Part 88: Update LXXXV - Featuring: 4Kids Entertainment
Update LXXXV - Featuring: 4Kids EntertainmentMusic: The Daily Grind
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Loading our save after beating the game dumps us in Quantum Nodens.
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Normally, the only thing we'd get here is access to the bonus dungeon. But if you'll recall-
Music: Let's Get to Work!!
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-We've had those two DLC quests taunting us for the entire game.
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Music: The Daily Grind
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We'll have to wait a bit longer for Allie's Death March. That's a post-post-game boss rush and will happily tear us to shreds if we tried it now.
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Fumiya: Earth Squadron, Blaster Boy! The! Sidekick! Is! Here! Unit 13! Thank you for coming! I am Blaster Raven's partner, Blaster Boy! Are you sure nobody followed you?
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Fumiya: I handed it to you, which means my mission is complete! Blaster Raven said it was really important! What does it say?
System Message: Do you want to read the document?
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Fumiya: What!? Read it, read it!
As you might expect, choosing to read it just skips this bit.
System Message: Unit 13. There is something I'd like to give you.
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I'm not even going to remark on how the soulless quantum automatons are doing this, this is DLC.
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Music: UE77 Tokyo
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Ahhhhh, look at that sweet, sweet zero.
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And the bonus dungeon is the Shadow Realm.
In the game that has the Yu-Gi-Oh class.
They had to have known what they were doing.
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But before we can head there, we have to go check in with Kirino.
Music: Tokyo - Cascading Ordeals
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Did you know the only teleporter in the Vermilion Tower is about 75% through the dungeon?
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I took a wrong turn and had to backtrack to find my way up.
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It sucked!
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And Kirino is waiting at the very spot his former boss died, some 80 years ago.
Shame there's no official way for a western player to know that.
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And then he gives us-
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-a weapon upgrade-
You obtained Ranbu Sanzanzakura x1.
You obtained Indra x1.
You obtained God Knuckle x1.
You obtained Volume X x1.
You obtained Odin x1.
You obtained Yggdrasil x1.
You obtained Staff of the End x1.
You obtained Heat X x1.
-for every weapon type in the game.
Just pay $2 (when the 3DS eShop was still alive) and endgame power can be yours!
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I wonder if the DLC was planned to unlock earlier at some point, considering you can't do this without saving the world.
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Currently dead, thanks for asking.
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Both give the same result.
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Oh, and we get a new character portrait after you've spent the entire game getting attached to your party.
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Music: The Daily Grind
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We then get kicked straight back to Nodens to turn the quest in.
Fumiya: Earth Squadron, Blaster Boy! The! Sidekick! Is! Here! Good work on your secret mission, Unit 13! Here, have this!
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You obtained Dragon Hatchling x3.
You obtained SP Up EX x5.
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So, that portrait we got from Kirino?
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Is Blaster Raven himself.
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He even comes in multiple colors!
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If anyone has earned the right to change their look, it's GEORGE!.
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And with all that done, we can finally get started on the Shadow Realm.
Music: Forfeit - The Dragon Inquires
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It's literally just reused maps from across the game, but I can't hold that against VFD. Every bonus dungeon in the series has been like that.
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Our good friend Iod is waiting by the front entrance.
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All the previous bonus dungeons in the series were non-canon.
The Shadow Realm is very, very canon.
This raises many questions on how the hell we got here, considering post-game takes place before the end of the game and the Shadow Realm takes place after.
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And as is standard, we have to shell out a massive chunk of Dz in order to get in.
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Up first is the bottom of Ladyin.
Music: Battlefield - Ultimate Predator
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As is also standard, all normal enemies here are upgraded dragons. The first area has Frilled Dragons, Morph Dragons, Ice Dragons, and Dark Ones.
At least we're finally free from Battlefield - UE77.
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We've already seen these places, so I'm sure you won't mind if I just skip past them.
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There's a save by the door to Nyala's room.
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Which leads... to Nyala's room.
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They're really having us fight Nyala three times in one game.
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But instead of just Throwing GEORGE! At It, I decide to do something a bit more fun.
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I head back to the dorms.
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And shuffle my team around a bit.
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My goal for this fight is to see how Counters.Party fares in the hyperaggressive world of VFD.
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Video: VS Nyala (Again) (Again)
Music: True Dragon - 1st Encount
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The Illusory Dragon King comes in with 14K LF, just 3K above what he had in Grateful Seventh.
The catch is that he has close to 100 more ATK/MAT and double SPD, making him far more deadly.
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I'm not even hacking with this, I just want some safe turns to set up.
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If the hack would, you know, actually stun him.
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There we go.
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And a perfectly timed Cheetah Burst to finish setting up!
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While this is fun and all, it would be faster to just point GEORGE! at him.
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And now we begin.
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Unfortunately for Counters.Party, Agent is a mixed attacking class and has about 30 less ATK than Tricksters did in 2020. As the first step in damage calculation is ATK - DEF, this heavily cuts down on Bush Traps damage. The loss of auto-crits also hurts.
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Look, I'm actually making serious use of React turns!
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Again!
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oh btw he has enough atk to one shot Opal through an atk debuff and def buff so counters.party actually sucks ass here
This is why I needed to use Aiden's EX move to set up, I had several failed attempts where Nyala just waltzed up and ended someone while I was still applying buffs.
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lol his ass got stopped cold
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Well not like I can counter when he can't move.
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Music: Forfeit - The Dragon Inquires
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In the 2020 bonus dungeons the Hypnos sisters would give you some background exposition as you beat bosses.
Here, Iod's just gonna vomit words at us.
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Next time: Haze takes nowhere near as long.