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Arist posted:Wrong “defused” there, buddy. He did spread the situation around pretty good
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I love shoehorned romance plots that make zero sense, unless the game's goal was to make fun of it. (Seems like it's done in earnest, though.)
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Can it really be anime if there isn't at least one weird romance subplot?
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And you're telling me that Juro/Megumi, Tomi/Nenji, Shu/Yuki, Miura/Natsuno, and Takatoshi/Okino aren't weird?
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I unironically love Iori's story, and just how... regular it is. Literally everyone else is dealing with time traveling shenanigans or killer robots or memory alteration, and Iori is just out there, living her best life, chasing her meet cute like a normal rear end teenager. It's such a great contrast to everyone else, especially her other selves.
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  Chapter 82: Natsuno Minami 7   Nice job hiding, Ryoko.  Before we go question her, let’s Consider our new thoughts. Consider Gouto-senpai  (Gouto-senpai… He can also travel through time. So who exactly is he?)Consider Scar on Cheek (This small puncture on my cheek… Why does it glow… When I touch it? It’s scaring me… …… Maybe… Maybe aliens really did put something in me…)Well, let’s go talk to our senpai awkwardly crouching over in the corner, then. Music: STAGNATION (Yoshimi Kudo)     Ryoko simply leaves the room.     BJ suddenly jumps out of the laundry basket, that rascal!  Hiding in the laundry basket, huh? Was she looking for you? It seems likely. You think she’s working with the men in black? Her affiliation is unclear. However. Her intentions… She wants the logs, doesn’t she? Correct. Or information on technology and the future.  We gotta hurry and find that Sentinel. It’s on the UFO, right? It was manufactured in Japan, wasn’t it? It is the name of a control system. *sigh* Right. So where do we find it? The gate. Okay. She must’ve looked in here. Use P. E. Bag on BJ   Don’t worry. If I see her, I’ll just sprint right on by.              Music: Deafening Silence (Mitsuhiro Kaneda) It is sealed off, just like Sector 5. So we can’t go today? There is an opening in Sector 3. We may be able to go from there. Sector 3? It is in 2025. 40 years from now… Which means I’ll be in my 50’s. I’m having mixed feelings…         Geez, this place is falling apart…     Ryoko Shinonome, class 2-A.Uh-oh. This picture… That’s the girl I saw in the track room. How’d this get here?   Seems ominous. Oh well!  It’s 1.7 kilometers away. We’re supposed to stick together.     I’ve been waiting… I knew you’d be here. Music: Hard Pill to Swallow (Kikuchi Yukinori) This is 426’s hideout. You’re working with him, aren’t you? Four-two-who? The heck are you talking about? I’ve never been here before in my life. Don’t play dumb.It’s not an act, Ryoko! She really is quite stupid!  And when I do, you *will* tell me where he is. But right now… My mission is to take that data unit back with me. Now hand it over. Ryoko Shinonome. You’re being used… There’s a reason they want you to find me. It’s to prevent you all from seeing the logs… and uncovering the truth. …I don’t care about that. Even the logs about you… and Tetsuya Ida? Oh right, those. Listen, Ryoko, you might actually be better off not watching those.   Out of my way.  Despite the extremely heavy voice filter over BJ’s lines, this one is really well-delivered. It’s like, the only time you ever hear any real emotion in BJ’s voice. Dude’s extremely worried for Natsuno right now.       Where… am I again? ……             With the way things are… it’s looking pretty grim for me. I can’t go home…   Oh hey, we can do Yuki’s next scene now.   And that final Yuki scene unlocks our final Natsuno scene. Nice. Arist fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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I appreciate that you changed the picture you're using for Natsuno speaking, nice touch.
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Arist posted:
Essentially yeah - he doesn't even say Onishi the Ogre, just that bad kids call him OniHei. The kanji used for writing the Oni part there is changed to the ogre one but it's not emphasised in audio*. * extra detail: Onishi is written here with two kanji pronounced 'o' and 'nishi', so you can't split off the 'oni' without changing the kanji anyway. Between that and the context this presumably makes the pun sufficiently obvious, particularly to a native speaker.
