|
Simply Simon posted:That is actually a very good point! ALL HAIL SHADOW
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2022 02:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 05:00 |
|
|
Final Story *clap clap clap* FI-NAL STO-RY *clap clap clap* COME ON THREAD LET'S GO
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2022 08:47
|
|
|
Dabir posted:ALL HAIL SHADOW Kikas posted:Final Story
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2022 11:27
|
|
|
Dabir posted:ALL HAIL SHADOW There's been a bunch of times in the series that I wanted you to comment over the cutscenes, and the lack of reaction to OBLITERATING EVERYTHING THATS NOT YOUR FRIEND really hurts the experience.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2022 19:32
|
|
|
Bonus content of a cutscene only video with commentary would be great.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2022 19:44
|
|
|
Did you know it's hard to record commentary while making lectures until half past 10 at various evenings while ALSO moving two apartments at once? Crazy I know. But most of that is over now!FeyerbrandX posted:There's been a bunch of times in the series that I wanted you to comment over the cutscenes, and the lack of reaction to OBLITERATING EVERYTHING THATS NOT YOUR FRIEND really hurts the experience. SystemLogoff posted:Bonus content of a cutscene only video with commentary would be great.  Soleanna Silvers Thus concludes Shadow's Story! Next up: holiday break (yes I'm aware I'm just off a hiatus), then we should be ready to roll at our usual slow but steady pace!
|
|
#
?
Dec 22, 2022 23:56
|
|
|
Simply Simon posted:Next up: holiday break (yes I'm aware I'm just off a hiatus), then we should be ready to roll at our usual slow but steady pace!
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2022 17:22
|
|
|
 Aquatic Base Hard Mode I wanted to spend the first week of the new year - which I took off - to start working hard on the LP, as well as furnish the new apartment. Instead, I found out that I got COVID over Christmas, after dodging it (at least to my knowledge) all this time. Welp! It's not too bad, but it puts a damper on things, so let's see how it goes. I did manage to finally edit this last Hard Mode video of Sonic's together, so that's something at least. Enjoy!
|
|
#
?
Jan 2, 2023 10:31
|
|
|
 This conversation about Yuji Naka was months ago and now the man stands credibly accused of insider trading and other crimes. How time flies.
|
|
#
?
Jan 2, 2023 23:47
|
|
|
NGDBSS posted:
in other news, I decided to finally change my avatar back after the imp zone mishap, I also started recording Last Story  Going well so far EDIT: this may come as a surprise to some but End of the World is really, really loving bad lol Simply Simon fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 3, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 18:43
|
|
|
The Dummy Ring Bomb that Tails has is actually a much less deep cut than you think: It was introduced in Sonic Heroes, though you probably never saw it there because you can only use it when you somehow end up as Tails alone with both Sonic and Knuckles dead.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 04:35
|
|
|
Are you all ready for the grand finale, where every possible goodwill towards the game and its story goes is extinguished like Sonic's life & the canonical existence of the game itself?! Opening  End of the World Music End of the World
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 23:06
|
|
|
Sonic, I’m coming!
