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Indeed we haven't, oh interesting. It seems like you managed to keep a great balance between it and your hobbies, I'm not the best at balancing my hobbies with other commitments lol What had you been studying if you don't mind me asking? A trip to Japan would be sick, something I'd like to do myself down the line ofc. Is there a specific location you're interested in visiting? Yeah less hobby time is the shame of it but you might find you have a bit more free time than you expect if you were already balancing it well with university, altho I don't know how much of a time sink your specific course was for you. It probably is wise to get the bigger time committal games checked off the list like ER and FF while you can tho. FFVII would be a great choice for the next game for sure. It probably won't be an issue since you said you don't use Steam much, but definitely go with the console version of the VII Remake games, I've heard the pc ports for them weren't ideal. I'll be curious to see who you end up liking more between Tifa and Aerith.

I've often considered the idea of a servant having an AoE move-set gimmick, hopefully they don't think it'd be too strong or something and they just let her keep it once she's summonable. She'd be another summonable Beast after all so it's not like AoE move-set's would have to become the standard or anything.
Ah interesting, maybe I was conflating her with another Alter I heard about. It's a shame Alter wasn't released as a separate servant if her personality is different but it's awesome they gave us the outfit at least, love how she looks as an Alter.
That she is, really like all of Tenoch's outfits.
Yep, strong enough to split our ship in half and give U-Olga amnesia with a chop lmao that's one hell of a hype introduction. Just realised she's a Foreigner too so makes me wanna pull her even more to add to my Foreigner posse.

It's a good thing you still had some remaining decent 5 and 4 stars you could fall back on, I def need to put more investment into a lot of my 4-stars. Being forced to strategize with the lesser used servants is why I quite like the Grail Front events, altho they do tend to be a little too stingy with just how many higher level servants they let you use for those. Just checked Archer Anastasia's noble phantasm and skills, and I can see why she came in clutch. Seems like the general consensus on her is that she's a great damage dealer.

I played San Andreas and Vice City a ton as a kid, they're pretty close but Vice City is my favorite, it's the most nostalgic to me. It also had the best radio stations/songs of all the GTA games imo. It's a shame the remastered releases were such a disappointment upon release, I've heard they've made improvements since then but I haven't really looked back into it since finding out how bad they were to begin with. Nah I'm not too familiar with Tomb Raider, I think I might've played one of the games as a kid but didn't get very far and that's about all the experience I have with the series.

Yep you guessed it, this'll be the first time I've had a pc in this room. So I've needed to rearrange some of the furniture as well as sort through and get rid of a bunch of stuff to make space for a desk since my room isn't all that big. I had a lot of old shit I needed to get rid of for a while so it was long overdue tbh, and getting a pc has been the catalyst for me to finally get around to doing it. Sure, it'll prob be easier for me to just show you a pic of what I've got going on:
Should be more than capable of playing anything I would want to and ended up being a lot cheaper than I would've expected as well. I was browsing laptops relatively recently that were a lot more expensive than what this has came to even including the peripherals and desk. You're paying for convenience with laptops but they still seem like such a ripoff.
Bought a 24" monitor to go with it and then found out a cousin of mine has another 24" screen she wasn't gonna use so I guess I'm gonna have a double monitor set-up now lol could've saved myself the money on the first monitor but can't complain about getting one for free.
Oh awesome, I'll wishlist it then for when I'm all set up.
Ah gotcha, thought you might've been playing all the recent games like ER and Dark Souls through Steam, well I'll still send a friend request over regardless.

Yeah I haven't seen the show, just seen a couple of clips and know what a few of the characters look like. It's adapted from a light novel series right? Most of it hasn't been adapted yet as far as I'm aware so it seems it's a pretty sizable series. No wonder you felt strongly for one over the other if they're the only two love interests so far XD I've never understood that trope either, making your main character completely oblivious to the girls around them or even the MC finding it to be a nuisance when a girl or two are head over heels for them, it can work for some protagonists but it's pretty weird and/or frustrating most of the time.

Great to hear it ended up being one of your favorites. I've made some progress here and there but sadly still haven't had the opportunity to really commit a full day or so to it like I would want to. I've been totally swamped with IRL stuff as of late, it's been insanely stressful ngl. Hope whatever stuff you've had on your plate hasn't been quite so stress inducing lol I certainly wasn't expecting us to befriend U-Olga immediately going into this Lostbelt and then actually getting to use her in combat on-top of that, that's dope as hell. And this opportunity to give her a bunch of characterisation has been great, I'm really starting to like her a lot. Hopefully this is an indication that she'll become a summonable Beast down the line.
Yeah Nitocris Alter is quite a bit different to regular Nitocris, similarly to how different Arjuna and Arjuna Alter are I'd say. There seems to be a lot of Anubis mixed in with her from what I've read (Altho Nito and Anubis both argue that the other comprises the majority of the spirit origin), but either way it's resulted in her acting a lot more godly and dignified. I'm aware that there's a Kingprotea Alter that appears in the Lostbelt as well, altho I hear that her personality is no different?
I haven't seen Kukulkan yet but I did throw some tickets at her banner and managed to get Tenochtitlan out of it which was a very pleasant surprise. I really like both of their designs so it seemed like a good banner to use my remaining tickets on. Kukulkan was designed by the Black Lagoon mangaka if I'm not mistaken. I haven't read far enough in the lostbelt to know for sure yet but I would assume that the giant energy body that struck U-Olga at the beginning of the Lostbelt was her. I can tell I'm gonna wish I had seen more of her before her banner left so I could've known to pull for her more seriously lol Interesting, I can certainly see the similarities in the designs between Kukul and Mavuika. It seems ancient South American content is superb material for crafting some outstanding waifu designs.
Thanks very much for the heads up, would've suuucked going into that and wasting a bunch of servants in the first line-up.

Probably would be better to do it after the fact and then you can just skim through the entire thing in one go. I've definitely noticed some changes here and there over the course of the new seasons, but my memory from reading Bleach's final arc is also quite frankly terrible tbh, so there's probably a bunch of stuff I haven't noticed for sure.

Yep, the RE franchise is one of the grandfathers of survival horror/zombie action games. I wonder if the one you played on PS2 was the original RE4, it's a masterpiece of a game but it has a tank control scheme which can be pretty difficult to get used to, even more so if you try to play it as a kid. The controls were very much by design tho, intended to create tension rather than simply running through and gunning everything, instead you have to lock yourself in a vulnerable state to use your guns and the game is brilliantly designed around that aspect imo. Overall RE4 has a very arcade game feel to it imo. The even older games had fixed camera angles as well which I couldn't get used to as a kid, they pretty much transitioned into a more modern control scheme after 4 if I'm not mistaken. If you were gonna start with any RE game, I'd probably suggest RE2 Remake. It's my favorite of the series and one of my favorite games in general. You also don't really need to be aware of anything about RE to play it, it's a very well-contained story just on its own and a perfect introduction to the franchise.
Speaking of games, part of the reason I've been so swamped with RL stuff lately is because a friend of mine is building a gaming pc for me, and so I've been needing to basically rearrange my living space to facilitate it. So if Slay the Princess is on Steam, I could check it out relatively soon I think. We should add one-another on Steam too if you're down for that.

You might be in for a pleasant surprise once you get round to GT then I'd say. I'd wager probably 95% of DB fans like SSJ4, if not more. GT's criticism mainly stems from it's lower budget and rushed pace, as well as it's slow beginning where they're just generally adventuring, I don't think that kind of content went over well off the back of DBZ like you pointed out. But things do start to pick up after that slow beginning and we end up getting some pretty great concepts and antagonists. I recall the GT characters that were added to FighterZ received really hype reactions at the time, I think people have generally warmed up to GT more as time has gone on.
Yep that's Jade and that description is spot-on, similar feisty/bratty sort of personality as Pan.

Oh wow, had no idea the girl I mentioned would end up being so at odds with your fav girl XD Don't know too much about Slime but it has a pretty memorable aesthetic/art style to it, and Shuuna's very cute.

