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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The Persona 5 stuff is significantly worse. The Magimel brothers may be stereotypes, but at least they're actual characters (and portrayed as pretty nice guys with useful skills) and not just an excuse to do child rape jokes. It is actually modeled after His Dead Daughter
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The Persona 5 stuff is significantly worse. The Magimel brothers may be stereotypes, but at least they're actual characters (and portrayed as pretty nice guys with useful skills) and not just an excuse to do child rape jokes. Yeah the Magimel brothers are stereotypes but the game basically portrays them as nice, but flamboyant guys. It's not intrinsically cruel. As for Cornelia, the game will explain it eventually. I don't remember how long it is until we get Gepetto's backstory but rest assured it may or may not help with the creep factor.
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Mokinokaro posted:Yeah the Magimel brothers are stereotypes but the game basically portrays them as nice, but flamboyant guys. It's not intrinsically cruel. and the P5 guys after the sexpest scene can be heard lusting over a celebrity that's high-school age. It's definitely very mean spirited and cruel.
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BioMe posted:I'm still yet to be even mildly amused by a single Penny Arcade no matter how many times goons post a strip that's supposed the one time they absolutely hit comedy gold This is true, too. The comic quoted is a pretty easy joke -- for me, it was picking this game up in 2004 and having something close to the mainstream even referencing or discussing this game, a sequel to a niche game which was a sequel to an even more niche game. It didn't result in SH:C selling all that well, but it was nice to see coverage in some form. Since that comic was posted, though, Penny Arcade has definitely become problematic.
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OminousEdge posted:It is actually modeled after His Dead Daughter ....That makes things so much worse.
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The Dark Id posted:
This appears to translate to "the cage of dreams" and I can only assume it's a reference to La Cage aux Folles, a famous musical about two gay men.
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Calling it now, Pinocchio is gonna come in seeking revenge on Gepetto and be a solo boss fight. Don't tell me if I'm right
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Ubiquitous_ posted:This is true, too. The comic quoted is a pretty easy joke -- for me, it was picking this game up in 2004 and having something close to the mainstream even referencing or discussing this game, a sequel to a niche game which was a sequel to an even more niche game. It didn't result in SH:C selling all that well, but it was nice to see coverage in some form. But it's even worse than <genre> Movie parody movies. Like those might have the laziest "jokes" that are just referencing a joke in the original movie, but at least even they go the effort of recreating the scene. It's not just two guys watching a movie and explaining the joke that's happening on the screen?
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 All these years, and I never noticed that you can change Cornelia's dresses in Gepetto's Personal menu.
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I knew this was the "check the flower pot for gay porn" game but I didn't think it'd play out like this.The Dark Id posted:Thanks. I hate it.
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One other good thing I noticed here is that while Gerard thinks Yuri is cute, he doesn't get creepy and ask Yuri out or anything. I'm liking these two so far.  The Dark Id posted:
I love the implication that Lenny's goons were being rowdy out on the streets, so he scolded them all for bothering people and had them sit on a bench quietly somewhere. 
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amigolupus posted:I love the implication that Lenny's goons were being rowdy out on the streets, so he scolded them all for bothering people and had them sit on a bench quietly somewhere. I just love it when they're willing to let characters actually acknowledge their own strange existence/shenanigans and not just be "on" 24/7. They've got a puppet-wielding old man, having a dominatrix in our group makes about as much sense!
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Dr. Snark posted:This exchange is so good. I love how self-aware Lenny is - you wouldn't expect it from a guy looking like that, but he seems to understand his lot in life as a recurring boss fight.  Lenny mere pawn in larger game.
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Robindaybird posted:and the P5 guys after the sexpest scene can be heard lusting over a celebrity that's high-school age. It's definitely very mean spirited and cruel. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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wait which game has that? are you talking about the wandering stereotypes in this game? I never read them as being together
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Ah, no. The Magimel brothers are, well, brothers. They are referring to the gay couple in From the New World.
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right. of course. they're brothers. me @ me: why did you forget that one specific thing and then post, you loving idiot
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Concerns about the Magimel Bros and Cornelia aside, it's a tragic shame that Shadow Hearts introduced the extremely intuitive system of gaining power by collecting images of beefcakes but the rest of the RPG world ignored this and continued using the archaic EXP system.
