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Gilgamesh255
Aug 15, 2015

FeyerbrandX posted:

Anastasia consider yourself lucky it was the chair dimension and you didn't end up in a different time skip where you end up kidnapped by Nega-Joachim and Joachim loses an eye, takes to random gardening sometimes and boar drifting.

...There's a reference here, but damned if I can--ANNND there it clicks. How the heck was it that boar drifting was the key to it for me?!

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Omobono
Feb 19, 2013

That's it! No more hiding in tomato crates! It's time to show that idiota Germany how a real nation fights!

For pasta~! CHARGE!

Gilgamesh255 posted:

...There's a reference here, but damned if I can--ANNND there it clicks. How the heck was it that boar drifting was the key to it for me?!

Nega-protagonist and gardening are somewhat generic, while boar drifting is unique to Nier.

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





The Dark Id posted:

Cooking egg shells.

Dan Ryckert's ancestor, eh?

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



"Okay, 100 floors of this nonsense is obviously way too much for this stupid gag, haha.

You're going to do 40. And be thankful that's as far as we're willing to push".

The Dark Id posted:

This fight has the rude quirk of the party being surrounded at the start some everyone will take some bumps to sell the angle.

Pictured: The conclusion of times I ever use Lucia in the game.

You aren't finding enough loose change to get something off the McDonald's dollar menu for a bonus meal while waiting two hours for my mom to get off of work to pick me up from school poor, Karin. I was. So gently caress off, you bourgeoisie having to scrap by only being comfortable middle-class fake rear end poor.
The lack of quotes or italics or anything to indicate the switch to idiom \ example is consistently confusing over the last few updates.

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
Sorry I'm still laughing over egg whites

Supersonic Shine
Oct 13, 2012
I can't believe they cut out the life-shaking revelations Joachim receives on the 76th level! That was the entire point of this challenge being included! :argh:

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Yeah, they also cut out the really spicy curry on Level 69 and the life-changing one on Level 42. Not to mention the death-defying curry of Level 86.

Bufuman
Jun 15, 2013

Sleep in the briefing room.
At your own peril.
It would've also been great to watch Joachim solo the 37-73rd floors. In a row!

Bufuman fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jul 23, 2021

FalloutFan56
Jan 3, 2020

Eeepies posted:

I saw Kurando's, Gepetto's and Lucia's line over and over again because i kept losing the Lucia fight. I still remember the dry curry and stew quotes to this day.

Ah god the PTSD is coming back for me. Kept forgetting to put the right accessory on her since I was frustrated after doing this for a couple of hours.

Pizuz
Sep 15, 2008

Bufuman posted:

Would that more 100-floor gauntlets just skipped like 65 floors like that.

Final Fantasy X-2, Wild Arms 3, I'm lookin' at you two in particular.

Anyone remember Sphere 211 from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time? Yes, you could skip most of the floors on the regular run, but it comes back as a bonus dungeon...

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Those were at least cookie cutter floors, all 200 minus the boss floors only had a total of like 5 layouts and what floor is which never changes. There's been maps online so you can get the goodies and get through the floor in the fastest way possible for ages.

The Dark Id
Aug 13, 2005

Why
you
know
I
LOVE
THIS SHIT !!!!
[citation needed]
Episode CXXXVIII: The Great Question



<pants> Well... That wasn't so bad...



<breathes heavily> Oh, man... Why me?
I never want to see another palette swap enemy again... Or hear about curry...
Joachim! That was amazing! We're finally at the top...!
Hey... where the heck... is everyone else...?
Oh, I think they all climbed down and left.
<pants> Then why the hell... am I still... here...?
Like me. To see the dramatic climax! Duh!
<breathes hard and sighs> I don't like... that phrasing...




You've done weeellllll to come this faaaaaaaar! This is the true battleground!!
Teeeeeaaaaacheeeeer?!
<dramatically gestures to the horizon> I am not... your TEACHER!!
?!



My name is... the Great Question. Champion of the Man Festivaaaaaaal!!
Great Question...?!
......
...Fine, then! Great Question it is!!



Great Question?
I have questions...
<slowly crawls back> They've gone nuts, those guys. Totally... lost it!
Are you okay, Yuri?
Nothing about this is OK... I want off this ride...




Now, then, my little challenger! Bring it on!
<raises hand> Before we start, can I ask you just one thing?
Why sure. What is it?
This baptism you were talking about... What exactly is it?
Is it metaphorical? Spiritual? ...Physical...?