Agreed, it was nice to see she was going to be a major player in this Lostbelt. I love Ozy but it's naturally hard for him to not suck up all the spotlight when he's involved, so it'll be great to see her get some solo focus and bonding time with us.

It's crazy to imagine rolling on a banner while not even knowing what the odds are, can't get any more indistinguishable from actual gambling than that. Really glad that got changed. I'd personally love to see a Fate platform fighting game, I'm a huge Smash Bros fan so that would be right up my alley. Interesting, I had no idea Genshin worked like that, I can see why it would raise quite a few eyebrows. Genshin is Chinese as well and America is generally more watchful when China is concerned.

Oh yeah that's true, I recall you saying something similar before, not having many you desperately wanted really helped you be prepared to reach pity whenever it was needed.
Best of luck with pulling Skirk. Mizuki's got the type of color palette that I really like and the tail is pretty unique, gives me the impression it could def grow on me a lot.

Haven't progressed too much further in it yet unfortunately. Shortly after I started, I came down with a really bad throat infection so I haven't been doing much of anything lately. I'm mostly over it now tho so I'll be getting back to it soon. And nah I haven't gotten back to Bleach yet either for the same reason, happy to see Nel at least and glad they actually gave her some fanservice, since the anime director seems terribly against incorporating the fanservice from the manga for some bizarre reason. Cutting out the Rukia peach scene is an unforgivable sin.

I've played a bit of Portal and watched some playthroughs of Stanley Parable so I can certainly imagine what kind of game it might be based off that. Sounds very interesting, I'm guessing the less you know about the game before you play it, the better right? If so, I might try to not look too far into it before playing it at some point.
Speaking of games, I played a couple of hours of Resident Evil Village recently and I can already tell it's gonna be fantastic.

While GT is definitely far from perfect, I have a huge soft-spot for it and always thought it was pretty over-hated ngl. The early parts of the series are def weaker than the later stuff and I could've done without the Goku being turned into a kid storyline but the series has so many strong points imo. Most of the main antagonists of GT are pretty well liked and SSJ4 is almost universally loved. I feel like GT would've been a lot better received had it came out when Super did. SSJ4 is still my favorite SSJ transformation, I love the intensity of it and bringing back the tail/Oozaru aspects was such a cool idea like you said. Yeah I like Pan too, I don't know if you ever watched it but she reminds me of Jade from Jackie Chan Adventures lol I really like Bulla's design in GT as well.

Interesting, always really liked Shion's design from that series.

Got the new festival students myself but couldn't get S. Hanako though. She's getting a rerun in July, so maybe then. Nexon really needs to chill with releasing two festival students at once. I will need to save up gems for Seia, Rio, the new School Neru, and S. Hanako. 川｡μ_μ)σc[_]

By the way, do not forget to obtain S. Atsuko from the new event. It is easy to obtain her, even with a busy schedule.

Btw I've been meaning to ask this but just kept forgetting, do you have any plans to watch Dragon Ball Daima? I'm not sure if we've discussed Dragon Ball before but I figured it was a safe bet that you're fond of the series based on the username.

You ready for Kuroko!!? (and Armed Hoshino)

I heard that apparently China plans to come down hard on gambling mechanics in video games, but gacha games are a gigantic market over there so I'm pretty curious how well that's gonna go over. After a quick search, it seems like it might've just been a rumor or it seems like the official that proposed it got removed after a large outcry and backlash lol that's if its the same one I heard about anyway.
Fate fans have it pretty rough in one way, a lot of us start FGO while already being invested in the story/world and it's characters, so we come into it already wanting to badly summon a bunch of characters we love from the get-go lol
Yeah the summoning system in Genshin seems brutal.
Can't blame you for gunning for her. You've shown me her once before if I'm not mistaken right? Still really love her design.

TYVM. Speaking of Nitocris, I had some tickets from completing the New Year mosaic puzzle thing I think? Or maybe they became available in the shop, can't remember for sure. But I decided to just throw them at the Nitocris banner just cuz and I actually ended up getting her:
It's def safe to say that my luck is back in full swing lol
I've made a start on the Lostbelt btw although I'm not too far into it yet but I should be able to report back about it relatively soon. Unfortunately my dumbass waited too long and lost out on those quartz you get for completing so many missions in Lostbelt 7. It's not the end of the world I guess but it sucks to lose out on some easily attainable quartz.

