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This game is absolutely unafraid to show how much it's ripping off Persona 4 and I can respect that.
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The lack of bosses in the key dungeons does add to the feeling that this quest to get Shiori back is simply too easy. I don't believe that Nemesis and Zodiac went around and mindwiped everyone in the city, I think that them forgetting the events of being in the Box was some kind of natural effect as the unreality of the Eclipse faded away. I do understand the confusion though since Zodiac explicitly did mindwipes after the Mist Witch incident. I think that forgetting about the Eclipse is something which tends to happen naturally, and the additional mindwipes are supposed to be something to make sure people forget.
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Artix: So this is what the next six hours of eX+ consists of. Argate and Me: https://twitter.com/infinite_scream/status/1510795213245083649
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I'm very upset about what's to come.
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Apr 4, 2022 02:58
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And you all thought I was joking about the Ryouta Redemption Arc™
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb7mFcJKrB8
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Artix posted:And you all thought I was joking about the Ryouta Redemption Arc™ Please take it back. Take the whole thread back
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I'll be honest, I was really waiting for you to get to eX+ content knowing what was there.
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Commander Keene posted:This game is absolutely unafraid to show how much it's ripping off Persona 4 and I can respect that. It makes me wonder what kind of theme the Personas of the XRC members would have. Artix posted:And you all thought I was joking about the Ryouta Redemption Arc™ Does it work? Is he redeemed? Does he get a Soul Device?
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 Part 94: Rem's Darkest Secrets Somehow, despite all odds, the concert seems to go fine? Along the way, however, we learn some extremely cursed knowledge about Rem and I hope we never see any proof of it.
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SPiKA shows are so disastrous so often that they've acquired two kinds of fans: a) fans who cheer when nobody dies; and b) fans who cheer when somebody does die
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Hwurmp posted:SPiKA shows are so disastrous so often that they've acquired two kinds of fans: SPiKA is the NASCAR of idol groups. Both types of fans love their rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner though.
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White Coke posted:SPiKA is the NASCAR of idol groups. Both types of fans love their rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner though. Rion does war an obnoxious trucker hat for half the game 
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"Rion" was actually "Lee Ann" all along
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Part 95: Father of the Year, the Sequel Today we get the one-two punch of the second half of the movie *and* the gang intervening in a family dispute that they have nothing to do with. I hope Argate is happy, he made this happen.
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Apr 8, 2022 19:47
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there are two expressions that show teeth; otherwise Tokyo Xanadu is entirely toothless unless you count Vampyre
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For posterity, what I sent to Artix was my April Fools' joke this year, an episode of the Yakuza: Like a Dragon LP encoded for GBA Video.ChaosArgate posted:
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Comparing Kou to Commander Shepard makes me think of basically the only thing I know about Mass Effect: "I'm Kou Tokisaka, and this is my favorite store in Morimiya!" That whole sidequest was just begging to have The Living Years dubbed over it.
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Commander Keene posted:Comparing Kou to Commander Shepard makes me think of basically the only thing I know about Mass Effect: "I'm Kou Tokisaka, and this is my favorite store in Morimiya!" Shio endlessly calibrating the noodles
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Part 96: Hot Springs Special The gang takes another trip to the hot springs to take advantage of the great deal they're apparently offering to literally everyone in Morimiya, and gets the hardest, most complicated key yet along the way.
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I honestly expected the video to end with Artix going "Please, don't give me what I want".
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- In the previous video, I do want to note that it's a nice touch that Ryouta's Kendo club head noted that Ryouta was working extra-hard in club because he was upset that he couldn't do anything to help Kou. (Obviously, Kou can't explain what's wrong because Ryouta has no memory of Shiori.) - Ah, I was right, it seems like memories of the Eclipse usually do get replaced. - I didn't actually find the boss encounter all that hard. Long, sure, but it wasn't too difficult. And by this point you have a billion healing items, AND items to restore your gauges.
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Yes, but we've already established Artix's opinions regarding the use of items.
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We've also established Artix's opinions regarding the use of gauges.
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Commander Keene posted:Yes, but we've already established Artix's opinions regarding the use of items. Tokyo Xanadu: here's 50,000 healing items. Please use them occasionally. Artix:  e: lol I appear to have pissed off someone in the TVIV Star Trek thread.
