Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Reach Out and Punch Someone

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Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Nthing that I can't wait to see where this one goes after all the hype it's gotten :suspense:

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Also the 2/Covenant title difference was a surprise. Guessing someone made a late change in development for marketing or something seeing as it's on the cover but not in-game?

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 07:23

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 07:47

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Night10194 posted:

"This village has no value and there's no point to this, but by God we're going to gently caress up that demon for disrespecting our mustaches." is the most WWI plot hook I've seen in awhile.

To be fair, "Our men got slaughtered, send in more men" was a pretty popular solution for any problem on the European front by both sides.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 16:35

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

DukeofCA posted:

Just keep in mind what series this is and who our protagonist is.

Oh?

Ohhh .

# ¿ Mar 6, 2019 02:47

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

We already had a Tragic Backstory.

30-odd hours of it in fact :v:

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 17:05

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Mokinokaro posted:

Iirc it's quite a bit before Geppetto's deal is really explained.

We're gonna end up fighting Pinocchio, aren't we? :ohdear:

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 11:29

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Video games with playable dog characters are usually pretty great, case in point: Okami.

That puppet is kind of freaking me out. Does she ever talk? Or is she just kind of there? I can't decide if it's creepier for her to talk or not talk.

You just know he props it up when they camp for the night so it's staring at everyone. He thinks it's neat, everyone else wants to toss it in the campfire but won't actually say or do anything about it. All they can do is try not to think about that creepy thing staring at them while they try to sleep.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 17:20

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Confront your fears. Look at the puppet. Do not look away.

You can either keep an eye on the doll and KNOW where it is, or let it roam free and do as it pleases free from your gaze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TZx3xwLRos

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 10:43

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Kemix posted:

I'm personally split between faithful translations and ones that get the point across while retaining the game's charm. There's nothing wrong with tweaking dialogue to make it sound better in other languages, as long as it keeps the tone and impact of the original. Then you have badly done ones that, while make the game playable and "understandable" in another language, add in unnecessary dialogue or replace dialogue with memes to replace jokes that otherwise wouldn't work, in inopportune places.

That speaks more about the talent of the localization team than anything arbitrary, and the only difference being they wouldn't gently caress it up quite so badly by being held to a direct translation.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 04:39

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Well first of all The color scheme is awful, the beige of the top blends in with Karin's skin way too much and causes her to look like a weird topless barbie in low lighting. Also, aside from being three sizes too small It's a remarkably bland outfit. It's not just fan service, it's boring fan service.

Don't forget the mismatched lace sleeve!

# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 13:56

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

amigolupus posted:

I love the implication that Lenny's goons were being rowdy out on the streets, so he scolded them all for bothering people and had them sit on a bench quietly somewhere.

I just love it when they're willing to let characters actually acknowledge their own strange existence/shenanigans and not just be "on" 24/7. They've got a puppet-wielding old man, having a dominatrix in our group makes about as much sense!

# ¿ Mar 21, 2019 16:16

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

How many Stud Cards are there in the game? Because I'm going to be awful mad if it's seven.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2019 14:35

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Pesky Splinter posted:

There's a bonus one if there's a SH1 save game detected on the memory card

Yet that's not a no... :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2019 02:52

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

W.T. Fits posted:

Punch monsters, absorb souls.

Kicking monsters is fine, too.

And then you go into your head to... wait... oh my god;

Master Onion was right; Kick, Punch, it's all in the mind!

# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 15:08

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Kase moch posted:

Anyone that says that has never ruined a suit in a muddy excavation ditch.

A lessom that Veronica Vera's presumably learning the hard way with her expensive dominatrix outfit in an unfinished subway tunnel.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 00:29

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Wait, there was a Shadow Hearts TV show?

The Donkey Kong Country one :ssh:

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 05:36

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Robindaybird posted:

and Lulu's stupid dress was basically the designer being a dick to the programmers "Hah, Animate every single one of these belts!"

And that's why she's almost always shown at chest-height.

Well, one of the three reasons.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2019 02:04

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

The Dark Id posted:

This is top notch. Also, sorry for the lack of updates. I am busting my rear end with work and work travel lately and the little free time I have is not something am spending on a LP update. Sorry. Next month... should... be better. P-Probably... probably...

Joke's on you; I got obscenely lucky and found a mint-condition copy of SH:Covenant in a Cash Converters today, for a steal of a price no less, so I get to play it myself!!

Seriously though, don't sweat it and take care of yourself.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 09:32

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Happy Landfill posted:

Sending good vibes to you and your family, Id

That is an awful thing for anyone to have to go through and I hope your daughter pulls through, Id :ohdear:

# ¿ May 2, 2019 04:43

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

How is an average person supposed to fight a being capable of raining fire and death upon the world?

You start by beating up rats and slimes in a sewer and work your way up from there like everyone else.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 06:05

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Given that it's the middle of WW1, just getting passage from France to England was an ordeal in of itself and Southampton was probably the best achievable destination. Circling the coast would probably just be asking to get sunk by a naval vessel or submarine.

