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Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH
I wish i had the bright idea to just run past that guy at the end. Instead i had to pound my face into him 5 times after that long run to get to the second mistle

I'm not good at games

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Leal
Oct 2, 2009

LeastActionHero posted:

As obnoxious as a windy-maze with damage floors is, I kind of liked this area as the fire-zone. It feels like it could have been a plausible city block before mostly collapsing in a fire, rather than being a completely nonsensical foundry or something built across running lava for no reason.

When I went to look at how many zones were left in the game and saw the name of this zone, I really did think we were going to end up in a lava spewing place. Especially since we just came out of the ashen caves, I figured ok, next is falling flame so its gonna be a volcano or something. Nope, just the Final Days happening.


Slaan posted:

I wish i had the bright idea to just run past that guy at the end. Instead i had to pound my face into him 5 times after that long run to get to the second mistle

I'm not good at games

Yeah when I saw how much health was left after 2 backstabs I didn't want to risk possibly dying and going all the way back to start. Discretion is the better part of valor!

NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009






Leal posted:

When I went to look at how many zones were left in the game and saw the name of this zone, I really did think we were going to end up in a lava spewing place. Especially since we just came out of the ashen caves, I figured ok, next is falling flame so its gonna be a volcano or something. Nope, just the Final Days happening.

Yeah when I saw how much health was left after 2 backstabs I didn't want to risk possibly dying and going all the way back to start. Discretion is the better part of valor!
And cowardice is the better part of discretion! :v: But yes, a lot of the geography here happens either because A Successor Did It or as a result of the Great Collapse. Everywhere we're headed used to be part of the same city, which conveniently allowed the artists to reuse a bunch of assets from zone to zone.

Xun
Apr 25, 2010

All the ff14 buddy characters have white hair because they've been through the fantasy PhD wringer :v:

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


City of Fallen Flame 2

Today there is plenty of gift giving, Mido gives a gift, Yakumo gives a gift, we give Yakumo a catgirl ninja GF, its all giving gifts. In fact, I'm even giving YOU a gift with a bonus video!


Vestiges 4

Note that I threw the vestiges for the boss in the above update into this video.

E: Also the game is currently 15 bucks

Leal fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Dec 25, 2021

Grimthwacker
Aug 7, 2014

I actually picked this up during the Steam Winter Sale thanks to this LP! Of course, I'm horrible at it right now. The closest thing to a Soulslike that I've successfully completed was Remnant: From the Ashes, and that's more of a third-person shooter, so I'm basically flailing around whenever it comes to melee combat. I need to learn when to block, when to dodge, and when to punish. I'm still early but I have a couple extra blood codes, but right now I'm sticking with Fighter until I can wrap my head around combat and not die horribly.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Glad I got someone else interested in the game! And I'm gonna apologize for not having an update out yet, I've been preoccupied with something important to me and I haven't had the drive to edit commentary right now.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Crown of Sand 1

And we're back. Sorry for the delay, I was sticking it to my former employer this month. Retail is a lot like sand, its coarse, rough....

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


The Cathedral of identical ivory lace bridges is in fact terrible.

It happens all the the time, someone goes "I will redeem maze levels, water levels, escort quests and more!" and in the end, they don't.

(Also good job surviving retail.)

SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jan 28, 2022

Grimthwacker
Aug 7, 2014

As much as I want to watch this I don't want to be spoiled for the rest of my playthrough. I'm at the big flashback sequence. Jack is a powerful ally and I respect his fighting ability.

Navigating the Cathedral isn't that bad if you remember to always look down. The verticality in this game's maps hides a lot of area to explore. It's kind of ingeneous for this type of game.

Psycho Knight
Jan 19, 2017

"Being a fangame and not bound to a rating, Pokemon Reborn is able to expand more on topics such as death and the extreme dangers Pokemon could pose. These topics...are treated with the respect such a subject deserves."

Let's throw a Medicham into a volcano and make it give the T2 thumbs up!
I used the Blazing Claw sword for the entire remainder of the game because it looks awesome. My friend was jealous since he always used two-handers, although he eventually got to have a cool looking sword of his own from a different boss drop.

