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Thoughts on Dissidia!
( Spoilers for...Final Fantasy? )
7) Bartz is secretly Gilgamesh. IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING
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| 2012-01-16 16:28 |
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In unrelated news, have I mentioned that Sazh's fourth attack animation involves him kicking his guns so that they transform into a rifle?
YEAH.
( SNAPE KILLS TRINITY WITH ROSEBUD )
I'm free to grind for CP and I'm on the world map and I'm enjoying myself! My party is all so tropes-conscious now!
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| 2012-01-16 11:20 |
| FFXIII, or, how I learned to stop grinding and love the fal'Cie |
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I picked FFXIII back up yesterday. ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) jkefka firmly removed me from the purgatory of "walk two steps, three clusters of enemies respawn, obligingly return to enemies, mow down enemies, try to leave, enemies respawn" and told me I had a problem with infinite spawns, which I do, but how else would I have learned that the elementals stop respawning on turn sixty in Radiant Dawn? Howwwww? He did not argue that point, but as I was at least one cutscene removed from infinite dudes, I went forward.
( I knew I was going to like the Primarch when he started trolling the Super Serious Villains. )
Now we are running around, fighting dudes, apparently training up new jobs since the ones I have are full and locked down until the next plot incident, and any minute GLaDOS is going to start talking about testing. Oh, and everyone immediately caught on to the discrepancy of "fal'Cie protecting Cocoon" and "fal'Cie being super helpful and being like YES GO ON DESTROY COCOON". I...I'm so happy. They haven't taken it one step further to hypothesize why this is, but we're all on the same page here!
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| 2011-12-21 11:20 |
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LJ, have you been taking your cues from CCP? Because CCP started groveling and undoing a lot of their fuckery once saying I SWEAR YOU'LL LIKE IT SOONER OR LATER COME ON IT'S SO MUCH BETTER THIS WAY SERIOUSLY GUYS for six months did nothing but make the playerbase cranky. Do not copy old CCP.
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| 2011-12-19 13:23 |
| EVERYTHING IS FINE NOW |
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The datalog helpfully informed me that the army that had been holding Hope's father while he was all tied up and wistfully watching Our Heroes sail away on the airship was the Cavalry, so he's safe after all. Not sure why they didn't untie him and were holding him down with four guys when we last saw him (the datalog also told me that he was, unsurprisingly, 100% wanted by Sanctum, so maybe that was them and the Cavalry had a badass rescue sequence offscreen) but long story short, Cid can use basic logic and Hope's father isn't dead or soon to be executed.
Now we just keep our fingers crossed that Cid doesn't backstab me, because Cid is awesome. He is, in fact, so awesome that he's almost guaranteed either to backstab me or to be executed on live television.
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| 2011-12-13 09:31 |
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I think we're headed directly for Things Get Kind of Logical, with stops at Everyone Stops Being Dumb, Chocobo Treasure Hunting, and The Lone Sidequest in the Game. I think. We could have ten more hours of this.
As we check back in with Team Burn the World, Lightning has a ~revelation~ that she's not angry at Sanctum, she's angry at herself! And guilty! And lost! And FOREVER ALONE. Taking out Sanctum will do nothing to actually make the world better or even make her feel better! Hope then flips his shit over WHAT AM I FIGHTING FORRRRR THIS CANNOT BEEEEEEE I MUST KILL SNOW I HATES HIMMMMMMM. Then they walk into the middle of an army. OSHI-
( And then Snow reveals that he does have three braincells to rub together. )
Bad decisions are being made all around, is what I'm saying. But there's a light at the end of the OH MY FUCKING GOD DID YOU REALLY JUST DO THAT
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| 2011-12-08 10:15 |
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So here is the latest from the FFXIII front.
The first two minutes or so of this describes the relationship of the datalog to the plot of FFXIII. I have taken to yelling THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON at the screen whenever incidents like this one happen:
( TENNIS )
Meanwhile, Team Rational Thinking sees that the army is going in the same direction as Lightning and Hope, and decide to head in the ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, because they are not soldiers and they do not want to die. Good for them!
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And while I am talking about games.
( My Thoughts on the ending(s) of Muramasa. )
MURAMASA I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU BUT THIS
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| 2011-12-07 09:34 |
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FFXIII sure is something.
I'm getting the hang of the battle system, which is actually a little challenging because ALL ACTIVE ALL THE TIME and you can't control your party very well. If you stick your party into support roles they can't attack because they don't have the command for it in that job. You have to be a little quick on the jobswap button if you're in a prolonged battle where you need them buff spells or heal spells or whatnot.
