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[themightyspazz]

Waiting until the last minute to pack for trips is the best you guys.

From bjornwilde:

What structural aspect of your pup's canon is less than ideal? Is it redundant descriptions? A poorly fleshed out character? No clear rules for magic? Not enough history? A flimsy culture?

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[alas_a_llama]

Final Fantasy XII: How - exactly does magic(k, why do you spell it with a 'k', XII writers) work again? They spend Game of Thrones level detail on politics, history and philosophy, but completely forget to set out how magic works in Ivalice. It's an RPG, so in practice it works as 'you select it from a menu', but other RPGs like Mass Effect and Fable have put more effort into their magic.

Also, all the other structural problems that come with being an RPG: Like instant curatives that you activate by violently lobbing at people's heads.

Kamen Rider Wizard: A chronic fear of telling its own story. The story progresses at an absolute snail's pace, raising questions and then never answering them, until about episode 35 out of 50. Also, terrible under-use or misuse of many of its own characters: They have a police officer on the team and the amount of times she gets to do any police officering is negligible.

Legend of Korra: They could really use twenty episodes per book, like ATLA had. Partly because LoK can feel really rushed at times, but mostly because that would mean that there's time for each character to get story arcs, focus episodes, etc, rather than some (by which I mostly mean Bolin, Asami and Lin) being pushed to the sidelines.

[death_gone_mad]

Also, all the other structural problems that come with being an RPG: Like instant curatives that you activate by violently lobbing at people's heads.

Mine has sharks, tuna, lobsters, and swordfish that you can eat whole in one bite! Cake and pizza takes four bites, though. Bandaids have the same curative effect as food in some minigames, but they don't exist elsewhere in the game. Game Mechanics :D

[cameoflage]

How about stopping time and eating 13 Fancy Lads Snack Cakes in the middle of a fight in Fallout 3? This makes you feel better rather than worse, somehow.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amazingly, Runescape doesn't stop to let you eat cake. That way you can eat your cake and get stabbed too!