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[rainbowarch]

PIMP MY CANON

Levi, what is this?

This is PIMP MY CANON, a meme for doing exactly what it says on the tin. Here, you are going to sell your canon to your fellow bubble players!

Fellow bubble players, peruse the selection and maybe find a new canon to check out!

Okay how?

HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO. Post reasons why your canon is awesome! Post summaries, post pages, post gifs, post links to videos, post screenshots, post links to playthroughs, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO.

Just uh, be mindful. Don't insert put too many images in your post (especially if they're big! Link to big things!) and link to videos rather than embed them. We want to make this accessible to everyone and go easy on connections.

Feel free to add to other people's posts with information of your own, or ask questions about a canon that's caught your eye! The idea here is to spread the love, after all!

Try to keep your spoilers to a minimum, too. If you think something might be spoilery, be sure to mark it!

(also be sure to hit preview before posting, broken codes cramping your style sucks)

Comments

[ex_diplomacy861]

Arc Rise Fantasia is marginally like Tales of Symphonia with a more visual novel-esque feel (as Fantasia's director was part of Symphonia's development team) and party switching trends. No, really. You switch party members like laundry in this game.

Fantasia is pretty much everything you'd expect in a retro JRPG, and it isn't afraid to pull out all the stops to please its fans. You have a jerk with the heart of gold, a clueless priestess, a selflessly selfish prince, a little girl who punches grown men into the air, said grown man who talk about flowers, a pretty woman with dominatrix vibes, and a thief who confronts the hero about his attitude because hey, he knows puberty is a rough time and all, but be nicer!

And more, like the most badarse crown prince. Dragons and summons, too, as well as Luminous Arc cameos.

Story-wise, Fantasia revolves around a government-employed mercenary who meets a naive priestess (and I mean naive, she takes "my butt fell asleep" literally) when a douchechanter parades in and starts killing everything, and it pulls plot twists/ballsy moves left and right. It might start off rather slow, but give it a chance to pick up and you might not want to stop playing like I hadn't. You want a love triangle -- no, a love square? Political drama? Exploding dragons? Singing priestesses? Canonical crossdressing? I am your father? -- okay, no, but you can see what I mean.

It also has nice music, and the battle system is fantastic, arguably one of the best features Fantasia has to offer. It uses a mix of turn-based and time sensitive, and the magic system is fun to exploit. Fantasia keeps you on your toes with challenging boss fights, so this definitely won't disappoint in terms of difficulty.

If you want a preview, here's my LP of the very first segment of the prologue! It's for the Wii and cheap now -- around 20 bucks -- if that helps.

. . . and I should point out that many dislike the English voice acting, but I promise you that they grow endearing with time.

[gun_symphony]

She's right, it's actually a very enjoyable game and the voice acting is something you get used to.

Shame I never finished it, but I couldn't get past one of the bosses (screw Clyde and his cheapness).

[contemptibility]

CLYDE WAS SO HARD SOB

... Granted, I was horribly underlevelled when I first fought him—

[gun_symphony]

I was underlevelled the whole game, except for like one boss.

That was probably the only flaw with the game, you needed to grind like a BOSS to get things done.

SOB, LET US BOND OVER HIS DIFFICULTY ;W;