Ha ha ha haaaaa! You're thinking about defeat already, aren't you, huh? I knew it. Hehe.
<raises hand> Excuse me!
<points to Anastasia> Yes, dear.
I want to know too!
No you don't. No, you don't!
Hmph! I do!
I don't!

<crosses arms> Hmm. Well. Very well, then. I will tell you.



Those who fail in the Man Festival must receive as a punishment the winner's full manhood!!



......
......
<tilts head> Manhood...?
<backs up> Y-you don't mean... Gross!
I'm still not following...
You are seriously not old enough for any of this!




<nods> ...Exactly! That is correct!
<points to Gama> So, Great Question, if you win...?!
<CENSORED BY GUNSHOT SOUND>
......
<puts hand on chest> A-and if I win...?!
<CENSORED BY DOUBLE GUNSHOT SOUNDS>



The sound of bullets cases hitting the floor and a dog howling in the distance to blowing wind.



What kind of choice is that...? Huh? Eh?! A battle for manly dignity, huh? I'd say it's pretty sick!
<continues to back up> Oh, man! No way! Not this guy.



Well, the time for talk is over! The rest will be decided by sweat! <motions to the side and whip cracks>
<backs up and shudders>
Ho ho ho! Are you afraid, trembling boy?!



......

Joachim reaches around his back and pulls out the Grand Papillion mask!



Hmph!


Music: Grand Papillon!! ~ Pro Wrestler








Champion of Truth and Justice, Grand Papillon! Ready to fight all evildoers!
Evildoers?! Oh dear me! Here we goooooooo!




Music: Glint of Light ~ Mid Boss in Europe




We finally reach the finale of this extended shitpost -- a rematch with Great Gama the Great Question. Despite all the build-up, this is just the previous Great Gama fight except he has 2400 HP. The Great Question is still of the Light elemental class.





He still attacks with all the techniques he passed down to Joachim. There are no new tricks up his sleeve. He is clearly not wearing any sleeves. How would he even do that?! He just hits a whole lot harder, doing around 200 HP of damage each turn even with Joachim in his Grand Papillion form. I hope you had Joachim equipped with a Leonardo's Bear because Grand Slam is guaranteed to knock Joachim into the outer reaches of deep space for an instant defeat. In space, no one can feel your manliness.



The only major thing to watch out for is on the seventh turn of the match he will use the Seventh Key and Joachim MUST be blocking his onslaught or he will be hitting the mat for good. Even defending against the Seventh Key the Great Question will still deal out roughly 400 HP of damage. Unguarded he'll do well over 1000 damage and considering the HP cap is 999 health points... yeah, Joachim is not taking that on the chin.









But through blood, sweat and tears... and a curative spell every second turn, Joachim's muscles prevail over the Great Question.


Music: Result ~ Victory






The greatest wrestling match in history atop the Tower of the Holy Ring is decided. And with it a fine helping of experience points and... the change leftover in Great Gama's wallet after ordering lunch earlier. It reeks of spilled curry sauce and sweat.

Music: ENDS



<breathes heavily>
<looks to Joachim and nods head in approval>



<clasps hands and smiles> You won...!! Tee hee hee!
<continues to crawl back to the edge of the ring> N-nice job! Nice job!!


Music: Relaxation Mood ~ Relief




<stretches> Ooooh... What a relief! Ooohhh.



Take my title... I beg of you. Uneasy is lies the head that wears the crown...
<steps forward> Mmm... But... but, teacher...



You have done it... This belongs to you now.
This is...



The Mask of Question! From this day on, you are the true hero. You... are The Great Question!



I... I'm the Great Question...?


Music: Gathering God ~ Thrill




Well, now! You've passed the physical. Now it's time for the mental test!
Huh?
The Man Festival must end with the final expression of love between two men!



<gasps>
Hehehehe. Hmm-mmm-mmm.





<clasps hands and smiles brightly> Isn't it beautiful? Love comes in so many different shapes!
<cringes and shakes head> I... I'm not... into that shape...



<both yelling at the top of their lungs>
No way...
<hooting and hollering continues>



And so The Man Festival continues at the summit of a 100-story tall wrestling ring with a 400-year-old vampire and a real life Pakistani wrestler gone to the bone zone as a tween Princess Anastasia Romanov looks on adoringly and our rude protagonist regrets many life decisions to make it to this point. That happened. How did we get here? Where are we going and why? Who knows. Who can even say anymore?



