Holy fucking kino

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>>713455091
If he is so good, then explain the lore of why he is the most powerful entity in the whole setting

>>713454779 (OP)
>One-shot Maelle build
▲ Pretend you won

>>713456270
They nerfed Stendahl, doesn't work anymore

>>713456205
Aline powered him up to destroy Clea's axon

>>713456443
So why is he more powerful than Aline herself? I'd wager you could put him against all other bosses at once and he'd win in one turn

>>713456309
There are so many random builds you can accidentally stumble upon that still one-shots Simon it's hilarious
This is probably the first single player gsme where I'm advocating FOR balance because it legit ruined my experience by one-shotting everything after the paintress

>>713456205
pClea pussy
>>713456530
Gameplay reasons, but also Aline has been weakened for decades due to Clea's Nevron chroma interference

kino peaked here sorry

>>713456638
The dev behind all the math and balancing said in that ShillUp video that the game is intentionally designed to give the player that feeling of "holy fuck this combination is completely OP"

>>713454779 (OP)
I just defeated him and got the Platinum trophy yesterday.
Getting his parry timings down was so satisfying for those attacks like Sword of Lumiere and Long Combo
>the post-fight scene where he hands Verso his sword
Yep, this nigga is KINO

>>713454779 (OP)
what gaem

>>713456685

>>713456706
>attempt #50
>STILL get fucking tricked by the little spin during sword of lumiere
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>713456718
Animal Crossing New Horizon

>>713456205
The power of the perfect pussy and trying to stick his dick back into it.

>>713456739
Now to be entirely fair, even if you do 0 side content at all, the entire second half of the game's main content is stupidly easy
Renoir wasn't even harder than the Paintress

>>713456782
Getting that little spin down was so FUARKING satisfying. Finally getting the counter attack off on that attack was like FUCK YOU.
Went from those attacks basically being a guaranteed death on my party member to actually staying in the fight for another round.

>>713456638
I have no idea how, my highest damage output from this isn't even from Maelle, it's Verso's 9 hit thing.

>compose one last track weeks before the game releases
>it's kino of the highest order
https://youtu.be/6aMIr6KI0Xc?t=85

Is this the Zansibar thread?

>>713456947
On release, Stendahl was broken (they actually nerfed it)
But even now Maelle can easily do 50M damage with gommage even without you being too insanely cheesy

>>713456739
this is cute but that recent patch where they added a way to cap how many 9's your attacks can possibly do was a good compromise so act 3 isn't just filling out a checklist because you were through in getting monoco skills and went to the ice area too early in act 2

>>713457156
>have to manually limit yourself

>>713457156
because people kept whining on steam forums

>>713456958
>compose one last track weeks before the game releases
Aw shit it happened again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h6QFqGla7E

>The Expedition is removed from the Canvas

PAPA
VA T'EN

>>713457187
You can also increase the enemies health by a factor of up to x100 I believe.

>>713457278
>3:14

>>713456443

Clea powered him up herself. She hates her Axon and Simon was being a simp to her so she asked him to destroy her Axon but was unsuccessful

>>713457303
>Oh shit I might be able to kill him this time
>The Expedition is removed from the Canvas
mfw

>>713457346
tf that mean?

>>713457590
It means you're a nigger

>>713456989
More and more of my mind is fading away. I must put my words down on paper before I lose myself entirely.
My beautiful "Clea" …
What did she do to you? That Paintress… She fooled me, she looked so much like you and I believed her story. She granted me the power to fell the Axons and enter the Monolith.
I realized too late that she had warped my mind, that she had in fact taken you away, locked you somewhere I could never reach, and set me on a path to destroy your future.
But then I met Aline, who showed me that I could save you. With her help, I descended to the bottom of the Monolith, where Aline had sealed Him away. The one who brings the "Gommage". The one who threatens our very existence. But his powers are strong and I am finding it harder and harder to fight his influence over my mind.
My mind is breaking. My final thoughts are only of you. And I despair. But one day our suffering will end and we will find our way back to each other. In this life or another.

>>713457590
papa go home

>>713456958
Is that true? That's amazing it's one of the best track in the entire game it goes so fucking hard.

>>713457590

GO AWAY, DAD

>>713457801
Yeah I think I read Lorien composed it in March or something

>hardest boss hands you his weapon after you defeat him
It's like they hired a team of kino experts for every boss in this game.

