Setsuna

So I just finished Mega Man 3. Wily's Castle was actually the easiest so far for me. It took under two hours. The hardest part was probably Yellow Devil and the Boss Rush. But Yellow Devil wasn't nearly as insane this time. I was actually able to nail his patterns pretty quickly. He felt so much slower than he was in Mega Man 1. I do wonder if this is his last appearance, or if he's going to remain a staple in the series. The boss rush was...tough. They felt much more threatening than the bosses in the previous games. At the same time this game felt much nicer. So many energy tanks littered all over the place. They give you two before the Yellow Devil. As I mentioned, I have no idea about anything past Mega Man 3. I'm excited to find out. I think starting with Mega Man 4 I'm going to be much less reliant on the internet, instead i'm going to try scouting out the boss weaknesses on my own. Unless I feel like I can't continue. Being able to save anywhere on Legacy Collection is such a nice feature. It completely negates the need for passwords. Oh, and wasn't 7 the end of the NES era? Curious to what it was released on, and how different it will be.

I'm playing New Vegas on Xbox 360. Okay so to clear things up, I would say the main console I play things on is Playstation 4. It's what I'm using to play Mega Man. But I impulsively bought New Vegas on Xbox...and was thinking wait that wasn't my brightest idea. Now it means constantly shuffling back and fourth between consoles, when I could have just purchased it on Playstation. I've never played much on PC. I think I only own 2 steam games. I prefer the simplicity or just playing on console. It's just what I've been accustomed with my entire life. I did play lots of flash games though. Speaking of flash, I think today is the end of it.

I wasn't even aware Castlevania had so many titles. I'll check out the Playstation 4 shop and see if they have anything. I'm sure they have a few. The first thing I found when I searched up Castlevania was an animated show, so that's pretty cool. I actually I might just end up watching that. If I like it, I would probably want to try one of the games. It's only 3 seasons so it doesn't seem like it would be tough to get through. Hopefully it's not one of those things that would be confusing if you didn't play the games. My knowledge on the series is pretty much non-existent. I know the protagonists are Simon and Ritcher (because of smash ultimate) And they throw axes. I think ritcher is the son of simon. When it comes to video games, I really enjoy trying new franchises. I would say that I'm less into speedruns but I love watching reviews. I usually don't watch reviews to decide a purchase, but I watch them after I play and have my own opinions. I like seeing someone else's perspective. Unless it's something I really enjoyed, and the majority of reviews are bashing it. Then I'm a bit hesitant to listen because it might seep into my mind when if I ever want to replay. Fallout 3 is a good example. It was a very divided entry, since the story was mostly linear and it didn't matter if you had picked to be good or evil.

I'll look into on 3DS. I admit that I'm stingy with purchases. I usually won't buy things unless I'm certain I can get enjoyment. But $10 doesn't seem bad. For example Final Fantasy 10. I did not actually enjoy that game, but purchased it on switch for $50. Not making that mistake again. I mean it wasn't terrible, but I just didn't connect with the story. That's usually my biggest problem with Final Fantasy. If it's free on PC that could work, but it would probably depend on my computer. I don't know if it's a heavy game to run.

Oh wow you hit Prison Island already? I mean actually that doesn't seem too surprising. I just remembered I got really into it and finished the entire game in under two weeks. I'm glad your enjoying it. You even played the original, so it must be so nice looking at the new updated graphics. I loved how it looked and I didn't even have anything to compare it with. I think that was my initial disappointment with Final Fantasy 10. It was a remaster, but looked significantly worse than Xenoblade which I had just finished. Are you going to play Future Connected? I think I'll even start that soon. You even finished Eryth Sea which you mentioned was your favorite part. I thought that place looked really nice.

But yeah I adore Dragon Quest. It's my favorite JRPG series. It's very formulaic, like possibly on the level of Pokemon. But unlike Pokemon it's completely self aware about this and never gets too serious. Your almost always a chosen one. You have to stop some generic bad guy. The combat is a very simplistic turn based system. (You get attacks and spells). But the games are so vibrant and colorful, and so lighthearted. I love every bit of it. Also the plots still remain engaging enough that they are interesting. It's good enough to have depth, but it never goes over the top.

Inadvertently, anxiety is probably the reason I avoided being made fun of. I never opened up with people, nor even shared my interests. I had friends, but kept myself distant. Meaning it was almost always strictly a friendship for school. I almost never texted or wanted to hang out. Basically I separated school life and family. At one point there was a friend I did enjoy the company of, and I invited him over to play video games. It was so bizarre having someone from school in my house. I had kept it so separate. I understand and relate to what you mentioned. I would get passionate about certain things, but unless I felt the person might be receptive I would never bring it up. If it means anything I haven't minded listening to you talk about such things (Like metroidvania games). In fact it's interesting.

It's nice hearing you found a character you can relate so much with, and I think those are the characters it's easiest to get attached with. I have a couple characters in mind I've felt the same way about.

It was a good experience and I'm glad I had the opportunity. There are some really good people on the staff team here on pokecommunity. At one point after I left the social media team, sheep (the owner) asked if I was interested in submitting a mod application. Honestly I had no interest. I'd rather use this place for leisure, and I really don't want to carry the responsibility of moderating. I'm perfectly happy with just being a normal user. Your frustrations are understandable. I probably wouldn't want to moderate after that either.