Oh yeah good point, that was the intention for sure, could even try and switch into the ring mid-fight if you're ballsy enough. I'm pretty interested to see how they're going to update the move-sets of bosses like Centipede Demon for Elden Ring, I feel like they would definitely need to update the attack speed and lengthen some of the combo's on these older bosses to fit more in-line with Elden Ring's current level.
Marika and Radagon are the same being but have separate personalities and senses of self from my understanding, so while Marika shattered the Elden Ring and wished to end the current order, Radagon serves the Golden Order and tried repairing the Elden Ring. Which explains why Marika is seemingly restrained when we enter Radagon's boss arena. We don't know for sure if they were always the same being, of if they were one being that split in two and then later recombined. It's also hard to know if becoming two beings was Marika/Radagon's doing or perhaps The Greater Will's. This quote: “O Radagon, leal hound of the Golden Order. Thou’rt yet to become me. Thou’rt yet to become a God.” seems to maybe imply that The Greater Will had some influence in Radagon's creation from Marika but it's still far too vague to say for sure imo.

Yeah it seems to be totally disconnected from the world of Fate, Tsukihime etc according to the wiki. Cool to hear it got an 8/10, has a really cool style to it for sure and some great character designs from what I've seen. Still haven't gotten back to the new Bleach season yet but I knew Nemu was gonna get her spotlight episode this season, I think the last episode I saw was the one where Grimmjow and Nel meet up with Ichigo's team, wonder if she'll get chance to fight a bit this season or if they'll save her and Grimmjow's action for the next one. Lemme know if you come across any censorship if you do end up checking the chapters to compare.

Hmm I don't think I've heard of that one, what kinda game is it and what's it about?

You see it constantly in FPS games as well with skins and what-not but its commonly called out in those cases from what I've seen, even though the practice still persists somehow regardless. It really is crazy how gacha games are able to disguise and slip such absurd pricing under the radar like that. I would assume that people are more likely to overlook it when there's elements of gambling involved, they probably subconsciously look at it more as gambling with a fail-safe rather than an absurdly costly flat-purchase, very grimy way to camouflage it. Yeah the character designs being so appealing probably has a lot to do with it as well, gotta make them look as enticing as possible so people won't think twice about how much they'll spend to get em.

I haven't played the Lostbelt yet but that definitely seems like a strange choice from what you've described. I can't think why they'd put Nitocris on first if she wasn't even the one featured in the story yet. Maybe it was due to Kirei's birthday being the 28th December but I would've thought it would make more sense for him to have already been available when that rolled around, strange. I can happily announce that I pulled Kirei btw, only went through 10 tickets and about 4 or so 10-pulls so I have plenty of quartz leftover. I even got an extra Siegfried out of it so I'm very happy with the results.

Anyway as I mentioned, I haven't gotten round to playing the new Lostbelt yet. Been dealing with some personal shit lately unfortunately, which is why it's took me a bit longer to reply than normal as well. I'll let you know my thoughts ofc once I do get round to playing it, nice to hear its off to a good start iyo. Hope you had a decent Christmas and New Years as well.

I'm fairly sure it's a story-related item so it would be in the chest behind Frampt, which kind of makes it pointless to even get the limb-cut in the first place if you're just going to be given it anyway, it might as well just drop from the boss normally. So they accounted for it at least, but that's DSI for ya with it's archaic systems that weren't fully figured out yet.