The completion of The Man Festival, for better or worse, gives us the Mask of Question.



This, in turn, permanently upgrades Joachim's Grand Papillion form to The Great Question. The Joachythm has the same calculation to pop as Grand Papillion. With the earlier obtained Electro Band equipped that means we'll see his Great Question form once every 30 battles. Uhh... all that is remaining of the game where Joachim can participate is the final dungeon. So in all... I saw The Great Question exactly once in a completely throw-away random battle just prior to the end of the game. Even if we did The Man Festival much earlier I would probably only have encountered it maybe once or twice more.

...I am going to go ahead and say that maybe wasn't worth the effort of a two-and-a-half-hour-long shitpost.





Hey, you know how we just made it through a combat gauntlet of twenty palette swaps of the same enemy? Guess what? They ALL have Library entries! So strap in for deep Curry Man lore.

Monsters:



What lady could resist this helping of man?



Liberal with his attacks. Politically shockingly right-wing.



A curry of contrasts.



Vindaloo is an online social media sensation. They have that in 1915. Roger Bacon invented it early. Wizards have no sense of right or wrong.



You don't want to know his method of tenderization.



Terrible engagement numbers.



Green peas are a powerful foe.



I'll take the mustard gas spiciness level.



You don't want aged prawns in any instance.



I'll only use the meat of chickens bred deep in a hidden mountaintop monastery nestled in the Himalayan mountains.



This curry will let you breathe fire. Now, which is the one that grants stretchy limbs? And can I learn teleportation via curry?



The saga of the Curry Men is a rollercoaster of emotions.



You get 5% snootier by eating French curry fusion.



A dishonorable fraud of a man.



Curry Mom is always calling him a bum, bragging about how much better her sister's kid are doing and telling him to move out of the basement.



The rare sovereign citizen curry.



I heard he got nerfed in the last patch and his ground game is trash now.



Yeah, so this cut of meat is set to expire tomorrow. Look at the sale price! We can make it work, baby! And these vegetables are only slightly moldy. We can just cut those bits off. They're still good.



Will any of us ever find it, really?



Curry zen is a state we all yearn to achieve.



It took until nearly the onset of World War 2 to finally get the stench of curry out of the streets of Nihonbashi.



We have always been at war with humanity's greatest foe the Tin Lions.

Characters:



Let us never speak of his twisted hands again.




Video: Episode 138 Highlight Reel
(You should watch this. But maybe not at work...)

Cooked Auto
Aug 4, 2007

I question all of that.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

The Great Gamahuche

Shitenshi
Mar 12, 2013
Compared to everything Anastasia has seen and been part of, her becoming a yaoi fangirl is surprisingly banal by comparison. I mean, if Rasputin had his way, she would have ended up something like the Slug Count's kid from Berserk, and that is a whole other line of dark content not appropriate for this wholesome AAA game.

Omobono
Feb 19, 2013

That's it! No more hiding in tomato crates! It's time to show that idiota Germany how a real nation fights!

For pasta~! CHARGE!

Well, that happened. :confuoot:

Happy Landfill posted:

Um but what about the woman festival?? :colbert:

Now that we actually saw the man festival I can try to answer:

While I would trust these writers to write an equally funny two+ hours shitpost (shitquest?) with women, one gotta admit that a wrestling gauntlet to decide who will be the top and who the bottom in a yaoi scene doesn't really work if you simply swap* everyone's gender.

*You. You there. I see you typing your :actually: response. Don't.

Omobono fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jul 25, 2021

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Thats a disappointing reward

Perhaps the true treasure were the men we met along the way

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?
Sad state of affairs a century later

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


kerplunk

FeyerbrandX
Oct 9, 2012

Thend No Moral.

Is The Great Question a Japanese pun lost in translation? Or was that just a non-sequitor necessary to complete the shitpost?

Violet_Sky
Dec 5, 2011



Fun Shoe

FeyerbrandX posted:

Thend No Moral.

Nah I think the subtext can be an anagram.

Pizuz
Sep 15, 2008
You can completely ignore the Joachythms and just use the “Getitup!” item to immediately have him transform to the Great Question. It hits like a truck and makes the final boss pretty much a joke.

Pizuz fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jul 30, 2021

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Yeah, that was a thing. Can’t say I completely enjoyed it. Isn’t there a guy with a serious chin out to destroy the world we need to stop?

