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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So did they know this thing was a labyrinth when they used it to power their city, or is the cube lost ancient technology even to the lost ancients?

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Have you got enough backbench to make its own party, at this point? I like the rare game that can make multiple parties work.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh lord. What, regular old knifemurder isn't holy enough for the church anymore?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, I like how you can still get support abilities from people not in your current party, even if they are otherwise occupied.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Ah, it's tactical smug. You need to watch yourself around that, you can blow a hole in your personality.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I do like how our burgeoning party has some sympathy with the person who walked out on the notional protagonist.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, interesting. Do any of the other Sun Doors get extra challenges as you progress the game?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I have to hand it to Gilbert, he finds some way to keep going. If he were a protagonist, it would be kind of admirable.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like to think that the reason that sword is so powerful is that Cassius used it for so long he beat himself into it.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I'm not complaining about this at all, but it really feels like this game is just all the sidestories they ever wanted to tell but couldn't find a way to work in.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Have we really only got one empty spot in the party roster for Estelle? it seemed like we had a long ways to go not that far back.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Dang, that's an awful lot of levels for juniors. I suppose it's the attitude? Also it wouldn't be much of a credible Agate fight otherwise.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Okay, that's a pretty great powerup. It makes for some nice foreshadowing, but I dunno if that's going to pay off.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh boy, now it's Ries's time to shine! There are gonna be so many conversations.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Ouch. Kevin. She probably took risks to protect him because he was an angelman or whatever the hell.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like to imagine that the prize effect is Estelle hooking a fishing line onto her staff and beating people with it from a distance.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Do we know what things those were that jumped Estelle in Ultimate Bug Forest?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Okay, I like the dynamic they've got going with Estelle here.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So is it possible to have two giant robots out on the field now?

...and did you have to actually fight Ghost Pater-Mater to get that crystal, or just scoop it up from the even gaze of the giant robot?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Well, I suppose if this is a place made out of people's wishes, it makes sense to stumble into somebody's... Gambler Jack fanfiction?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Even Ouroboros is just a convenient tool to this guy? Good lord.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like when there are enough dialogue portraits to start clowning around with them.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Man, how would you even put that story together without a screenshot tool?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Even if it's just the hills behind a sleepy country town, the world is full of mysteries.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Just as long as they don't reverse your controls they can mirror all they like.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
All of this fighting through the various layers has me wondering - why? Are we burning the self-styled "Lord of Phantasma" a way out? Or are they just constantly trying to kill us as hard as they can, limited by force projection?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Huh. So if we meet someone who got copied into here, are they as strong as we think they are or as strong as they think they are?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
It's a shame the enemy doesn't try to knock you back into mines, but I suppose it'd be kind of irritating since precision knockback pool is a big point in the computer's advantage.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Please at least say there's some kind of automap to the iron labyrinth.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

EponymousMrYar posted:

It is very refreshing for them to go 'don't even start with the sob story because we're not freakin' real and you're not getting past us without a fight so let's just get this over with!'

Hey man, just because these dopplegangers are trying to kill you doesn't mean they have to make you feel bad about it.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like they're just throwing boss characters at you in twos and threes now.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Pretty good choice for a quiz game. I imagine that means he's not going to be throwing down with the upcoming boss squad? Well, if anybody can pull double duty it'd be the fool.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I do like that this is keeping with the general sweep of Trails games having characters smarter than the player, or at least able to think of things the player is not.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
There's still the question of where this all came from. The Aureole happened to grab onto some of Kevin's resentment while he was in there and it's not like he noticed the amount it took?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Yeah, I am impressed by the sudden tone shift. Good work, translation team.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
...so now are we playing Trails in the Tactics, a Suikoden 2 spinoff, for the tactical descent into Hell? Or did Gilbert just fuckin' train to zone like a rank newb?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like this explanation for the point of no return. We're effectively jumping into unallocated address space.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I like how weapons made of the ultimate material all have a common drawback to them, so they're not universally the best. They're just another meaningful option.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
"How is someone able to keep living?"

Sadly, I can see Weissman being deeply interested in that questions.

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Oh, that's an interesting little interaction.

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