The plot is still...special. They're moving away from providing all the plot in the menu rather than having it happen, but it's a slow and painful process. Latest egregious LET ME TELL YOU HOW THIS IS GOING:
( FFFFFFFF )
It's definitely improving, and I like Hope a whole lot more when he's not just wibbling all over the place (to be fair to him, he was in shock and under a lot of stress) and is getting his ragemage on. I'm still predicting that once he has a spine he's going to storm over to Snow all hellbent on being like YOU BASTARD YOU KILLED MY MOTHER and then have a ~revelation~ that it wasn't Snow, it was that Hope didn't man up and take the last gun himself to protect his mother and he's been angry at himself all along and that's why he could never bring himself to actually tell Snow to die in a fire! And then manly tears.
The cyclotron is broken and I kind of want to be playing FFXIII instead of being here doing very little that is useful. what is wrong with meeeee
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FFXII FACEPUNCH
Apply squeaky hammer directly to the Vayne. And then Team Sky Pirate lived happily ever after, with a side of Larsa borrowing Penelo. For a very long time. Oh, and Ashe finally gets some god damn clothes.
Then I started FFXIII.
OH. MY. FUCK.
It handles like a cross between Dirge of Cerberus and FFX. The music is a combination of FFX, Sonic Unleashed, Radiant Dawn, and a little bit of Odin Sphere. The opening is FFX ramming headlong into FFVII and falling off a cliff.
The opening sequence tries to kick off as quickly as FFX's does, but it handicaps itself by trying to have as extended an opening sequence as Kingdom Hearts 2 or FFXII. At least in those games you knew you were just faffing around sidequesting, and in FFXII you could even sidestep it if you so desired. FFXIII doesn't even let you level up or fight properly until two hours after you start killing enemies.
The plot is 100% tell, not show. You figure out what is going on not because of what is happening onscreen, but by opening your menu and reading the story from your "datacom" or whatever it is. Long story short, blah blah government blah blah keeping us safe in Cocoon from the scary actual world called Pulse blah blah Pulse l'Cie bad blah blah infiltration incursion (HAY SANSHA I GOT A WORLD FOR YOU). We must obey everything the government says because clearly they aren't hiding anything or exploiting anything or lying to us at all. Oh, but they're trying to kill us and we're rebelling. Wuh?
And now, roll call!
Lightning: As grumpy as Cloud in the beginning of FFVII, complete with cranky ex-soldier issues, with added STEP OFF MY SISTER. Showed up with the ability to fly, punch missiles, and otherwise badass badass mcbadass. All of this before ~oh no branded forever by the Pulse we must leave the safety of our home and go to the scary scary surfaace noooo~. Lightning is allowed to do all the things.
Snow: PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH FIANCEE PUNCH PUNCH. He and Lightning want to punch each other until candy comes out. Lightning wins. He's engaged to Lightning's sister, with the unfortunate issue of Lightning's sister turning into a crystal statue during the vast opening sequence. Everything he does he does for loooooove. He doesn't quite get why Hope keeps staring in his general direction with an expression of IF I ONLY HAD A SPINE
Hope: Looks like a floofier Tidus with actual pants and a neckerchief. Cries like Tidus at his worst, only constantly. He tries so hard to seethe in rage at Snow who RUINED HIS LIIIIIFE AND KILLED HIS MOTHERRRRRRR except what happened is his mother was like "gimme dat gun I will fight on the front lines for my son" and then she and Snow fell off a broken piece of highway (like Tidus) after dramatically strolling away from an explosion, except his mother doesn't have protagonist powers so that actually hurt a lot. Basically Snow had nothing to do with it except being on the scene, but we must have some fine Shakespearean intra-party raeg.
Vanille: Possessed of the greatest amount of badonkadonk in the party thus far. Moves like Selphie, has the best weapon, relentlessly cheerful (clearly masking dark secrets because nothing ever seems to faze her HOW COULD THIS BE), has Larsa's accent, and whenever Hope gets intolerable she smothers him in her ample bosom until he stops complaining. For this alone I appreciate her presence.
Sazh: Carries around a chocobo chick. Has two guns. Follows Lightning around because when caught in the crossfire of bad shit and a flaming badass runs past you, follow the flaming badass. The lone voice of reason and hey hey is this really a good idea I mean seriously why did you punch that. Clearly also has a tragic past, which Lightning (reasonably) misinterprets from time to time as wanting all l'Cie to die since when he gets his brood on he never finishes his sentences.
