I Restarted KI:U and All I Got Were These Crappy Weapons

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Apr 232012
 

Well, they’re not crappy, but argh.

Current progress:

  • Up to Chapter 23

  • Unlocked all the Zodiac Weapons so far EXCEPT the Scorpio Staff (I swear I’m the only one in the world who can’t unlock it)
  • 63% completion on powers
  • Haven’t even tried unlocking the “beat boss x with y weapon” challenges

Chapters 15 to 17 are the ones I hate the most because the story’s so “out there” (haha, I made a funny). It’s got some really great dialogue, but it doesn’t help much. So I stalled for about a week before doing those, and because I take 18-22 very personally, I did those in pretty much one shot.

What’s also slowing me down is the fact that I’m recording my progress. I’ve done Chapters 1-6 and Chapters 18 and 19 (18 has a one-time cutscene that I had to grab on my initial playthrough). They’re actually on Youtube as unlisted links, but I might post the playlist if there’s enough demand. I need to record 7 to 17 eventually (did I mention I hate 15 to 17?), and then 20 to 25 should go relatively quickly.

I’m still having fun with the game, but I’m looking forward to finishing it again so I can get back to the same point I was at before I restarted.

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Well, crap.

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Apr 122012
 

I’m having tons of fun playing Kid Icarus Uprising. I’ve made awesome weapons, unlocked most of Palutena’s treasure grid, done several challenges (Dark Pit, I’m looking at you and your goddamn crisis challenge).
 
However, I’ve run into a problem where I can’t unlock two weapons due to them being Crisis Mode challenges, in two very annoying areas. Slight spoilers forthcoming, but I’ll try not to be too explicit.
 
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Sorry to keep you waiting!

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Mar 302012
 

I haven’t forgotten about Legend of Mana (the icon in my Quick Launch stares at me every single day), but we interrupt your usual snarking for the fact that I’m fangirling pretty hard over Kid Icarus: Uprising.

The cover suffers from "American Kirby is Hardcore"... he's smiling in the original.

Oh yes. The fangirl is strong here. You have been warned. More below the cut.

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Cas Gets Lost (Part 1 of Infinity)

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Mar 112012
 

No, I’m not dead… I kinda wish I were (not really), but sadly, one cannot die from a common cold. So you have to deal with me getting lost instead.

I have Ryoga Hibiki‘s sense of direction, meaning that I get lost if I’m even one block away from my house. I once circled my block for twenty minutes because I couldn’t find my street. (I’ve lived here for close to nine years.) I will get lost in a department store for hours, and not because I’m buying stuff.

My legendary (lack of) sense of direction extends to video games. I still get lost in Sarutabaruta (for those who don’t play FFXI, this is the backyard of one of the starting cities).

Why am I telling you this? Because I’m about to do the few quests that make it very clear that I have no idea where the heck I’m going. Continue reading »

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Addendum: Bun

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Mar 042012
 

“Cas,” you ask in a perplexed tone. “According to the event list, you skipped Monster Corral and Mana Orchards. What gives?”

Actually, I can’t do them anymore. See, if you’ve completed Mana Orchards, Path of the Blacksmith, Instruments 101, Monster Corral, and Golem Go Get ‘Em, they’ll remain complete even on New Game+. Amusingly enough, if you have stuff growing in the Orchard when you finish, it’ll still be growing when you start again. Same thing with the Golden Seed that you get much later on.

It’s worth noting that Mana Orchards is the one quest that usually stops people from getting a perfect cactus diary. It starts the second you go into the orchard, and it ends when you kill the three four lullabuds. If you finished a quest and hadn’t talked to your cactus, you lost the entry for whatever quest you’d finished before Mana Orchards. Moral of the story? Talk to your damned cactus after every quest, and don’t talk to Bud until you’ve done so. (This comes into play much, much later.)

Anyway, all this to answer why I was able to pick up my rabite right away.

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