I'm not quite legal drinking age yet. It's 21 to do that stuff in our country. And ah thank you for the message about my dad. I do appreciate it and I'm sure he would too. I'm sorry, I was being very unclear. I mentioned his birthday in past tense, since I wasn't sure about bluntly saying it. But he's passed away. I don't mind it being bought up though, since if parents come up in future conversation you know why I only ever mention my mother.

I thought about it and yeah it makes sense with how a birthday would easily get meshed in the holidays. I think it would be cool to have a birthday on January 1st. But it also is the last day of the year, and it's a bit early in my time zone, but happy new year! Hopefully it's a good one for you.

I loaded Mega Man 3 again last night, and found out it didn't save so I had to do another doc stage again. you hate to see it. It might not sound too bad, but I've been stuck on these for so long. Anyways it didn't detour me too much because I finished all of them now, and I'm on part two of willy's castle. So it won't be long now until I'm done with Mega Man 3. Hopefully tomorrow? Who knows. Depending on the difficulty I might be on it another week. Flash Man was laughably easy in Mega Man 2. This time he killed me over and over, and I think it's because of the weird stage. I just couldn't find a spot to avoid him. Then I just randomly shot a needle...and oh wait that's his weakness? I didn't even look it up. It was just desperation after losing so many times. I need to quit starting things. I'll get busy with school work again next month and won't finish any of them. Bug Fables was supposed to be a tribute to the older paper mario games, because it's very similar. Surprisingly Nintendo embraced it, considering they advertised it and put it on the shop.

Bugs are tolerable, but crashing isn't. Especially when the console gets locked. My computer is pretty much just a homework device. (Chromebook) It's very quick and efficient, but loading any sort of game will cause delay. It doesn't even have steam. I had a friend who built his own computer, which astounded me. I wish I had kind of technical skill.

I must ask, but how is the plot of Castlevania? Actually to be honest I've played one Castlevania. It was the original NES one because we had a really old copy in storage. Some older games do turn me away with clunky controls. I didn't feel that way at all with Mega Man, not even Mega Man 1. But with some games, it takes like 10 seconds before I figure out this feels unbearable. Twitch hosts an event called "Games Done Quick" occasionally. (Twice a year...i think). Speedrunners get together and marathon games for a week or two. With Twitch I usually get more amused by the chat than the actual stream. I haven't been active on twitch in so long. I just don't think I could get back into the "culture" of it. I still have my account, so sometimes I look at my old messages from a few years ago. They aren't terrible. But it feels like an a period of time where I really just wanted to fit in. But yeah I agree with what you mentioned about Pokemon Speedruns. In heart gold, the strategy is to manipulate the game into giving you Raikou. At that point the fun in watching completely disappears. It's just raikou clearing everything in the game.

So I did look at Cave Story on the switch. It's priced at $30.00. I appreciate the recommendation, but I apologize because I don't think I could invest that much into something I've had such a hard time with. Just from the screenshots, it looks like something I might struggle getting into. Not to say that I'm completely turned off from it. I just want to be sure it's something I'll enjoy before making a purchase. I like that you mentioned it has a great plot, and it does make me curious. I'll give Super Metroid one more try and I'll keep you updated on how it goes. If I like it or not, I'll try to just get through it this one time. It could be a way of getting into the genre. I've actually played the original metroid for NES (again we had a cartridge). Now that was overwhelmingly difficult. I never got anywhere. Even the switch online version lets you start at the end, but I still somehow get lost. I'm in the minority who doesn't mind movie games. The linear ones that have little gameplay but 15 hours of cut-scenes. I get really into those.

But yep FF6 has a gross amount of random encounters. Enough that when I was playing on an emulator I ended up using the speed feature. Usually I avoid that because I want to play like it was intended, but this was just too much. Ohh you said you were running around in Xenoblade, does that mean you got the definitive edition? Or are you just playing on the original version? If I haven't mentioned this, I love the Dragon Quest franchise. It's simplistic and light hearted, and honestly I can't get enough. Dragon Quest 11 is one of my favorite games of all time.

Aw that's really cool. I'm glad you found your group. And yeah kids can be really mean. Hopefully being made fun of wasn't too prevalent in your experiences. The earliest years really can shape people. I have made a few friends on here and it does make me quite happy. If I haven't mentioned it, at one point I was a part of the social media team for about a year and a half. I decided to quit, when that happened one of the staff purchased me a community supporter status on here, which was really kind.

Oh I remember you mentioned you had a december birthday, so I checked your profile which says it's today. Super happy birthday! 🎂 So cool how it's near christmas. So was my dad's (it would have been yesterday). I have a summer birthday, but having it around the holiday season seems so unique.

I'm interesting to go back and see how much I've improved when I finish all of these. Because I'm still struggling along with Mega Man 3. I might finish it tonight, but the Wily's Castle section seem to drag at times. Did you get far into Mega Man 5? I imagine you would probably be much faster at it than I am. I know there's another crash bomber puzzle and I'm not looking forward to it. Maybe it wasn't a crash bomber puzzle but there was some sort of puzzle I remember getting stuck on. I need to finish some of the games I've started because I have way too many going. (New Vegas, Dragon Quest 11, Skyrim, Last of Us II, Life Is Strange II). I would like to start Bug Fables at some point.

Fallout 3 had this DLC called "The Pitt" and it was the most buggy mess I've ever seen. Usually I can tolerate bugs but this was another story. It crashed every 5 minutes, kept deleting NPC's so I couldn't progress in the story, When the storyline was over, but all the enemies re-spawned on the way out and killed me. At one point I texted my brother and asked him what was up with this. His answer was along the lines of "Yep that's bethesda". Most of the time I laugh at bugs and find them amusing, unless it's stopping my progress. At that point it loses it's humor.

