@zbogus77@Mel4Chrgrs It’s the book that got me back into reading as an adult. Still catching up on all the time I lost in my late teens playing and replaying video games, but it’s thanks to Hyperion I read 2-3 hours a day now
@kugal876 There’s a chapter by chapter guide on youtube by ModelOmega I use that gives a good rundown on what to expect from each chapter, if you need it. Useful for knowing how to not miss gaiden chapters and getting unique items like the pugi axe
@DireThunderhead Seems like it’s an avatar, but not -the main character-. Not that I have evidence, but from advertising I’d imagine you choose the one of four characters first, then you create the avatar a little later as like a self-insert divine helper or something
Good compromise imo, if so
@sacaeplains Worst part of engage is that the steward and firine units are almost all terrible and/or gimmicky, both as units and characters. Once in brodia, the characters get better imo.
Even the firine characters become more fleshed out with certain supports, tho. The nobles particularly
@soufflewaffle Would be less lame if it weren’t for the fact that we already sat through a labored, soap opera-y scene of kimiko holding dying frenchie in her arms the episode before. Imo, it’d be more effective if kimiko found him dead and this scene happened as her imagining his final words
@soufflewaffle I like half of this scene. The piano playing while butcher ryan and homelander, this strange + violent dysfunctional family, beat tf out of each other in the oval office is kind of poignant to me.
kimiko + frenchie stuff is corny, he had no reason to be moving like a force ghost
@RaiBread776@fortayee I don’t mind giving all the units a minimum of minor, banal dialogue
What i can’t stand is the recent trend where every character is royalty or some form of special retainer and you stop getting new characters halfway through the game. Miss recruiting randos off the battlefield
@fierygaze A key memory I have of Shadow Dragon is locking down Minerva’a army in Chapter 10 with Draug by himself while the rest of my army rescues her sister
Appreciate the games where the armor knights have a real niche
@slayerduval@BSO The red line -was- all of that stuff. he implied as much during the snake speech that he’s biding his time for a -smart- chance to strike. Ali was that chance; without Bishop, Ali would be a dead man
He did in alamo, though he didn’t have to, for moral reasons in a pragmatic way
@slayerduval@BSO most characters in this show (s3 especially) are not good people with normal, morally grounded boundaries till they realize there’s a line they find repugnant to cross. That’s the separation between them and people like laurie and alamo; alamo not stopping is what bothered bishop
@f_asmith Rue didn’t deserve it at all, but it was a gamble that she chose that people consciously wary of painkillers wouldnt. It’s a innate tragedy of addiction in general; rue had a (imo) understandable reason to use non-prescription percs, still killed her. Tish’s death didn’t stop her
@SamFonsecaa they achieve the little victory of the soul that Butcher couldn’t. Ryan and the surviving crew gets to live as normal a life as possible, the corruption of the Seven was stopped thanks to their efforts. Its not a feel good, tie with a bow kind of ending, but it wasn’t for nothing
@zbogus77 i knew i liked the first book when, in the first chapter, a certain named company member gets wounded really bad and the captain says “well y’know there’s a chance he could pull through, if he’s lucky.” And then that mercenary is never brought up again; you just have infer it