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Please don't release the Maris files. My names appears at least 50 times. Matilda is my queen. Maris, where have you been?
>>573819828Why is there blood on that trident?
>>573820143We all know what you did at Genbu's Castle you sick fuck. Better pay up the hush money or your ID will get leaked Mr. B*** *****e
Bird is kinda funny.
I'm enjoying writing up my review of Rance Quest. Not sure why but it's much easier to write than I normally find this.I still don't understand Crook's character. She's not listless. She's relaxed because being relaxed stops you from going to Hell.
>>573821729Bird is misunderstood hero and did nothing wrong
You encounter Rance. He has a sword, and is determined to engage with you in man-to-man combat. However, you can summon the last character you played as to fight in your place, with the condition that they can only use archaic weapons like Rance is. Do you survive?
>>573825045>Rance IVI am the shadow, the true Rance...
>>573825045Can he beat Rance?
>>573825045Depends on how strong Rance is currently, his powerlevel fluctuates from an above average joe to a demigod
>>573825609Yakuza characters are quite superhuman, fighting giant animals and dodging bullets and shit, but so could Rance. They might be quite even, physically, if you use a moderate interpretation of Rance's strength. (Rance Attack notwithstanding)The only question then would be if he can beat Rance in a swordfight. (Or with just his fists) Who knows.
>>573826225Assuming Rick-tier IX/early X Rance
>>573825045>Rance vs AkujiWho'd win?
>>573825045>bunny from bunny must dieliterally everyone knows how this is gonna end
>>573826338He wields a bat like a yankee.
Which girls are weak to plushies?
>>573818709I will never forgive this
>>573825609Depends on Rance's current level.
>>573827992Yuzumi, Tilde... Kanami, probably?
>>573834323You always were one Rance
>>573834323
>>573834323Does Satella really count?
I wonder if Quest's gameplay would have been better without poison and Crane.
>>573836627Why?
>>573836725Poison ruins every boss fight from the Green Dragon up to but not including Full Kalar. It is too easy to poison a boss and tank until it dies even if you are way below what level you should be. For the same reason, Crane ruins everything that isn't a boss fight because you can Escape the majority of encounters no matter what your level. Magnum does a little bit to solve the poison problem, but Chaos is so incredible that all that most Magnum boss fights require is Rance being alive.
>>573837174>because you can Escape the majority of encounters no matter what your levelThat's balanced out by the encounter rate being too fucking highAgree on the poison though
>>573837384When you have a whole team of Rangers, the encounter rate is not high.
Level 50-ish Rance can destroy buildings with Rance Attack, that's probably the best we got. Also I can't remember the first game Brutal Attack shows up in...
>>573837701I want to say KR but it might have been VI.
>>573837174Idk, it's just seems like you chose a gameplay style you don't like. You escape from fights so you are underleveled so you have to depend on poison. Poison seemed boring to me so i just never used it.
>>573838124I'm not sure when I got Crane. The first solid sign of me being underleveled was the second Crystal Robo fight and the first sign I saw of poison being so powerful was the Green Dragon fight. Nothing in my notes or screenshots suggests that I was exploiting Crane at that point int he game. For a very long time, my only Rangers were Suzume and Crane.
>>573838965Do you think sengoku would be a better game without advantage manipulating skills?
>>573828780Need kanami hugging a frog plushie
>>573841363Yes. The AI hardly gets chance to use them against the player and the game is broken as soon as the player realises their power.
I feel most RPGs in general have some cheese strats that invalidate tough encounters. I think part of the appeal in the genre is having the freedom to choose what kind of difficulty or “fairness” you want your playthrough to have.
>>573842783Every game ever has some cheese. That's why speedrun exist.
>>573842783I disagree. I do what the game encourages me to do. I am not at fault for Rance VI encouraging me to level past the point where the game is fun.
>>573843047um actually the greatest alicesoft game of all time (5D) is uncheesable.
>>573843250The problem with VI is that it is difficult to play without overleveling because you need to farm orbs anyway. But when it comes to poison/advantage manipulation you can just ignore them. I would understand if the goal was to make games hardcore, but it's not like you would accomplish it with just that, you would have to rebalance the whole game, the only thing that you would accomplish by deleting cheese in an easy game is make the game worse for the people that like cheese.