Wait is bloodstained a castlevania game? Just taking a guess. It always feels strange when a glitch happens like what you mentioned. Like when you glitch into an area you shouldn't be in, and all you see is limbo. You don't see this much in new games, but in older games like Mario 64 you can shift the camera around and often times see straight through walls. Not sure if you watch any speedruns. I'm not an avid follower, but stuff like glitching to the end of Ocarina of Time in 20 minutes is pretty amazing. Also what you mentioned about Skyward Sword is the reason I never played it. We had the game, but didn't have the attachment for the wii remote.

I would like to get into the genre. I tried Super Metroid but after about 10 minutes I gave up. When I first tried Super Metroid I kept reading about how the game wasn't meant to be played with a map, and I would be ruining it for myself. It ends up with me wandering all over the place, having no sense of direction. Eventually I get tired don't pick up the game again. Also I like plot driven stuff. Usually without a plot element I lose interest. But I also like the feeling of progression (Which is why I like Mega Man, you get all those cool power-ups). Maybe if there were an easy way to step into the genre. I might try Super Metroid one more time tonight. Also I heard good things about Hollow Knight. I mean regarding what you mentioned about Cave Story, I do like exploration, but at the same time it's an easy way for me to get tired of playing. Especially with enemies involved. It's sometimes like, why would I want to explore this path if it means 40 minutes of random encounters. NES RPG's are horrible about doing that. Chrono Trigger also respawned the enemies every time you left a room and I kept thinking, ugh why. It made dungeons with puzzles so incredibly tedious. It was why I stopped playing the first time.

I do think it might be worth a go for FF7 one day, solely because you could end up missing something you might end up falling in love with. I didn't see much special about it, but then again everybody has differing opinions. I prefer Dragon Quest over Final Fantasy. If you ever play it I would try to forget the hype surrounding it and just treat it as a random JRPG. The FF7 remake is probably also way more engaging, but you can find the original for $7 to $15 now.

Honestly I don't even have much of a presence online. Aside from Facebook, this is like the only website I use socially anymore. I've tried to get into communities like smaller twitch channels and discord. It never worked out that well. It feels like walking into a room full of strangers and trying to join a conversation, it equally makes my heart race. It's odd because when I was like 13-14 I was heavily into chat-rooms and could spend an entire day on them. As time went on I progressively became more introverted. It's even represented with the stuff I play. I was into MMO's and was even involved with clans and stuff, but now I never touch them.

Stopping by to say Merry Christmas!

Oh, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Let me know if your interested in other clips. If anything notable or interesting happens I could upload and share. The PS4 is always recording gameplay automatically. Most of me playing probably isn't that interesting, just trial and erroring levels for hours. I'll be honest, I'm not a great player. However I believe I can beat anything with enough patience. Because hey guess what? I actually did beat that level today. I also beat Spark Man's doc stage. Just Gemini Man left to go. Your advice was actually very helpful. I think with all the tornado's on the screen I was just overwhelmed and not exactly making a strategy. But when I started slowing down and sliding under them, and picking my shots, I began winning consistently. So thank you.

So here's a story. My older brother was texting me about how great New Vegas was, and if I enjoyed 3 I needed to try it. So I excitedly purchased it and built my character. As soon as I walked out the door into the open, the game crashed. I texted him and was like "Uh is this going to be a normal thing". His response "Yeah, but it auto saves so it's okay". To be honest it hasn't crashed that much aside from that incident. Sometimes my character glitches into an object and I have reload my save, that's the most annoying part. Idk if I mentioned this, but I think I've decided my faction. I'm going to go with the NCR. I didn't like how Mr. House was treating the courier when they walked in. Like you were obligated to help him or something. I also picked the wrong option and he sent his entire robot squad after me. That made me especially not want to help him.

With Mario 64, I enjoyed the music of Jolly Rodger Bay and found it calming. I completely forgot to mention that. Tall Tall Mountain is absolutely my favorite level. I have this weird thing with video games where I like trying to stand on the highest point possible. I thought that level was perfect because the entire stage was built around that. When I played Grand Theft Auto 5, I was always taking the airplanes and seeing how close I could get to outer space.

Those are two series I've never played (Castlevania and Bloodstained). Is Castlevania like a metroid-vania game? Honestly that's a genre I've struggled to get into. I've never been into the metroid series despite trying. I played Super Metroid for like 10 minutes with Switch Online. I was completely lost about everything and at the time wasn't feeling patient enough and turned it off. Speaking of Switch Online, there's a few things I need to try, such as the Donkey Kong Country series.

I do appreciate the risk Nintendo took with changing the formula. Breath of the Wild was something different, and they could have faced some serious backlash from long time fans. While I'm also in the minority who would rather have the old formula back, I can't help but feel happy that so many people have enjoyed Breath of the Wild. To be honest it would be nice if they would be more innovative with Pokemon. If any series could use some change, that one is it. The spinoffs for Pokemon are incredible, but the games continue to be running the safest way possible. I think at this point I've finished every 3D Zelda except for Skyword Sword. I've heard a lot of people giving that game a hard time over the motion controls. It would be fun to play it someday. Okay to be honest I never actually finished Breath of the Wild. I finished two of the main dungeons before I tired out. I should have taken that as the point where I challenged Ganon, but I tried to keep going and burned out to the point where I don't want to touch it. And oh that's interesting. I love small details like that. Do you think Cave Story is worth playing? I looked it up and saw metroid-vania so ehhhhh. However if it has a good plot I would play it. If I haven't mentioned this, I love plot and being engrossed into a story. Plot is the most important thing for me with a game. However I'm still willing to try other things such as Mega Man.

