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I'm all but done with Slime Mori Mori 3. The final boss is a rediculous gauntlet of 3 battles culminating in a ship battle that I may be 4-5 hours away from grinding to victory on. Not sure if I'll do that any time soon. Got a review code for Ni No Kuni on the Switch today, so that instantly becomes priority. Need to write my Super Neptunia RPG Dumpster fire review this weekend and get started with NNK. Should be interesting comparing the first part to what I did with the DS version earlier this year.

73. I think I said before I should just go full-on sabotage. Well, it's come to that. The final town is Japan aka Zipunk. The ship guarding it has like 950 HP. Mine is in the 500s. I lost 4 times before I finally just picked crew members and gave them the command (they each have 1 or 2) to just fire the entire time. I loaded myself in the cannon and flew over and just went nuts killing the other crew, watching them revive at the church on board (my ship has one too) and then killing them over and over. Finally I won, and had lost maybe 50 HP total. Forget anything else. I'm near end-game. Sabotage 100% 74. Zipunk is indeed Old Japan. Some bad guys tried to chop me up as I entered, but Slival came and rescued me. 75. Collected 20 of some monsters while going through the land here. Getting near the end, need better crew. 76. Going to the boss it warned me I wouldn't be able to save for a while. Getting real. 77. Final orb boss is Don Clawleone. I went full on attack losing most of my life to beat him, didn't worry about dodging. OOPS, he has a 2nd form. Death #1 78. So, fourth time was a charm. Two forms Donny boy had. Got an item from him, but the final orb went into a volcano (Mt. Fuji?) and the volcano flew away. The whole damn thing. 79. And it's back. As a freaking ship. This should be an interesting final boss. 80. Ridiculous. My ship has 500HP. The final battle ship has 2200HP. His first shot took out 250HP. I launched myself over to fight Don Clawleone on the boat. He's the only one there, but the damn ammo auto-launches. So standing over there fighting him didn't stop his ship from blowing mine down to 0HP. I kept him occupied, fighting over and over. Got his ship down to a bit under 1000HP before it became too much and he won. 81. Best part? Can't save during that. Need to do a 3-part fight again. 82. Tried to grind. Game froze. I'm done for a while. Stupid difficulty spike!

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73. I think I said before I should just go full-on sabotage. Well, it's come to that. The final town is Japan aka Zipunk. The ship guarding it has like 950 HP. Mine is in the 500s. I lost 4 times before I finally just picked crew members and gave them the command (they each have 1 or 2) to just fire the entire time. I loaded myself in the cannon and flew over and just went nuts killing the other crew, watching them revive at the church on board (my ship has one too) and then killing them over and over. Finally I won, and had lost maybe 50 HP total. Forget anything else. I'm near end-game. Sabotage 100% And that's it for this little update. Time for bed!

Moving on... 66. Stupid ship's graveyard is right where I feared it was, behind a locked wall. There are walls on rivers that require you to fight a certain number of ship battles back to back without the chance to return to port and heal up. This one had 4 battles in a row. Got my butt handed to me twice. Upgraded a bunch of stuff back at town: ammo & ship parts. Got close but lost a third time. The fourth attempt I decided after the first two easier battles that I needed to personally shoot myself to the other ship and stop their damn cannons firing. That was the ticket. It was a near thing though as both my ship and the last ship hit 0 HP at around the same moment. Luckily I was already on board the enemy ship and quickly destroyed the heart of the ship and won. Too close. 67. After this Slival was waiting for me with a ship battle in the ship graveyard. It was quite the easy battle when I realized early on that he was literally the only enemy on his ship. I flew over and just battled him the entire time so my crew blasted his ship and he never got off another shot. Finally got the map for North America from him. 68. Well, talk about stereotyping the United States. The city with the 6th orb dungeon is called "Gun Valley." It's in the United States and it's got a Western theme going despite it being geographically located in New England. 69. Gun Valley introduces a couple new gameplay elements. Forget Slime Knight, you can be a Slime Cowboy complete with rifle that you can use to shoot bullets at enemies. That was pretty fun and was the entire mechanic for beating the boss. 70. Also, Golem robots appear. You hit these Golems enough and the head pops open and an enemy pops out that was driving it. You can hop in and walk around punching otherwise impassable obstacles like crates and barrels. 71. The final boss is the Statue of Liberty and she's pissed off and tries to burn you repeatedly with her torch while throwing out bombs all over the place. You get a Slime Cowboy and just pummel her with rifle shots constantly. Again, another boss battle I never felt was hard nor dropped me under 50% health. 72. 6th orb obtained. There's a journalist that's in the town and he writes about you and suddenly I'm world-famous (despite me winning battles on literally every other continent at this point so far). A soldier shows up sent by my king father (did I mention I'm a prince slime) and tells me dad needs to see me.

