Perform the Masse Shot technique during a game of billiardsĪfter you reach the final rank available from playing billiards, the bookstore in the Jinbocho district sells a book that unlocks additional technical combos, but the crux of this is that you’ll need to have bought and finished reading all the other books from the store before the owner will offer to sell you the technical damage book.

Finish reading the 'Billiard Magician' book obtained from another patron at the bar.

Perform the Jump Shot technique during a game of billiards.Buy and finish reading 'Sharp Cue' from the Shibuya Sports Shop in the Underground Mall.Perform the Back Hand technique during a game of billiards.Buy and finish reading 'Billiard Techniques' from the Shibuya Sports Shop in the Underground Mall.Hopefully there isn’t a long wait between the first and second parts. Even if it’s not my favorite, FFVII Remake is a great game that deserves its flowers, from its resident flower girl and otherwise. Overall, though, Remake is indeed a helluva game. It’s like every shonen anime rolled into a “let’s save the planet by bombing stuff and fighting people who bomb us back” fight to the finish. This may be the first time I’ve used “shitshow” in a good way, as everything about the spectacle of the second fight is amazing. The second time you square off against Reno (and, by extension, Rude), we’re given a shitshow of an event. In short, this battle is a beauty to watch and play (between Aerith’s flowers, the lighting and the effects, we’re given one hell of a scene, such as the above screenshot). In Remake, Cloud and Reno get into an anime-esque battle that is as much about overpowering your enemy as it is about quick thinking and not getting overpowered yourself. In the original game, we don’t get the option to fight the Turks in our plight to get back to Sector 7. After sitting down and putting a huge chunk of time into the game–even stomaching the collection sidequests–I came to a conclusion. Quarantine or no, I only have a family computer that’s also part of one of my home’s makeshift offices. However, due to its Steam-exclusive re-release, I admittedly struggle to find time to play it. no dont think so.It followed friend path on Kawakami and if I recall right from persona 5 Makoto gives the same amount of points despite if you go friend or romance.The same applies to the fortune confidant. I was amazed by the Persona franchise yet again and saw why White Jay considered Golden one of the greatest JRPGs ever. That’s even with Erika Harlacher (who’s become one of my favorite VAs over the five years) voicing one of the main characters.Īfter finishing P5R (and beginning what amounts to my fourth playthrough of Persona 5), I started Persona 4 Golden. That’s probably why I walked away from Genshin Impact about 15-20% of the way through. I like complete games and don’t really like paywalls of any sort. Plus, Royal is an entire 100-120 hour story, versus just a 30-40% chunk. That said, seeing life-like Cloud and Tifa didn’t speak to me as much as P5R did. You can obviously tell that Square Enix put their heart and soul into the game. Don’t get me wrong: I thought Remake was a beautiful game. With that in mind, you can probably imagine my burnout with Remake after seeing many of the sidequests were just “collect X amount of Y, then fight a mini-boss” quests.

I’m the type of JRPG fan who goes out of his way to try and complete a game 100% if I like it enough. In a sentence, the fetch these cats, find these kids sidequests in Remake soured me on the game proper. It seemed to correct many of the sins XV committed, though Persona 5 Royal still swopped in and took me to Phantom Thief Land once again. However, I ultimately dove into the game when it was first released. To me, they dropped the ball with XV and I’ve yet to put a big chunk of time into Kingdom Hearts III because of XV. Following its debut in Persona 3, this monster has appeared in several other Persona games with exploration elements. I cracked jokes about the Chocobo Chick summon having Goku-meets-Cloud hair, partly to troll people it was also partly to show my wariness in trusting Square Enix yet again. Persona 5 and its expanded version, Royal, offers plenty of foes for the Phantom Thieves of Hearts to take on.One of these optional bosses is the Reaper, who is easily one of the most difficult Shadows to defeat. When Final Fantasy VII Remake was announced, I was a bit hesitant. Persona 5 and Another Eden revived my JRPG fascination, whereas FFXV damn near killed it. I left it alone a few months after starting, started Persona 5 on Christmas 2017, left that (and pretty much console gaming altogether) alone for a year-plus, then finally became a Persona convert between 20. I didn’t think it was complete asscheeks, but we’re closing in on 2021 (thank God) and I still haven’t finished the game. After all that tooling and retooling, I was, in a word, disappointed. Note: I’ll try to keep spoilers to a minimum)Ībout four years ago, I began on the journey through Final Fantasy XV, the game that’d been in development hell longer than most games I’ve played.

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