Be careful with the trap of "Need to play it because it's a classic". In my own experience, that often leads to me to expecting way too much and I don't end up enjoying it. I think that's what happened with FF7. I kept hearing "Best game of all time". But when I played it, it just felt like a standard JRPG. I mean it had some memorable moments, but for the most part I was like "When does this become the best game ever"? Chrono Trigger but I didn't like the first half. Again, I was just like "Why was this game being praised as perfect"? But in the second half I was completely engrossed by the atmosphere and story-line. For the most part I started trying to avoid reviews so I could form my own opinions. If I had relied on reviews, I would have never played Final Fantasy 13. That ended up being my favorite in the series, despite it being completely hated by the fanbase. Ohh you are getting Xenoblade Definitive version? I hope you enjoy it. That sounds so exciting. It's a very pretty game compared to the original.

That's good, and I'm glad you were able to find that kind of motivation. I don't think you mentioned that about your family, but hopefully it still goes well for you. I get along with everybody, but I guess the catch is that I'm not an open person at all. For example I get along perfectly with my uncle. We can talk endlessly about sports and politics, but I just don't feel comfortable talking about myself. One day he told me "I wish I knew you better as a person". General Anxiety makes that incredibly difficult. I'm usually swarmed with thoughts about my own importance not mattering and the other person not liking me.

Behold the worst mega man performance of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR59nR1cZQ

That clip is actually me playing. As of writing this, I still haven't gotten past this level. I remember being stuck on airman a few years ago, so I thought "Well, he's probably not so tough anymore". I couldn't be more wrong. I've tried for hours, and he beats me over and over and over. Occasionally I do beat him by consuming the energy tank. Then I immediately lose in the section where you have to use the rush jet. I will beat this level. Eventually. I'm never giving up, but I did need a break. Maybe I could try another stage but the stubborn part of me is saying "No I must beat this one now". Oh hey also I beat shadow man's doc stage. Also I see. I really appreciate that you didn't spoil it because that genuinely surprised me. I'll actually say that I'm appreciating the length of mega man 3 and it doesn't feel dragged out to me. When I beat Mega Man 1 I thought "Oh...that's it"? (Part of me was like thank god this was making me lose my sanity). I'm actually enjoying the challenge of mega man 3, because I will beat these levels. Then there's willy's castle and who knows how long that might take me. The charge buster thing is interesting. I feel like I'll get carried away and neglect the actual weaknesses. I already do that sometimes with my default pellet gun. It's no wonder I get stuck so much.

As we mentioned unfinished games I still have my half finished file of Xenoblade sitting there. And new vegas which I actually played a bit today. Then I quit because my companion boon was hovering in the air and I got stuck in a rock. Did you have any issues with bugs in this game? Fallout 3 was problematic with bugs. New Vegas is very charming and now I keep finding myself wanting to play more. In Fallout 3 I never used the radio, but in New Vegas I feel inclined to keep it on all the time. The songs they use fit with the desert atmosphere. I did something similar. I played the Anniversary Edition of Mario 64, and got about 60 stars. Eventually I just didn't feel like doing it. The "Haze Maze Cave" level was just boring to me. Some levels are great, others make me want to put the game down. My favorite was the snowman level on the first floor and the lava level in the basement.

I don't follow Melee, however I keep enough commentary channels as background noise so I know the whole situation. Recently Nintendo held a Splatoon tournament. A competing team showed up with a tag called "Free Smash Melee". As a response, Nintendo canceled the entire tournament. Also I did finish The Last of Us and it's DLC. It was pretty good. Albeit the world in that game was one of the most depressing. I'm starting to enjoy these zombie type games more. I get a sort of thrill out of them.

On the topic of exploration, (I may have asked this). What was it you didn't enjoy about Breath of the Wild? Because honestly it was one of my lesser favorite zelda games. I'm not a fan of these huge open world games, when there's not much activity on the map. I could just be spoiled from other games, but I'm constantly seeking some sort of activity. I mean sometimes they handed out side quests, but I never felt inclined to do those either. My thing with side quests are, I need a reason to feel motivated about them. The ones in Breath of the Wild just didn't interest me. The funny thing is that I was also born way after those era of games, however my biggest problem with translation came in a modern game. In Dragon Quest 11 there's an NPC who completely steers you in the wrong direction. I had to resort to looking this up online because I was like "Why did he take me to the middle of nowhere"? Actually I hardly ever played Zelda 2. I heard of the insane difficulty and I'm just not interested in getting myself into that.

Aww that is a nice picture. Did you go inside that castle or was it just an outside picture? I love historical places. History was actually my favorite subject, even though I'm not studying it I keep taking classes related to history because it fascinates me. I was never much into science or math.

I started a file on Super Mario RPG a few months ago. (Funny enough we were talking about unfinished games, that's one of them). I can't give you an honest opinion on how outdated it is. It was one of those games I had on virtual console as a child, so whatever is outdated I'm completely accustomed to it. It's a short game though. It's probably 15-20 hours. As far as SNES RPG's go, Chrono Trigger probably seems the best aged. That felt like I was just playing a modern indie game.

