honestly speaking i think if the blaze's main melody wasn't as good of a motif and it wasn't spammed as much as it is i would've either dropped or taken a long break from fortune's weave after like my second part 1, it's just that powerful

as much as i like when game soundtracks make heavy use of leitmotif, going from long fire emblem into new ffxiv expansion, both of which really like beating you ove the head with it, will probably make me glad xenoblade doesn't use it that much by genesis release lol

my pokemon 20th anniversary new 3ds won't turn on at and i did a full system transfer long before it stopped working so unless i can somehow find a NA region motherboard or buy a brand new system and swap cpus my nnid and all my digital 3ds saves are permanently gone, cool!

i might just be a hypocrite because i'm mostly against mario kart becoming more of a crossover than 8 was but i'd be happy for a future noncanon xenoblade dlc to include crossovers from other nintendo games so non-smash reps can get in on it let reyn meet donkey kong dammit

“final power-up that makes your real robot start operating on super robot logic” is lowkey one of the best xeno tropes and they need to do it more in the future

i have to wonder how many people were even aware an option to rename your party members’ mechs exists in xenogears, i only ever used it to fix the two typos lol

even if they’re not the same vector it’s honestly hilarious that this one company presumably funded aoidos conduit research, worked on robotics that became artifices, brain implants that became core crystals, sentient ai development and then also 20th century antique style radios

knowing now that core crystals were probably a vector invention makes it so much funnier, like yeah they accidentally created the body horror rocks as a side thing 5000 years before wilhelm’s actual plans went into effect presumably just because they needed to keep up appearances

i'm not a good FE player and almost all of part 1 was borderline insultingly easy on hard, i'm going to be so pissed if the next game tones down difficulty and worsens design because people on normal casual can't deal with four waves of reinforcements on the best maps in the game

wait you guys are actually struggling to beat part 2 maps while making full use of blessings i think i used aurora level 3 once to cheese a skellion skirmish i was way underleveled for on like cai chapter 8 and it's been fortuna only since then

sorry but i am totally down with a fe4 remake that pulls in mechanics from 3h instead of retooling the original gameplay like sov did purely because i think giving leif the fianna freeblades as a prf battalion and then never remaking fe5 is really funny

gta vs zelda turning into any sort of significant internet arguments is really funny because i'm pretty sure nintendo and rockstar are well aware that most people who want both and have the disposable income to get both on release are capable of beating a mostly faithful oot remake in two weeks

similar to how sigurd's jagen is his silver sword and not an actual unit, the real jagen of fortune's weave is the free zanbato everyone who fights benditz gets, in this essay i will

obviously I love Blade style world progression but I do still sometimes miss having one overarching song that has to encapsulate the entire vibe of the game, especially since Genesis is the third Xenoblade game with the guy who made Dream of the Shore Near Another World composing

you know if you think about it Don’t Worry is the closest to a classic JRPG overworld theme Xeno has had since Gears, and considering how much it directly tells you the themes of the game in English lyrics it does kinda makes sense

waiiiit, brigand university must be where he teaches, it all makes sense now

they fixed literally every issue i had with the localization in the trails in the sky remakes even retroactively so now i have to stop larping and actually pronounce zin’s name correctly too

but will xenoblade genesis have a large cast of recruitable secondary party members so they can bring aoi yuki back to voice an optional character for the third time

drama queen over here acting like it’s a struggle when i’m treating this defend map line a rout map and started spawncamping the reinforcements by turn 4

sirocco and olympia clocking in for another map at the doing double their expected healing duty factory because i'm running both brawler sofia and myrmidon dante this route