The battle system is kindasortagambity that you can switch around on the fly. You can assign jobs and switch them mid-battle a la dress spheres. You will only control your leader, and the rest of your party will follow some vague gambits that you don't seem to be able to set. If your party leader dies, you're hosed, but you can ~retry~ a battle without penalty. It's like Persona 3, in a way.
The leveling up system is kindasortaspheregridy, only you have multiple sphere grids that you can level concurrently for different jobs. Not everyone has access to every job (yet?). Your weapons can be leveled up and then fused into things or something. Your accessories are just accessories. So, FFX ran headlong into FFIX.
I keep comparing it to other games because thus far, there's so little game here. I will investigate further tonight now that I can level up and have a party and go places and do things. I will probably froth the entire time. HNNNGH
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In the end, no one got any treasure. They got explosions instead. In other news, never hire Kurama to try to prevent someone from being murdered horribly:
Kurama: *chilling in Koenma's office with popcorn during this arc*
Koenma: Seriously. You're sure Hiei won't flip out and murder everyone in that mansion? You're absolutely positively sure that you didn't need to go along with him, being as you're the only person I could possibly send who could physically stop him and odds are fantastic that he'd listen to you?
Kurama: Oh, he'll be fine. Yusuke will be there to yell at him if he starts caving in skulls.
Koenma: I'm blaming you if any humans die. Arresting both of you, but this? This is all on you.
Kurama: ah hm
Koenma: *side-eye*
Kurama: I'm sure everything will be absolutely perfectly fine.
Koenma: ...you weren't planning to just look the other way while he murdered everyone, were you?
Kurama: Nnnnnoooo?
Koenma: *facehands*
Kurama: So...popcorn?
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Conclusion six: Either Kurama and Hiei got along really well offscreen before Yusuke walks into them and they get over the "you backstab me, I actualstab you" incident, or they do an about-face on their opinions of each other, which appear to be "screw you and your half-assed world domination plans, I'm out" and "hey hey wait no don't leave -- WELL SCREW YOU TOO". Either way, they go from being on the outs with each other to downright friendly in the offscreen space of two weeks (I think?). Well, as friendly as they get:
*thirty seconds of holy crap demon magic exploding everywhere manifestation*
Kurama and Hiei: *appear*
Hiei: So we're here to help you but LISTEN UP I AM NOT DOING THIS BECAUSE I WANT TO there is treasure in that castle and I don't know what Kurama's deal is but I AM HERE FOR TREASURE AND BEING PARDONED AND THAT IS IT. p.s. Yusuke you, me, my sword, your entrails, it's a date
Hiei: *dodges Kuwabara twice without a pause in speech*
Kurama: *headsmack*
Hiei: okay fine fine I'll rant later
Anyone else who did that: *would be dead*
This is followed by:
Some Castle of Evil
Suzaku: Aha! People have come to throw themselves in futility at our ~Gate of Betrayal~. They will completely die. Now, on three, everyone. One! Two! Three!
Our Villains: *synchronized evil laugh*
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Obtained first season, am watching at a slower pace due to WORRRRK. I have concluded a few things from what I've seen thus far:
1. Kurama, despite his long and thieftastic career, has apparently never been caught (and, in fact, was not caught this time either but instead handed himself over). There's no other way that "no previous convictions" and "spent the last several hundred years stealing anything that wasn't nailed down, with a liberal interpretation of not nailed down" can be reconciled.
2. The guy who wrote Yu Yu Hakusho got through Genkai's first arc and said to himself, "Self, tournaments are fun to write. What if...I wrote the biggest tournament ever? I'M A GENIUS." And lo, the Dark Tournament did span more than a season, and he looked upon it, and declared it epic.
3. The first five episodes is The Keiko and Kuwabara are Badasses Show. All Yusuke does is flail around in the sky going FFFFFFF I'M INSUBSTANTIAL
4. There is only one way that Hiei can know Kurama's motivation for bolting off with the Evil Mirror of Evil, and that is by stalking him for three days straight after Kurama was like "yeah screw you guys I'm out", because he never talks about it at all before that. This is a thing for the rest of the series, yes, but damn, he got started way early.
And one belated conclusion from the Seven arc:
5. Hiei has somehow obtained the Oboro style of swordsmanship, as seen by breaking his fifty billionth sword thus far in the show on Kaitou's face and then having an intact sword an hour later. (A showdown between him and Kisuke and/or Momohime would be the best popcorn material ever.)
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| 2011-11-26 02:30 |
| meanwhile, in the Seven arc |
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Some Car of Evil Entering Some Cave of Evil, Human Realm
Kuwabara: I will never be party to your schemes! I will never join you! Let me die as a man! Kill me, you bastards!
