Asia copies that are in English came out on Play-Asia two days ago! I love Bust-A-Move and this is basically that, but it's only a Vs. CPU (and local battles) game. There are only 3 colors plus special bubbles, so the focus is on keeping your screen full to make giant combos while not going past the line at the bottom. Whenever you pop a bunch of bubbles at once it turns into a brief rhythm game hitting the button as rings close in time with the music. It's not as big of a component as I thought it would be, but it's neat and Touhou music is great. There's a bunch of DLC songs too, but I'll have to create an asian Switch account to download those.

Your towels aren't wet enough!

Ha, it's possible. I definitely need to play some of that. I thought I was higher, but apparently Vaerik is only at level 56 right now.

I'm on Hyperion with the rest of the Backloggery guild. Seems like a few more people started playing again during my absence the last couple of months. At this point I'd like to finish the main story stuff for Heavensward so I can finally just cancel my sub, but lord knows how much I'll get sidetracked before that happens.

oh god I ate too much spicy food

someone kill me now

I figure I'll mop up songs I'd never play after I finish unlocking characters. Otherwise I hit a lot of those in Quest Medleys anyway. The last rhythmia award that I know of, which I believe is a chime, is at 180,000. It may go higher, but I noticed that one on a gamefaqs list a while back.

Why would you use characters from games you hate? Besides, the title bonus isn't that much at only +30 per character.

Also, Theatrhythm does have a at 20,000 rhythmia.

Ahahaha, that makes me both more and less interested! Once I finish up Etrian Untold and possibly the 6th Stratum in Etrian IV I'd like to get back to Unchained Blades, though. I liked it well enough even if dungeon crawlers that don't let you color in squares without stepping on them kind of drive me insane. That really shouldn't be the case on floors where 90% of it is lava tiles.

What's this about ridiculous difficulty in Demon Gaze? I hadn't really had a chance to read up on it much, but it looked interesting.

That explains it then. I've been playing as the white mage alien!

I've been trying to figure out what that sound means for a while now, and I'm stumped.

Do accuracy first.

Makes evasion much easier.

Yojimbo mechanics are annoying. The chance of zanmato goes up at such large increments further up the scale so it's not worth spending a dollar more than the minimum in those brackets.

If you're going to go for platinum or any of that shit, you'll end up with hobjillions of dollars anyway. Mimics during your capture sessions in omega will provide you a couple million. Customize the cheapest, shittiest armour you've got with some of the useless reward items from the monster arena for another 3 or 4 million, and then just sell all the garbage you get as drops from the enemies you'll grind for spheres.

You won't have to worry about cash ever.

Even if you have to, Yoji's cash grinding with Gillionaire is so much easier than the sphere grid grinding that there's no reason NOT to zanmato that shit. It's just not worth the time/effort/sanity/whatever.

The Dark Aeon legit grind is really, really annoying. The Luck stat is so painful to raise that it sucks mad balls how slow it is.

I just ended up Zanmatoing the Dark Magus Sisters and Dark Bahamut and calling it a day. Otherwise the MISS MISS MISS despite high stats is REALLY AGGRAVATING.

I really like Escha & Logy so far. I think I'm about halfway through the game now, and it it honestly reminds me more of Mana Khemia than any other game in the series. You have a 6 person party, so the battle system basically plays like an updated version of MK's swapping in and out with support guards and attacks. I honestly haven't played enough of the proper Atelier games to say if this one takes a different track. I've always been put off by the time limit, but Escha's is super lenient. I think I had free time for the last 60 of 120 days during the last chapter, and I mean with all requests done.

Technically free time begins when you complete the main assignment, but there are 8 sub-assignments surrounding that one in a square. Completing those earns bonuses like recipe books, money, or stat boosts. Then there's another square of sub-sub-assignments around those for ranking points. The nice thing is that the game keeps track of everything you've done, so you can start off a chapter and already have a couple of assignments completed. With the exception of the first one, you also don't get game over for not completing main assignments in time. You just get less time for the next one. It encourages a lot more free gathering and alchemy for fun than the strict time limit Ateliers did.

Also, the opening is pretty neat like you said.

My FC is 3952-7050-4448. I'll be sure to add you tonight or tomorrow.

I'm working my way through White and X simultaneously now, and oddly even on progress in both. I just got the 4th badge in both games, though the second badge took ages to get in X compared to White. I think my Pokemon Bank free trial has ended already which defeats the original purpose, but I'll just drop the $5 at some point to keep transferring. I keep Bulbapedia open on my iPad while playing White to check which Pokemon need to be sent over. Once White is conquered I'll finish Pearl, where I just need to beat the last gym and I'll be able to cart over a bunch of event legendaries.

I don't really know anything about EV training, but the stat growth boosting through the balloon popping minigame is pretty handy. I've definitely seen a difference on a few of my pokemon from that.

I thought Wonder Trade was dumb at first, but it's really a fantastic resource of generosity. I try to put something decent in and then just keep trading until something good comes out, usually in 2-3 trades at most. I've gotten like 3 Charmanders, a Froakie, Eevees, etc. A super powered lvl. 1 Emolga I got near the beginning has been a star of my team ever since. The little guy wrecks everything in his path.

b-b-b-b-b-but ROSE TINTED GLASSES

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Yeah, I'm like all of two hours in and I already remember how cheesy this is now.

Good thing I got it on sale for cheap.

No worries. I'm not using my 3DS all that much. Once I get a bigger backlog on it or go back to work to implement more portable gaming, I will.

I might give it a go. The Valkyrie Profile style combat was what caught my eye in the countless trailers I've watched to get free pokes in Disco Zoo. It's nice to see actual RPG combat instead of yet another card battler, at least.