Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Reach Out and Punch Someone

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Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I was late to the last thread due to having to catch up with the Koudelka LP, but I'm in on the ground floor for this one.

GimmickMan posted:

The thing that gets me about the teasers at the end of your recent LPs is that I don't recognize the games you're previewing.

This is already looking good.

Same here. I mean, I kinda guessed it was probably going to continue the series, but ya never know...

Ubiquitous_ posted:

The way he drops her to the ground never fails to make me laugh.

It is a very ~~Yuri~~ Devilman who is definitely not previous game protagonist Yuri Hyuga thing to do.

Llab posted:

Hell yeah. I lived through SH1 vicariously with the lp, but i think I’m gonna play along with this one

I'd like to, if I could find a place to get PS2 games in TYOOL 2019.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 19:15

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:04

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Neddy Seagoon posted:

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

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?

Seems like the title was changed in the localization and the title screen wasn't updated to reflect that.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 07:47

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I'm no expert here, but "Koenig" strikes me as much more of a Russian name than a German one.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 18:23

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Robindaybird posted:

It's German - and you see that name pop up in Germans and Ashkenazic Jewish families

I stand corrected. I suppose most of that was based on Star Trek actor Walter Koenig (and I did check to see if he's actually of Russian descent - he is, though his parents changed their last name after immigrating, apparently).

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 18:36

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Accordion Man posted:

The dev, Nautilus, is totally dead though so even if by some miracle we get HD remasters don't expect a new game even then.

I would still be hype as poo poo for just HD remasters though.

Yeah, I'd buy HD remasters.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 19:23

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Reinbach posted:

I just want to point out that devilman was shrugging off those bullets in a cutscene!

Is this going to be a rare occurrence of JRPG guns being less lethal in cutscenes?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2019 20:33

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Speedball posted:

Yeah, I know, right? Yuri is basically a demonic god-man by the end of Shadow Hearts 1, this is a great way to bring him back down to normal with the other adventurers.

(though I do like the explanation we get in Devil May Cry for why Dante has different weapons every game: he sells the extras to keep the lights on between adventures, haha)

Mega Man Legends 2 uses a similar explanation, except it's Roll who sells MM's weapons, without his knowledge, after taking his money to upgrade them in the first game.

Also, I find the idea of Roll as an arms dealer vaguely amusing.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 06:53

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Xander77 posted:

Both.

Is "scrub" a form of regional dialect for "shrub" somewhere in the US?

Merriam-webster online dictionary posted:

Definition of scrub
(Entry 1 of 3)
1a: a stunted tree or shrub
b: vegetation consisting chiefly of scrubs
c: a tract covered with scrub

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 08:44

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

The Dark Id posted:

Yuri runs up to the comatose Yuri and starts shaking him.

Either Yuri's having an out-of-body experience, or the first Yuri should be Karin.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 03:24

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Edvarius posted:

Not exactly a scholar of ancient Greek myths so I don't know how much credence to give it, but I've heard that one of the reasons given for Athena turning Arachne into a spider was the tapestry Arachne wove for their contest was all about the sexcapades of the gods. Athena was not amused.

There are a bunch of versions of the myth. And the ancient Greek myths were created to support a moral framework two millennia out of tune with our modern sensibilities, so even the gods they considered "nice" are pretty assholish by today's standards.

E: Consider that by ancient Greek standards, Arachne was the villain of the myth and totally deserved her punishment for her overweening hubris of daring to compare her abilities to those of the gods.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 20:29

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Omobono posted:

The two Mana Khemia games had three frontliners with a total party size of six/five*. The combat system revolved around constantly rotating everyone between the active frontline and the backline, while backliners recovered HP and SP at a decent clip. Not exactly what you asked for, but it's a decent way for everyone to contribute.

*In the first game a 7th character joins in somewhat late but you still can only bring 6 people in the party, in the second game you occasionally get a guest character as 6th and in the postgame the two ateliers join up for a 10 man group, choose any six.

Likewise, Breath of Fire 4 did a similar mechanic with its backline, iirc. It has been years since I've played through that game, but you had your three-man fighting party up front, and the rest of the playable cast was in the back, which recovered HP/AP. I also seem to recall a JRPG that had an almost Marvel vs. Capcom style switching mechanic, where you could switch in a character for free and they'd get an attack when switched in.

Otherwise you're not going to find a JRPG that allows you to fight with a party size of more than, say, 5 or 6 max, because like somebody else said, as you add more actions and skillsets to a party, you decrease difficulty exponentially (or at least in a faster than linear progression).

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 11:18

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I think it's Urmanov.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 20:18

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

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 think that Russell is supposed to have seen Lenny's group riding the Metro, or waiting for a train? I think those two people are talking about separate incidences. Also, "Nicole" is probably a girl; it's hard to tell due to the text box overlapping the model, but I think she's wearing a dress. And about ten, or at least significantly shorter than Yuri.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2019 01:46

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

ZeusCannon posted:

Or he knew if he gave it to the one dude hed get a free dress.

The Dark Id posted:

Tee hee. Of course I haven't! And what about you, Gep? You haven't forgotten that little "item" I asked you for, Have you? Did you bring it?

