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I didn't actually go for those two 5% stuns, a ranged crit Wide Shot is barely enough for an aerial Shunjinken to connect after charging naturally. But I'll take 'em nevertheless 😂 And yeah I feel X1 is a bit unexplored in the combo territory (though understandably so, it's much more fun as a back-and-forth game against the bosses) so it was fun to lab something that's specific to this game!

Couldn't be a combo from me without at least one rng stun 💀

Thanks! I'm glad you (and others) have thought the Jude fight is enjoyable as I was afraid the limitations might've made it a tad too repetitive. Hope you have a good time labbing and learning the game, don't let the rng consume you 💀

Thanks! The weakness resets truly are the saving grace that still manage to make me come back to this game, it's always fun to think outside the box and figure out new ways to implement them >:3

The Elize run getting too close to becoming a real thing 😱

Weakness reset = neuron activation 🤯 By far the one thing that manages to bring me back to this game every so often lol, there's always new setups to discover with everyone against different bosses! ✨

Good to be back! (although probably for just this video as I have no plans for the recent future 💀) Thanks! If only spells didn't completely blow in this game there'd be so much more than could be done. Nevertheless I'm happy with the end result, especially the chain management with Elize and Milla 👁

▶ Elize vs. Sonny - 2:53 ∟ Double Weakness, 2 Resets While the gameplay is overall much improved over the previous video, this is the one with the least "new" stuff. As usual I begin with fight with a low-use Tipo Vacuum, which instead of sucking the enemy in has a constant stun chance while completely ignoring the enemy penetrate/iron stance. With a stun successfully fished, I have a guaranteed 0-hit combo starter which I just follow up with a Million Vite to instantly lock Sonny in a weakness combo. With a small chain, it's possible to connect Serpents Vite before the enemy can recover from Tramtipoline. The stagger time Tipo Glider grants is absolutely insane and even though landing earlier broke my arte chain I have no issue connecting a Negative Gate thanks to the Spell Impact skill (releases a shockwave every time you cast for .9 seconds). Landing from this will break my chain again, but I can use Tipo Rising's outrageous timer to build a longer chain which barely lets me fit in Flutters Dim in Twinkle's timer to set up for a weakness reset. For variety's sake I went for the L1 Forward to begin a weakness gauge as it's a multi-hit which immediately locks Sonny back into the combo. However, unlike Elize's other normal attack which hit gun, the strong ones hit hammer.. This would be an issue later, so I had to come up with a quick solution. I pull Sonny back to me with an instant Negative Gate and launch him with Tramtipoline just as the gauge is about to run out and trigger an air counter and another reset with an Air Normal, which I can follow up with a Tipo Glider into an actual instant Black Guide as I preserved my chain all the way from Tipo Rising. Here on out it's just more or less going through all the elements all over again but I made sure to save hammer for last as I absolutely needed that timer for Revere Ignition. Important to note that I needed at least a 4 arte chain before casting that, otherwise Spell Impact would have gone off and gotten rid of the stun. ▶ Alvin vs. Waterfall Phantom - 4:10 ∟ No Multipliers, 2 Resets I actively avoided recycling any match-ups from the previous video, however I really wanted to show off Alvin's guard breaking tech by forcing the enemy to guard with reduce hits. By far the best boss for this is Waterfall Phantom, not only because it's a massive penetrate fiend, but also due to the water resistance which makes Rain Bullet truly shine! This with the overall improved and extended combo I feel makes up for this. So as stated, I begin by shooting a Rain Bullet, which will nearly always force the boss to