>>713456205
That's Esquie althoughbeit.

>>713456205

That honor literally goes to Esquie. Canonically the strongest being in that universe

>>713456309
it does with roulette

>>713457973
first true kino boss right here
https://youtu.be/vQXk8wJLrDc?t=139

>>713456718
ffta

>>713458323
nah it started with Goblu for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMrPQflzcDI

>>713458323
>>713458504
For me, it's Lampmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHvwRImMuFY

>>713458504
>>713458602
mere appetizers to real kino:
https://youtu.be/7hVavvVmj40?t=168

I like them all equally :)

>>713458793
>tfw the electric lead guitar kicks in

>>713457278
>Daredevil

nah, one of the best battle themes was right under our nose from beginning, the Goblu boss theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4Mmb9kY4E
like, this is the stuff

and monoco battle
and clea boss theme, but you know it plays only on one boss

https://youtu.be/TcEdif_2PNY how come this goes so hard tho

>>713459605
Epic Sax Guy

>>713459448
This is not the Goblu boss theme but the regular Flying Waters battle theme which is still great
Here is Goblu's boss theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wbti7tIHw

For me, it's the Frozen Hearts battle theme
https://youtu.be/TZYxDKS76IQ?t=372

>>713456638
>>713456309
Yeah I didn't OHK him, but I did kill him in 3 Verso turns with that 13 hit attack
>he starts it up
>Sciel double damage and then with Cheater goes again, do the move that give someone an instant turn
>13 hit double damage attack
>>713456685
I think that thinking works in say Path of Exile, but in this its literally clicking on anything that uses the word damage and that is it. Its not some far out builds or combos.

>>713459918
yea this is like, usual flying waters battle theme.

there are so much battle themes, for each location, for each boss, sub-boss, bigboss, littleboss. this Lorien Testard gave literally everything he had, like Uematsu with ff8, or Soken with stormblood-shadowbringers soundtracks.

not that usual shit that modern sound designers doing like "let's make 30 tracks it will be okay for this game, we would need 30 more for next slopgame, and 30 more for next one"

TesTARD is a hack who just recycles motifs over and over.
Not that dissimilar from a certain furfaggot

>>713460391
wow look we already have testard haters

>>713460158
>literally clicking on anything that uses the word damage
And that way, you do 2M damage, which is fun
If you put more thought into it, you do billions

How do I stop this faggot from oneshotting me on every move? It's making learning the fight impossible

>>713460318
Most of it sounds really similar IMO

>>713460158
I think it’s not helped by the fact that there’s only one damage stat: Might

If you had to spread out your points more, it would have nerfed the player much more effectively.

The moment I got Solo Fighter, I just decided to do the whole game with a solo Gustave/Verso, and 90% of it was an absolute joke. Including Clea and the final boss. Only The Paintress and Simon really gave me trouble.

>>713460391
Motifs literally exist to be recycled

>>713460783
>only one damage stat: Might
Smartest E33 hater

>>713460783
There is more than one though, its the primary stat of the weapon. Its why AGI weapons are honestly super strong even if the effects aren't good, even in the end game I was getting so many more turns than enemies pre-Cheater. You get extra turns, and damage just from it being your primary stat on the weapon.

>>713460891
Stats literally don't matter except for weapon damage, faggot. Even with 99 in AGI, you'll easily get 100x as much speed from equipping a picto

>>713456739
>une épé éthêrée
what the fuck is that language

>>713460952
french

>>713460391
That's the point of a soundtrack retard

>>713454779 (OP)
Hey that's just Handsome Jack!

>>713460880
It is though. In fact, the way the stat growth on weapons increases your might by investing in other weapons only makes Might even more broken. And then there’s the fact you’ve got weapon upgrades and pictos on top of that.

>>713456958
Absolute banger of a track and it pisses me to no end that it's not on spotify

my nigga Simón

>>713461795
>the way the stat growth on weapons increases your might
It's called attack power you absolute fucking faggot. Might is one of the stats you can level, and it is NOT the only one that affects weapon attack
Play the goddamn game next time instead of just watching a playthrough. Stupid fucking cunt
You will now reply with "t-that's what I meant". No more (you)s since you got utterly BTFO

>>713458793
Not fair though, that's the culmination of the entire soundtrack.

>>713456205

>>713461805
You can buy the digital soundtrack on Steam and download it to your device from there.