Some Bar of Ignoring Plot Arcs, Demon Realm
Hiei: ...I feel like I'm missing out on something.
Some wacky hijinks later:
Some Cave of Evil
Kurama: So...before we game on, can I get a motive out of you?
Gamemaster: I don't care if the world burns! I'm safe in here, with my games. Demons can't beat me at games!
Kurama: I have some really bad news for you.
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| 2011-11-25 01:47 |
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Demon lulz best lulz.
First round of the finals of the Dark Tournament:
Hiei: *total lack of usual commentary or basically doing anything other than stare*
Kuwabara: You feeling all right?
Hiei: SHUT UP I AM WATCHING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS
Second round of the finals of the Dark Tournament:
Yusuke: *dumps Kurama next to the ring as he did last time Kurama was injured past the point of moving*
Kurama: FUCK NO STAY RIGHT THERE I AM LEANING ON YOU AND I AM STANDING
Yusuke: You okay there? You're practically dead.
Kurama: I AM WATCHING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS
Kurama: Besides, without my commentary, you will have no idea what Hiei is doing other than FLASHY LIGHTS and DRAGON and SLOWLY REMOVING BANDAGES and OOPS HE ACCIDENTALLY THE STADIUM
Yusuke: How do you know all this? Were you stalking him while he practiced or something?
Kurama: Sssh. I'm watching the tournament.
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| 2011-11-24 01:12 |
| they actually dedicated five minutes of episode to this |
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Episodes are about twenty minutes long, so that's how you know it's SRS BSNSS
Some guy: I'm the leader! I shank my useless teammates when they're about to cry and spill all their secrets to HOLY CRAP A FOX DEMON! I have maaaaagic dice! Who wants to play? Hey, you, with the crazy hair and crazy face! You haven't had any screen time in aaaages!
Hiei: NO ME ME ME I HAVE SO MUCH PENT UP ANGER MEEE
Kurama: NO ME
Kuwabara: He's right, I haven't had any screen time! I'mma go!
Hiei: NO ME
Kurama: SCREW YOU I'M GOING
Hiei: NO WAY
Kurama: Dude, you have been running yourself ragged for the entire tournament and you just got worked. Will you take a break so you don't die in the finals?
Hiei: Hell to the no! You're just going in there so you can torture the formula for turning back into your super-demon form out of him! Then you'll get distracted by playing with your food, like you always do, and he'll come from behind and shank you.
Kuwabara: DID I NOT SAY I WAS GOING
Hiei: NO ME
Kurama: NO ME
*mexican standoff*
Kurama: Or...we could just say fuck it and rock-paper-scissors it.
Kuwabara: Very well.
Hiei: What's...rock-paper-scissors?
Kurama: It's a human game. You know, like the one I was trying to convince you to learn so you wouldn't just stare out of the window all night brooding and being bored while everyone else was drinking and -
Hiei: JUST STOP TALKING AND EXPLAIN IT
*round one!*
Kuwabara: PAPER BEATS ROCK I WIN
Hiei: Rejected. You waited on us.
Kuwabara: And why do you think that?
Hiei: I'M FUCKING PSYCHIC THAT'S WHY
Kuwabara: orz
Kurama: can't laugh now surrounded by audience of thousands do not laugh
Kuwabara wins the match and goes on to the Poignant Battle, but I'm pretty sure I will never get tired of Hiei and Kurama trolling each other.
This episode also contains the (unrelated) statement that is translated as: "Pain, you are in my way! Move it!"
basically it's 1.30 AM and I don't know when that happened but I'd better get some sleep
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| 2011-11-23 19:13 |
| watchin' more yu yu hakusho |
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The first season is still faffing around on the wrong coast somewhere (odds are good the address was written wrong given its adventures per USPS tracking, but I still hold out hope that it'll show up someday) so I was like "oh well whateva whateva I'mma start watching moar"
Fun fact: this season picks up directly from where one of my Dark Tournament DVDs left off. How convenient. I'm three episodes in, and so far we have had:
Kuwabara: Screw you, laws of physics! I have lightsabers!
Kurama: *bitchface*
Some mook: STOP STARING AT ME LIKE THAT
Kurama: *hates him to death*
Some mook: *explodes into flowers*
Kurama: Mmmmhm.
