2/19/2024 0 Comments Ascii art spider tank![]() ![]() ![]() And terrorists want to tear down the system. Wasteland survivors have been brought into the city and haven’t really been domesticated, but are trying to make the city work. Athena, city administrator biodroid, is torn between wanting to get rid of the Humans entirely, and fulfilling the original mission of the city and ultimately she’s just a tool of Gaia. But servants with power don’t remain servants. There is an “M-66 Black Magic” anime about just the robots but set on modern Earth, incredibly dumb though it does have some T&A which young Mark enjoyed.Īppleseed‘s 4-volume manga is a reboot of similar ideas, set after nuclear war, with an artificial city controlled by an AI “Gaia”, populated by bioroids (in the manga, they go into detail about just how artificial they are the older ones are more machine than biological and tied directly into Gaia) as servants to a fraction of Humanity. It’s a fantastic book, but too silly at times for the message he wanted to send. Rogue AI death machines (in that case cute little “M-66” infiltration/assassination robots) are released, death and mayhem ensue, civilization falls because people lazily give up control to the machines. Shirow Masamune’s first manga was Black Magic, about a computer-controlled society of animal-people on a habitable Venus, 60 million years ago when the Earth is full of dangerous dinosaurs, and a powerful young sorceress and her friends who hang out at the Onimal bar fighting the AI throughout the solar system. Been a few years, so I rewatched it.īut back up a bit to the manga. Go back tomorrow.Īs I noted in Alphaville, Appleseed covers similar ground. Filling in the last few items in the store can be a pain, though: Grind an area, get 3/5 of the mats I need for one thing. I can nuke most bosses long before they even hurt me, because I level, gear up, and prepare for their weaknesses and attacks. I’m still enamored of this game’s scenery & music, and good hard crunchy turn-based combat. I can level them for chrono stones, that’s about it. There’s just a stupid number of these ★★★ junk chars, I wish they were good for something if they had story quests, or anything. I want to upgrade Riica and Amy (and once I finish the main story, Feinne) first Aldo and Cyrus do nothing that a non-party char can’t do better. Been grinding Another Dungeon whenever I have time, and got tomes for a bunch of classes I don’t have, and 1 book for Rakshasa, so I could have a ★★★★ frog samurai if I wanted… I’ll hold off on that. ![]() Pulled a couple more times, got some perfectly nice ★★★★ chars and many junkers, but nothing I really needed, except an upgrade to Ciel. Then when I have another fresh summon, I can just drag them through slightly-harder areas with a healer to keep them alive, and be up to full level in minimal time. Graph paper’s unnecessary for this, so I just make line graphs in my notebook, stairs (!, v, ^) are numbered by floor they go to, * is a sparkly, $ is a treasure chest, < is a horror, ? is an area I haven’t done yet (spoilers for the Dimensional Vortex):Īnd I’m starting to make a levelling guide for my own use, just a list of areas with level of monsters & horrors. Later, there’s backtracking, side areas with high-level horrors, switches and chemical triggers… So I’m back to mapping like it’s 1984! Well, sort of. Early on, every dungeon is linear, super obvious, and generally has 2-4 areas before the boss. One thing that’s been on my mind is the need to map. And there’s a new dungeon with a material giving rewards for how much you collect I think if you collect the quest, it won’t be time-limited, but that’s not clear, so I’m going to grind it to completion as fast as I can. She’s currently a ★★☆☆, but as you complete quest objectives she’ll unlock 3-4. Lokido’s rapidly become my favorite PC for story and smashing heads.īut in the mean time, there’s an event! Update, head to Unigan’s west gate, and start the quest, and you’ll soon get Dierdre as a loaner char once you finish a short quest she’ll be a permanent PC. I played through Lokido’s story quests, and… uh, I’m very surprised at a Japanese game handling this subject even remotely well. Is it too much to want some simple foes Lokido can punch to death? My party’s exhausted, beat down from so many magic-only enemies. I’m finally nearing the end of the 1st season main story I have a boss in the Dimensional Vortex to fight (which I think I should level for), and what appears to be another chapter after that, probably a final dungeon & boss. ![]()
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