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The Dark Id posted:
quote:chomping at the bits quote:But the Officer's Coat (which Karin is still technically equipped as an armor despite her costume change)
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Feels kinda mid-aughts console cycle brown to me. The game had been fairly colorful up until now.
What would you know, vagrant? Muted browns are the next generation of graphics. We just need some more bloom in here to liven up the place.
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I suspect that quite a few people could say the same, less because it's terribly obscure and more as testament to how often Gepetto is a useful party member that you willingly use.
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Xander77 posted:Shouldn't that be in italics rather than bold? Pedant level two it's champing.
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GimmickMan posted:I knew this was the "check the flower pot for gay porn" game but I didn't think it'd play out like this. ...how exactly did you think it would play out?
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This is the first I've learned that Karin keeps her officer's uniform even after officially joining. I was kinda hoping that you could find it later and have it available as a solely cosmetic option since her regular outfit is definitely purely appealing to the lowest common denominator.
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amigolupus posted:I love the implication that Lenny's goons were being rowdy out on the streets, so he scolded them all for bothering people and had them sit on a bench quietly somewhere.
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ultrafilter posted:...how exactly did you think it would play out? Honestly? I half expected Gepetto to be actually into dudes/fine exemplars of physical fitness and for them to inspire him into learning new puppet magic, which makes about as much sense as Karin using operas as inspiration to learn sword magic.
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well, he had a stud card in his apartment.
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How many Stud Cards are there in the game? Because I'm going to be awful mad if it's seven.
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Crowetron posted:Concerns about the Magimel Bros and Cornelia aside, it's a tragic shame that Shadow Hearts introduced the extremely intuitive system of gaining power by collecting images of beefcakes but the rest of the RPG world ignored this and continued using the archaic EXP system. The THIRST system, where you increase your stats the more you like tweets of hot dudes and gain new skills the more stud followers you get on your social media account. Commander Keene posted:I think that Russell is supposed to have seen Lenny's group riding the Metro, or waiting for a train? I think those two people are talking about separate incidences. Also, "Nicole" is probably a girl; it's hard to tell due to the text box overlapping the model, but I think she's wearing a dress. And about ten, or at least significantly shorter than Yuri. A sassy little girl scolding Lenny's group for being rowdy and him apologizing for it is just  . Also the idea that Lenny's group have just been politely riding the train back and forth the last two stations all this time, and hoping to catch Yuri and company, seems like it'd be in-character for him.gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, he had a stud card in his apartment. So we have a bisexual grandpa in our party? Hell yeah.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, he had a stud card in his apartment. Maybe Karin dropped it when she was changing.
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Or he knew if he gave it to the one dude hed get a free dress.
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ZeusCannon posted:Or he knew if he gave it to the one dude hed get a free dress. The Dark Id posted:
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Tee hee. Of course I haven't! And what about you, Gep? You haven't forgotten that little "item" I asked you for, Have you? Did you bring it?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:How many Stud Cards are there in the game? Because I'm going to be awful mad if it's seven. There's a bonus one if there's a SH1 save game detected on the memory card ...  ...But only for the Japanese version - and it doesn't work properly on the English version, even though it's fully translated - speaking of which;  TDI is kindly allowing me to show off some of the Director's Cut edition content. There's not much, but I'll be chiming in from time-to-time during relevant sections.Little non-spoiler preview:  
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Commander Keene posted:Seems like they have some sort of deal, where Gepetto is apparently these folks' smut supplier in exchange for dresses for his creepy magic puppet. Considering this game is set back in 1915, it's probably pretty hard to find gay porn. Remember that this is Shadow Hearts Universe-1915.
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Pesky Splinter posted:There's a bonus one if there's a SH1 save game detected on the memory card Yet that's not a no... 
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Those legs scream "dancer". The kid's gonna be a Rockette.
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Now I wonder if there were real underground smut markets dealing during the periods where various types of this stuff was illegal. Obviously not as widespread as prohibition bootlegging, but it feels like you'd probably find a couple here and there. Episode XI The Dark Id posted:from three members to four members able participating in combat. Episode XII The Dark Id posted:You're very confident to just blurting that out to a random guy passing by you.. Episode XIII The Dark Id posted:What? You don't have on?!
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there's been porn as long as there has been art. this includes gay porn, because gay people didn't suddenly spring into existence during the late 20th century.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:there's been porn as long as there has been art. this includes gay porn, because gay people didn't suddenly spring into existence during the late 20th century. Yeah, Ancient Greece was super gay
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