hatty posted:

Its fun, your main attack isn't very impressive but most of the combat is using your telekinesis during your combo and activating whatever power your companions have using your BRAIN LINK. It reminds me of Astral Chain that way where the real fun was activating your demon buddy at the right time to get combos going. Theres a level up system so more variety is definitely possible. Its very flashy with lots of in combat QTEs and mini cutscenes which could get tiresome if they don't add some variety. The MC is named so maybe no character creator? disappointing if so. Code Vein and God Eater got pretty deep discounts after a few months and I would think this will follow that trend, seems like it'd be a fun $40

exquisite tea posted:

I predict that this will be the year of "actually coming in 2022" announcements.

Gaius Marius posted:

Artyom's horror at realizing the Mom he was talking to was offering to prostitute her young son was one of the bleakest things I've read.

Edit:It's nice to see so many people Playing Umineko, It's one of my favorite novels of all time now

Violen posted:

Violen posted:

new pokemon snaps puzzle design can feel like such a trashfire experience depending on a given player's emergent and incidental path through what constitutes some of them lol

theres a request called best frenemies where the description talks about two pokemon who fight a lot but are really good friends with a picture of a specific pincir at the nature park, which is your full set of information. now, you can engineer a heracross over there with another request's worth of work where the steps (of 6 actions that can be the answer to any given step, where taking a picture itself, feeding, bopping, energizing, alerting through scan, or playing music can variably accomplish basically the same thing arbitrarily, such as all 6 being the one specific answer to waking a generically sleeping pokemon in seemingly random shuffle as an example) are to scan at a specific point so another pincir pokes out of a dirt pile, energize a nearby plant to make it vault out of the ground, scan to get its attention to stop it wandering away, then toss some apples on the ground nearby so the heracross you cant see and the scan doesnt identify falls out of a tree. getting a picture of heracross on the ground satisfies its request, though since the description of both these requests feature ambiguous principal subjects and pictures of specifically pincir and are so early you might not have heard or surmised theres only one request per pokemon which the game also never mentions, it might take you quite a while to get that far.

this leads to heracross getting into a sparring match with the pincir photographed in the best frenemies request a ways further in. this match lasts 30+ seconds and at various points photos taken of each at the highlight of an attack, and each going through their 'happy' animations at the end of the match regardless of who you engineer to win by energizing either opponent, can all result in perfect pose scores with unique commentary from professor mirror, the assessor and new oak, and will all satisfy the **** photo categories for either pokemon. experimenting with this interaction extensively, especially since it materially satisfies all the anatomical components suggested by the request, is a complete dead end. the only other way to influence it is to play music to interrupt the fight upon which they'll both again go through their stock happy animations, and walk/fly off.

now i passed on this one after a lot of time spent and figured id leave it to the end bc there are any number of pokemon in the general sphere of this encounter that could equally justifiably be an element to changing it and i didnt feel like putting in a lot more time exhaustively whittling through influences on each to see which might be the secret key. mercifully i inadvertently had the third factor revealed to me just in terms of which pokemon it was while partaking in and reading through some discussion on the game here. i just now went back to put that information into practice. it still took 30 minutes of loving around, because the proper answer at the point you've engineered the fight is to wake up a sylveon sleeping in the background with several other pokemon by energizing it because that's the answer to this particular shuffle of waking up a pokemon, upon which itll run off in the opposite direction to the fight. this is also a good distance away from the fight itself and way out of its line of sight so to speak.