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 Before we begin here, something worth pointing out…             Literally every single protagonist is currently locked.   Let’s finish off Nenji’s story. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?   Chapter 83: Nenji Ogata 8 (FINAL)      Still, though…  Music: RESOLUTION (Kazuki Higashihara)    ……   Just wait right here a sec. Oh, sure… Aww, Nenji isn’t mistreating the Tomi simulacrum anymore   Consider Sentinel No. 10 (That big robot… well, the “Sentinel”… If I could just pilot that thing… If this crazy loop does eventually become reality… Maybe I could at least beat down a couple kaiju…) Time to walk with intent.  There he is!  Wh-What’s wrong? Okino’s here… Looks like it worked.   Can’t run this time.  ……          Not Kamazumi, that’s for sure…     ……He’s been shot by magic, Nenji. Obviously. Can’t move, huh…     Music: KAIJU (Kazuki Higashihara)     Or we won’t be catchin’ the train to school again anytime soon…  You’re out too?  Our timing sucks, huh? We hit our operating limits at the same time. What about the others…? They’re not doing great… Even Miura-kun… Miura… No. 19, right? Yeah. Okay… I’m gonna call my Sentinel again…    Sorry… I’m shifting out.  Everything’s falling apart… I let down our defensive line… Please…  Let us handle the rest. I’ve already hit my operating limit… I’ll try to get back in the fray as soon as I’m combat-ready. Natsuno-san, I’ll fight your share as well. So you don’t have to push yourself so hard…  …I always worry about you. With that, Miura disconnects.  No! Your Sentinel’s already taken a beating. I’ll handle this. Didn’t you just dismount? You’re already at your limit!  *sigh*   Music: To the Final Battle (Yoshimi Kudo)  Kinda weird that Megumi appears to have shot him in the ankle, but okay.               And so, Nenji is the first pilot whose story we finish. Nenji’s story has a very cool setup, but personally, it’s a little too sequestered from everyone else and not terribly consequential. It’s one of the more obvious victims of time and budget cuts, especially since most of it takes place in one location. Still, he’s a great character.  We add a pink romantic link between Tomi and Nenji. Finally, am I right?  And there’s the board. Kind of hankering for some more 2188 stuff so I can put some real meat on that section.
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I believe Nenji was shot as a child by Morimura, wasn't he? She probably shot him in the ankle to not just "Murder" a child.
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That segment answered nothing at all. This game 
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I really love the dramatic moment of Nenji straightening up from his constant slouch to deliver his confession, it's so drat good as a payoff for his story thread. Congratulations on finishing one character!
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Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto) Chapter 84: Destruction 9 We need to do more Destruction. Sorry, folks.  Time for Area 2, Battle 6.  For this battle, we need Hijiyama and Miura, and to clear in 50 seconds. Plenty of Drum Mines will also spawn.  We upgrade our Meta-System by purchasing an additional Meta-Skill Use, as well as the following Meta Skills: Heal Team EP (heals 30% EP for every pilot), Heal Team HP (same, but HP), and Team Barrier (shields everyone for 10 seconds). I also increase the score multiplier from 3x to 4x.  For Shu, I upgrade Shield Matrix from +0 to +4, Interceptors from +2 to +5, Arm-Mounted Pulse Lasers from +1 to +4, Multi-Lock Missiles from +2 to +5, and I also purchase Arm-Mounted Convergent Lasers and Leg Spike and upgrade both of those to +3.  For Ryoko, I upgrade the Guardian from +1 to +3, and Shield Emitter from +2 to +3.  Hijiyama gets Demolisher Blade upgraded from +2 to +4.  All right, let’s roll. Music: (LYSINE) (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)      I-I’m fine! Everyone else is doing their best, so I can keep going…  You need to know when to use your support units… The Guardian types are especially important. They spike the D-forces’ threat identification signals. It makes them think it’s a high-priority target. They can draw attention away from us as a decoy unit. That can distract the enemy away from us *and* the terminals.  Though it tends to draw their attention instead of diverting it. It can be a risky move.   Video: Destruction Wave 2-6 Easy.      …Actually, what *do* we know about this self-defense mechanism?   But the defense functions refuse to respond when the terminals are under kaiju attack. The mainframe would go down without even noticing it was compromised. …So when it comes to the kaiju, the system’s paralyzed? That’s one way to put it. And Operation Aegis is about covering for that weakness. The Deimos attacks open up vulnerabilities so they can attack the terminals. We exploit those same vulnerabilities with some low-grade hacking, to provoke the terminal’s security… And trigger the defenses ourselves. The Aegis system activates, and the terminal locks out the kaiju intrusion. If the threat of the Deimos is too subtle for detection, then we simply present a more obvious one.Uh, yeah. “Subtle.”  