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 02:05
|
|
|
Someone wrote that cut scene. Someone was actually paid for writing that cut scene. Someone was paid to direct the voice actors to read the script that someone was inexplicably paid for writing for that cut scene. Someone was paid to animate the characters on screen that the voice actors were directed to the script that someone was unbelievably paid for writing for that cut scene. Someone went to a factory, mastered a disk that actual people produced and packaged that contained the animations, voice acting and writing that people were somehow paid for creating that cutscene. God is dead.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 02:24
|
|
|
pointlessone posted:Someone wrote that cut scene. It's okay, Elise kissed him and now he's back.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 02:29
|
|
|
why the gently caress is it called "Mephiles's Smile" if he has no loving mouth???? The black holes are, bar none, the worst mechanic in this game that is full of bad and broken mechanics. They are just blatantly unfair, placed haphazardly in a way that many areas become borderline impossible to traverse if you let too many of them spawn in. Managing the controls when two of them are near you at once is a nightmare, it is a guarantee that you'll die to this multiple times trying to adjust to the sudden shifts in velocity. The red ones aren't as bad, but they are an obstacle that depends on the Havok physics so that of course means that they are totally unpredictable and will kill you at the most random times. All of this is bad enough to deal with when you already know it's coming, but if you don't it's just a grueling ordeal and a game over means you need to do the whole thing over again (you will game over your first time doing this.) Some sections like knuckles's just give you no clue what direction you need to go in order to progress, you just need to fly around until you see the chaos emerald while an increasingly unmanageable number of insta-death orbs are popping up around you. The purple glint that signifies an orb is about to spawn can also be infuriatingly hard to see in the visual noise caused by bloom lighting and the color filter, causing you to just get jumpscare killed by an orb. what a terrible level
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 03:14
|
|
|
After all you've been through and all the affection and patience you've lavished on this game, ending with such a wet spluttering fart of a final stage really does seem ungrateful of it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 06:04
|
|
|
Discendo Vox posted:Sonic, I’m coming! pointlessone posted:Someone wrote that cut scene.    The CGI company who did these scenes is honestly excellent and definitely deserve their money (they also made the seriously good looking scenes for Shadow the Hedgehog, but later also Dark Souls 2...and all three Sonic movies), but even they were obviously pressed for time and budget here. The models used in this cutscene are hideous. Augus posted:why the gently caress is it called "Mephiles's Smile" if he has no loving mouth???? Absolutely agree with the black hole opinions, in case that wasn't clear enough from the video. I obviously by this point know exactly how to avoid them, but it's basically pure memorization gameplay and that is indefensible in a modern platformer as far as I'm concerned (unless the whole game is upfront about being that kind of thing, no offense to Kaizo or masocore or whatever you want to call it fans). Gertrude Perkins posted:After all you've been through and all the affection and patience you've lavished on this game, ending with such a wet spluttering fart of a final stage really does seem ungrateful of it. Good news tho: the final boss is better
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 10:28
|
|
|
I still can't believe you managed to keep up your upbeat attitude to the game throughout all that.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 14:37
|
|
|
anilEhilated posted:I still can't believe you managed to keep up your upbeat attitude to the game throughout all that.  End of the World S-Rank
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2023 00:15
|
|
|
And with this, the game closes its final chapter onto itself. Be prepared for most of the Solaris video to be a bit of a rant. Solaris  Ending Music Solaris Phase 1 Solaris Phase 2 The plan for the rest of this mess is to try and push through the Hard Mode videos as efficiently as me and my pals manage, then see if I can get Very Hard set up in a live react way to my satisfaction. Then it's just Team Attack Amigo remaining (I'm not blind on that), because I probably won't re-do the boss rushes because there's no real point. Until the Hard Modes keep popping up, you can treat this as semi-finished, I'm sure as hell willing to treat it as a bit of an accomplishment already  . Bonus: I invite you to take a look at the sublime (current) World Record of Last Story by Nick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_zzE1SXEs Especially of note is his strategy for Silver's part. Coincidentally, I've been talking to Nick (and his fellow runner Sly <--- check out his Twitch!) on Discord, and they've been educating me about the weird super high jump the gliding characters sometimes do, especially noticable with Knuckles bouncing off the eagle statue in the EotW S-Rank video: if you release the glide button the very frame you glide into a sloped surface, you get catapulted upwards. The height of that catapult is dependend on how long you've been gliding for. Fascinating stuff! Simply Simon fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Feb 5, 2023 |
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2023 22:34
|
|
|
Simply Simon posted:Bonus: I invite you to take a look at the sublime (current) World Record of Last Story by Nick: That freaking crateride  The use of damage invulnerability buffering was also notable for sonic's part of the final boss.omething I'd not noticed in the End of the World video; each segment of the level has its own (very short) music loop with different instruments.
|
|
#
?
