started my third mario odyssey playthrough! my aims is to get a pic of every kingdoms state, and also collect as much of regional coins and moons as i can before leaving the kingdom. got all regional coins in fossil falls first try as well as the moons (without any hints even just on my own) and did a buncha stuff in sand!
unforchunately my left stick is actually awful and like
me on discord said:
Here's How A Simple Controller Issue Can Make Literally Just Teleporting To A Checkpoint Tougher Than Darker Side
jaxi also kept steering to the left into the void and talking to npcs is way harder than it needs to be for a simple button press...... weirdly enough the drifting affected my movement the least so i can manage. i can take it.
I really hate when I'm in a cave and they make me do a bicycle puzzle but the encounters keep interupting my bicycle speed and so I have to bike back and when I get back up to speed I get hit with another encounter but I have no Repels so i'm just FUCKED and have to deal with it anyway this is me saying fuck Wayward Cave. I don't recommend using Blissey or Hippowdon in DP, not that they're bad pokemon but they make every turn take twice as long.
A fully Copen focused game was an amazing idea and I hope they continue this sub-series and add like Blade as a seperate character that can also go mach speed through every level but maybe instead of tagging and shooting she can just tear through enemies. The final boss took me a good 12 or so attempts, almost every attack just goes through Prevasion so I couldn't use that as a crutch but that's a really good callback to the original GV1 that also did the same thing, because both games have the same final boss, this one is just 100 years older and big and spooky. Pokemon X Version
Rock Smash battles were a mistake, Shuckle at 5% was a mistake, Pokemon X was a mistake. But my character looking nice so I forgive. Ponytail. Why is the ice city not like, next to the snow areas when there's literally nothing around this town that is snowy. It's such a weird choice, it's not like this gym was particlarly hard or different from another. Someone fucked up when dragging and dropping their completed towns. Speaking of dropping, frame drops everywhere. Game was prepared to crash when I got into a horde battle with Trevenants.
I'm going back and probably going to attempt to S Rank each stage. Maybe I'll S+ Rank each one but that will be a lot of practice because I'm just so bad at fighting the bosses, but it could be doable with Cautious which lets me take two hits before I have to reset. At least I can say I got one S+ rank, on the 30 second boss fight that probably has nothing to do with score. I need to get the equipment created first before I start so I've got the Eye Equipment that will increase my Flashfield time so I can recharge less. I'm going to get the infinite Air Jump's equipment next, then the only real important one is the Lethal Lavaliere which just improves your score by 20%.
I made it through the Flopside Pit once again, and Shadoo made me fight dark clones of each of the four characters. I was fully convinced I was going to die (I used half my rations on this single stupid Dark Dayzee), but I just barely won, hanging on by a thread. I could literally hear my heart pounding when all was said and done. That was one heck of a battle. I don't have much use for it now but I guess I never have to worry about that flip timer again.
Thank goodness there are no more Pits of 100 Trials left for me to beat. I'm worn out.
What really annoys me about the pits is that by the time you get their rewards, you won't ever have much use for them ever again.
Like, um, yeah, I'd like to be able to indefinitely flip, I could use that somewhere, thank you. The fact that it even has a limit is also dumb tbh. Why would you want to limit how much time you spend in 3d, it's not like there's any drawbacks to just removing the limit right?
I think I'll just go for S ranks for now, which are way easier since you can use Cautious and use checkpoints and still get it. 200k points is S rank, somewhere between 800k and 1.2k is S+ rank so the jump is huge but is basically made up by never cashing in and using Fearless because the multiplier will make up a majority of that.
I was able to clear 1st Sumeragi on Fearless and get S+ rank but that's also the easiest stage and it still took half an hour. Also I've done it before so I still had that experience with it even though it was 3 years ago. I need to really learn the boss patterns before I can even attempt S+ rank because I can learn the stage and get good at that but I'm terrible at dealing with some of the randomness and reaction time that is applied in boss fights. Also one of those fights is a bullet hell so lmao fuck that. I did realise at the end of Media Tower that the answer to dodging this undodgeable boss special move was just to fucking attack and use an offensive skill before he launches it. Honestly that boss is probably the easiest one for me, I've beat it flawless before.
He's delusionally talking to his book while someone burns to death next to a pile of smelly corpses in the background. Oh and there's a shower stall just out there in the open because why not.
just gonna say it now, you can use a gecko code to get rid of it. also apparently you can use a memory editing thing so it never runs down. the reason it was implemented in the first place is as a mild punishment for overusing the 3d ability so players don't just see hidden things instantly or skip enemies all the time. i think it's kinda fair, personally i usually ignore it as it's such a mild penalty and it's an easy game in the end, although i can understand other players being frustrated over it
I dread every bike section that comes up! And is there a single woman in this game that's written as more than just a tool to bang every time you kill someone?!
