Funny that they talk about games letting you kill civilians. The 2nd Ratchet & Clank game had an easter egg if you kept murdering the robot civilians on 1 planet:
Imagine how bad the fights were before they patched the battles to be shorter. That hula hoop special attack whet he had to keep pressing “A” in a rhythm? That used to be what you had to do for a normal attack. Every time.
Despite his aggressive drug use and constant bridge burning, Stamper is still getting voice acting work. Spoony exists, I guess?
Solar System Brain Take: this is the post-modern criticism of the genre, highlighting the suffering of turn-based combat grinding, to make you existentially question the logic of all JRPG's combat.
I thought those were qualifiers to be a VA if Amanda Wynn Lee is anything to go by.
I think the main divide is between the people watching it and the people who are playing/played it. Watching a JRPG be played you take in the back seat and can look at everything as a full picture. What the story is, how these characters are acting like this, the music, art, and collect your thoughts better. You can skip through the grinding (thankfully Oneyplays has been cutting around it which is nice), and always fall back on the story/character bits as you go around
I watched Snakerers long ass video on Yiik and I'm curious now. Did they actually nerf LP toss with the combat update? Because you could abuse that move since it comboed easily and stacked to absurd levels. It was the only viable attack move essentially.
While i loved watching them trying to finish it i just felt tired watching this ep as much as them during the last battle. I'll feel fine if they drop it there.
By the looks of it the attack was nerfed specifically so the targets will sometimes just take off again despite getting temporarily stunlocked. Rather than improve the power of other attacks now you just don't have the ace in the hole (at least that I've seen) that makes fighting almost approach tolerable.
