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So Val, you remember that statement from last year where you were so certain that Crossbell wasn't going to be localized because there were newer games and because the Geofront continuing to work on them was further proof it was never happening? I've been wondering, what does humble pie taste like?

As people noted in the other topic, the Scar is a group of stars known by different names across the Cosmere. It's called Taln's Scar on Roshar for example and the Red Rip on Scadrial. We know from this WoB that all of these refer to the same set of stars, though naturally they don't appear exactly the same from every vantage point. Needless to say perhaps, all specific questions about it end in RAFOs.

So the Famitsu scans have come out and while there isn't as much as I was expecting, we did get some interesting new Kuro info and confirmation on some things we've expected but haven't been hard confirmed previously. Yeah, even the characters aren't sure what's up with that either...

This WoB seems to suggest it's not, as Brandon says that a Hoed who entered the Perpendicularity would find themselves in a dangerous environment without any preparation and under normal circumstances things would probably not end well. Stormlight Archive spoiler

That could be an interesting way of allowing for some characters introduced in works set on Sel to show up in the chronologically later books, depending on how much dilation they experience. I mean, Elantrians themselves are functionally immortal so any of them could (in theory) hang around until the very end of the Cosmere's story but if the effect is big enough it might be possible for some mortal characters to show up as well even though their stories might take place hundreds and hundreds of years before the 'present' that is SA and MB2, or works beyond those. I'm thinking Shai first and foremost.

Yes, yes they are. They appear in Hajimari as well and if they don't show up in Kuro I'll be very surprised.

Yeah, C's Chapter 4 is full of incident for how relatively short it is. <gets popcorn ready>

If countries had a problem with that, they should have read the bracers' charter more carefully before agreeing to it. Meanwhile, the guild did have troubles in Erebonia, but they were too useful to completely get rid of and with the way things ended up, banning them from operating in the Empire after the events of CS4 was just never going to happen. To say nothing of Liberl after FC.

Haven't played any of the Switch ports so I couldn't say either. Also, we got a character confirmation for Kuro via Twitter of the 'well of course they were showing up' variety, but it's nice to know for sure. Very minor CS4 spoiler: Oh, and there's also going to be an event next Thursday featuring a virtual JDK Band concert, a message from Kondo and 'special announcements'.

CS2 has a sharp difficulty curve where Accuracy is a big deal early on, but lessens later on. Sticking Hit Quartz or an accessory that boosts the stat on your heavy physical hitters is a good idea in the early game, though it will become less of a factor later on.

Yeah, a lot happens in Chapter 3, across all the routes. Just wait until you start Chapter 4 because there's a beautiful scene at the start of C's route which comments on events near the end of the route in the prior Chapter.

My favorite would be Get Over The Barrier but that almost feels like it's cheating. Glint of Cold Steel's a great one too and I'm also really fond of Seize the Truth from Azure and a two-way tie of Like a Whirlwind and Wind-Up Yesterday from Hajimari. If I had to pick one that isn't Barrier I'd go with Seize the Truth. However, if you included rearranges I'd have to throw in this version of Sophisticated Fight. Sometimes it's really hard to tell what they're singing but I don't recall anything that sounded like that. A couple times you can make out words though; they seem to like borrowing from the Dies Irae when they have a chorus but there's definitely English in some of the vocals. Unfortunately, they're rarely nice enough to give us a transcription, like they did with Ys Origin for the lyrics that play during Termination. That said, if parts of the song sounded familiar there's a good reason for it: The Great Power shares a melody with Vermillion Capital of Heimdallr.

And now you know why my response to your question earlier was 'Maybe' xD Whenever you do get your thoughts in order enough to start coming up with theories, I'll be looking forward to reading them.

Seeing how Brandon described the Shattering as meaning everything and nothing to Investiture, I don't think that if Adonalsium were recreated in some way it would necessarily be the end of the Cosmere as we know it. Also, I should point out that we have no evidence that such a thing is actually going to happen...

Yeah, that could have used more work to feel 'real' but I can see why they didn't want to rerecord a song and pay multiple VAs to sing it, just for verisimilitude. FYI, that's the continuation of a plot thread that was started in The 3rd, and then expanded on in Azure. Very minor spoilers for those games:

Mmmmmmaybe. xD Oh yeah, since you're there, a fun factoid about that boss you're fighting, tagged for anyone who hasn't gotten to CS1's final chapter yet

When you see the message about how recording is stopped, it means the developer doesn't want to make it (quite so) easy to record the scene, to reduce the likelihood that it's going to make its way onto the internet and spoil other people. For your purposes, just think of it as 'Important Scene Ahead'. Or, y'know, disable notifications so you don't see them in the future. Yes, yes you did. xD

I have a suspicion (but can't prove it) that you'd get a situation analogous to the example Brandon gives in the WoB about a moon's Cognitive reflection when people know about it but haven't actually visited it. Scadrial (or New York in your other hypothetical) would probably have some small and funky patch in the CR because people remember that there used to be something there, but it wouldn't be the kind of full representation you'd get from a region that's inhabited by thinking beings.

Oh yeah, Hajimari has some amazing music. It also finally gave the Poms their own fitting theme, right as it brings them firmly back to the Metal Slime-esque grinder's paradise they started out as. xD So far the stuff we've heard for Kuro is pretty good too. And while it's not (so far at least) a proper Kiseki game, Nayuta's soundtrack is awesome. Yeah, when you see that message pop up you know something's going down. And it did... I knoooooow, I think I got diabetes in the best way from watching the latter of those two Episodes.

Based on where you are in the game, yeah, that can happen. xD

It spoils one thing in endgame CS2 that was so blatantly obvious that a blind person could have seen it coming from a mile away (and in case you somehow couldn't, early CS2 drops enough hints to kickstart your mental processes) and another thing from CS1 that was so heavily foreshadowed that if you couldn't figure out it was coming a few hours into that game you weren't paying attention, hence it isn't really a spoiler.

XSEED never released The 3rd on anything but the PC version which lacks such censoring (mainly because the PSP was very dead by that time) so it's basically a non-issue. They did manage to port over all the nice PSP additions though. There's nothing censored in FC/SC, but the PSP versions of those two (and especially the former) are inconsistent with later releases since they couldn't be patched post-release with all the updated names and tweaks.

Quite a long time, though it depends on the stats of the relevant parties and inflicting move. It's possible in CS1/2 for Rean to stunlock non-resistant enemies with Arc Slash due to that Craft inflicting a lot of Delay and having a very short cooldown.

She's voiced by Inoue Kikuko so she's only seventeen.