Familiar shenanigans. Isn’t that why they used to call you a no-account rascal…? At any rate, that’s why we can’t activate it until the D-forces are close enough to the terminals.Well, it’s nice to find out what Aegis actually is, finally.    Hijiyama’s Lone Wolf skill increases his Attack further the fewer members are on the strike team.  Juro’s Never Again increases his Attack when the Terminal defense rate is 40% or lower. Not very good at all, that one.  Shu Amiguchi’s Easily Bored increases the power of an armament if he hasn’t used it previously in the battle.       Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)  Let’s move right on to the next fight.  We need Juro and Megumi for this one. This team should work. Not even gonna upgrade first! Music: (LYSINE) (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)      I just finished an analysis of the D-Code’s most recent changes… It looks like they’ve really souped up their missile weaponry. More improvements… I suppose that’s proof the Sentinels have them rattled, at least. That’s not all. We’ve got ground-piercing missiles on the field now… Those units are probably gunning for the terminals. You’ll need Sentinels who can work on anti-air defense. If you can’t shoot them down, this’ll get ugly. If it comes down to it, I can be the decoy. Flying bombs aren’t enough to bring me down…   Video: Destruction Wave 2-7 That one was a little hairy, honestly.      The 4th-generation’s flare torpedoes can take out missiles as well.    You sure you’re not Juro Izumi in there? I’m sure. But I know him, and I know what we’re up against.    Ei doesn’t need to remember the basics of CQC, because he’s a specialist. The description of CQC Specialist reads, “Close quarter attacks do more damage the closer the kaiju are.” Seems… rather redundant. Let’s just treat that as a generic increase for melee armament damage, because I have no idea how to parse it otherwise.  Megumi’s Used to Loneliness skill increases all her stats when no allies are near her. Good, but Megumi’s pretty fragile so we’re not likely to extend her far into the action.  Yep, all that damage Shu took killed our chances of an S-rank there. Though we did take some terminal damage as well. Darn.    Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)  Now for 2-8.  We’re going to increase Nenji’s Generator parameter up to +5. costing quite a lot of Meta-Chips.  We’re also going to unlock Natsuno’s Missile Rain and upgrade it to +3, which slightly increases the power and number of missiles.  Next, we unlock Tomi’s Super Large Missile and upgrade it to +4, which increases its power and area of effect by quite a lot.  Then, increase Tomi’s Generator to +2. Generator’s good to invest in because EP, Attack, and EP recovery are all vital.  Next, upgrade Megumi’s Interceptors from +3 to +5, and her Arm-Mounted Pulse Lasers from +2 to +4.  Finally, unlock Jammer Rocket Launchers for Iori and upgrade them to +4.  That should be good. Let’s deploy. After all, it’s not like there’s anything I forgot to che—  Oh goddammit. Well, I already completed the wave, let’s see how it went…   Ryoko’s Make Them Pay (I’ll make them pay, I’ll make them all pay…) increases her Attack, WT recovery, and move speed for a short time after she takes a certain amount of damage.  Iori’s At His Side increases all her stats if Ei is also in the strike team. Also, jeez, we’re at Level 25 for Iori already?     So, I’ll show that one again, despite the S-Rank. I’d prefer the clear I make the video of be the one that follows the bonus objectives. Unfortunately, our current available lineup is looking a little thin, so I’m going to run a different operation in the interim to get some more people off Brain Overload. We never got an S-Rank on Wave 2-5, so let’s try that one again.   Juro upgrades his Sentry Gun from +5 to +6, his Guardian from +1 to +4, and unlocks the Jammer Rocket Launchers, which he upgrades to +3.  Juro also upgrades his Generator to +3.  Miura upgrades his Generator to +2.  As does Shu.  Yuki upgrades her Leg Spike from +4 to +6. Each upgrade of Leg Spike also increases her maximum movement range, so that’s even more potential damage from Brawling Prodigy.  This should be simple.  Nenji’s Don’t Mess With Me automatically counterattacks all nearby kaiju after he takes a certain amount of damage.  Unfortunately, we do even worse than last time, poo poo. Well, let’s just move on for now.  We unlock Miura’s Main Battery Mega Railgun, EMP Stunner, and Anti-Air Bombardment, then upgrade literally everything Miura has equipped to +3. That’s going to be the extent of our upgrading for this run.  Only 3rd- and 4th-generation pilots this time, eh? I can make that work. Music: (LYSINE) (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)      I know that one. It’s another of those huge carriers…  No… It’s similar, but we haven’t seen this one. Probably a new model of the Terra Carrier…     Video: Destruction Wave 2-8 God, I send out so many Interceptors in this one.     No sign of any other Deimos signatures… Guess we’ve got a moment to catch our breath.   There’s rubble everywhere down on the ground. I just tripped…  Geez, you’re shakin’ like a leaf. Lemme see it… Ah, looks like a scrape. Gimme your hand… Man, yours are so soft. Oh… Takamiya-san…Uh. Careful next time. Okay? Wait, does that mean…? But I didn’t think I was… I mean, what if… Hell yeah, everyone in this game is bi.  I, uh… I-It’s not like that! I’m not cheating! Ei-kun’s the only one I need!   Where the heck did *that* come from…?  Oh, hey, Natsuno’s the MVP! And by a pretty wide margin, too! That’s… honestly somewhat surprising. Natsuno is actually considered maybe the worst pilot in the game. The third-generation Sentinels aren’t terribly strong by themselves and Natsuno’s the only one to not get Super Large Missile, which we have not seen used yet.  Literally all of our pilots reached the threshold for a new skill here. Natsuno gained The War of the Worlds, which increases her Attack significantly if a Hi-Quad is near, heh.  Miura gets Soldier, Guardian, Demon, which emits a powerful localized shockwave whenever his Sentinel is destroyed. Very situational.  Shu gets Pressure’s On, which gives him a high chance to dodge attacks when there are a lot of kaiju nearby.  Yuki gets I Can Take You All!, which increases her Attack and Defense when a lot of kaiju are nearby.  Gouto gets Buried Emotion, which is like Miura’s Big Brother—it increases all of Gouto’s stats if Chihiro contacts the team.  Finally, Megumi gets Hidden Girl Power, which activates after Megumi defends and causes all male pilots to recover a small amount of EP, while the female pilots recover a small amount of HP.     Music: Voyage To Tomorrow (Hitoshi Sakimoto)  Well, that’s a lot of Mystery Points, so the rest of this update is just going to be unlocking a bunch of Mystery Files. Sounds riveting.                     I’m sorry, what? Yuki put a loving steel plate in her school bag!? Clearly so she can hit people with it, but… holy poo poo!       gently caress yeah, finishing on the League of Darkness. Arist fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Nov 14, 2022 |
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Arist posted:
Okino, sweety, I think you meant suped.
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That's the way they spelled it in the game! Not my fault!
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Look Okino knows better than anyone that the route to Hiyijima's heart AND brain are through his stomach
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Okino, sweety, I think you meant suped. Nope, that's the correct spelling. Apparently it comes from the practise of giving racehorses performance-enhancing drugs (referred to as soup) to make them run faster.
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Help, I'm all hosed up on borscht.
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I might be reaching here, I think that Valkyrie drink has a symbol from Odin Sphere on it as its logo.
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Didn't even occur to me that they were referencing that, but they absolutely are.
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I was rereading Chapter 76 because I'm working on the chapter summaries for the second post and I noticed that I just completely botched the ordering of quite a few of the screenshots. I just fixed it, but it was broken for two full months, lmao. e: Anyway, I'm pretty busy at the moment but update tomorrow hopefully.
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You were just being faithful to the format of the story.
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   Chapter 85: Juro Kurabe 8 Back to Juro. Music: Head In The Clouds (Rikako Watanabe)    Let’s go home.“Shiba” is still trying to play everything off, I see.  We never actually Consider-ed “Tsukasa Okino” in the last Juro update because I didn’t want to break up the flow of the conversation with Ryoko, so let’s do it now. Consider Tsukasa Okino  (That guy in my dream… He called himself Tsukasa Okino. I feel like we’ve met somewhere before…) Also just as a reminder, if we move over to the right side of the room, Tomi and Miwako will have a brief conversation about where Tomi is headed. Let’s ignore that for now, though.  Instead, let’s have the same conversation with Shiba. The conversation is generally identical to the one in the last Juro update with one exception: Use Juro Izumi on Kyuta Shiba We can get some new dialogue by using “Juro Izumi” again with the new context Ryoko gave us.  This isn’t about my lost memories, is it? You’re not trying to restore them. You’re giving me someone else’s. What are you talking about? They’re Juro’s memories. In other words… yours? The *other* Juro Izumi… ……  At this point… See ya! Bye! Tomi will leave automatically. This is because we can’t leave the classroom until Shiba disappears, and Tomi needs to be gone for Nenji to miss her out in the hallway.  We can’t have you causing a scene here. Your memory needs to be wiped clean. Music: STAGNATION (Yoshimi Kudo)  Shiba disappears again.    Well, let’s grab our bag and head out.    Are you looking for someone, Ogata-kun? Yo, Kurabe. Sure am. Tomi Kisaragi. You seen her? Can’t expect you to know.    Running won’t change a thing. If we try to make our way outside again, Juro will reject that option once more. Think, think… Who might know something about this?Music: Who D-Unit (Yoshimi Kudo) Fuyusaka-san’s absent. What about Yakushiji? However…  We soon find ourselves cornered.    And with a dramatic scare chord, we find ourselves launched back to character selection. No matter, let’s re-enter. Music: Head In The Clouds (Rikako Watanabe)  You’re meeting up at the same place again? Pretty much, yeah. See ya! Bye!One thing to note here: while Tomi will leave as in the previous update’s version of this scene, Miwako will stay in the classroom.  Let’s confront Shiba again.  Yadda yadda, we get it… Music: STAGNATION (Yoshimi Kudo)  This time, let’s talk to Miwako since she’s still here.   Unfortunately, Shiba arrives again to thwart us before we get the chance.   Clearly this isn’t working. Let’s talk to Miwako first this time, not alerting Shiba to the fact that we know about him until we actually need to leave the classroom. Music: Head In The Clouds (Rikako Watanabe)   Do you have a minute?Use Tomi Kisaragi on Miwako Sawatari Let’s find out where Tomi is going, just for Nenji’s sake.  Usami-chan? Where does she always go? Why do you ask? Ogata-kun was looking for her.  We’re gonna break Miwako’s poor shipper brain with this gossip fodder. So do you know? She goes to Tokisaka Shrine. I think she’s waiting for someone there. Is that the one that’s supposedly haunted? ……   Ugh, I can’t remember.  The person she’s meeting is a boy, so… Oh no…  With that, Miwako leaves. Consider Tokisaka Shrine (They say the shrine by our school is haunted by ghosts. Kisaragi-san’s told me a bit about it. She seems interested in the shrine for some reason.) Confront Shiba again so we can leave…  Music: STAGNATION (Yoshimi Kudo)   And quickly make our exit.  Back in the hallway, let’s directly disobey Miwako’s plainly stated wishes and tell Nenji that his crush is going out with someone else. Use Tokisaka Shrine on Nenji Ogata  I heard she went to Tokisaka Shrine. Huh? For real?  There’s something I want to check.     I think I saw something. The memories are starting to come back… But I can’t remember any specifics. Music: Bad Omen (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)   You…   ‘Cause I sure as hell do. I see how it is.    Aren’t we here to look for Kisaragi-san? Meh…  Don’t have time for this. What? Sorry to disappoint. We’ll dance some other time. And that’s your decision to make, huh? Selfish bastard. The hell are you doing here, anyways? What happened to him? But according to her… Kisaragi-san’s been going out to meet some guy lately. Just the two of ‘em!?Theeeeeeere we go.  What, you know him? Not exactly… (But it’s probably the same person…) Got a feelin’ I know where they went, too. Eh… She mentioned somethin’ about it. By the way… Do you know how to work this time travel business? Uh… Oh. You don’t know either? …… …… While these two idiots are having an ellipses-off, Juro wanders over to the right a bit…    Oh yeah! I carried something over to the dumpster.   Well, let’s just open up this trash receptacle and take a peek insi— Music: Deafening Silence (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)   I’m sorry, what?       …Oh dear. But this thing’s a robot. It’s… Tamao-san… Why? Why does it look like her? Tamao? …Tamao Kurabe. Wait, what? My grandma?  This is…    I finally got my hands on that movie. Now I just need to get home and watch it. Suddenly, there’s a flash of light and a strange noise like a phaser firing.  Music: 466f756e64205521 (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)  It sounded like that because that’s exactly what it was!  I should never have let you out of the underground.  If only I hadn’t spared you. I won’t let anyone interfere with my escape. You must think you’re handling this situation well. But Miura is well aware… I doubt it. The reason he deleted your memories at school… was to hide the log from you. ……        And because Juro’s kind of a dip who doesn’t know when to leave well enough alone, he immediately decides to involve himself with what must appear to him to be a loving murder scene.    That’s odd. If that’s the case, then… Who was talking to him? The android suddenly opens its eyes and leans forward…  Ah!Music: Emotional Storm (Yoshimi Kudo)  Or would you like your skull to be crushed? This body will not last for much longer. I approximate… about 5 minutes. But that should be plenty. I need only enter your nanomachines. I thought I was done for… But it seems today’s my lucky day.     Music: ?????    Did you forget your best buddy?   Ngh… Yeah… Sorry. I remember now. You’re… Shiba-kun…     I was attacked! I need to call the police!  Huh? Are you telling me this doll attacked you? Where’d you get that thing, anyway?  What if it causes a car accident? You’d be in deep poo poo, man. Er… Yeah, you’re right.  …… Wait… Something’s just…   Just pick it up already. Um… All right.  Wait a minute… how long was the android in that dumpster? How often do they empty those things?  And so we discover the start of Juro and Shiba’s “friendship.”     Yet another scene locked behind Destruction 2-10. 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This particular scene is very good both for the Ogata/Hijiyama moment (and their single shared brain cell) and for filling in a significant gap in 426's timeline. Thanks for capturing that particular moment as a gif too, it went by too fast for me to notice when I was playing!
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   Chapter 86: Ryoko Shinonome 7 Music: Just Because (Composer: Azusa Chiba, Arranger: Rikako Watanabe)     Yes. In fact, Ryoko knows where she is so well that she’s just going to immediately bounce. Music: The Plot Thickens (Rikako Watanabe)       Use Run Away on Tomi Kisaragi This is the last time we’ll ever need to flee from Gouto, if I remember correctly. Can’t believe he’s still falling for this.  This time, we need to head left again.    Ryoko’s head is pounding.      It’s me, Shu Amiguchi. Amiguchi… I don’t know you.Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Senpai…  (Why does he seem so familiar?) You should probably go to the nurse’s office. I’m fine. I just need to take my pills. It’ll go away then…Ryoko’s head is pounding. Use Pills     ……   I guess they’re done selling.  My head… It hurts…Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Let’s take our pills before we go any further. Consider Pills    (That was the last of them… I need to get more pills. Before it gets worse… The nurse’s office should have some.) It’s possible for us to leave this area now and head to the nurse’s office now that the “Out of Pills” flag has been raised, but that would be completely pointless as our objective is here. Let’s just talk to Yuki.  Music: Something’s Fishy (Kikuchi Yukinori)  What are you doing? What? For me? Tch… Well, this is going much worse than I anticipated. I’m an undercover agent for the SIU too. Did you forget that already? Sorry, undercover agent? Oh, right. Ida. Haven’t heard from him in a while. That’s why you’ve been forced into being a spy for him? Four-eyes? …Tetsuya Ida, from the Special Investigations Unit. *gasp* Mr. Ida. But why would he…  What about when we shifted back here, in the science room? Can you… remind me?    Music: Hard Pill to Swallow (Kikuchi Yukinori)     The gate in the science room. Amiguchi’s not here. poo poo, we left him…   Am I just being used? Because if that’s what you want… Then I don’t care.  But… You having feelings for another girl… I can’t accept that.Uhhhhhhhhh… This got pretty weird.  You were just going to throw us aside, like nothing. All so you could have a do-over. With *her*.  This is all a big misunderstanding. Ever since I saw the recordings from the lab… I can’t take it. *shocked gasp* You need to take your pills and calm down.   Uh, holy poo poo!    Oh god, she had a smile on her face as she did it, that’s stone loving cold. Music: A Cruel Thesis (Yoshimi Kudo)  *pained wince*   Ryoko’s head is pounding. Yep. Then you booked it outta there. Anyways, four-eyes wasn’t budging. I had no choice but to call in the black suits. Is Mr. Ida… Is he okay?Ryoko’s head is pounding. How would I know? I haven’t had any contact with him since.  …… I couldn’t have… Well, it’s hard to imagine he’s okay after that. *wince* Might even be dead…  Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Why’d you do it? I saw… a recording… A recording of what?    No more… I don’t want to… Ryoko’s head is pounding.  Time to force it anyway!       Okay, log 3214. And the next one is… …… Research on AI? …! The data’s gone.    Anything more recent than that has been deleted… Music: Metal Demon (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)   Fun little moment here playing with the VN/adventure game format: there’s obviously no mechanic for shooting in these segments, so instead Ryoko pulls out her phaser and a prompt appears above her own head, allowing you to interact with it and shoot the android.   Oh no, another one!   It’s dispatched just as easily.   Never gonna get over the way people hold guns like this.  Music: Cognitive Dissonance (Rikako Watanabe) They shouldn’t have been able to get in. I locked the passageway door behind me. Maybe there’s something on there.  If we first check the logs again, we’ll get this interaction:  I won’t find anything no matter how hard I look.Use Surveillance Footage  Found it. Hm. Morimura and Renya Gouto have been here a few times. So they’re the ones that opened the passageway. Maybe if I keep going back through the footage… I’ll find out who deleted the logs.  Music: Track Down (Mitsuhiro Kaneda)    The immobile android shell “wakes up,” this time speaking with a distinctly female voice.  I apologize for having to use this body. I did not anticipate that 426 would take yours from you.So then the consciousness inside the android must be…  I’m sorry. You made that body… just for me. No, I’m the one who let my guard down. I’ll make you another, right away. You should make bodies for the others instead of me. Yes, well, unfortunately… They no longer need bodies. Because of the Sentinels? So you’re aware. You’re going to trick the UFO into thinking it’s being controlled by the compatible. By putting our bodyless friends into the Sentinels. That’s right. Although, I am still unsure how successful we will be. The UFO is not easily deceived. Then put me into a Sentinel, too. If you’re discovered, you’ll be removed as a foreign entity. It’s too risky. Miura and Hijiyama can handle it. They lived as humans in an era of war anyway. Ida-kun… Look at me. I’m not Tomi Kisaragi anymore. But if I transfer you into this world’s Tomi Kisaragi… Everything will be back to normal. Still going on about that plan, eh? My research has been progressing. You’ll be able to come back. No… Absolutely not. How could you even consider it? She’s still me. Sacrificing someone so I can take their place… I could never forgive you for that, Ida-kun. Tomi… Please. Put me into a Sentinel. …… I’ll think about it. Anyway, I need to make some adjustments. I’m going to shut off the power for now. The android shuts down.   I don’t care who has to die for it. It’s just as he said. If I had just put her in another body from the start… None of this would have happened. ……  …… No…Music: Cognitive Dissonance (Rikako Watanabe)  From… that day. Then I can transfer her data into the new Tomi Kisaragi. She’d never have to know. We just need to reset things. It’ll all be better that way…     So, not only was Ida trying to “reset the world” so he could bring back Tomi Kisaragi without her knowing that he sacrificed the “original” Tomi to do it, Ryoko found out and loving killed him for it. Gnarly stuff, there.  Another event locked behind Destruction 2-10!? Geez. Arist fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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I never noticed that smile of hers whilst shooting Ida.
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I think that maybe Destruction 2-10 is basically a test of your tolerance of anime. How much anime can you can take?
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   Looks like I'm gonna need to buy the Switch version and play the game a THIRD time for this LP!
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Like you're any stranger to that.
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   Chapter 87: Keitaro Miura 7 Music: LONER (Azusa Chiba)   Consider Ei Sekigahara  (No point in trying to make sense out of his story. It’s still too early to say anything for sure. …But a scout unit from the future? And it possesses my consciousness?)Consider Beejay (The footage he showed us is allegedly from the future. If it’s real, then how am I still alive 200 years from now? …… All I know for certain is that it’s no ordinary scout unit.)Consider Natsuno Minami (Natsuno-san… …… Get it together, Keitaro. She certainly is quite… yes. I admit, she’s bright, cheerful… attractive. B-But right now… I have more urgent matters to tend to.)Consider Chihiro (Chihiro… She was acting like a completely different person. Design engineer… Controlling the system… What was she talking about? …… Chihiro…)Consider Chihiro Yes, we can Consider Chihiro again here.  (Chihiro… Morimura? She’s the original Chihiro? Is there no going back to the way she used to be? …… Chihiro…)Consider Natsuno Minami We can also re-Consider Natsuno Minami, now that we’ve Consider-ed Chihiro.  (I’m not sure why… but I really want to hear her voice right now. Could she still be at school?        Miura-kun… Music: The Plot Thickens (Rikako Watanabe) BJ’s gone. I’m pretty sure he’s lost somewhere by himself. If he’s caught, we’ll never see him again…  Let’s split up and find him. O-Okay. He couldn’t have gone too far. Maybe he’s inside one of the school buildings. Okay, then you search the buildings. I’ll search the campus perimeter. Okay, I’m on it! Thanks!      It went back behind the north school building. Think it belongs to the radio club? It was all boxy and weird-shaped. Didn’t look like a helicopter to me.  Behind the north building… That’s where the old school building is.     Miura is more familiar with what a helicopter sounds like than I was expecting.    Natsuno-san’s worried about you. Keitaro Miura… I’ve been scanning for you from overhead. ……  I’ve been looking for you, too. Use Ei Sekigahara on BJ   …… That’s correct.Music: STAGNATION (Yoshimi Kudo)    …Nothing I hear should surprise me anymore.No, Miura! Don’t! Those are the words of cursed power! You’re invoking the ancient ritual that’s going to cause the next absurd plot twist! …… Use BJ on BJ  When the world was destroyed… I died. …… I had to take your place and fight in the Sentinel. In order to do this, I was resurrected… as an AI.Use Sentinel on BJ  That’s what you’re looking for, right? Correct. Then how did your AI end up in this scout unit? …There was a malfunction in the Sentinel. However, 72% of me… is still locked inside the Sentinel. That you’re… me? We didn’t get a chance to meet in the previous world. Awwwwww… It’s best that she doesn’t know.Use Time Travel on BJ  What’s going to happen? Oh, here it comes! Miura, you’ve doomed us all, you stupid bastard! …Past events? Time is relative. …Oh noooooooooooooo!  Jesus loving christ, game But… you’re Keitaro Miura from the future, right? I’m an entity that used to be Miura… before you. I can now access all logs. So the rest of the footage is available… Promise me… Hm? Before the final invasion begins… you’ll research the logs and figure out a solution.  Chihiro’s… plan? Promise me. Why are you asking me this? Because…  What the gently caress!?  Oh, great, more of this 2188 nonsense, just what the doctor ordered!  Is all going as planned? All issues have been resolved on my end. Four sectors are ready for the final phase. The remaining one is at roughly 70%. Sectors? Their structures are similar to these colonies. So that’s what I’ve been calling them. So we’ll have five Sectors, then. I’ve chosen not to divide them based on orbital positions. Instead, I’ve separated them by historical eras. I’ve been meaning to ask. Why don’t we create a residential district of the present day? The decision was made to start over… from a time before the world took such a terrible turn. Before the nanomachine incidents? …Perhaps humanity tasted the fruit of knowledge too early. When it was being decided how far we should go back… we couldn’t come to an agreement. So we ultimately settled on preparing residential districts by era. I’ve always wanted to live in the 20th century before the war… So this works out perfectly.Yeah Miura, we know, you’re very strange. However, some resources of the era are quite old. Accurately reproducing them might pose a difficulty. I don’t think I can do it with confidence. That’s fine. As long as our civilization survives… I’ll be happy. Once it’s completed, just one district will be the size of a city. It’ll have a bustling population of 1.2 million people. We have more residential areas than we originally planned. Ms. Kurabe’s hands are going to be awfully full. I’m sure everything will be finished on time. I have to get back to work. Understood.  …God dammit, I hate this loving game sometimes. Well, let’s go see what the damage is.  Morimura mentioned something about preserving civilization… seems like things on Earth are in a bad way.     Oh, now the “Time Travel” file is useful, when we actually know it isn’t time travel!        Here’s all the Sectors, in case you were still confused about which one is which.  If we head over to the Event Archive, an aspect of Analysis I’ve shamefully been neglecting up to this point because I was worried about the presentation spoiling things, we’ll notice something new…  Why, now that we know that time travel is complete bullshit, they’ve added a handy-dandy timeline tracker to each event in the game showing which Sector it takes place in! That’s nice!  All of the non-2188 events (for obvious reasons) now display that big square on the timeline showing the respective Sector. Pretty much the entire reason I didn’t show much of the Event Archive previously was because of potential spoiling of the 2188 stuff being first in the timeline. Now, granted, when you actually play the game it’s just kind of a weird curiosity that that stuff is all seemingly out of order (and also that none of the playable characters are listed in the “appearances by” section of 2188 stuff) because you’re presumably playing it over a matter of days or weeks where you can just constantly absorb new information and push it aside. However, in the context of an LP where there’s just a lot more time to ruminate between story beats, I thought it would be a lot more obvious what was going on there, so I intentionally avoided showing that. Maybe I’ll show the Event Archive more in the future, but unless you guys really want a breakdown of the general timeline so far, I kind of doubt it (especially because I already have a full timeline breakdown planned for when the LP is finished).  Miura’s locked, no surprise there.  But Hijiyama is finally open!  But it’s of course time for more board updates now! We never put Ryoko’s loving stone-cold murder of Ida on the board, so let’s label that one with purple/violet/lavender/what-have-you.    We also add “time travel is impossible,” “Sectors made to recreate Earth,” “not the future, but the past,” and “civilization on Earth is dying?” to the 2188 segment of the board.  And here’s the whole thing so far.
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So, the Switch version of 13 Sentinels is out with some fairly notable changes to the Destruction mode in particular. I've decided I won't be covering these changes, at least not immediately, because it would just confuse things. I'll probably just relegate that stuff to postgame updates, if that's all right.
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I absolutely love this game. Everything is properly foreshadowed, so you will spot some twists but realistically not all of them. The ones you see, you feel like a genius. The ones you don't  .I spotted that the time travel wasn't fairly early because it was inconsistently consistent (40 years fixed jumps except when they suddenly weren't) and calling the different eras "sector" was not coherent either. Plenty of poo poo I didn't see coming.
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Yeah, I suspected our "time travel" wasn't all it seemed, but I don't have the capacity to connect the dots on what that actually means for everyone involved. I'm just here for the ride. It probably helps that I played ZTD and thus am fully primed for out-of-order Time Shenanigans. Go on, game. You can't hurt me. Show me what you got.
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Yeah, even if a recent update implied otherwise this twist was probably easy to see coming in LP format, so trying to obfuscate it a bit makes sense since it recontextualizes the whole story so far.Arist posted:(especially because I already have a full timeline breakdown planned for when the LP is finished). I'd been thinking of binging past updates to try and form a coherent timeline in my head so my first thought when I saw this was "oh thank god". Then I realized that, after the last twist, there really isn't much room for confusion about the order of events anymore and even my dumb rear end can probably take notes and keep it all together. I mean, I'm still thankful you're gonna do it to make that easier on me , I'm just saying it's surprising how much this twist does to help make sense of the story.Man, what a narrative.
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You know why Miura has that hellish burning background on his selection screen? Because it depicts the state of your goddamn mind every time you advance his story! Seriously though talking about dropping bombs. I also like the idea that teleportation is no problem compared to time travel. And I just noticed the 5 sectors are laid out like a giant Sakura blossom.
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