guard as long as it's in idle (so basically approaching with either the stomp attack or Curse). Alvin's Charge Breaker skill ensures that a guard break will always happen from any attack whilst having at least one stacked (fun fact, it even applies to the 2nd hit of Charged Blow from get-go). At the start of the combo, I make use of Charged Blows as pseudo sidesteps to line up with the right tentacle, as Majuu Senkoudan would not naturally connect from Chase Cannon without an early hit. Once landed, I simply hit shot and approach for a weakness reset with Majin Bakuenzan. Afterwards I side-swap with Smash Baker and do some rare aerial Alvin, until setting up for the next reset with Houryuu Rengazan. If timed right, the grab will start a new gauge and despite triggering a counter the combo will continue as if nothing happened. The rest is pretty straightforward but I had to introduce an RNG element for the sake of arte variety. I needed a stun off of Shugo Houtsuijin so Wide Shot can connect and I can stack a charge for Death by Trigger. ▶ Gaius vs. Mega Tusk - 5:11 ∟ Double Damage, 3 Resets This combo was way, way harder than it needed to be lmao. I start of by waiting for the boar to use Varied Charge which I will flash guard. Shortly after the last hit of the charge attack, the enemy is still considered to be in an "attacking state" so Dankashouwai will successfully go off, taking care of most of the boss' penetrate. The rest is left to Haou Tenshouken. Now that the combo has started, I immediately have an RNG element, as the knockdown from the arcane is still recent, there's a decent chance that Haja Juujisei will not knockdown again. I need said knockdown as the positioning for the backwards Hien Shunrenzan is extremely precise, it barely hits the tail. Shortly after, the Kogahazan uses my last free knockdown, so I'm out of those so early on.. Aerial Shunjinken launches a grounded enemies high with ease, and thanks to Gaius' Heavy Edge skill this also applies to gigantos. With said launch, ground counters can be completely disregarded. After the reset, I push the boss towards a counter and end with a Tenshinkyaku stun setup into Seika Messaijin, which requires a setup with free run as the upwards shooting hits have poor hitstun and you need to outright make them miss in order to preserve the combo. Afterwards I go for a Majinken Shouga for a coordinated short hop and a somewhat precise Kogahazan. I need to be a very specific distance away accompanied with the right height for the first hit to connect but to avoid the downwards hit from landing entirely as it would knock down and trigger the OTG limit. Once past that, pretty much anything will apply a 2nd element and allow the combo to continue normally. I proceed into 2-3 Hien Shunrenzans depending on the position I end up in after the 2nd. I need to end up on the "left side" so Seiryu will position me perfectly for a Koujinreppa to pull Mega Tusk out of the corner which I can then steal with a Shunjinken. After getting out of the corner, I set up for another reset. Thanks to Heavy Edge once again, Haja Juujisei can launch even gigantos high enough to avoid another knockdown. However, Haja Juujisei does always leave me facing away from the enemy so I need to correct my position with a sidestep and quickly catch with Majinken before the boss touches the ground. At this point I'm on the home stretch, and I simply just rack up all my elements one last time and go for a stun with Koujinreppa and end with Haou Tenshouken. I do feel like I should note that I did buff Gaius' stun rate to make make this more pure execution based, but I didn't want to make it "too unfair" so I only upped myself to Elise's stun rate (from 30% to 60%), however my consideration did not seem to matter at all whatsoever as I got every single stun in this take... This does not change the combo in any way as I only ever go for and make use of those 2 stun setups I previously mentioned, but I do admit it does make this slightly less impressive even though this is all possible with no modifications whatsoever.

