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I am pretty sure that if you go shopping the wrong week that beer costs more than the game.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 11:50 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:41 |
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This is a bad game with a dumb story and a really simple combat system with about 2 or 3 gimmicks to it. The best bits of the story are completely irrelevant tangents and I can thinkg of one event in the actual story that I thought was good. It's a bit of a shame because both the gameplay and story have real potential that sound great on paper, but the game doesn't deliver. I do genuinely like some of the character design, anime notwithstanding.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 12:07 |
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Uh EXCUSE ME H Bomber GAIJIN, I think you'll find that the only time JUNKO KANAME ever gets drunk is when she is drinking with her boss. If you knew anything about SUPERIOR JAPANESE CULTURE you would know that this is to do with a work social obligation. All the other times she's shown drinking she only drinks a glass or two. You can read more about how you're wrong about Puella Magi Madoka Magica on my polite and well-reasoned tumblr blog here. (LP's looking good so far. Honestly if there's really co-op I might pick up a copy even if it's terrible )
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 15:51 |
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Taciturn Tactician posted:(LP's looking good so far. Honestly if there's really co-op I might pick up a copy even if it's terrible ) You can pick which gamepad controls each character in battle.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 15:56 |
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Instant Grat posted:You can pick which gamepad controls each character in battle. Considering I played both Grandia 2 and Valkyria Chronicles with a friend passing the pad between battles, I think that's probably good enough.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 15:58 |
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Skippy Granola posted:What? show-PAHN? You know, Frederic loving Chopin
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 16:29 |
Dragas posted:liszt was better well okay yeah, liszt is the better anime
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 19:06 |
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CHARACTERS OF ETERNAL SONATA, PART ONE: POLKA Polka is dying of an unknown terminal disease. The disease is unknown either because we're not told what it is or I wasn't paying attention. Either way, this also means she has magical powers. One of these powers is to use an umbrella as a weapon and get away with it. Others are glowing orange, and diving off a cliff. An amazing array of skills. Polks is very briefly passed off as the main character before being completely subordinated by some guy with a top hat, and another guy with a shoulder pad made of feathers for some reason. It's a metaphor for our society and how it does that to women.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 19:22 |
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Hbomberguy posted:CHARACTERS OF ETERNAL SONATA, PART ONE: POLKA NICE
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 20:33 |
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Is this an example of the "Culture Wars" I've been hearing about? If so, the Japanese opened up with all their firepower.
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# ? Aug 9, 2015 21:04 |
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Culture war? No. Remember how in, like, Star Trek they'd run into an alien race that seemed barbarous and cruel but actually it was just because their biology was weird and extraterrestrial in a way that made their crazy rituals perfectly sensible? In this analogy, Japan is the aliens. The director read a biography of Chopin and this is how his brain interpreted the sensory data.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 04:22 |
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Well, this LP looks like it's going to be a ride. I want to know why the game couldn't just have showed a lovely peaceful coastal village without a voiceover telling us that the peaceful coastal village it was showing us was in fact peaceful, and also that it was on the coast. I feel like there might be a pithy saying that would sum that up but I'm distracted trying to work out what on earth the mother in suspiciously young-looking 39 year-old dying Chopin's dream world was going on about.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 08:44 |
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Was Chopin the first cultural marxist? Find out more on breitbart.com
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 09:56 |
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pichupal posted:Just a quarter note. Another 2 minutes of telling, not showing? Seriously, everything up to the actual entrance of Polka and Mother Polka could have been covered in a 20-second pan where the things being described were happening.
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# ? Aug 10, 2015 10:42 |
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Last time: cutscenes and an onion. This time: more onions, some chickens, some cats, a horse, more cutscenes, bread.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 14:37 |
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Before anyone asks. A ritardando is a musical expression that means to slow down. If it keeps up with the naming convention than I can't wait for the great city of Pianississimo.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 14:52 |
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For living in the sewers, Alegretto and Beat are the best dressed homeless people I have ever seen.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 15:20 |
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Judge Tesla posted:For living in the sewers, Alegretto and Beat are the best dressed homeless people I have ever seen. That is also the prettiest sewer I've seen in many an age.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 16:00 |
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Dareon posted:That is also the prettiest sewer I've seen in many an age. How many sewers have you seen???
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 16:19 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:How many sewers have you seen??? As if sewers are rare in video games
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 16:30 |
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Yeah, if I have to actually count, we'll be here all day. And occasionally throughout the following week as I pop in going "Oh yeah, and-"
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:29 |
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I guess since I know a little about music, I can throw up some definitions. Let me know if I've missed any. Tenuto - means to hold a note for its full value or slightly longer Polka - A dance and genre of music that originated in 19th century Bohemia Example Ritardando - gradualy slow down the tempo of a song Allegretto - A fairly brisk tempo Beat - The speed at which music is played Very Very Empty - The heads of most brass players
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:36 |
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Strong Mouse posted:Beat - The speed at which music is played Nice!
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:50 |
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Oh god. Grat, when you said you were going to do Lightning Returns but you would leave it to us, I didn't think you'd be doing...this. I'm so sorry.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:58 |
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Strong Mouse posted:Very Very Empty - The heads of most brass players Ah, you're very close with this one. But actually its drummers (not to be confused with percussionist). Brass players tend to be full of themselves.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:45 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:How many sewers have you seen??? Haven't you ever been to Paris?
