Fabricant451

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@Callousqueen I'm not sure if I should be flattered or confused. Flafused.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

@IceHeart I only paid $7 for it so it's not like it was a huge loss but yeah it looks like DBZ and sounds like DBZ Kai/Super but so much of the game up to where I stopped (Gohan and Piccolo training before Nappa/Vegeta show up) it was 90 percent "fly to the quest marker or fly around collecting orbs or materials/ingredients for a food cooking system that so far you really have no need to partake in because all the best food is clearly gotten later on anyway" and sometimes do a fetch quest for fan service characters. Like hey, there's Nam or Eighter or Baba or the Martial Arts Tournament announcer oh look there's Pilaf and Mai and Shu! But then as you're flying around you keep getting harassed by fucking robots and then the combat starts and it's boring and everyone knows the best part of DBZ is when the characters kept fighting generic robot drones.

You don't even get to do stuff that might be fun to do in a DBZ RPG like run the Snake Way or fucking train with King Kai or Piccolo, you know, things that in a better game would serve as tutorials or introduction to systems for the combat or exploration. Instead they do the open world thing of dotting the areas (because this isn't open world, it's open sections, you can't fly from Goku's house to Roshi's house you have to open the world map and select the water zone where Roshi hangs out) with fucking enemy bases to destroy because that's what you want to do, take out more dumb generic robots in shit that even Ubisoft realized wasn't fun anymore.

But like, if you're going to make a game called 'Kakarot' why not just go all the way and go from Dragon Ball through to Super? At least Dragon Ball and Super haven't been done to death in video game form so it would be something relatively new instead of Piccolo killing Raditz and Goku again, Vegeta and Nappa again, Freiza again, and so on.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot seems like a game designed to test the fans of the series at every possible turn to see how much bad game design they will tolerate just because it's got Dragon Ball Z in it. Poorly designed controls for flying? Yep. A stupid system where flying through a ring of collectible orbs doesn't collect them meaning you have to actively slow down and fly in an awkward circle? Totally. A combat system that isn't really explained requiring you to pour through menus to understand literally any of its mechanics other than punch, not that there are many mechanics anyway? It's in there. A weirdly cumbersome skill tree AND multiple pinboard-esque 'community boards' where you slap tokens featuring your favorite characters in a silly excuse to get buffs by putting Goku next to Gohan or other characters who are friends? Yes sir! An 'open world' that is really just bland areas that are a chore to explore because of bad flying controls, random encounters taking you out of the resource gathering thing and disorienting you, side quests that even an MMO would think is too banal, and more orbs than a Crackdown game but infinitely less 'fun' to gather? Buddy you better believe it.

It's weird that there are people who are readily admitting that the game as a game is bad but are giving it a pass because it's DBZ as if DBZ fans don't already know the story of DBZ to the point of exhaustion.

Like I don't understand how you make flying feel so shit when flying in games has basically been perfected. Especially in a game where the main mode of transportation for everyone is fucking flying.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore is out on Switch now and includes the option to pick whether or not the childhood friend character wears glasses or not so really it's the best Fire Emblem experience on Switch. Also, Reincarnation slaps.

Sentaku

Ashikaga Maiko

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_{“Unlike my brother, I'm going to prove the Ashikaga Clan cares about more than just wealth.”}

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Personal

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_{N A M E}

Ashikaga Maiko
"Mai"

_{A G E}

14

_{C L A N}

Ashikaga

_{S E X U A L I T Y}

Yes

_{B L O O D T Y P E}

O-

Characterization

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_{H E I G H T}

5'5"

_{E Y E S}

Ashikage Green

_{H A I R}

It's medium length and it's blue

_{H E A D B A N D P L A C E M E N T}

Around the waist, just below the navel like a cummerbund.

_{C H A K R A N A T U R E}

Suiton | Water (Affinity)
Katon | Fire

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y}

Strong-willed, Intuitive, Confident, Sarcastic, Fastidious, Sixth One Goes Here

_{P E R S O N A L H I S T O R Y}

t is not uncommon for those who come from money, to come from class. Maiko comes from the Ashikaga clan, one of the richest, longest standing clans in Konoha. The Ashikaga clan made their money in a certain kind of way.

Possessing the unique Wood Release kekkei genkai, the Ashikaga has been a member of Konoha since the founding of the village. Strangely, though, they were virtually pacifistic and have maintained that lifestyle for most of their existence. Nonetheless, they are rather greedy, and used their kekkei genkai to create the family business: The Soaked Grove.

The Soaked Grove is a huge grove of trees created through the clan’s kekkei genkai, complete with a tea garden, hot springs, and… Konoha’s only brothel. Throughout the long lasting shinobi war, the Soaked Grove offered a discount to all the soldiers hard at work protecting them… normally, something like Wood Release would have been forcibly weaponized by its village, but Konoha saw so much tax revenue, and charitable donations from the Soaked Grove, that they made no attempt to force the Ashikaga out of their pacifism.