Seems like they have some sort of deal, where Gepetto is apparently these folks' smut supplier in exchange for dresses for his creepy magic puppet. Considering this game is set back in 1915, it's probably pretty hard to find gay porn.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2019 00:25

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I mean, the last update was on the 25th. It hasn't even been that long.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2019 03:25

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

When he's done, in 2025, I'm sure he'll get right back on LPing Shadow Hearts 2.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2019 03:42

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I think I remember Grand Papillon from when one of my friends used to play Shadow Hearts back when it came out. I'm pretty sure he's the character I mentioned in the previous thread.

The Dark Id posted:

That guy doesn't look much like an "Olivia" to me. Considering this is supposed to be France, though, who wants to bet they messed up the translation a bit here and his name is supposed to be "Olivier" or something like that?

# ¿ Apr 13, 2019 15:57

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Omobono posted:

Come on you assholes*, Yuri made an actual good joke there, how the hell are you not getting it? EVERYONE knows how pretentious sommeliers (but I repeat myself) go about wines.

*Looking at Karin, Geppetto and Blanca here. Joachim can be excused on this.

I feel like Blanca is also excusable on account of being a dog. Dunno how many people give their dogs wine or take them to wine tastings, even in France.

However that was a legit good joke there, Yuri. I chuckled, at least.

# ¿ May 1, 2019 13:10

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Oof. No parent should have to deal with that.

# ¿ May 2, 2019 06:34

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Good to see this back. Looking forward to the return of Yuri Hyuga, Punch-Man.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2019 13:29

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

You can book a scroll, but you can't scroll a book. Unless it's a PDF.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 01:44

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

CmdrKing posted:

God I love this game and it's complete batshit insanity.

I wonder if there's any actual blind readers in the thread, and if their wildest guesses could actually capture where this sidequest ends up.

Sure, I'll take a ~~guess~~ wild swing at it. Uh, Joachim suplexes the moon?

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 06:53

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

DukeofCA posted:

Joachim picks up Yuri, who picks up Karin, who picks up Blanca. A daisy chain of smackdown.

Wait, when did Shadow Hearts become a Disgaea spinoff?

# ¿ Aug 31, 2019 06:25

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Neddy Seagoon posted:

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 .

The whole scene is right out of Looney Tunes. All Yuri needed was to be eating a carrot.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2019 20:18

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I found out the other day that one of my brothers has a copy of this game. Just this one, though, and none of the others. :shrug:

# ¿ Oct 3, 2019 20:19

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Yeah, even her glossary entry talks poo poo about her intellect, so the intent was definitely for the party (and the player) to think she's just dumb. Then the "trap" comes as more of a surprise.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2019 07:39

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Rest up and feel better.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2019 10:42

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Look, nudists need protection, too.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 23:22

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Sterski posted:

Oh man, you think the average jrpg boss is hard to kill? I can only IMAGINE how long freakin' Rasputin will take to put down.

Yeah, he was an HP sponge in real life.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 00:41

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Probably somewhere around 195%.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 12:04

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Considering those were both characteristics of the real Rasputin, it's about as close as either game gets to reality.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 18:51

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Zagglezig posted:

Now I'm thinking of what the shield rules are. Obviously, it's not a permanent ball barrier, or he couldn't touch anyone. Something he has to activate just leaves him open to surprise attacks. Maybe more of a permanent "sense intent, block it" sort of thing, otherwise someone in a position like Veronica's could potentially get inside of it and get some stabs in.

Maybe it blocks anything moving faster than a certain velocity. Obviously it's tuned low enough to block a punch, but not like a handshake.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 13:11

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

That's how shields on Dune work, with Holtzman generators

There's also an episode of Stargate SG-1 where the Goa'uld Apophis has a shield that works similarly. Only his was tuned too high; it blocked handguns and energy weapons, but the cast managed to hit him with a thrown knife and an arrow from a homemade bow. It's what gave me the idea.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 01:17

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I mean, they appropriated the sci-fi stunguns the Goa'uld used, but only Teal'c ever preferred the staff weapons over conventional guns.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 06:16

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Dev team fetish or not, I'd still rather have had the cute dino/dragon outfit rather than naked doll joints. I just think it would've looked better, personally. :shrug:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 15:10

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Nicolai says "the 21st century" will be a time of bloodshed, so apparently he doesn't expect his evil plot to come to fruition for almost a century. I guess he's possessed by a demon now, and taking the long view, like Asmodeus Rasputin?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2020 02:12

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I agree that Shadow Hearts seems to run entirely on cartoon logic at this point, and the answer to the question of "how immortal is Roger?" is "depends on how funny/cool the choices are".

# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 07:29

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Zagglezig posted:

Terada looks like he fell through a Fallout armor wardrobe and wound up here.

"doozy"

Maybe Id's falling asleep as he goes through the dungeon?

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 10:32

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Probably because the target audience is Japanese, and thus less likely to need the explanation than the Cyrillic characters in a Russian dungeon. And when it got to the localization team, they didn't have the ability to add the text boxes it would take to explain the characters to Western audiences (I mean, the devs couldn't even be bothered to change the characters out for the supposedly English numerals and letters on the doors), so they just fudged it.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 03:16

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:04

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Yeah, it's not the fact that people keep doing the same stupid poo poo with the Manuscript that's surprising, it's that the drat thing keeps existing to do dumb poo poo with. If anything was "forbidden knowledge", it's the process to resurrect the dead involving orphan sacrifices and Eldritch monstrosities. People are too dumb to handle that responsibly.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 10:48

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