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Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

So a priest walks into a party...The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd

-A Faint Glitter of Light-

The epilogue installment of Falcom's Trails in the Sky JRPGs is finally out in English. Trails in the Sky the 3rd does away with some major conventions from the first two games. Estelle and Joshua Bright are no longer the main characters. Instead of roaming more-or-less freely around the Liberl Kingdom, The 3rd takes place in a huge linear dungeon much like the Altered Spaces from SC's Chapter 7. There are far fewer surprisingly-intricate backstories for random faceless townsfolk. Sidequests are a thing of the past, and you only ever have one goal: to fight your way through the dungeon and escape.

That must sound like a recipe for disaster, but I'd say The 3rd is the best yet--a wonderful send-off for the Trails in the Sky series and all the characters I've gotten to know and love.

I'm going to assume that anyone reading is already familiar with Trails in the Sky FC and SC, because...well, you kind of need to be if you want to have any bearing on what's going on.

I sure wish every job I had was this easy.

Is 640x480 an okay image size? Are any of my .GIFs too big?

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 21:16 on May 27, 2017

# ¿ May 27, 2017 21:13

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:19

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

baldurk posted:

Switchover is done, DNS propagation seems to be pretty much sorted now although there's always a handful of slow holdouts.

Let me know if something is busted.

It looks like some unicode characters aren't working right in the screenshot tester. ♪ gets turned into a question mark, for example.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2017 13:42

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Looks good! Thank you.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2017 19:54

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

How about this?

Greyarc posted:

What tumult?

It was twenty years ago that villages throughout this land met their ruin, you know.
For that was when the Orthodoxy ordered all roads be blocked to spare the city of Eternia from the approaching plague.
And Everlast Tower and Eternian Central Command that yet stand there in the city? They were once the property of the Crystal Orthodoxy, you know.
Everlast Tower was the Temple of Earth, and Eternian Central Command was the Orthodoxy's head temple. Hmmm, yes, that was what they were once called.
They were the reason the Orthodoxy sought to stem the plague's spread before it reached the city.
And yet that meant the Orthodoxy sacrificed countless lives in outlying villages to save what they held sacred.
Hrmm, perhaps the templar, ever concerned for the people, could not forgive that.
The day he invaded, he attacked the Temple of Earth straightaway, the very place his former masters sought to save.
But the people saw his actions as heroic. For it was he who ordered the energy welling forth from the Earth Crystal be fused with white magic and used to advance medicine.
So it was that death by sickness has been nearly vanquished from our land. We can now live without fear of an untimely demise.
But is he a hero who freed us from the terrors of sickness? Or a usurper who brings terrors unto the world?
It all depends upon one's perspective, I suppose.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 12:54

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

these overreactions are literally making my eyes explode into cancer

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 20:47

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

quote:

The Eighth Canticle

Launch Trailer
Cinematic Trailer
Geeks and Sundry Live-Action Trailer

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a fantasy CRPG developed by Witching Hour Studios, and published by Ysbryd Games in 2016. The story is set in the Citte della Ombre, pictured above--a place where a good day means only being figuratively stabbed in the back, and where the haves hold themselves above the have-nots with ancient relics called Mascherines: magic masks that command the four elements. It's one of the best games I've played this year, with real-time-with-pause combat that's actually fast-paced and free of bloat, vibrant visuals, a haunting orchestral soundtrack, piles of unique background flavor, a cast of great characters with excellent voice work from most of the usual suspects...just tons and tons of positive critical buzzwords. I've never seen many people talking the game up here, though, so maybe I can help introduce someone to it.

Prologue

I guess my main concern is: is it okay for everything in screenshots to be real real tiny, and for the battle screens to look like incomprehensible rear end

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jul 15, 2018

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 00:30

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

vilkacis posted:

That's 40 megs of pngs for a single update! Definitely use jpg for this.

The screenshots looks fine to me, but they're a bit bigger than the archive accepts (900px wide) so it wouldn't be a bad idea to shrink them a bit more, or maybe crop the sides a little. You can always crop more selectively if there are parts where you think details may be lost - for instance, in this you could easily take out the border and let the image take more space.

Battle scenes basically always look like incomprehensible rear end in a game like that; I don't think there's much you can do about it.

Here's another attempt, now with 900px jpegs on LPix.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 17:41

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

my narrative LP about Italian author Erri De Luca being sucked into a time-warp and becoming a Blood Ravens Force Commander was dead before it was even born :smith:

e: I was going to call it "The Day Before Chainswords"

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Sep 22, 2018

# ¿ Sep 22, 2018 00:30

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Let's Play but the letter lines slowly rearrange themselves into M U R D E R

# ¿ Oct 1, 2018 22:02

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

change them all to cloying Christmas songs

# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 23:39

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

onsetOutsider posted:

Because otherwise the picture is way too big. Are you saying I should manually edit all the images smaller?

You can batch-resize quickly and painlessly with Irfanview Thumbnails.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2018 23:02

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

How deep do the branches go?

