i managed to get through act 3 with far less grinding with defect and silent but it felt like a fluke, still feel like i barely understand defect and i'd be lost trying to get anywhere using silence without the shuriken/kunai

it seems inconsistent, though on the other hand everything in this game is inconsistent lol, stg ive had like 5 ironclad runs faceplant on the act 2 boss because the game never even gave me the option to get a shrug it off or power through

i hate runic pyramid so fucking much

stuck in the ironclad mines, hoping for a lil scrap of block, praying, praying that i'll ever be able to get barricade

i've seen some very salty takes on the enemy choices/placement in plutonia but the archviles and revenants are manageable, chaingunners can go fuck themselves

suck it history NERDS

third result on google

one of the last achievements i don't have is for collecting all four of the monsters that the holy gal monsters give birth to, unfortunately doing this both requires using several end of turn events that get pushed down the list by basically every other event, and there's no scroll bar

the nandemoari bonus will let you get a level goddess card that can raise any and every card to rank 45 as early as the prologue lmao

it's a fucking mind-numbing process that requires both finesse and dumb luck but it totally breaks the game

so, like

each card has a rank determining how powerful it is, by default they all start at rank 0, participating in battles lets you level them up

on your first playthrough you might be able to get a few cards to around rank 20?

most people don't really view the use of ai art as a creative choice though? it's treated as a unilateral moral wrong, no one is going to be receptive to whatever message he was trying to send

people complain that he's "normalizing" the use of ai even if he's just using it for background images but arguably having an established creator using the technology acts as a counterbalance to the games that are 100% ugly low-effort ai assets

was too lazy to go through the 3 hour long livestream the article links but it's internally consistent enough, he thinks that ai should be used as part of the creative process rather than as a replacement for it

far more confusing than that

incidentally yes i did spend like 15 minutes recruiting a ralts, i am in pain

most rpgs trip up beginners by having buff systems that are kinda obtuse and the way it functions in pokemon is unclear and seems (?) to be functionally useless in the early game, and from my experience you never need to engage with it at all really