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author=kentona
Well, the comic is called 'Valerian'. It's a movie adaptation of the world the comic is based in. Not sure if it is a specific comic or story from it, or if it is a new story. I honestly know very little about it.

At least it isn't another Marvel/DC super hero flick! (although since it's a bust hollywood will just make up for it with... *googles random super heroes* Moon Knight and Captain Boomerang movies!)


e: I am being overly harsh on recycled content like this though, I've never heard of Valerian and it isn't a return of 80/90's cartoon shit like all the Smurfs movies at least.

e2: next up: a Howard the Duck reboot

author=kentona
I haven't seen it yet, but from what I've learned it's based on a comic that Star Wars was based on (cool scenes, creative aliens, and even the bad dialog!). It is floundering hard in cinemas though, unfortunately. I still want to see it eventually.

oh rip being original then



maybe I'll go see it, next week is an offweek and it can't be worse than the last movie I saw in theaters, Rogue One, right?

realchat though, here is how I've done ultimate weapons in the past:

In Demon's Gate the ultimate weapon, the Berkut, was basically obscene. It hit all enemies multiple times with a huge crit rate and was one of the few weapons that had no element so no enemy could resist it. Demon's Gate was very poorly balanced though and the power difference between the player and enemies was constantly swinging wildly in one or the other's favor and the Berkut solidly put it in the player's favor. Even the super bosses rolled to it. It's honestly boring, shooting a ton of doomexplosions isn't very engaging and it means weapon selection means nothing but I can see the appeal of having the ultimate weapon be exactly that. Especially in a dungeon crawler.

iirc the only ways to get it was a rare drop from the hardest enemies in the game. The side extra bosses didn't drop it and the super boss gives some credits and nothing else. Mind, this is Demon's Gate. The random encounters are harder than most bosses in that game. Like I said, very poorly balanced. I think there was a chest in the secret dungeon that had one too but I can't say that for certain.


In Altima the ultimate weapon in that is the Mystic Sword and it's literally lying on the ground on the world map until the player finds it. The only thing stopping the player from just grabbing it was being able to get there, once you got the right vehicle you could just vamoose there and grab the ultimate sword. However the Mystic Sword is no Berkut, it's just the biggest ATK stat stick in the game. Altima's equipment selection isn't half as interesting (or bizarre) as Demon's Gate so it's again just another slot in for best weapon except for casters who couldn't use its ATK stat. It doesn't wipe the floor with everything by itself either so it isn't as bad when the player can get it 10 minutes into the game.

There's no direct hint where it is, the best a player gets is "THE MYSTIC SWORD IS SOMEWHERE" and one hint that gives a general area to look. There's a few hints in the game to indicate what tiles can hold items instead of checking confirm on every map tile, but then the player just checks every lone tree tile and finds everything anyways.



In future games... I'll post about that later if I remember. Gotta get work done.