▶ Muzét vs. Celsius - 6:21 ∟ Double Damage, Double Weakness, 2 Resets This one felt right at home, exactly brought back memories of why I burnt out to begin with. After the hiatus, especially after playing as the other characters first it really occurred to me how much tomfoolery it takes and the amount of bullshit you need to circumvent to make this character work even in the slightest, is absolutely outrageous compared to everyone else... Worst spell recovery, worst iron stance breaking capabilities, short timers, straight up useless artes.. She has them all. And what I thought would be a fun match-up ended up just being me shooting myself to the leg, which I'll get more into detail soon. Celsius has iron stance, although a very minimal amount. Her attacks are well indicated so it's possible to get through this with ease even as Muzét, however the tricky part is that I needed to begin the combo with only a single clean hit off of Avoidance. As this arte has a terrible timer I needed to use All Out to hit hammer instead as this grants a long enough timer for Air Pressure to connect. Muzét absolutely needs to cast all of her spells in the air, as her post-casting recovery time is the worst out of the whole cast and only Black Guide has long enough hitstun to connect into anything naturally. Air Pressure lasts long enough for a quick aerial Burn Spread to connect, and thanks to the great earth timer, I can play around for a bit before hitting the next element. This is also where picking Celsius kinda backfired. Her bad posture makes her have a very gimmicky and low hurtbox, which makes aerial Etherly Whip setups very precise.. However once past that hell, then comes my pride and joy, the ✨Cyclone catch✨, honestly this was the one new thing I really wanted to introduce here and I'm so happy about figuring it out! And yeah I guess Force Mine is there too lol. This is ANOTHER part where picking Celsius backfired.. as Cyclone is used immediately upon a reset, I basically waste the wind element as the grab will hit hammer and grant a very very poor timer.. And due to Celsius' fire weakness, I have the fire pin equipped to perform weakness resets, I can't use my old reliable Burn Spread for a quick timer refresh either.. Thankfully I have time to start a quick grounded chain with Brandish into Etherly Whip and then use the launcher to set up for Black Guide, which I can then easily use to reset again. Of course I had to include the traditional Arrivederci catch and another nightmare Etherly Whip setup. The distance for petrified Etherly Roots is also important or the Stun Blitz wouldn't reach. ▶ Milla vs. Maxwell - 8:00 ∟ Double Damage, 2 Resets I had kind of a struggle figuring out who to pick for Milla, as I wanted to go with a more legal restriction this time around, so I had to play till end game to get Maxwell Milla for the Four and MA.. I tried to go out of my way to not just pick easy fights, however Maxwell is kind of a punching bag and goes against that.. But I did want to make sure I can use my beloved glitched aerial spells in the combo and this boss truly lets me lab these in without a worry for the most part. Basically, you can cast spells in the air as Milla even without equipping the skill by queueing the input and switching to Auto just as the game is about to execute it. I start 3 spaces away to help avoid the corner later, instantly hitting Maxwell's weak spot with a Higher Than Sky followed with Overdrive so I can use it again later to close the distance without applying a new gauge so Elemental Shot's lines up for the reset. I'm using magic stance as I like the projectile you can send in the air, it's not good at all but with a big enough chain you can connect an air spell glitch with something quick. Efreet can be cancelled with a frontstep, which I make use of multiple times throughout the fight, it's just a neat little filler arte that looks cool and doesn't require commitment. I also had a hidden restriction; I wanted to make Cataract Ray work. Its end lag is terrible and it doesn't have much hitstun and I only found Wind Cutter to really connect after. Speaking of Wind Cutter I chose to follow up with the Cyclone variant of it as it lines up it's knockdown perfectly as the timer is about to run out. Maxwell's down time is also quite long so I can with ease begin a new gauge by hitting his weak spot with Lunatic Sting and pick him up with Overdrive and Wind Cutter. I use this part of the combo to build up a big chain, after the side swap I needed to do an air step before the Lightning otherwise Maxwell would get pushed too far back after Round Edge. Air Steps much like pretty much any other movement option in the game, does break your chain, however if you cancel the animation with another attack your chain is preserved. All the height I get here is needed for the next set up. I bring Maxwell up to the skies with me and glitch a Prison Saver. Because I'm this high and the recovery time on the arcane spell happens to be less than the other high tier ones, I can quickly snipe with Elemental Shot before I hit the ground, still preserving my chain. After I queue another glitch Thunder Blade and afterwards finally land, follow with an Efreet cancel for some extra damage and close in for another reset with Overdrive. Overdrive by itself performs pretty much infinite weakness resets, as long as the timer expires and new one with 2 elements is hit within one use. I wanted to go for a bit longer of a combo, but with no multipliers the fight was going to take forever so I decided to wrap it up here with a quick chain into one more glitch Burn Spread. Here I had to be more careful as Higher Than Sky can easily rack up unwanted damage by critting against the weak spot, so I chose to extend from Forcefield, and hey, more arte variety never hurts, right? ────────── Phew, anyway, I'm glad to get this out so I can stop thinking about it and this game as a whole again. Blame Horangi for getting me hooked back into this bs and Jak for giving me the idea to do Jude with no weakness. Special thanks to Zeke for polishing the thumbnail as usual as well.