One element being more useful than all the others (as well as the opposite of one element being worse than all the others) is something that bothers me, but which I accept since it is difficult to balance an entire game to prevent that from happening. I usually try and stick with the element I like most and simply power through the areas of a game where it isn't any good. Alternatively, I will just avoid elemental attacks altogether because I don't want to be constantly re-forging weapons or swapping equipment loadouts/skill trees just to take advantage of minor damage bumps.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Crown of Sands 2

Today I rail against people who can't tell the difference between white and blonde and NGDBSS repents her sins. Also we finish off this sandy zone.

Leal fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 11, 2022

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


I'll just say that the sandstone (probably) cave / tunnel to the boss area is amazingly pretty.

NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009






It's time for a third music post!

March of the Lost stands out even amongst Code Vein's classical-inspired soundtrack. It only appears for one half of one boss, and for the life of me it sounds familiar but I can't be certain of what it sounds most like. I suppose it resembles Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville? (Which he copied from two earlier operas because the man was a composing machine.) My father thought it might take inspiration from Funiculì, Funiculà. :shrug:

Return of the Knight, the "original" version of the track, is Nicola's theme as the Successor of the Breath. It's more, er, conventionally orchestral than its variant. After all, by this time the Successor of Blood isn't getting warmed up - they're halfway through their journey!

Towards the Eternal Glory (Gilded Hunter/Miguel Garcia) and Towards the Eternal Glory -Fury- (Successor of the Claw/Emily Su) are both elaborations of Yakumo's leitmotif we first heard back in the Howling Pit. The former is like a folk dance, and it well matches the Gilded Hunter's grace as a boss. This is complemented by the latter, which begins with the high energy from the former's end and dials it up even further. After all, a successor is more dangerous than a hollowed-out puppet of Mido's.

Requiem -Peace & Light- is the final version of Requiem we'll hear. No longer do we hear Eva Roux's singing to quiet the relics; instead this church choir is the voice of the Successor of the Throat themself. If you don't slow walk all the way up the first time in a playthrough I will call you callous. :colbert: (I can make exceptions for corpse runs.)

As with Requiem, All of You and All of You -English version- are two sides of the same song by Eva's two voice actresses. But unlike that, All of You is a more personal song, from Eva to Jack. She's not trying to calm the melancholy of such mighty things as the relics, but just one man, her partner and lover.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Depths 4

Apologies to NGDBSS for holding this for like, a month. Also apologies for the audio in this one, I do autoduck but for whatever reason this video adobe decided instead of having the volume stay at its normal level and lowering it, you know ducking the audio down, when I talk, instead it kept the audio at the normal when I talked and then boosted it 10 db when I wasn't talking. So no autoducking this go around!

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Crypt Spire 1

The Oriental Myth

The Oriental Myth

The Oriental Myth

Grimthwacker
Aug 7, 2014

I BS'd my way to completion with the best ending! It was an eye-opening experience, mostly a positive one once I learned how to fight effectively. I could see myself improving with time against most things. Bosses though. . . most of my boss victories came from my companion doing most of the work while I scrambled to stabilize and find an opening. So many attacks that required pixel-perfect dodging. I can't say I improved on that front much.

I picked up Nioh on the PS4 on sale a while back, so hopefully I'll go into that with the right mindset after this.

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


Please use your north of a million and a half souls, just use them on something.

NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009








I'll spend my haze when and if I drat well please. :colbert:

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
who the gently caress is scraeming "SPEND YOUR HAZE" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never spend my haze

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH
What about

SIGSEGV posted:

Please use your north of a million and a half souls, just use them on something.

Did you not understand?! :colbert:

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Crypt Spire 2

There may be a ghost flying jets in the east, but in this video the ghost of Solitair permeates as something happened to his audio again :ghost:

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Depths 5

In continuing with recording mess ups, I forgot I had shadowplay set to record my mic when I streamed. As I never do this I didn't set shadowplay to give 2 audio tracks, so my commentary is gonna be drowned out sometimes and you'll hear me coughing. Apologies and all that time spent editing the audacity commentary :shepface:

Rockstar Massacre
Mar 2, 2009

i only have a crazy life
because i make risky decisions
from a position of
unreasonable self-confidence
Mido is a cool fight.

Anime Ornstein and Smough are a nightmare. Only boss I ever brought a helper to, and coincidentally the fight they're most useless in.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
That 4 orb thing Mido does though, such bull :argh:

Also in a post Elden Ring world I must post this

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Provisional Government Outskirts

Today we go through a familiar looking area

White Coke
May 29, 2015

NGDBSS posted:

I suppose it resembles Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville? (Which he copied from two earlier operas because the man was a composing machine.)

The book I’m reading talks about exactly that dynamic. It was common for composers in Rossini’s time to recycle their work.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009


Provisional Government Center 1

And we're back. Its been a bit, most of the reason for delays was that I was unemployed and just stayed up as long as I could which meant I would be sleeping when its time to get together for commentary. Then I got a job that requires me to hold such a sleeping schedule :v:

Xun
Apr 25, 2010

Nice :v: glad to see you back! Hope everything goes well

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Vestiges 5

Here is a collection of the various vestiges I've been holding onto for a while. You should watch it before youtube also decides this will be an 18+ video





Out of everything we've seen thus far, its a video where I just walk around and look at dioramas that gets this :psyduck:

Psycho Knight
Jan 19, 2017

"Being a fangame and not bound to a rating, Pokemon Reborn is able to expand more on topics such as death and the extreme dangers Pokemon could pose. These topics...are treated with the respect such a subject deserves."

Let's throw a Medicham into a volcano and make it give the T2 thumbs up!

Leal posted:

Out of everything we've seen thus far, its a video where I just walk around and look at dioramas that gets this :psyduck:

I had the same thing happen with one of my Growlanser IV cutscenes. It wasn't the one where there is a face full of cat-girl rear end or Eliza's giant tits or anything, it was a cutscene where a tree falls over in the forest and we see two characters running.

YouTube content moderation blows.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Provisional Government 2


I uh... I swear the bit at the start where I said "Unless I hold onto this commentary for a while" wasn't something I planned on doing. A mix of the full time job as well as interest in a new creative outlet taking up my free time kinda killed my editing time.

But we're almost there, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

White Coke
May 29, 2015

Leal posted:

But we're almost there, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Looking forward to it. This has been a weird game but it’s held my interest.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Another day week half year, another depths map.

Oh, but thats not all! Here is a wrap up of all the side quests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqglQEsyuN4

To help break up the monotony of going from teleporting to place to pl- ARMA




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SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


*quick intake of breath*

SIGSEGV posted:

Please use your north of a million and a half soulsfive or six loving million souls, just use them on something.

Also, play the starship troopers arma 3 mod, the AI incompetence only makes it more flavorful.

Cooked Auto
Aug 4, 2007

If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!




Last I checked it had been taken down from the Steam Workshop.
For like the third time now.

Still, seeing the bugs come charging at you is an unsettling experience.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
One day I'll LP the best big bug game, EDF

White Coke
May 29, 2015
Glad to see this come back, haven’t had a chance to watch the latest episodes yet though.

Solitair
Feb 18, 2014

TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!

Leal posted:



Memories

Way to photobomb the backstab Jack :rolleyes:

Also it seems Solitair's commentary bugged cause it goes completely silent midway through the video. If I suddenly laugh at nothing, that's why

Finally going through this entire LP, even the parts I wasn't here for. I owe it that much.

I think when the Queen first showed up in this update, I called her "The Moe Reborn."

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Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Code Vein [27]: Gaol of the Stagnant Blood

And here we are, the beautiful end, my friend. I'd like to thank my cohosts who sat shotgun during this ride, especially dealing with my awful scheduling. There is still alternate endings and the DLC depths maps but I have to call it an indefinite hiatus. I work graveyard, I live in a house with 3 other adults and a child who is utterly incapable of not stomping around the house which means I need to keep a large window for me to sleep. I only get 2 hours before work and 2 hours after work of freedom, and its really hard to justify editing during that time. And then my days off I want squeeze out as much fun as I can before I have to go back to the grind. I'm trying to see if I can get an extra day off from work... or try getting a job where I can go back to having a normal sleeping schedule. Until then though, I can't see myself working up the effort to get back to LP'ing consistently.

Sorry for having the final video having a rant

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