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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, IIRC it's explained at the end of the dungeon. What I was surprised by is that they never gave you the option to uncurse her, even in Act 3. She does technically get that pendant that lets her transform back to her original size from the Seer, but then she just never uses it for inscrutable Veronica reasons outside of certain Pep Powers. I assume she just likes having the excuse to get piggyback rides from taller party members. It would've been nice if they gave you the option to equip it as an alt look like with Serena's hair, but I imagine asking them to completely redo all of her animations is just way too much for one late-game look modifier.
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My son has been watching me play and his "DQ twists" detector was on point for the ice city. Just quietly watching, and then pipes up with "I don't trust her. Her name sounds like 'freeze'. ...also, the last nice girl we trusted turned out to be a mega boss...." He's actually started playing it himself, and seems to be enjoying it as his first JRPG.
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Ciaphas posted:huh, switch version has a Japanese dub too. I don't remember and it's still downloading; how's the english?
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DQXI's English dub is so good that it's genuinely jarring whenever you hear terrible line deliveries, which is thankfully only the case with bit characters. Kai's dialogue sounds like it came out of a way shittier PS2-era RPG and it's weird.
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I also noticed some of the VA during the added content between a1 and a2 seemed a bit... off, like they messed up the sound mixing. Also I'm pretty sure they couldn't get Vince's VA back for the extra content as well, he sounded much different iirc. These are all pretty minor issues though.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I can't remember what thread it was in but there was some country where Dai was stupid popular and they were asking if Dai was in XI or something. It was huge in Mexico too. Not dragon ball huge since the anime was fairly short but it was definitely the talk of the playground At any rate it looks to be teasing a sequel/continuation of the manga so that's interesting
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Slider posted:I also noticed some of the VA during the added content between a1 and a2 seemed a bit... off, like they messed up the sound mixing. Also I'm pretty sure they couldn't get Vince's VA back for the extra content as well, he sounded much different iirc. These are all pretty minor issues though. Yeah, some of Sylvando's lines during his interlude really threw me off, but that's just one of the risks that comes with recording new content under different conditions, I suppose. Smash Ultimate ran into that problem hard too, a lot of Pit and Palutena's new dialogue sounded like totally different performances despite having the same actors.
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Whoa, 2d mode is pretty wild
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I've started playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 recently, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. The pun game remains strong as usual. Pastor Al was great. About to start the second main island, but I'm wondering if I should try to build up/do quests on the main island first, or just rush ahead. Also, any general hints or tips for the future?
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The entirety of the gold golem chapter is lead up to a galaxy brain level pun.
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Detective No. 27 posted:The entirety of the gold golem chapter is lead up to a galaxy brain level pun. I love it. It’s like a father planning a two week long road trip vacation just to lead up to a dad joke.
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HPanda posted:I love it. It’s like a father planning a two week long road trip vacation just to lead up to a dad joke. I had to a sit for a minute and just think about how much time and effort they threw into that. "You did that. You just went there."
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I like to imagine there's one guy on the localization who has been making dad jokes from birth and they just loving go ham on the script. Their entire job is bad puns.
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YggiDee posted:I like to imagine there's one guy on the localization who has been making dad jokes from birth and they just loving go ham on the script. Their entire job is bad puns. extremely powerful dad energies in the whole series, at least going by some of these dq11 monster names
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"platypunk" are you for fuckin real ![]() i'm a DQ neophyte so this is just a guess: it's gonna get so much worse, isn't it
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Platypunk is nothing compared to some of them.
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So which Dragon Quest has the strongest pun game? Dragon Quest VIII was the first game they made after rebranding but I think they were focused more on accents than pure wordplay, IX was when the localizers went mad with power and gave us delights such as "benevolessence", "Zere Rocks", and everything in Coffinwell, and VII has the edge in sheer volume. Nothing has as many puns as Dragon Quest VII. It's impossible.
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DQ7's remake was really on point with the names of both monsters and towns. Nottagen made me groan out loud when it hit me. edit: DQ7 also had the single best monster pun name of all time, a demonic tree stump with one eye called Monolog Hokuto fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Ciaphas posted:"platypunk" are you for fuckin real You haven't met Ham Shamwitch and Sham Hatwitch yet.
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Rocket Slime's tank names and little subtitle descriptors were pretty impressive.
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Chrono Twigger still makes me laugh
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My favorite is still Abbot Jack of Alltrades Abbey Who's secretly the Master of Nu'un
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CaptainPsyko posted:You haven't met Ham Shamwitch and Sham Hatwitch yet. Cruelcumber was when I decided dq11 was totally worth every penny.
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There's an enemy in Dragon Quest 5 that's a candle with a knife. Its name? Wax Murderer. And let's not forget the enemies in DQ8 named Mum, Jum, and Boe. If there was a Mum and a Jum in a fight with two Boes, they would all combine to form a Voltron named Mumboe-Jumboe.
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God drat I love this series!
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One of the games has a pot mimic called an 'Urnexpected'
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If you examine certain wells in DQ7, you'll be attacked by a monster called a "Well Wisher".
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Professaurus is one of my favorites.
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Commander Keene posted:There's an enemy in Dragon Quest 5 that's a candle with a knife. Its name? Wax Murderer. The voltron enemy’s final form is Democribot too, because it’s made of enemies like Head of State, Left Wing and Right Wing too.
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help i'm being attacked by this terrifying page of posts
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Well, bookshelves would sometimes have a Hexicon hiding as a book, but I don't know what a forum thread mimic would be called.
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Apostrophe
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YggiDee posted:Well, bookshelves would sometimes have a Hexicon hiding as a book, but I don't know what a forum thread mimic would be called. A pale troll with a pitchfork, springing up out of a turned off monitor. Dread Grey Forkems.
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Either a "Thread Hijacker" or a Firespirit-type monster named "Flame War".
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While not much of a pun, I do enjoy the retranslated Knight line from DQ 1: Knight Errant, Knight Aberrant, and Knight Abhorrent.
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Got the Switch edition of 11 as an early Christmas and have been thoroughly hooked and enjoying the hell out of it. It's my first real experience with the series other than like 10 minutes of 8. The whole cast is really enjoyable and everything is just super charming. I've played quite a lot but it still feels like I've barely scratched the surface.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Got the Switch edition of 11 as an early Christmas and have been thoroughly hooked and enjoying the hell out of it. It's my first real experience with the series other than like 10 minutes of 8. The whole cast is really enjoyable and everything is just super charming. I've played quite a lot but it still feels like I've barely scratched the surface.
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You all are working very hard to not mention the Sham Hatwitch.
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Eight is actually...kinda dorky cute when he smiles. Was not expecting that.
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good day for a bris posted:You all are working very hard to not mention the Sham Hatwitch. CaptainPsyko posted:You haven't met Ham Shamwitch and Sham Hatwitch yet.
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