Are you faring alright with the depression around the holiday season? I'm not sure how that would feel, but I hear for some it's difficult. I noticed you mentioned dueling with it, so do hang in there. I find myself getting anxious again because there's so many factors, like which family members are going to turn up, what if I make a bad impression for this family member, what if I don't gift them correctly, etc. Also I apologize for the silly pronunciation question. I'm just not very good at breaking words apart.

at that point I guess only pinnacle stuff gets you higher... at least thats the case for me now :x

allright all cool, dw.

This is a random question, but what's the pronunciation of your username? I keep reading it in my head as "Oscar" or "Oska" and that's probably horribly wrong.

I did sleep last night and it was blissful. I've never been much of an avid book reader but I'll probably start doing it before bed. I've always heard it's important to "unplug" before bed and honestly I don't. I just hop off whatever I'm doing and head straight to bed. Also bike riding is the greatest thing I've ever started doing, and it's been such a mood booster for me. I've been doing it so frequently every single day. The weather is freezing but it doesn't stop my enjoyment.

So I also played a bunch of Mega Man 3 yesterday. I ended up beating all the stages, and that was such a surprise. I completely forgot the stages open back up again. It was an even bigger surprise when I made it to Shadow Man and instead, it was Wood Man at the end. And I lost. There's no check points, which stings. I can't wait to see what other bosses return. I remember one of them was Air Man. Oh I do the exact same thing. I check my health and lives, and usually just let myself get killed so I can take them on with my power up. And before I forget wow the music in this game is incredible. Snake Man's theme was stuck in my head for hours after I finished. He wasn't even that difficult. It just meant standing in the middle and timing it so he jumps over you. The same thing happened to me in his stage however, because on the cloud part I kept getting knocked off by the bullet bill looking things. I'm beyond excited to start playing Mega Man 4 because I have no idea what's coming. With 1-3 I had some sense of familiarity, past this everything is going to be completely blind. I couldn't help myself so I took a look at Mega Man 6 and saw Tomahawk Man. I allowed myself one try through the stage, and made it all the way to him without losing a life. Then he obliterated me.

Battle Frontier was fun and unique, and I like how it includes the competitive multiplayer side into an in-game mode. Sadly I never had the patience to EV train in game. When I wanted to play competitively I went onto pokemon showdown since everything was set up for you. I'm okay at it, but not exceptional. I understand the mechanics and I can get off the lower rankings, but I'm not good enough to reach the high rankings. I drift straight towards the middle. Have you ever played something and forced yourself to finish? I have to say that Mario 64 is in my lesser liked Mario games. I don't find it very appealing, yet I got 100% twice. I'm not sure what it is, but sometimes the game feels empty. Sometimes older games have a way of giving off that feeling. Newer games do a great job of making you feel like your part of something bigger. It's a bigger problem for me going into older games than controls.

I'm not a business owner, but I can't get my head around Nintendo's practices. They seem very adamant about enforcing certain policies and doing things a certain way. I mean Origami King could be excused. Sales for that series are at an all time high, and they could just push this off as an unhappy vocal minority. But recently they've been attacking music channels on Youtube for uploading nintendo songs. I really don't get how music on youtube is harming anything. If anything, someone sees a nice song and it makes them want to buy the game more. They've also been attacking fan hosted game tournaments, while other companies sponsor and support when fans do this thing. It's bizarre.

Last of Us has been unique. It's very plot heavy, but without too many cut scenes. I believe the entire thing is only about an hour and 30 minutes of cut scenes. Much of the story is told through the dialogue between characters while you play. After I finish this message I'll probably end up trying to complete the rest of the game.

Wow I never even knew the cave of ordeals was in the desert. Desert areas aren't usually my favorites so I probably rushed through it. Ironically that place had one of my favorite dungeon's because I liked the lore behind it so much. It was also the big reveal about Ganondorf. I liked the scene where it showed the events after Ocarina of time, they impaled him with the sword but it didn't do anything, so they had to seal him. It was kind of like saying "Let's make him someone else's problem". I assume they knew the seal would eventually fail to hold him. With Four Swords didn't that require four players? That might be the game I have the least familiarity with, because I don't even know which console it belongs on. I think Gamecube and Gameboy? I remember the 3DS ambassador program. I didn't understand how you joined that either, and I was disappointed because I wanted to play Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It was never placed on the E-shop and remained only available for the program. People often complain about Ganondorf. They say he was tacked into Twilight Princess and stole the spotlight from Zant. He's just such a cool villain I never mind seeing him. Still, if any villain were to return I would like it be Majora. It would be amazing to see Ganondorf put on Majora's Mask. I guess that would end up being a battle for control. And about the NES games, they were just cryptic. I don't believe it was anything to do with translation but I could be wrong. The hints were often one line riddles. Oh and also there was a scam artist in Zelda 1. You pay a ton of money to an NPC (which is already time consuming to accumulate) and she offers you a hint. Only to be like "Ha, thanks for the free money"! It was amusing and a bit frustrating to see something like this in such an old game. Most of the time Zelda 1 is a guessing game. Hope you bomb a wall and wander into the right place. And you can only start with 8 bombs at a time. Breath of the Wild is actually the closest in the series to Zelda 1 in terms of openness.

