[DS] Onionknight Final Fantasy: Smugasfuck Call - You bought DLC, Kupo

Fair enough. I refuse to take "GET GOOD" as a response to the EMS bullshit though.

Anyway after like 40 hours of gametime I'm still only like 60% of the way through getting Perfect Chain and Total Critical on all of the songs in the game on Basic, holy shit.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've literally only played one song that had spinning arrows, not sure how I'm supposed to get good at them yet apparently

How ya doing, buddy?

hate u guys

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

In between hating you guys new DLC is out today!



Balamb Garden, The Chase and Precipitous Combat are getting bought as fuck

How ya doing, buddy?

Have you actually put any time into this game or what?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So the online versus mode for this has gotten weird.

With the release of Smash it's pretty dead as you would expect; the couple times I have tried there is literally NO ONE playing at any level domestically. Internationally (aka Japan) is a different story though, I can usually get matches immediately. Where this gets crazy is that like 90% of the Japanese players are all at 5 star completion, shitload of Rhythmia etc and are basically gods, but then they only play on Expert. Like...what? Then last night I got two people who were actually playing on Ultimate no EX Burst (thank god) and holy fucking shit I don't think I have ever been wrecked that badly in my life. One of the two players GOT A TOTAL CRITICAL ON FORCE YOUR WAY ON ULTIMATE. Then afterwards I look at their Profilicards, they both had over 600k Rhythmia which I literally didn't even know was possible (I thought it hard-capped at 300k at the last unlock) with over 300 hours played. Gotta respect that shit.

Anyway I should finally finish up all of my songs on Basic bullshit so I can finally get into the real meat of the game; I'm in this game for the long haul so I figured it would be best to get the Basic stuff "out of the way" now as opposed to being more annoyed having to do it later.

Has anyone gotten any of the Romancing SaGa tracks? Seen a few folks saying that the BMS ones on Ultimate are the hardest things in the game.

FELIPE NO

I swear to God once I knock out all these Basic songs finally it is going to be fucking ON SON. I could do Ultimate no problem in the first game, can do it here but not at the level/rank I could before, need to get back on my game. I've barely done any quest medleys since I've been focusing 95% of my time on knocking the Basic stuff out first, this weekend I plan to wrap up Basic and then go in on that to get shards for the rest of the character unlocks, I'm actually still missing a bunch. Found out this morning that if you have zero of any color shards that you still have characters locked behind it does NOT show you that on the character select screen, you have to have at least one shard of that color for it to show you the character silhouette. So I thought I was much closer to getting all of the unlocks then I was since I had two shard types with multiple characters that I just had zero of . I do get shards fairly regularly as Rhythmia unlocks now though since I'm past 100k, but you only get rewards for every 1k Rhythmia at that point, not every 500. The grind, it is real.

Oh yeah, another crazy thing about the super hardcore Japanese players; like none of them have any DLC. Baffling.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I've got a quest that has two bosses that each give 2 black shards, I think it's a medium or long map though at high level but I can hook you up with that if needed. I know there's also a map floating around that gives 6 black shards but I don't have that one yet.

In general the only way to tell in-game if you're missing a character is to check the silhouettes in the character select screen, but like I mentioned earlier if you currently have 0 shards of a color any characters you have locked behind that color don't show up there, which is a pain in the ass.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

BRAVELY DEFAULT MUSIC GETTING ADDED AWWW FUCKING SHIT



THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL | SQUARE ENIX

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Curious if it comes to the West. I imagine that the localization cost for these is probably super minimal, but S-E makes bizarre decisions. Maybe download only or something.

Still bummed we haven't gotten any word on the Bravely Default DLC coming out here. Even if that winds up coming over I would still like them to support Curtain Call with more crazy DLC stuff like it sounded like they intended.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah I am super pumped about that, but keeping my expectations in check until we get confirmation on whether or not that is hitting the US. We still haven't gotten the Bravely Default DLC.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Also word is that there's another DLC pack coming to all regions on January 22nd; looks like maybe they're making a habit of these bi-weekly new releases?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Their continued support has really gotten me back into the game. Was still playing religiously every day up until about Thanksgiving, then we got a cat and a bunch of other stuff and I'd just been busy. But over the last few weeks I'm back to at least doing the Daily songs and trying to sneak in some other stuff. Long term I still want to get all of the in-game achievements, going to need to rent a 2nd copy so I can cheese the Local Battle wins one though :/

Also I would kill for Far Away Times and Frog's Theme and some of the other SaGa Frontier boss themes (they've picked good ones, but none of my favorites), but so far they've done pretty well. Calling has me finally wanting to open our sealed day one copy of TWEWY lol.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah the new DLC is indeed out. Twister is the odd one out just because it's SUPER short (clocks in at like 1:15 or something around there) so I'd maybe stay away from that, but everything else is great. It's actually kind of crazy that it took 2 games and tons of DLC packs to get Liberi Fatali in the game. Wind Scene wouldn't have been my first CT pick but it's good, and I really love the background they did for it (including a Frog cameo!). I will still flip out if Frog's Theme, Battle with Magus or To Far Away Times get added.

