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8th May '13 9:51:21 AM Bufuman

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13th Apr '13 12:29:11 PM PurpleShirt

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** The real joke character, though, is Precis. Most of her special attacks - all of which are based around either a pair of robotic arms she wears or a remote-controlled toy robot ball thing - take far too long to set up and she'll usually get hit before she can execute them. The faster-executed ones seldom hit because of their weird hitboxes or just plain poor accuracy and the ones that do hit simply don't measure up in terms of damage anyway, plus her basic weapon attack is entirely too slow so you'll struggle to combo them. Learning her ultimate attack is a serious case of GuideDangIt as Ashton must be in the party, he must have learned his own ultimate attack, and those two characters must have high enough affection values for each other before getting the necessary event to trigger by going into a private action at a certain point in the game. Many of her other attacks have to be learned at random by sitting around executing the machinery skill in item creation for about four hours as the odds are obscenely low. By the time you've put all this effort in, every other party member will already be superior in combat. Finally, if you're playing the PSX version, every battle becomes a MostAnnoyingSound fest because she sounds like a {{Hamtaro}} on helium. At the very least she's useful for annoying everyone in the house by playing with your bedroom door open.

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31st Mar '13 5:57:26 PM Austin

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Moving from yMMV.

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* JokeCharacter
** ERNEST! However, some will get him anyway because you can steal a DiscOneNuke from him at two points.
*** LethalJokeCharacter: While Ernest is considered a JokeCharacter due to most of his Killer Moves sucking ass, a few of them (most notably Broken Heart) are actually pretty good, turning him from a waste of space into a viable fighter. Broken Heart is, well, quite broken if you level it up as it traps the enemy in place enabling the others to use attacks with longer setup times and such, all while doing good damage. YMMV indeed.
** Noel could be a joke character too, considering he comes with spells that do less damage than those of Celine and Leon by that point, and heal less HP than Rena. The game actually lampshades his uselessness if you can get a character to randomly paint his portrait, whose flavour text describes him as having "puny muscles... hope that's okay". Add to that the fact he considers "I don't like fighting, you know!" to be a taunt...
** The real joke character, though, is Precis. Most of her special attacks - all of which are based around either a pair of robotic arms she wears or a remote-controlled toy robot ball thing - take far too long to set up and she'll usually get hit before she can execute them. The faster-executed ones seldom hit because of their weird hitboxes or just plain poor accuracy and the ones that do hit simply don't measure up in terms of damage anyway, plus her basic weapon attack is entirely too slow so you'll struggle to combo them. Learning her ultimate attack is a serious case of GuideDangIt as Ashton must be in the party, he must have learned his own ultimate attack, and those two characters must have high enough affection values for each other before getting the necessary event to trigger by going into a private action at a certain point in the game. Many of her other attacks have to be learned at random by sitting around executing the machinery skill in item creation for about four hours as the odds are obscenely low. By the time you've put all this effort in, every other party member will already be superior in combat. Finally, if you're playing the PSX version, every battle becomes a MostAnnoyingSound fest because she sounds like a {{Hamtaro}} on helium. At the very least she's useful for annoying everyone in the house by playing with your bedroom door open.

28th Mar '13 9:22:47 AM SeptimusHeap

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The Library Of Babel has been split. Zero Context wick removed

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27th Feb '13 7:41:08 AM MacronNotes

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Dead Little Sister has been renamed to Cynicism Catalyst. It's not about dead siblings. Misuse and Zero Context Examples will be deleted.

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27th Jan '13 9:04:34 AM PF

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Nall, the mayor of Nede's Centropolis, planned for the Symbol of Divinity/Crest of Enhancement to direct the power of the Symbol/Crest Of Annihilation onto Energy Nede, knowing fully well that the planet's Energy Field is the only force strong enough to stop the Symbol/Crest Of Annihilation, although at the cost of Energy Nede itself being destroyed in the process. He believes that it's a way for the Nedians to atone for the sins that they have committed so long ago. Nall even made sure that Claude and co. would never find out until the last moment, and made Noel and/or Chisato (if they are in the party) swear that they keep their mouths shut about the whole plan.]] 
* HopelessBossFight: The most infuriating of these is easily when Claude has to fight Dias in the Tournament of Arms. The game plays Dias up as being an amazing swordsman and forces Claude to lose, but when you actually get him (which you can't if you're playing as Claude), you find out that he has only a few good special moves and a slow-as-hell melee attack, making him one of the least-useful fighters in the game.

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Nall, the mayor of Nede's Centropolis, planned for the Symbol of Divinity/Crest of Enhancement to direct the power of the Symbol/Crest of Annihilation onto Energy Nede, knowing fully well that the planet's Energy Field is the only force strong enough to stop the Symbol/Crest of Annihilation, although at the cost of Energy Nede itself being destroyed in the process. He believes that it's a way for the Nedians to atone for the sins that they have committed so long ago. Nall even made sure that Claude and co. would never find out until the last moment, and made Noel and/or Chisato (if they are in the party) swear that they keep their mouths shut about the whole plan.]] 
* HopelessBossFight: The most infuriating of these is easily when Claude has to fight Dias in the Tournament of Arms. The game plays Dias up as being an amazing swordsman and forces Claude to lose, but when you actually get him (which you can't if you're playing as Claude), you find out that he has only a few good special moves and a slow-as-hell melee attack, making him one of the least useful fighters in the game.

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