# ¿ Nov 14, 2018 23:58

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

I'd just use simple quote boxes for anything that branches once & then ends, and separate updates for more complex choices if the game's save system permits.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 00:32

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

onsetOutsider posted:

-For example, if the game I'm translating opens up for you to talk to everybody in whatever order and it doesn't matter, I could save space on the post (and scrolling effort of the reader who doesn't wanna see all of them) by linking to each character, and hosting the actual events off-site...?

It's best to just link big wall-of-text updates on the test poster regardless.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 00:46

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

How's this video for Omensight? Turn on closed captioning for commentary.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 02:46

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

I planned on going through all possible choices before advancing and leaving handholds on, for a few reasons. Characters have different things to say on every path, and it means more XP+Amber too. As for the assists, the idea of just omitting part of the game felt kind of silly and I wasn't sure there'd be enough interest for a vote. Omensight also has a second ending now, which requires you to fill the assist list out completely.

I could always link the assists for people who'd rather skip them.

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Nov 15, 2018

# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 12:21

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

I should be able to come up with a feasible workflow for Masquerada: Songs and Shadows now, but before I work up another test post I have a question. The game lets you resize the GUI at your leisure. The first screenshot here has the GUI scaled to 100%, and the second is at 150%. Which one looks better? Should I use one size for screenshots and another for video?

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 02:52

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

If I'm uploading a soundtrack to YouTube, should I compress it to .avi's?

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 13:59

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Let's give this another try.

-The Eighth Canticle-

Launch trailer
Cinematic trailer
Geeks and Sundry live-action trailer

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a tactical role-playing game developed by Witching Hour Studios and published by Ysbryd Games in September 2016. Witching Hour took pains to dispense with as many RPG traditions as possible. Masquerada doesn't bother with character levels, gold, ability scores, damage types, or inventory management. Your party only gets five members in all, and an average playthrough should take twelve hours at most. There's little exploration and no backtracking. There's scarcely any side content--many things that would be optional in another RPG, like party members' personal stories, are integrated into the main plot. Sometimes Masquerada can feel a little too simple but for the most part all this fat-trimming is of immense benefit, offering both gameplay and narrative that are tightly designed and well-paced with no time wasted. Masquerada even manages to prove that real-time-with-pause combat does not have to suck.

The setting is just as unique, taking its cues from Alexandre Dumas instead of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ombre is a city-state where neighborhoods are prizes for aristocrats to fight over, a good day means only getting figuratively stabbed in the back, and the haves separate themselves from the have-nots by use of ~~Moskareens~~ Mascherines: magical masks from a lost civilization that grant their wearers power over the elements. Life is cheap and it's only common sense to exploit and manipulate everyone around you. Masquerada's story doesn't wallow too much in edgy grimdark, though, mostly focusing instead on strangers learning to trust in each other and find hope for a better life.

All in all I think this game's fantastic. I've played lots of great games this past year but Masquerada: Songs and Shadows was still one of my favorites out of them all.

Prologue

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Dec 23, 2018

# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 16:50

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

You'd be better off with a more rules-light, narrative-focused system than D&D.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2019 00:44

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

It's recorded on a vinyl record.

You know, an LP.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2019 23:39

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Kurtofan posted:

...hentai lps were a good idea...

Get a load of this guy

# ¿ May 7, 2019 18:30

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

not enough dick jokes

never enough dick jokes :negative:

# ¿ May 22, 2019 15:56

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

If you can't do it in Windows Movie Maker it's not worth doing

# ¿ May 23, 2019 20:07

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

rename the new LP thread to The rear end Feed

# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 02:19

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

re-create the songs using only your mouth

# ¿ Sep 28, 2019 00:06

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Mraagvpeine posted:

Huh, was not aware a mod could probate themselves. It's regarding the New LP thread.

masturprobation amirite

# ¿ Oct 4, 2019 20:57

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

TheMcD posted:

Hey, I have a test post!

It is pleasing to my eye.

Any plans to link the Lemniscate YouTube videos?

# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 23:50

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Has anyone come back from an 11-year yet

# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 22:00

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Jesus Christ

# ¿ Apr 4, 2020 12:52

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

what happens when you run out of co-commentators on Demon Army

e: or whatever mission where gold ants show up first

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 13, 2020

# ¿ Jul 13, 2020 21:30

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

letting the giant insects take over the earth????

# ¿ Jul 13, 2020 22:19

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

I think I like 2 best. 1's definitely too slow.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2020 19:28

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

where the gently caress am I supposed to continue my narrative Hentai Nazi HITLER Is Back LP now

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 03:31

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Namtab posted:

Mocking aint easy

unlike your mom lol

# ¿ Nov 25, 2021 15:48

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

username/ban combo

# ¿ Apr 13, 2023 01:39

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

just search "my little pony porn" and see what comes up

# ¿ Apr 13, 2023 10:03

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Breadmaster posted:

What was that Armorgames point and click flash game series? The one with the weird Christian theming to it.

-TRAPPED-, -PURSUIT-, and -ESCAPE-, featuring the Armor Gamsees

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 04:59

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Leal posted:

I heard there was a 4th in the works but that was like I dunno 20 years ago, did that ever pan out?

-VORAGO-

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 07:47

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 11:19

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

looking forward to Gianni Matragrano winning an Oscar for Best Actor in ten years

# ¿ Jun 20, 2023 02:00

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