Nevermind whatever the gently caress's lurking in the oceans off the coast of the blighted hellscape that is Wales.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 14:07

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Jagged Jim posted:

Yep. They even threw in a couple of dead end trades as an extra "gently caress you, buy the strategy guide."

e: I am good at spoiler tags.

Ah fuuuck

. I'm playing through Covenant right now and definitely hosed myself on the trading sidequest.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 09:04

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

The Dark Id posted:

Episode XXIII: Grand Slam
And so Joachim obtains a new weapon -- just a goddamn gym Locker. As Joachim said, he doesn't get new weapons the traditional way. He'll just find increasingly absurd solid objects and repurpose them into bludgeoning items. The Locker provides +35 Physical and +26 Special Attack Power.

Just as a side-note, you're not completely crippled if you miss the new local object Joachim decides is a worthy weapon. After a while they pop up in the shop like a regular weapon.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2019 03:23

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Zushio posted:

As for Joachim's weapons... well a barber pole seems too obvious (albeit likely) so I'm going to go with an outhouse (privy, dunny, portapotty, insert regional variant).

Every now and then it sloshes and screams because someone is still inside it and Joachim won't let them out. It'd reduce the weapon's mass.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 02:56

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

The lantern detour is probably to make sure players find that save point. It's about halfway through the dungeon and the place really is a wretched maze of missable things.

I never found Gerard's shop when I played through thst dungeon.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 00:27

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

I love both of these cutscenes. Yuri's childish drawings are a fantastic take on SH1's illustrations, and tricking Lenny into giving up the location is just great for how little effort Yuri clearly knows he has to put into making it happen :allears:

# ¿ Sep 18, 2019 15:02

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

I just love the way Yuri's VA delivers each "..yeah..." so half-hartedly.

Crowetron posted:

I adore how much this game loves to use group shots of our ludicrous party as a punchline. Too many JRPG take their character designs too seriously.

Yeah, the game is really great with the "and then there's these assholes" shots.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 05:11

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

GimmickMan posted:

For me nothing will beat the day I saw the censored screenshots of Dito killing Five and had to go watch the video to make sure that was a real thing in the game and not just one of TDI's photoshops.

I just have this mental image of Yoko Taro in a dark room, wearing the Emil mask, writing Drakengard 3 on a computer with LParchive open on a second monitor as a reference while giggling maniacally.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2019 03:58

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

LiefKatano posted:

It seems weird that you trade in your steps to get rewards rather than have them be milestones. Maybe that's just me, though...?

But then the most you'll ever earn is only 10,000 steps! You gotta keep at it to enjoy the thrill of walking!!

# ¿ Oct 1, 2019 06:07

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

The Dark Id posted:

Sweet fancy Moses... It is a giant feline version of Poshul from Chrono Cross...

I think it looks more like someone else chu should recognise from a different JRPG...

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 04:09

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

DukeofCA posted:

I think Id mentioned it way back at the start of the LP but the subtitles deviate from the dialogue a lot. I think they were written using an earlier version of the script, or a different translation.

My guess is it's a literal translation of the Japanese script, like how anime subtitles work, because the English cutscene dialogue flows far more naturally.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 08:22

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Kobal2 posted:

Is no one going to comment on the highly non-sequiturish nature of the plot there ? "Oh, sorry, I used my giant cat to ambush you because I thought you were part of a secret society trying to kill me & my granny ; but you splatted him in like two turns so you can't possibly be !" Wut ?

They rescued her from becoming catfood.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 04:58

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

I use Yuri and the next character, with the other two rotating as melee and second caster/healer slots.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 15:18

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Hwurmp posted:

How do we know Carla and Lucia aren't really Sapientes Gladio? Luring your enemies to a secret monster cat island is exactly the society's kind of plan.

Of course they'd use the same tactics; They're ex-members, remember! :pseudo:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2019 15:36

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Zushio posted:

My only meaningful encounter with Quiet was dropping supply crates on her instead having having an epic sniper duel.

I think I brought her with me once or twice? Doggo was way better. More than once Quiet broke my cover because I missed my first headshot on a lone guard and she assumed we going hot. After that she just stayed in her cell.

If you give her a tranquilizer rifle any mission to a military base turns into a shopping trip for new recruits.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 07:03

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

SMT: Nocturne still takes the cake for JRPG combat bullshit, just for the potential of "oops, suicide via Reflection" on a newly-encountered Demon.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2019 16:34

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Schwartzcough posted:

How did Nicolai even know the heroes were right on the other side of that wall? They would've felt pretty dumb just blowing holes into empty rooms and losing their chance for both Dramatic Villain Entrance and delivering their Evil Villain Ultimatum to the heroes.

You're forgetting the initial barrage. I choose to assume he was hitting rooms at random and got lucky on the second shot.

"Well they're not in the piano room... let's see if they got to the dungeon. Men; Target the top floor and fire. Lenny, get into place again and let's try to look suitably smug this time."

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 04:53