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nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



We have the power to change the past. Do what is more fun right now (B) and then go back and fix it later.

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nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:


Yuina's successor Mei awaits in Tokimeki Memorial 2's :science: route, peasants.

Looks like a better idea to me. Go for B.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



BlitzBlast posted:

How many resets do you estimate you'll have at the end? At the rate you're going now I'd assume you'll end with around 50, but it sounds like things are going to heat up soon.

We're about 1/4 through the game here (about two thirds of the first school year of three), and the risk of bombs etc. will probably rise the further along we get. So more like 100 I think.
(Anyone taking bets?)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



quote:


MEGUMI HOW DID YOU JUMP PAST SHIORI AND YUINA PLEASE NO
Is she some sort of crazy stalker yandere* whose affection goes up when you ignore her? (Until a point, where she then starts loving you over at every opportunity.)

*) Yeah I know, the term "yandere" hadn't been invented in 1995.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Let's Roll Some Balls, and on the third year do the scavenger thing (since we'll know more girls then!)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Morroque posted:

I really have to say I am genuinely surprised that a game of this order can be considered difficult and actually require employing strategy. My impression of this genre wasn't a terribly high one before; I didn't even think they had any classifiable gameplay at all, and that this game was an early progenitor of that. However, seeing it now in process reminds a lot of Ice Pick Lodge's The Void in many respects, at least as far as concept and gameplay goes.

You might be thinking of the straight Visual Novel, which is basically a novel with illustrations, and most often a few branching paths but not much to keep track of otherwise.
(Often a VN will have a hidden "affection score" or similar for each possible character, which is affected by various choices. At some point you will then be sent down a specific path/route depending on your affection scores, but it's entirely deterministic, and overall such a simple mechanic that you can easily enumerate the possibilities, unlike the Dating Sim where you have multiple choices on each day.)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



For our name, eh B should work enough, but don't really care.
As for other love interests, maybe F and I?

(I assume it doesn't mean "do two more routes" but just to see some scenes with them on the side.)

nielsm fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Jan 6, 2014

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Welcome back!

This actually looks like a wholly different game, somehow, when not trying to pursue the platinum prize.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



For video repair, have you tried using a tool intended for MPEG Transport Streams? I.e. one usually meant to deal with data captured from a digital tv receiver. Those are MPEG-packaged data that may naturally be corrupted due to the over-the-air nature, I think such a program might be able to recover your file.

Also check the size of the file you did end up having, and compare it to the size of other recordings. Does the size approximately match what you'd expect of a recording of the length you did?

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

There's only one more post to go in Tokimeki Memorial 1, so I'm going to try something special and see if it works out. On Thursday night Pacific time, I'll be streaming the last part of this Let's Play, before doing the usual screencap + translation treatment for this thread.

I guess that will be some sort of early morning European time? Crap :(

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Raitzeno posted:

I don't suppose you can just record the stream, so the Eurogoons can watch whenever they wake up?

Personally I don't think I would watch a recording of the stream, I'd mostly be on it for the live-ness.

Just do it at your original planned time, I'm sure anyone who wants to watch can figure something out ;)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



I have to say, I'd rather hoped Yuina would also change her hairdo in the ending, at least for a short while. Eternally having one eye covered is ridiculously dorky and if her ending is about her trying to change, that hair would be one place to begin. I think she'd be quite pretty with both eyes visible.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Now is the time to vote B. Goon-chan's only true love is his games.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



A, because story.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



B for frog.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



B, not because I have anything against frogs, but for the other stuff that happened in that timeline.

So is it some DID thing, or twins, or just loving with us? Will the plot be uncovering the existence of the twins and reliably start dating just one of them, or converging/killing off the DID personalities?
I really hope it isn't DID.

(And which one does Takumi's magic stats cover? Or is that random too?)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

The stream is done, covering all of in-game 1999. Reload count as of right now this moment: 63.

:bang:

Sounds glorious, I may have to watch the recording.

Again almost 5 hours :gonk:

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Waffleman_ posted:

If you can't eat the candy, why bother making it candy? :psyduck:

When the game was invented it was probably the most practical material to make the plate out of, and it just stuck. I imagine.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



ChaosArgate posted:

So if we're looking at the time elapsed in game:

Shiori (at the end of summer break): 8 reloads
Miho (at the end of summer break): 29 reloads

I think we're in for a treat. :allears:

Edit: Shiori's run didn't hit 29 reloads until the second summer break.

So far I've gotten the impression that the Mihos will become easier to manage later on, while on the contrary Shiori became worse as we progressed.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Go for B-ho, seems like a more fun character.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

February 24th, 2002. It is possible to see this event in both the Miho and B-ho routes.