Some guy who is actually pretty rad: FAAALCOOON PUUUUNCH
Hiei: *totally dies and is dead*
Hiei: JUST KIDDING
Hiei: NEXT TIME TRY SOMETHING THAT ISN'T SETTING THE FIRE DEMON ON FIRE
Hiei: P.S. EAT HELLFIRE
and ten thousand closeup shots of Yusuke's eyes while he's looking harmlessly adorkable.
*claps like a seal*
Kurama: Dude, do you want another shirt? I'm wearing several.
Hiei: Meh.
Kurama: Okay.
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| 2011-11-16 09:46 |
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This wank fascinates me. I am intrigued by the comment of "as long as there are MMOs, there will be DPS meters and their wank."
EVE does not have DPS meters. There are third-party (but absolutely essential) programs that calculate the theoretical DPS of a fitting, and in the next patch the fitting window will have a similar calculation, but that's it. Killmails tell you more or less how much damage you did to someone, and you can look through your log files for the damage you inflicted on individual hits, but a DPS meter in a game where you have to factor in tracking/falloff/optimal/explosion radius would be beyond useless.
Your FC doesn't know how much damage you're dealing on the fly. Your fleetmates, same. You probably aren't paying attention because the notifications appear for about one second before they're covered up by your drone damage/you taking hits/you missing/other commands you've issued. The DPS e-peen one sees is "cloaky fit with 700 DPS, OH WHAT NOW" "lol yeah when you're within 5 km and it's webbed more like, I get 550 at 30 km on my cloaky" and that ilk.
Basically EVE players calculate e-peen with calculus so I don't understand the ruler metric.
In other news, CCP is frantically trying to redeem themselves with the winter expansion. New ships; POS fuel pellets; destructible, player-owned PI structures (which is the hotly contested one, as ninja PIers have burst into tears and are wanking all over the forums while the rest of EVE sits back with popcorn to see whether CCP Omen's rosy vision of people in lowsec/nullsec/w-space allowing access to said structures in exchange for taxes holds true); supercapital nerf; dreadnought buff; new T2 modules; hybrid weapon rebalancing; UI makeover; the full complement of captains' quarters and shelving the rest of Incarna (oh man did they ever eat crow over that one); return of engine trails; new cynosural field/jump effect; ship reskinning; new nebulae, with stargates now angling towards their destination with the star of the solar system and the constellation around it honest-to-god visible (bonus, the POS overhaul was mostly waiting for the art team to finish their current project AND THEY ARE DONE); corp bookmarks; warp to and jump; bomb detonation radius visible on tactical overlay; time dilation; speed and agility increase for most hybrid ships; and Santa is real and he's going to be at Fanfest. And I'm forgetting some.
Its official name is Crucible. It is colloquially referred to as TötalHellDeath.
It's going to be interesting.
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| 2011-11-14 21:03 |
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EVE just got a whole lot prettier:
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Every so often I poke through my collection of anime and then decide to watch the hell out of something for a while. Current: Yu Yu Hakusho. I might have all of it, forever, arriving at my apartment sometime next week. For now, I have what I accumulated during my teenage years. I went through this a few days ago and sort of wandered over to jkefka and asked how I had forgotten how awesome this series was.
In no particular order:
BURNING YOUTHFUL SPIRIT and THIS IS HOW A MAN LIVES/DIES
Everyone but Kurama subscribes to the Prince of Persia school of dealing with ripped clothing: "A rip in my sleeve? OFF WITH THE SHIRT."
Shizuru: best older sister or bestest older sister?
Kurama and Hiei could not be any more popcorn.gif if they tried. Their role for about eight episodes straight is to provide reaction shots and sarcastic commentary.
Everyone is best friends forever with at least one person. Everyone.
"I am direly wounded and can no longer fight!" "Yep. Kurama is completely out of commission." "Oh dear, it seems Kuwabara is about to die in a pit of lava and then we will have our faces eaten by a tiger. Welp, time for the demons to save the day." "Oh, no, he's fine." "NEVER MIND, I'M SO INJURED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAME OVER ME"
Using ICE on the FIRE DEMON is like invading Russia in winter.
There is none of this usual shounen manga backsliding where everyone POWARS UP to defeat some foe and then they go back to the real world and NORMAL PEOPLE, HOW DO THEY WORK. No. You clear the Dark Tournament and then Yusuke has to deal with some humans who happen to have superpowers, and he's like "I see your mind-reading pro boxer aspirations and OOPS I'M FASTER THAN HUMAN REACTION TIME"
80s fashion best fashion: skinny jeans, white sneakers, alarmingly colored jackets, popped collars, and Depeche Mode hair. Add sunglasses and cell phones the size of small children as needed.
I am enjoying myself.
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