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Me, playing Planet Zoo career mode: Oh my gods who put this fucking zoo together and why were they allowed in the room? What the fuck do you mean you want-?! Oh my fucking gods...

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And today, Achi learned that if a fairy leads you to a gold chest it is trying to fucking kill you.

The Goblin Tinkerer can get his ass saved tomorrow.

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Professor Kukui, when faced with a pair of kids: You want a fight then come on I'll take you both out without breaking a sweat

Guzma: Oh, you're that big, okay, let's fight and see which of us is the best.

Professor Kukui: Sure, but you know this child behind me is actually really strong so you should face them instead.

Me, the trainer in question: Bitch?! Fuck off, Kukui, you coward!

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Hi guys, sorry, internet was out for like six hours. Took the time to finish Shield, here are some closing notes

I really need to talk to Hop about his movesets. Love him but there has to be something more his Dubwool can learn

Having finished the main storyline I feel I can say that Oleana was definitely running a Rose-themed cult and while I don't think he was actively pursuing cult shit the fucking ego on that man did not help anything. "We- No, I" Sit your ass down old man, before one of us breaks something

Bede really got dragged into fairies and was like 'okay actually these things are awesome, old lady sucks though'

I really did just steamroll through pretty much all the late game fights

And on Rose's ego again, this man really had a fucking death dragon destroying the region with it's very presence and righteous anger and tried to stop Hop and I helping because 'oh I can't save Galar if someone other than Leon catches it' bite my ass, just because because you'd rather risk the entire fucking region to solve a problem that won't exist for another 1000 years than take the time to do the job right doesn't mean I have to play along!

He's better than most big bads in pokemon games, but only because his shit is fueled by ego, impatience, and moderately good intentions rather than pure dipshittery

And Oleana can still eat a whole fucking log for all I care

Seriously this woman is just- Gods forbid she play it smart rather than go out of her way to antagonize everyone that isn't Rose or part of her damn cult

Anyway, Leon was a fucking bitch of a fight. Mind you I was underlevelled, my highest was 60, but still. His Rhyperior and Charizard went down easy, everyone else was a fucking struggle as they wore my team to nubs.

Turns out, the way to beat his lvl 65 Gigantimax Charizard is with a lvl 59 Dynamax Dracozolt with Ancient Power

Final team was Gawain the Corviknight, Hale the Obstagoon, Yuki the Gastrodon (destroyer of so damn much), Cloud the Weezing, Shortbread the Centiskorch, and Gigaspark the Dracozolt

My Eternatus has a gentle nature, I will defend this death dragon with my life

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I have to say, a little thing I enjoy in Monster Hunter Stories 2, that I can't remember if it was in the first one, is the quick finish option for battles once you reach a certain power scale in comparison to what's in front of you.

Like, something I've been enjoying- and I don't know if it's just because I might be underleveled? I haven't been grinding so much so...- is that every fight feels like something you're having to put some work into. I feel like they way they do it, with your opponents changing tactics back and forth and not being able to see the health of new encounters or bosses, really keeps a good sense of tension and effort that can kind of be lacking in some fights in other critter collection games I've played. And part of the problem with the other ones, I think, is that you just keep having to put in the time and effort when you run into things you're really stronger than.

Just, if I'm playing pokemon and I return to an early route for something, then if I run into an opponent I either have to run away- which makes the encounter just a pointless waste of my time- or I have to fight them- which gives me a bit of experience, but there's only so many times you can go to the fight menu, hit a move, take out the pidgey, before it just is boring. Overall the game just slows down without any sort of tension or even points of interest. It's a little better when you go to areas where you can't oneshot something, but if it's something that can't stand up to you then you're just doing the same 'hit them hard and wait for the fight to end' that you were before, but for longer.

But MHS2's quick finish option solves that problem but giving you a simple key combo to press that immediately ends the fight with you victorious. If you've got enough of a power advantage in an area you've already cleared, the game just gives it to you- you both know you're going to win the fight, so rather than waste time and health you just quick finish and move on. And already I've gotten use out of it- getting a bit of grinding in while doing quests because hey, I can get some exp and only need to take five seconds per encounter rather than closer to a minute, avoiding the boredom factor caused by your opponent not being an actual threat. Or by being able to blaze through opponents that are hard to avoid while on the way to a quest battle.

It lessens the time you spend on fights that would just be needlessly drawn out and allows you to more quickly get through quests that are likely more interesting, or get to the real intense 'go down you bastard or so help me' fights that are where the game has really been shining for me.

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Have finished playing Monster Hunter Stories 2. My 'it's half-past midnight let me live' thoughts

These fuckers need to stop making me cry, it's rude

Final squad was made up of a Rathalos, Lagiacrus, Pukei-Pukei, Mitzutsune, Barioth, and Nargacuga

Once again the good guys in games are nicer and more forgiving than me, also rude

They dropped a monster I swear I hadn't seen before in front of me on my way to the final boss, this is illegal

The pickle wasn't bad enough they had to add Bazelgeuse to the game too

We would have had a lot less problems if I was allowed unrestricted use of my bow, I'm just saying

Pukei-Pukei are wonderful, if you don't agree you are wrong, I switched to mine so often that the call 'Lao~sin, get in here' is indelibly etched into my brain

Supposedly this is a 35 hour game. I took 83. Make of this what you will.

I overleveled but also used like no channeling or supplements or anything so I think it evened out

For the second game in a row they gave us a final boss I want to ride into battle and did not make it ride-into-battle-able, rude

For some reason the audio in my cutscenes didn't work like 80% of the time, it'd just be all out of sync

Despite this and the fact that I audibly growled over my cutscenes and cussed out many characters like they'd beat my dog in front of me, I really did enjoy this game and heartily recommend it to anybody into turn-based rpgs and/or critter collectors

Hopefully your brain functions better than mine because dear gods the number of times I switched in a monstie on the wrong corner of rock-paper-scissors because my brain threw out the corner I should be gunning for before it finished thinking it needed to know what to gun for and that just threw my everything off

The baby monsties are adorable, especially the Nerscylla, and yet I cannot just keep them small as like little pets. Truly the rudest and most illegal thing of all.

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I just had a fucking giant weird see-through skull go like halfway across my screen before fading away at like 9 pm? Anyone know what the fuck's up with that? I assume it's something new with the update, but it's not something I've seen or heard about before and I don't think I've done anything that could have prompted something.

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Spent 10 hours on Monster Hunter Stories 2 yesterday, will probably do so again today, really wish they'd at least choose another monster to insist is the most important thing in the world to us than another fucking Rathalos. Like, if you're gonna bar me from using all my team slots, presumably because I'm required to take a fucker I still don't have 10 hours in, at least make it something new or some shit.

Also nothing makes you want to hunt monster hunters for sport like the Stories games. Like, I already know these fuckers have a hard time dealing with one fucker, I've heard the talk about the mainline games, let me send my whole squad out and PVP a bitch.