Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Reach Out and Punch Someone

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Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Yeeeeeees it's the GOOD poo poo now. Looking forward to seeing just how much of this game I've managed to forget over the years!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 21:29

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:19

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I seem to recall that using the Ring Soul on Nicolai can boost him up to four attacks here, which results in him finishing his attack sequence with this ridiculous leaping twirly kick. Completely worth it. :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 07:03

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The Dark Id posted:

With a name like Fafhrd, this guy is definitely going to join our party. Right?

Right? :smith:

# ¿ Mar 6, 2019 21:52

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Gyehhhuuugh the spidery fingerlegs with the nails - I have never been able to forget those horrible things and somehow they're even worse than I remember.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 10:12

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The glam-rock vampire doesn't have ears and it probably shouldn't weird me out as much as it does!

# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 22:59

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The health inspectors are never gonna pass this wine cellar. All that blood and bugs the size of your torso everywhere... :colbert:

# ¿ Jul 24, 2019 21:23

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Southampton, England: (temporary) home of The Mustache and The Chin.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 23:24

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

No, you see, you have all guessed right. ALL OF YOU.

Shadow Hearts. :allears:

# ¿ Sep 1, 2019 06:08

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I always really liked the owl-with-snake crest. It's neat.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2019 20:57

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Let Joachim dance! Honestly! :colbert:

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 05:14

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The Dark Id posted:

Sapientes Gladio Texas?

"Ducunt volentem fata, y'all."

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 20:57

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

achtungnight posted:

Sadly, the Sapientes Gladio Texas HQ is in Midland

achtungnight posted:

Midland

achtungnight posted:

MIDLAND

That... that's inhumane. :stonk:

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 23:33

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I always liked Nicolai, at least partially because he was such a smug dickhole.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2019 19:11

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I guess that's how you know that Yuri is not the most mentally active fellow?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 01:29

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

On a slightly different note: I played this game when it was new (one million years ago) and I remember really liking Nicolai as a character at the time. Reading this LP now, I can't remember why I liked him so much. :sigh:

# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 09:41

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I guess Nicolai and Karin did spend a few weeks together at the beginning of the game - traveling from Domremy to the Vatican (in a week!) and back - but the game elided that travel time so completely that the player is mostly surprised Karin remembers his name. ;-*

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 09:13

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

All persons fictitious disclaimer

Wikipedia posted:

The disclaimer came as a result of litigation against the 1932 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film Rasputin and the Empress, which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Russian mystic Rasputin. The character of Natasha was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, who sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed. Irina and her husband Felix Yusupov were reportedly awarded $127,373 (equivalent to $2,434,000 in 2019) in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934, and $1,000,000 (equivalent to $19,000,000 in 2019) in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. As a preventive measure against further lawsuits, the film was taken out of distribution for decades.

The film began with a claim that "This concerns the destruction of an empire � A few of the characters are still alive�the rest met death by violence." Reportedly, a justice in the case told MGM that not only was this claim damaging to their case, but that their case would be stronger if they had incorporated a directly opposite statement, that the film wasn't intended as an accurate portrayal of real people or events. Prompted by the outcome of this case, many studios began to incorporate an "all persons fictitious" disclaimer in their films, to protect themselves from similar court action.

There. Much less annoying than some eight-minute video!

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 10:33

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The Dark Id posted:

Oh, you want to get to the Dead Factory where Umbrella processes and disposes of all the failed experiment corpses in acidic vats? Yeah, just take a left at Maple Street and Pine Ave. It's across from the Denny's.

Of course it is.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2021 23:12

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

I have vague memories of most parts of the Shadow Hearts games, but I have only four really clear ones:

1. SCHLOOP. SCHLOOP. SKREEEEEEEEE.
2. Metal Gear Blanca.
3. Kato crushing Nicolai's skull like a porcelain vase filled with meat.
4. A random sidequesty detail from From The New World.

These games are such a thing.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 22:27

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The Dark Id posted:

Ishimura still has the picture of himself and Ben Hyuga posing with Kawashima on his wall and I don't know if that's :smith:

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 06:49

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Lenny and Veronica! I remember Lenny and Veronica! From back in the relatively-cheerful times!

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 22:50

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

The Queen's Garden is actually nice-looking and the monsters are properly grotesque! I approve of this.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 21:39

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Hey, in the second Xenosaga game the church was the final boss. You fought a literal cathedral. Like, the giant stone building. It had an attack called 'Sodomquake'.

I'm not even going to spoil that because a) lol xenosaga and b) I don't know that it actually spoils... anything...? Like, it comes out of nowhere, it means nothing, and it never comes up again.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 02:02

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

CmdrKing posted:

No no no, the final boss is the Space Pope. The cathedral is just his automated last line of defense before you get to him.

Oh, crap, that's right. Also much less entertaining. Boo. :doh:

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 05:10

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

So Orobas'... eyeball-dick banana peels... have some kind of half-dressed ladies painted on the insides, I guess?

I love Shadow Hearts monsters. I really do. When they're good they're just a giant pile of WTF.

# ¿ May 9, 2021 05:17

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

When I played the game I didn't start the Fort of Ruin until the final sidequest rampage, after all the plot beats had been beaten out - I remember being convinced/worried that the ghost at the bottom of the fortress was going to be Nicolai and he was going to ask Karin to forgive him for being such a creepy stalker shithead and give her his fancy sword as her ultimate weapon. I'm still kind of sad this didn't happen.

_{I was not the most completionist player of this game, nooooo}

# ¿ May 12, 2021 08:11

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Also you got to watch a Japanese studio try to handle Native American characters. I do not remember how oof this was, but that may mean that I deliberately blocked it out.

_{_{on the other hand Al Capone and Eliot Ness were kind of hilarious}}

# ¿ May 19, 2021 22:42

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

_{Thank you for continuing the LP despite its curse, Id.} :shobon:

# ¿ Jun 10, 2021 22:25

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Teddy Roosevelt would have forced his way into the party. You all know this in your heart of hearts.

Well, not to spoil From The New World or anything, but we may or may not have had a Roosevelt in our party there!

# ¿ Jun 19, 2021 05:14

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

shlooooooop
shlooooooop
skreeeeeee

Twenty-some-odd years later and that sound still lives in my brain.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2021 21:59

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:19

Picayune: Feb 26, 2007; cannot be unseen; Taco Defender

Gotta admit, I've been waiting for the Karin/Anne reveal. WHOOPS LOL SHE'S YOUR MOMMA

Thanks for everything, Id!

# ¿ Aug 23, 2021 05:35

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