Sorry, let me try to upload another. Here's a picture of the interior. It was the most bizarre feeling, like you had stepped back in time 300 years. There was nothing like it. I guess that's why those stories begin. The feeling of uncertainty. But so many people telling the same stories, it's hard to feel like everyone is lying. https://imgur.com/a/9XCtqiB. I hope to go back someday. It's been a few years. But you can't go into the mansion unless you schedule it or have an important reason.

I wonder if it's worth it do a genocide run. Part of me says "yes" because it would give me a reason to replay for one last time, but I was also so satisfied with how the game ended. I also don't want to do the entire thing to realize how bad I am and get stuck at Sans. No not really, Final Fantasy 7 is probably not the best game ever, even though that would be a subjective opinion. It was okay to me. I thought the final boss theme was incredible, but that was the highlight to me. (Link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDD-iYkHBhc). Yeah almost every final fantasy is it's own story. If I were to recommend any, it would probably Final Fantasy 6. The villain reminded me of Joker from Batman. If you can get into SNES RPG's you would probably enjoy it. I think SNES games have aged greatly, and honestly remind me of playing indie games. The encounter rate is very high, which was the only thing that put me off from it.

Has it gotten better relating to you and your parents about the depression? My mother's reaction to finding out I had anxiety was surprise. Her words to me were "But your so calm and collected. I never expected you would have this". I've never been told it was my fault, and what you mentioned feels so sickening I can't even imagine. Panic attacks already feel so close to death. I'm so sorry for the person who had to hear that. My worst experience came from my own "best friend". Someone I relied on for support, constantly told me "They would always stick with me" and would "never leave me". They told me that for two years. This person cut me off completely out of the blue at a time I needed help the most. I do believe what you said, we only get stronger. As for that person, I go between forgiveness and completely loathing them. I ended up doing fine supporting myself.

it helps that all my guns are 1250 right now, but it still takes so much time to level them and do the story again and everything.

Not to mention hunter best class anyways.

Aight lemme know if you got something!

Ah unfortunate T_T

Maybe I could try and see if I can gather others, I know a few who even are willing to explain encounters to their fullest and have worked with people who don't use voice chat.
I need another raid since most activities don't level me up anymore, or at least not my hunter for now and still too lazy to level anything else up

Forgive me if this has some strange typos, but I didn't sleep tonight at all so bear with me.

It might be the longer stages giving me trouble. This game seems to more generious with energy tanks, but I still lost to Needle Man twice, even after using two energy tanks. So far my favorite stage would be Snake Man, even though he also quickly defeated me. I'm able to make it to the boss fights, but then I'm usually so low on lives or health I quickly lose. One thing I have is patience, so I'm willing to try for hours to beat a stage if that's what it takes. Luckily it hasn't came to that yet, aside from Wily's Castle in Mega Man 1. With the crash bomber puzzle in mega man 2 I just decided to take a break. So I've been trying to do this without the stage order, but sometimes I end up looking up the boss weaknesses. I'd rather try to figure out the weaknesses myself, but then I figure you know it'll just be quicker if I look this up. I think this series is very interesting. I do like the freedom of picking any stage. Most of the time I just end up going out of order and end up looking for the boss that I can take out with the pellet shooter, and go from there. Some stages seem impossible without power ups, like Quick Man. Then there was flash man which was the easiest stage ever to me. And also your welcome, it's fun to share thus. And I agree, that I have to idea what to expect if I decide to get into the X series. But I also have all of them now so I guess might as well see if I like them after I finish the original series.

I've completed a couple of older NES rpg's which completely revolve around grinding. Earthbound beginnings I had to use a guide for the entire thing because the enemy encounter rate was way too high and I just didn't feel like checking out every corner of the map when I was lost. Since you mentioned that, do you consider yourself a completionist? I usually don't go for 100% unless it's something special and I'm really enjoying it. I can never bring myself to grind after finishing the game. Usually that's when my interest drops, and I want to move onto something else. I'm not one for post game either. When a game goes above 50 hours most of the time I start thinking "Well, there's other stuff I want to try so I should hurry this up". There's exceptions if I'm really enjoying the game, such as Dragon Quest 11 or Xenoblade. But I do the same thing, I just end up listening to a podcast or a song playlist if I'm grinding. Sometimes I do grind even if it isn't necessary. It can be fun to just be completely overleveled. Dragon Quest is a great RPG series if you ever want something to get into. It's very light hearted for the most part, but it doesn't over do it.

I actually didn't mind Super Paper Mario at all when I tried it. I was kind of like..."hey neat this isn't turn based, it's more like real time fighting". And I would much rather have that than the stuff in the newer games. Origami King for switch is entirely puzzle based, and that kind of things get tedious for an RPG where you have so many random encounters. I don't even think it has an EXP system either so it's like. what's the point in even fighting. The entire thing is pretty ridiculous. Because I'm pretty sure they are completely aware of the complaints, since I remember they addressed it as saying "Plot is told from the adventure" or something along those lines. Also they avoided showing the combat system up until the release of the game, because they knew people would be unhappy. I was the same way with Xenoblade. I don't think I ever understood it in depth like some people do, but I got it enough to get through. I enjoyed using Melia, but not sure if I used her properly. I just spammed either around people to buff them then released it.

Speaking of Horror Games, I've been recently playing "The Last of Us". I'm not sure if it's a full fledged horror game since I think it's just mostly plot driven, however it has it's moments. Nothing I would describe as scary, but more tense than anything. Also my playstyle probably makes it way less scary, instead of sneaking around the zombies I end up gun blazing through the entire sections most of the time. I'm terrible at stealth games in general. I'm probably way better at Platformers. Platformers might be one of my more favorite genres because I like trying to be precise with my movement.