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 don't go smashing up your toy spaceships, Worf and Data were just coming around to take a look at those
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Hwurmp posted:
Fool! Worf does not play with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7oWXooPT80
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Part 97: A Puppy and His Girl And so we come to the end of Tokyo Xanadu, for real this time. The boss isn't really hard per se, but it is very long and its attacks hit like a truck. Stay tuned! eX+ is up next.
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This is actually why using Yuuki is one of my favourite tactics, because it takes the danger out of things like this. Spend your entire time moving around and dodging, move in with someone faster to rebuild gauge, then back out to keep blasting with Yuuki. My generally preferred party comp generally ends up something like Sora/Yuuki/Asuka. I'm pretty sure you never did any of Yuuki's bond events, right (especially not the final one)? He very much does not get along with his father.
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primordial spirits cruising for schoolgirls like Edward loving Cullen...Kin of Twilight amirite Falcom has done the better ending you describe in another of their games, literally beat for beat Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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"Falcom likes to jump through hoops to force Happy Endings." Ys VIII begs to differ. That game made me depressed for a bit. .....then again, Ys IX DOES fit.
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- Yeah, this fox god thing only really came up in the intermission, and even then it was largely background stuff. Technically, it is set up by the game, but not set up well enough to prevent this from coming across as a total rear end-pull. - "We can get Shiori back, no strings attached, all we have to do is kill a god." It turns out that there is a string attached to that, in eX+. - The biggest saving grace for the length of the fight is that you at least already know the boss's moveset from the first encounter. - I think what I do in this fight is spam all my gauges at the start to do a lot of damage, and start rebuilding the gauges. Gauges build pretty fast in boss battles, so there's not much point in holding onto them. - Falcom really likes giving happy endings to as many people as possible, and that unfortunately undercuts a lot of the stakes and the plots in their games. They haven't really learned how to kill their darlings. Falcom absolutely does have a bad trait of undermining their own plots. Trails of Cold Steel 3 has at least three or four shocking twists which should be very emotionally powerful, but I just can't care because I don't believe that they'll really do it. (Because they already have undone a previous emotionally powerful moment.) Falcom has already shot itself in the foot and sawn off the tree branch it's standing on because they have proven that they're unwilling to commit to following through on the tragedy which should come from the consequences. - "[Ex+ is] better than [the true ending], but still didn't need to exist" is pretty accurate - at least unless they make a sequel.
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Part 98: A Halloween Hideaway With Shiori back in the land of the living and the events of the summer behind us, it's time to move forward to Halloween! The harvest festival is in full swing, SPiKa is in town again, and we have a new bucket of bullshit from Yukino to tackle. What isn't to love?
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That opening shot of the classroom was funny, with all the other students in uniform and Asuka looking like she just came from the gym. So congratulations on accidentally setting up the comedy shot.  One might question the point of sneaking Spika into the club room if three of the members were just going to run off and practice right in the open in the gym though. And yeah, the localization seems to have taken a nosedive for the Ex+ content, some of those subtitles were just embarrassing. Almost feels like a different company was used for the Ex+ content.
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Tokyo Xanadu is definitely a B or C game; Ys VIII is probably your best bet for seeing Falcom's A-game, Archaeozoic Big Holes notwithstandingCommander Keene posted:Almost feels like a different company was used for the Ex+ content. there are more Cthulhu references and similar, so I think it was still the same intern
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Oh, I was wondering why the subtitle boxes were out of frame a whole bunch of times. Just started with names being out of frame and then it got worse. For a moment I thought it was the video being too big for some reason. Edit: No wait, seems like my Youtube Windowed fullscreen script has suddenly gone weird on me and think my screen is a lot bigger. 
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Oh, Eclipse bullshit is still totally happening, just the insane spikes in activity caused by Dead Shiori Bubble aren't there anymore.
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Part 99: Professional Trick-or-Treaters One does not simply hand out balloons and candy to children on a whim, no sir. These tasks can only be trusted to highly professional teenagers wearing a wizard hat.
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I put on my robe and wizard hat
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For a moment I thought the quest title was "The Great Pumpkin is", which would've made it a snoopy reference. But then I went back and double checked and got disappointed.
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