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Zanzibar Ham posted:Did I miss or forget something? Does Gabe actually cheat in that chess game somehow, or is it a 'I couldn't have lost fairly, you must have cheated!' sorta deal? Laura is just that lovely kid who throws a tantrum everywhere you take her. I've come to accept it in these dark times.
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pdpreciousroy posted:Laura is just that lovely kid who throws a tantrum everywhere you take her. I've come to accept it in these dark times. 
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May 2, 2020 02:27
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See, now is when I have to question the video game logic of one part of this game - The pickups and puzzle hints and lore bits dropped on the knights. For flavor reasons, the pickups are strewn about on the bodies of your fallen comrades, and if it was just the crystal pieces here and there, it would make sense, and be OK. But because of the notes that are written alongside it, they make it seem like the nameless knights got there ahead of you. And I can deal with that for some of the traversal/puzzle stuff. In the first few levels, there are the guys who lament that "oh, if only I could somehow add a chain to my whip/cross/stake, then I could break open this obstruction. Alas, that power up is beyond my ability to obtain safely and monsters draw near". OK, that works, and presumably every body you encounter past that got the power up and was able to continue. And I could even see the monsters in Dracula's service respawning and being compelled to reset the puzzles after each knight successfully makes it through. But at this point in the story, we had to beat the vampire child in a battle of Evil Chess in order to be allowed to progress. And it didn't sound like she received any visitors previously, and it also sounded like it wouldn't be possible to sneak past her. So how did these knights, and presumably any future knights we see, get here?
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May 2, 2020 16:35
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CzarChasm posted:See, now is when I have to question the video game logic of one part of this game - The pickups and puzzle hints and lore bits dropped on the knights. That's another great point. Uh...let's just say a wizard did it. For those who have beaten the game (seriously these are big spoilers), we can speculate that Zobek wrote those messages (or Satan "suggested" that he write them) to make sure Gabriel completed the God Mask.
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May 2, 2020 19:54
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In games like these I always assume that NPCs found a different way around. Things like invisible walls just exist for gameplay convenience.
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May 2, 2020 21:02
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It's time for a Castlevania tradition: The Clock Tower Level! Also we have fun with the idea of a Dark Lady breaking the glass ceiling. Maybe once her identity is revealed I'll make a "You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby" parody poster with her in it.   No Travel Book Updates
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May 6, 2020 16:11
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theenglishman posted:It's time for a Castlevania tradition: The Clock Tower Level! Also we have fun with the idea of a Dark Lady breaking the glass ceiling. Maybe once her identity is revealed I'll make a "You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby" parody poster with her in it. Well, I mean, twist my arm why don't you. Spoilers in that image, obviously.
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May 6, 2020 17:00
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Kurieg posted:Well, I mean, twist my arm why don't you. Oh my god that is amazing! As soon as I post video 21 in a few days, that's going in the second post under (spoiler-tagged) fan-art. (Also I think that's the first time I've ever gotten fan-art of one of my LPs. I feel so happy  )
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May 6, 2020 17:09
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Maybe it's just me, but are the sub-weapons not really useful past a certain point? It feels like you hold on to them as you play. I only really noticed because you keep getting the pop-ups of "you can't carry any more ____" as you go along.
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May 6, 2020 18:20
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I'm very much in the STAB LAURA!! camp.CzarChasm posted:Maybe it's just me, but are the sub-weapons not really useful past a certain point? It feels like you hold on to them as you play. I only really noticed because you keep getting the pop-ups of "you can't carry any more ____" as you go along. I'd say they keep being useful but as you get better moves you can get by without them more easily. e: There's also the constant worry of "what if I need the ammo later" to consider. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 18:46
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Oh hey, we can almost afford one of those 25k super moves.
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May 7, 2020 01:38
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Two boss fights in a row in today's update, and...Jesus Christ, Gabriel, why the gently caress would you do that?!  I won't have time to update the Travel Book today, but I may have some free time tomorrow morning. Only two additions will be needed, for Olrox and Carmilla.
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May 11, 2020 02:07
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So where is Carmella from prior to this game? Also, if you don't destroy the hanging bodies in the first boss fight can he keep going back to them and heal up?
