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Got it working. All fears were assuaged as soon as Davesprite breaks the fourth wall and explains the game mechanics the first time you speak to him. Because he's a game sprite, you see. I think to really enjoy this kind of thing, you've got to transcend many layers of irony back up to sincerity again. It's definitely something befitting the Strider household.
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Kelp Plankton posted:
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Kelp Plankton posted:
Okay. I want all of you unsure about this game to look at that image. just look at it.
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Dec 18, 2013 09:23
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I know most of you are probably initially interested in this for the Homestuck characters, but to be honest the Namco ones are more compelling to me. What a depressing crew of teen videogame misfits. This is honestly Namco-Bandai Presents: The Breakfast Club, An Andrew Hussie Film.
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I'm liking Namco High, and there's a lot of breadth (eighteen characters!) but it's a little short. It kinda makes sense that it is because, as stated, there are eighteen characters and they each have their own path, so that's a lot of content if you add it all up, but it can make each individual path feel a little perfunctory at the end. So far I've done Taira, Aki, the Galaga ship, Davesprite, and Jane. Of those Davesprite's is probably the best; it loops around through sheer silliness to being genuinely touching in true Homestuck style, and it's also really funny. After that I'd probably rank them Taira, Aki, Galaga, Jane. Jane's path is a bit disappointing and feels flat, her characterisation is mostly centred around her central (fairly boring) conflict of not believing all the crazy video game stuff around her is real, which they obviously pulled from early Act 6. The others I've played are uniformly funny and generally enjoyable, Taira in particular was kind of a dark horse on being hilarious and weirdly sweet. I'd really have liked just one more segment after the third bit, though, because all the paths except Davesprite's share a similar feeling of being cut off very quickly, and Davesprite's only doesn't because his plot involves lampshading how uniformly the game progresses. What would also have been cool would have been some choices unrelated to who you pick, or dialogue choices beyond just do/don't hang out with this person. It's still fun though on the whole and has a lot of really funny dialogue in it!
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Jane's path seemed really flat to me too. I think the only time I found it actually interesting was when Cousin and Jane both die during the battle with Evil Namco High, Jane is resurrected as a god tier, and the end art is god tier Jane and Cousin (cousin ascending to Heir of Heart).
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Evil Namco High I thought you were making a joke, but I googled this on a whim and it's real. :/
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MrBims posted:I thought you were making a joke, but I googled this on a whim and it's real. If you've got a problem with this development then you and me are gonna have to take it to the roof, bub
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Jane's path seemed really flat to me too. I think the only time I found it actually interesting was when Cousin and Jane both die during the battle with Evil Namco High, Jane is resurrected as a god tier, and the end art is god tier Jane and Cousin (cousin ascending to Heir of Heart). I've not played hardly any of this, but I'm having a hard time imagining how something that involves those spoilers ends up being 'flat'.
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If only they did new/original art and spriting for this game like they did for Cousin. Then it'd be pretty cool, but as it is right now it really does remind me of a lovely Newgrounds game.
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Pollyanna posted:If only they did new/original art and spriting for this game like they did for Cousin. Then it'd be pretty cool, but as it is right now it really does remind me of a lovely Newgrounds game. All of the art in this thing is new/original (except for Galaga, which is perfect just the way it is). A whole gaggle of webcomic artists were commissioned for the portraits.
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Oxxidation posted:All of the art in this thing is new/original (except for Galaga, which is perfect just the way it is). A whole gaggle of webcomic artists were commissioned for the portraits. Ohh. I thought they were all just ripped from their source games or something. They still don't really mesh with Cousin's sheet.
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Pollyanna posted:If only they did new/original art and spriting for this game like they did for Cousin. Then it'd be pretty cool, but as it is right now it really does remind me of a lovely Newgrounds game. This is especially true with Mr. Driller. He just doesn't mesh with any of the other graphics at all. It's really jarring.
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I personally would have preferred it if they standardized the art.
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Pollyanna posted:Ohh. I thought they were all just ripped from their source games or something. They still don't really mesh with Cousin's sheet. Yeah, the point was to use differing art styles to emphasize the differences in their origins.
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Pollyanna posted:I personally would have preferred it if they standardized the art. I think if whoever was in charge of this thing cared about what people personally preferred then they would've just set Namco's offices on fire.
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How are the Valkyrie and Blue Max paths?  Is there remixed music from the original series?
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I decided to try to sign up for Namco High, even though it doesn't look good, and wow. Random Japanese on the signup site, it refuses to aknowledge Norway in the region selection (I had to lie and pick the US) and some really annoying captchas. Then I get the confirmation email, which is also in Japanese. The game isn't even very good. It looks like somebody's first-time Ren'Py project, and the writing is uninspired at best. e: It's even loaded with spelling errors! Freak Futanari fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 20:15
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XkyRauh posted:How are the Valkyrie and Blue Max paths? Sadly, there's no music remixes. Blue Max is kind of eccentric and his arc is more about him being wacky, so not that great. Aside from Max being in Millitary History Club, there's nothing tying him to the Skykid game or comic. Valkyrie's arc is an actual dating arc, which feels out of place for this game, somehow. It seems to fit with her character though, and isn't bad. Val's arc is free, so she's worth checking out. You have to pay for Max but he's not really interesting enough to buy.
