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Szurumbur posted:How does any of you know that characters not have pants, are there upskirts shots or something In America, pants are trousers.
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Feinne posted:AT2 had some, there was that dude who was gay for Croix, the outcome for Luca and Cloche in Mir's ending, and of course the true antagonists of the whole shebang. I mean if you're also counting women then you pretty much have to throw in Akane and Finnel from AT3 as well. They even intertwined their fingers while blushing when they were reunited in the ending, in anime girl terms that's like one step short of getting married.
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May 1, 2015 07:17
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Feinne posted:This character sang EXEC_Z. Richa. Or Richaryosha, if we're being fancy. quote:Akane had a cute little companion in Ar Tonelico Qoga. What was its name, and what sort of thing was it? It was named Kukuro, and it was an Antibody: judging by its appearance, it's presumably related to the Doll-type antibodies.
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Jun 3, 2015 03:20
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I can overlook most of the problems other people have with the game so far, but I'm starting to get more than a little tired of the way the antagonists escape and/or continue with their plans immediately after the PCs defeat them in combat, every single time. Between that and the fact that we're repeatedly getting our asses kicked plotwise it's just not doing a great job of selling the idea that we're achieving anything -- at most we're staving off the worst possible outcome, and occasionally we don't even manage that.
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Jun 10, 2015 17:37
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Feinne posted:The name of the incarnation of the planet encountered at its core. Ciela. Although Ciela's made up of a bunch of Wills of the Planet that have their own names that I can't remember without looking them up.
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Jul 3, 2015 09:00
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Blaze Dragon posted:Yeah seriously. The moment Cosal appeared, I fully expected things to get much worse, with Cosal agreeing to just kill Delta and Cass there no matter what. It was a very nice surprise to see that he actually has some common sense and a sense of fairness. As Feinne has pointed out before, it's not like Gust is above openly mocking the kind of people who play its games.  Still, it seems like it must be sort of jarring to actually play through parts like this, and at the moment I'm kind of drawing unfavourable mental comparisons between how this game handles its own technical limitations and how Analogue: A Hate Story does. For those who haven't played it, the premise of the game is that you're trying to salvage data logs from a derelict spaceship, but its normal communication systems are all broken, so a shipboard AI is building a crude user interface for you on-the-fly so you can ask for what you want. The limited dialogue choices you're given represent what the character you're interacting with thinks you might want to say, and the game does some pretty clever things with that; I think it works better as a framing device to explain its unavoidably limited interactivity than what Ar nosurge is giving us, at least at the moment. Thuryl fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Jul 7, 2015 12:55
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thetruegentleman posted:Anyway, I have to admit that I really like how the game tries to bond the player with Ion: sure, it doesn't really work for us since its basically pay off for playing Ciel Nosurge, but it's still an interesting way of making the player attached to the heroine. Or rather, it's an interesting way to get the player to think about the nature of love and its relation with reality: more "can you really love a person you never meet" than "can you love a video game character", of course, as I really hope people don't think the latter is possible. Yeah, while the whole dating-a-video-game-character thing is kinda cringeworthy at face value, there are a lot of aspects of this whole subplot that are actually working pretty well for me as a metaphor for online relationships.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:11
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Elric posted:Why don't they just kick Prim's rear end? Well, at the moment she's being remotely controlled by someone from another universe, so it'd (a) be kinda rude and (b) not really fix the core problem.