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May 11, 2020 03:37
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Look, there was a woman and she was not stabbed. That's how it goes for Ladykiller over here.
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May 11, 2020 04:59
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CzarChasm posted:So where is Carmella from prior to this game? I honestly don't blame the devs for all the gratuitous violence and thrice-repeated exposition; they really wanted to hammer the whole "Gabriel is a monster" point home and clearly had no confidence in their writing (which, let's face it, is entirely justified). The air ride at the end is really cool, too, it's just the way it ends that makes me wince. e: I think Olrox can heal up if you don't destroy the bodies but I don't remember it that well; honestly found him easier than Brauner since the game doesn't expect you to do projectile grabbing this time.
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May 11, 2020 12:20
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It is a rather nice if horrifying touch that Gabriel's finishing moves on enemies gets progressively more and more brutal as the story progress and he receives upgrades. There's the just business like stabbing of the lycans, but then you progress to setting off the grenades on the goblins and letting them run around.
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May 11, 2020 14:15
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anilEhilated posted:Not sure if it's her first appearance, but she is definitely in Circle of the Moon. (Carmilla, along with Laura, is from a public-domain vampire novel - I erroneously say at one point in the LP that Laura was based on Lucy Westenra, sorry about that.) anilEhilated posted:e: I think Olrox can heal up if you don't destroy the bodies but I don't remember it that well; honestly found him easier than Brauner since the game doesn't expect you to do projectile grabbing this time.
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May 11, 2020 14:34
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I mean, can we really claim that Carmilla's death was too brutal, when even after the most brutal parts of it, she was still alive? Seems to me that Gabe wasn't being brutal enough. One thing we can all agree on is that she had very advanced double-sided tape technology for the era.
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May 12, 2020 00:24
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Oh hey, we can almost afford one of those 25k super moves. speak of the devil In retrospect, probably should have slept with the vampire and not kill her
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May 12, 2020 00:25
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Schwartzcough posted:I mean, can we really claim that Carmilla's death was too brutal, when even after the most brutal parts of it, she was still alive? Seems to me that Gabe wasn't being brutal enough. I might have agreed with you if we didn’t also get lengthy reaction shots of Gabriel with that animalistic snarl showing that he was really, really enjoying himself. He probably could have instantly downed Carmilla by staking her heart, but he was playing with his food.
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May 12, 2020 02:05
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I think we're all ignoring the bigger question of how both Carmilla and Gabriel ended up back right beside each other in the same boss arena after surviving the fall from the collapsing spire several hundred feet up.
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May 12, 2020 08:08
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Kibayasu posted:I think we're all ignoring the bigger question of how both Carmilla and Gabriel ended up back right beside each other in the same boss arena after surviving the fall from the collapsing spire several hundred feet up. That's easy. Invisible walls. This game is lousy with them.
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May 14, 2020 03:39
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Finally got around to updating the Travel Book. The next video should be up tomorrow, and we'll be playing Chapter 9. For those of you who have played this game before, you know exactly what's in store for us...
