I can't keep them away from me.

Sashimi is the earliest dish you can get that Ghosts like, though I don't remember where to find it. I think it might be in Chapter 3, but I'm not sure. Until then, you're pretty much stuck feeding it stuff it doesn't like.

GameFAQs says Izoold. Crap. At least it boosts the interesting stats for a spellcaster.

SMB3 part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXDaswjN6y4&fmt=18

Obviously, this'll be the last Mario video for quite a while.

*scratches head* Why obviously?

As I said, long break after Crystal is done.

Also, let December 16, 2009 go down as the day I reached 1000 subscribers! In total, it will have taken 442 days to reach that milestone.

Edit: One last video for the road!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ1ol-MQ5nY&fmt=18

Edit 2: I beat Shiva yesterday. It was sort of tricky, but the one who fared the best was Galuf as a Blue Mage. I would've liked to know Vampire was so good! Of course, there's the usual issue with draining moves, but since my guys kept taking a lot of damage and FF5's rendition of Cure is absolutely horrid (thank God for the Healing Staff, else I would've needed a truckload of Phoenix Downs), it actually had time to shine, and Barehanded was still there for whenever it was full. Next boss I'm trying four Blue Mages and see how it works out.

Edit 3: Never did I expect to be so happy to see a Meganium!

Part 145: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SGGE1YVkfM&fmt=18
Part 146: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqoUHugcxj4&fmt=18
Part 147: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3WQFFc0o8&fmt=18

Yeow, not one, but THREE Silent Bridge videos. I can't wait till we get some PokeEarth info on HGSS, so I can see what the postgame trainers are like.

Edit: Okay, there technically is HGSS Pokeearth stuff, just not regarding the vast majoriity of trainers.

I'm 100% with you there.

Also, I knew I was gonna need three videos, which is why I kept the Silence Bridge just for that.

But enough of that... Crystal is now over!

Part 148: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhG7dFd2upw&fmt=18
Part 149 (credits): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgoPdpzTHTc&fmt=18

Whew! I can go without a Pokemon LP for a while.

YA DID IT SLOWFLAKE, YA DID IT. The Red fight wasn't as epic as i was expecting it to be BUT, your commentary was fucking awesome. Especially when Snorlax used Rest and when Charizard burned Tyranitar. Haha, I look forward to Hoenn. Once again, well done Slowflake.

At least HGSS will provide a little more, if what we're hearing is true- Pika is Light Balled and the starters are rocking their EHBs. Terrible moves, sure, but ingame they're just strong as fuck.

Playing Diamond, I was having a hard time catching Dialga because it kept landing crit Roar of Time, which would OHKO most of my pokes.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

GODDAMN FUCKING CON ARTIST!! It's not mighty at all!



I should have listened to James.

At least you didn't shell out $500 for it!

Okay, rant time. Why do so many games insist on having fishing mini-games? It seems like a must-have ever since OoT, but I never found any of them fun. Twilight Princess' was the only one that I found somewhat close to acceptable, but I'm still having nightmares about Big's A-rank stages in SA1. And then ToS2 comes and ratchets up the diarrhea dial another notch. Simply put, all I need to fish is a waggle of the Wiimote, but I have a fraction of a microsecond to do it. Once the meter starts going up, you HAVE to pull, but four times out of five the meter ends up in the red and I get nothing. This would be fine and all, except for the fact that I HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERY ATTEMPT. In Zelda games, you can shell out a few rupees and fish for the remainder of your life if you so desire. Here, instead of paying 500 gald once every time I want to get down to the lake, I have to pay every time I cast the goddamn Tenebrod. I know you're supposed to catch non-edible fish to get some money back, but I'd much rather have fishing be less expensive, and do away with the fishies. This would have the added benefit of me picking up more items that way, so the time spent could actually be sort of worth it since it's much too difficult to succeed in nailing something.

As for FF5, remember when I said I'd try having four Blue Mages spam Vampire with some Barehanded action thrown in? Broken. BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN. I understand why it's so expensive to allow blue magic to be used by other classes, I'm having flashes of the brilliance that was FF7's blue magic. Making Strago suck that much more by comparison.

