Shangri-La Frontier, episode 23

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  • zabadohEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I was reviewing what Sunraku’s travel plans on Bilac’s map in episode 22, and they didn’t jive with what Sunraku was saying about where places were located.

    I crudely pasted together screenshots of his travel plans to make a map:

    It turns out that the last parts where Sunraku is pointing out that the Lightless Barrens are beyond Eleventar is using a view of the map that is rotated almost 180 degrees, so indeed, the Lightless Barrens are farther away.

    The travel plans are also drawn on Bilac’s map rotated about 90 degrees counter-clockwise

    So the geography is consistent, but the map orientations keep being spun around, i.e. there is no common North-on-top orientation the way we usually use maps.

    edit: Uploaded slightly cleaner version of the travel map

  • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Bilac is a really cool character. Nothing beats combat blacksmith.

    Sunraku doesn’t want to endanger the rabbits as NPCs don’t respawn as players. He goes into the crystal scorpion fight with the knowladge that he might die.

    Really nice and juicy fight even if doesn’t have the same stakes as wethermoon.

    • zabadohEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Whew, caught up finally!

      I’m surprised Sunraku hasn’t taken a closer look at Pencilgon’s nasty-looking sword yet.

      Maybe it’s not relevant to the plot yet.

      It seems like bad game design to have an area boss that can only be damaged by holy weapons and spells.

      Without picking up the knowledge from somewhere, or dying a few times trying random stuff to learn the trick, that could be really frustrating.

      • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I think usually for IRL games that is a bad design, but I think SLFs main shitck is that everything is in the lore and that works for anime. This is more of a plot device than anything.

        Something like in Jujutsu kaisen when explaining how attack works make it more powerful.

        There was a whole class of scholars that was hitting the books and trying to decipher the lore.

  • LvxferreEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Sunraku, don’t press this huge, juicy button that dispenses XP and materials. Don’t do it!

    Oh Emul, you sweet summer child…