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May 14, 2020 21:35
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Oh look it's the worst chapter in the game. But not the worst level in the game. That's next time. In the meantime, enjoy. You'll have more fun than I did, I promise you.  TRAVEL BOOK UPDATES:
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May 15, 2020 15:41
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"Cool-looking but not fun to fight" is basically how the rest of the game goes. Well, until the DLC cuts out the "cool-looking" part. e: I have to retroactively and somewhat grudgingly admit that Baba Yaga does some interesting foreshadowing, even if you're bound to forget about it in the madness that follows. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 16:42
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anilEhilated posted:"Cool-looking but not fun to fight" is basically how the rest of the game goes. Well, until the DLC cuts out the "cool-looking" part. I have to admit, I begrudgingly admire the DLC. I don't especially like it, but I appreciate that MercurySteam went out of their way to squeeze as many original ideas as they could out of their engine and put all of the gimmicks they could imagine into one level pack rather than simply making a corridor of combat arenas with some low-effort cutscenes in between. It has a style and a purpose, and it sticks to its guns. If only it was fun to play, too. For everyone in the thread who's played this game already, I am looking forward to hearing your music box war stories once I upload that video. theenglishman fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 15, 2020 |
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theenglishman posted:I might have agreed with you if we didn’t also get lengthy reaction shots of Gabriel with that animalistic snarl showing that he was really, really enjoying himself. He probably could have instantly downed Carmilla by staking her heart, but he was playing with his food. lol he impales her with a building and she survives, he’s not playing with anything I really don’t get the whole “Gabriel is a monster” narrative the game obviously wants to push, and didn’t get it when I played it years ago either. He’s killing monsters that have depopulated whole parts of the countryside, killed and tortured tons of people and who are also going after him hard. Am I really supposed to feel bad when fantasy Hitler gets taken down? “The vampire antichrist is trying to escape but i should probably let her go, it wouldn’t be a good look if I did everything in my power to stop her from killing a shitload more people” edit: to be clear I’m not saying you’re wrong when you talk about it since the game is obviously insisting upon it by having the boss, in a post-Austin-Powers world unironically say “we’re not so different, you and I” — just that they don’t make the argument very convincingly when Gabriel is killing, like, the literal embodiments of Capital E evil. Bonaventure fucked around with this message at 18:49 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 18:40
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It's the issue with the game's tell-don't-show story.
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[a snoring Zobek starts awake] UH! Uh, where--what time--uh- Gabriel was angry! He was very angry. Inappropriately so.
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Bonaventure posted:lol he impales her with a building and she survives, he’s not playing with anything I can't talk about it right now because spoilers but if I remember, I will have words about this game's plot and how it deals with Gabriel's Evilness.
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May 15, 2020 19:57
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Kurieg posted:I can't talk about it right now because spoilers but if I remember, I will have words about this game's plot and how it deals with Gabriel's Evilness. The DLC does a lot to backfill-retcon parts of the big twist to have it make more sense, but when the game first came out, I can see why gamers would be angry or just plain stunned becomes it comes out of loving nowhere! I can't wait to get to the ending.
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I never played the DLC and I am eager to see how badly it sucks
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Bonaventure posted:I never played the DLC and I am eager to see how badly it sucks See my earlier post responding to anilEhilated regarding my thoughts on the DLC. I don't dislike it as much as others do, but it's definitely got problems.
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Oh, there will be words about the DLC yet. I honestly think it soured me on the rest of the game a bit, although I do appreciate its place in the story, it's just that the entire thing is an exercise in bad design. FWIW I agree with your assessment "it has a style and a purpose", it's just that the purpose is to get people to buy more controllers by replacing ones thrown at walls. But I believe this thread firmly established that I'm bad at this game so I am really looking forward to seeing a competent run.
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Could you farm the headless burrowers for magic orbs if they just stay stuck in that dizzy animation? OK, commented before seeing Yaga and the Scarecrows, those designs are great. CzarChasm fucked around with this message at 03:47 on May 16, 2020 |
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May 16, 2020 03:35
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CzarChasm posted:Could you farm the headless burrowers for magic orbs if they just stay stuck in that dizzy animation? Sadly, no. The same goes for enemies like Animated Armours, Greater Lycanthropes, and any bosses in a dizzy state waiting to be QTE'd. You won't break your focus meter by hitting them, but you won't get extra orbs for it either.
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It's time to face the music, in more ways than one. TRAVEL BOOK UPDATES: None.
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I like that the carpet matched the trap/cylinder color so you don't have to memorize what trap is where.
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Christ. I really don't want to bring it back, but my war story: remember that last gem? I didn't, even though I checked a collectible guide beforehand. So I went through the level a second time while being on quite the tilt - the platforms are spaced just awkwardly enough it actually requires some aiming and that fire does a great job of catching you off-guard, not to mention THE loving LIGHTNING - and was so happy I finally made it past the traps to the end I forgot about the reason I was there in the first. So yeah, ended up playing this thing three times in a row. For what it's worth, I don't think it is the worst platforming sequence in the game, that will come in the DLC, but the entire concept of the level is frustrating as gently caress. Really glad you edited out the voice, too.
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To be fair the folklore version of Baba Yaga was a cannibal who heroes have to trick to avoid being eaten, so that detail tracks. Her house is not perched in giant chicken feet though, missed opportunity.
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