>>713461996
more like pure blue balls

Is the most underrated track in your path
https://youtu.be/anD2aeIrMOs?t=26

>>713462049
I know, anon, but I'm lazy. I might buy it just to show my respect for the guy though. He put all his passion and effort into it, as if his life depended on it.

>>713462207
That's not:
https://youtu.be/kHhOj_bE0Kw?t=32

>>713462049
154 tracks

i just looked, final fantasy 16 has like, 199 tracks, and no one knows any of them, and there were like, big team of some famous guys.

>>713462207
These tracks always have a kino part you sadly don't really have time to hear in battle like at 2:35

Same for these tracks for ex:
https://youtu.be/RRCK_Co8c9c?t=111
https://youtu.be/-i_nT9d-mK8?t=452

>>713462378
This one goes hard as well, no doubt.

>angry retard: WTF HE JUST REUSES MOTIFS
>me, an intellectual: humming the main theme at work even though the main theme itself doesn't play that often in the game

>>713462620
the only song anyone seems to care about for FF16 is Find the Flame

>>713462620
>199 tracks for FF16
How? I can remember Away, the Bahmut/ Dion theme and Barnabus theme and that's about it.

this one is growing on me now:
https://youtu.be/GgYtPT_Ik-8?t=45

>>713462654
I feel like I know both of these, but probably because I've been listening to the soundtrack on repeat for the past month.
It's so good that I feel like if I could listen to it forever and it will never get tiresome.
The director said he has been listening to one of the tracks (might have been Aline) for 4-5 years and he hasn't gotten tired of it.

>>713463162
It was Alicia

>>713463118
>3:19

>>713462881
>HE JUST REUSES MOTIFS
In some of them, sure, but there's also a big variation between the tracks.

>>713462932
>>713462984
i dunno, never played it. nothing i've seen about ff16 gave me any wish to play it.

>>713456739
link to the interview?

>>713463660
I would recommend if you've any desire just to watch the cutscenes on Youtube and split it into 1-2 hour segments like a t.v. show.
The game is paced like an MMO with deliberate inconveniencing, just to pad game time it's obnoxious as fuck.

>>713456654
She isnt just getting chroma starved, shes also physically dying and losing her mind. IDR if we know exactly how long she was in the painting before Renoir tried to force her out, but we can assume it was long enough for her to already be suffering dangerously for him to try. By the time Alicia jumps in, Aline is apparently doing most thing without thinking since she doesnt seem to know what Maelle's deal is despite being the one who painted her like that. And by the time you confront her, even on a second playthrough with full context for her perspective, she is blabbering nonsense half the time.

In her last stage when she starts healing you the only good explanation is that she lost track of the situation besides knowing she is injured and in a battle, so starts throwing aid at her family/the people with them. A magnanimous gesture is out of line with everything she has said, done, and will do moments after being booted out of reality, and she'll still do it if your lineup is Lune, Sciel, and Dog.

Her behavior when she jumps back in is similarly feverish and uncoordinated, though she seems to have recovered slightly.

Real Renoir doesnt really lose his bossfight, he just stops fighting, but of course he was also probably exhausted and had to deal with Aline again on top of it. Also, while it isnt really made apparent mechanically, presumably awakened Maellicia was harder to use godhax against.

Simon was an untiring monster painted by full strength Clea with the intent for him to fight a much stronger at the time Aline. All the nevrons and axons and so on were still just kinda painters playing around, Simon's strong because hes the only example of a full strength painter actually trying to make a superweapon (the axons seem intended to be arguments to Aline moreso than enemies). And hes still probably somewhat diminished since slaying Clea's axon.

>>713464191
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD5mQ7sGaPM

>>713460952
>une épée éthérée
It's funny now that you mention it, really a lot of acute accents. It does look nice.

The true sleeper banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXNQxaqh8FI

>>713465551
wrong link:
https://youtu.be/ETk_hV6eUFw?t=172

>>713465773
thighs

>>713454779 (OP)
Unfortunately, actually beating him properly is beyond my abilities. I accidentally stooged him on my first playthrough, but actually trying to fight him on NG+ with increased health was not a whole lot of fun. I don't think I like this game's combat mechanics as much as I wanted to. Chromatic Abbest and Orphelin were about the limit of what I can learn in a reasonable amount of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH14bNRLWj8

>>713465551
wtf is this, Persona 5 but even more gay and retarded?

>>713467414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr2NJDQng8