Yes as you might have gleaned from the title this is another rant post this time about the RNG in Fire Emblem Echoes, I've moaned about it before but this time it REALLY pissed me off. So I was doing a mission in it called Grieth's Citadel and during this mission the boss managed to kill about 50% of my characters (I do have permadeath turned off because fuck permadeath) as well as tank enough damage to kill the end game boss because the RNG in that game is FUCKED. 5% chance to crit? It's actually 100%. I have an 85% chance to hit? Make that 0%. Yes I know they all have percentages to activate/not hit but the bottom line is this is happening more often then the percentages give you rather than criting only 5% of the time the boss was criting nearly 100% of the time and rather than hitting 85% of the time my characters where missing 85% of the time and this didn't have any of SoV's, quite frankly, overpowered terrain effects to fuck things up. When a game relies that heavily on skewed (or outright false) percentages in its RNG it's a shit game. I'm not saying RNG is bad, but when it's done this badly and this blatantly it's fucking dogshite.

Now onto the FFXIII games, which is what I wanted to talk about but now can't be fucked so I'll summarise my thoughts on it for you: They're actually god games (good graphics, decent story, decent characters good (imo) gameplay) however they're hampered by their title, Final Fantasy since with FF games you expect something and/or you're outright comparing them to the ones that came before and in comparison to (for me anyway) IX and X the XIII series is nowhere near as good. However if you where to take the Final Fantasy title off them (call it Lightning and Friends' awesome adventure or something) and not link it to that iconic (proper iconic, not Ubisoft iconic) series they'd most likely end up being better recieved.

But anyway some more shots of Mist: