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Man, so I went back and read through the last few updates just to make sure but man the whole thing with Hume after you and he split up just comes out of the blue, huh?
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ivantod, I really appreciate the photosensitivity warning, but for videos where that's a potential issue, would you mind including a quick summary of what happens in them?
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Ghost Car posted:ivantod, I really appreciate the photosensitivity warning, but for videos where that's a potential issue, would you mind including a quick summary of what happens in them? I thought enough to include a warning because of flashing lights, but somehow didn't think to continue that thought to conclude that people who are not able to watch the video because of it might need a summary of what happens in it. I'm so sorry! I will include a summary from now and will also go back and add a summary to the previous video in the next few days! The good news is that there is only a couple of videos with this issue in the game so it won't be a big deal. Please accept my apology, I'm very much in favour of taking accessibility issues seriously, but I did fail a bit on this one! ivantod fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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Hello again, and welcome back to Linda³! Last time, we of course finished Scenario A, so now we need to "push the reset button" and try something different! We're back at the main menu, so I guess let's just select "Start" again! We of course get the familiar scenario choice menu, but this time... ...we'll be going for Scenario B! Let's see what are the winning conditions. So, here we go: - Collect no less than 50 animal species. - Take off with the ark. Actually the only difference from last time is that we have to collect 50 species instead of 30--of course that means one male and one female of each species, like before. As always, we'll be playing on "normal" difficulty, but if you do choose the "hard" option, then you have an additional restriction: you are not allowed to have dogs in your party (or indeed any other animal that Linda can train for that purpose); this is in addition to a slightly faster passage of time. Also, in the PC Engine version these winning conditions were phrased differently and contained surprisingly a bit of a spolier for the plot of this scenario, but in the remake obviously that was fixed and the spoiler removed. I'll mention this when it's no longer a spoiler! All right, enough talking, let's get started. The start, however, finds Ken in a familiar situation of eating breakfast at his mother's house. The phone starts ringing. She goes to answer the phone. She finishes the conversation. And, so, here we go! As before, we can talk to this girl here to get a free dog, since her family is leaving the planet and they can't take the dog with them. We'll get the second dog shortly, but for now, let's head into the HQ building. As it turns out, most people in this town don't have anything new to say compared to what they were saying in Scenario A. Therefore, we won't need to make a big tour this time around. We will however check out a few things which are different or which I may have missed last time. So with that in mind, let's head quickly down into the basement where the prison cells are! This guy who is imprisoned here I think we haven't come across previously. Funny. Let's quickly check the lady sitting at her desk: Yeah, there are a couple of chests here in the locked room: ...but we can't get to them as we don't have the key. One of these days. One of these days, we'll find somewhere, somehow, a key that opens one of these locked rooms with chests. Well, to be fair, for this particular door, we could go and get the key more or less right now, but we'll hold off a bit until we get the plot going! By the way did you know that in this game there is actually a chest in a locked room which simply contains a key for another locked room with chests? Yeah. But don't worry. We'll open all those locked doors when the time comes. Now, let's head upstairs for our meeting with the commander. Yeah, so it's the same meeting like last time, where Ken has to apply to be part of the ark crew. Ken does so. If you say yes, the same exact cutscene plays which we've already seen in the first scenario where the commander explains briefly the situation. Since we've already seen it, we can simply say "no" here to proceed directly to what happens after. There is, like before, no other option here but to push the button and become a crew member. Although if you try to leave, the ranger next to you tells you something like "can you please push the button already, I need to go to the loo". So that's funny. Anyway, Ken pushes the button. But, as everybody leaves, another person comes into the room... Who is that? He leaves. I guess we'll go and talk to him at some point a bit later. All right, we're done with this and can leave now. Before leaving, I check behind the boxes that Linda is not hiding there again with the intent of beating Ken up with a large stick! But no, she's not here this time, so we can go in peace. Also, I'm not going to check the calendar there in the corner because of course it restarted with 1991, so we don't need to worry about that until 1993. Anyway, as we go down the stairs... ...Linda and her mum are waiting there! Where did they all even come from? Why is there a little girl among these people? Everybody claps. Everybody claps. Loud cheering. Everybody claps. Loud cheering. Linda starts to leave while everybody claps and cheers. Just as she's about to leave the building... And she's gone. But Linda's mum approaches Ken... Everybody claps. Loud cheering. Everybody claps. Loud cheering. She also leaves... ...and then so does everybody else. As you can see, this time there is no "you have to be level 3" kind of thing, so we COULD just head to Minago right now. But we'll do a few other things first. Like getting 100 G from the bank and taking out a loan up to a maximum possible 400 G. This gives us a total of 600 G in the pocket, enough to get started. The maximum loan amount, by the way, is equal to your yearly salary at that moment. Ken starts with a salary of 100 G per quarter so the maximum loan is 400. Don't worry, we're going to employ the money making trick in a few minutes and will quickly earn a lot more than that. But we need the loan to get started. The other thing we should do is get ourselves a second dog. Because right now Linda is NOT in our party so it would be nice to have some backup. As before, we can only use a maximum of two katakana letters to name our dog, so this time I decide on the name Aki (=autumn). No, I didn't actually forget that the game starts in summer this time, but I have decided that because of that initial mistake I will never ever name a dog "Summer" in this game. Luckily, the names of all four seasons in Japanese actually fit into two letters, so we should be good. With this done, we're almost ready to head out. But first... ...over here in the hotel, there is something different! If we go inside and up to to the second floor where the bar/lounge is... ... we can see that there's a whole bunch of people here now, including even a singer! Let's first talk to the guests, maybe we can find out more what this is all about. First, the ranger standing by the counter. Yeah, probably. We can also talk to the guests to see what they think of the singer. Well those seem like some pretty favourable opinions. We can also talk to the pianist lady. Awesome. Then, let's talk to the singer herself! We do need to give a small tip, but if we do, she does indeed sing a song for us! It's yet another (third) different version of the "Lullaby" song we've heard last time, and you can listen to it here: Well, I liked that. I think that's probably my favourite among the three versions of this song. Incidentally the vocal for this version is also performed by the game's music composer, Ryouko Kihara. Angela travels around the planet and visits different towns, so maybe we'll run into her again later on. But for now, that was a nice break and yet another cool touch in a game full of them. As we pass through the entrance area, we can read the announcement posted there. As always, it gives us an update about the current situation of the world: N.K. NEWS SPECIAL BULLETIN A massive pathogen spill in the west area! A large quantity of a mysterious pathogen has leaked from a Green Pharmaceuticals research facility; already the fourth investigation team has been lost. It is now certain that the entirety of the West Area will be declared a special danger zone on a semi-permanent basis. Ah, well, there we go. So this means that the whole West Area (which really should be called North Area because it's actually in the north) will be inaccessible to us in this scenario. But instead, we have access to the South Area, which we didn't have before! Anyway, before we exit, there is one more thing we can quickly do. If we go up to the Bird Line counter, and talk to the person on our RIGHT side... So that's pretty inconsequential, right? You can figure it out wihout needing an explanation. However, if you talk to her twice more, she will just repeat the same thing again. But on the fourth attempt... ...this happens! What could it mean? Well, if you check the destinations specifically with her (and not with the person on the LEFT side), you see this... Basically, we have now unlocked the Bird Line route to Nebul! If you recall, Nebul is that "secret" town built inside a mountain that we had to traverse a cave to reach. Well, if you talk to this person 3 times, you unlock fast travel to that destination also! Pretty cool! This does work regardless of which scenario you're in! Ok, now that we have done this, we can head outside. We should go and register at the ark! As before, we can talk to the floating robots, but this all the same as before, so we simply go to this room... ...where Ken uses his right hand to register! Ok, now that we're taken care of all the preliminaries, we can finally get started. First, let's break the game's economy a little bit. I have talked about this previously, but now let's see it for real! As you might recall, I said that it's possible to quickly gain whatever amount of money you want, right now at the start of the game (and also it doesn't even cause any time to pass!). Here's how that works. First, we take the Bird Line over to Ozport. By the way, completely unrelated, but while we're here... ...you can actually walk through this passage here. If you do so, you reach a little secret area with a chest in it! The chest contains a weapon--the dog sword! If we equip it on Ken... ...we can see that it's a fair bit stronger than his initial weapon! I'll equip it for now, but we'll replace it with something else before he even uses it. Still, not bad to keep it in reserve at least. As far as this secret area goes, there is in fact a secret within a secret, but we'll leave that for later. For now, let's go where we originally intended to... And that's over here, where the animal trader is. We'll buy as many female rats as we can, while leaving just a bit of money for the Bird Line trip to Minago. In Minago, in this house, you can find the animal dismantler! Dismanle all the rats, chances are probably about 30-40% of them will result in a "swallow cutter", a weapon we're already quite familiar with. While a single rat costs only 20 G, this weapon sells for around 1400 and has a pretty good drop rate when dismantling. So now we go over to the equipment shop in Minago... ...and sell all the weapons you got for lots of money. Now just go back to Ozport and again buy as many rats as you can... Unfortunately, you can only hold a maximum of 99 of any animal--as you can see it only costs 1980 G for that, but we already have 7077 from our first trip! In any case, you can now go back to Minago and repeat the whole process until you get bored or until you decide you have enough money! Here is where I stopped (it only took about 20 mins to get here): Just short of 100,000 G. Anyway, I did keep two swallow cutters to actually use. I equip it on Ken: It's just slightly less powerful than dog sword, but as we already know, it has the benefit of hitting all enemies in front of us, instead of just one! Now that we have so much money, let's do just one more thing back in Ozport. In the Ozport item shop, apart from the normal stuff, they also have this thing here for 28,000 G. It's the "Air Free Pass" item I've mentioned before. Let's just buy it! It lets us use the Bird Line services completely for free! Indeed, if we go to the Bird Line service desk... ...we find that the prices for all destinations are now set to zero, as expected. Nice. All right. It's time to do get a bit of a start with animal collecting. To begin with, we'll collect a bunch of species which are easily found here around Hardia, Ozport and Hospico. These are all species we've seen before (and not very strong ones either), so I will not go into details other than listing them here. Ostrich. Pig. Rat. Squid. Squirrel. Stonefish. Monkey. Mole. Crab. Rabbit. That'll do for now, I think. We can head back to the ark to hand these in. On the way back, we are informed that it's now Autumn 1991. Over in the ark... ...we'll hand in all that we have (and I'll just sell the rest afterwards!). Talking to the friendly robot... ...informs us, of course, that we've collected 10 species out of needed 50. So we should be ok on that front for the time being. After doing all of this, I remember that I should really go around these few places here and see what the animal traders have for sale, to save some time with species that we've already had the chance to encounter. First I pick up a male/female pair of dragonflies, they CAN actually be found around Hardia, but are a bit of a pain to get them to spawn, so it's an easy shortcut especially since they cost next to nothing. I also buy a female dolphin, just in case we ever find anybody selling a male--dolphins are mostly in the West Area, thus not really accessible to us in this scenario. The final animal that I buy is a female crocodile. The crocodiles can actually be found in Nebul Road cave, but I have a vague impression that females are a bit rare, so we have this one as backup. Speaking of buying animals, I had a chance to watch a Japanese LP of this game where the player actually manages to collect ALL 50 species needed in this scenario without ever fighting a single battle. He obtains all species through other game mechanics, such as buying, auction house, eggs and so on! So even that is possible in this game! Anyway, I know. We should really go and see Linda. But it's really weird right? Time passes in this game, but not for the plot itself. You can actually take YEARS before going to see Linda in Minago and it won't be a problem! Funny. So with that in mind, before going to Minago, let's make a quick trip again to Ozport. Specifically, we'll go and visit that bar/casino area in the basement of the hotel/shopping mall building. There, it turns out that Angela the singer has now moved! We won't ask her to sing for us, since she does indeed have only one song, but let's just talk to the other people here. First the two guys sitting in the middle. Last time they had for us some conspiracy theories how it wasn't a satellite crash but a targeted assassination! Let's see what they say today. Really? No conspiracy theories today? Disappointing. Then the other guy sitting on the right... Pianist has nothing new to say, so... we're finally going to Minago! Here we are. There is a ranger here who has some not so nice things to say. Downstairs, there's another guy here. Wow, ok. Let's go inside. It took us a while, but we got here in the end! Before heading to Linda's house, let's make a quick tour. This place is quite small compared to other towns, so it will not take long! Over to the right is the inn. But if you go in they don't even let you stay over and just tell you "aren't you staying at Linda's house anyway?". So we'll head instead into that building behind the inn. That's definitely a bit messy, but we can talk to the guy in the lab coat. Yeah, Ken actually does have an animal guide with him! I didn't really show that, but when you're on the overworld you can press a button on the controller, and it allows you to scan any animal you can see around you, to find out what it is and some of its stats. Of course, the more "unusual" the animal, the less information is available on it. You can also check the animal guide here in this house by using that computer next to Ken. It allows you to search for an animal by the first letter of it's name! And then you can see some of its basic details and stats (like in this example for a mole). Of course, for "rarer" animals there will usually not even be a picture much less anything else, until you encounter it personally. This guy does have one other function, but we'll probably not encounter that until Scenario C. All right, let's go outside and continue our tour of Minago. Next, we'll head over into this building. This is the butcher shop. Let's start with the guy sitting there on the side first. Uh, do you actually mean that... actually, no, don't answer that, please. Let's just talk to the shop owner. I assume this is how you're supposed to know about how to catch hyenas. There is this lady behind the shop, so... This whole story about the ark's origin and all that did get a bit neglected, but do not worry! We'll get to it. Also, I seem to be saying "we'll get to that" a lot, but the game just has a bit of an unusual structure, so there's no other way to say it really. Next we go in here... It houses the animal trader and the equipment shop, just barely visible in the corner. We can also talk to this person sitting at the table. The animal trader: True story, there are animals in this game which you can sell for millions of G! But the trick is how to find them! Let's move to the other side, where there are two more people. First the guy in white shirt: The equipment shop owner mostly has a small bit of tutorial. Certainly another true story! I also randomly buy the "rhino cap" from this guy because it increases Ken's defence +16: (Even if it does cost 3300 G!) Anyway, we continue our tour outside... ...with this lady here. Back across the bridge to this guy here... I'm always up for another mystery! So, yeah, definitely! We're almost done with our tour! Over here is... ...our old friend, the animal dismantler. There does seem to be a bit of a tension between the Federation people and the Beastians, doesn't there? Finally, we're going to Linda's house. For some reason, there's a person loitering in front of it!? All right! We're going inside! But this update is horrifically long, so it doesn't actually fit into one post! Please continue reading in the next post! ivantod fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Inside we run into Hume! (BTW, yes, Ken can still steal the duck meat from the kitchen, no problem.) Upstairs, Linda is in her room, together with her mum. She also seems to be a bit dressed up? In any case, it's cutscene time! There were a couple of small differences here in the PC Engine version. First of all, the cutscene was very slightly different: But more interestingly, in the original, there was actually a dialogue choice here (yes/no). It didn't impact anything, but it was a bit funny, as if you said "no", then Linda would yell something like "Mum, Ken says that we should alter the dress so that it emphasises my boobs more!". But this was removed in the remake. Anyway, moving on. Before we leave, we can talk to Linda's mother... It would have been nice to have some custom responses for each of these options, but... sadly no. It literally doesn't matter what you choose here. So, yeah, we're just going out for a walk with Linda going like that in a wedding dress. In any case, we're intercepted by Hume, who has a somewhat creepy comment, although I'm sure he's just trying to be funny. I think we should just move on, really. Outside, the loitering lady has another comment... Is she... like a fan club president or something? Anyway, we'll walk over to the church... Inside. And so, they do the "wedding walk" thing... And then... There is indeed the sound of church bells heard. There is no actual day/night cycle in the game, therefore this is the only time this will actually happen. This game is genuinely funny a significant percentage of the time! Anyway, some time later, in Linda's house, after the dinner is finished... Uh, someone's had a bit too much to drink, huh? And he falls of the chair and is promptly asleep! He falls asleep again, but... She pushes him towards the bedroom! Meanwhile Ann tries to put a stop to this madness! And she does just that! And so... ..ken is left alone in Linda's room. What to do, what to do. Oh, I know! Let's rummage around! First of all, Linda's diary is there on her desk, so let's start with that! Diary Entry 1: I can't wait until Ken applies to be the crew member! 🎔 Diary Entry 2: Why has that idiot still not applied? Then over by the mirror, there is a photograph on the wall. It's the same picture we have at our home, of all of us together in front of the swing. The teddy bear: I had a stuffed animal that looked like this when I was a kid. It looks very similar... Wait! Isn't this... And then, finally the dress hanging on the wall. Is that the same dress she was wearing eariler today? Oh, Ken... But while he's doing that... ...Linda shows up and knocks on the door! He is, and she comes inside! You can actually hear loud snoring noises in the game right now! But before she can finish the sentence, there is a loud crashing noise heard from downstairs! They both quickly run towards the stairs, but in the meantime we'll watch a cutscene to find out what happened! I have no idea what just happened. Oh and before you ask, there's actually no PC Engine version of this scene. In the original version, this scene was presented entirely through normal in-game graphics, complete with the usual tiny character sprites from that version. So it was a pretty obvious decision to add it in the remake. Anyway, a couple of moments later, the attackers manage to intercept Ken and Linda. Ken and Linda run back into her room, but... They fire at Ken. A shot is fired. Linda screams. * * * Some days later, Ken wakes up in the hospital. The hospital director Chen is next to him. Ok, lots to unpack here! First, Linda is alive and her surgery... was a success? We're definitely going to need to find out more about that. But also, Dr. Emory? You might recall that Dr. Emory is one of the three geniuses of Hospico, alongside Dr. Panheim, and Dr. Flora. However, in Scenario A he was killed in the satellite crash so we never met him (and oh boy I'm waiting for the reactions when we DO meet him later today!). Then we have the ever confusing Sachiko. In Scenario A she was the only survivor of the satellite crash, but apparently without her memory. So let's see what all this looks like now that both Dr. Emory and Sachiko are alive and (hopefully) in good condition. So let's get out of bed and have a look around! First of all, there is a ranger standing outside of Ken's room, so let's talk to her. Wait, again? But what about Dr. Oid, the ethnologist? Or the animal encyclopedia guy? Are we really never going to find out what their stories are? Sachiko is not in the room for newborns this time (does she even work as a nurse in this version of events?) so we'll just continue on. This guy here... We can also talk to the nurse whom you can see standing at the nurses' station there. So, people like Sachiko's flower beds, it seems. Next are the two nurses here... Oh, you're just precious, aren't you. The other nurse: Next we have this person here in the computer room. And if we do go down to the morgue... Over here are, of course, these two chests, somehow in an unlocked room! They yield a 100HP healing tablet and an antidote. The contents of chests don't generally change between different scenarios. Then, back outside, we have this ranger lady... And before you ask, this entrance to the underground cells is still here, and there are still rumours about the former mayor of Koshikata being imprisoned here. We never got a proper answer to that one either... Next, we'll head back inside and... ...talk to the lady at the reception here. We can also talk to that kid nearby... Mayor of Koshikata, perhaps? Over here, we can also talk to several people. First, the guy in blue. And also the guy at the bank counter. Well, we've already been there, and indeed discovered some mysterious artifacts! We'll definitely go again! The guy at the equipment shop has a thing to tell us... Dr. Flora, if you recall, is one of Hospico's genius scientists, who always seems to want to kiss whoever comes to visit her lab. But, anyway, now is the time finally to go see Dr. Emory. Therefore, we find ourselves again in front of these three houses which contain the laboratories of the three geniuses of Hospico: Flora, Panheim and Emory. First, we'll talk to that pregnant lady standing in between them. Well, that's great to hear, hopefully then everything will go well with Linda, too! So let's first check out other two houses, before we go to Emory. First, Dr. Panheim's lab, with the obligatory Christmas tree! Yeah, so looks like Panheim was killed in that pathogen incident and will be "sitting out" this scenario, so to speak. Well, ok. Let's visit Dr. Flora next. Ah, yes, all the crazy flowers. Rose Garden is actually a place we can visit in the South Area. Among other things, we can fight roses there. They are pretty tough. As before, Flora has the talking plant over in her room. Ah, so these "MC Alice" plants are not actually unique, and we can buy one for ourselves too. We'll definitely do that. I'm actually not joking. All right, finally... ...Dr. Emory's house. As mentioned, it has a nice flower bed in front of it. Let's go inside. As we come inside, Dr. Emory approaches us... Oh, just say it already. Clearly the surgery didn't go as "perfectly" as he says! I guess those four pods are the "artficial wombs" then, huh? And Linda is currently in one of them. Let's just humor him for now. And that's all he has to say for now. Well, gee, thanks a lot Dr. Emory. Now that she's lost her left arm, how the heck is she going to be able to activate the ark anyway? (Just in case you were wondering how we would be stopped from leaving early this time!) Well, that was sure a lot of stuff happening today, so let's stop here for now. And to those who expected that the game was going to dial down the crazy in the beginning of the next scenario, well... maybe not!  Today in this section, we have a few drawings of Linda trying on the dress! "Isn't it a wonderful dress?"
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Well that's an unfortunate choice of facial hair.
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Well gee, I thought Linda's mom getting two brutal deaths would be my comment but surely I wasn't expecting old Adolph to show up.
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This game is absolutely insane. I am not entirely certain how it got made but I'm still on board for wherever this ride is going, burly left man arm and all.
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Well, at least she didn't lose her memory again!
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It may be autumn but it's springtime for Emory
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Linda's mom survive a storyline challenge. I think it's interesting that this game was doing the Time Loop (?)/Alternate Reality narrative stuff that became so popular in visual novels over the past 15 years back in the 90s.
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at least change the hair color
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I'm concerned...Linda seems really focused on Ken. REALLY focused. "Why hasn't that idiot signed up yet!" There's the 'brash, go-getting personality' but she's apparently been looking forward to being on the Ark with specifically him for a while, and they'll be the only ones. Well, as long as she doesn't get possessed by her arm or something. Bloodly fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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 And that's... random. Very, very random. So what I'm getting is that town is hosed no matter what? If it's not being harvested for delicious, delicious elixirs of immortality, it's being randomly purged.
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I was laughing at the antmen but then they brutally murdered the parents 
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Please, please tell me they made a Linda sprite where she's got her hulk arm
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Arzaac posted:Please, please tell me they made a Linda sprite where she's got her hulk arm They absolutely did. They made a cutscene about it, too. We'll be seeing both soon.
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Could we get a link to that no-kill Japanese LP you mentioned? My command of Japanese isn't great but I'd be interested to have a look at it even if it has spoilers.
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Okay, this is the point where I had to know what this game was about. Kamen Rider-esque antmen that blast perfectly rectangular holes in people? Women with gigantic Hulk Hogan arms obviously attached via surgery? MAD SCIENTIST HITLER?! Yeah, the bits with a machete-wielding Santa had my interest, but here's about when they got my attention. And that's just the cutscenes, I can only imagine where the in-game scenes go.
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After Scenario A I was thinking 'okay how will the game top that' because I figured it would this ... was not on my list of possibilities
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Wow, Anne and Minago cannot catch a break. The corpses were still there so I guess Panheim dying nixed that scenario 1 plot off. It got overshadowed by everything that followed but that Kammer guy certainly has a trustworthy appearance.
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Please tell me there's art of Linda with 1 giant beefy arm.
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Please tell me there's art of Linda with 1 giant beefy arm.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I was hoping for some at the end of the update but no such luck, I also hope for this! Of course there's art of Linda's "new look"! The main reason I'm not posting it yet is because there's also a whole (hilarious) cutscene where her new look is revealed, so I was going to post it after that! I generally try not to post art which could be considered "spoiler" until after it's been revealed by the game itself. Also: as mentioned above in addition to a cutscene and associated concept art, there's even an overworld sprite for Linda looking like that! We should get to that point in about two updates or so--it won't be in the next one, but probably the one after that. BTW: I have come across an article written by this game's designer/director, Shoji Masuda, in which he explains the process which led to this game being developed and how we went about it. It's also a bit spoilery still, but I might split it into a few parts and post over time. It was originally printed in a brochure which was included as a first-press bonus for the PC Engine version back in 1995. BTW BTW: Speaking of Shoji Masuda... I am potentially considering as my next LP to play "Tengai Makyou II: Manjimaru", but we'll see. In any case we still have way more than half of this game to go through first anyway. ivantod fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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I love the Linda LP, but the STOCKS are drifting further and further away
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JamMasterJim posted:I love the Linda LP, but the STOCKS are drifting further and further away Yeah, "Kabu Trader Shun" is probably not going to happen, or at least not any time soon. Sorry about that!