They're so used to playing the games in only one stubborn way that they just start believing it's the regular way to play, you can't get much more default than a shield, it literally goes hand-in-hand with a weapon lol I was a Pyromancer the first time I played Dark Souls III because I wanted a good mid-range option, I guess the purists wouldn't have been fond of that approach XD
Yeah I'll definitely be trying out the shield strategy next time, and might even dabble with the ice pots as well. I might give a few attempts at dodging Waterfowl now that I have some understanding of how to do it but I certainly won't die on that hill the second time round. Getting hyper-fixated on trying to take no damage from that move seriously affected my ability to learn her general move-set the first time, so next time I just need to find something that works well enough and stick to it.
Well with the move being so rare that a majority of people don't even end up seeing it, I'd say the best strategy is just hope you're not one of the unlucky ones he does it to lol

I was super confused/oblivious to the whole Marika Radagon thing as well ngl, I think those two being the same person flew over most peoples heads tbf.

Ah yeah that's a fair point, I wasn't sure how up-scaled he would've been at that point.
True, the teleport chests are intended to be the replacements for sure but they're kind-off a let-down in comparison and easy to avoid once you know you can just immediately roll out of the gas. The chest that puts you right in the middle of bear county was pretty funny though, and the one that teleports you to the top right is a cool way to reveal just how giant the map is, so they're not without their memorable moments either I suppose. I agree that gargoyles and giants looked better in Dark Souls. Those even harder bear bosses that they added to the DLC were brutal.

Ah cool, yeah I've heard of Squid Game. Haven't seen it but pretty much know exactly what its about, would be pretty hard not to know with how popular it's became lol I got a few episodes into the new Bleach season but then fell behind due to the reasons I mentioned earlier, hopefully I'll be able to get up to date with it soon. Ah yeah I know of Canaan as well, it's a Type-Moon series but pretty far removed from Fate if I'm not mistaken unlike stuff like Tsukihime. Speaking of, did you hear that Neco-Arc appeared in FGO recently? I often wondered when they were gonna get round to giving them an appearance, it's about time.

Well yh, up to you if you want to give a try or not n yh the little sister is the main character of one of the story, but u’ll have to watch the show I’d say cuz u won’t understand what’s happening, the show is very episodic but u get familiar to her even tho she isn’t the main character of the show, u just get a glimpse of her personality n character, u really get to know her only from the last 3 eps. Since it’s a surnatural type story, there’s many exaggerated parts imo. But again, it’s up to you if u wanna watch it or not ;).
Oh 2010-11 ! I was veryy small back then lol, I was still in primary school.. I used to watch Pokémon in those years too.. Naruto a bit later, 5-6 years after I think. Oh I see, Haruhi is one of those anime that I watched but I’m still lazy to put it on mal lol, I’m trying to put them all, slowly, but yh.. tbh it was just fine as a show, didn’t like it too much nor hate it, just fine. Without being too intrusive, Can I know why did you stop your yearly rewatch ? Even tho 3 years r kinda a lot too, I’ve tried for so many anime (other than ToraDora!) but never more than two rewatches.
Yh, she does, the first time I watched it, I missed the post-credit scene, so felt so empty after watching the show.. but somehow came back a week later, n saw it n tbh, it gives a way better ending rather than just Taïga leaving cuz she has some probs to solve. Yh, I agree that it’s still very unsatisfying but it’s enough to me I’d say.
For the OVA, I totally agree with what you said, but.. it was cuteee tbh :D ! For the ending, yh there r many shows with worse endings, but even tho most of the ppl don’t like it, it’s very special to me I’d say that’s the most perfect ending to it (but it was a very rushed ending imo) n one of the reasons ppl come back to rewatch it. The post-credit scene was soo cuteee <3.
Btw, sry for my sentences’ structure n grammar related mistakes, as English is my third language (I’m French), I struggle a little bit while writing 🙏

Yh, I agree, that it makes the list more special but just like u said, having to choose which one I like better is too diff for me 😭.
Talking abt Bunny Girl Senpai, it's just a romance. Tbh, I also thought that it would be an ecchi harem, but surprisingly, it wasn't. The story is filled with surnatural stuff, and the girl on the cover is the protagonist's girlfriend, this is one of those rare anime where the protagonist doesn't struggle too much to get his feelings accepted...
I first watched ToraDora! in 2015, n I'm watching it yearly in winter with the Christmas episode on Christmas as it should be :D ans same for me, Taiga was one the first anime girl I liked ("liked" isn't strong enough imo XD), the ending was definitely beyond comprehension, I had to watch several fans posts n vids, to get over it in a positive way :).