Mr. Maltose
Feb 16, 2011

The Guffless Girlverine

FeyerbrandX posted:

Thend No Moral.

Is The Great Question a Japanese pun lost in translation? Or was that just a non-sequitor necessary to complete the shitpost?

I’m pretty sure it’s a reference to Tiger Mask. There was an Indian wrestler in the original named Mister Question.

Qrr
Aug 14, 2015



Joachim truly has the most honest magical girl transformation.

I did not expect the quest to end like that. Truly a celebration of all things man. Needs more consent though.

Robindaybird
Aug 21, 2007

Neat. Sweet. Petite.

honestly the man festival could've cut more floors out, maybe adding title cards implying ridiculous wrestling storylines happening while they skip the extraneous stuff.

It's just long enough to be tedious and the curry men aren't that interesting to fight.

Junpei
Oct 4, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!

Qrr posted:

Joachim truly has the most honest magical girl transformation.

I did not expect the quest to end like that. Truly a celebration of all things man. Needs more consent though.

I think he's honestly going for more toku hero.

In From The New World he even quotes Kamen Rider Stronger directly, the whole "The heavens cry out! The earth cries out! The people cry out!" bit

Edvarius
Aug 23, 2013
The party better hope the Tsar never finds out about this sidequest. I imagine he would be less than pleased about his daughter being there for the ending.

GimmickMan
Dec 27, 2011

I watched the video just to confirm the gunshot censorship noises were real.

MiiNiPaa
Jan 19, 2020

Edvarius posted:

The party better hope the Tsar never finds out about this sidequest. I imagine he would be less than pleased about his daughter being there for the ending.

Doesn't matter. He will soon find more pressing matters to consider.

MachuPikacchu
Oct 15, 2012

Sacre vert! Maman!

MiiNiPaa posted:

Doesn't matter. He will soon find more pressing matters to consider.

Wait...you don't mean...*sound of a gunshot*

Violet_Sky
Dec 5, 2011



Fun Shoe

MachuPikacchu posted:

Wait...you don't mean...*sound of a gunshot*

That was clearly the sounds of MANLY love

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


MachuPikacchu posted:

Wait...you don't mean...*sound of a gunshot*

:shepicide:

FeyerbrandX
Oct 9, 2012

So thats why the revolution will not be televised, it's against FCC rules.

HR12345
Nov 19, 2012
Now that I'm caught up again, I'd imagine Anastasia as a shitheel manager along the lines of Paul Heyman calling out Rasputin Reigns while Joachim Lesnar just stands there with the JoJo menacing aura ready to take someone to Boatplex City.

The Dark Id
Aug 13, 2005

Why
you
know
I
LOVE
THIS SHIT !!!!
[citation needed]
Episode CXXXIX: Dark Seraphim



We are finally almost concluded with the deluge of Shadow Hearts: Covenant's endgame content. There are only two items on the agenda remaining. One is sorting out that King Solomon jerk having completed both the Trials and Keys of Solomon. The other is much less obvious. As in the game yields zero indicators that this is a thing whatsoever. Do you remember how Yuri gained an ultimate Fusion in the endgame of Shadow Hearts 1 returning to the graveyard after he dealt with all of the Alice curse business? And sorting out the whole Seraphic Radiance dark god that was still chilling in the shadowy recesses of his soul...? Remember how that ending wasn't canon ergo he... just never dealt with that poo poo or got his ultimate fusion hence why Amon is the biggest deal (ignore the part that was also an easily missable optional Fusion as well.)

Well, perhaps we can sort that business out in the sequel here now that we're reaching the very end of the game.


Music: Holy Mistletoe ~ Graveyard




There are prerequisites for this quest, though they're not nearly as obtuse and arcane as the previous game having to do the whole lifting Alice's curse sidequest and the really lovely grind of filling all of Yuri's Fusions to max level via specific elemental Soul Energy back in that game. And they kind of just... forgot to put some elemental affinity enemies worth a drat in the second half of the first game. Yeah, I'm still salty about having to grind Earth Elemental Soul Energy for two hours because it was one lovely enemy left by the end of the game that dumped it and it was two-three units a pop and I needed fifty.



This time around we still need to get all the Elemental Fusions and get them to Level 3 but that only required finding hidden items and not grinding for hours. Neo Amon's and Kurando's Jutendouji transformation quests are also required. They don't have upgrade levels.



