the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@BatElite a group of dragons who consider humans to be sacred animals
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good morning friends

we're tired and don't want to go to work in two hours
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in Tales of Arise, the newest one, the spellcaster character doesn't even say the name of the spell like they usually do in this situation, just saying "blah blah blah, magic!" in this really... dismissive/bored/just-get-it-over-with tone

which is especially silly considering that at one point in the game they talk about how completely essential the incantation is for making the spell work right

-F/R

but since the casting time isn't constant (various stats and skills and equipment could speed it up), sometimes the incantation would get cut off.

starting with Tales of Vesperia, if you could get the spell casting time too short for the full incantation to play, the character instead just says "blah blah blah" in place of the incantation and it's really kind of hilarious

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the Tales series of jrpgs has always had magic work on a timed system, where your spellcasters have to spend x amount of time standing stationary casting the spell before it actually does anything

basically as soon as full voice lines were possible, each spell got its own incantation that was spoken during this casting time

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how the fuck did anyone cook eggs before they invented nonstick pans
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@lioness https://lpix.org/1074563/tov85_ss025770.jpg i don't know what it's called but this character (on the right) immediately came to mind
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the Tales series is probably the only JRPG series in which you could ever have a boss with 200k hp when your attacks do about 60~70 damage
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@nautilee @Dex iwrc it was super early in Samus Returns and people complained about it removing any fun with discovery, which I honestly agree with as shooting everything and trying to hunt down hidden blocks is one of the things we like about Metroid games, but I can definitely understand the other opinion

I don't really know how to reconcile these two playstyles
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@Dex Can't add anything that others havne't already said, but it's good to see you here again 💚
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the word "cattycorner" is really weird to us because like

it's a word that apparently everyone except us used all the time??? when we had never heard of it until seeing people mention it???
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bonus points if it's (vaguely based on) one of
- avian
- canine
- dragon
- mustelid (but we've never seen this done in a game)

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how to get Felthry's attention with a monster design:
Step 1: give it two heads

that's it
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@owashii@plush.city so, taurtrains
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@nytpu they're cute!
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well fuck, our glasses just broke

we have an old pair we can still wear, the prescription isn't *that* different, but ugh did not want to deal with this today
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@nautilee you okay? anything we an do to help?
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like the story starts out with "demons are attacking because the water's muddy" and then that basically never gets mentioned again
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