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Aug 22, 2015 21:00
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I can't help but notice that Delta hasn't been put in an awkward and/or dangerous situation yet this dive, and I'm guessing things aren't going to stay that easy for him. I wonder what the inevitable complication between planting the seeds and successfully rebuilding Casty's sense of self-worth is going to be. Or maybe I'm completely off base and we're already at the traditional end-of-
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Sep 2, 2015 07:46
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:salute: (is there a salute smilie? I recall one, but I can't find it)
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legoman727 posted:Ion is really the shittiest person, god drat. Well, we were warned long before this that the thing she values most is herself. Also in fairness we're on a metaphor-laden voyage into some of the deepest parts of her mind; what we see reflects what she's thinking and feeling, not necessarily what she'd actually do. Nobody else in the series exactly comes off looking flawless in their Dives either. Thuryl fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Feinne posted:I did say quite a while ago that you'd eventually realize Ion's actually kind of an awful fucker who is really quite good at playing on other people's perceptions of her to get what she wants. We should just be glad she is inclined to turn this towards the world's salvation instead of helping Nelo because she'd be way more effective as a villain than any of the chucklefucks we've been up against, entirely because she'd have acted entirely the same as she has except with a sudden but inevitable and crushing betrayal. You know what she reminds me of now that you mention it, is that one DLC personality for Harvy in AT3 that fakes being nice and concerned about everyone's well-being right up until the moment you fight her. Although in fairness to Ion she does seem to genuinely care about other people at least to some extent and she has legitimate concerns about the possibility that Earthes is interdimensionally catfishing her. Thuryl fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Sep 10, 2015 10:14
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FractalSandwich posted:Here? You're right, it's pretty suss. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I'm hoping you're overestimating the amount of fixing we're actually going to do. If there's one message the franchise has been pretty consistent about so far it's that the best thing you can do for someone you care about is to accept them as they are and ultimately if they want to change that's gotta come from them, not you. That's not to say they won't gently caress it up in this game, because the writing's definitely been shaky in places, but I'll be disappointed if they do. Also as has been mentioned before we don't technically know that Earthes is a man.
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Sep 15, 2015 06:03
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FractalSandwich posted:Also, I realise this is a fairly conceited thing for me to say after I just said I don't know anything about Ar Tonelico, but I played Fault Milestone One over the weekend and it's everything I personally could ever want from this kind of game with none of the crude humour. If you're the kind of person to be following this thread, and you don't mind visual novels as a format, and you aren't too fussed if the music isn't as good as in this game, I recommend it very very highly. You can get it on Steam. The sequel, fault milestone two, is 25% off on Steam for about another two hours. Thought you might like to know if you didn't already.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:19
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I was starting to wonder how close we were to the end: I figured we weren't too far off but I didn't know we were this close. Looks like the end boss is gonna be a rematch with Prim and the Maternal Overseer, then. I hope we find out more about what the person controlling Prim's deal is: "random interdimensional rear end in a top hat" would be a sort of disappointing final boss motivation for a franchise that's usually good at those.
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Oct 8, 2015 18:16
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Welp, I was giving this game credit for actually managing a halfway mature depiction of Cass and Delta's relationship and now suddenly they're back to weird bickering. Did the game expect you to craft that last item much earlier than this or did the writers just forget that unresolved sexual tension doesn't really work when the characters are already in a relationship with each other?
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Oct 14, 2015 15:09
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Feinne posted:This song causes humans, Antibodies, and Reyvateils to be merged into Reyvaroids. EXEC_Z. I like how the lyrics to this one are basically all about the singer's motivations for doing what she knows is a terrible idea. Come to think of it, there are quite a few boss songs in the series that are like that. quote:This song can cause a Reyvateil's physical strength and size to greatly increase temporarily. EXEC_CUTYPUMP. quote:This song sealed the Mother Virus. EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY.
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Oct 25, 2015 03:49
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Suddenly I'm feeling pretty okay about my decision to not buy Ar Nosurge+ while it was on sale.
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Apparently the situation was that they realised how bad it was but they had a contractual obligation to localise it so they were kinda stuck.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:39
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Delta and Cass being embarrassed by Kanon being overly solicitous about kids is at least progress over Delta and Cass constantly bickering. The two of them are actually acting like they're in a relationship for once.
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Feb 3, 2016 03:42
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Oh good, so that glitch wasn't just me. I got Luca. Considering my dating history... yeah, that's about right.
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Feb 13, 2016 21:58
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Hey, neat, it gives you different questions based on how you answered the previous ones. This time I got... Bishop Falss. Maybe I should have quit while I was ahead.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:21
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Tarezax posted:Going back through the Ar Tonelico 1 & 2 LPs, it looks like all your Viddler videos are now broken. Yeah, Viddler decided a couple of years ago that it was unwise to compete directly with YouTube and rebranded itself as a paid service hosting interactive multimedia content for businesses, so any LP videos hosted there are long gone.
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UncertainKitten posted:So, I sorta have a recording now. It's not great, but it's not horrible, so I'll post it. Is there a preferred way to post these things 'cuz I've never really done this before. If it's just audio, put it up on tindeck. If you've got video too, youtube.
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