I never did the cave of ordeals, actually I don't even know where it was located. I enjoyed Twilight Princess, but not enough to where I wanted to explore everything. It wasn't much to do with enjoyment actually, but the length. The plot already felt long enough, so I didn't feel much inventive. Jabu Jabu's belly is really short when you have it memorized, probably one of the quickest dungeons in the series. I think all the child link dungeons are like that. The Deku Tree is probably my least favorite, since it's hard to breeze through it with all the tutorials. The only time I think the complaints on navi are relatable are in that dungeon. It makes repeat playthroughs almost unbearable, especially when it stuff like telling you how to open a door. I never played Minish Cap either. I guess it would be something I would probably emulate. I know it has an interesting and different villian (Vaati I think)? But yeah if you ever play some of the really old games in the series such as Zelda 1 don't hesitate with a walkthrough. That game was extremely cryptic, and there's some parts that are almost impossible without looking it up or having help. Like one monster in the dungeon was hungry and wouldn't let you pass, so you have to leave and find a specific item in a hidden specific shop across the map.

I actually went inside the mansion (I was giving a tour). It was bizarre. Like the place was untouched by time. Here's an image of the outside. https://jay.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341caff553ef01a510c54b48970c-pi. Keep in mind what also makes it weird is that this place is so distant from the rest of the area. Like a 10 minute walk away. Part of what makes it eerie is the isolation. They also make a big deal about not going upstairs. People have reported being pushed down by something they didn't see. Even I wasn't allowed up there.

Since you mentioned playing Doki Doki Literature club and had that spoiled, did you play Undertale blind? I imagine that would seriously impact your viewing of it if you went into that spoiled. With the entire reveal by sans at the end. Final Fantasy is just okay to me. One of things I keep playing but I'm like "Why do I keep playing this". The games are hit or miss for me. I enjoyed 6 and 13. I had too much expectations for 7, and 10 bored me for the most part. The plots of these games can be a bit overwhelming to say the least.

I understand. I relate a lot to what you've written, just different a issue for me. Anxiety has caused me to do similarly strange things. One time I couldn't find my class on the first day, and I was terrified of walking into the room with everybody looking, so I hung outside the entire time. I'm also very cautious with bathrooms. They feel isolated, I don't know whose inside them, so if I heard lots of noise coming from inside I would usually stand outside the door until people left. It's also weird, because if I'm getting anxious the bathroom is often the quietest place I can get. Similar to how people call depression "sadness" I've heard people say "Doesn't everybody feel anxious from time to time"? The difference is when it starts to take over every aspect of your life, which is what I have. People also have this misconception that it means your "nervous". It's not. It's like an all consuming feeling of dread and it often makes me physically sick. I wish it could just be nerves.

So far in Mega Man 3, I defeated Top Man, Hard Man, and Magnet Man. This is the game I have the most familiarity with. A few years ago my brother was visiting home, and he stayed up all night watching me try to finish this. Still, my memory of it is mostly a blur. I didn't even remember the robot masters names. I just remember gemini's man stage being very difficult, and the wily's castle taking like 5 hours. I've noticed youtube runs like that with people finishing the entire game with no damage with only the pellet shooter. It must take insane amounts of skill and practice. Also that's an insanely small and fascinating detail about Heat Man. It shows how much you must know about these games. The block puzzles in mega man 3 are not giving me much trouble this time. I'll have to get use to the sliding mechanic. I'm playing the collection on PS4 which also includes all the Mega Man X games. So sometimes the analog stick makes me slide by accident. On another note I'm finding Mega Man 3 to be the most difficult so far. I'm not breezing through this one, and the bosses are killing me every single time. It's strange, but I had no idea Mega Man existed past 3 until recently. So when I play past 4-11 I have no idea what I'm in for.

What do you think of grinding in games in general? I actually find it to be relaxing as long as it's not Pokemon. In the older pokemon games your basically grinding 6 different characters, and it's a slow and tedious process. Other than that I played the original dragon quest for NES since we had a cartridge. That was the most grind heavy game I had ever played...every time you discovered a new area, it meant 2 more hours of grinding. I'd often just find some commentary youtube channel to listen to.

The only Paper Mario game I haven't played is Color Splash. I played about an hour of Super Paper Mario before putting it down. It was fun, but I guess I got distracted. I would love to try it again. I would be in the minority who thinks the N64 version is better than Thousand Year Door. I liked the chapters more, and Thousand Year Door has some heavy amounts of back-tracking through the areas. To the point where the entire chapter 4 was running back and fourth through the same areas, and the entire first half of chapter 5 was running back and fourth. It's still a great game, but that part of it is very noticeable. But with the new games they basically rebooted the entire series. Changed the entire combat system, removed the EXP system (So combat is pretty much just a waste of time). In Sticker Star they removed the entire plot so the game has almost no story. Made it so it's no longer an open world but a level based system, which I think they fixed again. So you can sort of see the frustrations.

Horror games are interesting, but for some reason haven't made much of an effect on me. I might try Silent Hill. I heard that one is scary. While I've never played a horror game that has scared me, it's a bit like walking on ice. I worry that I might accidentally trigger my anxiety, then I'll be stuck dealing with it after I put the game down.