What makes the Ashkaga Clan so influential is the unique circumstances surrounding the clan. While it is true that the Ashikaga have Wood Release, it is limited strictly to the men of the clan. As Maiko is a woman of the clan she is part of the side of the family that married into the Ashikaga centuries ago. No one is quite sure how it happened, her elders have said many stories over the years and each of them could be as true as they are false, but while the men get Wood, the females get heated. Specifically, the female Ashikaga often are fortunate enough to provide the hot springs to the Soaked Grove's...groves by way of Boil Release.

The simplest explanation and the one the family uses is that two different clans both with unique kekkei genkai were joined in unison in the past and rather than their future generations favor one or the other, it split by gender.

For generations now, the Ashikaga have been one of the most affluent and wealthy families in Konoha, boasting an even bigger grover, an even bigger collection of hot springs, and even more options for companionship… but now, two of the members of the youngest generation of the Ashikaga are committed to becoming shinobi and protecting and serving their village!

Mai is well aware of the stigma her clan has, both because of their unique attribute and because they are incredibly fortunate with their fortune. She means to show that just because she comes from wealth doesn't mean she can't give back to the village in more direct ways. Plus, someone has to keep her brother from making the reputation of the clan even worse.

_{C H A R A C T E R D E V E L O P M E N T}

I dunno. To be a jonin eventually. Maybe find romance.

Attributes

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_{T A L E N T S}

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• She's got a good head on her shoulders and is the yin to Kai's yang. Or vice versa. Whichever is nicer.
• She's basically big sister to the team.

_{T O O L S}

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• idk
• ninja
• shit

_{T E C H N I Q U E S}

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_{C R A N K}

• I'll do this later

_{D R A N K}

• Some shit with water I'll do this later

Other

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_{K E K K A I G E N K A I}

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_{N A M E}

• Boil Release

_{A B I L I T I E S}

• She gets steaming mad at her brother all the time.

_{S U M M O N I N G J U T S U}

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_{A N I M A L}

• N/A

_{N A M E}

• N/A

_{A P P E A R A N C E}

• N/A

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

@Majoras End It's gotten/is getting ports but the 'Nintendo console' requirement kinda died when they put Cloud in it since, until the Switch, FF7 hadn't been on a Nintendo property and no, the pre-7 entries don't count. Hell, one could argue it died when Sonic and Snake got in. Also considering the whole spirits system, Smash is less about Nintendo specifics than ever.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

It's fucking hilarious to me how people immediately thought the new Smash character was gonna be Dante but then Sakurai decided the best way to combat the complaint of "too many anime sword users" was by putting in Byleth, an anime sword user, but this time they also have a bow and a spear and an axe for specials.

Calling All Wrestling Fans!

As someone who has efed experience, I wish this all the best. Genuinely.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

I put Dedue on a horse and he looked miserable the whole time so really the game is a huge success 10/10 would humiliate Duscur again.

Shelter

_{Teacher's Lounge}

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So no one had a single coin on them? Really? It wasn't as if Elliot was going to steal someone's pocket change, she might've gotten a lot of detentions in her time here but never for theft. Now she just looked kind of like a jackass or, worse, some crazy person that punches things first and asks questions never. Her reputation was hardly sterling so on that front she didn't have much to lose but still, it would've been nice to have at least one person in her corner - considering others were talking about table legs in a panic and she was offering to do the unscrew job for them. Elliot could understand why some defaulted to table legs, they were typically made of either the same material as a table or, such as with card tables or those weird hard plastic tables at church banquets and shit, cold black metal that, while not quite as hard as something made of steel, would at least be better than nothing.

Elliot's knowledge of screws and indeed most of her handiness came from the same source. Not a book or tv or being so bored that the only way to pass time is to browse wikipedia articles until something comes up. It came from her father. The best times of her life were the weekends and summers where the two of them worked on fixing up old cars in the garage, arguing over what to play between MC5 and Cryptic Slaughter before settling on The Replacements so as not to frighten the neighbors too much. Elliot's father, James, was a walking font of useless trivia about things like screws and tools in general; he claimed it helped him be a better mechanic but Elliot just thought all dads got some kind of manual about trivia to bore your children with. But it was never boring to Elliot.

She really hoped her dad was doing alright.

But, she couldn't let that control her thoughts. There were more important things to worry about, and chief among them was the resident 'bad idea' mood lowerer in the room. There was always one in a group project who scoffed at everything presented as the way to go while offering nothing in return and there was one effective way of getting them to fall in line. "Oi, you." Elliot pointed and glowered towards the one who had been sitting by a trashbin. "First of all, watch your mouth, there's kids present. Second, if you've got a better idea, by all means take the floor. Look around, yeah? Everyone's scared or tryin' not to be, the last thing they need is someone sayin' an idea is terrible without any secondary idea presented."

Elliot took the opportunity to give one of the table legs a kick, nothing hard, more of a tap with her foot than some kind of forceful gesture. "If it makes people feel safer then what's the harm? It's not even that terrible an idea, you hit someone or...something hard enough in the head and they reel. One good swing can change everything - that's what my dad said when the Tigers were losin'. Unless you've got a bag full of tricks or somethin', then what's the harm in lettin' people have something to defend themselves with? What we don't need is negativity."

Elliot grabbed her Diet Coke and drank from the can, before setting it down with another held down belch. "Name's Elliot, by the way, but ya'll probably heard of me. All true, by the way."