>>573821771>I still don't understand Crook's character. She's not listless. She's relaxed because being relaxed stops you from going to Hell.She is retarded, it is as simple as that
>>573845984When I needed to farm orbs, I ran the training forest. Doing it in a real level would've taken way longer, and I still ended up spending like an hour just to clear out most of what I had at the time. After that, I had enough and decided I would cheat orbs in in the future.
How did Sill manage to rescue Rance when he was tied up by Lia and Maris at the end of 01? Wasn't Kanami supposed to knock her out first before bringing her to the castle?
>>573850754>Kanami
I once theorized that if Rance had a persona, it would be Cú Chulainn, but I think Alcibiades fits him more.I think Hecate would fit Maris, too.Lia would definitely be Elizabeth Báthory.I dunno who would fit Rick.
>>573850754I'm more surprised that Kanami got so overwhelmed by Sill of all people that she had to haul ass all the way back to the castle.
>>573851814USELSSSELESS
>>573851814So did Sill follow Kanami all the way to the castle then? Or did Kanami knock out Sill and bring her to the secret passageway, then Sill woke up just in time to cast Fire Blast?
>>573852623I think the latter. In Kanami's defense, though, IIRC magic canonically has a very strong homing character so they are supposed to be very hard to dodge.
>>573852869>>573852623Projectiles like Fire Arrow, at least. Obviously beams don't track their targets.
>>573851648Alcibiades doesn't fuck enough women, Cu Chulainn can't keep his dick out of them, so he's more like Rance
>>573812036There's more than thatTT1 is the canonical conclusion to the continent seriesIt literally sets 5 years after Rance XAnd Rance X itself doesn't shut up about it's references in Part 2
>>573851648Rance is Genghis
>>573850754It's actually more ridiculous in OGMaris was the one assigned to kidnapped her, in factThere's interlude scene where Maris knocked her out at the schoolThen when Kanami was choking Rance in the castle,Sill suddenly appeared out of nowhere
>>573856667MALICE knew that Lia needed a good cock
>>573856873That's kinda hilarious to think about and it actually kinda makes sense. Let her get raped to harden her up a bit and make it so she's less likely to fall in love with a man and have it interfere with her rule. Except she ended up falling in love with the man who raped her. An almost perfect plan.
What exactly are Lia and Maris to each other? Mother and daughter? Sisters? Maris was completely fine pounding her in Quest.
>>573860787A sister is a girlfriend you are born with
I have never seen anyone calling yuri NTR, even when a girl gets penetrated by another one.Curious.
>>573855851But Cú is too honourable. Alcibiades fits the wildcard/trickster archetype more.>>573856546Can't really put my finger on why but I can't really see it. Rance doesn't have any real vision or long term imperial ambition, all of his goals and motivations are short term and fickle which nevertheless sometimes manages to get him to bumble his way to the top.
>>573861082That's because two women can't have sex with each other. Sex is when a man puts his dick into some sort of orifice that belongs to someone else.
>>573861173Rance is a conqueror and unifier in half of his games.
>>573856667Ok so just to recheck, Maris is just incompetent and Kanami is more competent in OG
>>573861419>Maris is incompetentWith her assume malice not incompetence
>>573861352But it's always just a collateral effect of some other motivation. It's never an end unto itself.
>>573861281What about futas?Also to be fair you don't need sex to be considered NTR
>>573860787Kissing cousins/sisters.
>>573861585Futas don't exist.
>>573861707They exist in Alicesoft games
>>573861419And forgotten/retconned stuff from Hikari
>>573862510
>>573862510>favourite thing: LiaOur Queen is great to everyone. Beloved by all
>>573861173>honourableSomeone who touches other men's wives has negative -100000 honor score
>>573861082It's hard for yuri to be ntr unless it's stealing a first because you can just forcibly initiate consensual sex upon the cucker.
>>573864406It's hard to take seriously.
>>573861082Thinking of a real-life example, I'd rather have my partner have sex with another woman than have sex with said girl myself. It would feel like cheating and probably cause her serious emotional damage, whereas lesbian sex is just whatever.
I asked who the strongest Apostles were a while back, but I remembered that it's actually Brad and Pitt.
>>573814081You're definitely onto something. It's crazy how much more respect Rance commands just by not looking like some femboy.
>>573835709I think she's just added there to fill space and the character's hairstyle is really similar to her's already.
>>573860787FWB kinda.
>>573860787Master and servant, mistress and maid.
>>573856172>TT1 is the canonical conclusion to the continent seriesSo the story of the continent ends with Yaro? That's not a good ending.