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Hearing the music again and realizing thematic ties between two familiar tunes (in this case, Mr. Batty Twist and another song, and Mind of a Thief and something else) is putting me even closer to picking this up again. I love themes in game soundtracks, not to mention excellent soundtracks in general.
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Mega64 posted:
Late, but oh man, the tear from the Mecha-Drago...  Goddamn it this game is depressing so far. At least Duster's quest seems a bit more like standard JRPG fare.
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Although having zombies that remember who they are and who you are is kinda grim. He's having to kill friends and neighbors while they're still aware and conversant.
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I mentioned before that when Flint attacks, he belts out a few sax notes. Boney barks in time with the music, too. As for Duster? He plays bass.  Also in regards to battle music, mobile graves are odd in that the most reliable way to kill them before they trash you (at least in my experience) is to follow the Accelerondo music they have. At least that's how I ended up dealing with them; it was the only way I could take them out before they wrecked my poo poo. It's the song that teaches you to follow a beat to survive, I suppose. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Schwartzcough posted:Although having zombies that remember who they are and who you are is kinda grim. He's having to kill friends and neighbors while they're still aware and conversant.
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Aug 28, 2014 07:12
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To be fair, zombies in general are pretty grim. We're only really able to laugh about the Undead because they don't actually exist; if Zombies were an actual thing that really happened they would be way less funny.
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Aug 28, 2014 07:25
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I'm sure stand-up comedians would still make fun of them. I thought of three jokes, but they're all on the same theme and horribly misogynistic, misandrist, or classist, which admittedly is basically 90% of standup comedy. e: "And what's the deal with zombie airline food?"
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Aug 28, 2014 09:51
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Fate is probably my favorite regular enemy theme in the game and yet it's always used on weird dorpy enemies. ...Well okay it's pretty fitting for  but you know.
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Aug 28, 2014 11:00
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For a game with so much attention to detail (love the Spineless Lobsters running from you if you stare them down), I'm surprised the Hypno-Pendulum works on enemies facing away from you/it.
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Is it just me, or are the male zombies kind of dressed like Ness?
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MachuPikacchu posted:Is it just me, or are the male zombies kind of dressed like Ness? I'm not sure "striped shirt" equals dressed as Ness.
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Fredrik1 posted:I'm not sure "striped shirt" equals dressed as Ness. No they're meant to be at least slightly reminiscent what with the red hat and what not. It doesn't mean anything other than a little joke.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:No they're meant to be at least slightly reminiscent what with the red hat and what not. It doesn't mean anything other than a little joke. Maybe it's hard to tell from the sprites, but that's patchy red hair, not a hat. Sometimes a striped shirt is just a striped shirt.
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Darth TNT posted:
Looks more like  too me.I do love how many different enemy designs this game has. Many of them are only used once and don't even get recycled as a palette swap later. A lot of effort went into making areas feel unique, down to the kinds of enemies that show up in them.
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How Ingratiating! posted:Maybe it's hard to tell from the sprites, but that's patchy red hair, not a hat. Sometimes a striped shirt is just a striped shirt. It was the patch of red in the back of the head as well. It looked kind of like a hat (it still does to me). I wasn't trying to imply that it was him, obviously, just that the design might be a callback or something.
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They're supposed to resemble Claus and Hinawa.
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Yeah, Claus has that red hair and the striped shirt, but it's a little hard to tell with the small sprite he had. The one in the red dress is an obvious fit for Hinawa too. That's why they were talking about how much he grew up and how bit he was, the Hinawa Zombie was talking as if she hadn't spoken to him since he was a child, and the Claus one was asking "Wait a minute, I shouldn't be here. Shouldn't I be dead in the mountains and not like, in this graveyard?"
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I think you guys are missing the fact that there were loving two of each zombie. They're not Claus and Hinawa.
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They don't have to literally be them to be reminiscent of them. It's a visual cue, nothing more.