Honestly at this point I'm just still super thrilled they're even supporting the game at all, much less branching out to all kinds of games, never would have thought it of S-E. Especially with the same developer working on the Dragon Quest Theatrhythm game. The month delay could have been them waiting a bit to see how all of the new DLC packs have done starting with the Bravely Default pack, since that came out a good while after the DLC had stopped in Japan. Or could have just been a logistical issue, who knows. But I'll keep buying whatever they put out, and glad to see they're at least up front confirming more is coming.

FELIPE NO

DLC for Feb 19th in EU/US:

BMS
Final Fantasy IX - Vamo’ alla Flamenco
Final Fantasy XIV - Nemesis
Final Fantasy V - The Dawn Warriors
Seiken Densetsu 3 - Swivel
SaGa Frontier 2 - Mi?gestalt
Chrono Trigger - Frog’s Theme
Live A Live - Megalomania
Romancing SaGa - The Conflict
Romancing SaGa 2 - The Ultimate Confrontation

FMS
NieR Gestalt/RepliCant - Kainé/Salvation
NieR Gestalt/RepliCant - Song of the Ancients/Devola
Legend of Mana - Echoes of the Spiral


Still dying that we are getting Live a Live DLC in the year 2015, holy shit.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Upcoming DLC listing; worth noting these leaks have been 100% accurate in the past, apparently the tracks get uploaded to Nintendo's server well ahead of time, and quite a few people have access to see this stuff. The same few leakers on these have bee n 100% right on every DLC so far.

BMS
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Final Fantasy X - Assault
Final Fantasy X-2 - Real Emotion
Final Fantasy Tactics - Apoplexy
Final Fantasy Legend II - Struggle to the Death
Nier - Hills of Radiant Winds
Nier - Shadowlord
Chrono Trigger - Battle With Magus
Chrono Trigger - Boss Battle 2
Romancing SaGa - Beat Them Up!
Romancing SaGa 3 - Devil Lord Confrontation II

FMS
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Secret of Mana - Into the Thick Of It
Seiken Densetsu 3 - Meridian Child
Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
Live A Live - Birds in the Sky, Fish in the River


GOAT? GOAT.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The PR for the tracks released today mentioned more DLC coming March 5th, which is likely this listing. I'm guessing that based on how the last batch worked out Japan will get half of those tracks next week, then the following week they'll get the second half and we'll get them all at once.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

DLC for this Thursday in the US/EU (out today in Japan):

BMS
Final Fantasy X - Assault [2:16]
Final Fantasy Tactics - Apoplexy [2:03]
NieR - Hills of Radiant Winds [1:53]
Chrono Trigger - Battle with Magus [2:15]
Romancing SaGa - Beat Them Up! [2:04]

FMS
Secret of Mana - Into the Thick of It [1:47]

So it looks like we're getting the other half of the leaked tracks on probably the 19th. Also the guy posting these leaks (he posted a video on youtube of him playing the US version of the DLC above...yesterday LOL) has confirmed that Shadowlord track from Nier clocks in as the second longest track in the game at four and a half minutes :O

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Skimming the FAQ on Gamefaqs, the 5 longest tracks as of right now (so excluding Shadowlord):

Sacrifice Part 3 3:52
Dancing Mad 4:03
One-Winged Angel 4:06
Evil Wings (Bravely Default) 4:06
Advent One-Winged Angel 6:04

And there's only 7 other songs that clock in at 3:00 or above, most songs are solidly in the ~2 range.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

DLC for this week. Struggle to the Death and Devil Lord Confrontation II will be free for everyone until April 1st

DLC for 19th March

BMS
Final Fantasy X-2 - Real Emotion
Final Fantasy Legend II - Struggle to the Death
NieR - Shadowlord
Chrono Trigger - Boss Battle 2
Romancing SaGa 3 - Devil Lord Confrontation II

FMS
Seiken Densetsu 3 - Meridian Child
Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
Live A Live - Birds in the Sky, Fish in the River


Nothing official, but implication is that this might be the end of the DLC with them offering two free tracks, or at the very least a hiatus. JP PR indicates this is the end of "The Second Performance" of DLC which was the 2nd batch of 50 tracks where the DLC started back up after the US release. If that's the case it still entirely leaves the door open for a "third performance" given the second performance came months after the first batch ended in Japan (like, a solid 6 months or so I believe). Also would make some sense since Dragon Quest Theathrhythm is out soonish in Japan I believe, and they've already said all DLC in that game will be free (which as an aside appears to be in part due to the game shipping with a kind of sorry amount of tracks on cart, supposedly 60ish) so they need to move resources over there at some point presumably. My hope would be that it's different teams working on DLC tracks versus base game stuff since they were still putting DLC out for this game while Dragon Quest was obviously in full development, so maybe they'll come back to this one after DQ DLC starts winding down or whatever.

If it is the end I'm a little bummed out of course since I love the shit out of this game and play it every day, but given that we're ending with DLC 100 tracks on top of 221 base tracks it's hard to complain too much about what we've gotten really, especially since the last 50 of those tracks weren't the original plan and are wrapping up nearly a year after the JP release. Everyone's going to have tracks that they wished were in, but I've been pretty happy with most of the track selections even though there's stuff missing. Only thing that would particularly bum me out is the ratio of some games that were represented, like getting a million SaGa tracks and TWO Live-A-Live tracks but only one track from Xenogears, no Chrono Cross (although that's a licensing thing), no Parasite Eve, no Brave Fencer etc etc.

I was speaking idiomatically.