if now, during the fight, you interrupt it with music, instead of going through their happy animations and wandering off, there'll be a pause for several seconds before sylveon emerges from some hilltop weeds and comes to interact with pincir and heracross. now during this interaction which also goes on for about 30 seconds and has several crescendos that qualify as pincir's and heracross's respective **** photo categories and get unique comments from mirror in the evaluation specifically about you getting the perfect timing for these frenemies almost verbatim with more perfect pose scores, none of them on their own will fulfill the request. you specifically need a shot of pincir as the shot's registered focus throwing its head back (one of a few different points in its happy animation that will qualify for a perfect **** pose score when taking place in this scenario), with heracross and sylveon being in the shot in full to register a valuable score for the contextual 'other pokemon' category, and this, and only this, will fulfill this early game request that doesnt even qualify for a reward or a distinct * photo category it's considered so mundane by the game's assessment. it's in the absolute upper bounds of amount of steps attached, their fussiness, their specificity, and the strictness of both the window for what counts and amount of required elements, and has a huge pitfall for the player to waste time with. it's also 4+ minutes into any attempt at learning or presenting anything involved. it's just so emblematic of the worst-case scenario that can come with tackling requests in this game.

and then you move on to another one that has as many steps, is just as tricky to figure out, and just as tricky to execute, but follows a completely logical chain of cause and effect and reward for noticing impact and subsequent consequence, has no detours or else detours that are straightforwardly not the right direction, and has an unambiguous if difficult crescendo to shoot for a snap of if you've been properly following its narrative. and then you move onto another one that's 'i hear this pokemon sleeps at night. can you confirm y/n' so you take a picture of the pokemon sleeping directly in the path of your vehicle w/ 10% of it in frame for an abysmal score of 1.5 thou and a pose score of 200 and it fulfills the request, gives you a new frame, and is the sole qualifying photo for that pokemon's **** photo category whereupon the request giver will go 'ah, the pokemon DOES sleep at night. fascinating'. and then you move on to writing a whiny essay in spoiler tags for a game everyone stopped playing a week and half ago.

and thats my story

actually thats not all my story because i forgot to mention for the uninitiated who are definitely reading all this, you can only get one photo per pokemon per full course run assessed and dont know anything about whether it'll fulfill a request until youve chosen it at the expense of every other one you took that run, unless youre lucky enough that it's the only snap that will qualify for one of that pokemon's star categories since those do get revealed to you before you pick one.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Hmm anything good on the Epic store for this sale

cheetah7071 posted:

I wish it had a good ending

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

Anodyne 2 is a whopping 33% off

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Hmm anything good on the Epic store for this sale

Nate RFB posted:

Good news,

cheetah7071 posted:

oh did ryukishi write a new ending that is good news

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I already got a free copy of that from them!

wuggles posted:

Wait when was Anodyne 2 free on EGS?!?

Violen posted:

i also just spent 45 minutes knocking an owl out of a tree at literally every frame of a course across the several configurations its main character can start from and follow with zero effect so i think it might be time to hang up my hat

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

March 2020

Simone Magus posted:

Are there any games which are awesome but which aren't cool?

Weedle posted:

this june, remember the three E's of video games: elves, eggs, and emotions

mkvltra posted:

What's the egg game

mkvltra posted:

What's the egg game

mkvltra posted:

What's the egg game

cheetah7071 posted:

That ones really absurd. Here's the full solution:

You need to get Meganium to walk behind the tree. At some point, it will pause; this is when you knock Hoothoot out of the tree. This is nontrivial, but making Meganium walk around the back is the hard part. Here's a consistent setup I found. Some steps may not be necessary, but if you do all of them, it definitely works.

Start with Meganium on the right; retry if it starts on the left

Spawn Shaymin

Light the second crystabloom with timing such that its lit before Meganium starts sniffing, but it goes out before Meganium is done sniffing. The timing I used was its tenth front footfall after it begins walking again after Shaymin. The timing isn't very precise, but you really do want a cue to align yourself with.

The actual photo you want is Meganium looking surprised at Hoothoot. In all likelihood, its face will be blocked by the tree lol but if you snap in burst mode, it'll be the only 4*s in the burst.

mkvltra posted:

What's the egg game

mkvltra posted:

What's the egg game

Jay Rust posted:

I read some Berserk back in the day, it had like ten sex scenes but only one of them was consensual sex so I was like, Yeah this is too much for me, this isn’t fun