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Now I just need a gacha character that I want to actually grab as Laevatein isn't really my cup of tea. I'm looking at Yvonne, but maybe I'll just save and keep my Endmin and Pog team while I wait for the next versions

Curiously enough, the only point that hasn't quite grabbed me yet has been the story. It's a slow burn, and at times it does feel like not being familiar with OG Arknights makes the terminology and its meaning harder to grasp. Still, not a deal breaker, as everything else has been a lot of fun.

It's still taking a lot of its systems from the Genshin kool-aid, but unlike games such as WuWa, which started out as the most "Genshin at home" attempt ever, it's refreshing to see a dev with a clear vision of their own take of the GI template from the get-go.

I've played a lot of Endfield over the weekend and I'm quite enjoying my time with it. It's got this Genshin Impact meets Death Stranding vibe to it that makes exploring and messing around with the factories and shit really fun. I like its take on combat too, with all 4 charas on screen.

Man, this week's JJK is the shit. Easily my favourite episode in the series, and one of the most exciting anime episodes I've seen in a good while.

Negócio é gatilho neste momento, fechei na hora

The very first frame of the Fate Strange Fake OP has unfortunately killed any motivation I had to watch the show

I'm not honestly not so into anime anymore, especially on caring about the production and stuff as a decade ago, but my impression as someone who only follows a couple shows per year now is that all the vfx animation and shit really has overshadowed choreography and movement in a lot of cases.

First two episodes of Culling Game were pretty cool, and Naoya vs Choso had some really great cuts.

On the other hand, can't help but be a bit disappointed with how Yuta's scenes turned out. Thought it was some really sloppy swordfighting animation for the most part, weird movements everywhere etc

Meanwhile jumped on 2.7 and did the 1st half of it and I'm really not feeling it, either. Again, the cutscenes are awesome, but everthing else simply hasn't clicked at all. It feels so convoluted at the start and then it feels like it drags around with stuff that someone thought was cool but isn't.

But, hey, praise where praise is due, the team keeps leveling up where the cutscenes are concerned. That whole bit with Iuno vs Big Baddies at the end of her portion of the story looked WICKEDLY cool, and totally would've made me roll on her, lol.

The cutscene animation/direction is top notch atm

Which is to say, this is still one of my biggest gripes with WuWa's writing. The moment to moment stuff works for the most part, and the devs are incredibly capable of making COOL stuff, but they also have such a hard time at keeping the characters they write all feel relevant and involved...

...Augusta and Iuno were the ones who really hit it off before, and had a true bond. The stuff with Rover just feels like waifu bait and sure, I get it, he's the MC and shit, but there really was no point to having this be all about him and her and not including Augusta imo.

At the same time, as soon as patch changed and Iuno's story kicked off, the game so unapologetically brushed Augusta aside that it was funny, lol. For all intents and purposes, completely forgetting she exists and focusing solely on Rover felt like a really bad decision, especially since...

I don't want to go into mega spoilers so I'll try to be vague, but the big scene with Iuno before the Sovereign fight feels kinda hollow because the writers didn't really build it up very well, and context for it only gets added later, during HER patch, lol. It felt just so weird.

Jumped back on WuWa to do more of the main story and just cleared Augusta and Iuno's portion of it. There's some great music, great cutscenes and overall production, and the story as a whole isn't bad, but man, there are so many things where I feel like they could've done them better.

Still, they're trying different things, and the more robust events like the Summer one (that got us a whole new area) and even this YSG event from 2.5 are steps in the right direction, because they feel like they're trying to connect the areas to the stories once again.

Aside from Failume Heights, there's almost no incentive to visit other places, mostly because they only really have things in them when the main story takes you there. Compared to the flavour added by all the Officer Mew missions in S1, the world definitely feels a bit less interesting as a result.

...to the balance having shifted too much in favour of the main plot as opposed to the world building that was present in S1 in each and every area we visited. I feel like the removal of TV mode has unfortunately negatively impacted this part of the game, and devs haven't managed to figure that out.

Wrapped up ZZZ 2.5 plot and YSG's event and had a pretty good time with both. Quite interested in all the lore drops we got, and especially the 3.x region possibly teased there sounded like it could be pretty awesome.

As a whole, though, I feel like S2 was a bit weaker than S1, but more due...

Agora é aquela do "guardo a sorte e os rolls todos da versão ou tento pegar Mindacapes da Xiao'Guang" hahahaha

Eu também!!!!!!

Aí perdi a arma no pity kkkkkkk

Aí tirei no sexto roll depois de perder

OBRIGADO DEUSES DO GACHA

...and reserve team.

Here's the lads who are accompanying me through NG+. Main team...

Since I grabbed all the DLC avaible, completing my Field Guide and leveling up my team to 99/9999 stats was quite painless, altho I imagine it'd have been pretty easy even without that, if slightly more time consuming. Rocking a good mix of the goon + cool/meme Digimon, lol.

My boys at Media Vision just know how to do these things, and I had a real blast. A fitting end for a really cool game, that manages to be both a cool JRPG AND also scratch that itch for monster collecting, altho more in a SMT-ish way than Pokémon.

Kicked off my NG+ run and gonna run through Mega+.

That actually took way longer than I expected since I unlocked 541241515 sidequests and I decided I was gonna get a team ready for Mega+ before doing the final boss.

Still, finally beat it and it was AWESOME. Really cool final boss in general, in gameplay, music, presentation, you name it.

Mais um ano de Vasco da Gama a ser Vasco

Impressionante o quão arrombado é ser Vascaíno, tem que ter muita paciência, na moral

Think I'm about to head into the final boss of Time Stranger and boy did everything escalate QUICKY

Some awesome presentation there though! Looking forward to see if it sticks the landing in a bit

Rocking my party consisting mainly of "waifu Digimon" and "anime MC" Digimon because I'm basic like that, the neuron gets activated easily. But I really want to use Imperialdramon FM, so I'm considering using something like Mastemon to reduce holy resistance to help out the fact he's a Free type...