Doing this silently makes this Key Item drop in front of the cursed tree doppelganger of Yuri. Again, unless I missed some key thing the game makes absolutely zero effort to tell you to go investigate the static thing at the start of an area you've likely had no reason to visit directly for at least half or two-thirds of Disc 2 at this point. But we need this.







For you see, this unlocks an area past the Mirror Maze and that room in the Graveyard where Jeanne showed Yuri a bunch of memories and told him he better get his poo poo together since his soul is dying. And then we hosed off and did a cascade of shitpost sidequests and time wasters for at least a couple of months.



Yuri slows down and starts stumbling forward toward another astral memory projector.



Oh, geez. I forgot they used to be able to show tons of blood in the previous adventure. ...One day I'll remember how I managed to reattach my severed arm. That seems handy... Ugh. I'm glad nobody is around to hear me make an accidental pun.



Oh, wow. I don't know how many days I had been awake because that psychic Koudelka lady kept yelling at me to do things. I looked like poo poo that night. Yikes! I hope Alice was out of it enough for me to get it together by the ghost dog village.



Oh yeah, when we met Margarete after she did a terrorist bombing. And then we had to do a sewer dungeon. Not the best first impression...



Hey, Lt. Colonel Kawashima... I... wasn't here for that scene... I don't know why I am seeing this.



That ghost crap! I barely remember that. I just remember... what's her face...? Sea Mother? And her ghost story that lasted forever. Shloooop. Shloooop.



Is that dad? And old man Zhuzhen? And uhh... the stretchy guy? I can't remember that mid-boss's name and I'm not even going to try to remember. Also... another thing I wasn't there for... I would have been like eight and half way across the country.



<cough> ...Super sorry for that week-long sidequest road trip to Hong Kong, Alice...





Shanghai... yeah... that... that didn't go so hot...
......
...Wait, did I ever get rid of that demon god out of my soul? I feel like I ought to have done that.

poo poo...



Yeah, I need a reminder of spending six months digging my own grave while my evil ghost dad poo poo talked me. Thanks... whatever this is... good times.



The five times Albert Simon just warped into a room and blasted everyone with lightning. Good memories too.





And teleporting to space to take on Albert. Shouldn't these memories have the time I fought him as Amon and stole that power? That was sort of a big deal, eh?





Oh we're skipping the part where I punched out a god and guilt-tripping me for that time I dropped Karin on her rear end because I still had to fight the entire attacking German army? Jeanne, if this is you... this is getting to be not cool.





I did end up getting cursed at the end but I am fond of the time I kicked Nicolai in the head like twenty feet. That nerd.









Now what is this crap?! Karin, Gepetto, Joachim sure. But Lucia over Blanca? Or even Anastasia, I'd take. She is OK. Kurando if I had to too. He's at least my cousin. But... Her? No, I need to talk to whoever is making this memory slideshow. This is crap.









Sapientes Gladio is an entire adventure back. Other than that thing with Lenny, those memories are in the "haha yeah that happened" vault of ancient history now. Bring up Arcane Olga at this point while you're at it.





...Oh poo poo! We... we should probably check in on whatever Kato was up to. How long has it been? There was something about bells tolling? Ugh. Thank hell all these villain's end of the world estimates go way past initial dates or I'd be screwed several times over.



<frown> Alice...






M-my memories...!! Th-they're being sucked away...!



<groans>



<groans> I can't stand it... <gasps heavily>



...Huh?! That sunset...
Do you remember now?
<looks around confuses> Huh?! Eh?!
......
<stares at the low-bitrate video of Shadow Hearts 1 that ironically ran like total poo poo in an emulator too> ...It's the same one... I saw that sunset with my dad!!


Music: Past ~ Personal History




Inside your heart, that sunset will always be shining...
?!



You fear losing your memory, your very soul.
<shakes head> But even that could never change you.
D-Dad... is it you?!
...Yes, it's me.



He he he. It's pretty funny. You do sort of look like me. Heh.
I do remember you looking way... older last I saw you.
Heh. Well, spectral forms manifest at different ages depending on the circumstances.
...OK?
What I'm saying is get you licks in with the ladies before you hit 40, son. Age is going to hit you harder than a Chinese sorcerer performing Valorization.
...Good to know. I'll try my best. But it's not looking great making it there

Ha ha ha... You've done well, son. You took the best parts of your mother and me... and became your own man...



Dad, I... I lived the best I could!! I made some good friends!! I had a woman who loved me!!
<nods> Yes.