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No you guys, it's actually a hallucination brought on by the recent trauma Duster experienced when taking part in the search for Claus and Hinawa which causes him to obsessively dig up corpses and mistake them for evil undead manifestations of the people he failed to
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:No you guys, it's actually a hallucination brought on by the recent trauma Duster experienced when taking part in the search for Claus and Hinawa which causes him to obsessively dig up corpses and mistake them for evil undead manifestations of the people he failed to Duster is Hinawa and the burden of a small family to a soon to be master thief just got too daunting and boring. M.Night Shalaman presents MOTHER 3: Pk edition
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:No you guys, it's actually a hallucination brought on by the recent trauma Duster experienced when taking part in the search for Claus and Hinawa which causes him to obsessively dig up corpses and mistake them for evil undead manifestations of the people he failed to Don't worry guys, there will be lots of crazy theories to debate about later. These zombies likely aren't Claus or Hinawa, especially since you first one them one copy of each.
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Aug 29, 2014 06:29
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You know what I haven't done since my Legend of Mana LP? Avatars!   Had another from the first update I wanted to mess with, but don't have time right now. I'll probably have some more pop up as the LP continues, of course.
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Mega64 posted:You know what I haven't done since my Legend of Mana LP? Avatars!
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Mega64 posted:You know what I haven't done since my Legend of Mana LP? Avatars! Yoink.
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Glad to see they're already getting taken! Here's some more while I put off doing the next part!   
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I'd switch to a Mother 3 avatar, but I love my current avatar and accompanying text too much (for those who don't know, it's a Tick from Kirby, and the text is from the song "Tick" by Ween). Also, I'm broke.
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ProfessorProf posted:Yoink. Hey there, Drago buddy.  
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Mega64 posted:Glad to see they're already getting taken! Here's some more while I put off doing the next part! Hinata remembered in death as she was in life; endlessly eating birds.
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     That's up to the fifth update now. In the meantime, perhaps I'll actually get started on the next update. e: Also made an Imgur album for them. Mega64 fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Aug 30, 2014 11:04
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Just ran into this thread, and I wanted to echo that all the music is really great. I really enjoy Fate and Accelorondo is a really nice piece. Also... Very late mentioning it, but I seem to remember that you could also dash into the Drago from the side, causing it to fall directly on top of you.
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Animated avatars have been getting a shitton more elaborate now that the size has changed...
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Gah, of course you do this like a week after I finally got an avatar. Thanks a lot, OP.  edit: v let me tell you about Final Fantasy Hedera Helix fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Aug 30, 2014 13:50
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Hedera Helix posted:Gah, of course you do this like a week after I finally got an avatar. Thanks a lot, OP. But what you've got is already the best and I have no idea what it even references. You made the correct choice.
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MagusProject posted:Hinata remembered in death as she was in life; endlessly eating birds. That made me laugh too much not to use it. I like chapter 2, it's a good change of pace after all that happened in the first chapter. That's what I meant when I said the game doesn't dwell on the death for too long, I mean it's still there but it's not as important to us now that we're playing as Duster who isn't directly involved.
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evilspacehopper posted:That made me laugh too much not to use it. Her name is Hinawa, by the way. quote:I like chapter 2, it's a good change of pace after all that happened in the first chapter. That's what I meant when I said the game doesn't dwell on the death for too long, I mean it's still there but it's not as important to us now that we're playing as Duster who isn't directly involved. The thing about Hinawa's death is that it's meant to be more of a gut punch to set things in motion and underscore the fact that the world is changing, and that all sorts of things that we as players and the more aware characters in the story aren't going to want to deal with are on the horizon.
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F-O-E! F-O-E! Even in the Nowhere Islands, F-O-E!
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frozentreasure posted:Her name is Hinawa, by the way.
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Duster is really the first chance we've gotten to explore the battle system, isn't it? This might be an interesting dungeon.
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