After using an aerial spell, landing cancels the recovery time.

@@JustSamu Nice, thank you.

Yeah, later in the game with the wizard skills unlocked at least for sure. I already had the mystic symbol here and I honestly forgot how slow her casting can be early on 💀

Against bigger enemies, especially the slower gigantos this could be fun to mess around with. Additionally having Teepo on makes Teepo Roar have much less knockback which probably makes it easier to keep things centered. And yeah, as far as I'm aware this is X1 only, as the sports DLC come in 2 files one for each game

My guess would be that the dlc package you got is the fix that comes with all the jpn exclusives converted to every region, which probably just has everything originally from the jpn version 🤔 (or it's just the regular EU dlc)

Oh not at all it's a mod actually. Similar to the extra arte slots for Destiny DC, there's a new rpcs3 patch for Graces that gives you the narikiri arte slots as an extra page and to use while holding L2.

@@JustSamuDamn I need to play this yesterday, when did it come out I checked rpcs3 patches like 3 days ago. Or do I need any external files?

@@JustSamuI've checked the patches post update and was unable to find any for togf in rpcs3, newest build. Is there a discord for tales modding nowadays? Used to be in a old one from clip but that seems gone.

@@matex2207 Oh yeah it's not part of the official patches, it's available here github.com/ucuckic/tales_patches I have a slightly altered version of the script as it normally patches the shortcut glitch and I wanted to still use it, I'm not sure if the git one has been updated to have that toggle

@@JustSamuIf it does not I hope it will in the future, this will make graces pretty fun to play again albeit ridiuculously broken lol. Does the arte slot patch require the nakiri dolls unlocked? Was planning on using it on a clear save file so if yes I'll have to look around via CE if I can find something to unlock it immediately.

The power of ailment damage modifiers and consistent crits is a fearsome combination 💀 Thanks!

Optimized Pascal do be like that sometimes 💀 That arte seriously has no right being that good, it's just 8 glorified shiny Majinkens lmao Thanks! I'm glad you think so as she's certainly a blast to play as!

It certainly would not have connected without it 💀 Thanks, hopefully I can come up with more shit like that, that would also work on bosses with actual stagger reduction 😭

Oh that's just three insta-casts with the shortcut glitch in a quick succession (Rock Lance -> Frontstep -> Photon Blaze -> Frontstep -> Cool Threat), serves as a fancier way to get closer to the boss lol Thanks! I'm particularly happy with that setup since it was quite annoying to find a way to extend the combo without rhythm or other good cast bonuses

Thanks! Yeah I've kinda overlooked the og/N.sane OSTs but they have a lot of fitting music for solos lol

Thanks! Yeah it was refreshing to fight him after the Baronia duo who I barely could even deal crits against 🥊

I'm actually not sure, I recall seeing the lvl 3 BCs use the first cut-in, they might get updated once you start the F-arc? At 0:50, I use the shortcut glitch (Shortcut + A-Arte input at the same time) with Rejuvenate to perform a glitch cancel. This is essentially just a more efficient spell cancel, it puts you in idle position instantly and you start recovering CC faster. Different spells give different results but most mid- and high-tier ones just put you in idle.

#Justice4CardboardMask

Yeah I meant to say that in a more playful manner at first but I have a bad habit of getting carried away and over-exaggerating lol, even though my earliest days definitely ring some truth to that statement. I appreciate the heartening words, thanks clip 🫡

with a hacked ps3 it might be possible with a program like netcheat, but it's not even nearly as advanced as what you can do on an emulator with cheat engine, and i'm not familiar with netcheat in any other way besides finding and changing some simple values.

@@JustSamu thanks

Thanks frubam, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the runs, really appreciate the feedback and I'm relieved to see that the finer details of the gameplay didn't go unseen! It would be interesting to see what you can come up with these days if you ever decide to come back to the game as well, although your Leia speedrun is already a blast to watch and I go back to it every now and then. And yeah, that describes my feelings about X2 (well, X1 too!) as well, but in any case it's good to hear even that run was enjoyable! >:3