpg games do you recommend checking out?

jrpgs are more of a playstation thing which I don’t own so my recommendations most likely wont be the best ^^;

Ans you probably mean the classic "round based w/party system I’m guessing, and not "rpg and from japan” like Dark Souls would be, sooo…

Short version:

Etrian Odyssey (if you can deal with occasional jank)

Mother/Earthbound series

Undertale/Deltarune

Mario & Luigi series (kinda)

Honkai star rail (if you do not engage with the gacha)

…turns out that despite playing a lot of jrpgs, a good chunk are defunct now cuz they were taken off, aren’t actually true jrpgs, and also I. Kinda really dislike how 95% of them make you stop every few seconds to load and go into a different screen just to spam a, sit through a minute of animations and screens, and then go out again to do it again a few sec later. So these choices are heavily biased to that.

Long version/reasons:

Obligatory Etrian Odyssey plug here! Ever wanted to throw your favorite blorbos together and make them go on a dungeon crawler adventure? Fan of 5-member round based battle systems with front/back row formation and boosts? Thought "the ingame map is crap, lemme make my own”, thirsting for a true challenge where pressing A to win isnt enough and you’re encouraged to treat even normal encounters like the danger they’re supposed to be? And maybe finally figure out what the heck that one random blog on your dash keeps talking about? Well then, youre in luck, as a certain game series called Etrian Odyssey might just be for you, and HD Remasters of the first 3 games are on steam!

…though just as a warning, as much as I loved the og game (and I heard the remasters have lots of Quality of Life upgrades), EO1 is kinda janky in corners lmao. The "old school” vibe it was going for in these older games reflects on the gameplay at times. Haven’t played og or hd 2 but apparently it’s similar. Only heard good things about 3 though!

Earthbound (as far as I played it anyways) is very cool and unique too. Especially the presentation and interactions with the world and all. Comes with switch online, though its VERY easy to find it emulated in random websites. It also heavily inspired Undertale, thats gotta count for something. Mother 3 just got released on there too but for some reason again only in Japan, so its still free sailing on the seas for that one, more than ever now.

Also if you can press A to win in a battle the game just instantly defeats the enemy on the map instead which is the best thing in any jrpg ever and should be done by more games. …It flashes though, which sucks for the eyes a bit.

Speaking of which, Undertale + Deltarune are absolutely deserving of their hype. They might not be from Japan but they carry the energy.

Aside from that…I mean. Theoretically speaking the Mario & Luigi games count as jrpgs. They’re pretty cute and fun, the setting is quirky, the more active gameplay that lets you dodge and counter is a neat breakup from the standing around doing nothing wait of the genre, and I just love the bros being bros ok. They’re the bros ever, always but especially here.

Honkai Star Rail is also not from Japan but very much aiming at weebs, plus powered by the floods of money coming from 2 other big budget hyper-successful and hyper-exploiting gacha games, while also being one. It being Honkai and therefore Hoyo’s favorite child, the presentation is even more on point than Genshin. Also slightly more f2p friendly than its cousin, and that game is already more fun as f2p than whaling like they want you to. …the auto-battle button unfortunately gets use at time, though. Can’t say if it gets too grindy later on though, haven’t played that far.

…yea that pretty much it rn. Sorry :( If I remember more i might come back to this but otherwise thats that ^^

[history-group]

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soyjonen

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ummm uhhh kirjonen.

[shiny-zura]

thank you gamers for making my recent interactions be not from corn bots :pleading_face:

i merely have one request.. draw more guildmasters (also also kirjonen)