Thanks a lot for the recommendations, will have a look one day n let you know my impressions. Thanks again !

Yh maybe, but I saw that u enjoyed most of the anime we have in common so.. yh.
Anyways, Tnx for accepting my FR !
Talking abt Taiga, she's my all-time fav character ! n abt the girl u mentioned, Mai Sakurajima, I agree she's amazingy cute :D If only mal allowed 50 fav characters, even 50 wouldn't be enough I'd say, I like SO many of them !
When I first read "Bunny Girl Senpai" I thought it would just be an ecchi anime with a lot of fan-service but yk, "don't judge an anime by its name" :D, this anime is just amazing ! The start is just fine, personally I didn't like the first 4 eps but after it was great. The movies are excellent too, I'll def recommend u to watch it :D

That's some absurd pricing, $5 for a month of 2.5x rewards is fairly reasonable but roughly $300 for a guaranteed character is ludicrous. I'm surprised they can charge such a price if 3 months of daily's is the simple alternative, seems like there's a lot of people in the Genshin player-base with more money than sense lol
Yeah as long as you've got your code and simple info like when you first started playing and such, it shouldn't really be an issue to get back into your account. Obviously just having a dated purchase makes the process even easier, and I imagine would also speed up the ordeal if they know you're a paying customer. I've had exactly the same thought about it, like if I ever did completely lose access to my account somehow, there's no fucking chance you'd catch me starting over from scratch. So I get your mentality you mentioned with Blue Archive, I'd be livid for having lost it ofc but it'd also just be like "well if it's gone, it's gone, guess I'm done".

I really like that design as well but that's sadly an OC by the looks of it, Fate Anubis is a doggo. She def would've looked right at home with the other Egyptian servants tho.

Well you get the charred ring from cutting one of the Centipede Demon's limbs off, so you would've had to have gotten it by chance if you weren't aware of it beforehand, pretty easy to miss. I've heard that when the game first came out there was a funny bug where the aggro range of the half-dragons was insanely large for some reason. So pretty much as soon as you entered the area they would all just sprint at you from like the other side of the map lmao
I feel like the titanite demons have some of the most unforgiving and disjointed hitboxes in the whole game.

Yeah I think a lot of people just wanna feel like they beat the game while being at more of a disadvantage so they can boast about it, or they didn't like shielding/some other mechanic as an option so they choose to rule it out of what they consider to be the "right" way to play the game. They probably tell streamers to ditch the shields cus they just wanna see the streamers beat the game the same way they did, I'd prefer it if people just left others to figure out their own damn playstyles, these games are all about trial and error after all. Some moves and enemies are better suited to shielding and others to rolling, the tools are there to be used in tandem and I'd say they're too multifaceted to give such a blanket statement of saying one entire defensive option is simply good or bad.
I definitely intend to keep shields in mind a lot more when I start my next playthrough of Elden Ring.

Well I do think you're definitely on to something with how good the Golden Halberd is. If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure one of the best strategies in Elden Ring for quite a while was to dual-wield halberds and use a lot of jumping attacks to inflict large amounts of stagger. And it seems the Golden Halberd is one of the highest damaging halberds in the game if what I'm reading is accurate. It'll be interesting to see if the halberd trend continues when you eventually get round to DSII+III lol I'll say you've definitely made me curious about the Golden Halberd, so maybe when I get round to that next playthrough, I'll try mainly using it and let you know the results.

