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[Drem]

I guess I won Yugioh Master Duel and can stop playing now.

Lets take a look at the nail biting match that clinched my 5 game win streak and skipped me straight form Gold 4 into Platinum 5.

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[wourme]

@alfred

Well today I tried it & turns out the game is fine.

Klonoa is great. Though maybe I should sell my copy if they go for that much. The Wii remake is very good, too.

@jsnlv

I think I played the first bit of the second Klonoa game that way, and it seemed fine without really transfixing my attention.

The first Klonoa is a lot better than the second one, especially when it comes to the music.

[slime]

Klonoa 2 still has its esoteric charm, and it goes deeper into story and character development. Enough character development for a mascot platformer, that is, to draw me even further into the fantasy than with just the first game. It’s been like 10 years so I’m not sure how well the level design holds up, but it’s mostly the same good stuff, just more of it.

[wourme]

I was biased against Klonoa 2 when I first saw the cover art and noticed that his hat was backwards.

But I bought it anyway and enjoyed the game. It is basically more of the same. I think both are worth playing but the first is much more worth playing. It’s important to turn on the made-up language instead of English, though.

[nettle]

played my first ranked duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

totally destroyed by someone who had all matching cards. took ages as well! i guess it’s a failure of match-making. i havent played for probably over 10 years, i don’t know what these two zones in the middle of the battlefield are. utterly bemused by how people keep on summoning more and more powerful cards in one turn. opponent probably took longer doing stuff during my turn than i did.

i seemed to have trouble getting some cards to activate, like one card i stole from my opponent had a “Once per turn” effect but it never asked me if i wanted to use it … in a solo duel i couldn’t get the effect of Bayonater, the Baneful Barrel to work, either.

…

i spectated a match which never got past the second turn, one duellist just kept on doing more and more stuff. the opponent ended up with like 20 cars in their hand (??). eventually the active player lost because they ran out of time. i dont know if that was a real match or just an exhibition they were showing.

…

i wish there was a “here’s a bunch of random cards you found at a jumble sale, now duel!” mode

[Tuxedo]

@jsnlv

What little I remember of the Sly Cooper demo by comparison seemed like much more of a game that should have a lot more diehard retro enthusiasm, but I can’t remember any occasion on which I observed someone excited about Sly Cooper.

I really liked Sly Cooper 1, it looks great, feels great, doesn’t have too much fat, and rewards deftly speedrunning which I didn’t even think I’d get into

But the second one immediately changed the formula from semi-linear core platformer to proto Assassin’s Creed open world with multiple playable characters, a lot more dialogue, and a lot of easy minigames. I’d probably think about 1 more, as this semi-hidden gem, if 2 and 3 didn’t happen

@Sakurina

I’ve seen them out there but they’re mostly ~25 year olds and it doesn’t seem to have permeated to older gamers

The Sonic Adventure 2 effect?

[Shahczyk]

i wish there was a “here’s a bunch of random cards you found at a jumble sale, now duel!” mode

After years of playing the game with my friends in high school this is about the format we decided to pursue when we played the game physically. We’d basically do a bulk order on a site where you can get a bunch of random cards for less than the cost of the paper they’re printed on and we’d do a draft on the day. I’m waiting for a Yugioh game to have that format for multiplayer, it felt more true to the experience of being a child and buying one new booster pack maybe every month, just ending up with a deck that plays like a Picasso painting.

[MintyJuffowup]

Klonoa 2 asks you to race on a snowboard to save the king of sadness.

The Ultimate Just Got Better: Minty on PS2

Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil [Klonoa 2 (1)] [Klonoa 2 (2)] [Klonoa 2 (3)] [Klonoa 2 (4)] [Klonoa 2 (5)] One weekend when I was a kid, my brother was away and I got to pick a game to rent from Blockbuster. Having a certain affinity for cartoon rodents, I chose Klonoa 2. I hadn’t played the first game, but I liked this rabbit dog’s hat. I didn’t have a memory card so I left the console on the whole weekend. Luckily, I was able to beat the game before my brother returned. Mostly, all I remember from…

[slime]

Vampire Survivors is a semi-automated continuous wave-based graze 'em up rogue-lite robovania

[nettle]

i guess with this game maybe could replicate it, i already seem to have 10000 gems, and i think maybe you can just buy booster packs for 100 gems each … so you could just buy 6 or so packs and duel with those.

if anyone wants to try a duel like this, let me know!

[HOBO]

I am going to control every clown

[wourme]

The most memorable part of Klonoa 2 for me is the Ark area. Good atmosphere.

Klonoa 2 Ark V1 Extended

But you just can’t beat Klonoa 1’s music.

Klonoa 1:Baladium's drive boss music

[風のクロノア] Klonoa: Door To Phantomile OST ᴴᴰ ~ Count Three 🌿

I once stumbled upon three “Klonoa Fan Disc” albums, arrangements of the music from the series. Some songs better than others, but all fun to hear.