I wasn't perfect and I made mistakes, but... I did the best I could!
I punched out a space god. I punched out that sorcerer that killed you.
That guy was such a dick.
I know, right? I beat a giant European cult and took out a Russian wizard. I got cursed in the middle there, but, you know...
It happens to the best of us, son.

That's why... I don't have any regrets...



Listen to me. The important thing is you followed the path you chose. Your mother and I know that.
......
Yuri. You have to transcend me.
What?
Show me your strength. I want to see the power of your soul.



Come on. Just like when you were a child. Try to beat me.



Hehe... Here goes! But this time... there's no holding back!



Of course, son. I would really like to get this dark god off of my chest.
...Wait, what?!
Do you have the same strange sense of déjà vu as I do?
...Yeah... Really strongly... What's up with that?
It must be destiny...

HRRRRRRRR!!!




Music: Hardcore to the Brain ~ Mid Boss in Japan




Seraphic Radiance is now going by the name Dark Seraphim this go around but we are... just actually fighting Yuri's ultimate from the first Shadow Hearts instead of how Seraphic Radiance operated. This version has 3000 HP and is, of course, a Non-Elemental enemy.



Attack wise it will mostly zap Yuri for mid-range 300-350 HP with lasers.







It has For Tomorrow which will HP steal 275-300 HP of health from Yuri.





And when it gets to around one-third total HP it will cast For Everyone which boosts all of its stats by 30% and it's time to hurry the gently caress up and beat this enemy.







To be perfectly honest, all there is to this fight is to Fuse into Neo Amon, attack two rounds with Physical damage attacks because Dark Seraphim has unreasonably high magical defenses. And on the third round, you use the now massive stock of top-tier consumable curative Thera Extracts. Repeat until you beat your weird angelic female form dark god dad. It's actually significantly easier than the Shadow Hearts 1 version of this climactic duel.


Music: Result ~ Victory






And so Jinpachiro/Ben finally pays out some child support and a bounty of EXP in his defeat.


Music: Past ~ Personal History




<pants>
I'm impressed.
<continues to pant and looks up>



I have always loved you and Anne more than anything. I still do. I always will... son.



Dad...
Hahaha. A gift from your dad...





Jinpachiro Hyuga vanishes.



Dad!!
<looks down> ......



And thus Yuri reflects on the parting with his ghost dad for the final time on this 180i blown-up image of a JPEG from Shadow Hearts 1. Such is his lot...





But unlike The Man Festival, which was two and a half hours for a poo poo upgrade. This twenty-five-minute affair yields the best upgrade in the game for the best character in the game.



Yuri is just now Devilman again. It's canonical this time. He retains the three abilities from the first game as Seraphic Radiance. Which are:

For Everyone... - 72 MP - Increases all status for all allies by 30%.
For Tomorrow... - 88 MP - Dark Seraphim summons a destructive beam from the heavens to draw life from an enemy and heals all allies.
For The Child... Dark Seraphim flies into the heavens to throw spheres of destructive energy at his targets below him. Does sick rear end damage.

And at base stats, Dark Seraphim has:

  • Strength +16
  • Vitality +16
  • Agility +16
  • Intelligence +16
  • Power +16
  • Luck +16



But we've been loving storing Soul Energy for now and let's get to beast mode with Level 10:
  • Strength +25
  • Vitality +25
  • Agility +25
  • Intelligence +25
  • Power +25
  • Luck +25

Yep... Yep, that's some pretty good poo poo right there. Some pretty good poo poo is on display. Let's go curb stomp a super boss and finally end this game after that, eh?






Video: Episode 139 Highlight Reel
(You should watch this!)









Dark Seraphim Concept Art - Look his dick is gone but his abs and rear end are amazing!

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Alright! I like this Angel ultimate fusion form way better than the first game’s. Just a cooler look. And, yeah, you’re probably not getting it without a guide.

Materant
Jul 22, 2010

see, what you don't understand is he now has

THE MANLIEST MUSTACHE

it defies physics


And of course the slideshow had to kick Yuri in the dick on the way out by showing Alice's grave as the last slide. Rude.

Shitenshi
Mar 12, 2013
Yuri is one of the few JRPG protags that has actually beaten his father senseless and still manages to be on good terms with his old man at the end of it. Truly a novelty.

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Picayune
Feb 26, 2007

cannot be unseen
Taco Defender
shlooooooop
shlooooooop
skreeeeeee

Twenty-some-odd years later and that sound still lives in my brain.

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