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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Oh boy, it's my favorite PS2 RPG :allears:

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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Shadow Hearts 2 was definitely one of those games I wished I had more spaces in the active party than I did.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Same, same. I have no idea why I ended up with a copy of Shadow Hearts 2 (I was an avid used games browser, so I probably picked it up on impulse like Unlimited Saga) but the strength of its writing quickly made it one of my top ten games.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
The best character in this whole drat game appears!

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Joachim alternated with another character we'll meet eventually as my fourth (after Yuri/Blanca/Karin).

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
On the contrary, I loved Solomon's Key, because it made me feel like an occult badass.

Albert Simon, eat your heart out, I can match crests!!!! (Also I was going to 100% completion anyway, so no big loss there)

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

ultrafilter posted:

Somehow I remember the voice acting being a lot better. I guess I had low expectations back then.

I think this scene is just kind of a low point/Yuri trying to sound extremely COOL and DRAMATIC.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Shadow Hearts, y'all. :allears:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Misty Oil probably smells like chai tea if you need a comparison.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Blanca deserves a permanent spot because he is a Good Boy.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
The berserk remixes of music really do a good job at conveying EVERYTHING'S hosed UP and it's a pity that you kind of have to go out of your way to hear them.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I was disappointed to find out that Kaiketsu Zubat didn't have a killer puppeteer. Killer bartender? Sure. Killer fisherman? Why not. Football assassin? Look that one up on youtube, it's great. But I don't think they had a puppeteer.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Joachim remains so good. :allears:

e: I have no idea why this posted now instead of when I tried to post it but WHATEVER. Thanks for showing off the Director's Cut content!

Leraika fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Nov 5, 2019

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Let's do a post.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Hooray, it's the character I never took out of my party once I got her!

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

CmdrKing posted:

Bob Papenbrook was one of my favorites of that era of VA (being in literally everything made getting memorable roles pretty common of course). Sadly passed away not long after this.

poo poo, I didn't know that. :smith:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
R-3 is my favorite wolf. He's precious. :kimchi:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
It was a shame how he carried on.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
FORCED EVASION FORCED EVASION
FORCED EVASION FORCED EVASION
FORCED EVASION FORCED EVASION


EF wasn't a great game, and the way they went 'yeah monsters will just ignore the rest of your attacks in a turn if you drop a combo or a monster touches the ground, and a lot of monsters are too heavy to be launched properly' made the back half even more tedious than it needed to be.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

AweStriker posted:

Karin would fare somewhat less well but still be OK.

Karin doesn't use a spear, though. :smith:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Oh no, Ring Soul :ohdear:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
in case anyone was wondering about what they were using instead of 1, 2, 3

This was the worst dungeon in the game, at least (unless I've blocked out more annoying ones). I, uh, did not have a guide and I'm very bad at these puzzles.

e: update on last page woops

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Oh no, they mentioned the Man Festival. :ohdear:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

stryth posted:

Wait, Garan's a lady? I would not have guessed that from the in-game model or the concept art, at least not till that last pic. I guess that hat has some serious masculine vibes or something.

♂ is masculine, ♀ is feminine.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
It's amazing how quickly this game goes from 'I wish you'd shove it, you know where' to Kato crushing a dude's skull.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

FalloutFan56 posted:

Chaos wars? Is he a guest character in another game or am I completely off?

It's another game, largely famous for its extremely mediocre translation and worse voice acting

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

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FalloutFan56 posted:

Ah, come on guys what's the worst that could happen? I mean yes, it doesn't have a good track record but surely this time it'll work right? ...I really hope Alice's ghost shows up and tells him this is a bad idea.
I also now know what Chaos Wars is and it's both hilarious and hard to watch.

I streamed Chaos Wars for charity once and its worst sin is that it's extremely boring. It plays like a low-rent Phantom Brave.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I wasn't a big fan of her battle mechanic or the baggage associated with it also because I always felt like I was missing text every time she spoke up in a cutscene. She herself was fine, I guess? had something going on beyond being wa-wa-wacky or the straight guy, which a lot of the FTNW characters didn't.

Joachim is still the best though.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

Kurieg posted:

FF7 has "Evil House" as an enemy. FF7R does something... very good with that information.

FF9 also has a fight house, but it's named Armstrong for... some reason.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

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ImpAtom posted:

The catch is that the horrible dub is the only memorable or worthwhile part of Chaos Wars.

Yeah, pretty much. For a massive crossover game, it manages to feel startlingly generic.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
The boss at the end was good but the rest was NOT.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
I would play the game where Princess Anastasia Romanov went around kicking down the door on bbeg-tier evil demons and telling them they're stupid and their plans are stupid.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Ah, that last bit is both hilarious and awful. :allears:

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
:allears:

It begins.

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Yeah, 100 floors of weird toku references (nice, Sun Vulcan!) and rear end shots sounds amazing in theory and is awful in practice.

Leraika fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jul 19, 2021

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Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
Thank you for LPing one of my favorite games.

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