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If you look on the calendar in game there is a calling card deadline. If you are past that point then you're screwed, if not then you are potentially okay.

The bit you are at is basically the last part before you send the calling card, so yeah you're near the end. Keep in mind the next palaces are both longer and more difficult. Also keep in mind you need a day just for leaving the calling card and returning to the palace. I would genuinely recommend keeping a guide handy for the upcoming palaces (Polygon and IGN both have decent ones) as some of the puzzles are ridiculous. Without guides I'd probably still be playing through my first save now. Make sure you have at least an hour or so to spare every time to go into a palace as well, as save points/safe rooms are not exactly abundant (except in one of the later palaces, which bizarrely has a ton of safe rooms). The other social link I'd recommend maxing out ASAP is the doctor (Takemi?) as it gives you discounts on really useful items. In particular there are HP/SP replenishment items that you can equip which are extremely helpful, especially when you get to the latter stages,

So, Raw rating this week is 1.63. Smackdown meanwhile is only 1.27! Those are abysmal, especially with no competition from american football or the NBA. Smackdown in particular is up there with the worst ratings in the history of that show. FOX must be looking at their deal with WWE very nervously now. Almost none of the fans who stopped watching WWE for the NBA playoffs have come back.

That's really sad. He broke his neck taking a Styles Clash from AJ a few years ago and he was never supposed to wrestle again. The fact he'd come back and won the title was pretty awesome, so it's very tragic for it to end this way.

It's great, isn't it? You've still got a long way to go but the game definitely had me from beginning to end. For the first run make sure you max out Kawakami's social link ASAP, as it lets you go out in the evening after you've finished a palace or mementos. Also make sure you give yourself a decent amount of days for the palaces, as in the first run you won't normally be able to finish them all in one go. If you do an NG+ game then you can usually do palaces in one hit. Keep in mind with NG+ you can also redo the social links you didn't finish the first time around, and you'll get through the game quicker due to carrying over your weapons, armour, etc from the first run. I think my first P5 game clocked in at around 80-90 hours. I was gutted when it was over. I tried to play P4 on my PSTV but man it was a serious downer seeing such a huge graphical downgrade (P4 came out initially on the PS2, and even though it was rereleased on the Vita/PSTV the graphics aren't really improved). P5's graphical presentation is so slick and just all around awesome that it makes it very difficult to go back to the older games unfortunately.

I used to do a variation of this with Burnley, but it went more along the lines of selling all their best players dirt cheap, signing a bunch of terrible free transfers on huge multi-year contracts, wasting the entire transfer budget on somebody like Andrews or Lowe, then resigning and watching with satisfaction as they sink into both league and financial oblivion. Good times.

We haven't been linked to anybody I think would seriously improve us yet - but as far as I can tell it's all guesswork at the moment, largely based on likely destinations for free transfers and players we've been linked with in the past or former players out of favour at other clubs. Mowbray seems to be keeping his cards close to his chest for now. Fingers crossed we're looking at a lot better than what's been rumoured so far, but I'm not holding my breath. I get the feeling we're in for another underwhelming summer. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

Mulgrew in midfield would be a disaster and he'd be injured before the first match was over.

This is a common fallacy on here. Go through the games where he scored last season and you'll see we don't need his goals, as we barely won any of them. We need somebody who can defend in defence, and let the attacking players do the scoring. Oh, and I don't think he got any assists, so we aren't missing those either!

This is like what WWE is trying to do with Sami Zayn, but far better.

Creative freedom shines through in everything AEW does. It's such a nice contrast to the robotic lifelessness of modern WWE. Not everything will be a home run, but even then it's still better than watching WWE's talented but shackled performers go through the motions every week. The Cody/Dustin promos before Double or Nothing were awesome. Dustin in particular went from being a parody of himself in WWE to being totally reborn and rejuvenated in AEW.

What a spiral that boy's career has gone into. Still only 25 but has gone from being a Welsh international and a regular at a fairly big Championship club to failing in a minor football league in the USA and now playing in League 2.

The reason the 24/7 title is enjoyable, other than R-Truth just being entertaining in anything, is because it's different from the same old shit served up across the rest of the show. It's the same with the Firefly Funhouse - it's like being given a sip of water after walking through a desert for a few hours. As you correctly say, everything else is insanely boring now. Raw has been boring for literally years but the wildcard rule has ruined Smackdown. Granted Smackdown never returned to the level it was at during the second half of 2016 and early 2017, but it's always been better than Raw - if only because it's two hours rather than three. Since the wildcard rule was introduced Smackdown is now just an extended version of Raw, essentially, with THE BIG DAWG and Shane McMahon all over both shows. I still can't believe that WWE have already managed to book Reigns so badly that some people are beginning to boo him again. Their booking is so bad that fans are booing a cancer survivor. Meanwhile Shane McMahon, who was very recently one of the most over characters in the company, is now getting chants of "boring", "CM Punk" and "AEW" during his promos. Very good job.