[moneygp]

I started playing this today and I like it aside from being unable to discern if all the upgrades/unlockable items are the typical roguelite thing of “you have to putz around in predestined-to-fail runs before you have enough hours to win” and also something about the visuals (mostly the masses of enemies and the way they move) makes my head spin after like 40 minutes of play.

[miffy]

you could use this pack opening simulator with one of the free fan simulators instead!! i like edopro, we used it for the yugioh stream we did sometime last year. if you ever feel like doing something like that feel free to let me know!!

also i can explain a couple things from your earlier post (please feel free to ignore me if you don’t care):

@nettle

i havent played for probably over 10 years, i don’t know what these two zones in the middle of the battlefield are

those are called “extra monster zones,” the normal monster zones you’re familiar with are called “main monster zones.” when you’re summoning a synchro monster (white frame), xyz monster (black frame), or fusion monster (purple frame) from the extra deck, they can go in either a main monster zone of your choosing or one of the extra monster zones, and under normal circumstances you can only occupy one of the extra monster zones

when you’re summoning a link monster (blue frame with arrows) from the extra deck, they can only be summoned to an extra monster zone or one of your main monster zones that another link monster’s arrows are pointing to. if two link monsters are pointing to each other, they’re considered “co-linked” which is only sometimes relevant. also, link monsters only have an attack stat and can only be in face-up attack position, which i’m sure is so that the rules with the arrows don’t get too weird

pendulum monsters are a whole thing that i won’t bother explaining in full unless you asked me to, but the gist of it is they go to the extra deck face-up whenever they would be sent from the field to the graveyard, and they can also be put into the extra deck face-up by a card effect. you can “pendulum summon” pendulum monsters from the hand or face-up extra deck, except if they’re being pendulum summoned from the extra deck they’ll follow the same rules as link monsters and must either be summoned to an extra monster zone or a main monster zone a link monster is pointing to

if you’re summoning any of these types of cards back from the graveyard then they’ll always go into a main monster zone — the extra monster zones are only from monsters being summoned from the extra deck

@nettle

i spectated a match which never got past the second turn, one duellist just kept on doing more and more stuff. the opponent ended up with like 20 cars in their hand (??)

this is because the opponent activated this card, also sidenote this is also probably the best card in the game and basically the very first thing you should craft three of and add to your deck

[Drem]

The easiest way to get a working deck is to buy one of those Special Bundles in the store that give you 10 booster packs + 1 guaranteed card (probably the Ash Blossom bundle since that’s a universally useful card). Then whenever you pull certain SR and UR cards from those booster packs, you’ll unlock Secret Packs. Secret Packs are specialized boosters focused around one theme (it will be based on whatever SR/UR card unlocked the secret pack). Read the description of each secret pack you unlock and look and its cards and find something that looks interested enough, then focus on doing two to three 10-pulls on that secret pack. That’ll get you a decent amount of cards that are designed to work together.

As with all F2P games, the gems/currency accruel is frontloaded and will dry up once you’ve compelted the new player challenges, it’s probably best to try and get some functional cards out of them rather than doing random pulls from the generic booster packs.

[parker]

sherlock holmes chapter one is about a young sherlock holmes who has an imaginary gay friend named jon, who calls sherlock sherry. sherlock has arrived at an open world city on a mediterranean island to figure out how his mom died. he stays in a hotel at room 221. all the streets in the city are named after sherlock holmes cases or characters. every part of the game is contributing to feeling like your inside the mind of sherlock holmes, a real insane weird freak.

he’s 21 so he’s a giant jackass

it feels like the entire idea for jon came out of wanting to make the Creepy Watson video canonical. that video was from the demo to the arsene lupin game, in the actual game watson ran around and follows you like he should. frogwares seemed to get a kick out of the video and made their own version of it for crime and punishments. in this game jon is constantly and obviously teleporting around. like he’s upstairs and you turn around and go downstairs and there is at the foot of the stairs examining something. or he says hey we should check out this room here and you walk past him click on the door and a cutscene plays of you opening the door and a fight is occurring inside and jon is immediately in the corner of the room playing piano, or you start talking to someone and he’s suddenly playing a guitar, etc.

I don’t think it’s supposed to be a surprise that jon is imaginary, it was pretty obvious from the first vague teaser trailer thing they put out of the game, but being frogwares I can’t rule out that there’s some big plot twist about it down the line which would be funny.

when you talk to random npcs trying to figure out stuff they have a generic voiced line like “you seem like an honorable man, I have some information for you” and then you get a text box pop up that gets added to your casefile

I love any kind of shit like this of a game rejecting the needless burden of voice acting in favor of more writing freedom

[parker]

the eavesdropping minigame is really hard. impossible to tell which phrases are relevant ones

[daphaknee]

I like how you get skifree’d after half an hour

[vodselbt]

I only played The Sinking City but I think I like Frogwares.

[VastleCania]

Frogwares rules