I feel the same way. I've never played through 100% of Ocarina of Time. The thing that stopped me was finding all the poes for that guy. I don't think the reward is worth it at all. You get 100 gold skulltulas for infinite money, but by then you've reached the end of the game anyways. Nope, never played Skyward Sword, or Minish Cap. I could probably emulate Minish Cap pretty easily. Do you have a favorite dungeon in Ocarina of Time? I enjoyed the Fire Temple, because at it's core it's just a climb to the top, then you take hammer and go all the way back down. I think the mood thing is why I enjoyed Majora's Mask so much. It was at a point in High School where I was very happy. I liked the place we lived, I had friends, I was enjoying school, so I would come home and play it in a good mood.

She's doing okay now. She's happily married to a great person, and that guy has stayed away without even trying to contact her.

Oh the good thing, being in that awkward camp only lasted a day. They had a water problem and the rest of it was cancelled forever. Still, I'll probably never forget that day. Also it was known to be haunted, but I never experienced anything. Probably because I didn't spend much time outside on the grounds. The place was eerily empty, and I was supposed to be introducing people who pulled up in the parking lot. I would get bored and spend almost my entire time talking with the lady who worked in the office. There was a creepy mansion in the distance, I believe that's where most of the haunting stories came from. Not sure if you believe in that stuff, however that mansion had an undeniably bad vibe. Looked like something out of a stock horror picture.

That's interesting and it's the first time I've heard that perspective about sans. It looked like it moved so quickly, I would probably still mess up the fight. At the same time, it looks like you could end up just memorizing it by instinct. I had heard good things about Undertale's soundtrack, and it was decent. However to me I think the Final Fantasy games hold the back soundtracks. I will give Undertale credit about the plot. It was memorable enough that when I tried replaying it, I could still recall almost everything. Flowey was by far the most interesting character to me. Especially with how he save states during the fight.

I've heard that's how depression is, you want to do things but you aren't motivated to do them. My condolences and I hope it keeps getting better. Is it also numbness? I heard that's common. Out of curiously, what did you find to do while not in class? I can't imagine there being much to do, since there would probably be workers in the hallway. At least in my high school, they almost always asked what you were doing if you were seen outside of class.

For the copy robot I just tried to push him backwards with the pellet gun. It was frustrating because sometimes he seemed to hop straight through my attack. Once he was in close quarters he stays on top and it's a loss. Naturally i'm a curious person, so it worked in my favor with the magnet beam. I saw it on the screen and was like "That looks neat, I wonder what it is"? It looked really annoying to backtrack for, so I'm glad I found it on my first run through the level. Oh and I finished Mega Man 2 today. It was such a relief to finally beat that crash bomber puzzle. Also the boss rush at the end wasn't even that bad. It gave you lots of healing after every boss. And most of them were laughably easy. Magnet Man gets killed extremely fast by magnets. Flash Man runs like he's in slow motion. Bubble Man is like a non-threat. Air-Man and Heat Man ended up giving me the most trouble. I just couldn't figure out how to dodge Air-Man's patterns. Heat Man charges across the room and sometimes delays his timing. Wily was difficult. Eventually I used the pellet gun on his first phase, one of my crash bombers killed him instantly on the second phase. The alien was the easiest because you could just retry almost right from the start of the fight. But well, onto Mega Man 3. I'll even keep you updated regarding my thoughts on it. Right now I would say Mega Man 2 > Mega Man 1. Only because I didn't like the moving block puzzles in Mega Man 1, otherwise I did have fun with it.

Yes exactly, it really does feel like it'll take years. I guess maybe that's a good reason for New Game+? You do keep your affinity points from the completed file. But yeah I agree that juju isn't a malicious character, unlike you know,

i havent even checked that yet, might do soon.

Aight excellent :D

there is also been a running gag about "Shun go kill", because i tend to always have a lot of guardian kills back when we did Gambit aswell
Ah yeah the tower looks lovely, already got the ship that came with the Dawning too :o

Got it, at least im 99% sure i got it and accepted it :D

Yeah sure I'd add you no worries, gonna have to at some point anyways if we were to go ahead with the plan :P
I remember when a friend of mine got me into a raid group, they explained everything to me what i needed to have, what i needed to do, how the encounter worked... and we ridiculed his "leadership"
been a meme ever since

I haven't even checked that, I went straight for bounties and grinded things out

Aight, if you want to do other Destiny 2 things you can always hit me up for it too, basically down to do anything. Understandable, I used to do LFG's, but that was in D1 when I had literally no one.

Yeah, plus doing some missions, it took me about 2 hours max, and the hardest was the champions part

always down to do raids, especially with reset being today I can get more chances at loot and having 3 weeks off helps a lot too.

The quest is also very simple, i think it might be hard to do the missions themselves, i had a tougher time solo, but its manageable. Definetly worth the grind.

I could always be a helping hand if you need a 6th, i got the hang of some mechanics and cheese ways!

theres a few weapons and a raid exotic rocket launcher which looks nasty and a full armor set yes

it's sadly not like it once was in the first game, but it is still a really good weapon, especially for dealing with tougher enemies with that final round perk. I dealt up to 60.000 damage with it

I managed to beat the new raid with a group of old friends whom I used to raid with, it do be quite the raid.

The real bummer being the rewards were nothing but doo doo, boots upon boots upon BOOTS ASHIFHASOIFHUOALSHFASIOFHASF

also got Hawkmoon, which saddened me a bit but it's still powerful