I don't think FOX have much wriggle room in their WWE agreement. As far as I've read that's 5 years of guaranteed mega cash for WWE no matter what happens. As for Raw and USA Network, if it was regularly dipping below 1.5 you have to imagine the situation would start to become untenable. Apparently USA have already been meddling due to alarm over the current ratings slump, and the stupid 24/7 title was their idea. If that's the best they've got they're probably better off leaving it alone.

Honestly you could post practically anything from the 90s through to the mid-00s and it would almost certainly be more entertaining than the shit that gets served up by WWE on Mondays and Tuesdays. Raw posted a 1.54 rating this week, which I believe is the lowest in modern history outside of holiday shows. TNA was getting 1.4/1,5 very briefly when they switched to Mondays, so it's now that bad.

As a kid I really had no idea how the junction system worked. I basically tried to play the game the same way as FF7 and I remember getting stuck around the part where you fight Cerberus and that was as far as I got. It was only a few years ago when I replayed it again (on an original PlayStation!) and read a walkthrough that I realised how insanely unbalanced the junction system is if you spam drawing spells from enemies. It's also kind of funny that the game is easier to complete if all of your characters are underleveled, due to enemies levelling up with you. Another mechanic that is a good idea in theory, but wasn't quite implemented properly.

The new FFVII remake and FFVIII remaster trailers below:

Yeah, I guess it'll be similar to the remastered version of FF7 that was released on Steam/PS4. I wonder if they'll tinker with the junction system at all? It was a decent idea in theory but fell apart in practice, as you could basically make yourself invincible very early on in the game through drawing the max amount of spells from enemies and junctioning them accordingly. My guess is they leave it as it is, but if it was ever to be properly remade then I imagine the junction system would be gone. As long as Triple Triad is in the game I'll be happy. For a mini game it was crazy addictive.

There's a new 4 minute trailer out which looks pretty good. Even better, they announced at E3 that Final Fantasy 8 is getting a remaster! About damn time. Being released some time this year.

FF7 Remake announced for 03/03/2020... another 9 months. Still on the PS4 by the looks of it. Kind of weird that it's going to be launching around the time the PS5 will be on its way.

They should have ended it at the botched tombstone. Goldberg obviously kicked out on instinct, knowing the match wasn't meant to end there, but somebody should probably have called an audible and ended the match at that point. A few years ago I'd agree with you on Taker, but not now. He's seriously broken down and none of his recent matches have been good, in fact they've been outright dangerous at times. The last good match he had was probably with Brock at WM30. He should have stuck to his retirement at that event. I wouldn't even say character-wise Taker is that interesting anymore. He comes out and cuts the same old "rest in peace" promo and has a staredown with his opponent, sometimes with teleporting involved. That's about it. Except with Wyatt and Cena where he just didn't show up at all until WM, meaning the "feud" was carried entirely by one person. It's just not worth it anymore. There have been some fantastic women's matches in recent years, although not so much recently. People weren't moaning about there just being a lack of women's wrestling, anyway, it's the fact that on these shows the women don't even have the opportunity to perform. It's ridiculously hypocritical for WWE to push their "women's (r)evolution" so hard and then do shows in countries where women are treated like dirt - especially with the first Saudi show being a disgusting propaganda-fest. If you're going to go all in with PR over your female empowerment (which is long overdue in WWE anyway) then you should rightly expect backlash when you do these kinds of shows. They made a rod for their own back with this one I'm afraid. What's strange is that they seemed to think they were going to get the go ahead to put on a women's match, as they flew Alexa Bliss and Natalya out to Saudi Arabia, but when they got there they were told no. Interestingly when the women's matches for Stomping Ground came up on the screen you could hear the Saudi crowd cheering loudly, so they clearly want to see women's wrestling even if their backwards government won't allow it. They probably do. I've certainly been highly critical of both. AEW haven't made a statement either way so there's no point bringing them into the discussion at this juncture, but I guarantee if they did sign a deal with Saudi Arabia they'd receive the same level of criticism from their fans. Probably more, actually, as it would be a much more hardcore audience who are watching AEW precisely because they aren't WWE and expect higher standards. Should AEW go the WWE route I'm sure they'll lose a lot of fans in the process. There was an audible called for the finish (you can hear Taker say to Goldberg "stay down"), but I don't think it was called before then. Taker was definitely asking the ref on more than one occasion if Goldberg was OK. There's a point just after the turnbuckle spot where Taker raises his hand for a chokeslam, but Goldberg falls back into the ropes. You can see Taker looking concerned for a second, and the ref ask "are you alright, Bill?" ... at which point Goldberg obviously said he was alright and the match continued. That's the moment they should have said enough and called for it to end. Unfortunately they didn't, so instead we got the botched tombstone, the botched jackhammer, the botched tombstone reversal and the worst chokeslam ever.