Feb 5, 2023 23:54
|
|
|
Thanks for being our tour guide through this trainwreck Simon. You still haven't convinced me to try and play 06, but your talk about engaging with it on its own terms and all that did get me to go back and give the Adventure games a fair shake - 120 hours for 2 and 20 for 1 later, I had them complete with all emblems, and I think I might actually love SA2 now.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2023 00:10
|
|
|
 IMHO no matter what anybody says about Sonic 06, at least we can all agree that His World kicks rear end
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2023 01:24
|
|
|
Finalhazard is generally comprehensible but sucks poo poo for figuring out how to avoid all that poo poo it's throwing at you and how the switching mechanic works.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2023 01:40
|
|
|
Discendo Vox posted:That freaking crateride Dabir posted:Thanks for being our tour guide through this trainwreck Simon. You still haven't convinced me to try and play 06, but your talk about engaging with it on its own terms and all that did get me to go back and give the Adventure games a fair shake - 120 hours for 2 and 20 for 1 later, I had them complete with all emblems, and I think I might actually love SA2 now. Augus posted:
- not personally experienced: Dark Queen, Finalhazard, The End, Alf-whatever, Eggrobo Wii U/3DS, so I can't say anything about them - Nega-Wisp armor is indeed top tier, perfect chaos is also quite good - Forces was fine, yeah - 3DS time eater was much better than the OG one, I don't remember it super well but it's probably fair to put it on the same level as Solaris - Metal Overlord phase 1 is actually pretty good, with all the teams working together, Phase 2 is awful but at least once you realize you just have to build meter then push butan it's...fine? - Devil Doom is also firmly okay once you realize the circling around thing. It loses out on one thing: sometimes you just don't find enough rings and lose which feels awful - I think PDG in Unwiished is much better than the HD one, so I'd put it a tier above - I don't really remember the Nega-Mother wisp but I readily accept that it's terrible (I think I did try to S-Rank it a bit and just gave up at some point because I couldn't figure out how to do one of the phases consistently) - Time Eater is absolute bottom tier trash So yeah basically I agree mostly
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2023 10:25
|
|
|
I never understood why we've had to fight Perfect Chaos twice but with worse music the second time. It's an "allright" boss at most.
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2023 08:49
|
|
|
Anyway, thanks for the LP. I've followed this game with morbid curiosity since release, through speedruns and other LPs, seen people hate and give up on it more then once. Never played it myself tho. I've seen the potential in this, but never showed off like this, so congrats! Also you finished this! Yay!
|
|
#
?
Feb 7, 2023 10:16
|
|
|
Yeah, thank you so much for your had work, Simon, and thank you for letting me be a small part of it! I hope that this helped show people that it's possible to give a game like this a fair shake, even with so many prior assumptions. And that a lot of it still absolutely chews, but there are some pretty good pieces of design in there.
|
|
#
?
Feb 9, 2023 07:44
|
|
|
Thank you for your kind words! We're not done, as I said.  Crisis City Hard  Tropical Jungle Hard  Dusty Desert Hard Let's not dawdle, though!
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2023 20:01
|
|
|
Turns out, these are actually kinda time-consuming to edit lol White Acropolis Hard  Radical Train Hard  Aquatic Base Hard
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2023 13:03
|
|
|
And that finishes us up for Silver! Kingdom Valley Hard  Flame Core Hard I've started recording Shadow - first three levels are done, footage-wise - but it'll take a bit to get people together and record and such, then edit. We'll just take our time here, I see no danger wrt not seeing this through all the way at this point.
|
|
#
?
Mar 24, 2023 22:00
|
|
|
drat, another flame core, another missed opportunity to get hit during the jump to the volcano.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2023 12:49
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 24, 2023 22:52
|
|
|
behold the ultimate lifeform
|
|
#
?
Apr 24, 2023 23:27
|
|
|
*Triumphant stage end jingle plays* S Rank. perfect, no notes. E: you know what gently caress it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCTG09NNN-E FeyerbrandX fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 25, 2023 |
|
#
?
Apr 24, 2023 23:41
|
|
|
amazing also this is going to be even funnier when you'll see the actual video (gonna be a bit, it'll be in the last update for Hard Mode after all). Just keep it in mind for now lol
|
|
#
?
Apr 25, 2023 13:13
|
|
|
FeyerbrandX posted:*Triumphant stage end jingle plays* 
|
|
#
?
Apr 25, 2023 13:14
|
|
|
Finally got around to some more editing. I had some issues with Radical Train and wanted to fully convey them... See the plentiful cuts in the red circle? Those are all deaths. Except for the ones where I didn't die, but also didn't get an S-Rank.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2023 22:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 05:00 |
|
|
Hot drat that's a lot of death
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2023 20:04
|
|