ladel

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[–] ladel 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, a few of the puzzles are really hard if you just don't see it. I think I was trying for half an hour on both those tricky ones before getting it or giving up.

I'm still really early on in Engage, so I can't really comment on it, but between battles I'm just watching the cutscenes and going through the dialogue, not doing any of the optional support conversations or even going back to the base to check the shops etc. so it's quite a fast pace. The story so far feels a bit meh, though - not very epic.

I thought I might try Three Houses after this and just skip/auto as much of the monastery stuff as I could, but if I actually have to do that stuff to recruit people, it's going to get annoying.

[–] ladel 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have come across my favorite boss from Oracle of Ages

It's not the only returning boss - I'm not sure if there's a plot reason for it or they just felt like recycling

[–] ladel 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I gave up on FFVII because it stopped being fun. The Midgar parts were fun, but at a certain stage it just started feeling like a bunch of random events strung together with only a loose connection to the plot. I got up to doing the mandatory chocobo race.

I've been watching my son play some Echoes of Wisdom and got called upon to solve some dungeon puzzles he couldn't get past. The hardest ones were figuring out that you could place echoes far away by holding down the button (presumably that was in a tutorial, but I missed it). Then there was trying to get past a water flow that was pushing in the wrong direction.

spoilerIt didn't feel like the correct solution, but I did it my placing a shark and following it so that it took me to the other side.
Last, in the ice temple, there was a room with a fan and ice and fire vents on either side where I couldn't reach the doorway. To my shame, I had to look up how to do it

spoilerI knew I wanted to turn the water to ice, but didn't realise you could do it with the orb in the adjoining room.

For myself, I started playing Fire Emblem Engage. I could have chosen Three Houses, and its story looks more interesting, but I'm not that into social sim stuff and they say the Engage battles are better.

[–] ladel 2 points 1 month ago

There's just enough time to rerelease the old f-zero games in between Mario Party releases; not quite enough to make a successor to GX.

[–] ladel 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is a statement from North Korea, so I'm not sure they'd agree

[–] ladel 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've helped him out with just a couple of things, like a cloud boss battle, but he's mainly tackling it by himself, which I'm happy with.

FFIX seems to be regarded as a beter game in some ways, but I think FFVII is more iconic. I think I only ever tried out VI before (not for long, I couldn't get into it). I'm not sure whether I'll try out any others after this - I know there's IX and X at least also on the eshop

[–] ladel 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm stepping away from Super Smash Bros because now I'm literally just grinding gold extremely slowly to buy the last ~60 odd spirits I'm missing, which are all just DLC spirits. It's not fun that way.

Bought Echoes of Wisdom, but my son's been playing it and I probably won't tackle it myself any time soon.

Instead I bought FFVII since it was on discount and I'd never played it before. I'm slightly disappointed after hearing it being hyped for 20 years - but it's still enjoyable enough to carry on with.

[–] ladel 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The fast pass has been a thing for years, but are you saying the last three chapters are permanently locked? That's terrible.

[–] ladel 10 points 1 month ago

Current interest rates with six times my salary - not sure I could even afford the repayments.

[–] ladel 4 points 2 months ago

Same here. I don't know that she's innocent, but there didn't seem to be any hard evidence. It's terrible for the parents to have this certainty over the deaths taken away, but I expect it will get overturned eventually.

[–] ladel 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bought nintendo online so that I could try out the online mode mode in super smash bros, and it's really discouraging. I thought I was alright at it because I've basically completed the game and done the hardest challenges, but on online I'm riduclously outclassed. I think I played like 30 games last night and won only 2. I know it has a ranking system to match you up with similar players - I don't know if it starts you out pretty high at first or something, because I feel like I'm a level 1 CPU right now.

[–] ladel 24 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The Home Office official said that because Alina is over 18 she is not being granted permission to come to the UK as a dependant of her parents.

They're not counting her as a dependent child because she's an adult, but it seems to ignore the fact that her parents care for her in some way

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