It's SO THEM PAL. Seriously though, if Goldberg was concussed then he wouldn't have been thinking clearly. He was probably just trying to focus on keeping himself mobile, let alone whether he should call an audible on the match itself. That's exactly why other people are around to make those decisions. I can remember in 2013 a match between Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton was stopped because Bryan suffered a stinger during the match and Triple H made the call to end the match before the finish. Bryan was furious afterwards, but it was absolutely the right decision. What was the difference at Super Showdown, other than the Saudis wanting their money's worth? You can't make these types of decisions based on money or whether it's a PPV main event. If somebody is seriously injured the match should be stopped immediately, no matter what. Goldberg could have been paralysed or worse from that botched tombstone, and the same for Taker when Goldberg botched the jackhammer. That all happened after Goldberg was quite obviously concussed and WWE would have endured an absolute shitstorm should anything really bad have happened. It's only through pure luck that both Goldberg and Undertaker are okay, and it didn't have to be down to luck. It shouldn't have been down to luck. WWE will get away with this, like they always do, but if the Saudi event in general didn't make them look bad enough, allowing the main event to continue with one of the competitors clearly concussed really shows how rotten the core of that company is.

Yep, neither of them were ready for anything other than a couple of minutes. A few spears, a chokeslam, snake eyes, old school, a jackhammer... enough. All anybody really wanted to see was the power moves and finishers anyway. Goldberg should have gone over as he has way more mileage in him than Taker at this point. He's still in incredible shape and his promo skills nowadays are far better than Undertaker's - which is surprising considering before he returned in 2016 his promos had always been garbage. Not sure what happened during his time away from wrestling but Goldberg is a much better promo now than he was in his heyday. It feels like last night kind of ruined whatever mystique Goldberg had left though. It's going to be tough to come back from that.

Undertaker "liked" an instagram post that lambasted WWE for putting those two out there at 50+ years old each, and telling them to let Taker retire in peace. Have to think that's the last time Taker will allow himself to be put into a position like that. With the right opponent he's still a passable showpiece attraction, but he needs to be looked after. So many things about that match were wrong. For a start I can't believe they expected those two to go out there and perform a 10 minute plus match in that heat. Goldberg was barely able to wrestle more than three minutes in his prime, let alone now and in those conditions. Undertaker is so broken down he can barely walk. As soon as they realised Goldberg was concussed the match should have ended. It was obvious as soon as he hit that turnbuckle and started bleeding that something was badly wrong. It sucks but the match should have been ended there and then. Instead they let it continue and both Goldberg and Taker nearly got seriously hurt because of it. Really disgusting behaviour from WWE, but considering where the show was taking place, I guess that's a given with this company. How anybody thought the reverse tombstone spot at the end was a good idea was beyond me. Goldberg had already botched his jackhammer and didn't tuck his head in for the tombstone, smashing his head and neck on the canvas, so who thought it was a good idea to continue with the reverse tombstone spot? How could they have thought that would work? It would have been difficult even if neither man was injured, let alone in the state they were in. I don't blame Taker as he'd just been dumped on his head from the botched jackhammer and was clearly still groggy, but the ref or somebody in gorilla should have called an audible there. Terrible decision making all around. An embarrassing night for WWE all around, but that match in particular was just horrendous on so many levels.

My God that Undertaker/Goldberg match was bad. It started off okay, save for that TERRIBLE kneebar Goldberg attempted, but as soon as Goldberg ran into the corner and busted himself open the match fell apart. I think he might have legit smashed his head and concussed himself. If not then, he almost certainly did when Taker managed to botch the tombstone and dropped Goldberg on his fucking head. Jesus Christ. Then Goldberg nearly drops Taker on his head with the botched Jackhammer. So, so sad to watch. Taker looked both incredibly pissed off and majorly disappointed afterwards. That was really brutal.