Glen-i

It says a lot about you that you consider that entertaining viewing. It also says a lot about me that I kinda wanna watch you go mental. But I think that S.S. Anne has sailed already.

It ain't Gen 1, so naturally, no-one cares except me. And I already have a Celebi.

Thank you @Jonnas, you've inspired me to write a petition to completely ban "Laifu" from the English vocabulary. Hey, you know what has the exact same letters as Laifu? Lufia & the Fortress of Doom is a turn-based RPG published by Taito of all companies (Made by Neverland). It came out in 1993 on the SNES. America only, mind you, because it's an early 90's JRPG, so of course it never came out in Europe. Despite it's naming style, it's actually not a rip-off of the Harry Potter Books. Coulda fooled me... Some of you may recall me playing the Game Boy Lufia game last year. You know? That game where he killed Conan for no reason? This is the first game in the series and is my second Lufia game. The story begins with a bloke called Maxim. He and his group of friends are in the very definite Final Dungeon, Lv 80 and ready to kick some Final Boss tushie. They then do, but a final trap leaves Maxim and his friend Selan in a pretty hopeless situation. And then they're never seen again for the rest of the game. 100 years pass and you play as a bloke with no name who is blatantly Maxim's descendant. He's friends with a strange girl called Lufia. However, history decides to pull a Secret of Mana and repeat itself. The 4 villains (Called Sinistrals) that fought Maxim all those years ago have shown up again. So it's up to Not Maxim and Titular Character Girl to defeat the Sinistrals and probably blow up the Fortress of Doom (Actual in-game name). The story hasn't got that much going for it. It's pretty standard fare for JRPG's. Which is fine, this was the 90's, after all. I will say that the opening is pretty novel, giving you control of a full party of 4 characters for 5 minutes before unceremoniously ditching them for the actual main character. I have to say the big late-game twist is pretty novel as well. Apart from those, don't expect anything too amazing, do expect some ropey translation though. The gameplay is your typical Turn-based RPG fare. You explore the world, advancing the story, exploring some dungeons and get into all sorts of random encounters. Even for it's time, there's not really anything that helps Lufia stand out from other RPG's. Not a bad thing, and I certainly wasn't expecting anything more. It does it's job and it does it pretty well. The visuals are pretty unambitious as well, it's pretty early in the SNES's life and it kinda shows. It is weird having the battle screen just be an overlay instead of a separate screen. The music is also pretty safe, nothing that memorable, but nothing truly offensive either. Lufia 1 is not going to light your world on fire, it's a pretty standard, by-the-books RPG that sets out to do just that and nothing more. I certainly enjoyed it, but on a console with a great amount of quality JRPG's, Lufia just kinda fails to live up to the lofty standard. Still... Why yes, yes it is. Your pie sucks!

Well, bugger me then. This is what happens when you do most of your browsing through phone, kiddies.

Was it something to do with Galaxy 2's Faceship? Anyway, don't know if this was posted before, but this is pretty much how I played the game.

Do you work in PR? You should work in PR. Couldn't resist Looks cool. Will have to keep an eye on it.

Oh god, get that rug burn away from me. I wasn't speeding through that section out of any danger of dying, I was running away from that incredibly cheesy out-of-place song. How you go from any of the 3D Mario's finale music to that is beyond me. Retroactively ruined a lot of the entire final boss sequence. Pokemon Sun/Moon also has an awful grand finale track.

I get that the music is designed to be minimalist, but for me, the soundtrack plays a big part of my enjoyment when I play games. It sits above visuals for me. A good song can really make a moment for me (Jump Up, Super Star for one) while a bad song can totally take me out of a moment (Whatever the hell that awful song in the last section of Odyssey was). BOTW's soundtrack for the most part exentuates how bored I was. I only remember two songs, and only vaguely. I'd take a bad soundtrack over a minimalist one any day. Hell, at least I remember Xenoblade Chronicles X's (c)rappy soundtrack.

I knew about the Ground Pound Panel, but didn't think to try the chimney.

Last game for me guys. EDIT: I've gotta say, I'm not completely dreadful at Clam Blitz. It's a ranked mode where Rollers actually have a hope in hell. I like it.

After this match, I'll switch to Private Battle.

OK, let's go get schooled. Password is 4444.

Are we doing private or league? I need to know which kind of room to open.

Even the internet connection got fed up with waiting!

@RedShell, where are you? Have you been bought by Disney?

Why do I get so excited about this game whenever the thread gets bumped? I still don't even know what this game is.

Next League Night: Tonight 8pm Group 1 @BowserBasher is host @Glen-i @BowserBasher @martinist @punio75 @viceview51 @RedShell @S.C.G

He's right, I've been rocking that move since Gen 1. Great if you don't want to get into an encounter for whatever reason. That stopped working after Gen 4 though. Cool little fact. In Pokemon Emerald, a Pokemon with the "Hyper Cutter" ability cuts a larger area of grass than usual. I'm such a nerd...

Aww... Almost on my Birthday... Will get though. Waiting paid off. Crystal is in my top 3 Mainline Pokemon games, even if it is a little dated. I do wonder why they didn't release all three together. Did Yellow sell so much better than Red/Blue that Game Freak got worried?

*Ahem* Next N-Europe Splat Up: Tonight 9:15pm Players: @Glen-i, @DuD, @RedShell

Snarky comment about how US/UM doesn't even have a National Pokedex. After doing some research. I can conclude that the only difference (apart rom price) is the cover. They're both advertising the exact same features. Book 1 has the nicer, slicker cover to boot. So I'd go that route. Fair warning though, I'd be very surprised if every Pokemon is in there, due to there still being one event Pokemon that hasn't been officially revealed yet.

I can't help but laugh at the bare-face cheek of it. I imagine there's people looking at the SF2 HD icon on their Switch and silently raging. I don't blame them.

So, the Bayonetta 1 + 2 amiibo support got some details. And there appears to be a stealth announcement in there. Top row, far right. Either that, or @S.C.G has already claimed it all for himself.

I watched one scene when Dcubed's bro got to it and the game completely crapped out and played no voices what-so-ever. Music and visuals were still going, but no speaking. Which just made me want to play Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword again. So I'm gonna go with no. In fact, that would technically make it worse.

Yo @Serebii, a little Pidgey tells me one of the first Gen 3 Pokemon you caught was a Spoink. Just admit that Grumpig is awesome already and you can't wait to get one.