My brother got Metroid Prime Trilogy for Christmas, and outside of the obvious bonuses we noticed a few changes. The coolest one is that they added an actual staircase in the Hive Mecha's room! If you remember the Gamecube version, sometimes it could be a real pain to get back up on the platform if you got thrown into the poisonous water since the stairs were placed so high. In fact, while the boss is really easy, a freak accident could occur, and you could go from full to dead because it was so hard to get out of the water. This, more than anything else, was my favorite application of the early Space Jump trick. So with that trick gone, it was only fair that they'd give us an easier way out of the poison. They also extended Flaahgra's theme... thankfully. It was easily the worst track of all three games combined. I've also been told that they nerfed the Boost and Spider Guardians somewhat, which is a good thing as unlike most other bosses, you simply cannot avoid getting hit at times, and they added another difficulty level on top of that.

It's good that they've improved it. Too bad I could never get into the first; FPS games are just... not my genre. I suck at them.

Back to fishing- obviously if you're bothering with this despite all experiences saying it sucks, there's something you eventually want to get out of it? Is there a rare fish worth a key item or equip, or (based on what I've read about cooking) is there a fish that makes good food for particular monsters?

As for FF5, I'm pretty sure that while I did complete the library of Blue magic, I stopped using it after the midway point. I fucked up the Aevis boss in the floating dungeon with 1000 Needles spam and something else, then gave it a rest. So I kinda forget what Vampire does, heh.

Endgame, save for particular ridiculous bosses (ie: our robot and dragon buddies) I primarily used rapid fire and dual wielding with everybody to just plow through anything and everything. Krile was my lead character and for that reason usually had the best of everything, with trickle-down suiting up the other characters as her new gear obsolescised the old. I know I also made Bartz the bitch in that whenever someone had to change their class and/or setup to accomodate a strategy I wanted, it was Bartz. Though if it were Omega MkII the others were forced to change also.

I wish the Necromancer class was given earlier, because I kinda had fun seeking those spells and using them.

There's a title for Emil if you succeed at fishing something 100 times, as well as gear I'm not supposed to get my hands on until much later in the game, and rare synthesis materials I need to make statues to evolve my monsters (among those I plan on using, only the Wolf Heddin doesn't need a statue).

Also, Metroid Prime is hardly what you'd call a FPS. In fact, it's as much of a FPS as Super Metroid is a side-scrolling shooter (like Contra is, for example). The emphasis really is on adventuring, though Corruption does take a step towards a more shooter-like approach, especially at the beginning of the game.

Well, if nothing else, it was far enough from Super Metroid that it just wasn't for me. For that reason I never even bothered trying the 2nd or 3rd.

I'd buy another 2-D Metroid in an instant, however.

Fair enough. I like 2D Zeldas considerably less than the 3D ones, doesn't mean they're bad games. (But as far as 3D Metroids go, I'm really worried about how Other M will turn out. I'm just afraid it's going to be a plot-heavy, standard shooter.)

Anyway, we also found out that they re-ordered the Creatures section of the logbook so that they're closer to the order in which you meet them, instead of the completely random order of the first one. Such a shame they didn't ditch that sorting system altogether and have it match the one in Corruption, but oh well. They also completely changed the Chozo Lore section, so that it'd sound less cryptic, much like the lore sections in 2 and 3.

And as for FF5... I checked a FAQ to see if I was fully up to speed on blue magic, which I was, but the guy claims that before entering the Fire Ship, his party was level 24, with loads of classes nearly mastered. You know how I'm blatantly overleveled in everything I play? Well, not here. I was level 14 before entering (right now I'm at the save point inside the ship at level 16), and I'm not remotely close to mastering anything.

Edit: My brother claims you can no longer shatter a frozen Ice Trooper with a missile. Great change TBH, those guys were absolute pansies before.

I wouldn't put it past people to use ABP-farming codes. At least until lategame, where you can just sit in a few particular areas and fight Movers over and over for 100 a pop. Once you get the bonus classes, you'll want to do that, anyway.

Movers, huh? Are those the same little balls from Kefka's tower in FF6? I'm gonna assume that they're a lot harder here... I mean, Dualcast, Rapid Fire and Dual-Wield on everyone in 25 battles is ridiculous.l

If you try to fight them normally, yeah. And they are in fact the little red balls. This time around they have crazy evasion, which amusingly is circumvented by, whaddya know, rapid fire.

I don't remember much beyond that since they were so easy to lay waste to, but IIRC unlike the ones in FF6, these also can lay on a bit of pain.

Okay, thanks. Anyway, I'm rather close to getting some new classes. I know all about how awesome the Ninja is, and I'm definitely giving Gaia to everyone, seeing how potent it is as a MP-less attack for mages. But what about Control? I know it's useful for learning blue magic, but otherwise is it good enough to give to everyone, as opposed to one character?