I think that's where a lot of the frustration comes from for me as well, like she was so close to just being a generally great boss but then they go and ruin it by giving her that shitty regen mechanic as a way to cheaply increase the difficulty, it's a damn shame. I assume Bed of Chaos has reclaimed that crown of worst Souls boss for you then right?
I don't recall too specifically but I'm pretty sure I just gave up on shields when I realised she still healed through them. So I was trying to figure out how on earth to roll through Waterfowl Dance. So then when I made practically no progress with that endeavor after pretty much bashing my head against a wall for a while, I instead opted for trying to always be in a position to outrun it which wasn't a consistent strategy for obvious reasons. You can't exactly be playing aggressively to deplete her health quickly while also trying to play safely so you can run from that move if she uses it at a moments notice lol I obviously relied a lot on Tiche as well since she actually has the ability to dodge a lot of Malenia's moves including Waterfowl Dance, so using her to split up aggro and having Waterfowl target Tiche instead of me was a huge help from memory. It seems I probably should've gave the shield strat more of a chance. I definitely wasn't doing myself any favors with my stubborn approach to the fight and unwillingness to experiment very much back then. I haven't fought her since that first playthrough so I'm pretty interested to try fighting her again tbh and seeing if she is as bad as I remember, especially after playing Lies of P, ER DLC and Stellar Blade.
Ah yeah having the appropriate scadutree blessing level makes such a huge difference. I was fighting Rellana for quite a while with too low of a scadutree blessing level and she was pissing me off so bad lol I was trading hits with her constantly but they were always losing exchanges with how much damage I was dealing and taking, so I just couldn't see a win-con under those circumstances. She became instantly manageable once I added a couple of scadutree levels. I didn't severely out-level her or anything ofc, the fight just suddenly felt like it was at the intended difficulty level.
Crucible Knight confirmed to be the true Elden Lord.

Sounds epic, congrats on getting it first try, no better feeling than beating a boss on the first attempt by the skin of your teeth like that. Which fight did you prefer btw, Bayle or Placidusax?

Sweet, did you get to see his multi-clone grab attack?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHzCKHk9iE
Y'know that's a very good point lmao Why'd they go through the trouble of giving you a specific tear to counter Mohg's life-drain when he's perfectly manageable without it. They even implemented the Mohg's Shackle item on top of that which lets you get a couple of free stuns on him, not that the shackle gimmick is really worth using at all, but they really put too much of their attention on the wrong end-game boss XD
Yeah Maliketh was easily hard enough to be the final boss no doubt about it.

I'm pretty sure Consort Radahn's armor is just strictly worse in every stat except weight compared to Starscourge Radahn's armor set, which doesn't really make any sense to me narratively lol
Fun fact: You actually couldn't use Torrent in the Elden Beast fight until the most recent patch, and it was a really common complaint among fans. Chasing after Elden Beast on-foot was a miserable experience, the fight always seemed as if it was designed with Torrent in mind because of the sheer amount of distance the Elden Beast covers constantly. They also nerfed that attack he does with the homing glowing orb that's constantly firing smaller beams, that was straight up one of the most insufferable attacks in the entire game pre-nerf.
I agree that Elden Beast was a bit of a let-down, cool visuals at least but I much preferred the Radagon fight. Hearing that main theme music kick-in as the boss fight starts gave me mad chills, and Radagon is just badass af. The changes they made to the Elden Beast fight improved it a shit-ton tho.

Interestingly while it's the right eye on Ranni's doll body, the ghostly face next to it that's meant to be Ranni's actual face has the same left eye closed as Melina. And Messmer also keeps his left eye closed as well. It's a pretty intriguing reoccurring theme.

Nicely done, going from DLC and the end of main-game back to Margit must've made him feel so easy in-comparison lol It feels great to go back and experience first-hand how much you've improved since you first started based on how easily you can body the early bosses now.

Oh wow, well better late than never XD

Btw I don't know about you, but I was pretty disappointed that Elden Ring didn't have any mimics. They're a staple enemy of the Dark Souls games, and one my personal favs. I was really hoping the DLC was gonna have some at least.

In other gaming news, I've been playing this game called Prey from 2017 and it keeps on constantly outdoing itself, it's honestly one of the best games I've ever played. I've also just been making my way through some of the backlogged events I have on FGO to try and get some more last minute quartz.
I'll let you know if I find out any new information on the Elden Ring game that I think you might find interesting.

This is the first time seeing a person that knows yupiel other than me.

I do like SRT Academy, both the concept and the characters. However, I wasn't really much of a fan on how they were utilized in Volume 4. Especially the FOX Squad. Hopefully, they get a chance to redeem themselves one day.