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Some Numbers posted:Can anyone tell me if I should spend money on the Trails in the Sky manga? I can read Japanese, but manga adaptations have a track record of being less than amazing. how many volumes? if it's not a whole bunch it's probably super compressed, like the OVA. also manga adaptations tend to suck yeah. i can think of like two good ones, total. My gut says no
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Cake Attack posted:how many volumes? if it's not a whole bunch it's probably super compressed, like the OVA. also manga adaptations tend to suck yeah. i can think of like two good ones, total. My gut says no It's 6 for FC. It looks like there's at least one volume for SC, but I haven't seen any others. http://www.ebay.com/itm/361329435663 It looks like a little over a volume per game chapter?
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Sep 26, 2015 01:42
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that's actually probably reasonable length wise but that cover art looks bad as heck so im sticking with no
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Sep 26, 2015 01:47
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You should buy it for me, and if it's good i'll tell you so you can buy it for yourself. a fair deal
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Sep 26, 2015 01:53
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Cake Attack posted:You should buy it for me, and if it's good i'll tell you so you can buy it for yourself. a fair deal First, how much Japanese can you read? Second, how about I buy it for you and if it's good, you buy it for me? That sounds much fairer.
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Sep 26, 2015 01:54
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:We have a Vita exploit that allows writing to files, including the Vita TV whitelist! I came here to ask about this. I have a Vita TV and I want to play Ys. Anything in that game that requires touch stuff that would make it impossible to play with a DS4?
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Sep 26, 2015 03:03
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Cake Attack posted:The one in chapter 1 is the only one, you can explore the chapter 2 one for treasure but it doesn't have a quest attached. chapter 3 makes you go, chapter 4 doesn't have one. Well, the Chapter 1 quest does give you some BP, so it's needed if you're going for MAX, but if you were, you'd probably already have a lot of saved games.
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Sep 26, 2015 03:55
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Cake Attack posted:The one in chapter 1 is the only one, you can explore the chapter 2 one for treasure but it doesn't have a quest attached. chapter 3 makes you go, chapter 4 doesn't have one. FC Ending spoiler: From a plot-wise POV, it's also the only moment I can think of where Alba appears outright suspicious for a moment, before the game glosses over it again.
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Sep 26, 2015 09:26
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Erpy posted:FC Ending spoiler: I shouldn't have looked at your spoiler but I thought that guy was suspicious the moment he showed up
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Sep 26, 2015 17:28
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Interesting factoid from one of FC's artbooks; Estelle has an official herp-derp expression, that for some strange reason never ever got used. XD
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Sep 27, 2015 08:56
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That is also a fantastic  expression.
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Sep 27, 2015 13:43
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Estelle's already got like twenty or fifty derpfaces anyway.
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Sep 27, 2015 13:47
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Supremezero posted:That is also a fantastic Someone emoticon Estelle's smug face on SA, please.
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Sep 27, 2015 15:31
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Estelle smugface is perfect.
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Sep 27, 2015 16:19
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this thread will not be responsible for an emoticon, not on my watchShinjobi posted:Estelle smugface is perfect. but yes this is true
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Sep 27, 2015 16:21
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Cake Attack posted:this thread will not be responsible for an emoticon, not on my watch Awww... Not even one based on Nial's "completely plastered"-expression?  Or Russell's 1.21 Giga Watts-grin?  I'm sure we could find a use for them. 
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Sep 28, 2015 20:48
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Cake Attack posted:this thread will not be responsible for an emoticon, not on my watch That attitude is why Lowtax is posting threads about how desperate for revenue he is.
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Sep 28, 2015 20:54
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Erpy posted:Interesting factoid from one of FC's artbooks; Estelle has an official herp-derp expression, that for some strange reason never ever got used. XD That is interesting; I don't think it's revealing too much to say that said portrait doesn't even appear in the data files. It's so unused, it was never even included in the client. Oh god the lawyer ninjas are coming fo I can sort of understand why, though; while the games can get pretty silly, they generally don't rely on truly "comic" or distorted faces and keep everyone looking kind of realistic-to-the-artstyle to make sure the dramatic scenes still have enough impact when they happen. The only real "goofy" face I can think of belongs to Olivier, and I believe that only comes out once in FC when he gets goddamn plastered courtesy of Aina and Schera. That kind of "derpface" for Estelle would look rather out-of-place and out-of-sync with the game's tone, doubly so in SC. though yes estelle is one of her best portraits, her  face is also greatErpy posted:Or Russell's 1.21 Giga Watts-grin? also I am double extra salty that never got turned into a real portrait SpaceDrake fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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Sep 28, 2015 23:30
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dis astranagant posted:That attitude is why Lowtax is posting threads about how desperate for revenue he is. im not giving lowtax any more money until he fixes the forums!
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Sep 29, 2015 02:00
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im aware of the flaw in that logic and i don't care!
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Sep 29, 2015 02:00
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SpaceDrake posted:The only real "goofy" face I can think of belongs to Olivier, and I believe that only comes out once in FC when he gets goddamn plastered courtesy of Aina and Schera I think it also shows up when they're drinking at that inn on the lake in Chapter 1. Might be remembering wrong, though. SpaceDrake posted:though yes Evil Penguins!
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Sep 29, 2015 02:18
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Didn't it show up when Estelle brained him in Grancel?
