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--- canceled on offset, but not all, like any that say turn start/turn end on the skill.

the extra funny thing is once you learn about offset, the specifics can be obtuse and misleading, like it telling you youre offsetting a counter or clashable guard, but that doesnt actually work since offset can only be used on normal guard or evade, or that certain effects of defense skills get ---

like a simple example would be, killing an enemy with poison makes your poison skills stronger or something, maybe with diminishing returns to also incentivize killing enemies in different ways each time.

def agree with everything in this thread and just wanna add, i think communicating and incentivizing actions other than attack are important too, beyond just making them more optimal. players will often mash attack even if it kills in 3 turns if theres a more complicated strat that kills in 2

this is 100% exactly what got me into project moon. deemo introduced me to mili and i would listen to mili songs on youtube all the time (still do), and iron lotus was the first pm mili song i heard. now lob corp is prob my fav game of all time

Katt from #86 of my top 100 favorite video games, Breath of Fire 2

or ghost doctor (also gay)

theres obviously some good games being made at big companies still, but all the good devs there make good games in spite of their company, not because of them. honestly, i view most AAA games as a separate thing entirely from video games, they exist as a business and video games exist as art.

tbh despite everything else thats wrong with living in current era, its a really good era for video games imo, since its now more accessible than ever for people to make indie games. indie games are where all the innovation happens and all the new creative ideas come from.

since getting my tablet and switching to drawing digitally, i definitely notice im drawing less, and not just studying and practicing basic stuff, but on stuff i wanna draw too. i think being on my computer while drawing just makes me too easily distracted

Iron Fossil from #87 of my top 100 favorite video games, Darius Burst

... on the list now, signalis and zero ranger, but i plan on just finishing the list as it was when i made it

its been a little over 2 months since i started trying to draw a fanart of each of my top 100 games, and i definitely wanted to be much further along by now but im still happy with my pace more or less.

additionally, since ive started, i played a few more games, two of which would definitely be...

Castile from #88 of my top 100 favorite video games, Phantom Brave

i really enjoyed moving around and solving physics puzzles in outer wilds in low gravity

no bunny tail on new mao branch ID is the biggest betrayal project moon couldve possibly done to me personally

also not being constrained by physical paper, and being able to undo and edit whatever, however many times i wanted, ended up making me want to make tiny adjustments and waste hours changing basically nothing, theres a ton i wanna fix about this but id rather move on and learn more going forward

my first digital drawing, after getting my tablet i started on this, and then realized i didnt know what i was doing at all in csp, so i spent a while just figuring out the tools and messing around. also, physically drawing on a tablet also was a lot less intuitive than i thought it would be.

Lillet and Amoretta from #89 of my top 100 favorite video games, GrimGrimoire

the drawing, so i feel i end up learning less since theres a limit on how much i can adjust things while im doing them, without having to start entirely over on a blank paper.

no loss of motivation, that i feel like i can justify it. i still would like draw with traditional media but i feel like its really slowing the learning process, since coloring with pencils takes probably 3-4x as long, and constantly erasing while trying to figure things out ruins the paper and ---

i saw that humble bundle deal for $25 for the 1 year liscense of clip studio paint and $400 of brushes and other stuff, and bought it on impulse and also ordered a ~$200 drawing tablet.

i was hesitant to spend that much money at first, but ive been drawing every day for about 4 months now with ---

i never expected to be ambushed by rozenkreuzstilette fanart in 2025

i like both luna nights and deedlit in wonder labyrinth, but they felt a little bit too short/linear/easy to really make it to my favs, great games for sure tho.

ty for the recommendations, as ambitious as it may be, i plan to play every game in my library and wishlist eventually.

ever since oblivion came out ive been convinced elder scrolls is a psyop that got too big and then large amounts of people actually started to believe its a legit game series

for sure one of my favs, and i was gunna say i havent even heard of the others, but went to look them up on steam, and astlibra revision and afterimage were both already on my wishlist, i added the others too and hopefully wont forget about them!

i got la-mulana 2 when it first came out but also still havent gotten around to playing it much, ive been waiting for a time when i know i can sit and play it for a long time at once, and then more and more time passes.

of the 5 you mentioned, rabi-ribi is the only one ive played and its also

what are some of your fav metroidvanias? and also, would you consider games like outer wilds to be metroidvanias? my all time fav metroidvania def has to be la-mulana i love that game so much.

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