yeah i don't believe in super beer™ either

the zombie dragons before it were what ruined my life when playing

then i leveled up and got the stronger group fire spell and it became comically easy

don't worry this is america, we simply won't repeat history because we're built different

nyfb xvaqn ebof gur fhfcrafr bs jbaqrevat jurer lbh'yy svaq lbhe sevraqf, fvapr lbh trg gb frr jurer onfvpnyyl nyy bs gurz ner

onfvpnyyl vs vg whfg chg gurfr fprarf nsgre lbh sbhaq lbhe sevraqf (be znlor evtug orsber, vs vg'f yvxr znegvan'f) gura vg jbhyq or orggre sbe zr

va znegvan'f pnfr vg ng yrnfg fubjf ure orvat cbffrffrq fb gurer'f fbzr "bu ab! jung unccrarq!" yrsg, ohg jvgu flyivn lbh frr uvz sbez uvf gebhcr sbe fcernqvat fzvyrf naq vg ebof gur erirny bs uvz whfg fubjvat hc jvgu yvxr 30 thlf ehaavat nebhaq jvgu uvz

act 2 spoilers (rot13, based on my memory of it from 2018):

cneg bs jung znxrf npg 2 vagrerfgvat vf gung lbh fcraq n qrprag puhax bs vg abg xabjvat jung unccrarq gb lbhe sevraqf, naq frrvat "urer'f jung xnzlh, flyivn, ebh, naq znegvan jrer qbvat" srryf yvxr vg pbhagrenpgf gung

wouldn't be shocked if it literally came down to me not understanding that defense up spells and magic barrier are for two different types of attack

either way it's been cool replaying it, and like i've said a few other times it's pretty funny how much better i seem to be at the game this time around

surely i used buffs the first time since i'd already played Persona but ???

like when i got the last orb i actually got confused because one of them literally just sitting in some random place made me forget i even had all 6, since mentally i was expecting one more area before the end of the act, for some reason

some of it doesn't need explanation though, i understand completely why they named him Hendrik rather than keeping what seems to just be Greg (グレイグ)

way too normal a name

namely whether the sorta whimsical naming conventions in the english localization is actually a thing in the japanese and i'm just stupid, or if they added it because everyone speaks like they're british and they genuinely go "hip hip! hooray!" over a new king in an official ceremony