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Zebia posted:I completely forgot voices were a thing with the game. What do you mean by different? Not literal auditory voice, but the way that GC's lines are written in the first few conversations. For example. quote:GC: H3Y L4LOND3 quote:TT: Still not sure if I'm being courted or trolled here. It's odd, and doesn't really fit the way she writes later on. (Though I think I was wrong about Hussie not having decided her gender yet - I forgot how soon after WHY WOULD YOU L4UGH 4T 4 BL1ND G1RL was.) Really, everything about her early hostility is a little bit off. It doesn't really mesh with what we learn about her character later in 5.1, or how she acts when we see the trolls first discovering the humans in 5.2... Not an actual continuity error or anything, just the character not being fully developed yet by A.H., I think.
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PleasingFungus posted:Not literal auditory voice, but the way that GC's lines are written in the first few conversations. Well, it comes out later that Terezi is being so hostile in those conversations because she's going along with Karkat's plan to troll the humans. She doesn't actually bear them any real ill will, she's just having fun with it.
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Cabbit posted:I've not played hardly any of this, but I'm having a hard time imagining how something that involves those spoilers ends up being 'flat'. It's because, as mentioned before, Jane's arc revolves e: this is a nice touch I think. 
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Pollyanna posted:If only they did new/original art and spriting for this game like they did for Cousin. Then it'd be pretty cool, but as it is right now it really does remind me of a lovely Newgrounds game. As people said above the art was done by a bunch of webcomic artists which is why the styles clash so much. If your only Namco games ever played are like Pacman and Galaga it would make sense coming to this conclusion. Mr. Driller has a few poses that look totally traced and I'd be surprised if he was the only one. Do they ever address Mr. Driller and Dig Dug's real names after the intro or is it like with Galaga where since it's old that is its name?
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Haven't tried the game, but I recall Mr. Driller was gonna be drawn by Gigi digi?
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Pollyanna posted:Ohh. I thought they were all just ripped from their source games or something. They still don't really mesh with Cousin's sheet. FYI: Valkyrie's original sprite looks 100% unlike Darwin Watterson.
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See I read that as Bill Watterson and got unnecessarily excited. It's early for me 
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No lie, this game would be funnier if Calvin and Hobbes were involved somehow. Best we could hope to get is a reference, but that get some laughs in the right context.
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Pollyanna posted:Ohh. I thought they were all just ripped from their source games or something. They still don't really mesh with Cousin's sheet. You see Homestuck is totally a game now.
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legendsuper posted:You see Homestuck is totally a game now. Theres been like a half dozen Homestuck flash games. Checkmate 
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They released LOFAM3. I haven't listened to all of it yet, but the stuff I've listened to is good.
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Akett posted:They released LOFAM3. I haven't listened to all of it yet, but the stuff I've listened to is good. Well, Theme of the Slam Jam is the best Homestuck song ever made. Music over, Catboss wins.
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What are you talking about, the best song on the album is clearly Warweary villein, a theme song for our glorious Mayor! 
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I really really want to like Infidels! because Iron Infidel is one of my favorite songs released, and the concept of a rock version of it is amazing, but the loving ragtime section in the middle is just so...out of place. It totally ruins the flow of the song and is just...there. Like, why did they bother putting it in in the first place other than that the songwriter really wanted to write a little rag piece but couldn't make a whole song out of it so they just threw it in for no reason?
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Zutaten posted:Well, Theme of the Slam Jam is the best Homestuck song ever made. Music over, Catboss wins. I don't even like any of those tracks (with the exception of Unite Synchronization)
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Angry Walrus posted:So after doing the Galaga route like any sane person would rush, I decided to go the Davesprite route and holy poo poo is he just oversimplified to "very vocally hates himself and just needs someone to tell him everything's ok," so, uh, good job Namco High team on making sure he'll be even more a hit with the Tumblr crowd? This may come as a shock, but… Tumblr posted:DO NOT PLAY NAMCO HIGH You were totally right!
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Zutaten posted:Well, Theme of the Slam Jam is the best Homestuck song ever made. Music over, Catboss wins. I wish I could empty quote this forever.
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frozentreasure posted:Statistically, you'll feel quite different about it once you finish catching up. Or maybe you won't, as an archival reader. I actually do enjoy it. It's no masterpiece, and its pacing is poo poo (archives reading <3) but it's a really unique/interesting story. Is there anyway to play Namco High without buying it? In that I want to test it out. (also the red sun in the cherubs world was earth's sun right? That's why all the lovely statue of liberty jpg's were there?)
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Six of the characters are free. I don't know which ones except not the Homestucks.
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Pladdicus posted:Is there anyway to play Namco High without buying it? In that I want to test it out. The GALAGA route is free, and that's really the only one that matters.
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