#muggshotter talks

Come Inward Chaos with LV100+ characters (LV100 is your max level), ripping my characters a new one. No hp links or they had a slow startup (e.g. Cloud’s Slashing Blow). How am I supposed to get through the extreme boss rush of sorts?

It was in that instance where I discovered Jecht, the other FF10 character I had not yet played.

At that point I had only played FF10, so Jecht was like this character who I could kinda relate to based on canon knowledge. Except his screen time was all too short and him being better than Tidus in every way stuck. So a character who previously was barely shown in the canon game was given a fully realised,in dependent move set with an intentional design? Let’s look into him.

“Jecht is all about close-quarter combat”

“If you can master Jecht’s (2-frame) combos, he will be nigh unstoppable.”

“Unseeable bravery moves into HP links that wall rush.”

All that was basically saying is “Jecht is your character.”

And he was easily the most ripped man in the roster. Complete with Jecht Block that acted as a special parry into everything Jecht does, he was the perfect character for me. He would slaughter Inward Chaos, grind hard mode Time Attack, beat all of my friends. And he also played an important part in competitive play mindset in Dissidia Duodecim. Albeit very rewarding, he was difficult to get consistent with, and many safer characters could often beat him by simply turtling (which is how a good character is usually decided in Duodecim). I literally dropped tournaments to doubting my Jecht pick in favor of someone else and eventually consolidated my position in Dissidia community as the best Jecht after sticking with him.

He taught me that if your character is good enough to tackle most of the cast, all you have to do is trust in your skill to perform as them. Don’t think about counterpick characters. Suck less than the opponent. Win the hearts of whoever may support you.

In order to have a working palette in Mugen, I had to edit each frame my Yuri uses (talking about hundreds of frames) to have indexed RGBA with default palette applied. Tedious work has once again paid off, as I proceeded to create an Estelle palette for Yuri.

Ask about games1: Do you try to stay away from walkthroughs? For games I play? Yes. Over the years I've realised it is more fun to discover things yourself and then talk about THOSE experiences. And I often lack the patience to look for a very specific part I am stuck at because they're often times not highlighted with a timestamp or they're behind a thousand cutscenes, town interactions and mindless commentary.

If someone recommends me a walkthrough series (never), then I might just give it a go. I'm waist deep in unfinished games, simply watching a game might be the easier way out, no?

2: Company you're always loyal to?I want to say Capcom, because they have yet to mess up Monster Hunter and I don't really have faith / interest in their other franchises as much as with Monster Hunter.

5: A popular series/game you just can't get into no matter how much you try? If there is a game I feel that is not for me, I drop them before I've invested too many hours into them. J-RPGs unfortunately fall into this pit too often as they usually don't have interesting characters early on or combat is boring / takes too long.

Fighting games are different, as they change slowly over time, but I did drop Street Fighter 5 near the end of season 1 and Smash Bros. altogether a couple months ago.

Or I simply don't buy them at all (e.g. Pokémon, Undertale, Overwatch).

17: What game do you never tell people you play? Guilty Gear Xrd series / Accent Core Plus R. Often times I don't learn anything vital or interesting from a training mode session in those games, which is exactly the thing to bring up with friends who play them...

23: Biggest disappointment you've had in gaming? Pre-ordering Drakengard 3 told me to not pre-order games "out of curiosity". I paid so much money for it and within the first hour I knew I would not like the game in the end. I could never bring myself to get the true ending. The soundtrack was the best thing about it and that's sad, because that is what made me pre-order in the first place.

Funny enough I later on pre-ordered Fatal Frame 5 for Wii U because that was the only way you could get it on a disk and as a horror game it was super bad and the only good thing about it was the protagonist I played as. But unlike Drakengard 3 (which was digital only in EU), I could trade this one in and get some sort of redemption for the misstep.

Crash 1 remake is pretty dope and I hated myself enough to get all platinum relics in it. YouTube upload coming later. Crash 1 was my first PlayStation game, so it holds a special meaning to me even if it’s not the best of the series or the genre. Love the visual style of this. The difficulty has been toned down, but it can still challenge when it calls for it (time trials, colored gems) so I think it’s a more fair experience this time around hahah.

I have this one photo that was taken on the Christmas night I got the first PlayStation and Crash. Not so much has changed since, huh?