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Linda just doesn't get to have a happy family, does she? First we had Hume going insane and fusing himself with her mother, now this. I hope Linda's new arm gives her a strength boost.
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Dec 28, 2021 00:41
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This game is absolutely amazing. Thank you for showing it off.
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idonotlikepeas posted:This game is absolutely amazing. Thank you for showing it off. Same. I don't think anyone expected it to top the STOCKS in insanity. Also great work with the translation. Sometimes I forgot that the game isn't actually translated until I see another battle screenshot 
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CremePudding posted:Also great work with the translation. Sometimes I forgot that the game isn't actually translated until I see another battle screenshot Seconding this. It's not only the grammar, the editting makes it look as if the text genuinely came from the game instead of being added in the screenshots. It's an extra effort you didn't really need to take and it really helps making it look "real", for lack of any better word.
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Well, thank you all for saying nice things about my LP! I'm glad people are enjoying this! About editing the images: It just seems to me like it's easier to read this way when the translated text is put directily into the screenshot itself, that's all. And to be honest it's not actually some kind of extra effort on my end. I take screenshots from a recorded gameplay video, so I simply make sure to take the screenshot at the moment when the on-screen text box is still empty for all screenshots where it's needed. Then I just make a flat file with all translations and simply run it through an ImageMagick script to render the "translated images". So that's actually a lot easier than it seems!
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What an absolutely wild ride. Really interested to see how much of this is ever going to be explained - is this scenario taking place on the reformed-70000-years-later Neo-Kenya? Will we see the previous Ken and Linda again? Maybe the comet/ark/reformation process has to be repeated endlessly until the "right" events happen - which actually leads me to a pretty grim theory about what's going on in with the bug suit people...
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purplestuffedworm posted:What an absolutely wild ride. Really interested to see how much of this is ever going to be explained - is this scenario taking place on the reformed-70000-years-later Neo-Kenya? Will we see the previous Ken and Linda again? Maybe the comet/ark/reformation process has to be repeated endlessly until the "right" events happen - which actually leads me to a pretty grim theory about what's going on in with the bug suit people... Yeah, we'll definitely be getting into stuff like the origin of the Ark itself and so on. I've mentioned this before, but this game's overal structure is not exactly what it seems right now--more details at this point would be a bit of a spoiler, but we'll get there soon enough. It's truly a shame that this game never got a western release, but then again, as far as PS1 JRPGs go (not to mention PC Engine, too!), it's the truth that the vast majority of them stayed Japan-only anyway, so it's hardly unique in that aspect. And I suspect that any kind of western release back in the mid-1990s would have probably required some kind of toning down of certain parts of this game's content. So that was probably a non-starter anyway, at least for this game. BTW, I found also a Japanese TV advertisement for this game from 1997! It's just as wild as the game itself, but it has a minor spoiler in it, so I have to wait for about 2-3 updates before I can post it. Somewhat appropriately for the time period from which it comes to us, the only copy I have is in glorious 240p.
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ivantod posted:They absolutely did. They made a cutscene about it, too. We'll be seeing both soon. what an incredibly normal game
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Night10194 posted:Well, at least she didn't lose her memory again! Just wait, it will turn out it was stored in her left arm.
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malkav11 posted:Just wait, it will turn out it was stored in her left arm. Haha I know what you mean, but luckily we don't have to worry about Linda losing her memory in this scenario!
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malkav11 posted:Just wait, it will turn out it was stored in her left arm. Don't be ridiculous, memory is stored in the head. And by the end of the scenario, Linda will just be a head on top of a horrible Frankenstein-esque monstrosity.
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Out of everything in this wonderfully deranged game, the one thing I'm getting hung up on is that Not-Adolf claimed genetic matching is why he used her dad's arm, when the same would be true for her mom's arm. Still, this game is the gift that just keeps on giving.
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