So basically almost at the end of the game? Evil.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



quote:

2/10


2/14
Okay, at first I thought Maho had actually cut her hair there. I guess she did just tie it up, but it still looks like a lot of hair packed in rather little space.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Just go with Mei, for :science:

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Try to stick him with Homura.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Let's see Tokimemo 3, but feel free to make it quick. Don't waste too much time on it if the game is that bad.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

Final Fantasy XIII received a 40/40. Famitsu scores mean zilch, because they have a long and honored tradition of gladhanding popular franchises. A 10/9/9/9 cross review score is an accepted way of Famitsu telling people "you're going to by it anyway, so who cares what score we give it?" Visual novels and similar games tend to hang out in the 33-36 range.

Sounds like they score games on a scale of 30/40 to 40/40.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial 3 - a toxic relationship, sever and seek therapy.

But really, go with one of those alluding to crowdfunding failure.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Voting Green in the hopes of engrish.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Those wondering, Twitch still has the archived stream up for watching, if you have 3 ½ hour to spare. (There is very little reloading going on!)

I'll vote for try to get the proper ending but don't waste yourself doing it.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Cheese Pain posted:

E: ^ beaten!

I'm pretty sure there are some nicknames that are never acceptable and make the characters upset.

On that note, IceHouse01 is hilarious and I'd love to see what happens if you call him 01. I'm assuming he wouldn't be impressed, but since we're not into dating teachers it probably wouldn't hurt if he hated us! :haw:

Serious question: Can the teacher bomb you?

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Make the name 宮井 苧田子, Kimoi Otako.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

Today is my first full day in Japan, and I am posting because I am being a good uncle and standing in this line for the Pokemon Center, a one-month-only store in Ikebukuro that my niece absolutely must get a plush pikachu from before it closes.

This was the line a half hour ago.



Picture appears sideways for me.

If that had been here, I just know at least half the peeps in that queue would be teens in cosplay of some sort. (And none of them would believe that isn't how it happens in Japan.)

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

People at Comiket are generous to a fault once they know you. When the folks at the International Desk found out that Ken's friend Dom had tried and failed to get a t-shirt from the Mix-ism table, they handed me one of the old K-On! shirts and posters that he made a couple of years ago.



This also extends to the larger companies in the industry area, and Baba-shachou was especially generous--when he found out that I listen to I've Sound, he slapped a ticket for the 30-person autograph session in my hand and insisted that I meet Takase Kazuya, the producer for their music. Their bassist was also there, so that was an awesome bonus.

To what extent does I've really still exist? I know their name is on something once in a while (most recently the Sora no Method anime, opening song performed by Larval Stage Planning, wtf name) but at least most of the big vocalist names have gone the way of big labels and lost the "I've Sound" name.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Okay this is barely related to the games at hand, but I figure sheep might know something.
I've recently noticed that Japan seems to use the word "graffiti" (グラフィティー) in a weird way. The regular meaning in European languages is "unauthorized scribbles on walls", but it seems that isn't what Japan uses it for.

Examples:
Sentimental Graffiti (I think you covered this game a bit earlier, perhaps only in stream)
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (saw this game speedrunned on AGDQ earlier this week)
Koufuku Graffiti (manga, anime of it just started)
Porno Graffiti (band, not sure if they still exist)

It seems the meaning applied is more like "teenagers' exploration of their own life/goal in life" which, I guess, can be related to graffiti's role in hip hop culture.


Edit: Someone else asked the same question in ADTRW, and an answer was found.

Outer Science posted:

found the answer by searching for 青春グラフィティ (youth graffiti), it comes from george lucas's "American Graffiti" which is a coming-of-age story lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti

nielsm fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jan 11, 2015

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Haruhi because kansaiben.

You got a wrong image for Haruhi's stationery.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



All those boys are quite tall for being Japanese (except Weatherfield?), but... their weights. They're all underweight. Seriously.

On the other hand maybe they're just afflicted with shoujo manga boys' syndrome, which tends to cause legs to grow unnaturally long.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



FractalSandwich posted:

We'll see. I'm not opposed to the idea, but there's only one other Tokimeki Memorial song I know very well, so unless you want to sing Sunflower with me, I'd have to find something else I like first.

That one might be fun.

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nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



vibratingsheep posted:

I have not updated this thread in two months.

I am sorry.

I hope to bring you some video that will help make up for the absence.

Here's a preview:

https://twitter.com/vibratingsheep/status/702770675014971392

This is taking quite a long time.
Please don't let this go the way of the legendary Sakura Wars thread :ohdear:

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