That seems too cheap and easy. Better yet buy one of those foldable Samsung phones for over $1000 and simply develop 3DS emulation on Android. Boom, problem solved. Build in Google's live translate to it and you'll be playing Japanese 3DS games in any language you wish!

I need to submit my muddy rectangular prisms. Oh wait, DQ prefers British. I need to submit my muddy rectangular cuboids.

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Did it? Much like my video game play throughs I just muted the sound the entire time. Didn't notice. [emoji12]

I thought you got the 1st one free in Japan (not 2 or 3) when you beat the post-game, but I'm 95% pulling that out of Swiss Cheese memory.

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60. Spent a while rebeating old bosses. Their heads fall off at the end and are the best ammo in the game. Also, this fulfilled some requests, one of which got me yet another Seed of Life. 61. Annoying. One of the 9 map regions gives you a warning that the monsters are too strong andsa you should turn around. Guess where my 3rd ninja I needed to find was? That map area. Dumb, normally warnings like that should be heeded, but nope. 62. Second ninja request was to trade more, but I'd already done it. Final ninja needed me to show him an entire boat set of parts. I had all the directions to those things and wondered why he didn't like it. NO, I needed to go spend like 18,000 gold on actually building the parts, which stinks because they're worse than what I currently have equipped, so pointless. 63. Finally opened up the snow area: Shiverel. Went through it pretty quickly. Was kinda annoying with the ice and the traps all over and the thing you need to use the most is a bottle of fire which explodes if dropped or thrown. Had to leave and come back many times to keep healing myself. Also, there are very few train tracks here, it was hard to collect monsters or items. Got Yeti super quick because 6 kept respawning (something that doesn't usually happen) near one of the few train tracks. 64. Boss was nesting dolls, honestly it wasn't hard but I'm not certain at what point why I got hits in. I hit everything all the time, but eventually I'd hit something that did damage. 65. Next place I need to go is a ship graveyard. Too tired to follow directions and look for it.

55. Another piece of the world map, another place to go. Sounds like an orb there, hopefully it won't be 3 game hours to get that one! Time for a couple gripes: 56. It took FAR TOO LONG to get allies on the ship. 57. When going to buy/make upgraded gear from Jans' shop, it sucked that you couldn't tell if it was better than what you had equipped right then on the ship. Once it's made and you're equipping with Dr. Cid, you can see stat increases or whatnot, but that's long after you spent money and resources on making something potentially worthless. 58. Crap, and this could be a gripe. To get into town #5, I need to find 3 ninjas. I just found the first one (it's kinda obvious where they are). What does he immediately demand of me? Rebeat the first boss. Ugh, I'm going to do one and go to bed. I think we've reached the inevitable drag that most DQ games turn into for a bit somewhere. 59. Going back to the first area, it's time to recruit more members to the crew. Platys it only took 10 taken back to town to get him to join, everyone else is asking that I have 20 of theirs. Similar to Rocket Slime where 20 enemies brought back got you a statue. For kicks I recruited all 5 monsters from the first desert.