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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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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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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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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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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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just remembered that lagoon existed and really, what even was that game
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we got some trash taken out and that is good

we needed to do that for a while

there's still more to do but we're trying to learn that doing some of a thing is better than doing none of a thing
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a lot of you here are pretty cute, i appreciate you
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why is doing things so hard

we need to clean up and take out the trash and stuff but that's all

hard
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did you know: you're good
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the 100% collectible item in castlevania harmony of dissonance is *really weird*

like, you walk into this random room in dracula's castle and juste's first thought is "this room is kind of tasteless, i should find some furniture to spruce it up"

and then you have to find furniture around the rest of the castle to make the room look nice

this random room in dracula's castle

why
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we need to do cleaning things.......

but it's 10 pm

cleaning things tomorrow
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tales of arise is perhaps the first time we've seen a game put spoilers in the pause menu
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