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Sep 29, 2015 02:24
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I've actually seen that unused Estelle face in the PC version of FC's data before, although it wasn't updated for the HD version so it definitely is very unused, as far as I can tell. Personally I'm kind of sad it wasn't used at least once, though. There tend to be all kinds of interesting things in there that I can't show off, mind, but that was one I noticed when I was adding the HD assets, because of the number discrepancies.
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Sep 29, 2015 02:46
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quote:The only real "goofy" face I can think of belongs to Olivier, and I believe that only comes out once in FC when he gets goddamn plastered courtesy of Aina and Schera Which we unfortunately don't actually see happening. You do see that particular expression, as others have noted, when Schera first starts getting him drunk during the party's stay at Valleria Shore and later when Estelle beats him over the head with her staff during their first meeting in Grancel. Duke Dunan has a similar expression when the sight of Dalmore's pets causes him to faint and when he knocks himself out after you beat up his bodyguards. But yeah, I get that Estelle's derp-expression might have been too anime-like to be used.
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Sep 29, 2015 06:07
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I was looking around the Legend of Heroes subforum on Marvelous' site, and while reading one of Tom's posts I discovered that the VA for Cold Steel's MC has been doing goofy in-character stuff: http://sonicmega.tumblr.com/post/129545578101/rean-schwarzer-can-be-a-total-savage-when-he-wants
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Sep 29, 2015 06:12
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lol also i'm very happy it's not bryce papenbrook
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Sep 29, 2015 06:14
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A nice little bit of fridge brilliance on Falcom's part; when she's first introduced in FC, Scherazard is reading tarot cards. The cards she gets are the Star and the Hanged Man, followed by the Hermit and the Magician and finally the inverted Wheel of Fortune. Apparantly the Star references Estelle (her name even means "star", after the french word Etoile) and the Hanged Man references Joshua. Likewise, the Hermit apparantly references L. and the Magician card references Weissmann. A neat little detail: take a look at the Magician card of one of the most popular real-world tarot card decks and look what he's wearing around his waist.  
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Erpy posted:A nice little bit of fridge brilliance on Falcom's part; when she's first introduced in FC, Scherazard is reading tarot cards. The cards she gets are the Star and the Hanged Man, followed by the Hermit and the Magician and finally the inverted Wheel of Fortune. Your picture is too small for me to understand what you're talking about.
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Oct 1, 2015 22:05
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it's an ouroboros
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[e] ^ If you want to make it entirely obvious. Yes, that. Not that pointing that out would make much sense if you haven't basically finished the game.Supremezero posted:Your picture is too small for me to understand what you're talking about. It's a snake biting its own tail. Munin fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Oct 1, 2015 22:22
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This particular magician card, which was originally created in 1910, has a serpent eating its own tail, which is called the Ouroboros, around his waist. I thought it was a funny coincidence.
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speaking of, the ouroboros is a symbol representing cyclicality which is a good image to co-op for the big baddies of the duology because the idea of circles and cyclicality is a recurring motif in the game. You have the tetracyclic towers, and the shining ring; the orbment designs, even the game itself is you literally doing the loop of Liberl. Which is a cool motif to have because it ties into one of the big themes of the new generation taking the torch from the old generation. Which itself is something that ties in cleverly to the whole "ancient society" concept. Richard's deal is that he idealizes the old generation and doesn't view himself, as the new generation, as capable of taking on the torch. And so appropriately his solution is to rely on the past, while Estelle basically counters by saying they can rely on the people of Liberl, or the present and future. it's hard to say too much about themes in a story half finished but the ideas they've built up are well executed even if not super deep or anything. also i got one of my art books yay Cake Attack fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Cake Attack posted:also i got one of my art books yay Mine are still in the mail. 
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Cake Attack posted:speaking of, the ouroboros is a symbol representing cyclicality which is a good image to co-op for the big baddies of the duology because the idea of circles and cyclicality is a recurring motif in the game. You have the tetracyclic towers, and the shining ring; the orbment designs, even the game itself is you literally doing the loop of Liberl. Nice analysis of one of the themes. So which artbook arrived? The big one or the small one? It turns out that the small one was originally included with the special edition of the original SC. (on PC) Its purpose was to refresh the player's memory up to the point where SC begins.
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Due to what is likely similar brain damage to Cake Attack, I ended up buying the TitS manga I linked earlier. Anyone interested in a summary as I read it?
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Oct 3, 2015 14:46
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Well, I'd be interested in the story differences between the manga/game. There's usually quite a few of them due to mangas having to cram a large story into a limited amount of pages.
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Erpy posted:Well, I'd be interested in the story differences between the manga/game. There's usually quite a few of them due to mangas having to cram a large story into a limited amount of pages. That's precisely what I was intending.
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Some Numbers posted:Due to what is likely similar brain damage to Cake Attack, I ended up buying the TitS manga I linked earlier. Anyone interested in a summary as I read it? Only if it doesn't have spoilers for SC, since that's due out any week now.  ...Any week now...
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Oct 3, 2015 18:25
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Oh don't worry it'll take me a while to get through all six volumes of FC, since my Japanese comprehension is still mediocre.
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Out of curiosity, is the manga series you bought the one below? http://mangafox.me/manga/eiyuudensetsu_sora_no_kiseki/ I believe OMGFloofy once translated part of it, but I don't think it was finished.
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