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:51 |
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Elgato's capture software lets you write little notes for each recording session, so I'm gonna post the ones I wrote while we were playing this game as we get to them. Here's the one for the first session (episodes 1 and 2) Artix posted:Oh god. Grat, when you said you were going to do Lightning Returns but you would leave it to us, I didn't think you'd be doing...this. I'm so sorry. I'm bad at decision-making
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:30 |
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Dareon posted:Another 2 minutes of telling, not showing? To be fair, 100% of what was added isn't in the stupid dialogue between Polka and Solfege (the mother). It vaguely puts some of the nonsense into perspective, but only very slightly. I'll see if I can record the differences, but it's slightly spoiler-y if you really think about why they were added to the PS3 port.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:55 |
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pichupal posted:To be fair, 100% of what was added isn't in the stupid dialogue between Polka and Solfege (the mother). It vaguely puts some of the nonsense into perspective, but only very slightly. Cool fact: The name of Polka's mother is never mentioned in the game as far as I'm aware. The only reason I know it is because it was listed in the credits, and I got curious and looked up who "Solfege" was supposed to be, since I didn't remember any character by that name in the game.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 22:01 |
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pichupal posted:To be fair, 100% of what was added isn't in the stupid dialogue between Polka and Solfege (the mother). It vaguely puts some of the nonsense into perspective, but only very slightly. Please give me the spoilers for the terrible JRPG video game. Thank you.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 22:05 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:Please give me the spoilers for the terrible JRPG video game. Thank you. Eternal Sonata PS3 differences - Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE2RSv_OCBM A few things: You won't be seeing that old lady again for about... 20 hours? I kept part of the scene at the end to show where it connects back to the 360 version and to show off that Polka, Beat and Allegretto get the ability to change outfits in the PS3 version. She'll still be in her normal dress your first time through though. Emilia is 14. Polka is also 14. Get the picture? Something I can't use if I'm recording cutscenes: Fun trivia, the average age of the party members in this game is 19, 20 in the PS3 version. Not counting anyone 8 years old, that average is 24. It's probably on the higher end for a JRPG cast. pichupal fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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pichupal posted:Well I've never done New Game Plus before... Oh boy, you're in for a thing. If I recall correctly, NG+ multiples all enemy stats by 1.5, and the only thing you get to carry over is the Party Level, which you can now set manually instead of it being based on story progress. It was a pretty tough challenge in the 360 version; I can't imagine how annoying it must be in the PS3 version that already has buffed enemy stats.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:10 |
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I think the modern audiences can't appreciate classical music like that. Using anime is obviously helpful, but it's just one half of making the classics approachable. More importantly we need a video game that will present Chopin, Haydn, Liszt etc. in a dubstep format.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:12 |
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Oh boy, you're in for a thing. If I recall correctly, NG+ multiples all enemy stats by 1.5, and the only thing you get to carry over is the Party Level, which you can now set manually instead of it being based on story progress. It was a pretty tough challenge in the 360 version; I can't imagine how annoying it must be in the PS3 version that already has buffed enemy stats. I've already forgotten button placement randomizes on Harmony Chains on Party Level 6. This is going to be horrible. You screw up blocking one attack and you die, pretty much right now.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:16 |
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D_W posted:Ah, you're very close with this one. But actually its drummers (not to be confused with percussionist). Brass players tend to be full of themselves. Cram it, brassholes.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:17 |
pichupal posted:Fun trivia, the average age of the party members in this game is 19, 20 in the PS3 version. Not counting anyone 8 years old, that average is 24. It's probably on the higher end for a JRPG cast.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 04:40 |
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Well this looks a good watch. Always thought the setting idea was interesting but I heard it was rammed full of long cutscenes. Also seeing as the related videos included another Let's Play on episode 77, I guess you'll be at this a while. I am looking forward to absolutely everything being a reference to a music thing. And Hbomb being accidentally racist.
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# ? Aug 13, 2015 00:20 |
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Great Joe posted:There's a hip-hop song about Vietnam in here somewhere. Straight Outta Cao Bang
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# ? Aug 13, 2015 06:21 |
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I can't wait for the anime JRPG about dodecaphonic composers. it'll be a sequel to drakengard
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# ? Aug 13, 2015 16:24 |
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CHARACTERS PART TWO: ALLEGRETTO Allegretto is an incredibly pretty teenage boy-man who appears to run a small team of sewer-dwelling, yet remarkably well-dressed, equipped and camera-owning, orphan thieves. He's got a weird feather wing thing, presumably because he wanted to cosplay Sephiroph. Apart from a bit where he briefly rants in detail about the systemic problems with Capitalism, he mostly has very little to say except textbook 'you're mean!' or 'wow, that was good music playing, Frederick' (spoilers, music man plays music) stuff you get with anime protagonists. He makes up for it by being written as comically dumb, so lots of his interactions with NPCs and dialogue about him is pretty funny. Characters keep claiming there's romantic tension between Allegretto and Polka but we never see any. Presumably all those scenes got cut in favor of sewer levels.
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# ? Aug 13, 2015 16:30 |